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Show H HOUSEHOLD Equal amounts of coffee and heated milk, sweetened to taste, make an appetizing drink. When ironing no matter what the article, the important thing is to iron it until absolutely dry. Save all soot that accumulates in fireplaces and chimneys. Applied Ap-plied dry as a dressing on lawns or in liquid form to plants it makes an excellent fertilizer. After Aft-er mixing soot with water let stand until water is clear. Twice a week is often enough to use it on plants. Apply several coats of boiled linseed lin-seed oil to the soles of your shoes and let dry thoroughly to conserve them. Old army and National Guard cloth - covered canteens, which may be purchased at army and navy stores, may be used.in place of rubber hot-water bottles. Use a whisk broom kept for the purpose, and hot water to sprinkle the clothes. They will be more evenly dampened than when sprinkled sprin-kled by hand. To make a jelly bag, use a piece of thin muslin, hem the top after seaming it. Leave the hem open a little at each end. Run two strings or pieces of tape through the openings and fasten the ends of the tape. This leaves you a string to pull at either end. When fruit is in the bag, pull up each string, tie them together and hang on a hook to drip. |