HINTS AND IDEAS

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 11 June 1932, Page 13

HINTS AND IDEAS

TAUGHT BY EXPERIENCE. DRESS-HANGEII CASE. Our special evening frocks need rather more protection than hanging among the other clothes in our wardrobes provides. A dress-hanger case takes very little time to make with the aid of a sewing machine, and it is so useful for any garments you want to keep quite separate. The case may be made of cretonne, chintz, linen, holland or casement cloth. It is a good idea to use up for the purpose any faded and washed-out cretonne or casement cloth curtains which are being discarded. The amount of stuff required varies according to the leugth of the frocks for which the case is designed. The object is to make a hajr long enough for clothes to hang full-length from the dress-hanger, and wide enough to slip easily over the shoulders. At the top, a flap on one side about 4in. deep is made to iold over and fasten with press studs to secure the mouth of the case One and three-quarter yards of cretonne, 48in. wide, should be ample if it ho used folded lengthwise and seamed across the bottom and up the side. If necessary, economy in material can be effected by joining it wherever practicable. Cut a small slit in the middle fold where the flap turns down, and buttonhole-stitch it neatly. Through this slit is slipped the hook at the top of the hanger, while the frock suspended from it goes inside the easo and the flap is fastened to keep everything inside safe from all dust. Another type of case, which is perhaps better for slipping garments quickly in and out, is also an oblong bag. Instead of a flap, however, it has a slit down the full length of the middle of one side, through which opening the frock on the hanger is passed, the hook projecting from the top for hanging up. To make this from -'din. wide material, fold it so that the two selvedges meet m ' the middle, and seam across top and bottom. It is an improvement if the top of the trig is shaped to the slope of the shoulders of the dress-hanger. Dress-lianger eases of this type are very useful for travelling or taking anywhere where the hanging accommodation for clothes is expected to he limited. They can be suspended on the hangers behind a door or elsewhere and keep the frocks inside clean and fresh. Bv piping the seams outside with a contrasting colour, and binding them inside with tape, very neat and attractive cases can be made.

TO FROST WINDOWS. Disolve an ounce of Epsom salts in a cupful of hot water. Stir in a little liquid gum and paint on glass; dries in beautiful frost pattern. May he coloured with dyes. A COFFEE ESSENCE RECIPE. Place Jib of freshly ground coffee ini a pan, cover with three pints of cold water and simmer until reduced to a pint. Strain, let the clear liquid cool, and re-heat with sugar to taste. When hot, bottle and cork it well. The amount to use is two teaspoonsiul to each cup, filling up with milk and water. TO CLEAN SINKS. Mix together a pennyworth each of pearlash, soft soap and fuller’s earth, gradually adding a quart of boiling water. Keep this mixture in an old tin and rub the sink each day with a flannel dipped in it, rinsing thoroughly. Dissolve an ounce of permanganate of potash in three nints of boding water and pour a little of the solution clown all sinks, baths and basins once a week.

SH YRPF.NING AT F NCTNG MACH! Nil KNIVES.

Place a. few fragments of sandpaper in the mincing machine and grind them through several times in the usual wav. The knives will then mince the toughest meat without difficulty.