PRI0CILIA

Housekeepers

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The Priscilfei Publishing Co., Boston, Mass.
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Cberpbap housekeeping Series;

A COLLECTION OF EVERYDAY HOUSEKEEPING "HELPS"

GARNERED FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF NEARLY
500 PRACTICAL PRISCILLA HOUSEWIVES

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CONTENTS W\W
PAGE
Outside the House i

Helps with Flowers 2

Decorative Helps 3
Library Suggestions 4
Helps with Home-Made Furniture 5
Concerning Walls and Windows 6
All About Stoves 7
Secrets in Cooking 8, g, io
Economies in Household Planning n
Economies in the Kitchen 12
Frills with Meat and Eggs 13
Tricks with Cakes and Frostings 14
Helps at Preserving Time IS
Ways with Vegetables 16
Suggestions for Pie Making 17
Helps with Kitchen Utensils 18
Helps in the Laundry 19
Helps in Starching and Laundering Colored Garments .... 20
Helps in Ironing and Cleaning Fabrics 21
AH Sorts of Stains 22
Helps with Floors and Floor Coverings 23
Helps about the Dining Room 24
Helps with Linen 25
Helps when Entertaining 26
Serving for Family and Guest 27
Helps with Glass and China 28
At House Cleaning Time 29
Cleaning This and That 30
Cleaning and Dyeing 31
Things Good to Know 32
Little Things to Remember 33
Helps with Personal Belongings 34
Little Things about the House 35
Helps in the Sick Room 36
Helps in the Bedroom 37
Helps with Children 38
Helps with Shoes and Stockings '
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Toilet Helps 40
When Thinking of Others 41
Helps when Shopping and Traveling 42

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DEC 10 1915
 Outside the House
A Lawn or A lawn seat may be Water-proof Many of us have en-
Hall Seat made from a discarded Matche* countered the annoying
wooden bedstead. Use experience of finding
the footboard for the back. Insert the ourselves miles from a store and all the
side rails and measure the width desired matches in our possession so damp that
for the seat (about eighteen inches). Saw they cannot be used. A
fact worth know-
these off. Saw the front legs from the ing is that matches can be made water-
head-board and use the remainder of it for proof, without injury, by dipping them
the seat-board. Paint to harmonize with in very hot melted paraffin. Allow them
house. — Mrs. J. H. F. to cool and they are ready for use. The
paraffin does not interfere with their use
in the regular way, and they are abso-
For the Camper'* Stout manila envelopes
lutely protected from dampness. It is well
Napkin* w tn *'le owner's name
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on the front make good to remember this when the spring and
napkin-holders for between meals, particu- summer fishing and camping trips com-
larly where there are a number of napkins mence.
to be kept separate, as on camping trips, For the Camper't
informal house-parties, etc. have also We Napkin* An Adaptable This adaptable and coin-
used clothespins (the ones with a spring) Folding Awning fortable awning is bet-
for our family reunions, the name being ter than a mere um-
printed with India Ink on the flat side brella in that it allows more shade and a
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of the pin. G. C. H. freer amount of circulation. Following is
the mode of making: Buy four bamboo or
cane poles about five feet long and fasten
A Condensed When one has little a brass hook into the top of each one.
space and must burn
Bonfire
papers in an alley or
Now take four yards of material, one yard
wide, either heavy unbleached muslin or
small yard where there is danger of small
dark green denim (either is soft and pli-
bits flying and setting fire to near-by prop-
able). Cut goods into two-yard lengths
erty try the following plan Buy galvan- :
and sew the strips together, making a four-
ized chicken wire fencing and make a wire
yard square. Hem all four edges and at
basket in which to place the papers. Cross each corner sew a good sized brass eye to
wires in the bottom a few inches from the
ground to let the air pass under. K. K. — fasten over the hooks in the poles. Now
drive your poles one foot into the earth

On the Veranda We had

several palms
or sand —
wherever you have elected to
pitch your habitation, about two yards
in large tubs on our ve- apart in a square, and when you have ad-
randa and were greatly troubled by our justed your top to it you will have a four-
playful kittens scattering the soil over the yard area of shade open to the cooling
floor until we conceived the idea of cover- breezes in which four people can sit com-
ing the soil with window-screen wire, cut fortably. The chief joy of this awning
to fit the top of the tub. After this we had An Adaptable Folding is the fact that it can be easily carried,
no trouble, and they could climb all over Awning and as readily moved from place to place
the palms without doing any harm.
the wire the full size of the top of the
Cut —
without inconvenience. R. T. N.

tub. then cut a circle in the centre for the

stem and slit it from the centre to the edge
A Cheap A cheap refrigerator that
Refrigerator for may be used in the sum-
and slip in place. Tack lightly to the edge mer cottage or
Campers for any
of the tub. The roots can be watered
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through the wire. Mrs. H. J. B.
emergency "camping
time" is made by using a large iron wash-
tub, a large granite pail, and a square of
A Home-made We
have made a ham- thin boards (cleated together) large enough
Hammock mock, which we find to cover the tub. Use old table oilcloth
very enjoyable, out of a to cover one side of this square, tacking
spring cot. We took the legs off and turned along the edges with small furniture tacks.
them up, nailing securely and connecting Wash well a small piece of ice and place
with a strip of one by three across the top in the pail. Fold a clean bath-towel and
of the back. We hung it from the limbs cover the ice pail. Place in centre of tub
of trees with a heavy rope and tacked and your butter, meat, milk, etc., around
striped ticking on the ends and back, put the pail in the tub. You will have room
in the mattress and some pillows. This for fruit, tomatoes, etc., between the other
cost us nothing, as we had the material dishes. Then cover the tub with any clean
on hand. Such a hammock is delightful in white cloth and lay on the board top with
summer and equally so in winter if hung A Home Made the oilcloth cover down. Set the tub in
in the attic or some unused room as a jest- Hammock a cool place and the ice will last for twenty-
ing spot. — Mrs. G. H. C. —
four hours. Mrs. E. F. K.
 Helps with Flowers
Geranium Tree* The burly Scotch gar- Sending Flowers An excellent receptacle
d e n e r showing us in a Mailing for sending flowers by
through the greenhouses smiled as we ad- Tube a mailing tube.
P ost
is

mired the luxuriant geranium and helio- Lay the flowers upon a
trope trees. "You could grow these just sheet of waxed paper in such a shape that
as well," he declared, "simply keep all the they will fit the tube. Sprinkle lightly with
side shoots trimmed off the little plant un- water. Place a bunch of wet cotton or tis-
til it is at least twelve inches high, then sue-paper at the ends of the stems. Roll
let it branch out and you'll find you have the flowers up carefully in the paper and
as nice a little tree as you could wish. twist the ends securely. Slide them into the
These are particularly pretty to grow for tube. The paper which wraps the tube
the autumn house plants. On leaving he should be large enough to tuck in well at
gave us each a tiny heliotrope. I treated the ends to prevent the flowers from slip-
mine as he advised, and obtained a stocky ping. —M. E. S.
little tree which is more interesting than
an ordinary plant. M. D. — Rambler Rose A
neighbor of mine who
rambler
Safeguard ha s beautiful
Rubber Plant When the rubber-plant Geranium Tree* rose bushes told me that
droops, and its leaves the little green denim bags that hung here
turn yellow and drop off, mix a teaspoon- and there among the bushes contained moth
ful of mustard in a cup of boiling water, balls. A friend had told her that she could
cool slightly and pour on the soil in the pot. keep vermin off her rose bushes in this way
Sometimes a long, black, hard-shelled worm and to her surprise she found that it
comes to the top, and if this is killed the worked beyond her expectations. They
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plant will generally recover. Mrs. C. P. should be hung there just as soon as the
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bushes begin to leaf in the spring. F. F.
To
Preserve Dip the flowers in melt-
Natural Flower* e d paraffin, withdraw- Strong Plants To make plants, grown
ing them quickly. The from Seed from seed, stocky, fill
liquid should only be hot enough to main- the box about half full
tain its fluidity, and the flowers should be of soil the seeds are first planted, and
when
dipped one at a time, held by the stem and as the little seedlings grow up spindling,
moved about for an instant to get rid of add more soil until the box is about full.
the air bubbles. Fresh flowers that are The plants will be stocky and have fine
free from moisture make excellent roots for planting out-of-doors by the time
specimens. — Mrs. N. M. M. —
the box is filled with soil. S. P. K.

A Table Two
years ago when To Keep If you wish to send
Ornament serving grapefruit I Flowers Fresh flowers to a distance,
planted some of the seeds push the stem ends into
in a flower-pot. Now I have four little Rambler Rose Safeguard pieces of raw potato. Line a pasteboard box
grapefruit trees. With their dark green with dampened cotton, lay the flowers in and
glossy leaves they make a beautiful table cover with another sheet of damp cotton.
decoration, and there is no tropical plant In this way they will stay fresh for a long
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more easily grown. Mrs. S. E. B. —
time. Mrs. C. C.

Resetting Ferns When

resetting ferns,
after placing soil around
the roots place sawdust between that and
the top soil and moisten it. The sawdust
retains the moisture and the result is
excellent. —
Mrs. J. M. C.
Dissolve thoroughly in
Fertilizer for
House Plants a P' nt ° f boiling water,
four ounces of sulphate
of ammonia and two ounces of nitrate of
potash. Bottle the liquid and cork tightly.
Use a teaspoonful to three quarts of water.
It stimulates growth better than liquid
manure and entirely inoffensive.
is few
drops put into the water of hyacinth
glasses makes the bloom stalks richer in
color and stronger, and has the further
merit of being obnoxious to the white
worms which attack the plants. C. J. S. —
Plant Stand for Not wishing to mar the
Small window-casing by put-
Room
ting up supports for
shelves, Ihad a carpenter make me a plant-
stand like the illustration. The back legs
are perpendicular, so that the stand can be
set closely against the window. The front
legs slant out at the bottom, thus acting
as braces and also giving a greater width
to the lower shelf and more room for
flowers. From the lower shelf I hung a
pretty curtain. The upper shelf is ten
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inches wide, the lower, twelve. Mrs. P. G.
A Kitchen A
pretty and useful idea
Decoration f° r kitchen decoration is
a few pots of parsley in
Plant Stand for
the windows. It is always ready to garnish
Small Room
dishes and is an attractive companion to
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watch. Mrs. E. J. P.
 Decorative Helps
Flower To utilize for flower re- grease and quickly press a small can-cover
Receptacles ceptacles the many beau- upon it. Any baking-powder-can cover will
tiful jars and bowls of do. Then, repeat the same process in the
Indian and Mexican pottery, and other cover to hold the candle in place. When
wares through which water percolates and lit the effect is charming. The little can-
forms a dampness ruinous to line furni- cover put inside keeps the candle grease
ture, etc. Heat paraffin wax, in double
: from dripping through the bottom perfo-
boiler, and, having the vessel slightly
warmed to prevent cracking, pour in the
rations to the floor. — J. F. M.

liquid wax and keep turning and twisting Home Artificial roses latticed
the bowl or vase until every portion is across the windows are
Decoration
covered with the paraffin, and it is cold. among
the favorite de-
As only cold water is used for flowers, the vices of the professional decorators at the
vase will never leak. M. L. P. — large balls, and suggest a charming deco-
ration for a home wedding. Cut a square
Novel Portieres Handsome portieres re- of pasteboard to fit across the inside of
sembling those of beads the smaller windows, making a lattice-work
can be made by gathering in the autumn, across it with white listing, and on this
and stringing in strings of strong linen pin long festoons of pink or red rambler
thread, the bright seed pods of the sweet roses. Mary V.
briar rose. Before being hung on tiny
Home Decoration
brass hooks, screwed into the door casing Bungalow Ideas A beautifully primitive
or a stick, to be placed in the doorway later, bungalow I know with
they should be hung where they can dry bark still on rafters and rough stone
its
thoroughly. A thin coat of varnish or within and without for the walls, boasts a
shellac greatly improves their appearance dome for the dining-room light which is
and makes them durable. —F. J. B. nothing but an inverted peach-basket stained
green and attached to the ceiling rafters by
Stenciling with I wonder how many am- means of three dog-chains. The candle-
Crayons ateur stencilers know sticks in the other rooms are nothing but
how successfully ordi- short sections of birch branches with a
nary colored crayons may be used as
a sub- hollow dug in the middle to receive the
stitute for oil-paints or water-colors? candle; and birch twigs nailed so the walls
Place the stencil on the material in the serve as hooks to hold clothing. M. A. —
usual way, then fill in the design with the
crayons in the same way as if one were Unsightly In an old house that had
using paints, and when all the pattern has been modernized, we
Gas Fixtures
been transferred, press with a hot iron. found the clumsy brass
Before washing article so stenciled, soak gas fixtures not only hideous but hopelessly
first in a solution of salt and water to set out of harmony with hardwood floors and
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the colors. Mrs. T. A. O. simple furniture. We
stripped off the heavy
gilding and exposed the foundation of plain
Artistic Lanterns My studio is a large at- Novel Portieres half-inch gas pipe. Two coats of dull black
tic with great oak raft- paint gave a finish like wrought iron. The
ers. Wishing to use candle light I thought simple fine curves of the original designs
of making pierced brass candle-lanterns, of both brackets and chandeliers, when
but it required too much time to make and stripped of the ornate covering of
properly shape them, and it occurred to me tarnished gilt, were unobtrusive and indeed
to use empty tin cans of a good size and of
"brassy" hue. I made a paper pattern of
beautiful. — Mary S.

right demensions and pasted it upon the Old Chenille To use up old chenille
can. Then I fitted the can upon a round Curtains curtains, ravel, cutting
piece of wood and pierced the pattern by the warp each inch or
aid of a common small punch and hammer, two. Wind four strands together on balls
also two rows on the bottom close to the and weave as ordinary rag carpet is woven,
rim. Remove the paper, which should be using fine dark-colored warp. With skill
lightly pasted at joining ends and perhaps and taste in arranging colors a good imita-
one or two other places, and the lantern is
ready to be hung.
tion Smyrna rug can be made. S. B. F. —
Pierce three holes in
the top of rim of the can and insert three Home-made a box of dc.sired
Get
small chains about fourteen inches long. Shirt-Waist size, hinge on the lid
(I obtained a small box for twenty-five an d cover with tea mat-
Boxes
cents which contained twelve yards of fine ting. At top and bottom
brass chain.) Join the other ends of chains
Home-Made
Shirt- Waist Boxes of sides and on edge of lid tack half-
in a small brass ring. round molding to cover rough edge of
Inside the can drop a bit of hot candle matting.
 Library Suggestions
For Wrapping When I have received A Home-made An
attractive magazine-
Package* packages by mail or Magazine Stand stand may be made for
, express, containing pic- about $1.50, by following
tures, photographs, calendars, etc., and the illustration given below. If one does
found a corner broken I have almost in- not care to use good oak for this purpose
variably noticed that the wrappings came until assured of success a trial stand could
only to the edge of the article enclosed. In be made of cheap wood, which could be
sending thin packages, particularly at the painted or stained and used in the children's
holiday season, I always cut pasteboard or room for toys and picture-books. Mrs. G. —
corrugated paper larger all round than the
article, then cut little notches in the sides to
keep the cord in place, thus preventing any The Troublesome Draw the cork from the
slipping. Many times a valuable article has Glue and mucilage bottle. Grease
been marred or spoiled through careless Mucilage Corks cork wel1 with lard and
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wrapping. M. H. B.
stick again. — M. F.
return. It will never

A Good Library Wanting a library table

A Good Library Table
Table wc made a splendid one Passe-partout I keep rolls of passe-
out of a common oblong Tape partout tape in white,
kitchen table. We
fitted a piece of dark black, red, and brown,
green leather over the top, putting a round and am
always finding new uses for them.
beading around the edge to hold the leather. The white, clipped into pieces and properly
Then we painted the sides and legs a dull lettered, marks my fruit-jars and other
dark green color, and we had a table that kitchen cans, etc. Cracks in a cake-box
looked well enough for any library. M. — where ants might have entered were first
covered with the tape and then the box
Typewriting In these days when type- was painted. Clippings from magazines,
writers are so widely
torn by much handling, were made more
Hint lasting by a strip or more of this useful
used in homes as well as
offices, the following may be helpful the — friend. Odds and ends of white paper may
hint was given me by my brother who is a
be cut into any desired size, clipped together
typist. When making carbon copies and the
and bound with the tape to make "im-
promptu note-books." Pictures from
carbon sheet seems ready to discard, try
cutting off of one end the width of the type-
magazines can be preserved by covering
with a piece of glass and binding with the
writer space. You will in this way get the
tape. If pictures are smaller than the glass
use of the space between the worn lines of
the carbon. This cannot be realized until
tried, but it is a considerable saving.

