Household Hints.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 35, 3 November 1911, Page 7

Household Hints.

After frying or any other greasy cooking has been done, rub the top of the stove at once with old newspaper or brown a. paper. It will prevent the smell hanging about for nours, and make it easier to polish with blaeklead. . When old flannel shirts are worn out cut the sleeves from them and place them away in safety. When a poultice iiS needed, cut a sleeve to the desired length, sew across the lower end, put the poultice into the bag thus formed, tack it across the top and ad-minister-it. The warmth of the wool will be soothing to the patient, and the poultice will retain the heat much longer than when put into muslin osr cheesecloth. If hooks for bathroom, kitchen and pantry are dipped in enamel paint there will be no trouble from iron rust. Salt as a tooth powder is better than anything that can be bought. It keeps tHie teeth beautifully white and the gums hard and rosy. Salt used for this purpose should be very finely pulverised. When the dish towels are washed, they should be thoroughly boiled. Meire scalding does not answer the purpose. The intense heat of boiling is necessary to health and cleanliness in the kitchen. .

When chopping suet, it is a good plan to sprinkle a little flour or ground rice over the suet before beginning to chop it. ..This generally prevents the suet sticking to the knife, and makes the chopping much easier.

If you are hoarse, lemon juice squeezed on to soft sugar until it ia like a syrup, and a few drops of glycerine added, will relieve the hoarseness at once.

If a lamp smokes notwithstanding the fact that it baa been carefully trimmed and the wick is evenly cub, the burner is probably in need of cleaning. To do this it should be removed from the lamp and soaked for several hours in strong washing soda and very hot water and. then dried carefully in every particular. If very much clogged with dust and charred wick it may be necessary to boil the burner for several minutes in strong soda water.