HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 45, 22 February 1905, Page 10

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To clean very dirty brass scrub with a nail brush dipped in" powdered bathbnck and paraffin. Even the most tarnished brass can be cleaned in this way. J?ons* ■with the dry dust and a soft duster. A glass of water drunk half an hour betore each meal and just before retiring will frequently regulate the bowels, so those troubled"with constipation w™ be all right. In testing a piece of cloth to see v it i≤ a cotton mixture, if you cut a small piece off and put a match to it, v it is all wool it will only singe, but n cotton is there it -will flare up. In the Sick Room.—Camphor is «rj useful to freshen the air of a sick room. Put a piece on an old saucer, and on « lay the- point of a red-hot poker, when itis funics will quickly fill the room. Chamois is one of* the few things ■which romp out .-raooth and soft from I washing if wrung directly from, the j soapsuds without rinsing in clear urates The latter process tends to harden it. Peeling Onions.—Bub a knife that has been used for this up and down in tne earth, and it will not give an objectionable flavour to the next thing for which it is used. Kei*osene stains can be removed into FulWs earth. Cover the stain "with a thick layer of hot Fullers earth, and let ;it remain for twenty-four hours, then :brush off. To Clean Flat Irons.—Flat irons rub- ; bed over a cloth sprinkled with kerosene J are not so liable tt> scorch, and the use lof beeswax in ironing is invaluable to I prevent sticking. n g I Washing Ginghams.—lt is an excellent ; plan after washing ginghams to rinse them in water that has been ever so I slightly thickened with starch. HouseI wives should try this wrinkle. Rust on steel may be removed tffi»: Cover the steel with sweet-oil, mb it IB well, and let it stand for forty-eigW hours: then rub the steel with unslaked lime, finely powdered, till all the marks have disappeared. . Mie? have a well-erounded aversion to cayenne pepper, so to get rid ot them it "is a -rood p] an to stop all their boles thoroughly with a paste made of cement, to which "a good sprinkling of cayenne proper has been added. In summer, when the fires arc "i™" up, the steel srrates should be af 3 ™? over with a little unsalted lard, ana then well rubbed with soft cloths wj they shine again. This treatment prevent the steel from rustittfc.