WE handy-woman at home

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 250, 12 January 1928, Page 5

WE handy-woman at home

SIMPLE REPAIRS The heavy cost of employing the Professional for small odd jobs in the . ° UBe has given rise to a number of ■P&enious inventions that greatly facilitate matters for the housewife. r their aid she may herself " atre ®Pt the smaller tasks of mending an<l reconstructing. F ‘ rst on the list comes plastic wood, J Preparation which possesses the virtue of being as easily guided as putty and as workable as 'n * U Can up an y h°l e or ow w ith it, and, when the sub- * ace is duly set, you can knock a Y O ., „ or drive a screw into it. Also in cut it to shape, carve it, and of Jy treat it just as if it were a bit forth cut . r °ni the tree. Hencej J®* chipping of a bit of cher- ‘ r-nnMr niture * the breaking away of , °r the cracking of a table £> ea .", chair_ back, need involve no * than is represented in and *Y rcaase of a tin of plastic wood -n0...® ® cra P °f colouring matter to adjoining wood. And the ■ - rcJinary thing is that a bit of sou .; K S arble - iike the top of a oonxf ie or ,°f a wishstand, can likeTh« ff paire d by its aid. String of a saucepan and the r’v wf a wotal fender have simi'on „ Come matters for home attenlj?Wadasrs» for a new soldering •irp« nas been Perfected. This re«ra.J: ao greater heat than that genand ?v, in a Poker thrust into a fire in r presse d above a patch of jqiiirt 0 ? on the underside with the ?hi, _ and Placed above the faulty spot. - ft r?p ai^u Unt ot wa rmth suffices to .•*» two layers of metal into >n t d thus effects a join of excel-