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Show r I HELP FOR HOMEMAKERS pwEAR HELOISE: Im writing this on behalf of my twins, and I hope you will print it to help all children with dental braces. There are so many children with braces these days, yet there are so many people who are unaware that these chilaren cant eat everything. After the party at school, one Parties are no of mine said, fun anymore! The room mothers had passed out treats of popcorn, suckers, caramel kisses, and d one chocolate candy. The last was the only piece my boy could eat. Birthday treats often turn out to be gum another no-nbite-size- o. chew it). So all you room mothers and givers of childrens parties out there, if you remember this you will make a growing number of children happy about a party rather than left out. If you think about it, there are still many items they can have that are just as good. Thanks for listening. Ruth Hoech O.K., home how about it? Please remember this list of dont eat items: Not anything sticky or chewy (like caramel), not any popcorn, nothing hard on the bite that might break wires in the mouth (whole nuts, apples, as carrots, no hard candy children have a tendency to room mothers, Lets make all those kids happy from uow on! It really takes a reminder like this to open our eyes sometimes. Thanks, Ruth. Helolse : LOOK WHAT I DID! tell my friends out of town about the tnrngs I have Decided it would be clearer to them, instead of f BREADED GUITARS DEAR HELOISE: Instead of freezing a whole package of lunchmeat for those lunch boxes, I wrap each piece individually in a sandwich bag, then freeze. When I make sandwiches, I take the piece of meat out of the DEAR HELOISE: I have a hint for those who have children. If you have hand. Also I dont have to worry about using up a whole package of lunchmeat before it spoils, and no one complains because they have a different sandwich every day. Mrs. L.G. Street (odor How to grow African violets by I)r. Arvil L. Stark Tribune Garden Consultant busy, Take a bread pan and put rubber bands around it and they can strum the rubber bands, like a guitar. Beth McIntosh 9 years old SNAPS AT STAKE FLATTERING DEAR HELOISE: Here is a good use for plastic foam meat trays. Cut a square and put in the envelope when mailing your snapshots. It wont bend and is very light. GLOWS DEAR HELOISE: We recently built a new home and bought four of the hanging lantern-typ- e fixtures with glass chimneys. They looked beautiful unlit, but I was disappointed with the harsh effect when the lights were on. I looked around till I found This feature is written for you... the housewife and' some pink light bulbs and am so homemaker. If you have a hint, ; pleased. They give a soft, problem or suggestion youd ' mellow light, just right with my like to share. . . write to Hekrise Early American furnishings. ' Helen today in care of thia newspaper. Judy Benery - see those cute cut-osamples you sent me. Thats really telling It like It is! Heloise King Features Syndicate, Tiie gnrden trouble keeping them make them a guitar. bag, prepare the sandwich and return it to the bag. This way the bag is not wasted and I have a variety of lunchmeats on sending swatches of material and then explaining in detail what it was, I would turn the swatches into shapes: skirts, shirts, pantsuits, etc., and enclose them with my letters. Now explanations are unnecessary. The shapes even fit paper dolls. Lorraine Fischer DEAR LORRAINE: I wish all my readers could DEAR HELOISE: I sew constantly and like to SLICE BY SLICE AFRICAN VIOLET is a very popular house plant. One reason is its ability to survive under a wide range of household conditions and its ease of propagation and care. Another is the long period of bloom that adds color and cheerfulness to any room. Most florists carry African violets at all times because of their popularity as gifts. No special skill is required to start new plants from these gifts. Cut the petiole of healthy leaves about one and a half inches long. Cover the top of a wide mouth bottle, jam jar or some other container filled with water, with aluminum foil held in place with a rubber band Punch three holes equidistant around the edge of the jar w . i a pencil and insert a cut leaf petiole in each hole with the bottom part in water. Too close spacing of petioles results in root entanglement so use only three per jar Place the container in good light, but not direct sun, until tiny leaves and a mat of roots is formed. PUNCH A hole in the bottom of a 2'h- - to ordinary foam drinking cup with a pencil or some other tool Ti a knot about an inch from the end of a five-inclength of soft, not hard, nylon or some other synthetic drapery pull chord Avoid natural fibers: they soon decay h Inc., 1978. World rights reserved. Separate the fibers above the knot and thread the long end of the chord through the hole in the foam pot and pull the knot to the bottom. Spread out the fibers and cover about an inch deep with purchased potting soil or a sterilized homemade mixture of one part by volume compost or leaf mold, good garden soil and vermiculite from the hardware store. To sterilize, heat the moist mixture for two hours at 180 F., in a container not over two inches deep. Store surplus in plastic bag for future potting use. Now tear the foil from the rooted petioles and filant one per pot with the tiny leaves just above the soil line which should be about one-hainch below the rim of the pot Firm the moist soil over the spread out roots and place the potted plant on the lid of a plastic cottage lf cheese or yogurt container filled with water. A SMALL hole in the lid of the container will allow the chord from the pot to reach the water. Refill with water as needed. 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