HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 6 November 1914, Page 8

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

When, making blue-water for clothes arid a little salt to it. This distributes the colour evenly and prevents "patches." Celery may be freshened by being left overnight in a solution of salt and water. To make cabbage digestible, ' when half boiled pour off the water and place .in fresh boiling water. One teaspoonful of vinegar is a substitute for an egg. and makes a cake light in which dripping has been used instead ol" butter. A little soot rubbed on to a greasy stove after frying potatoes or fish will make shorter work afterwards of the business of polishing, and will economise the blacklead. White paint can be kept in good condition if whiting is mixed to a still paste with warm water and used instead of soap. Rinse off with clear water and dry with a duster or leather. llrowti leather travelling-bags, or any other brown leather goods, may he beautifully polished by rubbing them well with the inside of a banana skin, and (hen polishing- with a soft dry cloth. Bootlace-tags sometimes come off quite good laces. In this case they may be replaced with impromptu tags of sealing-wax. Cut the tag, smear it over with sealing-wax, then press it to a point while the wax is still warm. If a lump of soda dissolved in a little hot water is added to the 1)1 ue-water on wash day, it will prevent the blue from settling in the clothes and make them perfectly white. This is especially useful when the water is very hard. Very frequently when separating the whites from the yolks of eggs the yolk becomes broken and falls into the white. Dip a cloth in warm water, wring it dry, and touch the yolk with a corner of it, and the yolk will adhere to the cloth and may easily lie removed. Tf mirrors are very dull and speckled, the following method is excellent. Take a small portion of whitening and add sufficient cold tea to it to make a paste ; rub the glass with warm, dry tea with a soft cloth, then rub a little of the paste well on the mirror, and polish dry with tissue-paper. ■ Jewellery can be successfully cleaned by washing In hot soapsuds to which a few drops of ammonia have been added. Then shake off the water, rinse in alcohol, and drop into a box of jeweller's sawdust. T-his method leaves neither mark nor scratches, and gives great brilliance : ~: ~~*£- — " . '