Household Hints.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 15 May 1914, Page 2

Household Hints.

To boil milk without fear of burning, put two or three tablespoonfula of water in the saucepan ; let it boiJ rapidly for two or three win. utes ; add the milk, and it will not burn, however fierce the fire may be.

If blaok kid gloves or calf-kid boots have become hard, put the gloves on the hand and apply in that position (as if washing the hands) as much camphorated oil as the leather will absorb ; then, take off and hang to dry and also allow the camphor to evaporate. With boots rub in well with the hand the same kind of oil. This gives the original suppleness to the leather.

Before mending stockings with ordinary darning yarn, it is a good plan to hold the skein or card over the spout of a kettle of boiling water. By this means the steam effectually shrink* the wool, and when the stocking is sent to the wash there will be no fear of the mended portion shrinking avay or tearing the surrounding part. ;

In choosing chickens observe cniefly the length'of leg-. Tho best chickens have short legs in proportion to tho size of the body, the bow* *r« small, and the flesh is white. Th a best test of age is found at th* end of the breast-bone. Wh«c the bird is young the end of the bone is a^; and gelatinous, and it \mxaa*& gcudu«Uy harder utki^ of th* v&l