HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2410, 28 March 1922, Page 4

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To freshen stale vegetables, soak them for an hour in cold water to which the juice of a lemon has been added. To obtain a brilliant polish on a stove, dissolve some blacklead with some methylated spirits, and add a little boiling water to make it into a paste. Apply this to the stove and polish in the ordinary way. To make neglected leather slfaps pliable again, soak them for an hour in warm water. Hang them up to dry, and afterwards polish with brown boot polish. When cleaning bottles, cut a rew potato into small pieces, and put them into the bottles with a teaspoonful of salt and two tablespoonfuls of water. Shake until every mark is removed. An ordinary fowl’s feather will clean out teapot spouts admirably. When dusting carved furniture it will reach where a duster cannot. An oiled feather will cure squeaky hinges and locks, and oil the castors of chairs, etc. It will also lubricate the sewing machine and mangle where required. Broken elothes-pegs should- be saved for cleaning silver-ware. Covered with a soft cloth, the flat, round tip passes easily between the prongs of forks and into cracks that are difficult to get at without the aid of such an instrument. > All ffl ass stoppers arc apt to stick. It is not always an easy matter to hold the article in hot water, or to heat it by friction with a piece of string twisted round the neck of the bottle —two well-proved remedies. Another method is to pour a few drops of methylated spirit or other rapid eevaporator round the stopper, and let it stand for a few minutes.