GLASS JARS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1938, Page 8

GLASS JARS

MANY USES FOR THEM. So many foodstuffs come in glass jars now that one has plenty of them for every possible need. Here are a few uses:— If embroidery is a pastime, glass jars are most adaptable to use for keeping the floss from becoming tangled. Too, it permits one to sec just What colours are on hand. Bathing suits left at a summer camp can be stowed away in large glass jars tightly sealed with some moth preventive inside, and will be moth-free When wanted again, for the light can reach the suits, yet the air is excluded So the preventive cannot lose its power. One woman carries a few jars with her in the car, and when she wants to transport a few plants she can place them in the jar, punch holes in the lid and take them without injury to the Car. Her husband did not object to her taking small transplants in the car but did not have any patience with the tittle piles of dirt which had sifted from her newspaper carrier.

Where one collects from the garden large quantities of seeds, jars make splendid storage containers as the seeds cannot spill, what kind and how many can be seen at a glance.