Help for Good Housewives

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 10, 15 September 1933, Page 48

Help for Good Housewives

RY in the oven the green leaves of eelery tops and then rub to powder. Store in airtight jars. Good for flavouring soups, etc. . * * HEN making mint sauce use half lemon and half water, instead of vinegar, Sweeten with castor sugar. A LUMP of soda dissolved in blue water will prevent blue from marking the clothes. _ a s ORBAN GES to be used for table dishes will peel more easily, and the white pith come ‘away with the skin, if the oranges are covered with boiling water © and left to soak for five or jen minutes. * % HEN washing white silk two table- _ spoonsful of milk in the washing water will keep the silk from going dull or yellow. . s * e [ you rub a lump'of magnesia on grease spots’ on silk material it will remove. them without harming material or colour. Rub the magnesia on wet, let it dry. and brush off.. If any mark remains repeat fhe process. s, * Putty . white skin. rugs can be cleaned with a sponge and naptha. Great care must be taken as naptha is highly inflammable. 2 F 4s AOK the rug on to a. flat board. Prepare a pail of soapsuds with shredded soap, adding a teaspoonful of salt ‘and a dessertspoonful of borax. Rub the’ soap into the rug with your hands, thoroughly soaking and rubbing it alternately. When the rug is clean

rinse it with lukewarm water several times. Put the rug in the sun still stretched on the board and as it dries keep rubbing it. When almost dry untack it and shake vigorously. Hang over a line to air. The tacking down before washing prevents shrinkage. 2 * * [= the hair is sprayed with eau de Cologne before going out, you will find the ends of the hair will turn up ever so much better, although straight elsewhere. Only use this treatment on special’ occasions as the spirit in the perfume will remove the colour of the hair if used incessantly. % * * REAL lace d’oyleys wash quite well if the following method is used on a vainy day. Take a soup plate and shred up a tablespoonful of pure soap. Pour boiling water on to it and swish it about until the soap is thoroughly dissolved. When almost cold, place the d’oyleys in the soapy water, one on top of the other, keeping them quite flat. Leave them tu soak for three or four hours. Next put the plate out of doors in the,rain and leave it all night. Next .morning the d’oyleys will be found perfectly clean and white. Lift them from the water, keeping them absolutely flat, and place them'in a bath towel,. covering with a second towel. When sufficiently dry, iron them between muslin with a hot iron and they will be like new.