HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1938, Page 8

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

If apples which you have stored away have become slightly withered, just soak them for a few hours in cold water. They will peel then quite as easily as fresh apples.

A nailbrush can be used to clean your cheese-grater with, and also to clean radishes, celery, and new potatoes.

To peel oranges quickly, soak them in hot water for half an hour. You will find that they will have a nice, sweet pulp doing them this way.

To remove dirty marks from the bath, moisten a cloth with kerosene and use it with your ordinary cleaning powder. Rinse well, and rub over with a chamois leather.

To restore the natural colour to tussore, after washing rinse the tussore in water coloured with strained tea.

If your kitchen is damp, fill a jaiwith lime and put it in the damp corner. This will absorb the damp and keep the air fresh and sweet.

If you have a vacuum cleaner, give the sewing machine an occasional clean with it. If one of the small attachments, is used, it is surprising how much dust can be blown out of the corners.

To clean soiled neckbands, hatbands, etc, get some carbon tetrachloride from the chemist, place a piece of blottingpaper underneath the soiled article and rub the liquid- in with a soft rag until the dirt and grease have been absorbed.

To remove transfer marks from delicate materials, use oil of eucalyptus.

Clean light kid gloves and shoes with a soft indiarubber.