A Help for This is of

—
M. E.

particular
^=C* paste them on a piece of soft-tinted card-
board and cut the cardboard to fit the
glass.— E. W. W.

Pretty Little Match Safes Uses for Paper A few of the wire paper-
Students interest to high school
boys and girls, and for clips C ''P S u sed in offices are
those who have to carry books for ref- exceedingly useful to
erence. It has been used with a great have on hand. When sewing long seams
saving of time and patience. In the back use them to fasten the edges of the cloth
of each book, in a course where lectures are together and no basting will be necessary.
given or problems or exercises to be worked Turn up a hem the desired depth and place
out, fasten a large envelope, or make one the fasteners at the bottom edge to hold in
by fastening the ends and bottom of a large place. This also saves basting. Every
sheet of paper, to the sides and outside woman receives numerous circulars and
edge of the book in question. The opening advertising letters which are printed on just
for the papers will then be against the back one side of the paper. Lay a number of
of the book and they will be held firmly, such sheets together with plain sides up.
saving the annoyance of having papers fly- Fasten sheets together at the top with a clip
ing every which-way when the book is and you have a handy writing-pad, which
dropped or opened, and they will be where —
costs nothing. Mrs. I. M. K.
they can be consulted in a moment. E. K. —
When Stamps If stamps have become
Pretty Little Thefamiliar little white Are Stuck glued together do not
soa k tnem ' n water ( t,K
'

Match Safes ar s which hold extract

i Together
of beef make very good old method almost always
match-holders. I have found the idea used). Instead lay a thin paper over them
particularly helpful by placing them in a and run a hot iron over it. They will pull
hallway or room in pairs, one for the un- A Home-made apart easily and the mucilage will stay
used, the other for burnt matches. E. G. — Magazine Stand on them. J. A. V.
 Helps with Home-made Furniture
Modern Furniture An old-fashioned dresser A Home-made I had a table four feet
from Old w ' tn side mirror and hat Cabinet w '^ c
an d five feet long
box was made over into and secured from my
I
a pleasing table in less than fifteen minutes grocer six boxes of the sort that canned
with the aid of a screw-driver. The back goods come in. I nailed them firmly one to
and box-like compartment were removed another and the bottom ones to the table at
from the base, and the mirror was removed the back. I covered table and shelves with
and hung the other way. This was much to oilcloth, hung a curtain across the front of
be preferred to the clumsy dresser which the boxes, and I had as handy a kitchen-
was hard to arrange tastefully. A long pin- cabinet as one could wish for. Under the
cushion broke the line at the back of the table I nailed cleats to support a wooden
top, which might otherwise have seemed shelf on which I keep some of the kitchen
abrupt.— A. M. P. utensils. —
Mrs. E. W.

A Sewing Chair My husband placed a A Home-made Wardrobe A Home-made When one cannot go to
Wardrobe the expense of buying a
drawer in the side of real wardrobe a fairly
my sewing-chair. This little drawer slides good substitute may be made from a large
under the seat of the rocker and is the dry-goods box. Get a long box and stand
most convenient place to keep my scissors, it on end. Line the interior, either with
thread, thimble, and "pick-up work." Only
wall-paper or cretonne, put in hangers, and
upon close examination can this small paint or stain the outside any desired color.
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drawer be detected. Mrs. W. P. B. Put a ten-cent curtain rod across the front,
and hang from it a pretty figured cretonne
A Handy Work Secure a medium-sized curtain.— Miss C. H.
Stand cheese-box, a round piece
of board, a little smaller A Sewing Stand An excellent sewing-
than the box, three pieces of wood for the from a Camp stand can be made from
legs, size i'A x iyi inches and 26 inches long. Stool an old camp-stool. Re-
Saw a notch about J^-inch deep and the move seat, stain or en-
thickness of the board, which is to be used amel brown or white, get one yard brass
for an under shelf, on one edge in each of chain, divide in half, tack this to posts on
the three legs at a distance of 10 inches each side, so as to hold chair upright.
from the top. Slip the board into these Procure one and one-half yards of pretty
notches and fasten with small nails. Brace cretonne, denim, or Art fabric, fold through
the top of the legs with small strips of wood middle, so as to have pattern on outside,
and nail the bottom of the box on to the now tack to cross pieces of frame with
legs. Sandpaper all over and stain. brass tacks, allowing three-fourths yard to
Cut a strip of suitable cloth long enough hang down from between cross pieces, so
to go around the box and as wide as the as to form a bag with ends falling on out-
box is high, allowing enough in width for side of cross pieces or turned up and
turning under at top edge and for a seam A Sewing Chair stitched so as to form pockets for scissors,
on the bottom and a seam on ends. Cut threads, etc. This little article of furniture
another strip of cloth the same width and will serve equally well for holding maga-
one-third of its length longer. Run a small zines, papers, or music. —
G. M. A.
hem in each edge of this and slightly gather
about }$-inch from each edge, having the The Old Many housekeepers have
bottom gathered a little fuller than the top, Bureau stowed away an old-fash-
so as to have sufficient looseness at the top. ioned bureau. This is
Stitch the gathered piece on to the plain what I did with mine. I unscrewed the
piece at the bottom, letting the small ruffle cumbersome top and had the bureau moved
at the bottom extend below the line of stitch- to my sewing-room. The large lower
ing. Also stitch the two pieces together drawer I use in place of a scrap-bag and
about every five inches, forming pockets, and to hold new material. All pieces of
seam together at ends on the wrong side. material left over I roll up and tie, placing
The upper edge of the top ruffle should be them in this drawer. When I am looking
a little distance below the top of the plain for them it is not necessary to turn out
cloth. Slip the cloth around the outside of the whole collection. I see it as soon as I

the box and tack the plain cloth to the top open the drawer. The other large drawer
of box, using a narrow gimp to hold it I keep for unfinished work. When I am
securely in place. Also tack at bottom on sewing I place the work in here out of the
line of gathers. When complete this is a way. Ironing-day the things needing a
useful work-stand. The pockets are to keep here so that when I can
stitch are laid in
thread, scissors, needles, buttons, etc., the The Old Bureau snatch amoment everything is in readiness.
box is to hold work, and the shelf is {or the The two small drawers hold scissors, thread,
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'"many things." Mrs. H. M. W. button-boxes, tape, and all sewing utensils.
 Concerning Walls and Windows
Substitute for I had no curtain rods To Prevent Wall To prevent wall-paper
Curtain Rod* and hung my curtains on Paper Fading or calcimined walls from
a cord, but had to tighten having a different color
the cord constantly. Finally I tried using behind a picture place a tack at both lower
wire instead of string and have had no corners of frame to allow the air to circulate
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trouble since. L. E. through.— Mrs. J. S. V.
Uniform I have found that the Renewing Gilt Pour a few drops of
Curtains most satisfactory and Frames ammonia on a piece of
economical way to cur- bread, preferably of the
tain the windows on the second floor is to day's baking, but not over a day old, and
buy a bolt of pretty muslin make the ; rub the frame carefully with it. If the
curtains of a uniform length and the hems bread is very fresh it will clean them with-
at top and bottom of an equal width. There out the ammonia, but the latter makes the
are always three or four curtains more than effect more lasting. — Mrs. A. McA.
I need, and by changing them about, using
them in turn, I have not to solve the ques- To Clean Mirror* To Clean Wash- For any one having oil-
tion of curtains again for from two to four able Wall Paper c,otn covering on walls
years, according to the care used in launder- and ceiling and dreading
ing. "Merit." the thought of cleaning it, try my plan of
steaming it by putting a boiler of water
Rings for White Get small screw-eyes, on the stove and letting it boil for two
Shades open the eye wide enough hours or more. The walls will be very
to insert a large-sized damp and all dirt will be loosened. Take
ivory ring, then press together with pincers. a dry cloth and go over the whole surface
With a small brush enamel the screw-eye and it will clean like magic. This method
with white paint and you have an attractive will not loosen or injure the paper in the
and serviceable ring for your white shades. least. I discovered this by accident and
These are easily cleaned with a damp cloth. cleaned two rooms in one and a half hours.
— "Josephine."
Ecru Curtains Keep your ecru curtains
To Remove Wet a strip at a time and dresses the right
Wall Paper w >th water in which shade by using a little ochre (powdered)
pulverized saltpetre has mixed with a little water and strained into
been dissolved in proportion of one-fourth the water in which you rinse or starch the
of a pound to one gallon of water. It soaks articles. Does not streak as coffee does and
through very quickly and allows the paper
to come off easily in strips as it was put
—
gives a clear ecru tint. Mrs. D. I. Y.

on.— Mrs. M. W. U. Passe-partout bind

First everything
together with wide white
To Clean Oil A slice of Irish potato A Hint for Large Pictures
tape (use library paste
W 'H clean oil paintings Wall Treatment
Paintings for this), using it the same as binding,
without injury, and dip- then carefully cover with the fancy binding,
ped in soda is excellent to brighten silver. being sure the tape does not show. Care
—Mrs. G. S. T. must be used with the long strips of bind-
To Clean Rub
all the dust off of
ing or they will not go on straight. Also
the mirror with a clean, these pictures, being heavier, must have
Mirrors
damp
cloth, then pour a heavier cardboard for backing, through
little camphor on another cloth and rub over which loops of flat, narrow tin can be
mirror. Let dry, then polish with a dry fastened for the hanging cord to be tied
cloth. — Mrs. A. M. M. through.

Painted If a dirty wall that is to

A Hint for Wall Being late with house-
Treatment cleaning I overlooked
Walls be painted be first given
a coat of starch water
the pantry. The paper
the dirt may be brushed off with the starch
had become yellow, but was not torn, and
when the latter dries, and gives a clean having had the woodwork painted blue I
foundation for the new paint. put on a coat of the blue paint on the paper
and found to my delight that paper can be
Backs for Old When housecleaning we
successfully painted. — K. P.

Picture Frames found some of the pic- Protection for Whilecleaning mop-
tures would have to be boards the wall adjoining
Wall Paper
taken apart and new backs put
on. We may easily be protected
bought table oilcloth and stretched on the by using a piece of cardboard held at the
back, gluing to the frame. It is so easy to Backs for upper edge of the board. This allows
clean and dust and I think helps save the Old Picture Frame*
the cleaning-cloth to soil the cardboard
picture. Irene. —
instead of the wall. Mrs. C. W. P.
 A// About Stoves
A Prevention of When there is danger One Way to One hot day I was going
Fire* from a defective flue, the Save Ga* to ron a "d D0 '' my din-
'

fiercestcan be ex-
fire ner on a two-burner gas
tinguished in a few minutes by wetting plate when I found one burner was clogged.
newspapers thoroughly and placing on the The idea struck me to set my stewer on top
coals, closing all dampers. —
Mrs. W. G. of the two flat-irons and let it boil. So the
one burner boiled my dinner and kept the
A Sheet-iron It will pay to get this
—
irons hot. Mrs. T. B. D.

Convenience simple device ready for

Warming Oven From my oil stove oven
the cool autumnal days.
After the noontime luncheon we do not I have made a fine
warming oven for my cook stove by sus-
keep up the wood fire in the kitchen range
pending it on strong, small ropes run
during the afternoon, yet are enabled to
through rings in the ceiling directly over
serve a delicately browned roast at the six
one side of the stove next to the stovepipe.
o'clock dinner. Weshake the ashes well
The hot air from the stove enters the bot-
down in the hard coal stove in the sitting-
room and then remove the ash-pan and slip tom opening in the oven and keeps dishes
One Way to Save Cat warm as toast, and crackers always crisp.
in a piece of sheet-iron which has been fitted
to the place occupied by the ash-pan. This
iron prevents the ashes from falling, and To Save Gai I have only recently gone
all we have to do is to place our roast in to housekeeping, and had
this improvised oven, adding the potatoes had no experience, but was anxious to live
about an hour before serving, and we have economically. Using gas only for cooking,
a roast with browned potatoes fit for a king. I found the bills unreasonably large. Then
Anything in the way of meats and vegetables I bought an oven which fits over one burner
which require long slow cooking may be of the gas range. I paid one dollar for it.
baked in this oven, and oatmeal is delicious In this, with a little planning, I cook my
cooked in this way in a covered dish with whole dinner. For instance, I have one
plenty of water. Mary L. D. day cream of celery soup, beef stew in cas-
serole, baked potatoes, and "Brown Betty"
or baked custard. Another day I have
A Home-made I got a fifty-pound
vegetable soup, roast lamb, baked tomatoes,
Fireless Cooker wooden lard bucket from
escalloped potatoes, and prune whip. It is
my
grocer and lined it
very little trouble, and gas bills are not a
with a number of thicknesses of newspaper,
breaking the points. I then put in my
—
quarter what they used to be. M. C. R.
bucket (an enameled one is the best), which
must have a tight lid. Then I tore up Gas Stove On top of the metal plate
pieces of paper and packed in tightly below the gas burners on
between bucket and lining, making a sort a stove place a sheet of newspaper. This
of nest so as to exclude all air. After Warming Oven paper catches the particles which drop
putting the things to cook I placed several through while cooking. At the end of each
newspapers over the top, over which I day this paper may be removed and a fresh
threw a cushion. I have cooked chicken, —
one made to take its place. R. Z.
tongue, stews, all sorts of vegetables and
breakfast foods with perfect success. All Home-made This suggestion is for
kinds of cereals, meats, and stews I bring Water System those who live in the
to a boil, put immediately into the cooker for the Range country, or in a town
and allow them to remain all night. In where there is no water
the morning I repeat the process, season- system. Take a common vinegar barrel
ing and thickening if required. If vege- and put a faucet near the bottom put a ;

tables are put in after breakfast, at dinner- coil in the stove, and connect the coil and
time they are piping hot and ready to barrel by means of water-pipe. The water
—
serve at once. Mrs. W. K. G. will boil in an hour. We
have a forty-
gallon barrel with a lid for the top, so it
A Gas Stove reduce the amount of can be easily filled, and find it very
Plan
I

my £a s bill in many little

—
convenient. Mrs. J. R. L.
ways, as follows Place :

the dish-pan on one burner of the gas stove, To Mend the When my coal range
one-third full of water then put vegetables,
;
Coal Range needed a new back I
rice, and meats in small cans or crocks and bought a few cents'
place these in the pan of hot water. In a worth of asbestos cement and made a
few minutes they will begin to cook, and plaster of it. Don't put it on too thick or
one can attend to one's other duties without the oven will be slow in heating. It dried
fear of their burning. When your dinner is A Com Stove Plan in a few hours and has given perfect satis-
cooked the dish-water is also ready. S. — faction.— H. B. P.
 m.
\ /Met- Tn ,

