THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 322, 19 August 1879, Page 2

THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

1. That fish can be scaled much easier by dipping into boiling water about a minute. 2. That fish may as well be scaled, if desired, before packing down in salt; though in that case, do not scald them. 3. Salt fish are quickest and best freshened by soaking in sour milk. 4. That milk which is turned or changed may be sweetened and rendered fit for use again by stirring in a little soda. • 5. That salt will curdle new milk; hence, in preparing milk porridge, gravies, &c, the salt should not be added until the dish is prepared. 6. That fresh meat, after beginning to sour, will sweeten if placed out of doors in the cool air over night. 7. That clear boiling water will remove tea stains and many fruit stains. Pour the water through the stain, and thus prevent it from spreading over the fabric. 8. That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and ofher stains from white cloth ; also from the hands. 9. That a teaspoonful of turpentine boiled with your white clothes will aid the whitening process. , 10. That boiled starch is much improved by the addition of a little sperm, or a little salt, or both, or a little gum arabic dissolved. 11. That beeswax and salt-will make your flat-irons as clean and smooth as glass. Tie a lump of wax in a rag and keep it for that purpose. When the irons are hot, rub them first with the w T ax rag, then scour with a paper or rag sprinkled with salt. 12. That blue ointment and kerosene mixed in equal proportions and applied to bedsteads is an unfailing bed-bug remedy; and that a coat of whitewash is ditto for the walls of a house. 13. That kerosene will soften boots or shoes wdiich have been hardened by water, and render them as pliable as new.