Household Hints.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 20, 15 May 1902, Page 29

Household Hints.

New boots should bo rubbed with a slice of raw potato , they will) polish then as easily ns will old ones. New tins shquld be set over the fire with bioiling water in them for several hours before food is put 'into them Admit plenty of air to your storeroom on a clear, di y day, for air is necessary to all sweet preserves Those kept in iui air-tight room or cu(pUoard -are apt to ferment To wash a ulass which lias held milk, plunge it Jirst into cold water before IpjUttint; into warm. The samo mile holds good for egg cups or spoons from which eg^si have |b<eun eaten, Fuigeis stained with fresh fruit, walnuts, etc , should be dipped in strong tea, nrh'Ued with a nail bjruslh and then washed m warm water. Under this treatment the stains will soon disappear Whenever -vegetables put up in tin cans arc opened and only partly used, do not allow the remainder to stand in the tins, hut turn theaii out into an earthen howl and put in a cool place A .strip of il.innel or a soft na.pkm, folded lengthwise, and dipped im hot water and wrung out, and then applied around the neck of a child that has the croup will usually 'tfruig) relief in a few minutes. The French ha\e a way of making even an inferior quality of table liinen look well without the ai(d of starch When the napkins are washed and di led and rea,d<y to be ironed they are dipped into boiling/ water and partially wrung o-ut between two cloths. They are then rapidly ironed with as hot a flatiron as possible without burning) them. Treated in this manner, they become bieaj tifully g.los.sv and still.

In the death of Mrs. Mary E. , Pulsifer Ames, at her home in Saai J.ose, on March 20, t|here was lost • to the world, except that her works "s will live after her, a distinguished! ' wormam. — one whose fame as a bota- <> nist was worlid-wide, and especially! ■ honored in the Royal Botanical Di- : rectory of Austria . So quiietly and unass|umingly did she live, that it - can be truthfully said that she was better known in the world of science and of letters than, in her h'omel city. V' The greatest part of her education » was received in the Academy of Notre Dame, Lowell, and at the College of Notre Dame in San Jose. To the giooid, well-beloved Sisters of Notre Dajme she said she owed every sluccess she achieved in life, and to her ' alru,a mater,' the College of Notre Dame, to which she was ever loyal and devoted, she bequeathed her exquisite and extensive collection of valuable plants, booksi, and stones, in grateful memory, as she often said, of the home where sfae had learned 'the beautiful sciences" to which she devoted her pure, * serene, a,nd lofty life. Her last 'diaya anJd almost hours were spent in classifying her plaints, a lar,gjo and choice collection, from many European countries as well as the United States. A bout two years before her death, almost immediately after her valuable gift of her collections to Notre Damo College, she was received into the Catholic Church by Rev. Father J D Walshe, S.J., of St Joseph's Church, San Jose.