FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
SOME USEFUL HINTS. Emery paper is useful to grind down over-tight stoppers of bottles. The .straps of silk underclothes can be preserved by stitching a length of bias binding on the wrong side. Tea stains that have been boiled into linen can be removed by 'rubbing the stains with a blue bag and then boiling the cloth in soapy water.
Ordinary salt and flour in equal, parts and a little cold water make an. excellent adhesive paste. lodine stains on white linen may be j removed if the article is soaked over-; night in plain cold water. To clean velvet chairs or cushions,! rub with dry salt or dry bran. i
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1941, Page 8
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114FOR THE HOUSEWIFE Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1941, Page 8
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