HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Shannon News, 6 August 1929, Page 4

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

To clean plaster busts and statuettes dip them into thick liquid starch. When dry, brush off the starch, which will take the dirt with it. Add sunfloAver seeds to the fowl ra tion when the birds are moulting. -To make champagne shoes niggerbrown, rub them with kerosene. To clean a white felt'hat, use very stale bread crumbs.

For quick relief from a burn, try a poultice of. grated ra.AV potato. When the strap of a golosh breaks away, replace it Vifch. a piece of elastic the same width as the strap.

When a hole appears in a silver thimble mend.it in. the following Avay: Melt a small quantity of sealing 'wax into the thimble, Then dip your .Mngef in cold water and press the thimble on to it. This will set the wax very firmly and tiie thimble will then be quite fit for use. • Cold Weather Washing: Put a handful of'salt in the rinsing water when Avashing clothes in cold weather, and thev AA-ill not then freeze on fche line.

Velvet Cleaning: A wet window leather AA r ill free your velvet cushions from dust far more effectively than a brush. Wring the leather out of warm water, and take, it .lightly over lie cushions in even strokes.

Brightening Brass: Brasses will not nocd to be cleaned for at least six ■months if treated ir. the following Avay: Clean them thoroughly,-then polish and paint on a coat of clean copal varnish, putting it on smoothly with a fine, soft brush. The brass will look just as if it had been polished in the usual way, but-will not be affected by damp.