Household Hints

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 33, 22 February 1935, Page 57

Household Hints

/ WHDN a chicken is old, the flesh \ often looks dark. A slice or two of lemon boiled with it will whiten the meat. > a . ms * . To make lemon milk, grate the rind of a lemon and squeeze out all the juice..-- Put’ both in a saucepan with half pint of milk and half-pint. water. Boil up, strain through muslin, sweeten with a dessertspoonful sugar and serve very hot. So -* Lo * x A LITTLE pale green powder mixed with one that is too pink will s@ten the tone and give a natural oom to the complexion. .

AN old silk stocking stuffed into the form of a sausage, covered with aremnant of cretonne and the ends tied "with ribbon, makes a useful ‘draught excluder -at the foot of the door, %... *. " ; T° gpa candles. last double’ time, ke each by the wick and coat with white varnish, . Dry and harden. The varnish forms a cup to hold the grease, which cannot run to’ waste. 7 % Bo . ie the hair is greying rapidly, it is wise to make frequent use of a shampoo for white hair which carries a blue rinse. This will enhance and encourage the silver-white effect, and help to remove that. half-and-half look, which is far from attractive.

DOUBLE. chins can be kept. at. bay... by patting, not ‘rubbing, some skin food into the soft skin under the. chin, every night. a ae , a F you regularly massage warm olive or almond. oil into your scalp, the night before a shampoo, your hair will soon become glossy with -health and -beauty, and tend to lose its brittleness and. desire to fallout. 3 * eos Mh ks : HERE are few better -hair- :tonies than rosemary, This recipe makes a splendid ‘shampoo: Spirit. of rose‘mary, 2 ounces; sapon, mollis, 1 ounce; ‘ext. quillaiae liq., 2 ounces; liquor am--monia, 1 ounce; distilled water, add 8 ounces. Two tablespoonfuls to be’ added to a pint of warm water.