Evening star., 1945-07-27
Readers Clearing House

burned cooking utensils let me sug-
gest the following method:
After filling the kettle with three
or four inches of water to which you
have added one-half cup of your
laundry bleaching solution, place on
the stove and boil until clean. This
always works and no securing is
needed. Usually few minutes of
boiling is sufficient but have had q
few instances, burned cranberries
for one, when kept the pan on the
stove boiling for two days. Keep
adding new water and bleach SO that
it will not boil dry.
I have seen no answer to the queS-
ton of putting water on hardwood
floors. In the first place, why COM
pare the surface of your floors to
your furniture? You don't walk on
your furniture. Your floors should
never have been vanished. A var
nished floor is neither beautiful nor
practical. Wash your floor, drying
at once and being careful not to
leave water drops anywhere or you
will have white spots on the floor.
Put on coat of floor wax and al
low to dry. You may have a heavy
floor polisher, but If not, the best
method Is to rent an electric pol
Usher from any electric company.
This initial polishing is rather hard
work. Then polish by hand with q
cloth, preferably an old piece of soft
wool. Rub hard and long in circular
motions. Now when the floor shines
and there Is no trace Of sticky wax
start over with another coat of wax.
Several coats should be used. Don't
try to do it all in one day. The
more you polish, the more you floors
will shine. You can make them
look like mirrors and 1t takes a deep
scratch to mar highly polished
floor. Be cautious not to polish too
highly beneath scatter rug as this
would be dangerous. II you have
small children, do not polish your
doorways and halls too much as they
will surely fall.
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QUERIES?
From Mrs. T. A. c., Washington J
Will the readers of the RCH tell
me how to rid the sink of very tiny
ants? They are just in the sink tile
portion, not in it's surrounding.
What to do for heavy paper gar
ment bag, with a sort of bone or
perhaps imitation ivory slide fast
ener, as it is easy to remove but
rather difficult to get back on?
FADED DRESS?
(Fron, Miss G. M, Vienna, Vd.)
hope some one can help me. +
have very lovely crepe dress which
was expensive. Here is the prob
lem. I have used a deodorant
which has made the dress turn from
its lovely blue to a pinkish color
Does any one know of anything I
might do? I am really in need of
some help as am very fond Of the
dress.
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CLEANING COMFORTER?
From Mrs. J. NJ. R., Washington
I wonder if any one can help me
on the cleaning of satine- covered,
down-filled comfort. I have had
them cleaned before, but this spring
[ have called several cleaning estab- |
Iishments. only to be told that they
are not taking them any more. r
suppose it is the same story, lack
Of help. Does any one know If it
is possible to do the job at home
and how? I'm almost afraid to try
it myself, not knowing what to use,
and yet I do not want to put it
away for the summer until it is |
cleaned. I'll appreciate any sugges-
tions.
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WASHING BABY THINGS?
From Mrs. j. J. H., Washington
I would appreciate prompt re-
ply to this if any of the readers can
help me.
Is there any way of getting infants
all wool sweaters and all wool baby
shawl which have been washed in
too hot water and have shrunk to
about half the original size back
to anything like the size they were
before?