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These are important spring-cleaning points

REMEMBER this about your vacuum cleaner: always empty the bag

after you have used it. The lens dust in the bag the more powerful is the suction. Another thing to be careful about in to have the mouth of the vacuum the right height from the floor; it should be adjunted higher for a thick pile carpet.

SOAP-Whon soap is bought in large slabs, cut off large pieces; it saves your hands when scrubbing. Save your odda and ends of soap, put When dissolved, them in a jam jar and stand in a saucepan of hot water.

stir 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 poliaking. Here is an extra special treatment to use on your stained floors once a year. Mix together in a bottle 1⁄4 lb. 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 must plan

all

this hard

WORK

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is the little things more than the actual work that make spring cleun- 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 s50. 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 n

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 worst enemy and asked her what she was going to do about them.

Oh, she said, summer is coming, so it hardly seems worth getting

new ones.

I entirely disagreed, After all, your shattes 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

HAD a little country cottage.

SPRING Cleaning

By: GLORIA

HERE

aro

QISTOR

still misguided wives who almost drive thelr familles and themselves→→→ 10 despair by their Annual spring-cleans.

It's sheer mad-

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

You can take It in your stride, your family re- maining in bliss- ful ignorance, if you plan it care- fully.

Clean only one room at a time and give yourself

at least a day's

rest in between

canh.

MADNESS

Don't map out an exhausting day's Clean tino with parafin-also paint-

programme, and don't have a scappy bunch.

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LIERE are a few hints which may Had along the work.

If dark paint looks steary after washing, rub it over with furniture

cream.

ed furniture.

Dry-clean upholstered chairs by

rubbing with tot bran.

If drawers stick, rub furniture polish

along the edges. Brightly-coloured

carpets, Worn threadbare in places, can be re- novated with coloured Inka match, brushed on.

Eric Weir Complains

that Women Won't

LEARN

WHY Is it, Ladies, that there

Half its charm came from the fact that it faced due south and

came But unfortunately

are so many excellent cook books flying around, and yet you pouring in all day. do nothing about it? Do you

the

sun

that

faded my hope to keep your man by love

TO

COOK

to

pretty chintz curtains all down the alone, because, if so, I am going soup with some finely chopped pars- edges nearest the window.

I was miserable and had to re-to rush out and marry a cookey and served up very hot, new them. The old ones seemed but one who is not so plain.

100 good to throw away and yet

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

Soles With Almonds 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 willment when my byes hit a book on the usual manner and kept hot probably find that cooking. As a mere man, I should in a gentle oven. you have every- have passed it by with barely a nod. Now peel and slice in halves o thing

Fry them need But it was not an ordinary book. It fair quantity of almonds. you

was one that told you how to make to a light brown colour In fresh among your bits

easy, economical little dishes from butter and sprinkle over the fish. and pieces and do not have to buy the Continent, where eating is an a thing.

art and cooking a profession. So I Chicken With If you have an bought it, and seni it off to my old Jup silk slip favourite aunt, who, like you, very rarely troubled to buy and digest

JUST the thing to offer your such things.

The next I heard about that book husband on the day you in- aunty herself, who had meanwhile that allver-fox fur. was in a enthusiastic note from tend tackling him about buying

made the resolution that Britain

There are two ways of cooking should no longer rule the waves on the chicken for this dish. You can house. So next time she asked me roast in the ordinary manner in the to dinner this was what we had:

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

had you? Yet so simple. Only last week I was wandering The soles or fillets are fried in through my favourite bargain base

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

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then buy a packet of dye the same colour as your chintz. Don't attempt to do too much at Mix it with a little water and dip once. Take this Krent

the slip in it. ing event at your leisure.

of this is Sceret

Then iron it out and tear. It into We all have strips about an a curious habit of putting off any thing we dread until it joily well all the material of your old shades has to be done because it can't be until you are left with the naked

You must make wire frames; then put off any more.

I

begin in good time.

inch wide. Strip

lake the strips

a point of doing a room a day. of silk and bind them round the Then give one whole day to the wires (like bandaging), turning the stairs and another 10 1he bath

edges in as you go.

Once actually started, you wil Each time you wind. overlap the become so enthusiastic about spring last bit that covered, Then cleaning that you won't know where

boiled beet

at least not in her

Cauliflower Cream Soup. Filleted Soles with Almonds. Rndst Chicken and Chestnut Purec.

A Salad of Endive, Beetroot, and Eggs. Creme Genevieve.

to stop. You will find things you measure the circumference and the Thought weren't dirty nt all look height of the frame, and cut your Cauliflower Soup positively black beside the things chintz accordingly. Be careful to you have already cleaned; so then

get the design on your chintz well you will start in on them.

WHILE you're doing the clean- ing think too of any ways

placed.

Chestnut Puree

oven or cook it in one of those oval- shaped porcelain casseroles, In either case, however, always remem- ber to place a piece of butter, some salt, and a dash of pepper Inside the chicken beforehand.

Creme Genevieve

THE most appealing of all chocolate entrements. It has the advantage of requiring | THIS was made with the re- very little cooking.

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

enough to cover the bottom for 26 minutes, the potato slices break in the bars of chocolate. Melt were crushed with a fork. these on a small fame, stirring round'

Then a cupful of milk and a small to prevent lumps., Remove

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saucepan

and

from

TITCH the top of your chintz you can improve the arrangement or

to the binding round the top furnishing of your house. Sometimes of the frame, turning it in as you when

Into a room in a friend's go, and see that the material is 201 house and cast my eye round it I stretched tightly round the frame. cannot help thinking to myself what Then siltch the bottom of your pot of fresh cream were added and the fire and add the yokes, which I should do

it if it were chintz to the binding at the bottom the soup put back on the stove to should be well mixed with

keep hot while some Uny bread melted chocolate. mine. Nine times out of ten I find of the frame.

When the mixture is cool add the cres were being fried In butter,

were golden beaten whites and pour into glassen When the cubes colour, they were thrown into the to set.

with

it

Is the lampshades I would change first.

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 seam up one A) KOSILN||SETAKUTAUIZVORNIKI

do.

I was having tea with a neigh wire. Either pipe the top and bot- bour last week just atter she had tom with chintz

or stlich a little

done her spring cleaning. I thought braid round the bottom as trimming.

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