CREATING A DEMAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1931, Page 19 (Supplement)

CREATING A DEMAND.

BOX-MAKING AND MONEY-MAKING (By M.H.) Despite “trade depression” some clever folk still manage to create a demand by proffering a supply of particularly attractive and original articles. Such has been the case with a girl who lias set herself up as a boxmaker on very novel lines. Realising that every woman now possesses many pairs of stockings to complete her various “ensembles” she felt there must be a need for some sort of box which would not only keep these in proper order, but also enable their owner to scan them quickly and thoroughly. So she set herself to contrive a neat decorated cardboard box divided into sections, each capable of accommodating a single pair of stockings tidily rolled up. Her next venture was a double-tier box, and eventually she arrived at a more ambitious box still, made of wood and gaily painted. Then, considering the enormous stock of bead neckleces everyone possesses, it seemed to her that another box of smaller size, but similarly planned, must prove equally welcome. For necklaces, unless tidily kept, have an un-

fortunate way of getting tangled and broken. Soon she had cretonne-covered boxes, each partition having a tiny boss in the middle, round which the chain could be curled. For the home dressmaker, there are partitioned boxes to keep each reel of coloured sewing silk and machine thread separate from the others —and what a number of reels wo need nowadays! Another useful box is designed to take the cards of darning wool and skeins of darning silks that otherwise might complicate the work-box. HINTS FOR THE HOME NURSE. When hot cloths are to be constantly used for the relief of pain, place them in. the upper part of steamer and keep the water boiling below. This keeps the cloths ready for instant use, and lessens the trouble of wringing each time they are required. They are easily wrung by laying them in a large towel and twisting the ends of the towel in opposite ways. Steam is also an excellent way of reheating a poultice once or twice. In every household slight accidents occur almost daily. The injuries are so small usually as hardly to justify the term “accidents,” yet if they arc not properly attended to they may develop into something serious. Apply tincture of iodine by means of a cotton swab to the surrounding tissue as well as to the wound. In the case oi a cut finger or a grazed knee, cover with a dressing of sterile gauze, and bandage securely. If you have to treat a sprained wrist or ankle, raise the injured part, keep it absolutely quiet, and apply heat or cold or heat and cold alternately. A good treatment is to soak the joint, in hot water and then let cold water run upon it. At first this may increase the pain, but it will soon be alleviated. Severe sprains, of course, require medical attention.

Dissolve one-third of a teaspoonful of salt in one glass of tepid water, and use as a gargle. Don’t imagine that more salt than this will do just that much more good. Too inuuh salt Lu the water is irritating,