If the hands get sticky and hot while knitting make a little bag of an old handkerchief and tie up in it about a tablespoon of starch. When working rub the bag occasonally between the hands. They will feel cool and dry.
When making a join in silk thread while doing tatting, damp the ends before tying the knot and thus prevent slipping.
Give your stocking darner a coat of white enamel. The holes show up more clearly and there is less strain on the eyes.
Instead of attaching loops to kitchen towels sew a small curtain-ring in the corner of each towel. A ring never gets twisted and it slips easily on and off nail or hook.
For Children’s Hacking Coughs. Woods’ Great Peppermint Oure
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LIV, Issue 49, 25 June 1934, Page 4
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