Sally’s Hints to Housewives
When your sewing !'”iachinc reveals. an unfen - stitch,- .the ; »ult in often be corrected y using a finer cotton n the spool than bn . ie top reel—say . sixty t the bottom and fifty t the top, 35?
A handy screen, of special .value to an invalid or in the bedrotom, can be made from a small 1 clothes-horse, covered with'bright cretonne, and: fitted with pockets,
A quick and easy way to stain a floor is to mint. ,it thinly with Brunswick black, as prepared for stoves. Use a Stiff brush, arid work well into the wood..jit will drjr a rich browp, and will then „ take .a; good polish; «gj- v
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12905, 4 July 1936, Page 10
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