JOTTINGS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS.
When cleaning a room, beat and brush all upholstered goods, brush the dust from all creases and tuftings. Salt well rubbed in, will remove the stains from tea-cups. On fine days lay rugs on the grass, righit side down, and beat them. O * Sprinkle woollen and fur goods with borax, and wrap them in newspaper, to avoid the invasion of moths. When baking cakes, sprinkle dry sand on the oven shelf under the tin; this prevents the cake from burning at the bottom. When a bed creaks with each movement of the sleeper, take out the slats and wrap the end of each in newspaper. A mustard plaster mixed with white of egg will not blister. Rheumatic people should sleep between blankets. Keep an oyster-shell in the teakettle to prevent the vessel from furring. Do not iron black stockings; the heat turns them green. Salt will curdle new milk; it should therefore be added after the dish is prepared. To prevent stoves from rusting, paint with black varnish and turpentine mixed. Never keep vinegar or yeast in stone crocks or jars ; their acids destroy the g’lazing, which is said to be poisonous.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 20, 12 August 1893, Page 10
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