HINTS FOR YOUR HOME.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 734, 26 May 1922, Page 5

HINTS FOR YOUR HOME.

Patterned silks need washing in water that is only just warm if they are to retain their colours. They should be ironed on the wrong side, as this brings up the design.

If, when cleaning baby’s shoes with pipeclay, a little milk is used nstead of water, the white will not rub off on your clothes when • you have to carry him.

White marks on tables caused by hot dishes may be removed by the application of methylated spirit. Afterwards polish with a soft rag dipped in paraon. To make neglected leather straps piiabl e again, soak them for an hour in warm soapy water, Hang them up to dry and afterwards polish with brown boot polish. Turn coloured garmen.s inside out before hanging them out to dry. keep th cm in .the shade >’f you can, and take them down as soon as they are dry. If you neglect these precautions, the colours are Likely to fade. To remove mildew from iinen make a paste of pne teaspoonful each of soft soap and powdered starch, two teaspoonfuls of table salt, and enough lemon juice to mix. Spread the paste on the mildewed spots, and expose to the fresh air for a short time. Then wash the linen. When using benzine, to remove a sta in on dress material, start in a circle and gradually work nearer until the spot is reached. By doing tlrs there will be no mark when the benzine dries. To preserve the soles of indoor slippers and shoes, paste over them s everal layers of brown paper, gumming each’layer to the next. These last a long time, and when they begin to wear they can be scraped level and the paper covering renewed j To make an excelVmt scrubbing mixture take one pound each of. soft ’soap. sand, and whitening, and put them in an old saucepan with a quart of water. Boil stirring occas ionallv until thoroughly mixed. Stole „ on earthenware jar. To use, smear pome of the mixlure, on the ymbbing brush and use with water.

Save the sxins of oranges and lemons, dry them in the oven, grate on a suet grater, and keep in a glass bottle tor flavouring purposes.. G.ngsr taken after meals will assist digestion. True nobility is derived from v itue not from birth. Titlb may be purchased, but virtue is the only coin that makes the bargain valid. Cheerful disposition can be cultivated, and it ought to be if we would be Christian men and women. No one has any right to go about scrovvling and grumbling, with eyebrows contracted and wrinkles on the forehead. It shows a want of refinement. There should always be sunshine in the speech and on the face, and that it may be there it should be in the heart. The happy hearted are they who will not suffer burdens to oppress them, because of their love and trust in Cod.

A word of encouragement is a porous plaster, which goes a long- way towards drawing the pain from a discouraged soul.

“Fad legislation has been the ruin of this country no one knows how much it has cost us,” remarked Mr W. A. Veitch, M.P. r in the course of a conversation to a Wanganui Herald representative. “Tire wisest course now, as far as the Government of New Zealand ils concerned,” he went on to say, “is to go veery cautiously in the matter of expenditure, to encourage industry, and development of the country along sane lines, and to ensure industrial peace. Consummation of these objectives would do more good (than the fads of the faddists in New Zealand, and could be obtained without much additional legislation.”