Hints for the Home.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue XXIV, 15 June 1901, Page 1141

Hints for the Home.

TO REMOVE THE STAINS Ol CONDYS FLUID FROM CLASS AND EARTHENWARE. Take one tablespoonful of kitchen salt and the juice of half a lemon, mix well together, and apply it to the stains with a piece of flannel. Well rub for a few minutes, and the stains will be quite removed. TO RELIEVE CROUP. Give the child every ten minutes a teaspoonful of warm olive oil. and rub the chest and back with the warm oil as well. This must be well worked in ami flannel laid over the parts. AFTER A MUSTARD PLASTER. After a mustard plaster has been taken oil', the skin underneath it is often red and tender. This may be at once relieved by making a poultice of oatmeal and tepid water, and laying it over the part till all the pain has gone. NEW SOCKS AND STOCKINGS. New socks and stockings should always be washed before being worn. In the first place it makes them last longer, and in the second it prevents risk of injury to the feet through the colouring. TO KEEP IRONS SMOOTH. Beeswax and salt will make rusty flatirons as clean and smooth as glass. Tie a lump of wax in a rag, ami keep it for that purpose. When the ironare hot. rub them first with the wax rag-, then scour with a paper or cloth sprinkled with salt. TO CLEAN VEILS. Have you ever tried steaming these? To do it get a piece of an old broomhandle. or a roller, wind the veils carefully round it. being very careful that the edges are even. Lay across a boiler or saucepan of boiing water.

ami steam for threequarters of ai. hour. Leave on the wood till dry. Crape is even more satisfactory when treated in this manner. Iti • steam giving it the stiffness of new material, and also taking out all the dirt and dust. CLEANING GOLD LACE. Pound some rock ammonia finely, and apply with a flannel to the lace, rubbing briskly. After a good brushing the lace will look equal to new. and the cloth of the trousers or tunic will be uninjured. Or you may sew the lace in a clean linen cloth, boil it in one quart of soft water and a quarter pound of soap, and wash it in cohl water. If tarnished, apply a little warm spirits of wine to the tarnished spots. HOUSING THE BICYCLE. Although a bicycle should on no account be kept in a damp place, care must be taken not to leave it in a room so hot as to injure the rubber. As a “safety” does not take much room, it should, if possible, be kept in the house. CARE OK NICKEL-PLATE. Nickel plating must be kept quite dry and polished. For this purpose use a chamois leather, which should Im* wound round the nickel and pulled to and fro. On no account use sand, glass, or emery paper. If it gets very discoloured, clean with whiting or prepared chalk, mixed to a paste with water to which a little ammonia has been added.