TO MAKE A BLOTTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)

TO MAKE A BLOTTER.

Have you ever tried to make a blotter ? It is ever so easy, and if you take pains you can make pretty little presents lor your friends. First of all you must take two oblong pieces of cardboard. See that each is exactly the same size, then carefully trim the edges so that they are quite smooth. .

To make the corners you must ask mummie if she will give you some pretty pieces of material from her scrap-bag. A piece of cretonne, or linen, on a piece of silk will do splendidly. Cover the cardboard with the material just as you do when you put a paper cover on a book, but, to make it quite secure take a needle and cotton and draw big stitchcs across the inside, from one edge of the material to the other. Now these stitches may be hidden, and the simplest way is to paste over the inside of the covers with pretty-coloured paper. Then put aside to get quite dry.

Your cover is then ready to take tlte blotting paper. Fold it over and cut it to size, so that the blotting paper is like the leaves in a book. Fix it in place by tying a piece of narrow ribbon or a silk cord down the middle. ACHING FEET. To ease swollen ankles, first of all, avoid wearing very high-heeled shoes, a flat heel is most restful, but failing that a baby Louis or; short Cuban heel is the next best thing. Then bathe the feet and 'immerse over the ankles in hot water to which a good handful of sea salt has been added. Washing soda added to hot water makes another strengthening foot bath, and a littlo permanganate of potash, about a teaspoonful, improves any of these mixtures. To keep the feet cool during tbe day some powdered French chalk or boracic acid sprinkled inside the stocking is excellent..

Ivory knife handles that have grown yellow with age or bad Tisage may be whitened by rubbing gently - with fine sand paper and then polishing with a clean. chamois leather,