TAKE NOTE OF THESE
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. - A basin of cold water to which the juice of a lemon has been added will clean a sponge. Let is soak through the night. If a cork is not quite large enough for a bottle, boil the cork for a fewminutes. To make it water-tight and air-tight soak it in oil. Linings to waistbands may be stiffened by painting them with a solution of gum arabic and pressing with a hot iron. In a small flat, when worried for space, try to fix the wardrobe —perhaps across a corner with space on one side —so that the back of the wardrobe may be used for hanging raincoats .and bathing gowns on hooks. Old linoleum is too useful to throw away. Have it cut up into small pieces and use as fire -lighters. Housewives with coppers will find it a boon in that way. The sheen that is one of the charms of satin may be retained in the wash by soaking the garment for five or six minutes in water to which a teaspoonful of vinegar has been added. Then use soap-flakes without changing the water. A few drops of peroxide of hydrogen sponged on to lizardskin shoes will clean them. After the sponging put them out in the air for an hour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1939, Page 10
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