HOUSEHOLD HINTS
USEFUL FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. Milk will suffice to clean the keys of a piano if they are in good condition, or rub them with a light-tinted furniture cream. Chloride of lime sprinkled over the floor of a cellar regularly will kbep away rats. * A worried flat-dweller with a very small kitchen solved the space problem to an appreciable degree by having a light kitchen table made with folding legs like those of a card table. In fact, it served both purposes. In the kitchen, it had linoleum tacked on to it. In the sitting-room this was concealed with a cover. When white flannels become grassstained, treat with salt and tartaric acid mixed in equal quantities, and made into a thin paste with water. Spread it over the stain freely and dry the garment in the sun. Then brush off the paste. A second treatment may be necessary. Brush the screen doors with kerosene to prevent flies from entering the house. Powdered borax, strewn on the floor, will keep ants out of the larder. All suspicious holes should be filled with cement, after being painted with turpentine. _________
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1939, Page 8
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188HOUSEHOLD HINTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1939, Page 8
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