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Show Ironing a bias-cut skirt with the weave of the cloth minimizes bulging bulg-ing at the seams. Remove grease spots from the surface of your electric iron by rubbing rub-bing with ordinary corn meal. Dropping a small piece of charcoal char-coal into the flower vase will help flowers stay fresher longer and reduce re-duce the odor from decaying stems. When sowing garden seeds that are so fine that they are likely to be sown too thickly, mix them with cornmeal and sow from a salt shaker. This thins them and you can tell better how close you sow them. When drying garments, if suspicious sus-picious that the printed colors will bleed, dry garments on a hanger with an old sheet or bath towel run through sleeves and between front and back so that surfaces do not touch. Keep baby's silverware, etc., handy by building" a' drawer under the seat of baby's high chair. - When using concrete for various odd jobs around the house in winter win-ter time, a couple pounds of salt added to each sack of cement will prevent freezing. Fill centers of peach halves with cranberry sauce and top with slivers sliv-ers of blanched almonds for an extra ex-tra colorful and flavorful garnish around pou1' platters. 1 |