Milford chronicle., 1958-02-21

same time temporary paintings are
made, it is good to plant permanent
| trees-hard naples, ash, or honey
locust-to provide shade when tenn
porary trees are removed.
The two most important areas for
foundation paintings are house
corners and on each side of the
front door. Usually large shrubs
faced with smaller shrubs are re-
quired at corners. Often a single
slow-growing shrub is all right be-
side the front door. Evergreens are
considered most desirable for foun-
dation paintings because of their
year-round foliage. However, some
decidous or leafshedding shrubs
may be used (both narrow and
broad-Ieaved varietiesl to create
more interest than from evergreehs
alone.
Good deciduous varieties are hy-
perium, slender degtzia. and oak
leaf hydrangea. Evergreens sug-
gested are any of the yews, dwarf
hollies, or evergreen bar5erries.
Soap Is Used For More Than
Washing
Did you know that soap and
suds have at least IA uses besides
washing? Not one is difficult to en-
ploy, and you'll be more efficient
Here they are:
Try bar of damp soap to pick
up bits of broken glass. You can
shave off the parts with glass and
use the remaining soap for making
| soap suds to coat candles, except
for the wicks. Candles coated this
way and allowed to dry last longer
and burn without dripping or smok-
| ing. Another use for this extra
bar of soap is to work moist SOAP
into cracks between boards to quiet
a creaking floor. Or you can rub the
tops of both sides and the under
parts of drawers to make sticky
ones slide easily.
Perhaps, if you have a gas
stove, a pipe might leak some time
unexpectedly. Stop it temporarily
With moistened soap pressed on the
leak and aowed to harden. Then
| be sure to call a repairman. When
you want to move a large appliance
for cleaning underneath, wet the
| floor around the area and coat with
soap. You'll find you can slide the
appliance away easily. If the family
car still has tires with inner tubes
a tube is punctuated-locate the
hole by putting sOapsuds on the
surface and look for tell-tale bub-
bles.
/ Do you wonder how to remove a
broken light bulb from the socket:
| Try pressing a damp bar of SOAP
into the broken bulb and turn it tC
the left-after shutting off the
current by removing fuses. Wher
you put up pictures or wall fix.
| lures, Iubricate nails or screws
used with soap. they will drive into
plaster or wood easier. Cook meals
outdoors at the fireplace? Coat bot
toms of pots and pans with soap.
| suds. You'll find SCOT washes away
| cleanly.
Does your husband, or you, nave
trouble making a saw blade &c
| through wood on p repair job ol
hobby project? Soap coated on botf
sides of the saw blade makes the
tool move easily when you cut. Dc
you have problems hanging wall.
paper? The paper will be easier tC
apply, if you add a small amount
of melted soap to the paste bucket
You'll gain other ways, too-soaT
will prevent the paper from harden.
ing that brings cracking and peel
| ing.
Finally, if you dislike painting
window frames, because paint
spashe sover the gass: Coat eacf
pane thickly with soap-and-watel
paste. Paint, let dry, then wasf
paint splashed on the glass off cas-
lily as you wash away the soar