If you dab on perfume, you’ll tan twice as fast. It’s due to some silly chemical reaction.

White liquid shoe polish is just fine for writing on the black pages of your photo album or scrapbook.

Cut down a torn plastic raincoat to keep you dry below the neck when you’re giving yourself a shampoo.

To avoid tasting bitter medicine, eat a pinch of salt first.

Sharpen scissors by cutting sandpaper with them

A nail makes a dandy replacement for a lost cap on a tube of glue. For miniature tubes, even a pin will do.

To wake up fast, concentrate on a single object in the room, the minute your alarm clock rings. It’s a method strongly recommended by sleep investigators.

If you can’t sleep at night, try thinking of all the boys’ names beginning with “A”, “B”, “C” and so on. You’ll doze off in no time.

All I can say is that it was published in 1967 and some of the stuff contained within is almost pricless. I’ll be posting one a day a couple of times a week till I’m all the way through.