Household Hints.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 699, 29 August 1914, Page 7

Household Hints.

Lemon juice added to water when boiling rice will inake? the latter snowy white.

When a glass stopper will not come out of a bottle allow one or two drops of glycerine to soak in, and it can be removed quite easily.

Few persons know that an onion cutup into; four, parts, and put in a sick room where . there is any infectious ' disease, takes in all the infection.

It is not generally known that a sheet of tin placed over the smallest gas jet will heat two flat-irons as quickly and""•■"successfully-'as burning two jets.

Boots and shoes, however damp, will polish in a few minutes if a drop or two of paraffin oil be added to the blacking. It also prevents the leather from cracking. The most nauseous physic nay he given to children without trouble by previously letting them sUck a peppermint lozenge, a piece of alum, or a bit of orange peel.

For cleaning boots a strip of carpet glued to a piece of wood will remove mud very quickly an:l without the slightest injury to the leather, and it is much better than- the usual brush.

For a nervous headache or one following a too strenuous day a simple means of alleviation is to remove the- pressure of, the blood on the brain by soaking the feet in water as hot as J can be. torn". The blood is quickly drawn to the feet, and the brain is thus relieved of pressure. A teaspoonful of mustard added to the water will "effect a relief when the former method fails. A little salt rubbed en cups will take -off tea-stains. As a toothpowder it will keep the teeth white and the ,gums hard and rosy. It is one of the ; best gargles for sore throats. Neuralgia of the feet and limbs can be cured, by bathing right and morning w'ith salt anl water cs hot as can be-borne. . Whsn ta'cen out, rub the feet briskly with a coarse, towel. Salt and water is one of the best remedies ,)"or soro eyes, and if applied in-time will scatter the inflammation.