WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2970, 6 January 1917, Page 5

WOMAN'S WORLD

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About Hariris. Wear gloves whenever they don't, interfere with your work. 'Always.keep, an old pair of washable .gloves for; black-leading stoves and other rough; work and rubber ones for washing up. These can bo bought quite cheaply, and, keep out grease, and dirt wonderfully. If you wear gloves at iiight. don't-for-; get to mako ventilation holes . in the .palms.' . '• ' ■ ' . For Ited Hands and Blisters.—A fow drops of chloride of lime added to tho I washing water is a good cure for red- ' ncss. If your -hands are tender and inclined to blister, bathe them, at night in warm water and salt. Paraffin is an excellent hand cleaner. It removes grease and dirt from all thecracks and crannies and leaves no unpleasant smell if the hands are well washed immediately after using it. •■•'■■■ ■ ■ :'.

Lemon juice whitens and toughens tho hands without making the skin look hard. Raw potato rubbed on tho hands after peeling potatoes and before washing 'removes the stain splendidly. ■A bag-of oatmeal is a. good thing to

keep by you if'you have to wash your hands often and can't -always <lry them perfectly. • Instead, them into your oatmeal bag, and dry them ■roughly, afterwards. They will never chap if you do this.

When selecting silks for embroider-ies'-secure the best that money can buy. Expense and time is wasted by' using poor silks, and nothing is so discouraging as to find after weeks, perhaps "months, have been, spent on; a piece of embrdidtery, that .your work is ruined by using poor silks." The best is always the cheapest in the end. Be • sure that you , thoroughly understand how to launder your work before undertaking it, then follow your rules implicitly. \ v