ALL ABOUT THE HOUSE.
Sprinkle a piece of cotton wadding thickly with cayenne pepper, and insert it at the top of a mouse hole, and it sends them away. I have tried it successfully. After shirts and collars have been laundried, with a piece of clean linen rub with some Sunlight soap over the newly done cuffs and collars, and then again iron, and a fine gloss is the result. Many people complain how soon their flowers fade after being gathered and pnt into vases. If possible, blooms should be picked before the sun is hot, say about six a.m., and then they don’t wilt. A good snail trap is a newspaper thrown down crumpled at night, and in the morning numbers are congregated in it. For icing cakes, etc., spinach juice (uncooked) well bruised will make a delightful green from an * art ’ to an * emerald,’ and is of course quite wholesome.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XVI, 19 October 1895, Page 502
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152ALL ABOUT THE HOUSE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XVI, 19 October 1895, Page 502
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