ITS WORTH TRYING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 241, 12 October 1931, Page 2

ITS WORTH TRYING

Next time you buy adhesive tape for the medicine cupboard get an extra reel for household purposes; ‘first aid’ is only one of its many uses. Here are some of the others.

Suppose, for instance, you arc as bothered as most housewives are by the drips that run down bottles—disinfectant or medicine bottles particularly—leaving nasty stains. Wind a double layer of tape round the neck of the bottle, and see how it disperses the tiresome drop. You, personally, are much too sensible to polish your floors to the stage when folk are likely to slide along them; it is a dangerous habit. But one is alw’ays likely to visit houseproud folk whose floors are like mirrors. When you do, criss-cross the soles of your shoes with adhesive tape, and walk in safety. During the holidays it is easy to jag little three-cornered tears in one’s tweed walking skirt or coat. A scrap of tape plastered to the wrong side will catch all the frayed ends and prevent further damage. Try it as an emergency 4 ‘mend’’ when Peter catches the seat of his new shorts on a nail in the fence. For torn “macks” it’s just the thing! Wicker chairs have a horrid habit of starting to unwind their cane bindings here and there. Bind down the errant end with adhesive tape; the bandage can be disguised with a touching of maching enamel 01 stain if your chair is of that type. Tf you want to keep cakes or biscuits fresh for an extra long time, store in a perfectly cleen, dry tin with a fitover lid —a biscuit tin, for instance. Stick a strip of adhesive tape round the edge of the lid, overlapping it, sealing the crack between lid and tin. This strip can be removed and stuck back again when you want to open the tin and shut it once more. A patch of tape will stop many a leak in a worn umbrella. Yon can use tape, too, as a temporary stop for a leaky pipe until the plumber comes. Bind the tape round and round the damaged part, well overlapping.