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Show On washdays wear an oilcloth apron made of an old tablecloth This keeps you dry from neck to hem. If there is enough material, you can make a matching bag in which to carry clothespins. Ru?s can't take it. If floor boards are poor, never put rugs directly over them. Use a rug pad or put several newspapers between be-tween the floor and the rug. When making jellies and preserves, pre-serves, keep a small saucer on the side of the stove to hold the spoon after stirring the mixture. If rested on the stove the sirup frequently bakes to the stove and this hardened mass is difficult to remove. Convenient storage place for playthings for the convalescent child is a fabric shoe bag which can be hung beside the bed. Crayons, Cray-ons, pencils, scissors and paper fit easily into the shoe pockets. e Put a sponge in a bowl of leftover left-over starch and let it absorb the starch. Then when you have a petticoat ruffle that needs a bit of starch, dampen the sponge and squeeze the sponge into water for sufficient starch. If one key in an otherwise well-behaved well-behaved piano suddenly refuses to play, don't send for the repairman. repair-man. First, look inside the instrument instru-ment to see if, as so often happens, some small object has fallen on the strings. The traveler can safeguard her luggage from damage caused by . spilling or leaking cosmetics by sealing bottles and boxes shut with a strip of Scotch tape. Developing films in the sink or bathtub is risky. Some of the chemicals may ruin the enamel surfaces. It is best to buy nutmegs; cloves, peppercorns and cinnamon cinna-mon sticks whole, and grind when, needed. |