HOUSEHOLD HINTS

ink Stains

Ink stains can be removed from
the hands by rubbing the stain with
a ripe tomato, banana skin, or am-
monia.

Wet the stain, rub over it with
the head of a match, then rinse with
soap and warm water.

Ink stains can be removed from
fingers with salt and vinegar.

Spots on Furniture

Take cigar ashes and make moist.
Rub on spot of furniture which has
been spotted by water or steam.

Tight Shoes

When. a shoe pinches, wring out
a cloth in boiling hot water, and
apply it to the tight place, while
the shoe is on. The heat expands
the leather, and gives immediate
relief.

Painting

When having the house painted,
coat the windows with cleansing
powder, before the painting starts.
When finished, powder and paint
can be removed together.

Wallpaper
To clean wallpaper, rub with a
ijannel cloth dipped in oatmeal.

Hanging Pictures
If you are going to drive a nail
into plaster, make it very hot first,
and the plaster will not split.

Smoky Rooms

Tobacco smoke, and odors, may be
removed from a room by placing a
pail of water, containing a little
hay, in the room. A towel, dipped
in a mixture of half vinegar and half
hot water, wrung out, and swung
around the head, will also take up
smoke and odors.

Chimney Fires

A chimney fire may be put out
quickly by putting a handful of su}-
phur in the fire, and closing the
bottom draft. Soot may be burned
out of a chimney, without danger of
fire, by scattering pieces of old zine
(or tops of old fruit jars), or potato
peelings, over a hot fire in the stove.

Kerosene Heaters

Disagreeable odors from kero-
sene heaters may be done away with
by dropping a piece of gum cam-
phor in the fuel tank. Should the
wick flame, and stick so it can-
not be turned down, a handful of
salt can be thrown at the flame, to
avoid a fire.

Chapped Hands
Yeast, dissolved to a paste, will
heal chapped hands.

Odors

Disagreeable odors may be over-
come by putting orange or lemon
peel, cinnamon or cloves, on the hot
stove.

Fish Odors

Fish odors may be removed from
knives and forks by putting them on
the hot stove after washing or dry-
ing, or by rinsing them in hot water,
to which a spoonful of mustard has
been added.

Cabbage Odors

A piece of rusk, hard toast, or
stale bread, wrapped in cloth, added
to the water in which cabbage is be-
ing boiled, will reduce the odor—
or a pan of equal parts vinegar and
water, allowed to boil on the stove,
alongside the cooking cabbage, will
tend to do away with the odor. The
centre “bud” of the cabbage con-
tains most of the odor, so, if this is
cut away it will not be so disagree-
able, while cooking.

STANDARD LIQUID SMOKE—Smokes Without Fire

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