QUICK REMEDIES
FOR SMALL PROBLEMS. Tainted saucepans can be cleansed by boiling a cut-up lemon in them for one to two hours. ■ To clean galvanised buckets rub grease into them, melt it slowly in the sun or near the stove, then scour with fine ashes or sand. Sprinkle carbolic acid crystals on red-hot coals on a shovel to clear a room of mosquitoes. After cleaning patient leather shoes warm a piece of flannel and polish with drops of olive oil or spirits ol turpentine. To keep sandwiches fresh, wrap in wax paper or cloth. If cloth is used, damp only half of it. fold and put dry part next to the sandwiches. Place in covered receptacle. If spots of mildew appear on kid gloves place some small pieces ol lump ammonia in a flat tin box and leave the gloves with them, protected by tissue paper, for several days. The ammonia must not be in contact with the gloves.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1940, Page 7
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