TIMELY HINTS

Ladies' Mirror, Volume I, Issue 3, 1 September 1922, Page 48

TIMELY HINTS

/""’HINTZ covers can be easily cleaned V< with bran and a damp flannel. Rub evenly and smoothly until the glazed ..surface is quite clean. Finish with a 'warm, dry cloth and bran. Bruises in Furniture. Carpetsweepers sometimes cause- a nasty “bruise” on furniture mahogany being very apt to get damaged by stray blows. The following process will help to remedy the matter: — Soak several layers of brown paper in warm water and place it on the bruise, which has been well damped. Iron with a very hot iron until all the moisture has been drawn from the paper. To Make a Window Run Smoothly.—Next time a window sash sticks, try rubbing the groove in which it runs with a stick of black leadthe

effect is marvellous. A window which took two people to open or shut now flies up or down at a touch from one hand! For an Empty Grate. —It is often difficult to know how to disguise an empty grate after fires are things of the past. Flowers are apt to be expensive. especially as they do not often thrive on the hearth. If you have charming chintz covers it is a good plan to have a square of the material framed in a dull gilt frame. The back can be made removable, so that when the time arrives for new covers it is merely a matter .of inserting a fresh square of fabric. Lengths of Chinese embroidery framed in black make fascinating screens, and, if both sides are alike, it will do duty in the winter as a screen for the back of the chair nearest the fire. A Crushed Tomato Will Remove Ink Stains.-—Modern inks vary a great deal in composition, but most

of those in common use are affected by the application of tomato juice. It is always worth while, therefore, to treat any ink stains in linen or cotton with a freshly cut tomato. Rub the stain well with the fruit, and then, without delay, rinse in water. Where the stain is of long standing a second, or even a third, application of tomato juice may be required before a successful result is achieved. Substitute for Glue-pot.—When using glue, smash up the cake of glue into small fragments (after wrapping it up in a piece of thick paper) with a hammer, put it into a jam-pot, barely cover with boiling water, set the jam-pot in a saucepan half full of boiling water, and let it boil slowly until the glue is of the consistency of thick golden syrup. Always keep the glue-pot standing in boiling or nearly boiling, water whilst in use. or it becomes “stringy” and will not stick.