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Show Never crowd the rinse tub. Clothes must have room to move about freely to get soap out. Orange juice may be substituted substi-tuted for lemon juice when making mak-ing french dressing. Remove the broiler pan at the same time you remove the food. If you let it stand, the heat which is retained will burn the grease on. Rugs should be swept or vacuum vacu-um cleaned, but never beaten, shaken, or snapped, as this may loosen or break the fabric and binding or fringe. Color may be revived in faded suede shoes and bags that have become shabby by brushing them well and holding them over a kettle ket-tle of freshly boiling water. In laying a new floor over an old one, place a layer of heavy paper between the two, for resiliency and sound - deadening purposes. A cedar ce-dar flavored paper will repel vermin. ver-min. Wipe up any food spilled on the stove at once with a dry cloth or paper toweling. Never use a damp cloth it may ruin the porcelain finish. But if you let these spots dry on, they will be difficult to remove. re-move. If Venetian blinds are waxed when first installed or within a reasonable time thereafter, they can be kept clean more easily. The painted surfaces will be given an added protection and the life of the blind prolonged. Any furniture furni-ture wax is suitable for this purpose. |