HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1938, Page 8

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

If a teaspoonful of olive oil is added to the final rinsing water when washing woollies, it will make them as soft and fluffy as when new. Cut out small pieces of blotting-pap-er and fit them inside table salt containers (in the bottom). These will absorb the moisture in damp weather, and leave the salt dry. To prevent mould from forming on the top of a jar of pickles, place a piece of horse-radish in the jar. This will also improve the taste of the pickles. A blue-bag squeezed in the washingup water will give a lovely gloss to china and prevent grease from clinging to the sides of the bowl. Light-coloured paint will rarely require cleaning if, after being cleaned and thoroughly dried, it is given a weekly rub with furniture cream and a polish with a soft duster. When cooking cauliflower, squeeze half a lemon over it while it is being cooked. This will make it white, and there is no need to add soda as is usually done. Instead of lining cake-tins with greased paper when baking cakes, try greasing the tins and dusting them with ground rice. Cakes do not burn readily after this treatment. To remove heat-marks from polished wood surfaces, apply spirits of camphor. When the right hand of your rubber gloves begins to wear, turn both gloves inside out, and wear the right glove on the left hand and the left glove on the right hand. They will wear much longer, as the strain is not so great on the left hand. Dust them occasionally with French chalk. Warm castor oil rubbed into leathercovered furniture, and polished off with a soft cloth will preserve the leather and prevent it from cracking. If a square of camphor is placed on each shelf of a display cabinet where silver is kept, the silver will keep bright for months. Wash cut glass in warm soapy water and rinse in strong blue water. This will give the glass a sparkling brilliance, besides making it easier to polish.