USEFUL HINTS
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. When straining fruit juices with no one to help you, the muslin can be adjusted over the basin with little spring clothes-pegs. Grate a bar of soap with thp coarse side of the vegetable grater, and store the shreds in a cardboard box that has holes in the sides (this lets the shreds dry easily). In this way you have a supply of prepared soap ready for the copper on washing-days. The fine shreds take less time to dissolve than when the soap is sliced. It is an excellent precaution to have covers over your upholstery. When fixing a cover on to a chair-back slip a sheet of blotting paper under the cover. It will absorb any grease. City mud that is splashed on to stockings has oil in it. Soap and water will fail, but eucalyptus oil dabbed on and around the splashes has been found effective. Use blotting-paper underneath when dabbing. Should beetroot be accidentally cut when being prepared for cooking, hold the cut to the fire or over a gas flame. This will form a new skin, and will prevent bleeding.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1939, Page 10
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189USEFUL HINTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1939, Page 10
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