(To be concluded.)
[HOUSEHOLD HINTS.]
For those who cannot drink tea without an attack of indigestion to follow, there is good news. Little tablets are now sold in boxes, one of which added to each teaspoonful of tea in the pot, corrects the tannin, and improves the tea. Hundreds of people are now enabled to drink tea who had been obliged to leave it off, and these tablets are a most valuable discovery. Boxes of these Tanocea tablets are sent by the manufacturers, The Tanocea Tablet Company, Bletchley Station, or can be got from all Chemists and Grocers, price one shilling per box.
To keep butter cool in summer is always somewhat of a difficulty, but a butter-cooler is easily improvised by turning a basin or clean flower-pot over the butter on a plate. Place that on a larger dish or basin in which there is water, cover over the top basin with a piece of flannel, the ends of which should rest in the water, and the evaporation of the moisture will keep the butter cool. The water must not be allowed to touch the butter itself.
Be careful when you buy jam, bottled fruits, pickles, or anything in glass vessels, to see that there is no broken glass fallen inside. Should the edge be chipped in any way, examine the contents on the top of the jar or bottle carefully, as broken glass has been found in such, and it would be probably fatal if swallowed. This caution is also necessary for wine and beer bottles.
Children should all be taught to eat salad olive oil. It obviates the necessity of administering other oils as medicine, and they get to like it very much. But care should be taken that it is got from a good maker, and that it really is olive oil. With salad or even with cold potato and a few drops of vinegar, this is most wholesome.
Gas-pipes that are not in use are elements of danger, and great care should be taken not to knock them in any way, or hang things upon them so as to cause a leakage. This is very easily done and is not always readily perceived, so that there may be serious mischief before it is discovered.