HAVE YOU HEARD?

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18157, 23 October 1930, Page 5

HAVE YOU HEARD?

That ordinary dripping may be used to make bools waterproof round the joint between the soles and the uppers if it is gently pressed in with a sharp stick. That a lump or two of sugar dissolved in water will make a good starch for very light articles like lace and fine lawn, being really better than real starch. That white paint will last longer and keep its surface better if it is polished occasionally with furniture polish. That windows are more easily cleaned with damp newspaper than with anything else. There i's something in the printing ink which gives an excellent polish. That windows cleaned with the sun on them will have horrid marks which are almost impossible to remove afterwards. That mint sauce made by pounding the mint and sugar together in a mortar is at least twice as nice as that made in the usual way by chopping the mint. That soap rubbed on your heels and cn the inside of the heels of your stockings will prevent blisters from forming wiien walking in a new pair of shoes, and that a piece of stickingplaster right over the blister is the best way of dealing with one should i r . have formed.