Household Hints

Levin Daily Chronicle, 7 May 1918, Page 1

Household Hints

Paint can bq. removed from glass by rubbing it with hot, strong vinegar.

Three or four cloves added to a cupful of tea will relieve headache almost immediately.

The odour of onions on the fingers can bo entirely removed by washing tho hands in salt water, z

Stale bread and vinegar applied to a corn as a poultice nightly will cure the corn in three nights .

When keresone oil is well rubbed into linoleum, it will retain its colours and wear twice as long as usual.

It is a good plan to rub a smoky lamp chimney with a cloth moistened with methylated spirit. This will take off marks that refuse to budge for soap and water.

A considerable amount «an bo saved 01: the gas bill by placing a piece of sheet-iron on the stove-top. One burner will heat this sufficiently to keep two or three pans cooking.

The best way to dust furniture if with a large soft paint-brush, which lias been dipped in olive oil and squecz ed almost dry. This will take up every bit of dust without sending it flying about.

When making a beefsteak pudding a piece the size of half a crown should be cut out of the paste ;it the bottom of the basin before putting the meat in. The pudding will then cook in one hour instead of two.

Nickel-silver should be cleaned with ammonia and whiting. Take half a cupful of finely powdered whiting, and it into a paste with a cupful of cold water in which a teaspoonful of rock ammonia has been dissolved. Polish with leather.

Teapots will never become musty smelling if, after drying, a lump of sugar is placed in the bottom and the lid closed, The svigar absorbs all tho moisture ,aiTr! u tennot treated thus will be quite sweet and clean even if it has not been used for months.

When the inside of a silver teapot starts to tranish, tho following process will make it look like new. Put a large picce of washing-soda into the teapot and fill with boiling water. Then boil for one hour over a spirit lamp and you will find it will become as bright inside as out, and tho soda will not injure the silver in any way.