A Housewife's Diary

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 52, 24 November 1937, Page 14

A Housewife's Diary

Hints About The Home Felt Hat. Clean light grey or beige felt hat by rubbing over with very stale crust. Plate-Rack. Placing wet tea-towel over will prevent smell of cooking pervading the house. Worn Stockings. Sew inside piece of silk stocking and darn to this. Airing. Wrap the smaller articles round a hotwater bottle. Cot Skeets. White rubber cot sheet that has turned yellow should be washed well in soapy ■water and then rubbed with a cleansing powder on damp cloth. Rinse and dry. Juice Stains. First soak them up by covering with salt, leaving only slight marks to be removed. Fountain Pen. Put a little vinegar in the water with which you are cleaning pen. Shampoo. An old feeding cup is excellent for inixing the shampoo in. It can easily be poured on the hair from the cup. Warts. Reputed cure said to be made by rubbing with the inside of a freshly gathered broad-bean skin. Treatment should be continued for severcl days. Ironing1. When ironing articles that dry quickly let the iron push along a sponge from which the water has been squeezed out. Cutting Hint. • When cutting silk, georgette, fine voile or other flimsy material, dip the scissors in boiling water to make them quite hot. Ihey will then cut the finest fabric quickly and easily, without sticking or tearing. Making Jelly. A dessertspoonful of sugar added to each cup of jelly when making jelly with crystals will allow an additional quartercup of water to be added. The jelly will set just as well as if made in the usual manner, and the quantity will b# increased. Flower Schemes. Something new in floral ' decoration is being introduced in fashionable homes with black and white flower schemes. The idea is particularly favoured where the rooms have pastel-coloured walls to act as a background. Choice of plants is somewhat limited, but black berries of privet and the "silver pennies" of honesty combine well. Bulrushes and dried lotus-seed-pods are tised for brown and white schemes.