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Show (JSCS FOR OLD RAGS Oddi and End Can Bt Turned t Good Account. v Old balbriKsau underwear and out-Ing out-Ing or wash flannel may bo used for rmop rags, but better still is the waste or woven mop cloth which can be bought at uny furniture shop. Mopping Mop-ping floors Is h!,l. on cloths, and It pays to buy something woven for tho purpose. Old silk skirt and walits can be cut up nml washed, for dusters. Nothing Noth-ing except perhaps chamois Is better for n piano case than soft old silk. For taking finger mnrks and spots oft a piano caso use n chamois and cold water. Polish t)ry with chamois or old silk. Old i H ais0 K00(1 for dustlnjr bric-a-brac. Old black stockings may be made Into mitts with which to tub dust out of silk skirts. m n mtt un cither hand and rub tl10 silk on both right and wrong side. Thes" mitts do better bet-ter woik than tmy cl )thes brush made, especially If mud or day is thickly encrusted In thu slk. Do not employ old stockings for holders to bo used around 'tho stove unless oit cover tVni with ticking. Better even Hum stir' 'nss to Jill hold-ors hold-ors Is ronton Manuel or wsliestop. The best dish rae. it. - made from cheese cloth doubled and sewed with seams turned Inside. Next to cheeso cloth come old gauze shirts, sowed double. Hither of ftieso fabrics is so poroug that grease and grime wash out easily. Doll your tags In a washing powdor and household ammonia. Do not let them get hopelessly and Irremediably dirty. And have handy hooks and racks on which to hang them where nlr and sunlight will strike them. |