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There is

Less Work & More Fun

in

spring cleaning

these days

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USS and frenzy of spring cleaning isn't what it was in the Good Old Days, when you couldn't see 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 evan 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 aliout what you can do while it is going on.

You simply

feed the things into an urn of hat, scopy water and turn a switch. A metal arm pummels away the dirt, an electrically driven wringer dues the rest.

Domestic size clectric washers like this can be

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to go about it

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inents and cost about two cents o

hour to run

THER.

humbler, Andgets

we might gloss over tofore getting down to more serious matters are: carpet shampoos, a new stove cleaner, wallpaper rubber, and clee- trie dust eaters.

Carpels are not taking to henna or any exotic

shampoo; there is Cine putfit being sold now that has just the right sort of brush packeted ready with the shampou to encourage you.

**The stove cleaner is sensible; fons, with a triangular end of corrugated rubber that works into crevices, and a shield up near the handle so that your hands don't get dlity.

Wallpaper cleaner works like in- diarubber; you curve off a slice and It rubs off the dirt.

Electrically driven dust consumers fog cleaning chair covers, cur- “tums, and so down . . . are another known but not sufficiently used help.

bores.

No

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TOW--the turn out. In every home there tre Not the articulate kind; pieces of furniture, ornements, ple- tures that have out-worn your in- terest and Which are housed merely from habil.

THREE TIPS

You can clean chintz cover& on chairs and satteos with-

ant removing the covers. Warm some bran in the oven. Take a plece of soft flannel and dip in the bran, going all over the chints with this.

prevent dours 2. To

from squeaking, get an ordinary tead pencil and pencil all over

the hinges.

3.

If you have trouble with mice in the pantry, news- papers soaked in creosote and rammed into every mousehole will send them away.

Even carpets can get a home shampoo.

and writes you on offer, which you tain must be of the same stuff, in the can necept (or not) in cash or kind. same colour. If you find sentiment getting upper- most surely you know that

great- uncle Ethelred would rather you had a book-case that you use than a stuff

ed Ash that you keep in the attle.

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And in stuifs there are some purse- .. For curtains snatching bargains.

a rough, coarse cotion called Lan- easter cloth, looking more like wool, woven with ridges of rust and faint blue.

Frilled and frivolous coloured mus- curtains-i72 sweet

AVING disposed of all the things that dishearten your home, you can get down to the re-ins for lighter

blues or cloud pinks, 36 ins, wide- arranging.

down to while muslins scratched with frail lines of blue silk.

These are points worth remember by a narrow weem looks bløver if the ceiling is "brought down" by being painted glossy instead of "fat" surfaced .. small rooms louk big- ger if the floors are close covered (without any surrounds) in one plain colour.

TDEA for à change of bed is to buy a couple of the new quits. Unlike the dimpled light things we call elderdowns, these are tomparatively thin and quilted in a uniform pattern, mostly in ripples a paint colour from straight across the width. Use one to sample papers, go for one a little pad the back of your bed post, the Buhter Father than deeper than you other to keep you warm, Terhips you keep them because you don't know how to get rid of them? really want: si colour when looks just

plece comes out And now, perhaps, it is time Well, I've Just the service-with-a- right in a small

stop talking and do something. smille.

There is a London store much brighter over a whole wall.

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In choosing

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 add, but will give swopping or part-purchasing..

What happens is that a plain the illusion of a more uniformly light- clothes assistant calls, secs, goes back room.

ABC of Spring Cleaning

OUTSIDE repairs should be seen to first-roof, gutters,

winulones.

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 twice 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 dict.

But

don't make spring-cleaning an excuse for serving up un- attractive meals.

ZEST for the work of overhauling the home is helped if you know you look well. Don't neglect your appearance. Wear an attractive apron and keep your hair tidy.

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LOSS OF VIGOUR.

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NADNESS In most modern rooms results from 100 much matching. We have revoltet from the old-fashioned monotony of pair of everything and one each side of the mantelpiece, but our pre- sent fear of colour is almost as de- pressing.

Provided walls are not aggressively coloured and keep their place in the background, there is no reason belleving that every chair and tur-

SCOURING

Made Easy

MAKE some of this paste and

keep it by you in the gcul- lery in old jam Jars.

lb. 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 wonden tables, drain- ing boards, etc.. and for the simple scouring of pola and pans.

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Questions

for Wives

1. Suggest alternative menUB

for breakfast on a day when you have to make an early start.

2. How would you set about. taking a stain out of a "dress then you do not know what the stain to?

3. Give a recipe for quickly made cakes,

ANSWERS:

1. Stewed prunes; cereals; hot or cold milk; boiled eggs; toast; scones, honey, marmalade; or fresh fruit; porridge; sliced breakfast sausage; rolls, tonst, quince jelly.

2. Anonymous stains should first be treated with hot or cold water. Sometimes the simplest method succeeds. If the stain is on white linen or cotton you may use a bleach, elther lemon juice or peroxide of hydrogen. 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 mostinor stalns off with the chalk.

3. Allow the weight of two eggs in butler, sugar, and self-raising flour and two teaspoonfuls of ground rice, .. Bent the eggs, cream butter and sugar, and add the flour, then mix gradu- ally with the rest, beating all the time. The consistency should be that of thin batter; it

D molst enough add a little Bot 'milk.

Pat in little tins or papers and bake in a hot oven for fifteen minutes. . ... These cakes may be flavoured with seeds, coconut, lemon rind, cur- rants, or sultanas, and are very dellelous plain.

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Tit-Bits

enables NEW "addle-stitching"

Imama to be smart, They are. marked outside, like stitching handsewn gloves.

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HOOSE prints for spring blouses, now that Paris has gone alf out . all gay ones. to give us such covered with writing and little plc-

tures.

LOOK out for hurlequin checks in many colours patterned The material of the blouse is often Introduced, too, on revers and poc- kets of the suit with which iswarn.

BEAUTY

In Five Minutes

By FRANCES DAY.

AVE you ever had a "quicky." It's America's latest beauty craze and is now gaining popularity in the West End. It is

hurry and haven't time for a full treatment.

FIRST

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neck with a good cold cream, WRST cleanse the face and

medicated cream. This remove, and apply a strong

n. good stimulates the circulation and has the same effect us

butter cream is

massage.

"Over the medicated cream a soft cocoa worked in, softening and feeding the skin and taking away the sting of the first cream.

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O the top of these two put in some calomine lotion. This has

a refining and tonic 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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Brighten your smile with Kolynas

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Have your children use Kolynoя morning and night. It is most economical because you use only half as much, as you would of ORDINARY toothpastes a half-inch on a dry brush is enough.

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You have no doubt 'had Suits and Dresses satisfactorily drycleaned by our ZORIC drycleaning method. Now we wish you to try your household curtains, loose covers

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