A Housewife's Diary
Hints About Ihe Home Tea Oosy. Lined with cbamois leather a tea-cosy, will prove much more effective in keeping the teapot warm. Ironing. A few drops of parafSn added to starch will prevent iron sticking to starched garments. White Enamel. Polish white enamel occasionally with furniture cream." Extra Sugar. Save the sugar from candied peel and use it for sweetening stewed fruit or a fruit tart. Bedspread. If bedspread is faded, go over the outline of the design with embroidered ootfcons. Bhoe Oovers. Cut off the feet of old silk stockings, seam. up ends, and use as shoe covers. Unpicking Seains. Put up one side of seam under foot of sewing maehine and hold the other side of seam} then cut stitches with -a penknife.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 40, 3 March 1937, Page 14
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128A Housewife's Diary Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 40, 3 March 1937, Page 14
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