The Housekeeper. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 94, 22 April 1911, Page 11

The Housekeeper. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To Remove Iron Rust. — Oxalic acid will remove iron rust where lemon juice and salt invariably fail. To Keep Pared Apples. — Place in cold water until ready for use.. This prevents j them from turning brown. How to Make Clothes Lines Wear. — Rope clothes lines wear much longer if boiled ten minutes before being used. An Easy Way to Cut "Warm Bread.— To dip your knife in boiling water whr>n cutting warm bread will out the bread almost as nicely as if it were cold. A Life-Saving Idea. — If a pin is stuck through .the cork of every bottle containing poison, one need never fear being E£.isoned at night by getting the wrong ottle. To Eetain the Lustre of Varnish. — Varnish will retain its lustre for yoars if cleaned with cold tea instead of soap and water. Use a soft rag and be sure to wipe the varnish dry. To Clean Ivory.4; The piano keys, or handles of knives and forks may be cleaned by making a paste of chalk with olive oil and ammonia (equal parts). Rub well and lot dry before washing off. a Storing Tea or Coffee.— Do nS let tea and coffee remain in the paper bags they come in, or they will lose their flavour. All articles should be taken at once out of their paper bags and put away in therr different receptacles in the ' siore cupboard. Ironmould. — To remove ironmould, wet the mouldy spot, lay it on a hot plate, and wet well with salts of lemon. As the cloth dries renew tho process, keeping the plate underneath boiling hot, and adding moro of the lemon salts until the whole of the spots are removed. Lamp Dangers.— Most accidents which occur with stoves or lamps result from filling them while burning." Tln3 is a most dangerous proceeding. The vapour from the open can i« fired, and, of course, an explosion results. Do not make the mistake of purchasing too small a stove, either for gas, oil. or coal. The time and brains required in contriving how to have all the dishes done and served hot at the samo time are of more worth than the additional cost of a large stove. A Thrifty Device.— lf you find your window shades have become weather-beaten at the bottom from the opened windows of summer time, take them off the rollers and turn them unsido down, making a hem at the bottom broad enough for the stick to go through, and using tho large stitch on the machine ; then cut off tho original hem and tack the inverted shades on the rollers and you will find that tho old worn parts are rolled up out of sight during the dayoime, and only the fresh sections show. At night when the shades are nulled down, tha upper parts will be hidden by curtains. If tho shades are quite long, which will often happen if your windows chance to be shorter than -the ordinary, you will bo able to cut away the worst of tho soiled part before remounting the I shades.