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NZ Truth, Issue 1213, 28 February 1929, Page 10

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A touch of furniture cream applied to brasses after they have been washed will keep them bright much longer. * * • To clean dirty wallpaper, take a large piece of stale bread, remove the crust, and rub gently. * # # Never throw away coal dust. Put it into an old pail or tin and mofsten with water, and when the fire is burning bank it up with this damp dust, and .your fire will last for hours. •* To clean an aluminium saucepan that has jbeen burnt, pour m a little water and boil an onion m it. The burnt matter will come to the top and leave the saucepan clean. *> • Iron will keep bright for a long time if polished with emery cloth arid then rubbed over with an oiled rag. * * * Door knobs of cupboards often work loose, but this is easily remedied by filling up the hole with cork cut into small pieces. ■*■ ♦ • Sour milk will remove iron rust from white goods. # # ♦ jy The bright sunlight will often^^JT^ move scorch stains from linejj^***^^ A piece of flanneldj^ ed m oatmeal is an excellent thyflg i 0 cleanse wallpapers, jr* A good w#[y t 0 boil a leg of mutton is to put Ufjn a muslin bag. Not only will the *neat look nicer, but it will lose less wjjfh cooking. i ♦ # # Mjilk, or milk and water, will bring. wn Ate paint up like new. j / ■ * * ♦ / To keep potatoes white they should have their own saucepan, and not be boiled m a saucepan used for other purposes. * * * To keep meat fresh m muggy weather, wipe over with vinegar and water. * * * If an apple is added to sage and onion stuffing, it not only improves the flavor, but prevents the onions repeating. , * # # If a pinch of carbonate of soda is added when stewing fruit it will save the sugar. * * # When peeling onions commence at the root end and peel upwards. Your, eyes will not be so affected. *' * * j To bring out the flavor of coffee add a little salt and mustard. \- , # ' # * Dirty windows are soon cleaned if they are wiped over with a cloth dipped m methylated spirits — and no polishing is necessary. '■■•■< # * * To prevent stoves and grates rust-J ing when not m use, give them am coating made- of three parts of larjfl melted with one part of resin.