There is
Less Work & More Fun
in spring cleaning
these days
USS and frenzy of spring cleaning isn't what it was in the Good Old Days, when you couldn't 826 the roses on the wall- paper for reprints and family ... trophies.
Still, there is the fun of seeing how little effort you need exert to track down what dirt there lurks, and even more in rearranging the furniture,
Heavy washing of curtains, blankets, bed- spreads, sheets has become as easy as going to the pictures; in fact, that is just about what you can do while it is going on.
feed the things into an urn of
You simply hol, soapy water
and turn o mwitch. metal arm pummels away the dirt, an electrically driven wringer does the
rest.
Domestic size electric washers like this can be
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Even carpets can get a home shampoo.
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wy might glor over before getting down to more serious matters ate: carpet shampoos, a new slove cleaner," "valiper rubber, and elec- trie dust ealers,
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Carpets are not taking to henna or
exolle shampon; there is outfit
ulft bei oid nw that his hist the right sort of brush packeted ready with the shampoo to encourage you.
The slave dinner is sensible: long, with a triangular end of corrugated rubber that works into crevices; and a shield up near the handle so, thai your hands don't get dirty.
Wallpaper cleaner works like in- dinrubber: you carve of a slice and it rubs off the dirt.
Electrically driven dus! consumers for cleaning, chair eavers, 'cur- lains, and so down............ are another known but not sufficiently used" neži.
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turn-out. In home there every bores.
Not the articulate kind: pieces of furniture, wnaments, pie- tures that have out-worn your in- "terest-and-which are housed merely
from bobit.
THREE TIPS
1.
You can clean chint; covers en chairs and aritees with- out removing the copers. Warm some brun in the oven. Take a piece of soft flannel and dip in the brai, going all over the chint: with this,
2, To prevent dours from
squeaking, get an ordinary
† lead prucht nud veneil all over
the hinges.
3.
If you have trouble with mice in the pantry, news- papers soaked in create and rammed into every meuschale will send them away. ||~|~|~|~|~|-·|-~||~|~|~|~~÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷~|~|~||
can accept (or not) in cash or kind. same colour. If you find sentimént getting upper- most surely you know that
Kreat- uncle Ethelred would rather you had a book-case that you use than a stuff ed Ash that you keep in the allie.
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HAVING disposed of all the things that dishearten your home, you can get down to the re- arranging.
These are points worth remember ing: _a_narrow room looks bigger if the ceiling is "uronim down by bring painted glossy instead of "fat" small rooms look big- surfaced ger if the floors are close covered (without any surrounds) in one plain colour.
go for one
And in stuffs there are some purse; snatching bargains... For curtains rough, coarse cotton called Lan- easter eloth, looking mare like wool, woven with ridges of rust und faint blue..
Frilled and frivolous coloured muse lites for lighter
sweet curtains in
blues or cloud pinks, 36 ins. wide down to white muslins scratched with frail Hines of blue silk.
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Questions
for Wives
1. Suggest alternative menus for breakfast on a day when you have to make an carly start.
2. How would you set about taking a stain out of a dress when you do not know what the stain ka? .
3. Give a recipe for quickly made cakes,
ANSWERS:
1. Stewed prunes; cereals; hot or cold milk; boiled eggs; tonst; scones, honey, marmalade; or fresh fruit; porridge; sliced breakfast sausage; rolls, toast, quince jelly.
2. Anonymous stains should Arst be treated with hot or cold. water. Sometimes the simplest methott succeeds. If the stain is on white linen or cation you may use a bleach, elther lemon julte or peroxide of hydrogen,
If you do not wish to damp the garment try a powdering of french chalk., Rub on, if possi- ble leave on for some hours, You will brush most minor stains of with the chalk.
3. Allow the weight of two eggs in butter, sugar, and self-raising Bour and two teaspoonfuls of ground rica.
Beat the eggs, cream butter
ter and sugar, and add the flour, then mix gradu- ally with the rest, beating all the time, Thi consistency should be that of thin batter; if not moist enough add a title milk.
Pul
In little tins or papers
bake in a and
hot oven for fifteen minutes...
