Evening star., 1947-11-17
ROUGH TOWELS:
SMOKING BROILER.

In response to Mrs. r. r. B.: I,
too, occasionally find my towels and
face cloths are very stiff and coarse
and have learned that it is due to
insufficient rinsing. My automatic
washer does not rinse clothes, so
when rinSing I put all the turkish
towels, face cloths and chenille bath
mat sets together and rinse in clear
water three times. After doing this
for one or perhaps two washings
and hanging them outside to dry
I feel sure you will find them soft
and fluffy once more. BY the way,
never iron them. I usually fold
mine as I take them off the line.
In this way they are never wrinkled.
AS to the smoking broiler, If you
look closely, the oven burner can
be removed just as easily as the
top stove burner and cleaned just
as you clean the other ones. In
cleaning the ceiling and sides, the
simplest way I've found is to place
regular teacup or saucer y filled
with household ammonia in the
broiler part of the Fcold oven in
the evening. BY morning the fumes
have softened the inside of the
broiler so much that all you need
to clean it is soap and water, apply
ing steel wool to the stubborn spots.
hope this will solve your prob
lens as well as so many hints from
RICH have helped me.
(Fron1 Mrs. r. A. c., Kenstngton. J
This is a reply to Mrs. r. r. B.,
Washington, on how to remove the
grease from her oven and broiler
to keep it from smoking.
First dampen a cloth with house.
hold ammonia and wipe oven out
lightly. Then put about table,
spoons of household ammonia and
a teaspoon Of soap powder in a
bowl; add about 21a cups of boiling
water; whip with spoon so powder
will suds. Place in unlit oven while
steaming and leave several hours.
Oven will then wipe out very easily
with cloth and hot water. The
same process may be applied to
broiler by putting the broiler shelf
to its lowest level. It's very i'm
portant that the water and am
monia mixture be boiling as the
steam is what does the work.
CHLDREN'S SONGS?
from Mrs. G.. B., Alerandria.)
Will some one kindly tell me where
can find the words to the follow
ing children's songs and games
London Bridge" Farmer in the
Dell" Little Sally Ann?
X X x
ATTACHING CURTAIN RODS.
From Mrs. M. G. w, Tenafy, N. j.
TO Mrs. J. NJ, Hyattsville, regard
ing curtain brackets on plaster walls
I had your problem for years. The
screws or nails always worked loose
in time. This is my own invention
and it really works.
From wood Il or " inch thick
cut squares or oblongs to accomo-
date size of your bracket. CMine
are 2-inch-square pieces, and II
inch thick.) Using very long and
very thin nails, put one at each
corner Of wood, and drive almost
through the wood. Then place on
wall and continue driving nail way
into plaster. The bracket is then
screwed to the wooden piece and
never pulls out.
Test first for correct placement
by just holding wooden piece in
place with curtain on rod against
it. You can paint wooden pieces
first but curtain will hide them.
A less satisfactory way is to fill
old holes with plastic wood filler
inserting screw or nail while filler is
soft and allowing it to harden be-
fore replacing rod or curtain. This
will only work for lightweight cur
tains and then has to be redone
] ct times.