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These are important spring-cleaning points

DEMEMBER this about your vacuum cleaner: always empty the bag directly after you have used it. The less dust in the bag the more powerful is the suction. Another thing to be careful about is to have the mouth of the vacuum the right height from the floor; it should be adjusted higher for a thick pile carpet,

SOAP-When soup is bought in large slabs, cut off large pieces; it saves your hands when scrubbing. Save your odds and ends of soap, put them in a jam jar and stand in a saucepan of hot water. When dissolved, atir in one tablespoonful of ammonia and add suficient silver sand to make it thick. Roll into balls and let it dry and harden.

POLISHING-A lot of elbow grease and a little polish is the best method for polishing. Here is an extra special treatment to use on your stained floors once a year. Mix together in a bottle 1⁄4 10, shellac and pint of methylated spirit. Let the mixture stand for twenty-four hours, then paint over the floor with it, using a flat brush.

You

all

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must plan

this hard

WORK

T is the little things more than the r

actual work that make spring clean- -ing so much harder than it need be and give poor housewives that worn-out look that adds years to their faces and is so unbecoming.

Do a bit of planning first, and you will save yourself and your time.

First of all take a good look at your house shoes and see that they have good thick soles and are not down at heel. Have two pairs, and change them about every two hours or so. You've no idea how this little bit of forethought will save your back.

Your knees are the next things that are likely to suffer, so be sure and get a nice soft kneeling mat.

REST whenever you can spare your legs. For instance, when you clean the silver or give the glasses an extra rub sit down to it.

It is quite unnecessary to stand. Most people do because they think they have a

how spick and span her room looked, except for the lampshades, which were shabby beyond words. So I became the sort of best friend who. often makes a warst enemy and asked her what she was going to do about them.

Oh, she said, summer is coming,

hardly

worth getting

it

new ones.

seems

I entirely disagreed. After all, your shades are going to show just as much in the daytime. Have you ever tried covering your old ones? I asked.

She thought that a brilliant Idea

so I told her how I had done mine,

I

SPRING Cleaning

By GLORIA

THERE

Are

still SOOD misguided wives who almost drive their families- and themselves—---- to despair by their annual spring-cleans.

It's sheer mad-

ness to try and cram it all into one heclle fort- night.

You can take

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it in your siride, your' family maining in bliss- ful ignorance, if you plan it care- fully.

Cican only one room at a time and give yourself

at least a day's

rest in between

each.

MADNESS

Don't map out an exhausting day's Clean Ino with paraffin-also paint- programme, and don't have a scappy lunch.

HERE are a few hints which may

help along the work.

If dark paint tooks smeary after washing, rub it over with furniture cream.

ed furniture. Dry-clean upholstered chairs by

rubbing with hot bran.

If drawers stick, rub furniture polish

along the edges.

Brightly-coloured carpets. worn threadbare in places, can be re- novated with coloured Inks to match, brushed on.

Eric Weir Complains

that Women Won't

LEARN

HAD a little country cottage. WHY is it, Ladies, that there

Half its charm came from

are so many excellent cook

the fact that it faced due south and books flying around, and yet you

the sun 'came pouring in all day. do nothing about it?

Do you

TO COOK

But unfortunately that fated my hope to keep your man by love pretty chintz curtains all down the alone, because, if so, I am going soup with some finely chopped pars- edges nearest the window,

Wag miserable and had to re-to rush out and marry a cook-ley and served up very hot. Soles With Almonds new them. The old ones seemed but one who is not so plain.

can't do something towards revolu- you hadn't thought of that, tionising your outlook.

had you? Yet so simple.

too good to throw away and yet But first I'm going to see if I they were too small to make chair covers or sofa covers. So I cut off the faded part and used the rest to cover my old lampshades.

If you make your own you will probably find that you have every

"The secret is to begin in good time and make a point of do- ing one room a day."

thing

You

need

among your blis and pieces and do not have to buy a thing..

If you have an old Jup slik slip longer use in your

dye the same colour as your chintz,

better purchase on whatever they happen to be doing. This is a that you no fallacy. If you are sitting in a really comfortable position, with wardrobe, then buy packet of a straight back, you have plenty of power over your work.

