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housekeeping Helps

Several women readers OF Good
Housekeeping nave sent in sugges-
lions for simplifying the spring task
of housekeeping. They are printed
in the current issue and among them
are the following:
1 have found a way to polish Win
dows brilliantly with the least pos
sible work 1 can clean them wheth-
err the sun is shining or not, so in
fallible is my method. First wipe OIL
the dust with a dry cloth, or if very
dirty, with a damp one, then put
small quantity of water in basin
and make it very strong with house
hold ammonia, using not more than
two parts of water to one OF ammo
MIA. Dip a small cloth or sponge in
this and wiring it nearly dry, then go
over the glass, rubbing hard, but
working rapidly. Wipe Immediately
with dry, lintless cloth, or the pane
will be dry before you can get over
it. The sole objection to this meth
cd is in the effect OF the strong solu-
ton on ones fingers. A rubber or
leather glove may be used, but even
without gloves I find it takes so short
a time to clean a number of windows
that if one is careful to wash the
hands Immediately after the task,
then rub them with lemon juice or
vinegar and rinse again with clear
water, there will be no unpleasant
effect
l have a white pine kitchen floor
from which the original finish, il
there ever was any, had completely
vanished. 1t was exceedingly diff
cult TO clean and to keep clean. FL
nally, l scrubbed it and when thor
oughly dry had it painted with three
coats of so-called deck paint contain
j ing considerable dryer. so that it
dr. ed overnight. AS soon as the last
coat was thoroughly dry, | treated il
, like d hardwood floor with coat OF
floor wax The wax finish not only
made the floor easier to care for, be-
cause it prevented stains from pene-
trating, but it protected the paint
itself from wear. In my case il has
proved a decided success.
Keeping bedroom curtains fresh is
a big item in laundry work. But all
of us like to sleep with windows rails
ed in spite of the fact that it is hard
on the curtains. We tried pinning
them up, knotting them up, and
swinging them over the bar itself,
but in each case they became muSsed
and wrinkled in very short time.
This spring l placed small dress
hooks in the lower corners of each
curtain, with an eye to correspond
two-thirds of the way from the bot
tom on each edge. Each night the
curtains can be hooked up for the
breezes to blow unobstructed thru
! the room, and when they are let
down again next morning the ecur-
tainS are fresh and unwrinkled. The
tiniest hook and eye obtainable will
hold the weight of any curtain and
will never be detected when not in
use.
l hope this discovery will help
someone, this season, as much as it
helped me last year. In renovating
| my feather pillows, I first washed
them, contents and all. Then l took
the bag from my vacuum cleaner,
and after ripping the end of each
| pillow, after it was washed, l fitted
i it tightly on the cleaner and turned
on the electric current. The air thus
created rapidly dried and livened the
feathers. In surprisingly short
time they were as light and fluffy as
new.
After struggling for years to keep
my kitchen walls in good condition,
! finally discovered that an inexpen-
sive table oilcloth was an excellent
wall finish to wainscot height. The
paperhanger put it on for me over
the painted wall, using the width of
the oilcloth, which was one and
half yards wide. A cheap picture
molding was used as a finish. In it's