TO-DAY AND TO MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 27, 20 January 1928, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO MORROW

To Keep Loose Covers Tidy. Take a sheet of newspaper and roll up in a long strip like a sausage. Then push strips well in at the back and sides of your loose chair or settee cover. This will prevent the cover from moying and getting untidy when sat upon. Easy Daraing. Bed or table linen may be quickly and neatly darned by machine, Use No. 40 cotton, and adjust to the smallest stitch. Sew to and fro across the hole, and then stitching will leave strands across it; then sew to and fro across the strands. The result will be a splendid darn, Renovating Old Golf Balls: A Wet Afternoon’s Amusement. Drop each hall separately into a pan of almost boiling water. Lift out when the skin of the ball has been softened, say, two minutes. Rub the ball sharply between the corrugated sides of two ordinary butter spades, and when all the gashes and bruises have been rubbed out drop- the balls into a pan of cold water to harden. Dry them then take a little golf-ball paint in the palm of your hand and rub the ball between your palms till evenly coated. Drop each ball on an old newspaper to dry. aN, AON, (| NR, () EN, ( ) EES, () EE, ()

Kkeal Teddy Bears. Two real live Teddy Bears from Australia have arrived at the London Zoo. Shey are Koalas or Native Tree bears, which at first sight look jike baby Brown Bears, but are really not related in any way to the other bears of the world, They never grow up, but remain small and harmless all their lives, rarely exceeding a Pomeranian dog in size. Another point on which they differ from the bears, and one which brings them into Jine with all the other Australian mammals. is that the female possesses a pouch in which the young is carried wtrtil it can fend for itself The Koala has peculiar hands and feet, specially adapted for climbing trees, for two of its fingers can be opposed to the other three, so that the animal appears to possess two thumbs on each hand, If the Zoo suceeeds in keeping these animals alive for any length of time, it will be a great friumph, for they are notoriously ‘"‘bad livers’? im captivity, even in Australia, and as far as can be ascertained, only one other specimen has ever reached Iinglaud alive. ,Fairy Fantasies. Referred to often as Australia’s Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Mrs. Ruby Sykes Lyon is widely known as a writer of delightful verse and charming Fairy Fantasies. For some months past she has been paying spccial attention to children’s radio bedtime stories and many of her productions have been broadeast by 80 with considerable sueecss. An entircly new serics will be commenced shortly and the reading of them will be in the eapable hands aud Maurice Dudley as Billy Bunny at 3LO. ‘These are sure to delight not p only the many thousands of children j Who listen in regmlaraly during the | Children’s TIour, but also the large audicnee of grown ups who still retain the Peter Pan spirit which prompts them to tune in to 8LO whenever they ct a chatice to enjoy with the children the Fairy Stories and droll hamer of Billy Bunny and the other story tellers. Returnable by Instalments. He was an up-to-date young Seot, and he gave his best girl a lipstick for a }present hecause he knew he would get it all back. Savoury Potatoes. Bake some large well-washed potatees till they are soft, but not burst. Halve them lengthwise, scoop ont as much potato as possible without breaking the skin. Mix potato with _halfpound of cooked fish, some fresh tomato pulp, salt and pepper to taste, Moisten with a little milk, or beaten yolk of egg. Beat well together, then stuff. potato’ shells and bake ina pyrex dish in a hot oven for about 19 } guinutes,