HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1902, 14 November 1918, Page 4

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Lemons will keep, fresh if stowed in dry sand separately. Tomato juice will remove ink stains from the hands. In heating the oven the draughts should be closed when the coal is well started. Dry Hour applied with a newspaper is an excellent and easy way to clean tinware. To polish a black marble clock, rub over with olive oil, and finish with a clean chamois leather. To get cake out of a pan whole when taken from the oven set it on a wet cloth for five minutes. When the colour has been taken out of black goods, it may be restored by the application of liquid ammonia. Never keep vinegar or yeast in stone crocks or jugs; their acid attacks the glazing, which is said to be poisonous. Put a silver spoon into the most delicate glass and boiling hot liquids can be poured into it without breaking it. Too little attention is generally given to the hanging of pictures. The traditional way is usually adhered to, the pictures being so hung as to lip forward at various angles with the wall. This alone disturbs the eye, and when shadows are cast from the pictures on to the wall they are unpleasantly obtrusive. Pictures should be hung as nearly vertical —flat against the wall—as possible. The best effect is given by using two hooks, so that two vortical lines of wire appear instead of the triangular piece resulting when but one hook is used. Where pictures are thus hung vertically in a room the walls retain their quiet, architectural appearance, and the effect is restful.