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Show lit Makes Cents By VI JUDGE BLAKE Dear Vi: Strips of felt glued to the bottom of wooden rockers keep the chair from creaking and creeping across the floor as you rock. It's so frustrating, especially when you're in a hurray, to select a blouse or shirt to wear only to find the collar wrinkled from the hanger. When this happens, iron out the wrinkles over a lighted electric light bulb. Mary DeJohn, Boise, Idaho Daer Vi: Cooked onions stay perfectly whole when you poke a hole clear through each one with an ice pick or metal skewer before cooking. To paint a flower pot, put a rope through the hole in the bottom, make a knot larger than the hole, then hang the pot to a clothesline and paint away. You can do such a nice job, even to the bottom edge this way. Delia Starr, St. George, Ut. Dear Vi: I made decorative laundry bags for each bedroom this way: For a girl's room, sew across the bottom of an outgrown sleeveless dress with a neck zipper, then simply hang it on a hanger in the closet. For boys, do the same with a shirt, but insert a long zipper down the back. Use crutch tjps on worn out or lost protectors for chrome chair or table legs. Viola A., Hurricane, Ut. Dear Vi: Here is a recipe for a hand cleanser my mechanic husband has used for years. It is inexpensive to make and very effective: MECHANICS HAND SOAP Mix together 2 23 cups denatured or isopropyl alcohol and cup Stoddard solvent (available at dry cleaning suppliers). Slowly stir this into two cups cocoanut oil. Add lemon oil for fragrance if deslrediUse'a littleonUhe hands' rubbing" it In well, th'eh rinse or wiper it off. Mrs. A. Knowlton, Richfield, Ut. Dear Readers: I just read this interesting tidbitr about vinegar, that wonderul stuff of many uses: When Hannibal crossed, the alps, it is said that he ordered, fires built around huge boulders in, his path to heat them, then they; were doused with vinegar to crack; and crumble the stones so that they; could be removed. Did you know I didn't that, vinegar has been made throughout the centuries from molasses, all, kinds of fruits, berries, melons, coconut, honey, beer, maple syrup,, potatoes, beets, whey, and grains. But, whatever the ingredient, the principle was always the same: fermentation of natural sugars to alcohol, then secondary fermentation to produce vinegar. Some accounts say vinegar dates back 10,000 years. At least, it is mentioned numerous times in the Bible. Cleopatra, it is said, dissolved precious pearls in vinegar to win a wager that she could consume a fortune in a single meal. Perhaps that is how its use for stomach problems and other ailments started. At any rate, vinegar is one of the most useful products we can have in the home. I have a long, long list of uses for vinegar available. If you would like a copy, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope and 25c with your request to the address below. And why not send any good ideas you have for our column along in the same envelope? I'll send you my personal check for $2.00 if your letter can be usd here. P.O. Box 122, St. George, Utah 84770. |