Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1918 — For The Housewife. [ARTICLE]

For The Housewife.

Wet peach stains with cold water, rub on soap, lay in hot sun. Repeat until stains vanish. a clean damp mop passed rapidly over matting removes dust and lint and saves much dusting of furniture. When slicing tomatoes use a bread knife with saw teeth. This will cut the slices thinner and the work will be done more quickly. Vinegar will sometimes revive colors _ one tablespoonful of common vinegar to a quart of rinsing .water. Saturate well, wring tightly, dry quickly. Save the envelopes that have transparent name spaces. Use for buttons, tapes, etc. When ip a hurry it will save time to be able to see what each envelope contains. Always pull the leaves off the stalks of flowers before putting them in water—those leaves which would be in the water, not those above it And with flowers from any hard stalked sort of shrub the bark should be peeled off as well as the leaves'. Curtains that are individual in effect and durable are not often met with. A woman who takes great interest in having her home individual and not a pattern of somebody else’s has for her bedroom windows curtains of muslin to which is applied a two-inch wide band embroidered in pink with cross stich roses, and edged with a tiny edging of pink crochet