USES FOR COMMON SALT.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 July 1914, Page 8

USES FOR COMMON SALT.

There are any number of uses for common salt more than of seasoning our food. If finely powdered, and rubbed on silver spoons or china it will remove the brown stains of tea and eggs. Throw it on the carpet before sweeping, and not only will it prevent the dust from flying about, but it will cleaa the carpet and brighten its colours. When soot falls down the chimney on to the carpet, sprinkle salt over it before sweeping it up. If the chimney gete alike, throw gait on the fire. If anything boils over in the oven or on the stove and gets. burnt, throw salt on it, and it will take away the smell. If a thick plaster of moist salt is .aid over a burn it will allay the pain. A nightly gargle of salt and water will strengthen the throat and ward off bron^itis. A glass full of cold salt and watertaken regularly before breakfast is said to cure rheumatism ; a small teaspoonful of salt to a tumbler of water is the quantity. If wh«o washing coloured or black cotton*, a handful is put into the water, the colour will not run. Rins:ng the mouth with cold salt and water will harden and strengthen the gums: a little taken in cold water will relieve heartburn. Rub the ha. iris with salt after peeling potatoes, then rinse in cold water.

Most people, when Intend ng to warm a bed with bottles, lay them down flat This is a great mistake. The correct w»y is to take the bottles, the u-.tW the befter, fill them with hct - «-.er, .nd stand them upright in the bed. The bedclotl.es should then be diava lightly over them The c,: antj.ge of this is that the Warm air circulates freely over'the bod.ano ■v^-ns the whole of it. In this v>*- un iu»«d i^edd can •* thoroufiilv a.red *Mi*w.. i;-* winter n,u-ii«