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Show The window sills will be easier to keep clean if you wax them each time after washing. To wash small pieces of fragile lace, put in a fruit jar filled with suds, shake vigorously for a few minutes, then rinse in the same way., Blackened kettles may be cleaned by dampening newspapers news-papers in kerosene and rubbing over the pot. Complete by rubbing soap over pot, followed with a sprinkle of scouring powder. When you purchase brown sugar place it in a glass jar and put in a small piece of bread, which will dry out and the sugar will stay soft. To prevent cake from sticking to the plate, sprinkle powdered sugar generously over plate first, then proceed as usual. Those rubber rollers on your washing machine are precious. If they have begun to lose their grip, rub them lightly with coarse sandpaper sand-paper to remove the glaze. Then wipe off with a damp cloth. For softening and removing old paint and varnish, use a rag to cover the surfaces with a mixture of two parts spirits of ammonia and one of turpentine. In difficult spots, apply with a handbrush. When men buy their work pants have them get the longest length leg. Cut of! at the desired length and save pieces for patches. In this way you have material of same color when needed. To keep house plants watered while you are away, take strips of soft white cloth about an inch wide and two fect long. Place one end cf the strips in a pail of water slightly higher than the plants. Bury the other end of the strip in the soil around the plant. This I will keep the plant watered for a I week or more. |