THE HOUSEHOLD.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 38, 16 December 1893, Page 10

THE HOUSEHOLD.

Drink cream for a burned mouth and throat.

Put your coffee grounds on your house plants. Five or ten minutes spent every morning during winter in rubbing the body briskly with a flesh brush, or piece of flannel over the hand, will do much to keep the skin active and prevent colds. Before roasting see that your fire is clear; this is essential. Black silk is best cleaned by some ox-gall put in boiling water. Coloured print dresses should be soaked for an hour in strong salt and water before washing, to set the colours. : Use hartshorn to bring back colox\s faded by acids. : Throw chloride of lime in ratholea. Wash oilcloth with skimmed milk. Rub the hands with celery after using onions, and the smell will instantly disappear. Blankets and furs sprinkled with borax and done up air-tight will keep free from moth. Beat carpets on the wrong side first. Sponge roughened skin with brandy and rosew iter. Never broil or fry coarse pieces of meat. Stewing is the only way in which these should be cooked. (rood eggs always have dull-looking shells. Keep the cover on the canister. Rub lamp chimneys with dry salt. Paraffin and sand, will remove the worst rust from tin. Apply hartshorn to the stings of insects.