HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17886, 5 December 1929, Page 8

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Instead of cutting soap for the copper, use a soap-shaker, which may be hung on a string from the tap while the water is coming to the boil. Scraps of soap may also be placed in the shaker. When you buy a push bicycle, take off one of the handlegrips, place inside the hollow handle a card bearing your name and address, plug the cylinder with a cork and replace the grip. In case of theft, ownership is easily established. Beforo mending a hole In the toe or heel of a stocking, overcast all round the edge and draw up slightly, and the area to bo darned will be reduced by half. When decorating articles with seal-ing-wax, instead of melting the wax over a flame and applying to the article a drop at a,time, dissolve it with alcohol and apply with a brush. This is an easier and quicker method and saves half the wax. Don't throw away an old and discoloured soiled-linen basket. Brush it well to remove dust, wash with warm soapy water, dry in the sun and enamel or lacquer it any desired shade. As a pleasant change from the usual herbs or onion in mince, flavour it with mixed spice. A cockroach eradlcator which is as cheap and efficacious as any patent mixture is ground ginger. Sprinkle it thickly into crevices and under linos and carpets, and the pest will vacate the house and never return. Use discarded butter-paper for covering boiled puddings. Tie the paper on with string and fasten one end of the string at the other side, thus making a handle to lift the pudding. This saves pudding-cloths and washing. If when sewing white garments a drop of oil gets on the fabric, rub it at once with chalk. Leave the chalk on for a few minutes, then brush it out.