HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
To avoid chocolate icing being dulllooking, dissolve the chocolate gradually in water, and it can boil when quite smooth. It must, however, not be allowed to boil again when the icing sugar is mixed, but merely stirred gently until the right consistency. A tiny nut of butter added to icing will make it quite glossy.
Go over a discoloured stone doorstep with hot salt water, one part of salt to two of water. When the water is absorbed repeat the treatment. The step recovers its original whiteness.
Put a squeaky rubber doll at baby’s feet in the perambulator. It will please him by squeaking when touched by his feet.
Benzine will take off stains from leather, then brush over surface with a little whipped-up white of an egg. Allow to dry, and polish with a soft cloth.
Before applying plate powder +o your silver, moisten the cloth with toilet eau-de-Cologne. This will make the brilliance of your silver last longer.
In place of the usual shoelaces for kiddie’s shoes, use elastic. This lasts longer, and if the ends are joined at the top instead of tying the usual bow, the shoes can be slipped on and off without loss of time.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1938, Page 4
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