BUSINESS GIRLS’ CLUB.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 303, 20 November 1935, Page 12

BUSINESS GIRLS’ CLUB.

j “PLANTATION” EVENING. The Y.W.C.A. club rooms were the scene of a happy function, when the Business Girls’ Club held its final social for the year. The function took the form of a “plantation” evening, the costumes being pleasing and well carried out. A programme of games, competitions, and items was greatly enjoyed, a spirit of warm fellowship prevailing during the evening. Those responsible for the function wert Misses Z. King, B. ■ Tlnvaites, M. Dav, G. Wakelin. S. Whitehouse, 0. Kells, R. Liddlfc, M. Cooksley, J. Bradfield, and N. Sutherland. Items affording pleasure were rendered by Misses M. Day and N. Sutherland (vocal solos), Misses D. Morgan and Mcßean (instrumental string duet) andv Miss S. Whitehouse (’Varsity drag). Competition winners proved to be Miss R. Bull (best dressed nigger), Miss V. Wilson (cake competition), Miss E. Lang (palindromes) and Miss R. Liddle (club competition). Supper brought the evening to a close. CROQUET. MATCH FOR POLLOCK STARS. A Pollock Star match was played yesterday at the Oroua Croquet Club’s greens, Feilding, Mesdames Petrie and Wood being defeated by Mesdames Langford and T. Simpson, 5—26. A CLEANING CHART. Ammonia added to rinsing water restores colours to cretonnes, curtains, and quilts; removes red ink, fruit, and grass stains from white articles, while mixed with powdered pumice it will remove obstinate soot and smoke marks from hearth tiles. Borax removes tea stains, cleans copper, enamel-ware, varnish, paint, windows, and straw hats. Boiled up inside rusty vessels it dispels the rust. Cold tea renews mahogany and walnut woods, cleans varnished paper on walls, cleans oil cloth and paint, and poured into stained water carafes it quickly removes all traces of brown. Lemons, freshly cut, quickly eradicate pencil marks from paint if followed by a rub with whiting. Lemon juice also removes rust marks from marble and iron mould from linen. In the latter case the patch should be held over boiling steam. Milk cleans white enamel, amber, plaster casts and statuettes, kid gloves. Linen that has lost its original whiteness will greatly improve by being boiled in sour milk and pure soap, while mildew stains disappear with this treatment.

Olive oil restores the polish to tables that have been marked by hot dishes if the marks are first painted with spirit of nitre. Boiled linseed oil renovates leather and also brightens paints and varnish.

Soda water has many uses. When very strong it tightens up limp cane on chairs. Mixed with coal dust it removes stains from the insides of cruet bottles, decanters, and flower vases.