HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 4, 19 June 1930, Page 9

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

HINTS AND IDEAS

A jpineh of salt added to starch will prevent the iron, sticking. To prevent feathers working through. p.iio.v or cushion rub the inside of LiCkmg-or .cover'with soap or bee* wax. Apply a little glycerine to a tea stain, and allow it to remain for a few hours. Then wash the artiele^in the ordinary way. and the stain will come out. Keep the room in which your piano stands well aired; otherwise it will require tuning and overhauling at very short intervals. If hot-water bottles and other articles lade of rubber are washed every two months with water to which a little soda jor ammonia has been added it will present them from perishing and getting r hard). % ■ To remove perspiration stains soak the garment in water to which a teaspoonf ul of ammonia has been added; then rub the stain with a freshly cut lemon and wash thoroughly. To clean gold jewellery wash the articles in warm suds made of fine soap j and add fifteen or twenty drops of ammonia. Rinse in clear water and day with a linen elpth. To turn out sponge eakes^ without. j breaking them, immediately on removal i from the oven place the tin-.on awe ( cloth for a few minutes. This makes the cake contract, loosening it froiri;:;th€) tin. Busty knives can "be renewed by being plunged up to the handles in. garden soil, left for an hour or so, rubbed well with a damp flannel dipped in ashes, then cleaned and polished in. the or&in- j ary way.