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Show G ? t, 1 A little flour sprinkled In the pan when eggs are frying will prevent tho sputtering hot fat that is so disagreeable. disagree-able. Mud stains may be removed from tan leather shoes by rubbing them, with slices of raw potato. When dry polish in usual way. Finger marks on paint can be easily eas-ily removed by rubbing with a clean white cloth dipped In kerosene. The wood should afterward be wiped with a dry cloth. If muslin curtains are needed In a hurry for a kitchen or bathroom, they can be washed, slightly starched, shaken hard, pulled Into shape and hung up without ironing. Sheets, pillowcases, towels, tableclothsall table-clothsall folded linens should be laid upon the shelves with the open and hemmed ends toward the wall, the round folds outward. The effect 13 neater to the eye, and articles are more, easily taken out. Small punctures in hot-water bags or rubber glores may be replaced by applying a small patch of tailors' mending tissue; moisten with common chloroform, lay on a second patch and moisten again, until four or fire patches have been applied. The chloroform chlo-roform dissolves the tissue and when It evaporates leaves a firm patch. |