ONIONS

Sprinkle onions with a little sugar. Helps to brown them quickly and evenly

OVENS

Remove bright metal racks and leave a dish of liquid ammonia in the
oven overnight. Rinse and wash the next day.

PACKAGING

Place popped popcorn between the article and the box to prevent
breakage.

PAINT

To remove paint from clothing, sponge with carbon tetrachloride.

To remove paint from glass, use hot vinegar.

To remove paint from coloured material, dip the stains in turpentine, rub,
then dip in a little ammonia, rub, and wash in warm water.

To remove wet paint from white material wash the stain with soap and
water and boil with a small amount of paraffin in the water.

Dry paint on white material can easily be removed by steeping the stain
in turpentine. Rub well and wash in the ordinary way.

If fresh, use lots of hot suds. Otherwise, apply turpentine, or lard and then
wash in hot suds.

Scrape off excess. If dried soften with vaseline. Sponge with turpentine or
paint remover. Launder in warm suds.

Sponge with turpentine or carbon tetrachloride.

PAINT BRUSHES

Dried paint brushes can be cleaned by letting the brush simmer in white
vinegar for 10 minutes.
If paint brushes have become hard with paint. allow them to soak for an
hour or so in turpentine; then squeeze the bristles between the fingers
until all the paint has been removed. After this treatment rinse the
brushes in a fresh bath of turpentine.
To soften paint brushes use:

1. varnish remover.

2. paint thinner.

3. vinegar and boil.

4. varsol.

PANTS

To soften baby’s rubber pants use glycerine.
PERSPIRATION

Rinse or sponge the stain thoroughly with cold water, then apply lemon

et vinegar and rinse again in cold water. Dry in sun. If stain persists,
each.

Soak in cold water immediately. If stain persists, soak in diluted luke-

ana ammonia solution. Rinse. Work in meat tenderizer. Rinse and
aunder.

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