USEFUL HINTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 821, 21 May 1910, Page 11

USEFUL HINTS.

Table-cloths will give nearly double the amount of ordinary use if, as soon as there is the slightest indication of wear, four inches are cut off one side, and one end, and all hemmed. Tins brings a now part on to the edge of the table where the cloth usually wears out.

Here is a convenient box in, which to keep the hat one is using daily. Talco the ordinary square hat box, cut open at two corners, thus freeing one side of the box. Invert in the cover and place in this position on_the shelf, allowing tho cut side to fall on the oiitsido of the cover rim. The hat can bo reby simply lifting up this free side and letting it fall into placo again. After I had paid fifty cents to havo my daughter's white felt hat -cleaned, says an American writer, a milliner s apprentice confided to .me that the cleaning was done with the moderatolv soft inner pait of a stale loaf ot wheat .bread. And 1 find that it does tho work perfectly. When sweeping n room which has a heavy, old-fashioned dresser in it, remove the lower drawer and sweep under with a whisk broom. The arrangement of a mirror so that a young child can see itself at play will oftimes prove as amusing to the child as a playmate.

Now as the winter approaches, is the time to care for your children's skins. Lakshmi and Lakshmi Cream are .is good for the little'ones as they are good for their mothers. If you want your small girls to have pood complexions later, care for them now. These preparations never fail, and are absolutely wholesome. Each, 3s. 6d., oil chemists; or 3s. 9d. post freo from the John Stranso Winter Co., Wellington.—Advt.

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