THE VINEGAR BOTTLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1939, Page 8

THE VINEGAR BOTTLE

’ THE HOUSEWIFE’S FRIEND. Even those who are blessed with soft water often have in their possession old jugs, bottles, or vases which have acquired dry and rough surface’s owing to the action of chalky water. If filled with malt vinegar and left for a couple of hours all marks can then be removed with a mop. If very obstinate they should first be scraped with a piece of wood. Ink stains can be removed from carpets and other woollen goods by pouring on vinegar, allowing it to soak well in, and then absorbing with clean rags or pieces of blotting paper, which should be changed frequently as the ink comes out. For ink stains that are old the process will have to be re; peated at least twice. To restore the gloss and colour to marble, besides cleansing it thoroughly, wash with a bucketfull of hot water into which two tablespoons of vinegar have been stirred. If there are obstinate stains these should first be rubbed with lemon and salt and loft for half an hour. Vinegar and water will cleanse a slimy sponge, also a tablespoon added to the soaking water will keep new coloured articles from running in the first wash. When a rusty screw will not come out, apply a little vinegar, leave it for a few minutes, and then use your screwdriver. If a room —more especially a sickroom—is stuffy, put a few red-hot cinders or coals on a shovel and pour a little vingar over them. A pleasant and refreshing odour will result. At those times of year when potatoes are apt to turn black in the boiling, put a dessertspoon of vinegar in the water in which they are to oe boiled, and they will stay white. For cleaning all sorts of polished furniture, nothing is better than warm water containing a little vinegar. This not only removes grime and sweetens as it cleans, it also helps greatly with the polishing later, both as to results and in economising furniture polish.