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Show Sfic BY HELEN HALE MIRRORS will be bright and shining shin-ing if they are cleaned with a thin paste made of powdered bluing blu-ing or whiting mixed with alcohol. Smear the thin paste on mirror with a sponge. Before the alcohol evaporates, rub off and polish with a soft cloth. Torn cotton shades can be repaired re-paired if you dip a piece of the same material as the shade into hot :tarch and place neatly on top ol .he tear. Press with a hot iron. Stained porcelain will glisten if ou swish it with a solution of iiree tablespoons of household leach to one quart of warm water. RECIPE OF THE WEEK Dagwood Hamburgers (Serves 4) 1 pound ground beef 4 large buns Salt and pepper 4 W-inch slices onion 4 !4-lnch slices tomato Lettuce M cup mayonnaise 8 stuffed olives, sliced Form beef into 4 individual cakes. Pan fry or broil. Split and toast buns, or use without toasting, if desired. Place beef on buns; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Top with onion, tomato, lettuce, mayonnaise and sliced olives. Place top on bun and serve. If very jtained, add two tablespoons table-spoons vinegar to the bleaching solution so-lution and let stand overnight. Liquid wax applied to newly washed or painted walls, when dry, restores luster and resists dirt and fingerprints. Keep dust from getting inside frames by pressing glass and print together. Seal the two edges with clear nail polish before dropping print and glass into the frame. A small amount of vinegar added to water used for cleaning windows gives a brilliant polish. Apply a paste wax to floors before be-fore polishing them to fill any cracks in the flooring. Then polish with a liquid or self-polishing wax. Avoid soap to clean rugs on which milk has been spilled. Use a soapless cleaner diluted with water, rinse thoroughly with clear water and get out excess liquid so rug will not spot. Paper liners In drawers will tay In drawers bolter if you fasten omen or edges with pieces of cel-phane cel-phane tape. |