USEFUL HINTS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2221, 30 December 1920, Page 1

USEFUL HINTS

When cleaning the brass round- a keyhole it is almost impossible to avoid touching the surrounding wood, get a piece of coarboard about four inches square. Cut a hole in the shape of the brass, and place it over the keyhole when cleaning. The wood will-then remain untouched.

A splendid thing: for keeping white elotlics in good colour is lo put Iwo or three tablcspoonfnls of paraffin in the water in which the clothes arc boiled. You will find this makes them white and removes all dirt a ltd, stains in a most surprising nujnncr.

■Wben*you wash your white silk blouses, remember, when you rinse them, to add a little of the water in which rice has been boiled. This gives them just the right amount of stiffness;

As soon as milk has been scalded, if you stand the jug containing it in a basin filled with cold water, no skin will form on the top, and the milk will he just like fresh milk'

To clean and disinfect a galvanised iron dust-bin, burn a few handfuls of straw in it every time it is eihptiod. Pails or old enamelled dish pans used for the purpose may be treated in the same way, and every trace of grease or impurity will be removed. Where, however, * the careful housewife uses the re-

ceptaeles for ashes only, the above precaution is not necessary, but unfortunately stale food, fish trimmings, and other poisonous matter is disposed of in this way, instead of being burned.