HAVE YOU EVER TRIED THIS?

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXI, Issue 8833, 14 October 1942, Page 1

HAVE YOU EVER TRIED THIS?

For kitchen or laundry windows where curtains are ■ liable to be splashed make the roller blind. of gaily - coloured, fadeless material This can be rolled up when the sink is in use, and, with a frill above on a dowel-stick to hide the roller, is as pretty as and far more serviceable than the hanging type curtain. If filoselle tangles when you commence sewing make sure that you have not moistened the end to thread your needle. A moistened end of thread will not slip through smoothly, especially if doing rosebuds in bullion-stitch, and the result is a tangle. When making sausage-rolls neutralise the fatty taste from the saus-age-meat by adding the yolk of one egg.

Corks submerged for a few minutes in melted paraffin wax will be airtight and can 'be easily cut or bored. Ideal ginger-sandwich filling: Mix three tablespoons icing sugar, a dessertspoon of butter, half teaspoon of coffee essence and a few drops of vanilla essence. Add a little hot water gradually till creamy, then add crystallised ginger finely chopped. If rope or cord has to be exposed to sea or wet weather first rub it well with melted beeswax. Before handling coal, gardening, stove-cleaning or other dirty jobs apply egg-white to the hands; it protects the skin and leaves the hands soft and clean after they have been washed.