Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 2 April 1908, Page 33

Domestic

By ' Maureen*

Keeping Shoes Nice.

If your shoes have got caked- with, blacking, as they often do 1 , wasli it off occasionally with a cloth wrung out, of lukewarm water. Let nearly dry, then rub a very little castor-oil we! in. Clean next, day in the usual way. Leather or . kid that is caked With blackings .-is likely to crack and- go in holes. « Thi3 Treatment of Burns. « . > For burns, soofch'ws; applications are advised. Linseed oil is good, and if it be mixed .with lime~ water and kept on the burn both the pain and the "heat will soon disappear. The handisst thing for burns and one which is excellent in its efilect is flour. Wherever there is., a burn you may be pretty sure _of being able to fincl some flo-ur, and if this be sprinkled over the injured part the inflammation will gradually go away. . i _ How to Treat Sprains. Hot- applications are the things for sprains. These may lie put on directly with a cloth" or the anikle steeped in water as hot as the person can stand it. If hot water is not at hand then cold applications will do, that is, if they are mixtures of spirits and water in s-cK proportions, that they evaporate quickly and thus, help to decrease the temperature. This -will serve to take the swell' n^ down, and at the same time- it will feel yery soo'Mng to the sprained ' member. Equal parfes of v'nerar and water are recommended by some physicians for these applications. This mixture should be po'ired on the ~ baai'Sage 1 wrapjvn'a; up the injured memher, and' it. should he applied frea-ueajly enough to keep the bandaee constantly wet. • Perfect" rest is always good for any injury. Active persons find" continued .ouiet very tr^ng, but it rays' in the .end to follow th-s very excellent advice. How -to Use a Triangular Bandage. * Every person .ought to know how to fold and use a +r angular I brnfda«-e. This is pictured and explained in all Ibte first-pfd hoop. TK->. advantage of the triangular p>iar«ed piece of lmt or jrauze are manifold. First o-f all. a yard square Hece of paTi^e should "be cut, an-1 th-n 1 this should be folded comerwise and the square cut -in+o iwo +rian^"l^r "-pftions of eiual si-^. Onlvone is needed for the ordinary bruise or sprain, rra it -win answer fir almost any part of the body— +I h \ wri " t> th " * Tll * e +he arm le^> he?;d . shoulder n or onio-h. a man's Har'di' eclref win sen^ for fl triatiiwila*-b-nd\eh wi7 e i S no t a t hand. After- the trianele is irra,r*e then <h'» Pi-r e -of pauze or linen" m*v be folded m any width to- -nit t^ rpiMirpments of the case. For thfl wns<- h s*ouM T-e folded rather narrow. First the I ouit is f-ldipd o-v/r to me^t the lomw!!*, s«d«» -of th^ trion-le Jn the centre *nd + lhexi when this fold is madV fourToM 57*. >c ' dl I; defl in+ ° ° nC ' tW0 ' three or even tour folds Tf the wowd is small and a trianrrular ban-d.e-e seems clumey, then a strip 6f strai^^uze is

How to Was-h' Limerick La,ce p Collars.

First of all, don't use ammonia, and 'don'_t rub soap °n th« lace itself. Dissolve soap~ jelly in, warm water in which- you can-comfortaMv he^r your hand— a heaped t^as«Ttoonful to a srallon— nddi ' half a teasnoonful of borax ; put the lac^ into it, and let it soak about ten rrwtps. Souse and sqnpe-e 't H'l Mean, rin«e first in .warm water antf then s n cold. -Squeeze. as dry as you "<?n r ?nd iron ™Me still wet on a 1-oard covered wilh threp -or fn.nr tb'rknes-es of flannel onR of calico Lj&v the lace on the board tight s""de downwards an 3 ' S'i+i. ™ "J aIJP + i Si : read a - T)iece ° F Cfilic o over ?nd iron iV. = m <wferateiv hot "at-ron t'll th- lare is ahout -•If dry TaVe nwav 'tie to^ calico and finishing iron. 77 s * two woshdn^ i* will rro^aWv ke-n it<? c o lpr all n^lrt T-ut after *h*t "din it -in a We^ solution t^t after +lie fina" rtTisiw, then nnd iron as l.eforo ..H v, ln8 f out to *rv if. w O "M -r^ablv ' rim ' p BIT S n"t-nv vlifln-'r^wd Tr«ninT wVI-. w«+ rv iveq .• + ..* necessary stiffness, so no "starch is nee'de^ -