HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Levin Daily Chronicle, 14 November 1918, Page 4

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Salt scattered on the carpet before brushing brings up the colours.

Block magnesia rubbed on a light carpet will clean it.

Salt mixed with powdered chalk makes a good teeth, cleanser^ Vaseline every week patent leather shoes. If this is done they are unlikely to craok.

To remove ink stains from deal boards damp the wood with cold water and rub salt into the stain.

Always sweep carpets the way of the grain. To brush the wrong way is not only bad for the carpet, but it tends to force the dust in instead of out.

' Before washing coloured materials, soak in cold water to nhieh ox-gall has been added in the proportion of a tablespoonful to a gallon of water.

Tie a small piece of .orris-root (about one-fourth of an ounce if pulverised) in a small muslin bag and boil with the handkerchiefs for a few moments before taking out. After ironing they will have a delightful odour that will not be easily dissipated.

Embroidered garments should always be ironed on the wrong side upon several thicknesses of flannel. This makes the pattern stand out quite boldly. -To renovate a shabby umbrella, .take a cup. of hot, strong tea, and put in two lumps of sugar,, but no milk. Open the umbrella and sponge well with the liquid, which will revive the colour of the material and stiffen it.

Never waste scraps of meat or dripping; they should be melted down and clarified. You will then always have some pure dripping in readiness for cooking purposes.

"When rinsing children's clothes add a little alum to the water, as this renders them less liable to catch lire.

When the bars of a grate are burnt and red and will not take a polish easily, rub them with a picce of lemon before applying the blaeklead, and they will polish brilliantly. _ To remove inkstains from wood put sir drops of spirits of' nitre in a spoonful of water, dip a feather into this, and touch the spot. As soon as it disappears rub the spot with a cloth damped with cold water, or the nitre will leave a white mark.

Squeee the juice of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle, sunburn and tan lotion, and complexion beautifier. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, arms and hands each day, and see how freckles, sunburn, windburn, and tan disappear, and how clear, soft, and white the skin becomes.

Lemons will keep fresh if stowed in dry sand separately.