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Show MlOt INTEREST TO Lace curtains before being washed for the first time should be soaked for an hour or two in cold water to which two tablespoons table-spoons of table salt have been added. add-ed. This removes dressing in curtains cur-tains and makes them much easier eas-ier to launder. Cake Icing will adhere better and stay soft and gloss if a little glycerin is added to the icing mixture. mix-ture. The blunt end of a pencil is excellent ex-cellent to use when marking initials ini-tials on linens which are to be embroidered. em-broidered. To cook a ham so that it will retain all its flavor, encase it with a paste made of common flour and water, taking care to see that the steam cannot escape. Bake in a hot oven, allowing a quarter of an hour for every pound. When cooked the paste can be easily removed re-moved and it takes all the rind with it. A ham cooked in this way is delicious. Black marble clocks or ornaments orna-ments will have a beautiful lustre if rubbed with a soft cloth dampened damp-ened with olive oil and then polished pol-ished with a clean chamois. Associated Newspapers. WNU Servic. |