Secrets in Cooking
Secret* With Flour is one of the When Stewing When preparing apples
Flour kitchen secrets which I Apples to stew first wash them
employ in many ways. well and wipe dry, then
A teaspoonful sprinkled over the top of cook the peelings first; when soft drain
apple (juicy ones) or berry pies before through a colander. Cook the apples in this
placing the upper crust on enriches the liquid and when nearly done add the sugar.
flavor and keeps the juices from running The flavor is delicious. A
half-dozen cloves
out. A
teaspoonful (for a pint) mixed make it still better.— F. I. H.
with the sugar and cocoa or chocolate for
a drink, gives a wonderful additional rich- A Short Cut in Much work is avoided
ness and smoothness and is the secret of when flouring chops,
Cooking >f.
the delicious chocolate served in European steak, chicken, or any-
cafes. In custards also, in cooked salad thing to be rolled in cracker-crumbs or
dressings, Welsh rabbit, and in all recipes meal, one uses a small tough paper sack to
depending on eggs alone for thickening, a hold the flour or meal instead of putting
little flour adds to the dish. In some To Soften Lemons it on a plate. Drop one or two pieces into
recipes calling for corn-starch flour can be sack, catch by the top and hold tightly, turn
used as a substitute. Added to the sugar upside down quickly once or twice, remove,
and cooked together as the basis for sherbet drop into hot fat. Doughnuts may be
and water ices, the flour gives a body and
delightful smoothness besides bringing out
sugared in the same way. Mrs. H. C. —
the fruit flavors to advantage. No gelatine
or white of eggs is necessary when flour
A Sour Milk Many
cooks hesitate to
is used in this manner. —
Mrs. G. R. L. Precaution use sour rnilk and soda
for biscuits, because of
the uncertainty of the amount of soda to be
Hard Lemons When a few lemons are used to combine perfectly with the acid in
found to be hard and dry the milk. I hit upon the idea of putting a
do not throw them away, but put them into small amount of cream of tartar in the
a small vessel and cover them with boiling flour. My plan is as follows Into the :

water. Place a cover over the pan and let sifter of flour I put a teaspoonful of soda,
them stand for two hours and they will be half a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and
found to be almost as good as new. M. D. — then salt. Then I add the flour and lard
and mix with sour milk, handling as lightly
Instead of Grat- Break up a cake of as possible. Every one praises the puffy,
ing Chocolate chocolate and put delicious result. The same idea works for
through your meat dumplings, meat-pie crust, and other things
grinder. Keep in a tight can. You will
in which sour milk and soda play a part.
find it very convenient when in a hurry and
it takes only a few minutes. Mrs. J. B. O. — Salt in Soup Do not put salt into soup
A Lemonade If the sugar dissolved
is Instead of Grating
until you are through
skimming as salt will stop the rising of
Hint m a little hot water Chocolate
the skum.
it,

—A Pearl.
before putting in it will
not sink and will sweeten lemonade more
quickly. —
Mrs. E. W. To Renew Lard If lard is
slightly rancid
becoming
the old
A New Fudge My fudge is the envy of
flavor and odor may be removed by heating
it, dropping in a lump of charcoal and letting
Secret a" mv friends who want
it stand on the back of the stove for a while.
to know just "how I do
it." cook the fudge until I am sure it is
I
I make my own charcoal by taking brands
from the wood fire and dropping them in
done, that is when it balls firmly in cold
water. Not until then do I add the butter. water. Waahyuntah.
I find three drops of almond oil gives a
better flavor than vanilla. I set the fudge A Cocoa Hint Cocoa will not lump if
dish in a pan of cold water and then stir a little sugar is mixed
it hard and fast {not whip or beat it), until with it before the hot milk is added. M. D. —
it almost sets in the pan. Then I hurry it
into biscuit tins into which
have I fitted To Soften Butter How provoking it is
oiled paper, and mark into squares. As a for Sandwiches when one wishes to
rule it can be lifted out of the tins almost make sandwiches to find
immediately. If the fudge starts to set too the butter too hard to spread, when one
fast while in the cold water I take it out at must soften only a little at a time, or else
once and stir it rapidly until it is ready to put have much of it too soft. Try this way
into the tins. A
couple of minutes stirring
A New Fudge Secret Thoroughly heat a bowl, then turn it over
is all that is necessary, but the fudge is, oh, the butter. In a few minutes you will find
—
so creamy. Mrs., A. F. B. the butter soft throughout. A. I. M. —
 Secrets in Cooking
Mini in Tea In addition to a few To Keep Olives When a large bottle of
drops of lemon to a glass olives is opened and only
of iced tea add a sprig of mint. This makes part of the contents used, the remainder,
a cooling and refreshing drink. Mrs. E. — though left in the brine, becomes compara-
M. P. tively tasteless. If half an inch of olive oil
is poured on the top, and the bottle well
A ValuableParticles of egg yolk can corked, the olives will keep their flavor.
Hint be removed from the Mrs. C. B.
white when accidentally
dropped in. Touch bits of yellow with a For Baked Try
melting a table-
dry cloth and they will readily adhere to Dishes spoonful of butter in a
same, while none of the white is absorbed. pan and stir your bread-
Miss A. L. S. crumbs in it with a fork till well buttered
for top of puddings, etc. It will brown
To Make Over I thought I had spoiled much better. — M.
a fruit jelly by adding
Jelly
too much water and at
A Foreword When you wish to pre-
dessert time it had not congealed. I put A Foreword about Pre- About Preserves pare preserves, fruit
it in a pan and brought to the boiling point, serves and Marmalade and Marmalade butters, marmalades,
etc., in fact any confec-
then poured into it three tablespoon fuls of
tion which requires great care to prevent
corn-starch moistened in water and returned
It was delicious served with
burning or sticking when cooked upon
it to its mold.
whipped cream. — Mrs. R. Mel. the top of the stove, the oven, moderately
heated, is your best friend. Get every-
Burnt Sugar A
splendid syrup that is thing ready in the usual way and when
almost as good as genu- prepared for the final boiling process that
Syrup
ine maple, may be made requires constant watchfulness, place the
by putting a cupful of sugar, dry, into a pan fruit in granite or enameled pans in the
on the stove. As soon as the sugar begins lower part of the oven, close the door
to burn a dark brown pour in about a cup- and just let them cook, being careful not
ful of hot water, let it boil until the syrup to get the fire too hot. A steady moderate
is of the right thickness. This is excellent heat, such as is used in baking a fruit
for flavoring cakes, etc., and added to any cake is the right thing. Once in an hour
ordinary frosting gives a fine color and or so stir the fruit thoroughly, as the up-
flavor.— Mrs. H. A. C. per porton will otherwise become dry and
may scorch. I make all sorts of preserves
A Whipped To prevent whipped in this way. They cook slowly, the fruits
Cream Secret cream from getting preserve their shape and are delicious.
watery after standing a Try it for orange marmalade in the spring
short time, dissolve a little gelatine in two and you will keep on I believe. Peach,
teaspoonfuls of water and whip in the plum, pear butter, etc., can be cooked in a
cream. You can let it stand for hours and To Make Over Jelly large quantity in any kettle or small granite
it will be as firm as at first. W. W. — —
dish-pan anything that your oven will
contain. Catsups, etc., can be made in the
To Whip Cream To whip cream quickly same way. They can be cooked while the
Quickly a dd a pinch of baking
soda. —
Mrs. C. W.
upper part of the stove is in use. Mrs. —
A. S.
To Prevent Milk When milk for
boiling To Remove Nut If arc soaked in
nuts
from Scorching a pudding or a soup take Meats Whole hot water a few hours,
a little butter and grease the meats will come out
the bottom of the vessel
—
you intend using. whole. — E. L. Mo.
R. G. B.
Substitute for When it is impossible to
To Remove When
bread, cake, pie, Whipped Cream ,lave whipped cream a
Scorch from cookies, etc., are scorched delicious substitute can
Baked Article* in. baking, grate it off be made in the following way. Beat the
with an ordinary grater. whites of two eggs very stiff, slice evenly
Leaves a smooth surface and does not one banana, add to the eggs and beat un-
break food as a knife does and there is til thoroughly dissolved, sweeten to taste
—
no waste. Mrs. A. S. K. with powdered sugar. With some left-
over slices of cake it makes a good "emer-
To Remove the Just douse the orange gency dessert."
White Skin from in cold water or hold it
Oranges under the faucet and Boiled Custard If boiled custard curdles
scrape with a very sharp
To Remove Scorch from
pour quickly into a cold
small knife. It will disappear as if by
Baked A t tides vessel and beat with the egg-beater and the
magic—J. T. G. custard will become smooth. Mrs. W. F. B.—
 Secrets in Cooking
To Sweeten A little soda stirred into To Remove Fish To
take the odor of fish
cream only slightly Odor lrom a frying or baking
Cream pan place a good hand-
soured will restore its
sweetness for use in coffee. — Mrs. C. H. M. ful of potato peelings in it, pour boiling
water on and let them boil ten or fifteen
minutes. This is generally sufficient, but
A Beef Tea Hint When making beef tea if any odor remains put in fresh water
never add the salt un- and peelings and let stand on the stove
til the meat has cooked some time.
acts
Salt
upon the fibre hardening it and
—
again. Mrs. J. H. B.

preventing giving out all

its its nourishing
qualities.— Mrs. W. H. G.
When Cooking A good way to prevent
Fish nsn from breaking or
sticking when removing
Testing Cake When buying a new it from the pan is to place three or four
broom pull out a couple slices of salt pork in the pan, then after
dozen or more of the fine smooth straws the fish has been thoroughly washed, dried,
and put them in a clean bottle and place and rolled in flour place it on the salt pork.
in cupboard to use when testing cake, etc. Testing Cake Besides preventing the fish from breaking
They will always be ready and clean. it gives it a delicious flavor. —
Mrs. H. S. L.

The Secret of To insure light dump- Easy Way To

prevent sticking, cook
to
Light Dumpling, lings drop them in the Cook Macaroni macaroni in a vessel with
stew and leave the cover a sieve bottom. Pour
off the kettle until they are twice the size boiling water over and cook in the usual
they were when dropped in, then place the way. When tender lift out the inner ves-
cover on and boil for ten minutes. sel and set on pan or sink-board. You
will find this does away with sticking, also
To Turn When
baking cookies there is no danger of being burned with
use vour ca ^ e turner or the steam while pouring water off, and
Cookies f.

removing soft cookies the kettle and strainer are not hard to
from the rolling board to baking-pan. They wash as is apt to be the way with vessels
are easily placed in the pan with no dan- in which macaroni is cooked. This does
ger of getting them out of shape. Miss E. — not take as long as the double boiler.

To Freshen Butter which has ac-

Custard Hints Before using milk for
Butter quired a strong taste, as
custard heat it thor-
it sometimes will if kept
oughly and cool it, then use in the usual a long time, may be made to seem fresh
way. The custard will not become watery.
and be perfectly sweet if it is cut in rather
Add a little salt, as it improves the flavor. small pieces and allowed to stand in sweet
If the custard is to be put in a pie, mix
milk for six or eight hours. Wash off in
one teaspoonful of flour with the dry sugar clear, cold water and keep in an earthen
before adding the milk and eggs. This will jar.— F. B. P.
take the place of one egg.— Mrs. W. L. O.
To Keep Cheese it cut, wet a
After
is
To Improve Grind with the steak
from Molding in vinegar, wring
cloth
Hamburg Steak some pieces of boiled and smooth same
out
beef fat thoroughly over the cut portion. For a small amount,
cooked, make into balls and fry as beef- cut the cheese in small pieces and press
steak in hot spider with some fat. This them in a glass jar, screwing the top on
is an experiment of my own and I find it tight when the jar is full. — L. W.
far more delicious than the usual method
of grinding with raw fat of any kind, pork For Freezing In snowy winter weather
or beef, as one does not have to overcook Ices scoop up a pailful of
the beef in order to cook sufficiently the snow when making ice
fatted portions, and it is more juicy and cream, mousse,or parfait. Salt as for
—
sweet. M. E. F. ice. nothing, does not need to be
It costs
cracked, packs down easier, and be-
When Baking and dry them
Wash ing semi-frozen melts more quickly than
them over with ice, and hence does the freezing better and
a "d ruD
Potatoes
some
kind of grease. —
quicker. A. P.
When baked they will have a rich satiny
To Improve Freshly cooked rice or
look and the outer skin will peel off as
tissue-paper, leaving the rich, Brown Gravy steamed cold rice makes
thin as For Freezing Ice* a most palatable addition
nutritious part under it to be eaten instead
of wasted as usual. L. S. R.— to brown gravy.

10
 Economy in Household Planning
Help in Getting I it a great help to
find A Regular Time There are certain odds
Meals havemenus made out Odds and and ends where every
for
twoor three days in Ends housekeeper will gain
advance and hung in the kitchen (especially much by having a regu-
where the cooking is entrusted to hired lar time in which to give them attention.
help). This gives ample time for dishes Let there be a regular fixed time once a
that need lengthy preparation and to see month in which the housekeeper attends
that all needful articles arc on hand. These to the following things
menus may have to be varied somewhat First. Go around to every room, closet,
to use left-overs, or added to in case of and drawer in the house, see what is out
unexpected company. They are a help in of order and what needs to be done, and
—
preventing repetition. Miss L. D. make arrangements as to time and manner
of doing it.
A Saving of In making piesor bis- Second. Examine the store closets and
cuits, instead of using a see if there is a proper supply of all arti-
Work cles needed there.
wooden baking-board, I
take a large sheet of clean white paper (a Third.Go through the cellar and sec
supply of which I keep for the purpose) To Save Strength if the salted provisions, vegetables, pickles,
and sift the flour and roll the dough out vinegar, and all the preserves and jellies
on this. When the work is done, and the are all right.
pies are in the oven, the dishes and uten- Fourth. Examine the closet of family
sils used ran be roughly scraped into this linen and see what needs to be repaired
paper, which can be rolled up and burned. and renewed.
Fifth. See if there is a supply of dish-
towels, dish-cloths, bag-holders, floor-
To Save Have a stool that can be
cloths, dust-cloths, wrapping-paper, twine,
Strength pushed under the kitchen
table. Sit down to peel
lamp-wicks, and all articles needed in
kitchen work.
potatoes or prepare your dinner. You will
Sixth. Count over the spoons, knives
not feel as worn out when night comes.
and forks, and examine all the various
Mrs. M. E. G. S.
household utensils to see what need replac-
ing and what should be repaired.
Work by Women who have never Seventh. Have in a box a hammer, tacks,
Schedule worked by schedule do pincers, gimlets, nails, screws, screw-driv-
not realize the amount small saw, and two sizes of chisels for
er,
of time and energy that is wasted from emergencies when no regular workman is
lack of system. In a day that is carefully Also be prepared to set glass.
at hand.
scheduled over twice as much can be ac- Every woman should be able in an emer-
complished as in a day that is not so or- gency to do such things herself. System
dered. Get an ordinary notebook, and on in planning one's work is more than half
the first page write, "Work for to-mor-
of its accomplishment. M. M.
row, July 6." On the page opposite, "Work To Remove Rutt
accomplished." Each book should hold at from Knives
least a month's record. Each night sum
up your day's work under the heading, For Light-house- I have reduced cooking
"Work accomplished," and then make your keeping on a li,t,e common one-
program for the following day. If you burner kerosene stove to
have not finished all that is planned, carry a fine art. For a light-housekeeping dinner
whatever is left undone to the next day. for myself I place a deep two-quart pan
You may at first make the mistake of at- half full of water on the stove. In the
tempting too much in a day, but you will centre of this is a new tin cup containing
soon learn what can be accomplished with- custard. In the water surrounding the cup
out feeling hurried. are peas and potatoes cut in small pieces.
On this is a perforated pie-plate containing
To Remove Rutt To remove rust from a anything I wish to warm over, a piece of
from Knives plunge the blade
knife steak or fish on oiled paper, a roll or a
into an onion and leave slice of dry cake, or all three. This is
it for an hour or so, then polish it in the covered with an inverted basin fitting snugly
—
usual way .Mrs. H. J. F. all around. And last of all, on the top of
the basin is set my tiny coffee-pot covered
A
Cutting By using a warm iron with a cozy. The vegetables will cook in
Suggestion when cutting out cloth- the time required for the custard, the bread
ing you can do away or meat or cooked vegetable will be
with pins and weights on tissue-paper pat- steamed through, and the water in the little
terns. Lay the pattern on the material and coffee-pot will reach the boiling point,
press it lightly with a warm iron, tHe pat-
A Cutting Suggettion
ready for the one minute boiling over the
tern will cling to the cloth. —
S. C. Clarke. — —
flame essential for good coffee. H. C. W.
 Economies in the Kitchen
With Limited When
the milk supply is Left-Over Many of us have some
limited from any cause Breads left-overs in the bread
Milk Supply
save the water in which line which we would
rice is boiled. When this is allowed to like to send back to the table in as attrac-
stand till it is jellied it makes a very eco- tive and disguised manner as possible. I

nomical substitute for milk, and can be keep a ten-pound bucket with lid into which
used in all the cream soups, and needs not I put all left-over biscuit and light bread.

the thickening with butter and flour that
—
milk must have. S. M. H.
Some Uses for Perhaps other young
Vinegar housewives like myself
have found trouble in
making flaky pie crust. I tried
pes but could not seem to make good crust.
A friend of mine told me to add one-half
teaspoonful of vinegar to the cold water
used to mix the dough. Since then I have
had no failures, my crust is always good.
A teaspoonful of vinegar added to the
water in which beef is either boiled or
roasted means more tender nieat. A lit-
tle vinegar boiled on the stove at the same
time that cabbage is cooking takes away
much of the evidence of that vegetable's
presence. Last but not least add a tea-
spoonful to the water when cooking string
beans. They become tender much more
quickly and the vinegar does not spoil their
—
flavor in the least. Mrs. F. C. C.
When I want toast (either dry or milk)
I have it ready sliced. We are fond of
biscuit a day or so old, cut and buttered
plentifully and toasted to serve with jam,
honey, or baked apples for breakfast. Af-
ter breads are left longer than two days
I carry them through the food-chopper
many reci-
(after drying thoroughly in the oven) and
put away in glass jars for use in bread-
ing chops, rolling croquettes, etc. I make
A New Use for a cheese dish with milk, egg, cheese and
Old Tinware from a half to one-third the quantity of
bread-crumbs. We
are fond of the flour
muffins for breakfast and to save the ex-
pense of so much flour, also to make the
muffins light, I use half as much crumbs
as flour. —Mrs. M. E. W.
Rice Water for Boil a cupful of rice for
Bread twenty minutes in plenty
of water. Drain off the
water with which to set the bread sponge
and steam the rice for half an hour and
—
use for dinner. Mrs. R. J.

