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December 13, 1938.
Household Mending
SOME "SHORT CUTS"
REPAIRS to the household linen, cushions, earpets, and curtains are usually wearying tasks, so here are some short cuta designed to effect quicker and belter mending.
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Careless people will ignore tapes on towels provided for door hooks, and long jagged ears orc the frequent result. Instead of try ing to repair the rip by hand, tack loosely together, without overlapping. and place in the sewing machine. Then sow backwards and forwards and up and down with strong thread. The resultant darn will hardly show and will be extremely firm.
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The machine is useful again repairing lace or net curtains. Cut | PHONE 21322 out a piece of paper and pin under- two edges of lace togeher. Sew In the some way as above, afterwards re- moving the paper. This method is also useful for table linen.
trouble with urath the tear, drawing the your face?
later from
Turn
1 both sider and
Never throw away old sheels and MOST women suffer sooner or pillowcases, but retain the good parts congested in the
for patching. To make these patches head and
trouble withi in worn sheets, cul away the frayed shoulders. This is because in
their face. Either the face is edge of the tear and place the new moments of stress one tends to HAIR reflects more quickly NOW is the time for all good
women to protect their not beautiful enough, or the skin material over so as to overlap at least hold the head very stiffly than anything else
two inches on the right sklé. the hands from redness and possible is coarse, or it gets flaky, or is in the edges and the blood cannot flow physical and mental condition. chilblains. freely up the spine to their you are tired, ill. worried or than their hands, yet every time
Most women pay too red, or too pale.
machine or hem. nore attention to their face nervo centres at the back
Your skin is not necessarily
Plain carpets which have become of the neck. The result is a bored, your hair will be, too. So you do anything to your face greasy if it gets a
warn (most commonly at the hearth) bit shiny can have the faded parts removed headachy feeling, stiff neck and begin by improving your health you should spare a thought for round the nose and chin. That and edges drawn together to make a even rheumatic pains.
and spirits, and go on by paying the poor old paws, which, after is a condition normal to most is done in the following manner: As a matter of fact, it has
all, have even more wear and faces. been found that people who keep a little daily attention to your tear than the face, and yet are their neck and shoulders very hair and scalp,
just as much in evidence, supple seldom Buffer from rheumatic congestion. Of course, this goes for the whole of the body; if it is kept generally supple and well limbered up, it' is far less likely to be prone to rheumatic complaints.
Needlework
Coal Economy
smaller, but good looking carpet. It
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Now draw out all the threads until you have two matching fringes some
five inches in length. Tie each of these opposite threads together in a strong knot, at the same time bring- ing both pieces of carpet together so
that no join is discernible.
Cut out a strip to the necessary As many women do not know with running the full length of the. what a greasy skin is, here is a "good" part, but leave about four or arpet. Do not cut right to the simple test to find out whether ve inclies of the fades patch or no you have a greasy skin.jcilber side. Wash your face, and go to bed without putting anything on it In the morning wipe it with a picce of tissue paper. If there WE must have fires, but there are briquettes, or it can be well wetted are greasy marks on the paper, various way in which wort and and mixed with water and thrown on then your skin is naturally roal can be appreciably saveel. the back of an open fire in place of
Is worth while, for one thing, to einders. I made wet enough, greasy. purchase for about a dollar, the "cakes" beautifully, and will keep Hirebricks which are shaped to fit the a fire in for several hours ir une is hacks of any kind of grate, and they going 0111 and does nat wish really do save a tremendous amount aneressary waste to be going የዝነ of coal in six months without during one's absence. In this case, diminishing the heal given t by two or three large shovelfuls of WHEN mending the fingertips of the fres.
can be safely put on top of an al- gloves, drop a thimble into the A good many people can save rendy well burning fire, and upon Anger. This provides n firm sur money riding the ashes each morn- arrival home a cheerful blaze can be face on which to work.
ing, too. If they have not bollered to obtained quickly by merely poking American cloth, now widely used do thin in previous years. Ad- it up. Pat it down hard with the T for curtains, table coverings, and mittedly it in a dusty and unpleasant shovel when pulling it on. fancy dress, is apt to stick to the machine tread. Tissue paper placed on both sides. of Die material will prevent this.
