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JPG. 8 - PLAINDEAIER - FRI. DEC. 12,1969 i r - ' ' -- How Can I ? by Anne Ashley •* Q. How can I clean artifi­ cial flowers made of velvet or >elour? * A. First brush them with a •softy-bristled brush, then rub Slightly with a piece of fresh rye ;t>read, and brush again. And the .flowers will get even brighter booking after this treatment if you'll stand them in the bath­ -room while taking a hot shower imd let the steam do its work on them. Still another method of ^cleaning these flowers is to shake them in a paper bag con­ taining a handful of salt. £ Q. How can I mend breaks 3n. a toothpaste tube -- or any •other such kind of tube for lhat matter? A. Simply by wrapping a strip of sturdy cellophane tape at least twice around the tube. v Q. How can I remove ad­ hesive tape stains or residue from fabrics? * A. By sponging with carbon tetrachloride. I Q. How can I go about shrink­ ing colored cottons and linens? *7,500 Bond In Theft At Brake Parts * Bond has been set at $7,500 for Steven J. Uhlen of Pell Lake, Wis., accused of theft of about $150 from Brake Parts, McHenry. * Uhlen, employed by Marks In­ dustrial Maintenance Co., ap­ proached his boss at the local company about 8:30 Monday evening, only to be informed that his services were no longer needed. He became angry and left through the engineering de­ partment. He is accused of tak­ ing precision gauges and mi­ crometers as he departed through a west door. • City police were summoned and made the arrest as he left. The items were recovered. A. Soak in cold water for three to four hours. Squeeze out the water, but don't wring the fab­ ric. Hang on a clothesline, or if you have a dryer, dry there with several dry turkish tow­ els that will buffer the fabric as it tumble-dries. Q. How can I eliminate the rather unpleasant odor when cooking shrimp? A. One way is to drop a stick of cinnamon into the water in which you are boiling the shrimp. This dispels the smell and still does not affect the taste. Q. How can I, when prepar-/ ing my laundry starch, pre­ vent the formation of skin over my starch solution? A. By covering the bowl with a piece of cloth, stretched tight, as soon as the starch is mixed. Q. Do you have any special, easy-to-do tip for giving leath­ er shoes a good shine? A. Try shining them with lem­ on juice, which usually does an excellent job. Spread a few drops of the juice on black or smooth tan shoes, rub briskly with a soft cloth, and you should come up with an elegant gloss. Q. How can I clean out a corroded steam iron? A. Fill it with vinegar, and let it get very hot. Pour out the vinegar, and from then on use only distilled water to keep it in good condition. Q. How can I remove the shine from the back of a navy-blue suit? A. Try rubbing with hot vin­ egar, then sponging with am­ monia. Many other such tips on the care and cleaning of clothes are included in my household book. Q. How can I forestall yel­ lowing in some important doc­ uments I am storing away? A. By wrapping these papers in blue tissue paper, or in a cloth dyed with bluing. Q. How can I remove match scratches from white painted surfaces? A. By rubbing over these blemishes with a cut lemon. Q. How can I repair cracked mortar joints in my fireplace firebox and in the hearth? A. Chip out the bad mortar, blowing out all the crumbs with your vacuum cleaner. Then wet the edges of the bricks or stones and pack in some fire clay avail­ able at building-supply stores... or a mortar made of one part each of cement and lime, and six parts of sand. Q. How can I keep grains of rice separate and white while cooking? A. By adding a teaspoon of lemon juice to each quart of water used. Q. How can I, when launder­ ing sweaters and blouses, rid them of all perspiration odor? By adding a little ammonia to your wash water. Other such laundering tips are included in my household manual. Q. How can I prevent thin silk from puckering while run­ ning it through my sewing ma­ chine? jf A. By placing some white pap­ er under the material and sew­ ing through the whole business. The paper is then easily re­ movable after the job is done. Q. How can I do a quick and easy cleaning job on soiled fur­ niture upholstery? A. Try sprinkling some dry cornstarch on the soiled or stained areas, rubbing in with the fingers, letting stay over­ night, then vacuuming it off. Usually does a real good job. Q. Have you any good car- washing tips? A. A cup of kerosene in a gallon of warm water produces amazing results with a mini­ mum of effort. Just use an old towel and clean the entire car with circular motions, drying each area as you finish it. No rinsing is necessary...and wax­ ing is also eliminated by this method, and when it rains the water will bead on your shin­ ing car. Chrome is also ben­ efited by the kerosene and sparkles beautifully. Q. How can I remove finger marks from wallpaper? A. After dampening the fin­ ger-marked area with cold water, dust on some powdered SMOKELESS BROILER-ROTISSERIE FOR "COOK-OUT" MEALS INDOORS! WEST BEND fr *39®? A delightful way to cook -- like grilling out, but without muss or fuss, smoke or flareups. Electricity supplied the heat, so it's clean, fast and fun, indoors. Infra-red heat waves, so hot they create a thermal shield, prevent smoking. Easy-to-clean stainless steel drip pan. Complete with motorized rotisserie, 150-square-inch grill rack for broiling, electric cord and recipe book. Broiling seals in flavor ... lets excess fats drain away! A. 4 qt. AUTOMATIC CORN POPPER Mmmmm . . . fresh popcorn! Makes family-size batch of fluffy kernels with no stirring, no shaking. Shuts off automatically . . . won't scorch corn! >» \ $8.99 B. Electric GRIDDLE 'N SERVER Over 200 square inches of Teflon-coated cooking space. 