ODDS AND ENDS

Evening Star, Issue 19724, 26 November 1927, Page 20

ODDS AND ENDS

PERSPIRATION. Remove tho stain before washing, by soaking first for fifteen minutes in cold water, then rubbing with a cut lemon. Leave lemon juice on for about two minutes, then rinse thoroughly in cold water, and wash in tho usual way. TO OPEN A TIN. It is often found difficult to open tin cans with an ordinary tin opener if it is inserted on top of tho hd. A far easier way is to insert tho point of the opener just below tho beading of the lid, -with its heel _ at the left of the vertical seam. It is then found to run around the can with half the effort required in cutting through the fop. MILDEW ON LEATHER. Rub well with vaseline aud leave for some time. On linen: Rub with yellow soap and fine powdered chalk, or mix together soft soap, powdered starch, half the quantity of salt, and lemon juice. Cover spots with this, and leave on the paste till they disappear. On silver; If the stains arc merely on tho surface, they can be removed by rubbing with paraffin and prepared chalk.

Tho twelfth (enlarged) edition of St. Andrew's cookery book just issued completes 61,000 copies. This useful little hook is edited by the St. Audrew’s Church Mission, and published by the D.I.C. Some £7OO has been contributed to the mission fund, and part of tho proceeds is devoted towards the support of three missionaries. Apart from the royalties paid, this cookery book is the most popular with every housewife, containing, as it does, hundreds of useful and tried recipes all set out and easily found in the index. It also has ‘Cookery for Invalids,’ 4 First Aid to the Sick and Injured,’ ‘ Household Hints,’ and ‘ Advice to Mothers,’ by Sir Truby King.