Here's your Answer

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 257, 20 January 1928, Page 5

Here's your Answer

LET THE SUN Service Bureau assist you with your <robItms, whether they relate to -ess, health and beauty culture, cooktry, homecraft, travel, sport or any other of the many things on which we are all constancy seeding information. Whatever your particular puzzle may be, we will be glad to give our advice vhen - ever possible. All communications must be accompanied by the inquirer's name and address (not for publication), and sent to THE; SUN “Service Bureau," Women’s Page, THE SUN, Auckland. An - swers will appear weekly in this column. POLISHED TABLES Can you tell me the best method of keeping a polished table in good condition? If you want to keep your polished table in good condition you will find the best, method is to give it regular attention, and see that it is cleaned at least once a week. You should try rubbing the table with a mixture of equal parts of turpentine and olive oil, applied with a flannel. It is most satisfactory. WITH PETROL I hav€> a pair of buff-coloured shoes, which I wore to a dance, and had them spoilt with black marks like boot polish. Could you tell me of a way to clean them? Petrol should clean the shoes. Saturate them with it, one at a time. Rub one dry with a clean soft cloth before starting on the other. Put them in the air for a few days, taking care to keep them away from Are or an uncovered light while there are any petrol iumea rising from them. MENDING RUBBER BOTTLES Could you tell me how to mend my rubber hot-water bottle which ii wearing out alor>g the seams? As the weakness appears along the ueam, a strip of fine unbleached linen '

can be fixed by sticking with a little rubber solution or most of the waterproof lacquers sold for coating brasswork can be used as the adhesive. A small hole can be repaired with a rubber patch and solution in the same manner as a bicycle tyre is mended. EASY DARNING Is there any way of using a machine for darning small holes in sheets? Bed or table linen may be quickly and neatly darned by machine. Use No. 40 cotton and adjust to the smallest stitch. Sew to and fro across the hole and the stitching will leave strands across it; then sew to and fro across the strands. The result will be a splendid darn. A BIRTHMARK My baby is two months old and has a little red mark on one side of her face. It has been there since birth. Sometimes it is very red and at other times it is paler. Could I rub it with anything that would remove it? The little red mark on your baby’s face may disappear itself as she grows older. If not, it could be removed if you attend a hospital. I should not rub it or treat it in any way at pressent, but wait till m at least a year old. CONCERNING FROCKS I have a plain black satin underslip, in beautiful material and in perfect condition. Could I make it into a dress for evening wear? The only thing is, it has a seam 1 down the back. It could be made into an evening frock. Unpick the slip and re-cut it. Leave open the centre seam edges down the front, and into this insert a panel of thread lace. Finish the panel at the waist, then below add a wider one, and gauge this across the waist 1 where it joins to the bodice panel.