Use for an Old When the flour sifter

Soap Pieces An
excellent way to
Flour Sifter has become useless as a
save soap is to have
sifter use it for boiling can with holes punched
ready an old tin
eggs. Place sifter with eggs in it in the
in its top, into which put all little odds and
boiling water, when done remove all at
ends of soap. This can may be put in the
once.—Mrs. P. W. B.
dish water, and by shaking it in the warm
water one will soon have suds.
Use for When we have hot
Chafing Dish dishes of escalloped po-
tatoes or oysters, maca-
Use for an Old A New Use for I had a small tin-boiler
Flour Sifter Old Tinware *°r hams which soon
roni, etc., I put them on to the table warm, showed a number ot
simply setting the pan in which they were small leaks and was unfitted for its origi-
cooked inside one of the pans of my chaf- nal purpose. After I enameled it with
ing-dish, and using its cover to cover the white its tendency to rust was overcome,
whole thing up. This keeps the food warm and it is very useful to keep my bread in.
and we enjoy it served in this way. — H. I also had a tin oven belonging to a one-
burner oil-stove. This was discarded for
How to Utilize If there is any pancake years, but I rescued it from the loft, and,
Left-Over batter left over from after enameling it inside and out, it makes
Pancake Batter breakfast put it in a cool a splendid closet for my pies, which I bake
place until the next four at a time.
morning so it will not sour. Take slices
of bread and dip in the batter and fry. Drippings from The waste of the smok-
This is as good or better than "French Ham and Bacon ed drippings was a great
Toast."— C. R. worry to me until I
found out a way to clarify them. To each
To Keep Ice After the cream is quart of melted fat allow a small raw
frozen, instead of using potato. Slice this and cook in the fat
Cream The drippings can
more
ice for packing, for twenty minutes.
tear newspapers into medium-sized pieces then be used to fry doughnuts, as shorten-
and stuff firmly into the freezer. It can ing for molasses cookies, etc., without the
be wedged closely together, keeping out least taste of smoke. I treat the fat from
Use for Chafing Dish chicken and turkey in the same way, and
every bit of air. In this way ice cream
will keep for several hours. strain through a cheese-cloth after clarifying.
 Frills with Meat and Eggs
Left-OverTake cold roast or fried To Fry Liver Parboil in sweet milk,
Meat lam (*ny kind will be
' roll in bread-crumbs and
good), run through the fry in butter or bacon fat. The parboil-
chopper and season a little if necessary. ing greatly improves the flavor of the liver.
Make a rich biscuit dough, rolf on the
board and spread the meat over it. Roll
up to make a good shape. Now make a white To Lift Poached For lifting poached eggs
or brown sauce, or, if you prefer a tomato Egg* out °f water, tli
sauce, and after you have baked the meat nothing so good as a
roll, pour over it one of these sauces and
milk-skimmer. — Mrs. G. E. W.
serve. For the sauce use a tablespoonful
of drippings and one of flour, add a half Baked Hash In making hash moisten
pint of milk, or tomato liquid (if you wish with milk instead of
the tomato sauce), season and serve. This water and bake without stirring. This im-
is the most successful way I know to utilize
a left-over of meat. One precaution: Bake
proves it very much. E. D. —
your roll slowly as it cooks outside quickly
and may not be done in the middle. To Lift Poached Egg* To Fry Oysters Rub or wipe large oys-
ters dry, salt and pep-
per them, then beat the yolks of two eggs
A Cooking Kink As our family do not well and add cracker-crumbs, a little sweet
care for chicken unless milk or liquor from oysters may be used,
fried, have evolved a way in which a
I a little flour added to make a thick paste.
young chicken, weighing four or five Roll oysters in this paste and then in dry
pounds, may be successfully "fried." After cracker-crumbs. Fry in hot grease. This
the chicken is jointed dip in a batter of recipe will enable one to have fried oysters
flour and water of the consistency of thick as large as those bought from a caterer.
cream to which a little more than a half
teaspoonful of soda has been added (it will
require about four rounding tablespoonfuls Cooking Ham
I have discovered a
of flour for the batter), then roll in tine nice way of frying ham.
cracker or bread crumbs (the latter pre- Put it pan and place in the oven.
in a tin
ferred). Have ready a good-sized baking- Close the doors. It need not be turned as
pan, in which place the chicken in plenty it browns nicely on both sides. This
of hot fat, season and cook in a slow method leaves the meat tender, and pre-
oven at least one hour, longer if the vents the offensive odor from penetrating
chicken is large. When done each piece rooms.
should be coated with a delicious crisp
brown crust, adding to its size. Few cooks A Roast Meat How many know that if
know that the rib, if broken next to the y° u DO 'l
pork roast
back, may be easily removed with the A Convenience Help a
in Cooking done and then
until partly
lingers, thus making a fairly good piece of
put in the oven to brown and finish cook-
chicken. The fat not used in the gravy is
ing it will not shrink away as it would if
superior to butter for seasoning vegetables. it had been cooked entirely in the oven,
Cook pork chops in this way. and will also be more tender. Chickens
may also be roasted or broiled with suc-
A
Convenience After preparing a tur- cess after partially boiling. Mrs. J. — M.
in Cooking key or goose for the
oven take two strips of When Eggs are Cover the pan with a lid
clean white cloth about two inches wide,
Poaching or just the last moment of
pass one under the shoulders and the
Frying their cooking. This will
other under the thighs and tie each in a
give the pretty pink
knot on top of the breast as the bird lays
glazed-over look so desirable. Housewife.
on its back. Leave short ends which will
serve as handles when taking up the bird
and will also prove much help when turn- To Keep Cut In providing for a small
ing it during the cooking. — Mrs. B. Ham family, as a rule, one
wishes to have fried ham
often, and the cut ham soon deteriorates
To Fry When eggs are expen- in flavor. To keep it as good as when
Croquettes *>ve, I find if I dip cro- first cut, slice as much as desired and pack
quettes, veal cutlets, etc., down in a stone jar. Melt some pure leaf
in rich milk or cream, then roll them in
lard and pour over the slices, covering
bread-crumbs or cracker dust they will fry When Eggt are Poaching
or Frying deep enough to exclude all air. Tata
a delicious brown and will taste the same and fry as needed and the last cut will be
zs if dipped in egg.— A Subscriber. found as delicious as the first. — Miss F.
 Tricks with Cakes and Frostings
Make White Cake-mixing is made To Mix Butter When stirring sugar and
Cake with easier if, when you have and Sugar butter together for cake
plenty of cream, all use a wooden masher
f. eam cream is used instead of and see how much quicker and easier it is
butter and milk. When the recipe would done. When the butter is hard set dish on
call for one cup of milk and one-half cup the stove in a warm (not hot) place. — H.
of butter, use one and one-half cups of
cream. This takes less time to mix with For Layer To make icing stick to
the sugar, when butter and sugar do not Cakes ca ke layers, allow cakes
have to be creamed, and is just as cheap to cool thoroughly, then
when butter is expensive. This hint was rub flour well on the layers before apply-
given me by one of the best known cooks ing the icing. In order to keep whipped
in the country. M. E.— cream stiff add one teaspoonful of gela-
tine, dissolved in a little water, to the
Layer Cake When putting a layer cream before whipping. Chappelear.
Suggestion cake together with icing,
and the layers seem de- In Making Instead of boiling choco-
termined to slide off one side, insert one Layer Cake Suggestion Chocolate Cake late icin S for cake I buy
or two toothpicks around the outer edge the chocolate drops, put
and leave until the icing is thoroughly set, in an enameled pie-pan (not tin) on the
when they may be easily removed, if de- back of the stove until melted, then beat
sired. —
Mrs. M. L. M. in two tablespoonfuls of cream. Beat un-
til smooth, then ice the cake with the
A Good Cake My experience in mak- mixture. It is superior to boiled icing.

Method m £f cakes is to beat the — Mrs. Hugh S.

cake thoroughly before
putting in the baking-powder. The more To Make This never fails; partly
most cakes are beaten the nicer and lighter Boiled Icing beat the white of the egg,
they will be, but it should be done just then put in about two or
before putting in the baking-powder. Sift three tablespoonfuls of the sugar syrup
the baking-powder in with a little flour, which is half boiled and beat vigorously
then put in your stiffly beaten whites of the with the egg-beater. When the remainder
eggs, folding them in, but do not beat of the syrup will "ball" in cold water it is
again. —
W. L. P. ready to pour on the egg. Continue to beat
until cold. Icing made in this way will
To Bake Fruit To prevent loaf cakes be firm on the outside, like cream under-
Cake from burning at the neath, and you will never have a failure.
sides and bottom place — E. M. W.
the pan cake in a larger
containing the
pan of hot water, and when the cake is To Bake Fruit Cake Uses for Cream Put a pinch of cream of
beginning to brown remove from the water of Tartar tartar in your frosting
to allow the bottom to brown. This is an or fudge to prevent it
excellent way to bake fruit cake, as it is from "going to sugar." It will make it nice
sure to scorch if one is not very careful. —
and creamy. F. E. N.
—Mrs. L. W. D.
To Save Boiled When making a boiled
When Making If you have no pastry Frosting frosting I left it a little
Angel Cake fl our, equally good re- too long on the stove
sults can be obtained in and it became rough and crumbly. I added
making angel food cake by using one part a piece of butter the size of a walnut and
of corn-starch to seven parts of ordinary beat it and it became smooth and creamy,
flour.— Mrs. C. P. B. and a delicious rich flavor. M. A. C.—
Fruit Cake If be
fruit cake is to Fruit Cake Help When making fruit cake
kept for any length of and you wish the citron
time, wrap it nicely in a cloth, and sew cut in thin slices, put it in the oven and
around the edges. Melt paraffin in a pan heat through. You can then cut it as thin
and dip the cloth-covered cake in, until as you wish and it does not stick to the
it is well coated. —
A. L. R. knife. —
Mrs. J. G.

To Moisten Dessicated cocoanut can A SanitaryI find a toothpick a very

Shredded hardly be told from Cake Tester bandy
cake - tester. I

Cocoanut f rerii opoomut if it is keep a box on hand in

soaked in milk for three- the kitchen and when making have several
quarters of an hour and then squeezed dry.
A Sanitary Cake Tester
on the baking-table so that they can be
—Mrs. R. G. —
picked up quickly. Mrs. E. B. T.
 Helps at Preserving Time
A Hint for Having some old-style A Useful A most useful article of
Preserving preserving jars for which
Time Kitchen Table kitchen furniture is a
rings can no longer be small movable zinc-
bought and needing to use them I took a covered table. should be about twenty-
It
discarded rubber hot-water bottle and cut eight inches high and the top two feet square.
rings from it. I found my jars were The top should be covered with zinc, and
securely sealed. — B. E. G. three sides have a heading of an inch board
around to keep articles from slipping. The
For Preserving Make a note of this for table should be mounted on ball-bearing

Time preserving time The :

casters. When canning fruit or making
peach season was not griddle-cakes, etc., it can be rolled close to
work for me last year. 1 no longer sit by the range. One can set saucepans or frying-
the hour peeling peaches, with a tired back pans on it, as the zinc Is easily cleaned. An
and stained hands as a consequence. under shelf, if required, may be added and
Instead I place peaches to be skinned in a placed about ten inches from the casters.
wire basket and slip the basket into a kettle This handy table is also serviceable when
of boiling water for a second or two. The rolled near the sink, to set the dry dishes on,
peach skin will then slip off easily. The then wheeled into the pantry, thereby saving
A Useful Kitchen Table
—
many steps. Mrs. J. M.
peach in this way retains a perfect shape and
its beautiful color. —
Mrs. P. H.
To Prevent Put a silver spoon in
Sealing Grape Take narrow strips of Glasses from when any hot liquid is to
Juice paper, wind around the Cracking be poured into the glass,
neck of the bottle, letting pouring directly on to the
them extend half an inch or so above the bowl of the spoon. The heat will never
cork, paste or tie in position. Then fill this crack the glass in this way. C. S. —
with melted wax or paraffin. When the
bottles are opened the wax can be taken A Jelly Hint If jelly does not harden
from the cork in one piece, and may be when it gets cold, instead
—
melted and used again. Mrs. J. J. O'C. of putting it back in the kettle to cook
longer, place the glasses in a dripping-pan
Speaking of The juice of pineapple half full of cold water and set in the oven.
Cherries w '" remove cherry stains Cook that way until you think it is done.
from the hands as if by This saves both jelly and time. Mrs. W. —
magic. A little nutmeg or cinnamon
sprinkled over the cherry filling for a pie Preparing Cans Before putting the fruit
will bring out the flavor wonderfully. M. D. — into the jars, I put into
a pan of cold water to which has been added
Washing Small A corn-popper without the a teaspoonful of pulverized borax. I let

Fruits handle is very useful in these jars stay in the water on the stove
washing berries and small For Preterving Time until the water becomes quite warm, then
fruits, as the cover can be fastened and the take them out and put in my fruit. I have
whole shaken in a pail of water. Mrs. L. — found this to be of great help and have
never lost any fruit since I tried using the
To Fill Jelly Stand the glasses in —
borax. A. B.
Glasses granite muffin-pans near
the kettle containing A Use for Dis- When making jelly and
fruit. Each glass rests in a separate en- carded Rubbers one nnd s they have not
closure, so that if any fruit is spilled it is enough lids for jelly
caught and does not smear the others. Also glasses, try covering the glass with paraffin
they are easily lifted and set aside to cool paper and slip a discarded fruit jar rubber
in these receptacles without disturbing. over it.
Mrs. C. R. T.
A New Last
Jelly summer I was
Economy with Don't throw away sweet obliged to make most of
Vinegar pickle vinegar but use it my of apples and thus was led to
jelly out
in mince meat. E. F. B.— experiment on different flavoring in order
to avoid monotony. The most satisfactory
Making Can Instead of buying labels results were obtained by simply drawing
Labels f° r fruit cans, purchase several leaves of rose-scented geranium
a sheet of gummed through the hot jelly just before it was
paper, this can be cut into the desired size. put into the tumblers. The resulting flavor
A large sheet of the paper may be bought Washing Small Fruits was something like quince, although most
at any stationer's for ten cents and cut and people who tasted it declared it far better
—
marked as required. Mrs. M. W. U! —
than quince jelly. A. C. H.
 Ways with Vegetables
A Potato Hint Before baking sweet po- To Make In making tomato soup
tatoes rub a little lard on Tomato Soup w tn milk, always put the
'

them and when baked they will peel easily soda in the milk before
—
and perfectly. Mrs. J. M. W. putting the tomatoes and milk together, and

Potato Salad In making potato salad

your soup will never curdle. Mrs. A. G. —
you will add a cup of
if A Kitchen There are many good
chopped cabbage and a little onion it will thrifty cooks who have
Economy
correct the cold potato taste so unpleasant not learned that green
to many people. It is also an advantage peppers have an economic value equal to
to the salad in flavor and appearance. that which puts them at the head of savory
dishes. Green peppers may be stuffed with
To Help When Put into the pot a piece anything left in the refrigerator except
Potatoes are °f ,'' me as large as a sweets. When I have peppers to stuff I
Watery " hen's egg, and howsoever
watery the potatoes may
boil rice as a foundation. I use this rice,
chopped meat, tomatoes, onions, the last of
have been they will be found dry and mealy the olives, chopped off the pit, bits of bacon,
when the water is poured off. H. S. — Salad Cups
cold potatoes, or the cold corn left from
some previous meal. I season the cut-off
For Mashed the busy housewife
If
tops of the peppers and the next day chop
Potatoes w '"
add one or more them up fine, mix with rice and a tomato or
teaspoonfuls of baking-
two, using just enough juice to moisten and
powder, according to the amount of potatoes
bake in a slow oven. My family like the
to be mashed, when mashing them, she will
baked "pepper pudding" as well as the dish
be rewarded by white and flaky potatoes
the first day.— F. L. G.
with little labor.— B. H. W.

