Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, 25 April 1912, Page 57

Domestic

By Maureen.

- - > A Use for Old Stockings. : -. V . Save all old stockings and socks, and when a fair number has been collected cut them into strips about 16 inches long, and arrange them so that they cross each other. Through the centre make a hole, and insert a long screw with a disc of leather at the head Take an old broom handle and screw the bundle "of rags securely into it. This mop will prove an excellent medium for polishing wood floors or linoleum, and" is also useful for washing a tiled court or scullery floor '■

To Destroy Flies. ■ To get rid of flies about the kitchen, simmer together one pint of milk, one pound of raw or brown sugar, and two ounces of pepper. Place saucers containing the mixture around the house. It means death to countless flies, and has the advantage of being perfectly harmless. ' " ° r

Apple Dainty. Take five or six nice cooking apples; peel and core, cut up into little slices, put into a clean saucepan with a little water and sugar, stew until tender turn Out into a pie dish, sprinkle on the top a layer of desiccated cocoanut, then a layer of sponge-cake crumbs, another layer of cocoanut and small pieces of butter on the top. Put into the oven and bake a nice brown This is greatly improved if served-with boiled custard.

American Hash.

lake two ounces of butter, a pound of cold meat a pound of potatoes, a gill of gravy, a gill of milk, an onion, and seasoning to taste. Mash the potatoes-, mince the meat finely, chop the onion; put into a frying pan a little butter or dripping, when it is hot put in the onion and fry until a brown, color. Add the meat and potatoes, stir them about in the pan, thfcn pour over a little at the time, the gravy and milk; season to taste witn pepper and salt. When it is thoroughly ; hot, heap on a dish, and put a piece of butter on top. .

Some UsesSFor Salt. Salt sprinkled upon any substance that is burning will stop the smoke and blaze. , - • .Prints rinsed in salt water will hold their color. If silk handkerchiefs and ribbons are washed in salt water and ironed wet, best results will be obtained Salt water held in the mouth after a tooth has been extracted may prevent much bleeding. As a tooth powder, salt will keep the teeth white and the gums healthv and hard. : Dry salt, sprinkled over a carpet before it is swept will help wonderfully to brighten the color.

Household Hints. If linen has become stained with ink, rub it well with a, piece of lemon before washing, and soap well before boiling; when rinsed no trace of the stain will be left.

_ K Potato peelings and banana skins, applied to tan tootwear, clean it, and preserve the original color ; Before scalding milk, or making custards, always rinse the saucepan out with cold water. It prevents burning. r If grease is spilled on the kitchen stove, throw a Handful of salt upon it, and it will prevent any disagreeable odor from arising. If an oil or gas stove be used, keep a box of sand at hand in case of accident. Sand will extinguish burning oil when water will only .aggravate .flames.^ r A little castor oil rubbed occasionally into: boots will make them last much longer. » .

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