The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps

The pattern people's household book, 1927 — five hundred recipes, then how to lay a table, take out a stain and stock a first-aid cabinet.

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A Good Way to Mend Oilcloth

If you accidentally slit your nice, new, figured oilcloth tablecover, cut a piece of white court-plaster a little longer and wider than the cut. Wet it and paste it down on the wrong side over the cut, and you have your oilcloth mended. It keeps the oilcloth from tearing more or fraying out. -Miss L. G. E., Pecatonica, Ill.

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