Potatoes in a A quick and economical Salad Cups While tomatoes are still
Hurry way to make mashed too expensive for many
Instead
potatoes. of purses try the following and see how
leaving the potatoes whole or cut in half, delighted you will be. Dissolve one-fourth
slice them thin as for French fried potatoes box of gelatine in hot water, cool, strain
and boil. It does not affect the quality, and in the juice of a can of tomatoes, seasoning
the saving in gas and time is considerable. with pepper and salt to taste. Pour into
—Mrs. N. H. teacups to mold, about a fourth full or size
of half a tomato. When firm turn out on
Washing I find by washing vege- a lettuce leaf and serve with mayonnaise
Vegetables tables in salt water all dressing. —Mrs. H. C. A.
bugs, worms, or insects
of any kind come to the top. It is especially To Keep Prepare the lettuce for
well to do this in washing greens, lettuce, Lettuce Fresh use Shake all the water
-
Potatoes in a Hurry
celery, cabbage, etc., as they so often have from the leaves and place
insects or worms almost the same color, in a tin pail with a very tight cover. Then
which are hard to see. —Mrs. H. G. H. set in a cool place and the lettuce
—
will be
crisp and fresh the next day. A. W.
To Freshen Pour off old liquid, wash,
Canned Peas add new water, butter, Uses for Canned vegetable soup,
and bit of sugar, add Canned Soups chilled thoroughly and
milk if desired^ — Mrs. L. F. arranged on lettuce
leaves, with dressing, makes a surprisingly
Good Potato Try adding two table- good salad.
Soup spoonfuls of tomato Chicken soup run through the fine knife
catsup or a little highly of the meat-chopper makes good sandwiches.
seasoned chicken gravy, if you have any left Good vegetable hash can be made by adding
over. You will find it takes on a piquancy vegetables, which have been cut into cubes
undreamed of in potato soup. M. S. H. — and parboiled, to any meat soup. Consomme,
thickened and seasoned, is an excellent gravy
A Good Use for When
cooking a boiled to serve with cold meats. Canned tomato
Mosquito Netting dinner try tying your soup may also be used wherever canned
greens or cabbage in a tomatoes are called for in a recipe. It has
square of mosquito netting and put in your an added flavor, and saves the labor of put-
kettle. When ready to take it out raise with
ting the tomato through a puree sieve.
a fork and hang on the faucet to drain while A very little meat "left over," chopped and
the rest of the dinner is dished. You can also added to a gravy made of thickened soup,
find many other uses for these squares, such A Good Use for may be poured over slices of toast, and
as draining cottage cheese, squash, pumpkin, Mosquito Netting
makes a cheap and satisfying supper dish.
—
and the like. M. H. —Mrs. R. H. S.

16
 Suggestions for Pie Making
A Help in Pie When making frosting A Secret About When making pies from
Making for a P' e tr y, after Cherry Pie canned cherries, more
separating your eggs, especially if they have
adding one scant level tablespoon ful of been canned some time and lost their
granulated sugar to each white and let it original try the following:
flavor, Just
melt until you are ready to whip them. You before putting on the upper crust, dip a few
will have a lighter frosting and one that will spoonfuls of canned plums, minus the
not fall or stick to the knife when cutting stones, over them. The result will be
the pie— Mrs. C. W. B. surprising, as the pie will taste as if made
from freshly picked cherries and what is —
Luncheon Pie» For the children's lunch more delicious than a fresh cherry pie?
often make little pies
1
Mrs. L. F. B.
by lining the patty-pans with pastry dough
and filling with any kind of pie material. A New Use for A saltspoonful of bak-
Cut the dough in a five or six inch circle Baking Powder ing-powder put in the
and take out three little V-shaped pieces at meringue for pies just
intervals to make the crust fit without being before the meringue is placed on the pie will
too thick. Carefully press into the patty- Luncheon Piea keep it from falling as soon as the pie is
pans. If berries are used a top crust must removed from the hot oven, as so often
be put on. Little meat pies are particularly happens. — Mrs. C. E. W.
nice in this way, and the children are de-
lighted with them. Mrs. B. M.— Economical Delicious afternoon tea
Pastry Tricks wafers can be made
When Making When making lemon pies, from left-over pie-crust.
Lemon instead of using corn-
Pies Roll pastry thin, sprinkle generously with
starch or flour, grate one cinnamon and sugar, cut into diamond
potato to each pie and the pie will be shapes, and bake on flat tins in a quick oven.
delicious. The potato tastes much like For salad rolls, grate cheese over the pastry,
cocoanut, and the custard is thickened just cut into squares, and roll each square up
—
enough. M. E. A. tight and bake.— G. R. B.

To Cool Pa»try Pastry should be cooled

To Have Good Never set a pie on a flat
in a warm room. Tak-
from the oven to a cool Pie-crust surface when removing
ing it suddenly
from the oven. Use a
larder will make it heavy. —
Mrs. W. H. G.
flat-iron stand or wire teapot-stand. This
prevents steamed and soaked and soggy
Lemons a great help when
for Pie I find it
grated lemons are needed
under pie-crust. — F.O. H.
for pie, instead of grating to cut in pieces
and remove the seeds, then put through a
To Cook Every one knows what
food-chopper, using the fine knife blade. — To Have Good Pie Crutt Pumpkin a task it

pumpkin for pies. Try

is to prepare a
L. S. F.
my way once and I fancy you will never
A Secret for When making puff paste peel another. Cut the pumpkin into halves,
or anv pic-crust in hot place into pans, then in the oven. Do not
Puff Parte
weather fill a bottle with have the oven very hot. Leave the pumpkins
ice water and use for a rolling-pin. The in until they are soft. Remove and pour the

pastry will be delicate and flaky. M. — juice out, then scoop the meat out with a
spoon. It is then ready to stew. You will
Andrews.
find that by pourng the juice out that was
Digestible Our family are very fond brought out by the heat of the oven, that
it will take but a short time for the pumpkin
Pie-cruit °f an ^ as some of
P' e '
the members are troubled to stew until it is dry and ready for use.
with indigestion it became necessary to use — G. C. A.
for a pie-crust something more easily
digested than the usual lard or butter crust. A Pie Hint Heat your plates before
I tried a cupful of sour cream with the same
putting hot pies on them
amount of flour, a pinch of salt, and two- when first taken from the oven. The hot
thirds of a level teaspoonful of salaratus, pies on cold plates cause a sweat that makes
mixed very stiff with a spoon and rolled —
soggy under-crust. E. K. R,
thin with plenty of flour on the board. The
crust proved to be delicious, tender, and To Cook If your pies overflow in
Pies
perfectly digestible, and has ever since been the oven insert a short
used with perfect satisfaction. In our local piece of uncooked macaroni in the top
To Cook Pies
This much better than the so
markets the cream costs little more, used for crust. is

this purpose, than good lard. L. W. M. — much used paper funnel. B. J. O. —

 Helps with Kitchen Utensils
New U*e» for the Did any one ever try A Neat Cover To
save the cloth cover
Corn Popper " sin g ° ne
° f the large- for my kitchen recipe-
of
corn-poppers to broil
size Recipe Books book
from grease and
with, either in the kitchen or when camp- flour, I covered it with
ing? One can broil quail, wild duck, small white' table oilcloth, while for my clippings
fish, sausage, potatoes, sliced tomatoes, and and odd recipes and hints, I use a heavy
roasting ears in them very quickly, and can covered blank-book treated in the same way
also crisp crackers and breakfast cereals in with the white oilcloth. These make the
them in a few minutes. Fresh berries, neatest looking books imaginable and may
dried fruits, rice, tapioca, beans, and even be washed when necessary. Miss V. F. C. —
new potatoes can be washed in them by
holding the popper under the faucet or A Cooky always have had a hard
—
pump. Mrs. A. M. W.
Cutter
I
t' me securing a sharp
cooky - cutter, until I
Coffee Cant as Have you ever tried made a discovery which I have used ever
Steamer* making your steamed since. I now use an old baking-powder
puddings in one-pound can which, like most of them, has a very
empty coffee cans ? They answer the purpose New Uses for the
Corn Popper sharp edge. The advantage is twofold, for
just as weir as those "bought at a price,"
and with the advantage that they take up
it is both sharp and high. A. B. —
very room. Three or four of them
little
can be steamed at once in a good-sized Pliers in the A pair of ordinary
Kitchen "pliers," used in the
pan. To save fire it is a good idea to make
kitchen for lifting hot
three or four different kinds of puddings
pans, have a firm grip, and save many a
in as many separate tins and steam them —
burn. "C. G."
all at once. Then each requires only heat-
ing through before using. Large baking-
powder tins are also good for this pur- A Lard-pail Tea- A lard-pail may be con-
pose. Grease cans well before putting in kettle Steamer v erted into a tea-kettle
the puddings. B. G. T.— steamer simply by punch-
Two
ing the bottom of it full of holes.
Card Index Every housekeeper col- or three holes should also be punched in
for Recipe* lects, from time to time, the cover as outlets for the steam. A
recipes from widely dif- smaller sized pail or coffee can furnishes
ferent sources. The usual plan is to write a suitablereceptacle inside, in which to
these in a book for future use. If one steam puddings, small loaves of brown
goes a step further and carefully indexes bread or any desired article of food.
the recipes she will find the book much Dried pieces of bread or cake can be
more serviceable. Some housewives prefer warmed over in this, but a saucer should
to keep the recipes written on cards of A Cooky Cutter first be placed in the bottom to prevent any

uniform size. These are kept in a con- crumbs from falling into the water.
venient box or drawer in the kitchen, with Mrs. S. J. H.
a simply devised card index to insure their
being in order. This is an excellent idea. Baking Powder To open a baking-
— E. R. G. powder can remove the
label about an inch around the top, then
A Winter A winter refrigerator lay the can on the floor and roll back and
Refrigeratorconsists of a wooden box forth several times with the foot, gently
of three sides, the length yet with enough pressure to bend the tin
of a window, preferably north. It is high slightly. The cover will then easily come
enough to accommodate a quart milk bot- off, as the movement loosens the lid all
tle. The box, of course, is outside of the around. — E. S.
window and is supported by brackets. The
open side is next to the window and the Convenient Have castors put on
window serves as a sliding door for the Wood-box your wood-box and see
box. When the window is lowered the "re- how easy it is to move
frigerator" is closed. The inside is lined when sweeping or cleaning floors. —
with zinc, which has been given two coats E. B. M.
of enamel. This renders it water-proof.
It contains a shelf of zinc extending part A Place for Tack a small piece of
way across. The high space is designed Sharp Knive* leather about an inch
for milk-bottles, butter-jars, and tall re- and a half long on the
ceptacles. In the summer time the refrig- woodwork in the pantry and run the carv-
erator is removed and a window-box with ing-knife through, handle upwards. The
Pliera in the Kitchen
flowers is fastened to the brackets. knife is thus out of harm's way and easy
C. F. C. of access. — S. V. E.
 Helps in the Laundry
To Wash Take lukewarm water, To Fill Separate My
husband cut a piece
White Silk make it quite blue, and
Tubs onf
our garden hose to
to each quart add two the wash-tubs.
fill It is
teaspoonfuls of pure ammonia. Use a good about ten feet long. I attach it to the fau-
white soap, rinse in water prepared the cet and the children hold the other end
same way, roll up, iron on the wrong side until tubs are sufficiently full. For ten
with an iron not too hot. White silk waists cents he bought a coupling by means of
look like new, and do not get yellow in which the piece can be attached to the hose
the process. —
Mrs. A. B. —
again. "A Subscriber."

To Wash Xow that chamois gloves To Wash a Take a fine small brush
Chamois Gloves are so P°P«lar, we all
White Parasol and scour tne parasol
want to know the best thoroughly, inside and
way to clean them. I have tried this plan out, with hot suds (while open) then ;

and find it good. Dip gloves in lukewarm rinse well with bluing water and tie stout
soap-suds of some pure soap. Gently pat string to the end of handle and tie on the
between the hands until clean. Rinse in two clothes-line, leaving the parasol open to
or three clear waters, but do not wring dry. It will need no pressing, and if
them. Instead, roll them in a dry towel
and squeeze or press the water out. Hang
dried in the sun will look like new. Mrs. —
C. S.
in the sun for a few moments, then put
them on the hands and gently rub them To Wash Make a lather of soap
dry. This way does not stretch the gloves, Velveteen or washing-powder and
and leaves them as soft as new. Ernesta. warm
water, put velvet
in, but do not rub, but squeeze with the

To Wash Fine Make a warm suds of hands. Rinse well with plenty of clear
any pure soap, into water. Lift the velvet out, do not wring
Laces
which put a little borax. at all, but hang out to drip until dry. This
Allow the laces to soak in this a few min- makes it look like new. Mrs. J. W. C. —
utes, then shake about and wash with the
hands, rinsing in two waters. To the last To Keep Tubs Take several layers of
rinsing water add a little white sugar from Falling newspapers and spread
(starch should never be used). Pull out in '"' t,om °* tuo and let
Apart
well in shape, place between clean white extend up sides of tub.
cloths and lay between the leaves of an Pour in one or two gallons of water. The
old book, or where the pressure will be paper holds the water for days and keeps
smooth and constant until dry. Mrs. M. — the tub moist. —
Mrs. M. M. S.
M. M.
Emptying the The woman who has
Tubs not the convenience of a
To Wash Dissolve four kitchen
tablespoonfuls of good To Wash Fine Lace* modern laundry may be
Woolen Blankets saved carrying out water by having tub
soap powder in a dip-
perful of boiling water and pour it into a
or washer equipped with an ordinary shut-
off valve (which may be inserted in place
tub of warm water. Open the blanket out
of plug if washer is used), attaching gar-
wide and put it in the tub and let it soak
den hose and drawing the water out into
for fifteen minutes or half an hour. Then
rub it all over between the hands, and if —
yard or garden. E. F. M.
there are any stains left rub them with
To Remove the Wash
the sacks in warm
soap. Rinse in a clear water of the same
Wording from thcn wring and
SU(ls
temperature as the wash water. If you do .

' proa d
U P°" the wash-
this your blankets will be soft, white, and Flour Sack.
board, with the name of
will not shrink. Don't rub blankets on a the brand uppermost. Rub on a thick layer
wash-board, as it makes them hard, and of soap or washing-powder and roll tightly.
—
bluing makes them gray. M. M. Place in a pan of cold water and set on the
stove to boil. Do not stir, but when the
Easy Way to An easy way to dry boiling-point is reached, remove from the
Dry Madras Madras curtains is by stove and wash in a clean suds. The stains
stretching each half its
full width on its rod, placing it in its fix-
will disappear like magic. L. L. P. —
ture and then running another heavy brass When I have found when
rod in the hem at the bottom. The cur- Laundering laundering wash dresses
tains will not shrink, and will look like ° f any kind, that it is
Wash Dresses
new. It is desirable to wrap a piece of much better to hang
old white material around the rods to pre-
Easy Way to Dry Madras
them on the line on a wooden coat-hanger.
vent any spots from the rods soiling the
Curtain*
This keeps them in shape, and they iron
curtains. —J. S. B. better.

