GENERAL NOTES

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 126, 25 February 1928, Page 18

GENERAL NOTES

Use tailor’s thread for sewing on coat and trouser buttons. It will save endless bother and many stitches. To clean a bath, first wipe the bath with a rag dipped in paraffin and leave for about three minutes, then dip the same rag in suit and rub again. Wash with hot soapy water.

Window Cleaning.—Windows will look twice as bright: and clean if the water used for washing them is made as blue as the water in which dollies are rinsed.

Steam on Windows. —After the windows have been cleaned, a few 'hops « glycerine on a clean, dry duster and rub well all over the inside of lhe windows. This will prevent them steaming. Soap improves with seeping, and should therefore be purchased tn large quantities. To dean a shiny ecat collar, sponge it with a doth moistened with a little vinegar. To remove fruit stains from the hands, moisten a crust of bread with vinegar and rub on the stains; or grease the bands will: lard, and then wash with soap and water. To soften eggs that have been boiled too long, place I hem in some coh. water for half a minute. Stale bread is excellent tor cleaning lidit-colourecl suede gloves. Melted butter nmkes an excellent sun sfitule tor olive oil in a sabid dressing. Mud stains can be removed from unibrdlas’by rubbing the affected parts with a rag dippml m methylated Spit it. the sugar from candied ped «tll sweeten and flavour a rice pudding. To prevent the frequent _ use < f hot starch causing coloured aw.ides ip fade make a solution of one ounce of gum arabic to a pint of hot water: cool, strain, and bottle. Add a teaspooniul to every quart, of hot starch.