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Show Pull your card tables, folding chairs and games out of cupboards cup-boards or sliding racks built into waste space under the stairs. A little wax applied to furniture caster sockets keeps them turning easily in damp weather. Coat the inside of lids on mustard mus-tard or horseradish jars with a thin layer of paraffin and they'll nol turn green. If you will place citrus fruits to be used in salad in hot water for a few minutes before peeling, the under un-der skin will come off easily. Good knives are a housewife's helpers, so you'll want to take good care of yours. Keep them away from the stove, because heat destroys de-stroys the temper of steel. If this happens the blade cannot be kept sharp. If your neckline is long and thin, wear high necklines, sometimes softened with ruffles. To send coins through mail, cut a square from the corner of an old envelope. Slip coin in square and turn back the opening to hold it in. Slip a convenient-sized oiled silk bag into your purse just before you go out to buy fish. Have the fish dealer slip the fish into this before wrapping it. On the way home no fish odors will escape the package, and there'll be less chance of liquid leaking on your clothes. Glue pieces of felt on the bottom of your vases and they will not mar the surfaces of the tables on which they are placed. Keep an old tooth brush in your sewing box. The next time you have to rip out seams with a razor blade, use the tooth brush to brush off little threads along seams. Brushing once a day will double the life of a felt hat. |