HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.

Otaki Mail, 7 February 1923, Page 3

HINTS FOR TH E HOUSEWIFE.

• A teaspoonful of lemon-ju ;<se in a cup of coffee will often relieve a bilious headache. I When buying:-nutmegs, choose small rather than large ones, as the former have a better flavour. Steel knitting needles should be rubbed occasionally with emery paper, especially if the knitter lias hot hands. Staius on nickel will yield it rubbed : with a soft cloth dipped iu ammonia. , Polish with a leather. Drooping flowers may be revived by standing them in hot water to which a small quantity of ammonia has been added. If, when washing curtain:', a little milk is added to the blue water they

will look like new when they are iron ed. When tying down jam, dip the cover in vinegar, and tie down whilst the jam is hot. This will keep it from working. When cooking green gooseberries, add a pinch of carbonate of soda ; it will take away a great deal of the sharpness. Suet keeps best when covered with flour. It is quite safe to bury it in the flour bin; it will not leave odour or flavour behind. Tiles will look like new if they are wiped with a cloth wrung out of skimmed milk, or polished with a furniture

cream. A paste made with whitening and water is excellent for cleaning paint. It should be smeared over the paint, and then rubbed off briskly with warm water. Polish with a dry soft, cloth. The best way to clean lamp-burners is to boil them for 20 minutes in strong vinegar to which a few yellow onion peelings have been added. To clean silver, moisten the platepowder with a little methylated spirit. Fish can be preserved for some time if it is sprinkled with coarse sugar. Gold potatoes used as soap will cleanse tho hands and keep the skin soft and healthy. Those not overboiled are best.

When you buy tea open it. and spread on paper in a warm oven for 15 min. utes. The flavour is greatly improved, and without lowering strength you can use a teaspoonful less. A teaspoonful of powdered borax added to the water in which clothes are rinsed will be found to whiten them considerably. Grease marks can be removed from suede shoes by rubbing the spots with emery paper. This brings up the nap again. -Woollens that have shrunk in tho wash can be restored to their original size and flufiiness if they are finished off in clean soapsuds instead of clear water. Do not. rub woollens, but squeeze them in your hands. ! The offensive smell can be removed 1 from saucepans in which onions or ! fish have been cooked by adding a lit- j tie vinegar to the washing water. i Scratches on furniture may be removed by mixing together equal parts of linseed oil and turpentine. Dip a flannel in this, and rub well into the scratched places. Afterwards polish with a soft duster. If your tape measure has curled up, put a teaspoonful of milk fn a saucer, pass the measure through this, and then squeeze lightly and press between a cloth with a very hot iron.