HOUSEWIFE’S NOTEBOOK
HINTS WORTH NOTING. To clean a nutmeg grater put it into the oven for four or five minutes. The fragments clinging to it will become dry and brittle, and may then be easily brushed off. It is wise not to wash hearth tiles in the way that you wash a floor. Use turpentine and a soft cloth, and thus avoid the danger of splitting the surface glaze of the tiles. It is handy to sew a curtain ring on to kitchen towels, overalls, aprons, etc. They can be hung up in a flash. By comparison a tape-loop is an irritating device with which one fumbles. Cotton gloves should be worn when silver is being polished. They reduce the work by preventing finger marks, and they protect the hands. If tea is spilt on a table-cloth the point to remember is not to let the stain dry. Spread the section of cloth over a basin and pour boiling water through the stain, and to make sure go a little beyond its edges.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1939, Page 10
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173HOUSEWIFE’S NOTEBOOK Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1939, Page 10
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