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 Helps in Starching and Laundering
Colored Garments
To Wash A good way to shrink Cotton or Linen No matter how fast the
Flannels flannels and preserve Goods in color,they will look
their appearance is to Delicate Colors faded after a few wash-
soak any flannel material in cold water ings, but can be made to
before making up. Spring water or hard look like new by using a solution of dye (any
well water is best. Fill a tub and place the reliable brand) of the same color as the
flannel in it. As soon as the flannel sinks garment in the same way as bluing is
to the bottom take out and hang up to used.
drain and dry. Do not squeeze or handle
it in the tub. Treated in this way it does Rice Water for Save the water drained
not lose the appearance of new flannel and Fine Starching from "ce for starching
will not shrink when properly washed. — thin linens, fine cottons,
Mrs. C. H. N. or any delicate fabrics. —
F. E. H.

Uses for If a little starch is added Starching In starching muslins.

Starch to tne rinsing water of Rice Water for Fine Colored Clothes ginghams, and calico dis-
all cotton goods, they Starching solve a piece of alum the
will wash much more easily. The dirt size of a hickory nut
for every pint of
comes out with the starch, and they will starch. This will keep the colors bright
iron almost as readily as unstarched goods, —
for a long time. E. R. G.
if ironed before being allowed to become
thoroughly dry. Painted ceilings wash Quick When washing out waists
easier if gone over first with starch water. Stiffening or collars of thin mate-
Brown cotton fabrics may be dipped in rial put a small quantity

water containing a very slight amount of of borax in the rinse water. This will
liquid glue, instead of white starch, which give the desired stiffness, and is very
shows on the surface. To starch black simple. —
Mrs. R. E.
sateen, percale, etc., grate raw potatoes into
the cold, second rinsing water. D. M. B. — To Keep the I have discovered
method of
. an
Color of efficient re-
taining the delicate col-
To Wash a Prepare a large dish-pan Delicate Blouses
of flour starch. Pour ors in the various dainty
Brown Linen full
hued blouses so much in vogue. I had a
Skirt m tne wash-tub, have
li
dainty rose blouse which was fast fading
one - fourth pound of
cheap coffee steeped and strain in the starch —
through many washings a friend advised
until it is quite brown. Put the skirt in me to buy some rose crepe paper and use
it exactly as one would bluing, and behold
and rub on a board if very soiled if not, ;

with the hands. Use no soap, the starch the result was most gratifying. I have tried
will foam up like suds. When the dirt A Secret About other colors, lemon, lavender, etc., with
is removed wring out by hand, do not Crepe Blouses —
equally good results. R. T. N.
rinse. Hang in the shade. When partly
dry roll up and let lie an hour or so and For Colored Tack this up in your
iron.— G. W. H. Materials laundry. To set colors-
green, blue, lavender,
To Stiffen Sheer Sheer fabrics, such as aniline reds, purple, and pink should be
Fabrics chiffons or dimities, or soaked in alum water, two ounces to a
all goods that do not
re- tub. Black, gray, and dark blue should be
quire starch, will gain their original crisp- —
soaked in strong salt water. Mrs. A. B.
ness if three tablespoon fuls of sugar be
added to the rinsing water. This applies To Set Colors To onegallon of water
to all kinds of veiling. Mrs. R. G. — W. use a large tablespoonful
of turpentine. Let article to be washed lie
A Secret About A college girl who wore in the mixture fifteen minutes, wring out

Crepe Blouses cotton crepe waists to and dry, then wash in the usual manner.
save laundry bills had This will set the color in the most perish-
difficulty rendering them wearable at
in able of all colors —lavender. Of course
first, were too limp if not starched
as they it should be done every time articles are

at all and, if starched, wringing them made washed. It is also good to clean rugs and
the starch uneven. She found that by carpets, as it brightens colors and is a
washing them in thin starch and hanging good moth exterminator. After thor-
them up to drain on a coat-hanger, with- oughly sweeping rugs wring out a cloth
To Set Colors and go over them with the turpentine and
out wringing, they were exactly right.
V. N. —
water. B. R. G.

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 Helps in Ironing and Cleaning
Fabrics
A Good Use for When we get new cata- Ironing Hint A hot iron fades more
Old Catalogues 'ogues from the seeds- colored articles than the
men or
the large stores, washing. Many years ago a successful
we use the old ones as pads for the kitchen housekeeper showed me a red table-cloth
table or cupboard. They are very useful that had always been ironed on the wrong
to set a pie or cake or pan upon while cool- side, which was faded pink, while the right
ing, and thus save the oilcloth or paint or side was almost like new. Since then I
woodwork. They are also useful for the have many times found out this by experi-
ironing-board to clean the irons upon, and ence. —
Mrs. E. L. C.
the leaves can be torn off as fast as they
become worn or scorched. Miss M. S. — To Iron Pieces of damask table
Damask linen rarely require any
Sprinkling To sprinkle clothes eas- starch. If they are care-
Clothei on the >'y leave them on the fully washed and ironed while damp they
U ne l' n e and use the hose on

them. Turn the water

will be stiff enough and wear much longer.
Use irons as hot as possible without scorch-
on just enough to run well and adjust the ing the linen, and iron each piece until it
sprayer to make —
a fine spray. Mrs. J. B. B. Sprinkling Clothe* is thoroughly dry. This gives them a crisp-
on the Line ness which can be gained in no other way,
Candle Ends Tiny ends of candles and linen will stay clean much longer than
should be kept to add to if carelessly ironed and put away limp and
the starch on wash days. They will add not entirely dry. Handkerchiefs should
to the gloss. C. M. B. — also be ironed with a hot iron while quite
—
damp. Mrs. J. J. O. C.
To Smooth When
ironing, take the
an Iron ron °^ tne ^ re an(^
'
Smooth Tahle I tighten my wringer
plunge it quickly into as ''S nt as possible, then
Linen
cold water in which a little soap has been after my table-cloth is
dissolved. You will be surprised at the well rinsed and folded even, I put it in hot
smoothness which will result. — Mrs.G.W.H. water and wring it through wringer.
I roll it up in a sheet and let it lie from
For Quick Take a five-gallon crock, four to six hours, and then iron until per-
Ironing sprinkle your clothes, fectly dry. I do the napkins in the same
roll tight, and pack in way. They are perfectly smooth and look
jar,covering tightly. In two hours they will like satin.— B. E. B.
be as nice as if they had laid all night.
Do not sprinkle too much, as the dampness A Handy Ironing We know what a
penetrates quickly. O. McK. — Board
all
nuisance it is to have to
A Handy Ironing Board tug out the big ironing-
To For use in an ironing-
Protect the board when we want to press out a waist
Hand holder, a piece of leather
or a baby's bonnet-strings. Try padding
cut from the top of an
the leaf of your kitchen table and cover
old shoe will protect the hand from the
heat, also save callous spots from the grip
it as you would your ironing-board. You
then have your board ready at a minute's
if one uses the patent handle irons. Mrs. — notice, and you will find that you can do a
F. F. S.
great deal of your ironing on it. Mrs. H.—
M. F.
Heating Irons When the top of the
in the Oven stove is ful '. and >* is
time to get dinner with Home-made Having on hand a nuni-
still some ironing
to be accomplished, the Ironing Pad b er of pieces of heavy
irons can be heated very nicely in the oven. fluted paper which came
— E. M. S. around
pings. I
cup of candle drip-
bottles, also a
poured the melted paraffin over
Restoring Black One of jny discoveries the paper, leaving a thin coating. On iron-
which has proved valu- ing day, I use this to rub my irons on and
Goods
able is how to restore have an ideal ironing pad. C. M. R.—
black goods and hats which have taken on
a forlorn grayish hue of age. Simply For Pressing When you press clothes
sponge them thoroughly with alcohol. This always use a wet flan-
will not injure the most dainty fabric, and nel between the hot iron and the clothes,
they will emerge from their bath looking Heating Iron* in the Oven and it will never leave shiny places on the
l
;
ke new. — Mrs. A. W. goods— Mrs. E. P. B.

21
 All Sorts of Stains
To Take Out The following receipt Taking Out "A little rose water
Iron-Rust Stains served to take out the Spots W 'N ta ke out spots," said
stains from half a dozen a physician who had
small pieces —
handkerchiefs, jabots, etc. dropped some oil on my light silk waist
The juice of one lemon, two teaspoonfuls while treating my throat. It proved very
of salt, a cup of water. Put this on the effective and is not expensive. Last sum-
fire, and as soon as it boils dip into it that mer when the white silk ribbons in my
part of the article which is stained. In a shoes became soiled I rubbed them thor-
minute, or less, the spot will have entirely oughly with a rag saturated in rose water,
disappeared. Frances H. J. and then rolled them around large bot-
tles to dry. Bandeaux and sashes may be
Old Ink Stains Melt tallow and while freshened in the same way, as it will not
in Cotton Goods boiling drop the ink- injure the most delicate colors in silks.
spotted into itmaterial — C. P.
and keep the spot there saturated.until
Then rub with soap until the spot evapo- Iodine Stains If iodine should be
rates. It may take two treatments, but any
To Take Oat spilled on article
this has removed spots after they were set about the sick-room, the stain may be re-
—
by boiling. E. H. Iron- Rust Stains
moved by immersing the article in cold
water to which strong household ammonia
Seven Rules Remove mildew stains
b y boiling the garment
—
has been added. Mrs. G. C. O.
for Stains
in cream of tartar water
To Remove For perspiration stains
and then laying in the sun. on silk waists sponge
Perspiration
Equal parts of turpentine and ammonia
Stains tne place with a clean
will remove paint from clothing, no matter
rag wet in clear cold
how hard it may be. water. Cover the wet places with pow-
Borax will remove the leather stains dered prepared chalk. Let dry and brush
made by shoes on light colored stockings. off carefully with a soft brush. Mrs. —
Lemon will remove match scratches from L. R. M.
paint.
Spirits of camphor will take off peach
stains.
To Keep Ivory As the French ivory
Ammonia will remove grease stains from White toilet sets are now so
white goods. much in vogue
and peo-
ple are having trouble to keep them from
Ether will remove stains without leaving
turning yellow, they may be glad to know
—
a ring on the material. Mrs. F. G. McB.
that by wiping them with alcohol instead
of water they will retain their natural
Kerosene Oil Kerosene oil spilled on color. This also applies to piano keys, on
Stains ru gs. carpets,
woolen goods may be
re-
or any
To Prevent Oil Stains
which water should not be used. Mrs. H. F. —
moved by dry The
flour should be
flour.
put on immediately after the oil is spilled To Prevent Oil When using the sewing-
and scraped off and renewed until no odor Stains machine after oiling, tie

is left in the floor. Kansan. piece

a of common
string around the lower part of the needle-
After Using Spirits of camphor takes bar, just above the screw that holds the

Copy Ink tne m

k °^ hands and needle in place. This will absorb the oil
nails perfectly and at and there will be no more trouble with
the same time does not injure the skin. soiled stitching. —
K. U.
—Sally.
To Remove Fruit Dip the hands in strong
To Remove Chloroform, when ap- Stains from the tea, rubbing them well
Tar plied with a piece of Hands w i tn a nail-brush and
cloth, will remove grease afterwards wash in
of any kind from woolen. It has been used warm water. Jessie Y.
successfully when tar from buggy wheels
was on the garment. But if on wash goods To Remove Ink Hydrogen Peroxide will
apply salty butter and rinse well with soap remove ink from all
—
and warm water. Mrs. L. E. M. kinds of cloth and wearing apparel with-
out changing its color. Take a medicine
Scorch Stains To effectively remove dropper and fill with the Hydrogen Per-
scorch marks from linen oxide. Saturate the cloth over the ink
rub with a fresh cut onion, soaking the stain. Sometimes it requires several ap-
To Remove Ink
garment in cold water afterwards. S. C. — plications. Lay the goods in the sun or air
Clarke. after each application. —
A Subscriber.
 Helps with Floors and Floor
Coverings
To Renovate a T have found a way to To Keep Rugs For rugs that roll or
Hardwood Floor renew an old floor. The from Curling > at the ed 8 es make a
cur
oldest and most used thin starch and rub thor-
up hardwood floor yields to this treatment oughly into the parts of the rug that roll.
Wash the floor, using a good brush, soap, Place wrong side up in a dry atmosphere for
and two liberal tablespoonfuls of strong a few hours. A. P. —
ammonia to each pailful of water. After
the floor has dried, apply with a soft A Novel Kitchen I made a neat and most
brush equal parts of boiled linseed oil and Floor Covering satisfactory covering for
turpentine. Let this soak well into the floor. my dining-room floor of
It will take five or six days. Then wipe green denim sewed together on my ma-
with a cloth soaked in gasoline to remove chine. It was a heavy, durable grade.
any dust that may have gathered during the When this faded I tacked it on my kitchen
drying process. Apply a coat of good wax floor and painted it with a mixture of
(one of the prepared makes), and rub with brown ochre, turpentine and linseed oil.
a weighted brush. Two or three even coats To Renovate a This I prepared myself at a nominal cost.
of wax may be applied if a high polish is Hardwood Floor That was ten years ago, and the carpet,
desired the first time. A
floor fixed in this or oilcloth, is as good as when first put
way will last years if a coat of wax is —
down. Mrs. N. H.
applied about every six months. L. W. —
Care of Try sewing your new
Care of When
buying, order the Matting matting with raffia.
Linoleum linoleum an inch larger Dampen and split
each
than your room, and do strand. This will make a fine seam
that
not tack to the floor for about two months, will look well on either side. When laying
and you will find the extra inch just fills new matting, one can prevent ridges and
in nicely. Never use soap or any kind of wrinkles if, after putting down as smooth
washing-powder, as this takes the life out as possible, you will wash with a pail of
of linoleum. If clean water doesn't re- hot water to which a cup of salt has been
move the grease around the stove, use a added. Leave quite wet, and in drying the
little extra water and pure soap. After matting will shrink into place. The salt
the linoleum has been in use three or toughens it. Wash with the grain of the
four months wash carefully, and be sure matting. Never sweep matting with an un-
it is perfectly clean and then varnish. The covered broom, as it will split the fibre,
dealer we purchased our linoleum of said but cover the broom with a soft Canton
it would wear twice as long if varnished flannel bag and dip in salt water to brighten
and cleaned as above stated. I made a it. Grandma.
little slip of the bottom part of an old apron
with a ruffle on, gathered at the top and
Care of Linoleum A Bathroom A practical bathroom
slipped over the broom, and instead of ru 8 can be made from
Rug
sweeping go over with this every day. The discarded underwear by
floor always looks spotless. The ruffle cutting the best parts into narrow strips
takes up the dirt and the slip is easily and joining them as for carpet rags and
washed. — Mrs. A. L. T. then crocheting them with a large wooden
hook, using the single crochet stitch. M. —
A Burlap Floor I purchased ordinary R. L. S.
Covering green burlap at fifteen
cents a yard, which I To Clean Rugs Lay the rug on the
sewed like a carpet and laid, having first porch and take a hand
removed molding at bottom of baseboard. scrubbing brush and soap and scrub thor-
I then sized the burlap with glue water oughly. After scrubbing take several buck-
made by dissolving stick glue in hot water. ets of cold water and dash upon the rug,
With this I entirely filled the pores of the rinsing it in this way. Do not wring.
burlap. I next applied two coats of Take the rug out and lay flat on the grass
"meadow grass" floor paint, and wishing to dry. Do not hang, as it will stretch an
a dull finish, when dry removed the gloss ugly shape. Turn occasionally until thor-
by gently rubbing with a cloth dipped in oughly dry. F. E.—
turpentine. The molding was then re-
placed, covering tacks. This makes a san- To Save If the iron rollers on
Floors
itary and artistic floor covering, which is furniture are given a
as durable as a hardwood floor. When To Clean Rags coat of paint, they will not leave the
washed with warm water it is as pretty unsightly marks on matting that they do
as when new. —
L. A. M. if not treated in such a manner. N. F. G. —
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 Helps About the Dining Room
A
Help in When feeding a small A Time Saver To the woman doing her
Feeding Children child bread spread with own work a wheel-tray
butter or
jam, cut the for the dining-room is a great time-saver.

bread into thin slices and fold over into Discarded baby carts or any cart with
sandwiches. There will then be no "but- small wheels can be picked up "for a song"
ter side" to fall on the carpet, nor will they in a second-hand store and with a little
get the butter or jam on their fingers or carpentry work a nice wheel-tray can be
dresses. —Mrs. M. built.— Mrs. C. M. B.

