HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 June 1938, Page 4

HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS

When strong winds make the windows rattle, and the window wedges are nowhere to be found, remove the spring from an ordinary spring clothespeg, and yqu have two excellent miniature wedges.

Why not stitch a band of tape along the top of your stockings just where your suspenders fasten? You will find this prevents those tiresome ladders from springing.

If a mustard plaster is mixed with white of egg instead of water, it will draw perfectly, and will not blister the most delicate skin.

Make corks airtight by boiling them and pressing them into the bottles while still hot. They will have sealed themselves tightly when' cold.

Half an hour before using lettuce, wash it in water in which a teaspoon of sugar has been dissolved. This makes the leaves beautifully crisp.

When cutting block salt, use your saw-edged bread knife —you will find this sharpens it splendidly.

A very simple and inexpensive enamel for renovating tins, canisters, handbags, etc, is obtained by crushing a stick of sealing wax of the desired colour very finely, placed it in a bottle, .just cover with methylated spirits, shake.

A cake of camphor ground and dissolved in a bottle of methylated spirit is an excellent remedy for tired and aching feet. Keep away from the fire.

To clean a card table which is covered with green or blue baize, mix together powdered chalk and salt and warm slightly before sprinkling thickly over the baize, leave overnight, then brush off in the morning. Any particularly dirty marks should be cleaned off first with a little hot ammonia.