HOUSEWIFE’S NOTEBOOK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1939, Page 8

HOUSEWIFE’S NOTEBOOK

Next time you polish glass vases, just give the glass a quick rub over with metal polish and then rub with a dry duster. The job will be finished in half the time it takes with soap and water.

When sewing fur on to a garment rub the back of the fur with paraffin wax. The needle will then go through the skin like a piece of silk and save the usual tugging and pulling.

If potatoes are brushed over with melted butter before being put in the baking-dish, they will be crisp and brown when cooked.

A rubber sponge (quite dry) will, with the lightest friction, freshen and clean slightly soiled wallpaper. If suede shoes ate first steamed and afterwards rubbed with a rubber sponge Wonderful results will be obtained. Fur coats can also be dry-cleaned with a rubber sponge.

After washing milanese slips, dry them on a string, put through from neck to hem. This will prevent the usual drop and do away with any cuts made by pegs.

Brown leather chairs that have become faded through being in strong sunlight can have their colour brought back to them by rubbing over the leather with linseed oil and polishing with a soft, dry duster.

Patent leather shoes will not crack is castor oil is rubbed over them when taken off. The soles will go long before the uppers get shabby if you give them this treatment.

Do not use bicarbonate of soda when cooking green vegetables. Lump sugar will retain both the vitamins and green colour.