Color an A housekeeper who has A Rose and In strawberry time it is

Appetizer a comfortable, happy Green Table verv eas y to nav e a pret-
family declares that ap- ty table to correspond
petites are as responsive to "color" as to with the fruit which is a favorite with
articles of food. In the summer she tries every one. Choose some green linen of the
to have the dining-table furnishings and soft tone described best as "gray-green,"
flowers a cooling green and white, and and work a buttonholed edge in a rose
in the autumnal time the supper-table color that will harmonize with the straw-
glows with doilies made of red crash and A Time Saver berry tint. Use these on the polished table.
with a similar mat of larger proportion As a centrepiece use a green and rose
for a centrepiece, on which rests a brass raffia basket filled with perfect strawber-
bowl holding a pot of bright red gerani- ries and leaves. — S. L.
ums.
A Handsome One of Grandma's old
A New Use for In many houses there
China Closet bureaus will make a
Ugly Pictures are pictures well faded nice china closet by put-
and strongly framed, ting in glass doors and giving the whole
which cannot be said to adorn the walls a coat of varnish. If mahogany, have it
upon which they hang. If you have such restored to its own beauty by a cabinet-
a one with a wooden frame, substitute a
pretty piece of chintz for the picture un-
—
maker. R. J. S.

der the glass, get a pair of brass handles

at the hardware store and screw one on
A Useful Living in a small house
Screen and finding it necessary
each end. Glue a piece of felt to fit the
combine kitchen and
back and you have a nice tray. K. A. C.— to
dining-room, I took a fourfold screen and
filled each panel with dark green denim.
A Summer Help We are all familiar with Then I purchased four fruit pictures, six-
Not Often paper napkins, but few
teen by twenty, and bound the edges with
•? «. ii j housekeepers
* have the
Enough Used coufage to be umike
green sateen the shade of the denim.
These I tacked across the top of each panel.
other people and use them except for pic- A New Vie for This was set across the corner I used for
nics. In any summer cottage, however, they Ugly Picture* the kitchen, thereby suggesting a parti-
can easily save much washing and iron- tion. On the back, or kitchen side of the
ing. Paper napkins can be purchased by screen, I made large pockets of the denim
the hundred in a variety of designs.
and tacked across the lower edge. These
Choose a floral design to match the fresh are a great convenience in holding kitchen
flowers used as a centrepiece that day. A
towels, dust-cloths, etc. Hooks were
variety of designs makes a pretty change
screwed in one panel top and bottom and
from day to day, or the ones which are all eyes screwed into the wall, and in this way
white with a gold initial are light and at- the screen could be fastened to avoid dan-
tractive. Use a paper napkin for a centre-
piece and one under each plate whenever
ger of being knocked over. E. S. —
linen doilies would otherwise be used.
They may also be used on trays, either for The Old Tray When a japanned tray
—
the guest-room or piazza. Mrs. H. H. Made New becomes old and chipped
give it two coats of
white paint and one of enamel, the bot-
Table Decorating One of the most satis-
factory colors to use for tom as well as the top. Stand it on edge
Hint to dry after each coat. It will be found
table decorating is rose-
pink, which bears the light of sun and ar-
as good as new, as well as very pretty.
tificial lights without much change. So The enamel is easily renewed. N. H. —
often one plans a color scheme and, alas
when the lights are turned on the blue looks New Use for One
mailing-tube will
green, violet changes its hue, and yellow Mailing Tubes make
several napkin-
looks pale and faded. Red is a splendid rings. Cut it the width
The Old Tray Made New required. Cover with pretty wall-paper, or
color to use in winter, but is dangerous
in combination. —
Mrs. W. M. C. with embroidered linen if preferred. E. F. —
24
 Helps with Linen
Strengthening Pil-Pillow-slips made from Care of I have seen a number
low Slip* Made tubing may be given a Centrepiece* P* methods for keeping
from Tubing longer lease of life by centrepieces fresh, but I
reversing the end seam. like my way the best. Perhaps other
Rip the seam and turn half way around people would like to try it. I took two yards
from the way it was at first, so that the of cretonne, hemmed each end and folded
former side folds are now in the centre, it in the centre and sewed on some loops

then stitch up again. This gives a new sur- so I could hang it up in the closet or any
face for the heavier wear and doubles the convenient place. Then I took muslin and
service of the pillow-slips. — Mrs. A. G. made as many folds as I had centrepieces
and sewed them in the cretonne cover,
To Save Sheet* If the woman who does exactly like the leaves in a book. As I
and Pillow Case* ne ° wn laundry work
>" iron my centrepieces I pin each one in a
will try folding sheets leaf. When I want one to use it is smooth
and table-covers with the selvage edges and fresh and will lay flat on the table.
together and pinning them to the line she Mrs. C. K.
will never go back to the old way. As the
corners of pillow-cases where pinned to Care of Centrepiece*
the line are the first to wear out, the wise A Help with When you buy a new
Napkin* piece of linen for nap-
woman makes them several inches longer
than they are needed. When they wear kins, before cutting them
apart overcast the two ends and put the
out cut them off and finish as before. C. — pieces through the wash once. Then cut
F. R.
them apart and hem and you will find the
To Mark Linen To mark linen easily dip
labor of hemming simplified tenfold. E. —
G. H.
Easily tne article to be marked
in cold starch and let it
dry. The pen will write then without To Whiten When you wash un-
scratching. — Mrs. L. H. E. Unbleached bleached sheeting or tu-
Sheeting bing, m order to bleach it
When Putting In putting away white yourself, always rinse it
goods from one season in clear water. Bluing in your rinse water
Away Clothe*
will make it look dark gray. Rinsing in
to another, to keep them
from yellowing, take a bag made of any old clear water it becomes pure white. G. R. —
sheet, wash clean, dip in strong bluing water,
and dry. It should be very blue. Put clean, Hanging When hanging table-
unstarched clothes in bag loosely and hang and sheets on the
cloths
in a dark closet. —
F. W. P.
Tablecloth*
hang by the hems,
line
as this will save the hems and keep the
A Linen Many times, in a large wind from whipping them out. N. M. —
Substitute family of children, or in Hanging Tablecloth*
boarding-h ouses, the
housekeeper finds her supply of napery in- Summer I bought heavy white
sufficient to meet the demands for fresh cut
sheeting, out the
Counterpane*
napkins. I have found the following plan corners to fit the iron
a satisfactory one, as it affords an ample beds just as counterpanes are cut, hemmed
quantity at but little expense. To make these all around and stitched on a good
one dozen napkins I get three yards of soft substantial torchon lace edging. The beds
Indian head at fifteen cents a yard. From look nicely dressed, and laundering them
each side I cut away the selvage edge, then is as easy as doing the sheet.
cut or tear the material through the centre
lengthwise, which gives two long strips of
equal width. To be accurate, I measure To Keep Linen Always wrap table or
the strips across, then measure the same White bed linen which is to be
stored away in dark blue
number of inches down the side, draw a
thread and cut my first napkin. This may paper to keep it from turning yellow.
serve as a pattern for the remaining eleven,
or they may be measured in the same way To Save Dish Besides the ever- ready
as the first. When cut, I fringe them one Towel* newspapers for the
and one-half inches around. To prevent k i tc hen have a, wall
raveling, and give a finished look, it is well pocket made from oilcloth, ticking, or
to whip the napkin between the threads of cretonne. Into this tuck odds and ends of
the fringe. This same Indian head, I find, clean cloth to be used for wiping out bak-
makes most excellent and durable pillow- ing tins and wiping off fingers when baking
cases, which when hemstitched, are scarcely
To Save Dish Towel*
and for many other purposes. Burn when
distinguishable from linen. H. K. G. — through with each piece. C. M. R. —
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 Helps When Entertaining
Inexpensive Save some of the juice Pretty Luncheon a clear glass bowl,
Fill

Punch from sweet peach pickles Idea as used for gold-

suc h
(I purposely make more with
fish, carbonated
than I need for my pickles), put it in cans water. In it place a bouquet of nasturtiums
just asyou do for peaches and every ti.ne and their leaves. The escaping gas in the
you empty a can of peaches save the juice. water creeps over each leaf and flower,
To one quart of this juice add six lemons, making the whole seem covered with dew.
four cups of sugar, one-half bottle of grape It is a most refreshing bit of coolness on a
juice. From this results a bowl full of —
hot day. Mrs. G. A.
delicious —
punch. Mrs. W. W. G.
A New Idea Some friends of ours
Entertaining A way out of the dif-
who have an interesting
family of daughters, artistic and literary,
Small Children Acuity of the much
conceived the idea of making their note
dreaded muss when
books valuable to all concerned. "One new
mother permits her little ones a holiday in
thing a day" is the rule in the house, to
the kitchen with their hands in the dough
is as follows Add two heaping tablespoon- bring to the others. A
new joke, a new
:
Pretty Luncheon Idea suggestion or impression, or criticism even.
fuls of salt to each half cup of stiff dough
made of flour and water. I have yet to This makes the gathering together at the
discover its equal in entertaining youngsters
supper table a cheery event, while the
furnishings of the house, the variety of the
on a rainy day when they become unusually
table, and cheerfulness of the whole family
restless, as this mixture can be molded and
reflect the rule, giving the frequent visitors
remolded and finally made in forms and put
aside to dry and harden. If put in the oven
a "new idea" of charming hospitality.
to dry it becomes like marble, while the A Use for Old I no longer throw away
babies emerge perfectly clean. Mrs. J. S. — Calendars mv °W calendars which
are filled with quotations,
A Reserve If all housekeepers would good advice, or a bit of fun. In an extremity
Dinner trv nl y P' an 0I a reserve for place-cards one day, I cut out the most
dinner, they need never adaptable ones for my guests. They were
fear any inconvenience when the husband gaily and prettily printed, and I could not
telephones that he is bringing home a guest, have found sentiments more suitable if I
or when friends appear unexpectedly to
"stay to lunch." I have a shelf in my cup-
had spent hours searching the shops. E. S. —
board that always holds some canned goods The Small Guest In a childless home the
that, with the help of a fire, can be made small guest is often with-
into a delicious meal. Soups, extracts of out entertainment. A little forethought will
beef to make bouillon, canned meat which provide plenty of amusement if all odds
can be simply heated and served with a and ends, pictures, silk scraps, fashion plates,
thickened gravy or made into croquettes; a A Reserve Dinner tissue paper, etc., are stored in a box kept
few of the best quality of canned vegetables for that purpose. Little girls often enjoy
and some canned peaches, pears, and straw- making a kitchen holder or outlining a small
berries and a canned plum pudding. Thus,
; doily for their hostess.
with very little labor, I can serve soup,
meat, and vegetables make a salad dressing
; For Round Sand- Pretty frills of entertain-
for either egg or vegetable salad and a wich Loaves m 8 are not necessarily
sauce for pudding or beat ten cents' worth
; expensive. When baking
of thick cream and have canned peaches bread, make one or two little loaves by filling
with whipped cream. I also keep a few well-greased, pound-size baking-powder tins
—
choice crackers in jars plain ones for soup, with dough. Fill only full enough to permit
and fancy dainties to serve with desserts if dough to rise just to the top. Thin sand-
the cake tin should be empty when a guest wiches of these round slices of bread make
happens in for a cup of afternoon tea. As a dainty bite with a cup of afternoon tea.
one can is used I replenish the supply, so — Louise.
am never at a loss for an unexpected dinner.
The Entertain- On holidays and birth-
To Keep Sand- Wrap in a napkin wrung ment Box da vs man y P rett V but
.

out OI hot water, and useless things come into

wicb.es Fresh
put away in a cool place the house; cards, bits of gay ribbon, gauzes,
until needed. —
Miss E. H. boxes, spangles, tinsel, tissues and favors.
We put them all away in the "Entertainment
To Keep Choco- Chocolate made before Box." It is surprising how often the needed
'he guests arrived, and things for church entertainments, children's
late Hot For Round Sandwich
put in the fireless cooker, parties, decorations, place-cards, and the
Loaves dressing of dolls can be found in this
was piping hot two hours later, when we
wanted to serve it. G. W. — —
box. E. S.

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 Serving for Family and Guest
A Box for Meal A
pasteboard box may
Suggestions be fastened to the kitchen To Cut Butter To
cut butter in blocks
wall and divided into in Blocks f° r tne taD e foW a knife
'

three compartments marked "Breakfast," blade in waxed paper and

"Dinner," and "Supper," or "Breakfast," the blocks will cut smoothly. S. L. R. —
"Luncheon" and "Dinner." Each member
of the household may drop a written re- Economy in When one fruit or vege-
quest into any of the compartments con- Cooking and table is expensive, sub-
taining the name of some particular dish stitute another, always
Servi "
for which he may be hungry. In this way consideringthe food value
the mother may receive some ideas or at of the article. It is important that every
least know she is giving the family what housekeeper should experiment with the fire-
—
they particularly desire. G. M. C. K. less cooker. Where gas is used for cooking,
economize by cooking over one burner. The
A Help with If housewives will try writer purchased a large old-fashioned
Muffins tm s method of taking steamer for a trifle. In this four or five of the
time by the forelock, three-pound lard pails with covers can be
they need not dread the morning hurry.
A Box for used. In one can be potatoes, in others cab-
Meal Suggestion*
While supper is cooking every night grease bage, onions, etc., a pudding, rice, and even
the gem tins and stand them at the back the coffee. Abeef loaf may be placed in a
of the range. In a large bowl place the larger pail in the kettle of water under the
Hour, corn meal, or rye meal, or graham steamer, and, if necessary, another steamer
flour, the necessary salt, sugar, and baking may be placed over this one and a dish of
powder. Turn the heat into the oven, for apples cooked for another meal. When
a good deal of heat may be stored in this tomatoes are to be cooked use a bowl.
way. In the morning the oven is quickly Experiments will show the possibilities of
hot with the new tire, it is but a minute's
iLCJ the old-fashioned steamer. When obliged
task to beat one or two eggs, according to to use the gas oven, plan to use it for the
the recipe, adding necessary milk and beat- entire meal. Always make foods palatable.
ing into the dry materials. The muffin tins A high authority declares that palatable
are ready by simply heating. food is more digestible and nourishing than
that which does not please the palate. Some
For a Child's I have found that there of the best French dishes are made from
Party ' s nothing prettier for a the cheaper cuts. —
Mrs. C. W. C.
centrepiece for the table
at a child's party than wee crocks of tiny A Christmas Whether there be chil-
growing ferns and others of tiny geraniums Decoration dren or only grown-
in bloom. These are massed in the centre. ups in the family, sus-
Attach to each a ribbon leading to a place- pend a hoop wound with evergreens from
card with the child's name thereon. At the chandelier in horizontal position by
the end of the party each child hunts the For a Child's Party means of bright red ribbons. From the
plant at the end of his ribbon and takes it hoop hang small stockings made out of
home. Thus the plants serve for decorations bright red mosquito netting. These may be
and as a favor. Bf.f.. tied in place with red bows or green bows
of ribbon, and each bears a tag with the
Putting Away Instead of putting away name of a member of the family. They may
Food remnants of food in the hold bonbons or some little gift. A pretty
dish in which they were fancy is to have all the gifts on a table
I, or into another clean one, make them simply numbered. On the top of each stock-
ready to warm for another meal. For ing may be placed a slip of paper with a
instance, a few baked beans, or a little stew, list of the numbers which mark each in-
may be put into a small granite basin in dividual's gifts, and at a given time all may
which it is to be warmed. These may be search and find their own. Hostess.
purchased for five cents. Mrs. R. L. —
For a May An effective table-cover
A Wise Children sometimes form Luncheon for a May luncheon is

