VALUABLE HINTS to HOUSEKEEPERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1575, 5 January 1884, Page 2

VALUABLE HINTS to HOUSEKEEPERS.

. ——-o A dish of hot water set in the oven i will prevent cakes from scorching. Keep apples in a dry place, as cool as possible without freezing. Keep flour cool, dry, and securely covered, Clean glass with a quart of water containing one tablespoonful of ammonia. Gathor herbs when beginning to blossomj dry in shade, and keep in paper bags. Wet inkstains with spirits of turpentine, after three hours rub well. Quicksilver and white of egg, beaten thoroughly and applied, will destroy bed-bugs. Use a cement, made of ashes, salt and wator, for stove cracks, Wet and soap spots or mildew and apply salt and lemon juices to both sides; expose several hours to the air. Wet iron rust with water; cover with equal parts cream of tartar and salt; wet often: keep in sunshine until stain is gone j renew application if necessary. To polish furaituro, apply with flannel equal parts boiled linseed oil and kerosene—rub dry with another flannel. Rub white spots in furniture with turpentine, and hold a hot shovel over them. Dip fish for an instant in boiling water before scaling. Salt fish are quickest and best freshened in sour milk. To sweeten milk, when it is turned, stir in a little soda. Salt Avillcurdlonew milk; therefore season after the dish is prepared. Eresh meat, if beginning to sour, will sweoten if placed out of doors all night. To whiten clothes boil with them a teaspoonful of turpentine. Add a little sperm, or a little salt, or both to boiled starch. Rub flat irons with wax, then scour with salt. Kerosine oil will soften boots when hardened with water. To romovc machine grease apply cold rain water and soda. ' Plant dill among cabbage to prevent cut worms

Plant broad beans close to bushes to prevent green currant worms. If your coal fire be low sprinkle with water or Bait. Sponge black silk with cold water, stretch and pin to carpet until dry. Bird lice. At night place piece of cotton batting in top of cage; remove at daylight. Touch the centre of warts twice a day with acetic acid, using a broom splinter, Wash white flannels in cold water and they will neither shrink or change color. Dissolve lump of alum in whitewash to prevent it rubbing off, Eub tinwaro with kerosene to make bright as new. Waterproof liquid for boots:—Pint linseed oil; eight ounces suet; six ounces beeswax; one ounco resin; melt together. To remove grease from wall paper place over spot several folds of blotting paper and hold hot flat iron over it. To prevent lamp smoking soak wick in strong vinegar twenty-four hoursf Moths in carpets:—lron all around edges with hot flat iron over a newspaper.