WOMEN'S REALM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 301, 21 December 1907, Page 3

WOMEN'S REALM.

MOTS AJXD When altering a blouse for any reason it is a great mistake to move the ghoul* der seam io the front. A far better plan is that of dropping it backwards instead of forwards.

• When running brass rods through window curtains, put an old glove linger over the end that is being pushed through Iho hem. Unless this is done the material in apt to tear. if furniture looks smeary after polishing you may be pretty certain that too much polisli was used. Very little, indeed, is really needed, just enough to smear thinly over the surface.

\Salt moistened with vinegar will remove burnt marks from enamelled saucepans and dishes; but don't forget that they should be, soaked in cold soda water for 11 few hours to loosen the etains.

(las burners, like other things, are apt to get dirty. Very often there is quite a little collection of rubbish on them. If this is cleared away the improvement in the light is very noticeable.

Mounted photographs, if soaked for a little while in cold water, can be peeled off the mounts quite easily. Pin down on blotting paper, and paste on new mounts when dry. It often happens that one gets damaged or soiled, and a fresh mount will give it a new lease of life.

To purify water add powdered alum in the proportion of a teaspoonful to every four gallons. Stir this briskly, and all impurities will l>e precipitated to the bottom. The rest of the water will be left pure and clear.

Old hair brushes often beconw very softe from repeated washings. To m:\ke4heir bristles firm again, dip them in a strong solution of alum. A pennyworth of alum will last you for months. Dissolve a little of it at a time in hot water.

Save the water in which the potatoes are boiled for a meal, and use it for washing the table silver. It will keep the spoons and forks beautifully bright, and remove stain:; in a wonderful way. Even discolored egg spoons will become clean when tluis treated.

To remove scorch from linen.—Peel and slice two onions and pound them to e.siract Iho juice, then cut up half an ounce of white soap; add two ounces of Fuller's earth, mix the whole of the ingredients together with a ' Mit of vinegar. Boil all these ingr" :; mts for a short time, and when cob) nread over the rftain. Repeat this unt'l the stain is quite removed. Ihittermilk ha< val"« both as a complexion wash an I aid to cookery. Tf it comes from sweet, pure cream, the flavor is delicionn. Buttermilk is wholesome, *1 lid Ik an improvement in the manufneMk* of cakes and scones, and useful, besides. in the mixing of boiled puddings.