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Show SOME THING3 WORTH KNOWING. Soak machine oil utains in cold water before washing. Glass fruit jars may well be utilized as tea and coffee receptacles. Leather chair seats may lt revived by rubbing with egg white, well beaten. Wash white paint with whiting and water, which is not so trying to the hands as ammonia. No matter how sharp a knife may be, cutting bread with it or dipping it in hot fat will dull theedg-. A saturated solution mado by dissolving dissolv-ing alum in toiling water will keep ants out of closets if used frequently. After taking cake from tho oven let it remain in the pan about five minutes; it will then come out easily without breaking. break-ing. Discolored rattan chairs are made pretty by a coating of black or golden brown paint and finished with a handsome hand-some cushion. Ready made clothing, whether outer sr inner garments, should have all the tuttons sewed on more securely before they are worn. If one wishes to cool a hot dish in a hurry it will ba found that if the dish be placed in a wel fall of cold, salty j water it will cool far more rapidly than j if it stood in water free from alt. New j York Telegram: |