Help for Homemakers: practical household hints and tips
A reader column shares diverse tips including cooling boiled eggs with water, preventing snagged nylons on a clothesline, wetting scissors to cut marshmallows, cleaning windows with a water alcohol mix, erasing white water marks on wood with pecan meat, oiling diaper pins with hair to ease passage, cleaning paint brushes with kerosene, and placing an egg in milk bottles to keep caps on. Write to Heloise with hints and suggestions.
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Heloise
Starch Tips for Laundry From Heloise
Heloise shares a machine washing method to starch garments efficiently. She recommends straining cooked starch before adding it to the washer and using regular starch first then permanent starch for collars cuffs and fronts to extend freshness over many washes.
Milk Carton Garbage Box Ideas from Mrs. Jack Rounds
Milk containers especially two gallon size offer two disposal methods. Open the top fully to drop in potato peels tomato calls and lettuce then fold and discard. Or slit the side with a paring knife to double capacity, then tuck the top down to seal.
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Heloise
Jack
Egg cooking tip to avoid yellow ring around yolk
A cooking tip notes that the yellow ring forms around the center of a hard boiled egg during simmering and suggests adjustments in timing and technique to prevent the ring. It also mentions another kitchen shortcut for mashed potatoes using raw potatoes.
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Heloise
Fry Away Free Colander Trick for Frying Convenience
An elderly writer suggests inverted colander use over a skillet while frying to trap grease and reduce splatter. It allows heat escape and keeps the stove cleaner, applicable to bacon, chicken and similar foods.
Costner Schulken couple wed in Covenant church
Miss Mary Sandra Schulken daughter of Charlotte residents and Roy Bloom Costner Jr of High Point married at Morrison Chapel Covenant Presbyterian Church with Dr Warner L Hall officiating Organ music by Dr Richard Peek The bride a satin lace gown carried white roses couple to reside in High Point at 511 Westwood both hold area ties and professional roles
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte — Morrison
Covenant Presbyterian Church
Mary Sandra Schulken
Charles F. Schulken
Charlotte
Roy Blooom Costner Jr
High Point
Costners
Shelby
Warner L. Hall
Richard Peek
C. Evans Putman
Greenville
S. C
Beth Robinson
Sidney Frazer
Hickory
L. LeRoy King
Monroe
Conley Robinson
Woman's College
High Point City
Wake Forest College
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Piedmont Natural Gas Co
Westwood, High Point
Phyllis Smith to Be Honored by Mrs Thomas at Guilford Road
Miss Phyllis Smith will be honored at a coffee hosted by Mrs C W Thomas on Guilford College Road on Tuesday at 10 a.m. She is expected to wed J D Hemphill on September 1 at Hinshaw Memorial Methodist Church.
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Phyllis Smith
C. W. Thomas
Guilford College Road
Miss Smith
J. D. Hemphill
Hinshaw Memorial Methodist Church
Mrs Clark And Dr Holder Wed In Clover And High Point
Announcement of the marriage between Mrs Nettie Whitlow Clark of Clover Virginia and Dr J Burt Holder of High Point North Carolina. Ceremony at First Baptist Church on July 4 conducted by Dr J E Rawlinson. Attendees included Ray Wardell and Atel Yokley.
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Mrs. Clark
Dr. Holder
Nettie Whitlow Clark
Clover, Va
J. Burt Holder
Gatewood Ave
High Point
J. E. Rawlinson
First Baptist Church
Ray B. Wardell
Holder
Atel G. Yokley
Herman Lynn
Merritt Island, Fla
Gatewood
Mrs. Holder
Clover
ABWA Dinner Meeting Plans Third Anniversary Crowning Woman of Year
The Furniture Capital chapter of the American Business Women's Association will hold a dinner at the YWCA Thursday at 6:30 PM. The event will celebrate the club's third anniversary and crown the member selected as Woman of the Year.
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Furniture Capital
American Business Women's Assn
YWCA
Joint Meeting Planned by American Legion Auxiliary
A joint meeting and installation of officers with a covered dish supper for families are scheduled for Saturday at 6 30 p m at the post home on High Street. Delegates attending Boys and Girls State will report.
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I. T. Mann
American Legion
High Street
Recipe Note on Measuring Half Ingredients
A cooking tip explains how halving ingredients can be confusing and provides a conversion: 1 to 3 cups equals 5 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon. The note aims to help bakers adjust quantities accurately.
OES Banquet Planned at Masonic Temple Tuesday Evening
A Tuesday banquet at 6 30 p m hosted by the local Order of the Eastern Star at the Masonic Temple honors the district deputy matron and pat T.
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Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Pat
Local Chapter to Host Official Visit and 8 PM Meeting
Ron will pay an official visit to the local chapter with an 8 p.m. meeting to follow.
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Ron
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Bonnie Parks
H.M
Earl K. Washburn
Carol Barry
Betty K. Bradley
Morrell Cromeens
Fry Away
Sally Ann Morris
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Costner-Schulken
Augustus G. Snead
Richmond, Va
High Point Merchant's Assn
Clark & Son
Abwa
Alexander
N. Main ST
Giftwares
OES
Kearns Kart Raceway, Inc
Wallburg Road
Beauty Shoppe
W. Commerce
Serta-Lux” Mattresses
Serta
Mirltane
N. Main
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