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Show Never pour water on burning fat; it spreads blaze. Extinguish blaze with flour. When melting chocolate, use a small round-bottomed bowl and melt over hot water. Bowl may be set in the top1 of teakettle or double boiler. Red and yellow paints mixed together to-gether give you orange; red and blue, purple; yellow and blue, green. White paint added to any of these colors will lighten them. Earthworms are beneficial to the soil in which they live and no effort should be made to remove them. If considered troublesome, lime water will bring them to the surface. Rub up the nickel faucets with cleansing tissues every day. Such rubbing up will lighten the weekly cleanings. Try adding a few drops of lemon juice to rice the next time you cook it. It makes the rice beautifully beauti-fully white and keeps the grains whole. Keep linens white by packing them in an old pillow case which has been soaked in bluing until it is a deep indigo. Gather clover blossoms this summer, dry them, and scatter about the linen closet to impart a delicate fragrance. Green peppers used for salads are better if first parboiled. Boil the peppers for five minutes, pour off the water, then place the peppers pep-pers in refrigerator until ready to use. Cleaning is hard on the hands, so equip yourself with extra rubber rub-ber gloves and wear them every time you do this kind of work. Rub some cold cream under your nails before starting work you will be delighted to see how quickly you can clean your nails 1 after a good bath. |