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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 23, 11 February 1937, Page 14

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Cleaning Glass. Glass, especially that with cut or moulded designs, is frequently difficult to-clean. Wash the articles in warm, soapy water, and immediately immerse them in sawdust. • Leave them for about four hours, dry them and it will be found that the sawdust has removed the dirt. Grimy window panes may be cleaned by a variation of this method. ~ Leather Ghairs. Leather dining room chairs may have beguu to look shabby. To restore their fresh appearanee, use this mixture : Boil two pints of linseed oil,- leave to cool, stir in one pint of vinegar and mix well. Rub this mixture well -into the leather with a soft cloth, polish with good furniture cream and finish with a piece of old velveteen. Cooking Aids. Heat preserving jars aeting on the vacuum flask principle are how obtainable. It is claimed that food needing simmering for a long while ean be removed from the gas and traiisferred to the jar, where it will continue to cook gently and never over-cook. Pots for cooking eggs are also new. Into one of these coloured pots you plaee a little butter and break an egg on top. You then season it with salt and pepper, put another dab of butter in and serew on a lid. The pot is put in boiling water and in five minutes the egg is ready to be served — in its pot. Drying Ohina. Kitchen news also includes a happfly-con-ceived drying basket for china. Divided into compartments for plates, saucers and cups, the whole thing is rubberised to safeguard the articles from chips and craeks in the washingup ^ process. Cups have shaped supports on which they are plaeed upside down to drain. Blending Old and New. The up-to-d^te home decorator is judged by the skill with which he succeeds in bringing the old and the very new into harmony. Mrs. Baldwin has chosen eurtains distinctly modernistic in design for the windows of the small "family" dining-room, where there are antique wheel-back chairs and other period furniture, while the mantelpiece is adorned with pieces of old copper. Colour Schemes. Crimson and white was the colour scheme chosen by a recent bride., The bride hers'elf was in white panne velvet and her pages and bridesmaids combined red and white in their ' attire. ■ Novel Handbags.* Of all the novel handbags seen lately, one that caught the fancy was a plain calf bag with a map of the world framed under an isinglass centre. A wide bangle and a belt with similar maps for deeoration were obtainable if you wanted a eomplete set. Collar Substitutes. Weighty gold jewellery in. the shape of" massive elasps or necklets are substitutes for collars or any other form of trimming on some simple. woollen dresses. . A perfectly simple, unembellished frock in a dark woollen material can be made distinctive by the addition of a necklet of heavy "gqld" workmanship, of just the right length to come round the edge of the neck of the "dress and with a heavy golden medallion hanging in front. Machine-stitehing in. golden thread gives a smart look to the tailor-made type of frock. In a pine-green woollen dress with a crepey surface, a stand-np collar had lines of golden stitching that served to stiffen it as well as decorate it. Revers, pockets and euffs may be trimmed very effectively in this manner. Yokes, too, can be bordered in this way, or simulated on dresses that really have their tops cut all in om.