Household Hints

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 8, 1910

A FLAT brass button sewed on your dish-cloth will be found a great help in washing dishes. It removes instantly, without injury to the finest china, bits of food that have dried to the dishes, and takes less time than scraping off with a knife.

SMALL punctures in hot-water bags or rubber gloves may be repaired by this method: Apply a small patch of tailors’ mending tissue, and moisten with chloroform; lay on a second patch, and moisten again, proceeding thus until four or five patches have been applied. The chloroform dissolves the tissue, and when it evaporates, a firm patch adheres to the rubber.

A FRIEND who is far from strong, and who does her own housework, accomplishes wonders in her kitchen with ease, and apparently without fatigue. On inquiring her secret, I learned that she attributes most of her comfort in doing housework to the use of the high chair used by her little boy when two years old. It is in shape like an ordinary light dining-room chair, differing only in having a considerably higher seat. She draws it to the sink when washing dishes, sits in it when ironing or making up pastry, and even uses it beside the stove when working there. The point she makes in its favor is the height of the seat, which raises her almost to the level of standing.

FINE lace curtains that you do not like to have laundered on account of the wear and tear may be dry-cleaned in the following manner: Take down the curtains and shake them free from dust. Spread a sheet on the floor, and lay a curtain smoothly on it. Cover with corn-meal. Lay on another curtain, and cover with the meal. Continue this process until you have about four curtains down. Then, beginning at one end, roll them tightly in the sheet and let them lie for a few days. Unroll, and hang on the line in the wind and sun for one day. When rehung, the curtains will look like new. Curtains that have never been laundered are most satisfactorily cleaned by this method.—Selected.