These
cakes may be flavoured with seeds, coconut, lemon rind, cur- ronis, or sultanas, and are very delicious plain.
Tit-Bits
"saddle-stitching"
chables
NEW They are
TDEA for a change of bed is marked outside, like stitching on
to buy a couple of the new handsewn gloves.
the dimpled light quilts. Unlike things we call eiderdowns, these are comparatively thin and quilted in a aniform pattern, mostly in ripples CHOOSE prints for spring blouses, now that Parls has gone all out In choosing a paint colour from straight across the width. Use one to to give us such
gay onck. sample papers,
a little pad the back of your bed post, the covered with writing and Hle plc- lighter rather than deeper than you other to keep you warme Pechám vui kern them because you really want a coin which looks fust don't know how to get rid of them?
piece comes atti And now, perhaps, I is time to Well, I've Just the service-with-a- right by a small
stop talking and do something. There is a Landon store much brighter over a whole wall. that specialises in relieving clients of If one or two walls than the rest white elephants of all dumb shapes, of the room, paint or distemper them You can either harden your heart a little lighter than the others; the and sell the lot outright or do a little effect will not be odd, but will give swapping or part-purchasing.
What happens is that a plain the illusion of a more uniformly light clothes assistant calls, sees, gets back room..
smile.
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ABC of Spring Cleaning
OUTSIDE repairs should be seen to first-roof, gutters,
windows.
PAINTWORK is best treated with a solution of borax and
water.
QUICKNESS in getting things done is assured if you work to a plan. You'll take twice as long and feel twięc as tired
if you work haphazardly..
REMOVE grease stains from wallpaper by holding blotting
paper over them and pressing with a hot iron. SUNSHINE is the world's greatest purifier. Try to do most
of your cleaning on sunny days.
TRY to burn as much rubbish, as you can before it goes away
with the dustmen.
UNLESS you want a quarrel during your spring-cleaning,
leave your husband to tidy up his own equipment, VINEGAR will remove stains from white wood. WHEN the carpets are up take the opportunity to see that
the electric, gas and water fittings are in order. XEROPHAGY is the habit of living on a meagre diet. But don't make spring-cleaning an excuse for serving up un- attractive meals.
ZEST for the work of overhauling the home is haped if you know you look well. Don't neglect, your appearance. Wear an attractive apron and keep your hair tidy.
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ADNESS in most modern rooms results from too much matching. We have revolted from the old-fashioned monotony of a pair of everything and one cach side of the mantelpiece, but our pre- sent fear of colour is almost as do- pressing.
Provided walls are not aggressively coloured and keep their place in the background, there is no reason belloving that every chair and cur-
SCOURING Made Easy
MAKE
some of this paste and keep it by you in the scul- fery in old jam Jars,
tb. each of whiting, soft soap and silver sand. Heat in a pan with 1 pint water till it becomes a firm paste.
You will find it useful when scrubbing wooden tables, drain- ing boards, etc., and for the simple scouring of pois and pans.
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OOK out for harlequin checks patterned in many colours The material of the blouse is often introduced, too, on revers and po¤• kels of the sult with which Hisworn.
BEAUTY
In Five Minutes
By FRANCES DAY
AVE you ever had a "quicky." It's America's Intest beauty craze and is now gaining popularity in the West End. It is a complete five-minute facial-just, the thing when you're in a hurry and haven't time for a full treatment.
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good cold creum, FIRST cleanse the face and neck with a
cream. This atrong medicated and apply 4. remove
a good stimulates the circulation and has the same effect as massage,
butter cream is Over the medicated cream a soli cocoa worked in, softening and feeding the skin and taking away the sting of the first cream.
ON the top of these two pat in some calomine lollon. This has
a refining and tonle effect on the pores..
Leave on for five minutes then remove with soft tissues and your face will be soft and sparkling.
A witch-hazel cream can be used instead of the medicated cream' for this treatment.
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Dentists recommend Kolynos especially for children because of its antiseptic cleansing prop- erties. They know that Kolynos keeps teeth clean and protects them from the dangerous mouth
Brighten your amite with Kolynge
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