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Don't attempt to do too much at Mix it with a little water and dip once. Take this great overwhelm- the slip in it.

ing event at your leisure.

Only last week I was wandering

nod.

through my favourite bargain base. The soles or fillets are fried in ment when my eyes hit a book on the usual manner and kept hot! cooking. As a more man, I should in a gentle oven. have passed it by with bar book. It fair quantity of itmonds. Fry them Now peel and slice in halves a But it was not an ordinary was one that told you how to make to a light brown colour casy, economical little dishes from butter and sprinkle over the fish the Continent, where eating is an

in fresh

Chestnut Purec

art and cooking a profession. So I Chicken With bought it, and sent it off to my.. favourite aunt, who, like you, very rarely troubled to buy and digest such things.

JUST the thing to offer your The next I heard about that book husband on the day you in- | was in an enthusiastic note from tend tackling him about buying aunty herself, who had meanwhile that silver fox fur. made the resolution that Britain

Of course, the secret of this is Then iron it out and tear it into should no longer rule the waves on to begin in good time. We all have strips about an

a curious habit of putting off any-

put off any more. You must make wire frument

inch wide, Strip

then take the strips

There are two ways of cooking

boiled beef at least not in her the chicken for this dish. You can house. So next time she asked me roast in the ordinary manner in the!

oven or cook it in one of those oval- thing we dread until it jolly well all the material off your old shades to dinner this was what we had:

shaped parcelain casseroles. In has to be done because it can't be until you are left with the naked

either case, however, always remem- ber to place a piece of buiter, some salt, and a dash of pepper inside the chicken beforeband. Creme Genevieve

a point of doing a room a day.

of silk and bind them round the

Then give one whole day to the wires (like, bandoring), turning the stairs and another to the bath

ruom).

edges in as you go.

Once actually started, you will become so enthusiastle about spring cleaning that you won't know where last

Each time you wind, overlap the bit that is covered. Then

and the

Cauliflower Cream Soup. Filleted Soles with Almonis. Roast Chicken and Chestnut Purce.

A Sulad of Endive, Beetroot, and Eggs.

Creme Genevieve,

to slop. You will find things you measure the circumference thought weren't dirty at all look: height of the frame, and cut your Cauliflower Soup

positively black beside the things chints accordingly. Be careful to you have already cleaned; so then you will start in on them.

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WHILE you're doing the clean-

ing think too of any ways

you can improve the arrangement or

get the design on your chintz. well

placed.

It

THE most appealing of all

chocolate entrements. has the advantage of requiring| THIS was made with the re- very little cooking.

Take an egg and one bar of plain mainder of vesterday's cauli- chocolate per, guest. Separate the flower, which was put into a yokes from the whites and beat up saucepan together with two the latter into a mousse, with sugar one's taste. Place a very little peeled, sliced potatoes and a pint to

just saucepan... water of water. After boiling gently

and in the bars of chocolate. Melt these on a small fane, stirring, round Then a cupful of milk and a sinalt to prevent tumps. Remove from pot of fresh cream were added and the fire and add the yokes, which

in

to

STITCH the top of your chintz to the binding. round the top furnishing of your house. Sometimes of the frame, turning it iri as you for 25 minutes, the potato slices break cover the bottom when I go into a room in a friend's go, and see that the material is were crushed with a fork. house and cast my eye round it streiched tightly round the frame. cannot help thinking to myself what Then stitch the bottom of your I should do with it if it were chintz to the binding at the bottom the soup put back on the stove to should be well mixed with

nine. Nine times out of ten I find of the frame.

the lampshades I would change

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Arst.

When you get to where the two You would never think that little ends meet, cut up the slope, leaving things like lampshades could change in. to turn in, and stitch over and the whole look of a room, but they over neatly, making a scam up one do. I was having tea with a neigh wire. Either pipe the top and bot- bour last week just after she had tom with chintz or stitch a little done her spring cleaning. I thought braid round the bottom os trimming.

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