HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 184, 25 July 1908, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

"Styes" are common in weakly children ; good diet and cod-liver oil are the best remedies. ' Never forget to put a pinch of salt into every bottle of food baby takes; it is most necessary for its health. AVhen making jam tarts, brush the paste under the jam with the beaten white of an egg. This will make it nice and light and puffy. A delightful salad is made bv putting alternate layers of sliced tomato and chopped onion and parsley iu a glass dish, and sprinkling salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar between each layer, finishing with a thick layer of parsley on top. Velvet coat collars and revers may always be renovated by sponging them with a doth dipped in ammonia and water, providing, of course, that the colour i s permanent. The velvet should, however, be held over a hot iron to dry, so that the rising steam may raise the. pile of the material. Old oak furniture which has been neglected 'should be scrubbed over with warm beer. Dust with soft cloths and brushes, meanwhile boiling a quart o£ beer with a piece of beeswax the size of a pigeon's egg, and loz. of sugar. Wash tlu> oak all over with this, using a brush for the purpose. Leave till dry and polish with a cloth as usual. ■' Pineapple .Jelly.—Soak loz. of gelatine in half a pint of boiling water. Stir till dissolved. Take a tin of pineapple, remove all the black spines, cut up the fruit very small; pour the juice, with %lb. of loaf sugar and Vioz. of citric acid, into the gelatine syrup. Stir well,, then add the cut pineapple. Well mix, and place in damp mould. The jelly will set iu about six hours.

Exercise and Sweating.—Children are apt to become overheated playing in the sun. When they come indoors it is a good plan to unfasten their clothing and rub the skin dry with a rough towel. Otherwise, when the clothes are dam,i with perspiration and the child cools after exercise, it is apt to contract a chill. Loosely-woven flannel garments made roomy and comfortable arc the best.

All lloors should be so constructed that no dust can creep into cracks and crevices from wliieli it cannot be brushed out. If the boards are badly fixed and show crevices, these should be filled in with putty Or cement before putting the carpet down. Next to the expensive parquet flooring, a varnished surface is the most sanitary; but if the wood is too rough to take the varnish nicely it may lie painted with ordinary oil paint, three or four coats. Keeping Flour Dry.—Flour must always be kept in a perfectly dry place, as Hour with the least suspicion of damp about it makes heavy cakes and bread. Do not take your children to buy now boots in the early morning. In the latter part of the day the feet are the maximum size. Activity and standing tend to enlarge the fee't. If people would only remember this rule there would not be so many complaints of shoes when worn pinching the toes, and so causing unsightly blemishes. Vale Cheeks. —Extreme paleness of the skin sometimes arises from debility, or from slow circulation of the blood at the surface of the body; also from insufficient or improper food or want of j exercise. Warm baths and stimnlating lotions together with a. good tonic are recommended. A brisk walk before breakfast is the finest cure for an oversale face.