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Show MY NEIGHBOR SAYS GET a cheap teapot to melt paraffin in and always keep it for this purpose. Once tried, you will never do without It- The melted paraffin pours easily just where It is wanted and need not be used all at one time. Keep loose matches in a covered tin box or covered glass Jar. Around outside out-side of jar paste a strip of sandpaper on which to scratch matches. Old phonograph records are excellent excel-lent to keep irons polished. Rub iron over record occasionally. When hardwood floors are worn, give a coat of white shellac the day before waxing. Floors will then be more easily polished. Gilt frames can be cleaned with the white of an egg gentlyrubbed on with aamel's hair brush. Fruit juices should always be saved. Combined with tapioca, which does cot have to be soaked, or with gelatin, which Is not flavored, they make delicious de-licious desserts. To remove the shell of an egg quickly quick-ly after It has boiled the required time, place It In a basin of cold water wa-ter for two seconds and the shell will come off without difficulty. When boiling ham, salt beef or tongue, which is to be eaten cold, you hould leave the meat in the liquor until It is cold. The flavor Is very much Improved. Large sheets that have become worn In the middle should be torn In halves and what were the two outer edges Jolneu together. The shabby part, - -which Is now outside, should be trimmed away ' and . the raw edges neatly hemmed. When cleaning gloves, ribbons, etc., with gasoline try this way: Take a pan or pail of hot water out of doors and warm the gasoline by placing the can in the water. Then take a piece of white soap. and after wetting with gasoline whatever is to be cleaned, ap- ply It and use the soap and wark gasoline as if it were water. The warm gasoline Is much pleasanter for the hands, and with the soap washes cleaner. The best thing with which to rub irons is a fairly large pad of folded brown paper. This will also serve to test their heat. In addition a cloth should be kept at hand on which to wipe off any flakes of soot or dirt. A small piece of wax is excellent for producing a gloss when rubbed on the iron. Paraffin has the same effect. (. 1931. Western Newspaper Union.) |