THINGS TO REMEMBER.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3179, 28 April 1879, Page 2

THINGS TO REMEMBER.

; Salt fish are quickest and best freshened by soaking in some milk. That cool rain water and soda will remove machine grease from washable fabrics. ; ;;': .< '■'"■-'■ ri JVirlr,'A<"ii-ir,T That fish may be scaled much easier by dipping into boiling! water about a minute. Every one of these receipts is unfailing. Cutout this slip and place it in a book for reference. '-'■ : . '<. ''' X" ;■.-. iU'll : That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and other stains from white oloth; also from the hands.

That a teaspoon of turpentine boiled with your white clothe! will aid the ; whitening process. > ' That fresh meat after beginning to sour, will sweeten if placed out of doors in the cool over night. „,., „, That fish may as well be scaled if desired before packing down in salt, though in that case do .not scald them. The milk which is turned or changed may be sweetened and rendered fit for use again by stirring in a little soda. That kerosene will soften boots; and shoes which hare been hardened by water and render them as pliable as ■ever,;") -) r That boiled starch is much improVed by the addition of a little sperms of » little salt, or both, or a little gum arabid dissolred.