USEFUL HINTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 834, 4 June 1910, Page 10

USEFUL HINTS.

A German housewife gives the' following directions for washing ■ pillows. Place on the stovo a larpo C-lothes-hniler anrl ' measure the water as you fill it. Ji'or each iivo gallons ,of water allow one bar of good-'laundry'-soap, pissolvo the soap, and when the water i.s tepkl immerse a single pillow-tick, feathers and "all. If the - ticlrine' is' much soiled, or if the water is Tiard, add -household ammonia in the proportion of a tablcspoonful to a gallon of water: Allow tho pillow to boil for twenty minutes; then, haying ready a second boiler, or galvanized tub, of clean tepid water, removo tho pillow '■ pair of tongs will be found convenient for this purpose), and plunge it into tho second tub. Place this on tho stovo, and let the water come just to the boiling point; then remove from the fire, .but let tho pillow remain in the .water till it is'safe' to put your hands in and press the pillow, to seo if all the soap has been washed out. If it has not a second rinsing will ho necessary. Remove from The tub and press out as much water as you can; then hang on the'clothes-line in Hie sun. Whilo the pillows are drying, shako punch, them as often as may be convenient. Try kerosene dusters or "dustless dusters" when house-cleaning. Dampen two • cheese-cloth dusters- with the oil and shut them up' in a tin pail with a cover on it for twenty-four hours; then they will ho ready for use. Use' one for furniture, etc., the other for hardwood, linoleum, and such things. They will take up dust without spreading it. again, and will not leave streaks, like a freshly dampened cloth. . To make thin curtains hang evenly when finished mako the casing for the curtain-rod first, insert tho rod and hang tho material from the fixtures. Now draw down tho window-shade as far as you wish the curtains to come when finished.- With the bottom of the shade as a guide you may bastoor very carefully pin the hem. and when it is finished tho curtains will look straight. Artificial ilower3 may be "revived," so thnt they may be used on another season's hat, if they are held over a steaming tea-kettle, and each netal is then carefully pressed whilo still damp with a fairly h'i'j iron.

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