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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 735 words
  3. HOME AND FASHION.

    Most of the ideas worked into the modes for the year 1916 are copied from styles which were the vogue in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and very quaint ...

    Article : 171 words
  4. SMART FROCK FOR A BUSINESS GIRL.

    The smart and practical frock shown in the sketch. suitable for wear by the girl who has to get her own living, can be made of cashmere or gabardine, in any ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 151 words
  5. USEFUL HOME IDEAS.

    Treacle will leave the scales quite ensily if they are dusted with Hour first. Lemon-juice makes a good substitute for shoe polish if a few drops are well rubbed ...

    Article : 279 words
  6. TO REVEIVE BLACK CLOTH.

    You can revive black cloth in the following simple way:—Take a handful of ivy leaves, sleep them well in boiling water, and leave until cold. Sponge the ...

    Article : 46 words
  7. CLOUDY AMMONTA.

    To make cloudy ammonia, get twopennyworth of rock ammonia, break up, and put into a jug, adding also very little flaked soap. On to this pour a pint of ...

    Article : 55 words
  8. LADIES' COLUMN.

    Marriage is the one relationship in life in which men and woman feel they can dispense with formal courtesy and tell each other the plain truth. And so it comes that ...

    Article : 175 words
  9. TO USE UP COAL-DUST.

    Use up your coal-dust in this way:— Take six shovelfuls and mix with a little water, then add six breakfasteupfuls of salt. Mix together and form into bricks. Place ...

    Article : 56 words
  10. A HARD-WEAR HAT.

    The accompanying sketch shows a hat that is very suitable for hard wear on the blustering days that, oven yet are not. quite over and gone, and could be worn ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 120 words
  11. CARE OF THE NAILS.

    Nothing betrays the eareless woman so quickly as the state of her finger-nails; and yet one often finds a well-dressed woman neglectful in this respect. Filbert-shaped, ...

    Article : 128 words
  12. TO PRESERVE PARSLEY.

    To pveserve parsley, wash it and place in boiling, slightly malted water for two or three minutes, then take out, drain, and place on a sieve in front of the fire. ...

    Article : 70 words
  13. CLEANING SILVER.

    A method of cleaning silver is to place it in a pan of buttermilk or sour milk and allow it to remain for two hours. Wash in hot soapsuds containing a few ...

    Article : 159 words
  14. TO SAVE DARNING.

    Most children possess the knack of wearing their stockings into holes in a very short time. You will find this can be prevented to some extent by stitching a strip ...

    Article : 65 words
  15. OLD LOVE LETTERS.

    Most people never look at old love letters after they are married. They are in the way, and although both husband and wife would like to turn them out and burn ...

    Article : 324 words
  16. TO CLEAN SERGE.

    Into a half-pint of boiling water put a teaspoonful of liquid ammonia and half a teaspoonful of vinegar. Put aside until nearly cold. Thoroughly brush the coat ...

    Article : 138 words
  17. TO CLEAN LACE.

    The best way to clean lace, whether real or machine-made, is to place it between folds of paper. sprinkle it with ealciued magnesia, and put it between ...

    Article : 54 words
  18. A CHARMING BLOUSE.

    The new blouses shown for spring and early summer are particulurly pretty and tempting this year. Most of them are carried out in materials that match to a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 390 words
  19. SCORCH MARKS IN LINEN.

    To remove scorch marks from linen, squeeze the juice from two chopped onions; to it add half a pint of vinegar, half an ounce of soap, two ounces of ...

    Article : 72 words
  20. KNIFE-SHARPENING POWDER.

    A very good and cheap knife powder, having not only the usual polishing qualities, but also that of keeping the knives sharp, may be made up at home at trfling ...

    Article : 115 words
  21. RESTING THE NERVES.

    Green is popularly supposed, to be the color which best protects the eye, but a well-known scientist denies that it has any beneficial effect whatever, and declares that ...

    Article : 103 words
  22. SOME USEFUL RECIPES.

    Whiting Baked in Milk—Skin the whiting, and place-it on a well-buttered tin, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and squeeze over it a little lemon juice. Heat a gill ...

    Article : 452 words
  23. BLACKHEADS.

    Sometimes blackheads will take the form of ugly, red, inflamed mattery pimples, to which no head can be seen. These require drying up by the application of boracie ...

    Article : 88 words
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