EVERYDAY ECONOMIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 195, 7 November 1927, Page 5

EVERYDAY ECONOMIES

THE WITS-END CLUB A new novel may be selected by the winner each week as a p/ize for the most original household hint or recipe that has been tested and found to save time, labour or money. Many folk might be glad to have the benefit of your experience, so send in your suggestions, addressed to The Homecrafts Editor, Women's Page, THE SUN. Auckland. The prize has been given this week to Mrs. E. Harriman, Epsom, for the following suggestion: FOR VALUABLE GLASS If you arte the fortunate possessor of antique glass, do not wash it in soap and water as this is apt to dull its appearance. Set it to soak for a while in water to which has been added some ammonia. Then, using a soft clean brush, go over it, getting all the dust out of the cut parts. When clean, plunge it in a box of dry sawdust and leave there for two or three hours. Finally remove, dust over with a linen cloth, and it will have a beautiful lustre. E.H. RENOVATING TINS Brunswick black thinned a little with turpentine, will give tins an attractive bronze colour. The surface of the tinware should be quite clean and, of course, free from any previous coat of enamel or paint. KEEPING THE SAUCES WARM When it is necessary to keep a sauce waiting before sending it to table, take care that in keeping it warm a skin does not form over the top. Stand the pan containing the sauce inside a larger saucepan of hot water, and place the lid over both. In this way the formation of the skin will be prevented. HOW DO YOU HANG OUT? When you are pegging out the laundry how do you stand? The correct way is with your back to the wind, so that the wind blows into the garment. Always see that articles are wrong side out, so that if they blow against trees or fences, slight soils will not matter so much as if they were on the right side. YOUR BLACKLEAD BRUSH By reason of its nature, a blaeklead brush is an item very rarely washed or cleaned, but it is all the better and lasts much longer for such attention. Make a Avarm soapy lather to which a little soda has been added. With a stick stir the brush round and round in the water, giving it two or more waters as may be required. When quite clean scrub the stock of the brush and also the handle. ON HOLIDAY For your little holiday launderings you cannot be bothered with starch. Prepare and bottle the following mixture and take with you; One ounce of gum arable.to a pint of boiling water. Stir over a low heat till dissolved, then strain and bottle. Use in the proportion of a tablespoonful to half a pint of cold water. This is an excellent substitute for starch. FOR THS HOUSEWIFE While you are away on holiday take the opportunity of leaving open all wardrobe and cupboard doors, so that they may the benefit of the air. Most of the garments are packed, and winter ones can be removed for the time being. If the backs of your ebony brushes and mirror are looking a little brown and lustreless, try rubbing them with a soft rag and a trace of A’aseline. This treatment will restore the dead-black shine that is the charm of ebony.