Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1915 — Adhesive Plaster [ARTICLE]

Adhesive Plaster

Adhesive plaster has many uses other than the original one for which it was intended, that of protecting bodily wounds. It can be used for repairing all sorts of rubber articles, such as hot water bottles, mackintoshes, syringes, garden hose, rubber shoes, boots and shoes and gloves. It should be used by applying a warm iron over the patch. When knitting, crocheting or hemmidg by hand put a small piece over the end of your finger to protect the skin. A piece will save the lining in the heel of a shoe and prevent it from rubbing the hosiery into holes. It can be used to mend corsets, and even the ends of protruding stays. If a window pane is cracked in cold weather a strip of warm plaster will hold it together and keep the cold air from coming into the house. Cracks in wooden tubs or buckets may be made waterproof by mending with ahdesive plaster.