USEFUL HINTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1940, Page 8

USEFUL HINTS

3 HOUSEWIVES SHOULD TAKE NOTE ’ Use pure glycerine or boiling milk to remove coffee stains. Also pour boiling milk through materials to remove fruit stains. The same method applies to tea stains. Another way with ’’tea stains is to use a strong solution of sugar and water. Soak hair-brushes in ammoniated water to harden the bristles and pre- ■ vent them from falling out. When hanging out stockings on a 1 windy day. weight the stockings at the end with a spring peg. This will pre- ■ vent them from twisting round the line. To clean a vacuum flask, fill it three-quarters full of.warm water, add half a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda, and shake the flask (with cork in) as hard as you can for several minutes. If a garment has become stained with lemon juice, ammonia applied to the spot will restore the cloth to its natural colour. To keep ham moist, cover the cut part with a layer of lard. This is easily scraped off before you start to carve again. A point often overlooked is to make buttonholes on children’s clothing perpendicular. The “up-and-down" buttonhole takes the weight better than the horizontaL one. Tainted saucepans can be cleansed by boiling a cut-up lemon in them for one or two hours. When adding milk to vegetable acids, to prevent it curdling dissolve a little bicarbonate of soda in the milk before adding to the other ingredients. ’ 1