The Home

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 32, 10 August 1905, Page 29

The Home

By Maureen

Furniture Polish. When polis-thing furniture add a little vinegar to the polish, this will get rid of the dead, oily look so often noticed after cleaning. Laniip-wicks. Lamjp-wicks soaked in vinegar some 24 hours befoie being used will give a clearer flame and a steadier light than those not so treated. Mixing Mustard. When mixing mustard add a saltspoonful of salt and the same quantity of moist sugar, and mix with boilinjr water It will be found to keep moist much longer ani have a better taste. * Boiling Eggs. Though not gtenerally known, it is < nevertheless a fact that eggs covered with boiling water and allowed to stand for five minutes are far more nourishing and much more easily digested than eggs which have been placed in boiling water, and allowed to boil furiously for three or four minutes. * J Testing Eggs. Drop the eggs in a deep dish of water, and if the small ends come to the top they are fresh. "__ 'V Preventing Rust. + v T< ? Prevent rust on articles of polished steel, apply the following mixture with a sponge : Add one part of oil varnish to 4 of rectified spirits of turpentine. Mix well and keep corked. To Remove Rust from Steel. Cover the steel with sweet oil, rub it well in, and in 48 hours use unslaked lime finely powdered, and rub until all rust disappears. Foreign Substance in the Ear. <-ii ?i 1"^11 "^ 1 of any description gets into the ear lil it with either a teaspoonful of warm > water or sweet oil. 1 his will have a tendency to float the foreign substance out of the ear. Remedy for Burns. Equal 'quantities of lime water, and sweet oil 'beaten up together make an excellent remedy for burns A bottle ready mixed should always be kept in the house lor immediate use. A Crood Sprain Cure. The white of an egg thickened with flour stiff enough to handle, then thin down with turpentine and add 1 teasi-oonful of salt, thin it so that it will spread, and make just enough for one plaster. Three plasters'genis rally make a cure-. Use fiesh ones e\ery time Hot water is also good for sprains. A Dry Mustard Plaster. Procure a sheet of white wadding, and cut a square of B>in<-hes from it, spread out flat, and on the soft fluffy si le sprinkle dry mustard thickly. Then cut out ot a piece of thin soft muslin or cambric two squares largo enough to caver the wadding, place it between the muslui, and stitch edges together, tacking loosely in the centre to keep the wadding smooth and flat. This form ot piaster oan be applied with comfort to any part of the fcoJy where it is necessary to apply mustard and gives great relief in cases of severe cold in the 'chest etc without the usual blistering effect of mustard ani plied in the ordinary way. v Bleeding From the Nose. Bleeding from the nose may be stopped by snuffling lemon juice into the nostril from which the blood issues It has lone; been known to physicians that lemon iuice is a most powerful styptic.