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Home Laundrywork BY ANN MARVEL
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Finishing Touches
XACTLY how high
we should rank fin- ishings in our laundry calculations I would not attempt to estimate-but I know there are few who would deny themselves that glow of pride anyway.
That's just a way of saying that finishings can make or mur the job.
By "Anish" include the replace- ment of dressing and the mode of Trouing. With confusing choice of erratle stiffening processes and
Iron there's many a twist to a gar- ment's fule, unless we determine to sift the facts.
course,
the Bolled starch is, of most popular stiffening for house- hold collons or lens, but if you variety
are making up the Jump va don't forget that half a teaspoonful of borax and a "sixpence covering" of
while
wax, to every tablespoon
of starch, gives whitening and smooth, glosy contact for the Iron. Most people find the prepared they starches easier to manage, as contain these elements ready
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portioned. If you follow the diree tions carefully you cannot go wrong, but it is helpful in use slightly war water for dilution when dealing with white things, as it hastens penetra- tion to the threads.
These Ideas will Help
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IAGRAMS 1 and 2 show two different types of wooden table stilts with which you can raise or tower your kitchen table to suit your job
No. 1 is a square block of wood hollowed n the centre to take a round leg. No. 2 is for a square leg-in this case a hole must be bored through the leg of the table so that a rod can be inserted to keep it firmly in position.
3. A neat siring hammock that can be slung between two chairs is ideal for drying such garments as woollen jumpers.
4. Hardwood castor cups are useful table- raisers for an ordinary deal kitchen table.
These are the days of heat- ing of erepy materials which tend to controlled Irons,
there is less shrink temporarily in drying. 30
danger of applying the wrong degree, For general purposes
LACE figures largely in linger and tap it lightly on the sur- pays to have your table rather lower
face. A really hot Iron gives a very than you
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I saw just the thing for drying outside. Bindings will respond to your heavier woolles the other day drying from the wrong side unless --il heal little string hammock they are unusually thick, when pre- materials which you can suspend between two liminary pressing on the right side but if you are working with stove should be evenly damp as the work chairs, or across the casement win is advisable. heated ones the soleplate should be begins, and every thread evenly dry dow perhaps, during fair weather, Always air everything thoroughly lested now and again for safely. at the noish with a final niring to Being knotted in open mesh, it
makes quick work. of drying the after ironing, and you will find that If you keep a bowl of water and crisp the linen prior to storage.
closest weave cardigan
things fold beautifully for ог jumper, your Pressure tells with linens, so it without fear of it losing shape. storage afterwards. Anything ironed damping muslin handy, moisten #
In fold looks Invitingly slick follow- would choose at other Silks must be damp, but never ing this attention. our trimmings just now,
win come fresh as paint.
up rather papery in
BY the way have you but it is sometimes difficult to sharp ellek, with no trace of fager- times, and you will come through as the least wet for ironing, or
texture. Always treat modern s
stored away those heavy mark remaining. A moderate iron
Think over the Idea of having from the wrong side-even those got that trace of stiffening with will gather itself for a sharpisi out detracting from the rest of sound, leaving a fingerprint for a wooden table "stilts" so that your with a glossy surface as they hang curtains yet, and all the winter- moment while a cool Iron produces kitchen table, which needs to be so much better in their folds after weight woollies which you won't the article.
he needing for the next few Quite thin watery starch is sufll the merest ejaculation, leaving the fairly high for most purposes, can wards.
be lowered once a week for the iron- cient for coarser threads, while the mark for a recond or so.
ing. and you then have a choice of
LACE needs a hotter iron months? Aner mukes improve with gum-water
heights. The home "handy-man"
than silk, so you can Even fur-trimmed garments in dressing.
would make them for you, to screw start off with trimmings, when regular use attract Inquisitive moths This can be made Lip und kept
securely, through ench table leg. You will need hot irons for damp bottled in readiness, using 2oz. zum
Is best to have moth preventive in starched cottons, but Diagrams 1 and 2 show two different you tackle garments, using a pad once the warmer weather comes. It
of flannel underneath to raise with your coat-hangers. arabic crystals dissolved in 1 pint of linens and hot water. Strain and cool before moderate frons are wise for thinner methods,
Hardwood castor cups are useful the design. bottling, and use 1 teaspoon to every fabrics and dress materials.
I know of one must reliable and 1 pint of water you require.
