FOR THE FAMILY SCRAP BOOK.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 29, 2 January 1884, Page 3

FOR THE FAMILY SCRAP BOOK.

(From the Troy Times.) Never let the tea boil. For rough hands, use lemon juice. Tepid milk and water clean oilcloth without soap. Turpentine applied to a cut is a preventitive of lockjaw. A hot shovel held over furniture removes white spots. Hprinkle sassafras bark among dried fruit to keep out worms. A handful of hay in a panful of water neutralises the smell of paint. To make a carpet look fresh, wipe with a damp cloth after sweeping. In sewing and wiping carpet rags, double them with the right side out. Clean tea or coffee cups with scouring, brick; makes them look as good as new. Remove ink stains on silk, woollen, or cotton by saturating with spirits of turpentine. Washing pine-floor with solution of one pound of copperas dissolved in one gallon strong lye gives oak color. Remove flower-pot stains from window-sills by rubbing with fine wood ashes and rinse with clean water. A paste of equal parts of sifted ashes, clay, and salt, and a little water, cements cracks in stoves and ovens. Mixtures of two parts of glycerine, one part ammonia, and a little rose water, whiten and soften the hands. Cover plants with newspaper before sweep, ing. Also put a little ammonia upon them once a week. Corn husks braided make a serviceable and handsome mat. The braids to be sewn with sack-needle and twine. Cabbage is made digestible by first slicing, and then putting in boiling water, with a pinch of soda and some salt, and boiling just fifteen minutes. A porcelain-lined kettle that will no longer serve for fruit is just the thing for the corn loaf. A three or four-quart fruit-can answers well the same purpose,