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Show BUQUSEHOLD ilillNTSlS On the bias. Try cutting the thread on a slant when threading a needle. It will point the thread and make it much easier to thrust through the eye of the needle. Time enough. In making percolated perco-lated coffee, allow the brew to percolate for only five or ten minutes min-utes after the water begins to be amber in color. e Wash line technique. When washing heavy blouses, shirts, etc., hang each one separately on a wooden clothes hanger and then on the line. They will dry more quickly and in better shape than when pinned directly to the line. e Overdone. Take a look are there too many things of no value on the mantel of your living-room? e Add the juice of one orange to apples, peeled and chopped, ready to be cooked for apple sauce. The orange juice gives the sauce a golden color and a delicate flavor. e Experience taught her. One mother who sends a boy and girl away to college makes a list of the things packed in each trunk and secures it to the lid of the trunk on the inside with thumb-tacks. This way she gets back at least a percentage of the things originally sent. Sprinkle plain muffins, just before be-fore they go into the oven, with a mixture of melted shortening, brown sugar and cinnamon or nutmeg. nut-meg. e Consider the mop. Floor mops, as a rule, are somewhat neglected when it comes to washing. Give your mop a good bath in boiling soapsuds every week or so. Soda added to the water will loosen the dirt wonderfully. e Dry in no time. A quick way of drying stockings is to squeeze them as dry as possible, then roll tightly in a turkish towel for five minutes. Hang in an airy place and they will dry in a jiffy. e Deposit rubbers here. A wooden box or carton placed inside the kitchen door to be used as a receptacle re-ceptacle for rubbers and galoshes on rainy days will save the home-maker home-maker much linoleum cleaning. |