HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Shannon News, 21 June 1927, Page 4

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Mice dislike the smell of turpentine and if rags soaked in it are placed at the entrance to their holes-it will often rid a place of them. When washing flannels, never let them lie long in the water. They should be washed and hung out to dry as quickly as possible. To keep a bowl from sliding and turning when mixing with one hand and adding ingredients with the other, put a folded towel underwit.

If a folded paper or cloth is placed over a vessel in which custard is cooling, it will present a skin forming on top.

Dried fruit has rather an insipid flavour when cooked. It may be considerably improved by the addition of lemon juice. Strain fTTe juice of the lemon, and add to it the fruit after cooking-, and so preserve the valuable vitamins which would otherwise be destroyed by boiling. Never leave sugar, raisins, currants, or peel in paper bags. They all go moist and stick very quickly. If new shoes and boots are varnished on the sole with best copal varnish they will wear much longer.

MICE AS WOMEN'S PETS

Even in these days few women would like to take a mouse by its tail anci hold it close to their eyes the better to examine the sheen of its fur, but this is what several women did at the Leeds and District Fanciers' Show where women outnumbered men as exhibitors of mice. "They make quite interesting- pets, and, of course, you got used to them," one woman exhibitor said, as she allowed a bright-eyed mouse to run about in the palm of her hand. • Mr. G. Fullbrook, the judge of the mouse section, stated that many of the mice exhibited there that day had exchanged hands for 30/- and £2, and some fetched as much as £7.