Be sure to use cool irons for crepes table raisers for an ordinary deal
that will Then proceed with double parts, pleasant-smelling tablet buy them You can use this dressing for all
belts, strings, or hems, and any hang or pack, which I have used my- in seis of four, in either mahogany sorts of in-between fabrics, "diment" and "bone dry silks such as shan- kitchen table. You can
dump clings. self for many years. You can buy or natural finish. The measurements places silks, art needlework, ribbons, thin tung, crepe suede, and augel skin. straw hat brims that have "Umped," Whether you from on the right or are 214in. In diameter, and 14in. in Finally, deal with sleeves and the the tablets in packets of eight, and
bodywork,
with
a man's shirt the they do the work most unobtrusively, wrong side depends upon the nature depth. and lols else besides,
yoke and collar band are the for- leaving no traces when the clothes of the fabric-glossy surfaces usually Woollens need pressing on the midable parts, which must be ther- are worn again. QUCCESS in ironing de- need right side treatment, while mai
n very moderate oughly dried from the first. pends upon two things effects are preserved by pressure or wrong side with
When seams face you-don't iren iron, but nnnels and smooth sur- faced cloths can be ironed on the over them, but take each side up correct iron temperature and the reverse side.
evenly-damped to the stildring. and thus กะเล่ the right degree of dampness in Left-hand finger work is valuable right side with
for persuasive stroking and stretzii- muslin for protection. the material.
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In many of the principal countries
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for all foyat citizens and physical: culture is an important part of the training of both sexes.
where the
N
afternoon's ironing
All for something co those maring shiny patches eft the and fruity in the evening meal.
Lunch for One
The first essential for good health No particular interest has ever FISH SAVOURY
is good blood, because the nerves
been shown in what the
and all the organs and tissues of the woman in the home has for her body depend upon the blood for
nourishment and only when it is rich, lunch when she takes it alone,
way?
HAVE you used left-over
smoked haddock in this
red and plentiful can perfect health But you can have interesting Prepare a little white sauce with be enjoyed.
Realising this, a British physician, small meals which will lend cornflower, milk and butter. on M.D. of Edinburgh University, colour to the midday meal-all evolved a formula which by buliding
up the oxygen and iron content of simple to prepare, the blood has proved invaluable in restoring health and strength to annemic, run down men and women. This preparation is known the world over as Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
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Take the left-over cold haddock, flake it and add to the white sauce while hot, niso one peeled and sleed
If you have planned mush- tomato, rooms as part of the evening meal, make this for yourself:
EGG AND
MUSHROOM TOAST
TOAST
a slice of bread on one side only. Turn
Hent thoroughly and add to but- tered toast. (Bread is best toasted both sides for this.) SAVOURY SOUFFLE
OMELETTE
THE first essential is to have the pan very hot. Heat it first over the gas For correcting general debility, one thin slice of hom (or, if pre- before adding butter, then heat digestive disorders, nerve troubles, ferred, bacon) and allow to grill again, not allowing the pan to smoke.
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it, untoasted side up, and place
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Whisk the whites of two eggs thoroughly, until quite stiff, then
As
No extra fat ill be necessary, add the beaten yolics of the ckus, Chop two mushrooms finely and some mixed herbs or a little parsley. beneficial after malaria, fevers and place in saucepan with about three-
Pour into the very hot pan. other wenkening illness and for quarters of an ounce of butter, and the eggs harden beneath, lift with a
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Spread over serve very hot. savoury.
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| SAVOURY TOASTED
FINCER
BAKED ORANGE
VERY few women have a dessert when lunching alone, but if a fruit dish is pre- ferred to a savoury, have you tried n Baked Orange as n change from
Take one orange, cut in half and
THIS has to some extent baked apple!
replaced the welsh rare scoop out the centres. Mix the pulp bit In "anacks." Toast the with Somne fresh raspberries and bread on one side only, then butter sweeten with the other side.
honey.
demerara
Bugar
er
Grate up some cheddar cheese Fill the orange-peel "cups" with Anely, add a little tomato ketchup to the mixture. Beat the white of an the buttered side of the tonst before egg, adding sugar, until it is sum, piling on the grated cheese, and allow and top each half orange with the to brown gently under the grill. meringue. (A little orange or lemon essence can be added to the egg white Cut into one-inch waters to serve, when beating.) A poached egg can be added to the cheese after tousting.
Bake in a slow oven for twenty minutes and de61 before serving.
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