HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 16 May 1925, Page 10

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

TO MAKE IMITATION SAND SOAP Take pieces of scrap soap. Cut up and put into a small pot, aluminium preferred. Bring to a boil and keep on till all soan is melted'. Take a piece of muslin or net, and sieve through some ashes. Then put ashes into boiling soap. When thick pour into mould and allow to get quite cold. This will make a splendid imitation sand soap. It will polish any metrt.

TO MAKE LINOLEUM CREAM Chop up 4oz beeswax and add 3oz of common soap and 1£ tablespoons of salad or olive oil. Simmer for twenty minutes in a pint of soft water. Put into a jar, and add a pint of turpentine stirring occasionally until cool. Keep corked tightly. TO CLEAN STAINED TABLECLOTHS Wash cloth in the usual way and spread on grass to urv, ovuringut n possiblci. When dry, you will find the stains have disappeared. Stored silver will not tarnish if a piece of camphor is put away with it. Add paraffin to water when washing white or dark paint, baths, and sinks. It will both clean and glaze at the same time. Velvet can be cleaned by rubbing it with a cloth dipped in powdered magnesia. Plates and' dishes that have been burnt in the oven may be freed from stains by rubbing with damp salt. When putting lace away, fold as little as possible. A good plan is to wind it round a card, as they do in drapers’ shops. To clean rusty knives, drop them into thick sour milk, and leo them remain overnight. In the morning they can bo cleaned very easily".

The common nut-cracker makes a splendid household wrench to remove the tops from cans and bottles with screw tops. Even glass stoppers will yield to it. When washing a white silk blouse or white satin skirt, put a teaspoon of vinegar in the last rinsing water. This will keep the material white. When playing card's become soiled, thev may be made like new this way. Rub them with a soft rag dipped in a. solution of camnhor. Make the solution weak, as very" little is needed. To beat eggs quickly add a few" drops of vinegar. It also makes cakes lighter. To renovate cream woollen goods which havo become discoloured With many washings, add to the rinsing water enough Condy r ’s crystals to stain the desired colour. A large-size scrubbing brush, turned unside down and nailed to the floor of the back porch. makes an excellent, shoe-scraper, being particularly useful diu-im- the vin<er, especially for houses in unmade roads. To prevent rugs and mats slipping on polished floors,sew strips of thin rubber across tho under side from edge to edge. This keeps the mats in position, and prevents all danger of a fall. An old inner tube of a motor tyro, split open lengthways, serves the purpose well. When a constant supply of hot flannels is required, put a .steamer over a saucepan of boiling water and lav tho flannels in the .steamer. In this way they can be changed' more often, and they are much hotter than when wrung out of hot w’ater. Use a Dustless Duster.—When dusting. mix two table spoon Gd.s of vinegar with two teasnoonfuls of olive oil. and a few drops of ammonia.. Sprinkle on the duster. A nieeci of stockinette is a. good duster. Roll up tightlv. Wring so as to have it damp a U over. A good way is 1o nut it through a. wringer. This method cleans and polishes at the same time.