Notions
job when done in the ordinary way, but it can be done with
no dis Wood Unnecessary comfort at all if the cinder-sifter is
it
“Catherine - Wheel”
Cakes
THESE are particularly attractive
small children without
rich enough to upset them.
The Roots are tied underneath and ends can be left loose or cut off. This method of repairing carpets is excellent one for getting loaner ser- vice, and with a te practice can be effected very rapidly.
IL Is annoying when good cushion-cover has had a hole burned in it by a cigarette. The only way to remedy this is to remove, patch, and embroider in silk or wool to
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to match the general desim, thus cover- fing up the Join. In the case of plain being
material it can of course be reversed so that the repair is not so obvious. Rub 31⁄21⁄2 ozs of butter into 6 ozs of If you fit all your cushion covers with riddled over an open dustbin and a Wond can be saved by using paper
Use zip fasteners they will be very easily When a tiny crochet edge is to be large piece of old sheet.ng laid over lighters. If greasy papers in which flour and 2 ozs of caster sugar.
either for washing or added to handkerchters or table the sifter as one riddles the cinders. butter, bacon, suct and so on ren egg yolk to bind, and knead well removed
mending.
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nopkinu, the mistest effect
be obtained with the ald of a sewing Reduce the Dif machine. Use
thick needle,
can
Then divide the dough into two parts, wrapped, are
saved and placed
into one part a tablespoon- beneath the paper Bihters, no wood working is necessary at all.
ful of cocon. Roll out both pieces unthreaded, and adjust the tension naturally fall over the outer sides of lighters is to roli
The sheeting, if large enough, will
into squares of equal size 1⁄4 of an The quickest way 10 make to make the stiteles far apart,
the inch thick. This
Place the cocon piece on greased tin in a moderate oven for separately provides the hotes ready for
so that alf dust is quickly several sheets of newspapers like a swiss roll. the lac dustbin
and
top of the plain, and roll up firmly 15 minutes, or until lightly browned,
These cakes should be automatically prevented from rising from corner to corner. The rolling crochet hookt.
made if If embroidered work has become into une's face or gong anywhere should be done as tightly as possible..
possible on the same day as they are puckered, lay some eleen blotting jelee but into the bin.
Cut the roll into 14-inch slices, to be eaten. Then flatten the roll with the hands using a sharp knife, and bake in a paper on the Ironing board
Cinders saved in end
way Call and tie it up into a still double knot dampen it evenly all over. Lay the reduce the coal bill by a quarter, with the ends well tucked in. material on this, stretching it to its quite apart from other saving
This
original shape and securing it in methods adopted. They, do Bol With practice, dozens of these position with pirin. Cover the choke # Are discriminatingly lighters éan be made in u spare tea puckered part with a handkerchief mixed with the coal, and can always inutes. About five six are and rest on this a large iron. Leave be thrown wholesale on the back of needed for each fire, when no wood ali night, and in the morning the an open grate where intense hent is used. Place small pieces of coal puckers will have disappeared.
Jand flame are not so much needed on top unmixed with slack, and To draw the threads from linen as towards the front.
bright fire, will be obtained almost us before hemstitching; so that they will The slack, too, can always be quickly as with wood. not snap, take a damp mug and dat utilised. It ር !? be made into
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along the thread to be removed. will then pull out quite easily. Strengthening Shoulder Straps
Lingerie often tears where shoulder straps Join the lace. To prevent this, make a buttonhole- stitched loop on the hem, just below the lore, and long enough for the ribbon to pass through. Sp the ribbon through, make a liny hem over the top, and then catch the ribbon at the top of the Ince edging at each side only.
To make a beach bag combined with bathing towel, stitch a few short lengths of tape opposite cach other at intervals along the sides of a towel. When this has served its purpose after the dip, the bathing kit can be stowed inside and the sides tied together to form a bag. A bone handle at either end would facilitate currying.
Old pillow-slips, cut through the centre, make useful covers for the backs of comp chaivu. Finish the cut edge with a hem of blanket- stitch and, if desired, embroider simple spray on the cover in silk or wool, A small cushion can be held in place it tucked under this cover, and It will add greatly to the com- fort of the "tounger."
When mending holes in table linen, reinforce with a small piece of net. Starch and from this, while อยา
damp, over the worn part of the linen. Then darn through the mesh of the net, following its lines, on to the linen. This makes a very neat and secure job.
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