HOUSEHOLD NOTES

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 231, 1 December 1916, Page 7 (Supplement)

HOUSEHOLD NOTES

TO KEEP VEILS FRESH. The Lest way to keep a number it veils spick and <-pnn, is to have :i. long veil-case of cretonne, linen or silk, in which the veils may be kept, each loMed flat over ;i separate piece of hoa"dWhen the veil is removed from the hat. fold it immediately around the cardboard, which should be long enough to reach I rein o:ie edge of the veil to t!io other. The c,"se should be a little hinti l :' than the cardboard -trips, and a littkwider thnn their width—about five inchc-. wide by e'.L'htcen long. SASH CURTAINS. White cotton voile can be for sash curtains with very good effect, and it may, with advantage, be edged with la>e." The curtains made from voile will he cheap and easily washed. I hey Miould be supplied w th bone ring- at the top. 1.1-:MON"~~PUMPI.INCS. To n:j!k.■ lemon dumpings, chop verv fine half a nound ot suet and mix t w;th half a pound of grated bread, four out.,es of sugar, and the i>et.l i'i one lemon irrated. Mix these ingrodii nts well together with two well-lieate'i e"g». and make up the mixture lira small halls to be boiled. or bed tie whole in a h'.sin. RAISIN IT DDI NO. Chop half a pound of ru.H fine, and mix it with one pound of flour: stone ten onne.'s of raisins and stir them :n-

to the flour and suet with two ounces of brown sugar. Mix all well together, and pour in sufficient milk to make the mixture into a stiff paste, tie in a floured cloth and boil it. When done, serve it with white sugar sifted over the top. FOR A DA .MP ROOM. V\ hen papering a damp room, the folowing hint is worth remembering. Jake half a pint of alum and half a pint of glue-size. Dissolve both together in a pail of boiling .water: take oft the paper and wash the wall on:-c or twice with the solution. When dry. the wail cm lie papered, and the solution will prevent damp penetrating. A THOrCHT FOR THE WEEK. 0! ninny a shaft at random sent. I'inds mark the archer little meant. And many a word at random spoken May or wound a heart that'; broken.