FOR THE HOUSEWIFE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1940, Page 8

FOR THE HOUSEWIFE

SOME USEFUL HINTS. A teaspoonful of glycerine mixed in a cupful of hot milk will relieve a cough that is troublesome during the night, and will help the sufferer to sleep. Do not attempt to move a heavy box, or chest by lifting it. If a rolling-pin’ or other round piece of wood is placed underneath, the box can be moved quite easily into position. When framing pictures or photographs, try used gramophone needles to fasten the thin wood backing the picture. They are neat and do not split the wood like ordinary nails. New cotton articles containing a lot of dressing should be soaked overnight in salted water before being washed.

You may use hot starch for stiffening traycloths, curtains, etc., but it is economical to use it cold. Make youi starch-paste with cold water and add more water —not quite so much water as when using it hot. Stir well, dip m the materials, and iron them when thev are sufficiently dry. Let the staich settle in the basin, pour off the water, and the starch may be used again. A waste-paper basket in all the working-rooms and the bedrooms of any home is a splendid notion. Just an ordinary office basket in a corner.