COLUMN FOR WOMAN

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 145, 22 February 1915, Page 3

COLUMN FOR WOMAN

USEFUL HINTS. Many housewives who do not wish to deprive their menfolk of the pleasure of .smoking of an evening still have A great dislike to the smell which hangs about their sitting-rooms next morning. The following is a very simple remedy. From a chemist procure about an ounce of ammonia in a jar, about an ounce of crystals of ammonia and a little oil of levendcr. Put o lump of ammonia in a jar, and add three or four drops of oil, Mies add a ?.c\v tablespoonfuls of boiling vater, and stand tins in the room. It will give the room a faint, pleasant odour, which will quite do away with all traces of tobacco smell.

To Make Boots Wnceiproof.—Take one pint of boiled linseed oil, two ounces of beeswax, two ounces of spirits of turpentine, arid one ounce of Burgundy pitch, melted carefully over a slow fire.

With this composition rub the soles and tipper leathers of the boots when they are now. Use a small piece of sponge, and work either in the sun or at a distance from a fire. Rub the shoes as often as the leather becomes dry until it is quite saturated. \f this mixture is rubbed .veil inY.o the leather, it will pi event it from cracking* will make it more durf.bh' and ilmosi

■inpervious to wet.. Another method is to mix equal parts of mutton-fat, beeswax, and sweet-oil together. Hear them nor u fire until the mixture has quito nie'.ied. When it has cooled a little, apnl it plentifully to the shoes, particular ly the welt and seams. It will nml'.o them entirely waterproof.

There is a much simpler way than scraping to remove the" burns and scorches that mark plates and dishes, the latter through over-immersion in the oven, the latter through food being too hot and leaving its traces upon the china. Scraping is a tedious process", and it is certainly much easier and as equally effective if a little water and ashes are placed on the dish or plate and allowed to become warm. It will then be found that the charred portions are easily cleaned off. Another time-saving method concerns the silver. Forks and spoon,?, after they have been cleaned in the ordinary way with whiting, may bo placed in a bowl where boiling water is poured over them. To the water a small quantity of soda is added, and the whiting well washed off with a dish mop. The silver ia then thoroughly dried on a tea-cloth, and will be found to shine as brightly as though the trouble had been gone to of brushing and shining with a chamois leather. Kitchen salt moistened with turpentine is excellent for cleaning an enamelled bath with. The bath should oe quite dry,and the polish applied with a dry cloth. WASHING -DAY WISDOM. A handful of salt put i:i the rinsing water prevents colours from running. A pinch mixed in the starch will prevent the garments sticking to the iron. A rough iron may be smoothed by being rubbed with fine salt. pipeclay dissolved in watav when washing very soiled linen. The clothes are cleaned much quicker than with soap, and dry as white as. if bleaching powder had been used. After passing table-cloths through hot starch after washing them, if they are put through the mangle before being hung out to dry, they will bo found to keep a better shape and will be easier to iron. Ladies who wash their own collars, etc.. at home, will be able to glaze them quite easily by making the following mixture: —Scrape fine about a teaspoonful of good white soap and add the same amount of French chalk. Pour two tablespoonfuls of boiling water over them, let the mixture cool, and then beat it up. Apply the collars till dry, then apply a small quantity of the gla/.e with a bit of muslin. Rub the iron over it, and a glaze like that of china will be obtained.