Useful Hints

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 30, 6 February 1931, Page 32

Useful Hints

LE™"on juice makes a useful addition to the store cupboard. Buy when lemons are plentiful and choose only ripe fruit. Squeeze the lemons into a basin and strain through fine muslin or a sieve. Have ready a quantity of half-ounce and one-ounce bottles. Fill the bottles to within a quarter of an inch of the top. To each bottle add half.a teaspoonful of sweet oil. Cork tightly and stand in a cool place. When the juice is required choose a bottle containing the amount likely to be used within two or three days. Wrap a piece of clean cotton wool round a knitting-needle, and dip into the bottle. The oil will then be extracted, and the juice will be as fresh as when Arst bottled. * * QRNAMmNTS of copper and brass will keep bright and untarnished for a long time if they are lightly rubbed with furniture polish after they are cleaned; the film of polish should be so alight as to be undiscernible. you ean turn an old ‘umbrella to good account by taking off the cover and painting the metal part with bright-coloured. enamel or _ paint. Opened out and being hung by the handle in a warm place it. will make an excellent dryer and airer for small articles like handkerchiefs, stockings, gloves, lace collars, and baby clothes. When not in use it can be shut up and put right out of the way, taking up Middle .roon.,