HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
WOMEN WH'! SHOULD MOT TEACH. No nervous woman, ought ever to teach children. She is manifestly unfit for it. You can't manage a horae when vou are nervous, and a child is a good deal tne same way. No girl with delicate health should choose this shut-in and exacting life. It needs a fine hev.ltfcy woman with an active mind, a fova for growing brains, and a bnad view of life to make a success in this line The ideal teacher will nevnr be found among those who look upon the teachnig profession as a assured way of earning a living. THE; WEDDING PRESENT SCOURGE. The wedding present has become a voluntary income-tax far more heavy in ita incidence upon those who move in society of any kind than the demands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, wails a writer on modern modes and manners. It is not that there are more weddings, nor, indeed, that the value of the gifts has increased greatly; but that the field of giving has extended its boundaries ao enormously. Presents were formerly only given by relatives or intimate friends, and nobody thought of the bridegroom in such a connection. Now a visiting acquaintance of any kind is sufficient in the case of either bride or bridegroom to make the giving of a present the right thing to do. A GOOD WORD FOR DAME FASHION. Mrs Eric Pritchard is not one of those who denounce Dams Fashion because of her vagaries. On the contrary, she is quits pleased with her. There are superior people, she says, who profess to laugh at fashions—yet these unconventional folk, as a rule, display more bad taite in their unconventionality than those who follow the latest vagaries of fashion with servile fidelity. Personally, I think we have much to be grateful for in the arbitrary demands of fashion, or otherwise our aesthetic senses would be more frequently outaged by the inartistic masterworks of amateur geniuses. , After all, during the last few years we have managed to live down the hideous traditions and crazes of the "Victorian Era," and "La Mode'" has at least become expressive, expansive, and liberal in its ideas. There will always exist curiosities in models, and a few "freakish" women to wear but as a rule the dress of yesterday and to-day may be described aB vety beautiful. USEFUL TO KNOW. To Make Window Opaque.—Dissolve Epsom salts in as much hot water as will hold them in solution, and paint this on to the window as warm as possible. When dry the glass will be perfectly frosted. To Clsan Tan Shoes. Take two pieces of flannel and a small bottle of turpentine. Apply turpentine, and rub well with other flannel. This removes all spots and stains, making the shoes look nearly new. Sponged are great germ collectors and, should be scalded thoroughly very frequently. Old hair brushes which have becorre soft can be made quite hard and firm by dipping them in a strong solution of alum. Substitute for Horse-radish Sauce. —Boil an ordinary turnip. Mash and beat in two teaßpoonsful of made mustard a small lump of butter, and, thin with a little milk or cream. Heat in lined saucepan. Served with roast meat, it cannot be distinguished from real horse-radish. When one cannot get one's boots to polish, try damping the polishing brush with paraffin. If pieces of toasted bread are put into soups or gravies which are too salt and taken out in a few minutes ii will be found that the bead has absorbed a good proportion of the salt. If grease is spilled on a wooden table, pour cold water over it at once The cold water-will harden the grease and prevent it sinking into the wood. It can then be easily removed with a knife. White feather boas can be cleaned by shaking them about in a lather of water and curd soap They should be bung in a warm roum to dry and frequently shaken. Save the green leaves off celery, wash well, and when perfectly dry rub fine and Keep in well-corked glass bottles. It is excellent for flavouring soups and broth. Powdered mint is also good. fruit stains can be removed from linen or any washing cotton material by washing them over with kerosene. The material should then be washed in the usual way, and be given a good blow in the sunshine and air on a breezy day. To Remove Blacklead Stain.—To remove the blacklead stain make a paste of fuller's earth and water and spread it on the stain, leaving it to drv. When quite dry brush off, and repeat the process if necesßary. Burns.—lt is a good plan to keep a bnttle of lime water and linseed oil mixed in equal proportions in your sore cuDboards, and in case of a burn lay rags saturated with the mixture—which must be shaken first—on the injured part. Linen rags should always be used for the open wounds in preference to cotton. To Keep Steel Gates and Fire Irons Bright.—lt is a difficult matter, especially in summer time, to Keep these bright and frae from rust. An excellent way is to first clean them well with powdered bath brick and paraffin. After polishing with this get some powdered lime, and well rub the steel with this, in its dry state, either with a chamois or soft duster. It will give a brilliant polish, and help to prevent rust.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 652, 18 March 1914, Page 3
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913HOUSEHOLD HINTS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 652, 18 March 1914, Page 3
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