Evening star., 1934-01-12
Efficiency in Housework
Materials at Hand Should Be Used With Ingenuity
and Every Convenience Provided-Bed
Room, Bath Room and Kitchen

/ cloth is good-to match the color
! scheme Of your bed room, and make
four-inch border. This will give you
new set Of bed linen, which will be
as large as it was before cutting of
the ragged part II you do not desire
a border so wide, use any width you
like. One and one-fourth yards are
sufficient to make a four-tnch binding
for pillow cases and sheet for . double
bed, II the material Is yard wide. The
cost is only a few cents.
When cutting sleeves from material
with no right or wrong side, try this
plan: As soon as the sleeves are cut,
either pin them together or tack them
together about one inch from the top,
in the sentes af Of bsn the ns sissys & he5s y
separating them.) When beginning to
make the sleeves, do not remove the pin
or tacking until one sleeve is scanned
up to the left and the other to the
right. Then you are sure to have them
right. You may not remove the pin or
tacking until the sleeves are ready for
use, or you can remove them immedi-
ately on scanning up, but you will find
that this prevents making two sleeves
for the same arm. It will save many
an hour ripping and fretting over the
realization that you have two sleeves
for one and the same arm.
Along the seam Of q crepe. wool, or
silk dress, run, in long stitches, several
lengths of the thread used in making
the dress 1t is then ready for mending
when needed. At the top of silk stock
ing. run a length Of matching darnins
thread in long stitches, and you are
then ready for quick darning.
In Bed Room and Bath Room.
One often wants to put decorative
lines on little painted boxes for q
shelves, flower pots. and so on. but II
is almost impossible to get paint on il
a straight line. Use passepartout paper
obtainable for few cents at stationery
stores, trim it as narrow as desired. II
comes in gold, silver, black. crimson
green and other colors. The back is
mucilaged needing only to be noistened
and stuck on. If the article is to be
vanished or shellacked, do this right
over the passepartout paper.
If you have white or other light
enameled beds, or pieces Of furniture
| that have become soiled and untidy
from long use, try cleaning them with
paste made of plain baking soda
white soap flakes, and q little water
Mix the paste in a fat bowl or small
| pan, apply to beds or other furniture
| with a coarse cloth, such as a piece o.
old Turkish toweling, and rub until al
the soiled places disappear. Then wasl
thoroughly with clean, lukewarm water
1t is satisfactory to clean a whit
kitchen cabinet, children's bed ant
chairs, and white enameled woodwork
| and you will find 1t very satisfactor!
for other things also.
Keep a container for paper towel!
| in your bath room and kitchen instead
| of having linen ones, which have to be
changed often. This arrangement will
save time, labor and money, as it does
away with a lot of unnecessary wash
ing, which is hard on all materials
I Also, nice clean towels for the hands
are always to be had, and this system
is indeed sanitary, too.
A mirror, the correct height, place
for paper towels and washcloth, q
shelf on which are toothbrush, mai
file, paper drinking cups, comb. bottle
of hand lotion and. If there Is room
box for clean handkerchiets, ar
ranged in a corner Of the bath room
for the conyenience OF the small boy