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Show HUOUSEHOLD iniriTss Mineral oil makes a good lubricant lubri-cant for egg beaters and will not ruin food if it drops into it. Onions are probably the most dangerous vegetable to slice thin because they have a way of slipping slip-ping out of the knife's way and leaving your fingers there to take the rap. Avoid this by setting the onion on a flat metal grater while you slice it. The grater won't allow the onion to slip out from under at the crucial moment. With chromium - plated copper pans, there's no need to beware of bare spots. You will have to keep after them diligently with steel wool and scouring powder every time the vessel is used, though, because the bare spots will stain easily. Try making dish towels out of worn-out bedsheets. Run an embroidered em-broidered hem around the edges of the pieces of sheet. Baking soda will clean the glass door on the oven when it starts to get black. Put a few drops of oil of winter-green winter-green in the back corner of your refrigerator to absorb food odors. Dropping a few dried prunes into the jar in which you keep brown sugar is a good idea. The prunes keep the sugar from turning turn-ing hard. Rub your breadbox gently with emery cloth if it gets rusty. Use a coat of lard to keep it clean. Scientific tests have shown that four times a year is an adequate number of times to turn an inner-spring inner-spring mattress. When the corner edges of a linoleum lino-leum floor covering comes loose, cement it down and keep a heavy weight on it for 15 or 20 hours. Cut up an old turkish towel and bind it with tape to make a drain-board drain-board mat to protect your dishes. Important Oil Discovery Fifth large well has been brought In at the Dollarhide field In west Texas, considered by many oil men to be the greatest oil field discovery discov-ery since 1929, when east Texas started to produce. Rough estimates esti-mates are that these wells have tapped a major new oil field with potential reserves of 600 million barrels. |
