Household Hints

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 248, 6 April 1910, Page 3

Household Hints

' CURIOUS EFFECTS OF FASHIONABLE VEILS. Curious sights are afforded by women who have adopted the latest fashion in veils, namely, the spider and crackled mesh one. One eye is totally eclipsed, an ear is quite obscured, or perhaps only one cheek is visible The effect pro§ duced is as if the wearer were suffering from some disfigurement. Really, it is very odd. In some instances the face is sketched in a vine-like scroll that has its inception in a tangle of branches just below the chin, from which it spreads over the face and forehead. The crackle mesh veil is seen in black and white only, and what gives the net its usual appearance is the fact that the background about the pattern is not of the same size mesh as the veil itself. It is seen in a variety of patterns or designs, one of which is a leaf. Then there is another showing a cluster of roses, or perhaps some other flower is represented, the tendrils being evenly distributed over the features. EINTS AS TO FLOOR COVERINGS. To keep rugs flat. —Turn rug upside down on floor, cut strip from I any old lining material. Make thick I cooked flour paste and paste strip of I lining on the unruly corner or sides \ of rug. Lay table board on top to hold flat until dry. ] To make moth proof.—To "save ' your rugs from being. moth eaten '■ around the corners sprinkle with tobacco clippings under the rug at the corner. I have tried this and it is fine and does not harm the rugs, either, says a Home authority. To clean matting and carpet.—Matting may be cleaned by wiping up with a mop once a week dipped into salt water. One cake or bar of a white soap will clean ingrain or Brussels carpets or rugs fine. Melt the soap in warm water, then take clear water and wipe the carpets after going over with the bush and suds. This may be done often and keep them looking bright and new without taking them up. WASHING CLOTHES. Glossy effect. —It is advisable when washing, to put a little gum arabic in the starch. Dissolve half a teaspoon£ul of the gum arabic in boiling water, and when cool add to the starch. Linen, when starched with this mixture, will have a beautiful gloss. It is the only method by which the same exquisite finish can be obtained on linen goods as when first displayed for sale in the store window. Removing clothes from boiler. — When washing to avoid scalding fingers in catching the clothes up over the clothestick in removing the clothes from the boiler use a pinching clothespin. Catch clothes with this and throw up over the stick. Easy methods. —Shave one bar of soap, pour two quarts wat'jr over it, put on stove to boil; when it comes to a boil add one large tablespoonful of coal oil, allow to boil hard until all soap is dissolved, which generally takes ten mniutes. Soak clothes in cold water (bard and soft) overnight; in morning wring out the clothes, have boilerful of good warm water (not hot), over half solution to boiler and sort clothes and put into boiler. After they .come to a boil, boil for twenty minutes; remove to tub of water, rinse thoroughly, and put through bluing water, starch, and hang out. Unless clothes are extremely soiled they will not need one particle of rubbing, if badly soiled, rub the soiled places with soap before putting in to boil. Hot milk heated to as high a temperature as it can be drunk, is a most refreshing stimulant in cases of cold or over-fatigue. Its action is very quick

and grateful. The effect of hot milk is far more beneficial and lasting than that of alcohol. It gives real strength, as well as acting as a fillip. Spots of cream always spoil the appearance of a table-cloth, without actually warranting its despatch to the laundry. If the spots are lightly touched with household ammonia and the stained portion of the cloth ironed over a piece of clean white blotting paper, all traces of the grease should vanish.