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Show HOUJEHP I A little paraffin on sticky window win-dow cord will be found helpful. When you have an old clock that refuses to run any more, it can be used in a sick room to tell when it is time for the next dose of medicine by moving the hands to the time it is to be taken. This makes it easy to remember. I ' A handy receptacle for sundry tacks, nails and screws that will be polite to your fingers, is a large cork kept in the kitchen cutlery drawer for convenience. When having difficulty in opening open-ing a fruit jar with a metal top, place it upside down in hot water and leave for a minute or two and try again. The metal top will usually expand and loosen readily. To keep cookies fresh longer, add a tablespoon of jam or jelly to the dough. Coarse sawdust put in a hen's nest is more satisfactory than straw or hay for the hens do not pick or scratch the sawdust out. Is there an old blackboard around the house that the children have "outgrown?" If so, why not draft it into use as a bulletin board for the family? Place it in the kitchen and use it as a reminder re-minder of household chores, dates that must not be forgotten, or notes to the family when called , away. i With the use of a hand spray or even the garden hose, starched j clothes may be sprinkled right on the line. Roll them up as they are , taken from the line. ... i One should keep a small bag of fine sand in the kitchen if coal oil i or gasoline stoves are used. In I case of an explosion or fire, the j sand can be thrown over the flames which will probably extin-I extin-I guish them and save the destruc- I tion of the home. i |