HOUSE-KEEPING HINTS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 253, 25 April 1888, Page 3

HOUSE-KEEPING HINTS.

Furniture Cleaning. — A piano maker gives the following directions for removing iingor marks from and restoring lustre to highly-polished but much defaced furniture — Wash otl tho finger marks with a clofch — or better, a chamois skin — wet with cold water, then rub the surface with nice sweet oil mixed with half its quantity of turpentine. A liberal rubbing of this mixture will reward your labours. (Jlka n witiioutSoiiv bbing. — Thocleanest and mosb perfectly polished floors have no water used on them. Thoy are simply rubbed off overy morning with a large flannel cloth, which is ooaked in kerosene oil once in two or three weeks. Take the cloth, and with a rubbing brush or stubby

broom, go rapidly up and down the planks (not across them). After a few rubbings tho floor will assume a polished appearance that is not easily defaced. Chinese Gloss Starch.— Chinese gloss starch is made of two tablespoonfuls of raw starch, one tablespoonful of borax, dissolved in one and one-half cups of cold water. Dip tho thoroughly dry unstarched cuffs, collars and bosoms of shirts in thiß, then roll thorn up tight and let them remain a few hours in a dry cloth, then rub off and iron. Plan your Hou.sework.— Have your bread all baked in the forenoon. Pile your supper dishes together snugly and set them in the closet and wash them with your breakfast dishes, except your knives and forks, which you can wash and wipe in a very short time. Have two sets of milk-strainers, one fer night and one for morning, and drop tho night's strainer into a dish of water until morning Just linse your milk pails and turn them bottom up in the sink, and in the morning wash both the pails and the strainers thoroughly. Get a half-bushel basket ; then when you wash your dishes, have two pans of water, wash them out ot one, dip them in the other, which have very hot, then set them on the edge in Lhe basket to dry. In an hour or so they will be diy and ready to set away. Plan all of your work so as to do it as quickly as po-sible, and when evening comes always dress up and enjoy it with your husband in such ways as are most agieeable. What work you cannot do before c\cning leave until the next day.