HOMELY HINTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2175, 11 September 1920, Page 1

HOMELY HINTS.

Raw onion quickly relieves the pain from an insect sting. Borax boiled in a kettle of water will cleanse and sweeten a kettle which has become musty. Glycerine i- I lie best thing to use when tea is spill on a (doth. Aider washing, the mark disappears. Pad one side of the ironingboard with several thicknesses of Turkish towel. This is useful when ironing garments having buttons or embroidery. Glasses which have contained hot* milk should be soaked in cold water, and afterwards washed in hot water. Drooping flowers may In l revived by standing them in hot water to which a small quantity of ammonia has been added. Pastry-boards and rolling-pins should be washed in cold water without soap. They will then keep white and clean-looking without the trouble of scrubbing. When the lid of aTnetal polish tin has been left off and the polish has become hard, mix it with a small ■quantity of paraffin oil, and the polish will be as good as new. To clean saucepans thoroughly after cooking oatmeal, fill them with boiling cold water. The oatmeal will fall away from the sides of the saucepan. Before washing new lace curtains, calico, or anything containing a “■dressing," soak overnight in water to which a packet of Salt has been added. This takes out the lime, and saves soap, ammyanee, .and labour. If suet is melted in the oven and put into jars it will keep any length of rime. The suet is much easier to chop if treated in this way. Puddings will keep better if they tire made with suet that has been melted in the oven.

Sawdust is excellent for cleaning carpels. Damp the sawdust and sprinkle over the carpet. Then brush uIV with a carpet brush. Sawdust used instead of .snap on kitchen tables, pastry-boards, etc., will make them beautifully while and clean. if eggs are broken and one does not wish to use (hem at once, they may be kept for two or three days without any deterioration by removing the shells, dropping the eggs into a bowl, and covering them with cold water. The water can be easily poured off when the eggs are required.