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These odd-looking machines are used to lay reflective center stripes and road-edge markings to «• guide your driving during the day and at night. The truck used in Chicago, for example, was equipped to automatically clean, prime, ap­ ply a hot plastic stripe, then | dust it with the glass beads. In operation, a hose mounted 10 feet in front of the truck cleans the pavement. A spray nozzle that applies sealer-pri- »r is located a few inches be­ hind the hose. Plastic slabs are fed into big heating kettles mounted on the truck. The plastic is melted and agitated at a temperature of 450 degrees. It is then fed into an applicator at the rear of the truck to lay a five-inch wide strip about one-eighth of an inch thick. As the still-wet plastic sinks into the surface of the asphalt, it is dusted with glass beads by a sprinkler attachment. Surface beads provide instant reflectivity while those mixed into the plastic become effec­ tive as the stripe wears down. pipe clay or fuller's earth, then after giving this a few minutes to do its work, brush it off. Q. How can I remove green oxide stains from copper? A. Try a brass polish first. If this doesn't do the trick, rub with very fine steel wool, then buff vigorously with a soft cloth. Spray on one or two coats of lacquer to prevent further staining. Q. What is the best way to caramelize sugar? A. In a dry skillet in the oven. In this way, it heats from the bottom and top at the same time, caramelizing quickly and smooth v. Hand-operated machines, in areas where it's impractical to use the truck, are used to apply sealer and plastic. Such stripes, lane and road- edge marking provide a highly visible guide for you at night by shining brightly in your head­ lights. You, Your Child and TV: 1 y VIDEO CAN AFFECT WHAT A CHILD WANTS by Barbara Frengel Reeves out what th< content of programs really is. It it not only a question of making certain programs off- limits* Still, a full-scale study requeued by Congress now is looking into the effect of televi­ sion violence on children. It is a question of giving your child a wholesome and varied diet. Aftejr all, feeding him milk and cookies is not balanced nu­ trition! CHILD STRUCK BY AUTQ DIES ON THURSDAY (Continued from page D The body will rest atthe Pet­ er M. Justen & Son funeral home after 7 o'clock Saturday evening. A funeral Mass will be offered at 10 Monday morn­ ing at St. Mary's Catholic church. Your preschool child id likely to have spent more hours watch­ ing television by the time he en­ ters first grade than he will spend in his first five years of elemen­ tary school. i So says U.S. Commissioner of Education James E. Allen Jr. Hard to believe? A recent survey points out that the set is on more than 50 hoi a week, on the average, in homes where there are presetiool cl dren. Does the child learn much from all this? i Well, by the time he's four years old, he can find "his" pro­ gram, keep the picture from flopping and adjust the fine tun­ ing. All on a very complicated and sophisticated piece of ma­ chinery. And he apparently never tires of television, as he does, eventu­ ally, with his toys. This intensive diet is bound to have an effect on a child. Amaz­ ingly enough, there is little sci­ entific research on this subject although every parent I've talked with has her own examples of the TV influence. We do know it affects vocabu­ lary. You aren't alone in your wry observation that little Richard can't remember his Aunt Matil­ da's name but can recite--letter- perfectly--an entire commercial jingle. And how many phrases have your children picked up from TV? Whether it's "ring my chimes" or "those cats were swingin'" the chances are you heard it first from your child and he got it from television. • One little girl in Mississippi was already reading on a third- grade level when she entered ele­ mentary school; she'd learned to read from watching the commer­ cials. Television also affects a child's play. Where are the six-guns worn when cowboys were su­ preme? Or the Davy Crockett coonskin hats of a few years ago? Today the super hero is the idoL A small boy ijn my neighborhood has appropriated one of his mother's dish towels to use as a cape. You know there must be STfeome effect when four-year- old Andrew pretends to be Bat­ man! And no one knows better than a parent how television affects what his child wants. Father may spend hours looking for a toy he never heard of -- but was told about--while Mother finds strange cartons of cereal in her shopping cart. , Many of the current commer­ cials are aimed directly at chil­ dren. They tell him what to eat, what to play with and what sneakers will make him run fast­ er. A market research firm has even constructed a model super­ market for children to shop in s*> it can determine the pulling power of different commercials. These commercials have tre­ mendous impact. Because of this impact, the producers of "Sesame Street"--a public broadcasting any kind of prod- are using the iques ot commercials. But instead of toys or cereals. Sesame Street will "sell" numbers and letters of the alphabet. "t --I aireei --a puDiic project without an uct advertising--t tertuiiques of con There are many programs that will do a child some good. These programs may be only a channel away but a child doesn't know that. It is the wise parent who checks the TV listings and finds HE NEVER HAS TOO MANY OF THESE! "HAMPSHIRE HOUSE" shirts by Van Heusen with the smart/ new Bradley Wider spread collar. Today's fashion shirt! 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