TIT BITS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1938, Page 10

TIT BITS

ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE. “I want to see that letter you have just opened,” she said. “I can see that it’s a woman’s writing, and you wenipale when you read it.” “You needn’t worry,” her husband replied. “It was from your dressmaker.” You can beat all the clothes moths and silverfish by putting woollies in tins with tight-fitting lids. Socks and small garments pack well in 71b treacle tins; larger garments go into big sweet tins, which most grocers sell very cheaply. According to Betty and Vivian Blamire, formerly of Masterton, sister musicians just returned from London women in London orchestras are gradually being eliminated. The reason for this lies not in their incompetence, but because their physical strength will not stand up to long hours of playing demanded of them. To clean carpets, get some ox-gall from your butcher, and add a little to a bucket of warm water. After the carpet is beaten or cleaned with the vacuum, wash the carpet over carefully with the liquid (the flannel oi cloth used must not be made wet, it should be moistened and every bit of the carpet must be gone oyer). Hang the carpet on the clothes line to dry. The ox-gall brings up the colours and makes the carpet like new.