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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 11 (February 1, 1937)

Odd Notes

Odd Notes.

Keep a saucer containing plate-powder in a cupboard by the sink. Any stained silver may then be rubbed up during dish-washing.

page 59

Dressings for windows! Spot muslins are daintiest — and smartest. Notice the white spots, small, medium or large, in lines, in circles, in designs, all over pastel muslins; or else coloured dots parade on white or cream.

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For a colour note in a living-room, choose a tapestry stool. There will be the joy of making and the joy of using. Designs are here to suit any type of furniture—Jacobean, Queen Anne, Hepplewhite, Louis XVI—or jazz for the motley room.

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Always clean flower vases before storing them. You will then never be annoyed by stains when arranging flowers in a hurry.

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If you value your books, and yet enjoy lending them to friends, keep a notebook in which to enter the name of book lent, the date, and name of friend. You will probably lose one or two friends by this method, but save your library entire. Any librarian will tell you that among the people who would regard with indignation any accusation of dishonesty, are a few who lapse where books are concerned.

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