Here's Your Answer

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 269, 3 February 1928, Page 4

Here's Your Answer

THE SUN Service Bureau assist you with your problems, whether they relate to dress, health and beauty culture, cookery, homecraft, travel, sport or any other of the many things on which we are all constantly need- j ing information. Whatever your particular puzzle may be, we will be glad to give our advice whenever 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 All communications must be accompanied by the inquirer’s name and address (not for publication), and sent to THE SUN “Service Bureau,” Women’s Page, THE SUN, Auckland. Answers will appear weekly in this column. VIRGIN MILK Yes, I have heard of virgin milk, but it is seldom used now. However, if you particularly want it, here is the recipe. You had better get your chemist to make it up. It is made of powdered benzoin, alcohol, and the very best vinegar. You can add a little spirit of vinegar if you like. A few drops of this are to be added to the water in which you wash ELBOW WISDOM No, it is not easy to get your elbows smooth and white if you have neglected them You say you nearly always sit with them resting on the table. Try and give this up, and take a little care of them. Massage your face cream into them every morning only, using a little, and rubbing it in well. At night bathe with hot water, and masasge round and round gently with slightly warmed olive oil on the palms of your hands. To warm the oil, stand the bottle in hot water without the cork. Oil is both soothing and very nourishing. The oil, of course, is excellent for your neck, too. AN AWKWARD COAT “I have a long cloth coat with the long roll collar fastening with just one button, and belt across the front. My trouble is that when I am walking the coat insists upon opening a lot in front and rolling up. I have just put a clip fastener on the extreme fronts of the coat underneath, hoping to hold it in position, but this does not help, and the left button side seems to want holding in position somehow.” The trouble with your coat is that it needs a little adjustment at the shoulder seams. It should have been done in the fitting, but now the coat is made, to alter it correctly practically unpicking the fronts, and such a lot of work. The very best way out of the difficulty, therefore, i 6 to nip up a tiny pleat in the left or under-front edge, at the end of the collar. Sew it down securely and press it flat afterwards, and it will hardly be noticed. A similar pleat can be made in the right front under the belt. REPROOFING MACKS “Is there any simple means of reproofing a mackintosh? I don’t want the expense of sending it away, but if there is any method which can be tried at home I shal be very grateful if you will I*ll me of it.” I have tried the following method, and found it highly successful. Dissolve a quarter of a pound of lump alum in two gallons of hot water, allow it to cool, and then soak the mackintosh in it for a few minutes Hang out the mackintosh, in a dripping condition, to dry in the open air, and on no account wring it out. WITH JAPANNED WARE “Can you tell me the best way of cleaning japanned ware? I have not risked washing it, because I do not know whether this would spoil it.” Yes, the goods can be washed in soapy water, but take care that the latter is only lukewarm. Boiling water would cause the surface to crack. Polish the ware with a soft cloth, and make sure that it is perfectly dry before being put away. REMOVING INK “I shall be very grateful if you will tell me how to remove marking ink from linen. A tablecloth of mine is badly stained with this ink, and all my efforts to remove the marks have failed.” The following method. I think, will solve your difficulty. Dip the stained Part of the cloth in a solution of chloride of lime until the marks turn white. Then lift it out quickly to save the fabric from rot, and put it into a bowl of liquid ammonia. Leave it in this for a few minutes only, and iv n rinse in clear water. The marks ; ■'*’ill be foifnd to have disaijpeared completely. v IF LINO CRACKS “Is it possible to prevent linoleum from cracking? I have just put come down in my hall, and would like to save it from sharing the fate of its predecessor, which cracked after only a few months’ wear.” | Why not rub your linoleum periodically with olive oil and vinegai mixec I in equal parts? It will never ;• J crack, and will have a longer lii«- that I would otherwise be the case Clive th<

mixture time to soak in thoroughly before polishing the linoleum in the ordinary way. FOR A SOILED COAT “How can I clean a light-coloured cloth coat? It is not actually stained, but it is soiled all over, and badly wants freshening up. Rub petrol In with a clean piece of flannel, or you cam try an application of kitchen salt. Scatter a thin, even layer of salt over the coat, and rub it in with long downward sweeps, using a linen pad for the purpose. Afterwards brush out the salt, and repeat the process on cuffs, collar, or any other part of the coat which is more soiled than the rest. If you use petrol, keep clear of naked lights, and dry the coat in the open air. QUITE EVEN “I have fairly successfully stained a small table, but *ind that one patch in the centre is very much darker than the rest. Can I remedy this without restaining the whole table? As a bleach for the darker part, use solution of oxalic acid and water. Begin with a weak solution —otherwise you may take out too much of the stain —and increase the quantity of acid if and as it seems necessary. REVIVING COLOURS “How can I best revive the colours of a printed cotton overall? The garment is almost new, but the sun has faded the colours, and so taken away its freshness.” Next time you wash your overall, add a little vinegar to the last rinsing water. This, I think, will help to bring out the colours, but if they are very much faded I am afraid you will find it impossible to restore their original brightness. You can use the vinegar (about one tablespoonful to two galllons of water).every time the overall is washed, as it is quite harmless, and will serve to keep at its brightest whatever colour remains. PETROL- AS CLEANSER “Is there any means of cleaning at home a soiled net dressfront which will not stand ordinary washing?” Soak it in a bath of petrol, squeezing it gently until it is quite clean: then repeat the process in a second bath so as to give a thorough riMß* and finally squeeze the front until gJi surplus moisture is removed. Ta*e care not to rub or wring the net,, as this might cause it to tear. Spread n on a flat surface to dry, and then K>reee it with a warm iron.

£1,000,000 JEWELS DRESS PARADE FORTUNES NECKLACES AT £SOO AN INCH Jewellery worth £1,000,000 was worn by mannequins taking part in a dress parade in the ballroom of the May Fair Hotel in London recently. “Oh-h-h-h!” breathed the feminine part of the audience as Toastmaster Knightsmith announced £IOO,OOO as the value of a three-string pearl necltlar® worn with a Paul-Caret lame gown, the limelight being turned on the pretty frock and the gleaming gems. Other necklaces at £70,000 an £65,000 gained respect while a sWgJ unpretentious little string at worked out at more than £6OO an menA diamond sautoir rippled ov f r filmy wisp of a black chiffon irochdown almost to the waist like captureo (magnified) dewdrops. A £SOO rutu and diamond brooch pinned back th folds of a twisted black felt hat. a £2,000 platinum mesh, bag was carried with a fur-trimmed russet verve and gold lace wrap. . * The equivalent of £ 6.000 was slippea on to one slim wrist in the form ol » couple of 2in. wide diamond bracelet » while a mannequin’s jewels on on occas on included a £20,000 smg stone diamond ring. at I have never seen so many me T n a London dress parade, writes a don correspondent. There v-ere mo^ men in the background— deteeo from the Criminal Investigatioß I* i partment at Scotland Tard, * street, police detachment from Vine e , I Capt, W. Llewellyn -Amos, sentatives of the N ha< a lent Association —firms in over the jewels—and special £Ua imjie*. the electric light mams and ewiwf* Secret Arrival Although the hotel is supplied electric light companies, the had supplies ot candles «£»’" possibility ot the light tailing- wel i The arrival o£ the jewels ®^ hroaß bt managed that only those «n"b e them knew when they had arri o 8 two suitcases Capt. Llewellyn carried contained —the canale»_ , u 4iThe admission tickets of th ence were scrutinised ca J , " u -L pel though invitations naturally „ u estr l sent out long in advance aafl --.d, ■ were asked not to advertise the L 10,00" applications were receive". : the 500 places available. —— I