HOUSEHOLD HINTS
ADVICE WORTH TAKING. To clean carpets, get some ox-gall from your butcher, and add a little to a bucket of warm water. After the carpet is beaten or cleaned with the vacuum, wash the carpet over carefully with the liquid (the flannel or cloth used must not be made wet, it should be moistened and every bit of the carpet must be gone over). Hang the carpet on the clothes-line to dry. The ox-gall brings up the colours and makes the carpet like new. Slice cucumbers always from the thick end. * # $ * Soft soap, bath brick (powdered), and whiting, mixed well and cut into small blocks, is excellent for household cleaning. Wipe all greasy plates, knives, etc., with tissue-paper before washing-up. Besides saving soap or soda, it makes the washing-up easier. To renew marking ink or paint, wipe with a flannel dipped in cold tea, and polish with a dry cloth. Try putting a squeeze of blue into the copper before boiling white clothes. The result is a whiter wash. Hearth tiles that are badly marked should be washed in hot vinegar and water, rubbed with a cut lemon, and then rinsed again with the hot vinegar and water.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1938, Page 4
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