Deception a distaste for milk when made of any of the cheap

it should fill an important flowered materials which come for curtain-
place in their diet. In some cases it has ing. Sew the desired number of strips
proved a good plan to get an odd glass (a together, with pink or green ribbon .basted
colored tumbler with their initials on it), over the joinings. For a centrepiece use
a glass water-set or simply a little pitcher a pink and green basket filled with apple
and mug. The beauty of the strange re- blossoms. At each place have a small
ceptacle or the fun of pouring the milk will flower-pot painted green filled with pink
cause them to forget how much milk tjiey are
A Christmas Decoration
candies, and stick a spray of apple blossoms
drinking. in the top of each pot. S. L. —
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 Helps with Glass and China
A Great Conve- A tall dipper or large Brushes for Dish I use a little hand-brush
nience to have open-mouthed glass jar Washing i" place of the old-time
Back of the Sink '"to which water can be dish-cloth. I find it gets
poured conveniently, is a in the creases better than a cloth, besides
great convenience to have back of the sink. being more sanitary. It will not scratch or
In it egg-beaters and spoons, knives, forks, mar, but is quite as effective as a knife for
etc., used in beating or eating eggs can be scraping in cases where the food adheres to
placed while preparing other dishes for the dishes or cooking utensils. I keep one
washing. If stood in cold water one will for washing the dishes and one for scouring
never have to waste time cleaning an egg- —
purposes. Mrs. O. C. McM.
beater on which egg has encrusted, which,
as every housewife knows, is a wearisome Tempering China Before I use new thin
task. On the same principle fill all cereal and Glass china I put it in a pan
pans, vegetable pans, etc., with cold water of cold water allowing
and stand at the back of the range while the it gradually to come
to the boil. Then take
meal is in progress. Much scraping of pans it off and stay in the water until the
let it
can be saved by this little forethought. S. L. — A Great Convenience to water is cold. It can then resist the sudden
Have Back of the Sink expansion caused by heat and breakages will
To Wash Milk If the glasses that have be far less frequent. The water should heat
ne 'd milk be first rinsed
Glasses and cool as gradually as possible. lamp My
in cold water they may chimneys I treat in the same way with
be safely washed in hot. If dipped in hot —
excellent results. Mrs. N. G. M.
water as soon as they are emptied, the milk
is coagulated and clouds the glass. Drying Dishes The greatest saving of
time I have found in
The Use of Molds To remove anything years is to wash the dishes, place in wire
from a mold when cold, draining-basket, scald, and put on the
wrap a hot cloth about the outside of the radiator or in a warm oven. Mrs. E. B. —
mold for a minute or two. To remove a
hot viand, wrap a cold cloth about the mold. To Dry Lamp Wash and rinse chimneys
— M. C. Chimneys n not water. Stand on
'

radiator on a dry
the
When To
separate them with-
Glasses cloth, or in a wire dish-drainer on the
Stick breaking set
Together out the back of the stove. The glass will be
lower glass in warm clean, dry, and bright. B. G. —
water and fill the upper one with cold water
and the heat and cold, respectively, expand- To Clean Coffee When teapots and coffee-
ing the lower and contracting the upper, and Teapots P ots become discolored
they are easily slipped apart. — E. inside boil them up in
cold water with two teaspoon fuls of baking-
Cleaning A
handful of salt and a soda. "Betsy Clover."
Decanters cupful of vinegar shaken
To Dry Lamp Chimneys
up well in a cloudy Excellent China An excellent cement for
decanter will clean it like magic. Rinse Cement broken china or bric-a-
well in hot water several times to remove brac is made by mixing
all taste of salt. It will be beautifully clear half an ounce of gum arabic with a half
—
and clean. M. G. U. teaspoonful of boiling milk and adding
enough plaster of Paris to make a creamy
To Mend China Common white lead will paste. To use successfully have the pieces
mend glass or china so that are to be mended warm and apply with
it will wear as long as if new.
Apply to a soft brush. Set aside for several days, to
broken edges, place carefully together, and become thoroughly dry. They can then be
tie the dish to hold it until paint becomes washed in either warm or cold water with
perfectly dry. — L. W. safety.— A. C. H.

To Clean Cruets To clean vinegar cruets The Habit of Use a tray to carry the
use warm water with Trays dishes and other things
about a spoonful of soda. After shaking, from the cupboard to
the cruet is cleaned perfectly. Miss — the table, this saves many steps, not only in
L. M. F. setting the table, but in clearing it after the
meal. The same may be said of baskets.
To Hold Plates Glass
push-pins put in Have one or two handy sized baskets and
in China Closet with
a firm pressure (one make a practice of stocking them to take up
front of each piece)
in stairs or down as things accumulate out of
make a very satisfactory rest for light The Habit of Trays
place. Many helps are simply habits to
pieces, and are scarcely noticeable. F. F. — —
be acquired. Mrs. B.

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 At House Cleaning Time
For Mending For mending tubs or Economy of Time Dusting with a rag is a

Tub» or Vessels other vessels which are and Labor in laborious and tedious
not used about the fire Dusting Feathers are not
task.
take old can rubbers and melt them in a so good, as they leave
tin can or lid. Apply while hot, smoothing the cracks dirty and have a tendency to
it with a knife. Vessel will hold water knock off light ornaments. A soft bristled
as well as when new and will last a long paint-brush, or a duster of similar make,
time, costing nothing but a little time to something like a soft hearth duster, is a fine
—
renew. Mrs. F. C. substitute. I have discovered also that a
five-cent dish-mop makes a splendid duster.
Any Tin Bucket, especially one used for It can be washed, too. —
Miss E. G. H.
slops or water, when
painted inside and out with asphalt will Renovating Window shades that
last for years. When the asphalt com- Shades have become cracked and
mences to look rusty after long use re- broken can be reno-
paint, which will renew all usefulness. Five vated by laying them flat on the floor and
cents' worth will paint any ordinary water painting them with ordinary oil paint
bucket. have one bucket that has been
I

in use seven or eight years which has been

A Box for the bought at any hardware store in small cans.
Scrubbing Pail Paint one side, let dry thoroughly before
painted only twice. Laura P. touching the other side. This treatment
preserves the shades and makes them last
For Smoke Black- This
f or
is an excellent way
cleaning smoke-
for years. — F. M. S.
ened Ceilings
blackened ceilings. Make
a fairly thick paste of starch and water Floor Mop I always get a new floor

apply this with a pad of flannel and allow mop before I begin to
it to dry on, then brush off with a soft house clean and use it for wiping the wall-
brush and you will find result well worth paper and woodwork. Then when I have
the trouble. — Miss R. McK. finished cleaning I wash it out and use for
a floor mop. This is so much better than
a cloth tied over a broom or anything of
To Remove Paint Paint may be removed
frorn window glass by the kind I have ever tried. "A Sub-
—
From Glass .
scriber."
rubbing it well with hot,
strong vinegar. — Mrs. Richard J.
A Box for the As an aid when scrub-
A Satisfactory An expert wood-finisher Scrubbing Pail b n S tak e a wooden box
'

Polish gave the following meth- large enough to hold the

od for French polishing scrubbing-pail. Fit it with castors and set
with the usual rubbing cut out. Cover wood the pail in it and push around as desired,
surface with any good floor varnish, when instead of lifting it to move it. A. D. P. —
perfectly hard rub with powdered pumice- Economy of Time
stone, slightly dampened with oil. Wash and Labor in Dusting To Renew Old To make furniture
old
off with cold water and rub with a clean look like new make two
Varnished
cloth dipped in raw linseed oil. A. L. L. — Furniture quarts of thick starch
and add to the starch
A New Use for When dusting or clean- four tablespoon fuls of lye and mix thor-
Dish Mop in g floors there are al-
oughly. Using a paint-brush, paint the
ways some places where piece of furniture with this mixture. After
even the finest mop will not clean, espe- a few minutes wash off thoroughly with
cially in corners and under some pieces of
the hose (if outdoors), a brush if one
furniture and under and around radiators, must be inside. The starch will take off
where much dust collects. To clean these all the finish on the furniture down to the
places I have found one of the dish mops, natural wood. After drying well apply
to be found at any ten-cent store, works
a coat of wood filler and then varnish,
like a charm. —
E. T.
and the piece of furniture will look like
new. The amount of work is small and the
The Use of When using plaster of result gratifying. — N. C. H.
Plaster of Paris Paris to fill cracks in
plaster, etc., mix with
vinegar instead of water. The resultant To Keep the To keep the zinc on my
mass will be like putty, and will not "set" Zinc Bright work-table looking bright
for about an hour; whereas, if water is I use an old worn-out
used, the plaster will harden before you can scrub-brush and a little scouring pow-
To Renew Old der once a week. I find the brush more
use it successfully. Push plaster into cracks
Varnished Furniture
and smooth nicely with a table or J>utty- effective than a cloth and the task is
knife.— A. C. F. easier. Housekeeper.

20
 Cleaning This and That
Some Cleaning Clean satin slippers
I. To Clean the To remove hair and
Hints an y color with
°f Carpet Sweeper threads from the carpet-
denatured alcohol. 2. sweeper, buy a ten-cent
Straw hats may be cleaned with a piece of wire hair brush, remove brush from sweeper
velvet dipped in alcohol. 3. Rub a piece of and run wire brush through the sweeper-
crinoline over suede or velvet shoes, purses, brush. I find this saves time and patience,
etc. This will remove the dirt, rub up the also the hands. — Mrs. M. E. S.
pile, and make them look like new. 4.
Camphor removes peach stains. 5. Ink An Easy Way to Sweep well, hang over a
stains on linen are removed with chloroform. Clean Rugs clothes-line, turn the
6. Scorches will disappear if diluted peroxide hose on full force, till the
is applied. 7. When washing or cleaning water runs perfectly clear and let the rug
dresses, whether woolen or cotton, hang on drip dry.
a coat-hanger on the clothes-line and the
garment will retain its shape and will also To Clean Lamp When your lamps smoke
be easier to iron. 8. Rub corn meal into Burners badly and you think it
panama hats to clean them. G. J. E. — An Easy Way to
necessary to buy new
burners, try boiling the burners for half an
Clean Rug* hour in water, to which has been added a
To Clean Ivory A paste of dampened
quantity of soda, removing from water while
sawdust and a few drops
hot, so that they may be easily dried. This
of lemon juice applied thickly to carved
ivory and allowed to dry before brushing
thoroughly cleans them, and your light will
off with a small brush will clean the ivory
be as bright as when burners were new.
—
very nicely. Mrs. E. A.
Tufted Leather An excellent way to clean
Chairs and tufted leather chairs and
To Clean White To clean white iron bed-
davenports is to get a
r*
Iron Bedsteads steads I use a damp Davenports
soft paint . brush and dip
cloth and a little cooking
in warm castor oil. The dust can thus be
soda. This will leave the bedstead clean
removed easily from all plaits and folds and
and white. I have also found that soda will
makes the leather soft and bright.
remove nearly all stains from the sink.
To Clean Mix
equal parts of am-
To Clean To clean leather up-
Ivory Handlesm onia and olive oil. Add
Leather holstery wash the leather prepared chalk to make a
with warm water to paste. Rub the ivory with this and let dry
which is added a little good vinegar. Use before brushing off. If very much dis-
an absolutely clean sponge. Wipe dry with colored several applications are sometimes
a soft, clean cloth. To restore the polish, —
necessary. "A Subscriber."
prepare the whites of two or three eggs
with a teaspoon ful of turpentine to each
To Clean Leather A Sweeping Before attempting to dust
egg. This should be whisked briskly, then Hint under dressers, com-
rubbed into the dry leather with a piece of modes, wardrobes, etc.,
clean linen cloth. — Mrs. H. C. W. remove the lower drawers. — J. W.
Cleaning Kitchen Every kitchen has a few Cleaning Paste I find that whiting and
Utensils ' ron an ^ tm utensils, and for Glass and ammonia, mixed to a
they are hard to keep M paste, will make windows
OTetal1
clean, even with frequent scouring. Boiling and glass and metal of
in lye water is the easiest way to do this. almost all kinds extra bright. Five cents'
I put a can of lye into the wash kettle, put in worth will make enough to last for a number
the pots and skillets which had become un- of cleanings. Rub paste on the article to be
tidy and filled the kettle with water to cover cleaned and leave it on until nearly dry,
utensils. After boiling they were easily then remove with a dry cloth. When the
scrubbed with a stiff brush and good suds. paste hardens, dampen with a little water
A little scouring makes them bright and —
before using. B. I. S.
clean. This is especially good for broilers,
iron pots, griddles, etc. Use a hooked wire To Clean I think I have found an
the
to pull them out of the lye water and scrub Porch easv wav t0 clean porches,
them while wet and hot. After being sub- I use a sprayer, the kind

merged in the hot suds the lye will not hurt that will throw the water against the ceiling
the hands.— B. R. C. and walls with force. The water should be
warm and there should be plenty of it. When
To Clean Nickel Turpentine and whiting through spraying use a broom or long-
mixed cleans nickel handled brush to remove what few fly specks
beautifully.— Mrs. J. B. S. there are remaining. Miss B. S. —
 Cleaning and Dyeing
CAUTION. — Neveruse gasoline near flame or fire of any sort. Large quan-
tities should be used in the open air. Fumes should not be inhaled. Keep
gasoline in a cool place.

To Clean To clean ostrich feathers To Wa*h and Dye This method may be used
Feather* Quickly'" gasoline so they can Cotton Laces to match any color. To
be used at once To a : wash laces, make a suds
quart of gasoline add about five drops of of pure soap and tepid water. Let laces
oil of sassafras. Dip the feathers in this soak for half an hour. Squeeze them
and rub briskly. Then shake out the between hands to get the water out. Make
plumes until dry. This should be done in fresh suds, souse in water again, and rinse
the open air, away from fires. G. M. K. — in two waters. Do not rub, but squeeze,
lest the meshes break. In last water put a
For Cleaning Take a small of
piece few drops of dissolved gum arabic. If lace
Velvet Surface* crinoline after brushing is cream or ecru, add a few drops of orange
the velvet and rub against dye to last water if pure white, a few drops
;

the nap. This will remove every particle of bluing. Spread on sheets to dry. When
of dust, leaving it rich and clean. This nearly dry, pull gently into shape and roll
was recommended by a very good ladies' from one end, keeping edges even. Wrap
tailor. Crinoline can be purchased at any To Clean Delicate in a damp cloth for a half-hour and press
—
dry-goods store. E. B. Fabric* with a not very hot iron, pressing towards
the scalloped edge of the lace. M. L. T. —
A White Hat A handsome white sailor
Turned to a hat for which I paid $5 To Clean Deli- To
clean Irish crochet or
ec me dusty and soiled. cate Fabric* an y delicate fabric which
Beautiful Brown ? will not stand rubbing,
i>
1 cleaned it with lemon
juice, but that turned it too yellow, so I put into a fruit jar (or any jar that can be
bought a twenty-cent can of dark walnut tightly sealed), with enough gasoline to
stain and painted the hat inside and out. I cover the article, seal the jar and shake,
gave it two coats, the first very thin. I about three minutes. Let stand fifteen
bought a brown velvet band of a harmon- minutes or more and shake again, open the
izing shade and the effect is perfect. — jar, take out the article being treated and
L. L. let drain a moment; if the dirt is not all re-
moved rub lightly with the gasoline, replace
A Quick Way to I cleaned three entire and shake again; when dry the article will
Clean Garments costumes and two waists —
look like new. C. F. L. W.
in my washing-machine.
The washer was manipulated in the usual Gasoline To clean perfectly with
way and the garments run through the Cleansing gasoline use a mild soap,
wringer, thereby eliminating any possible washing the article as if
injury to the hands. Three gallons of the you were using water instead of gasoline.
gasoline at sixteen cents a gallon was the A White Hat Turned to This does not injure the fabric and will
amount used. A
cleaner would have a Beautiful Brown remove grease. 7
.. —
H. M.
charged me $1.50 each for cleaning these To Clean Fur* For furs mix
—
garments. S. C.
light
together a pint of flour,
a pint of bran, and a tablespoonful of fuller-'
To Sponge a Sponge
your old blue earth. Brush 'and shake the furs, then lay
Blue Suit suit with strong bluing them on a table and rub with the above
water, then press on the mixture, using a coarse piece of flannel and
wrong side and you will be delighted with rubbing the wrong way of the fur. Shake
the result.— E. W. P.
out all the cleaning material, and go over
the fur again in the same way, using only
To Renew Hat* Once being caught in a bran this time. Shake out the bran and
heavy shower and with- wipe the fur with cheese-cloth. Dark furs
out an umbrella I thought my new hat, are cleaned in the same way, save that hot
which was thoroughly wet, was ruined. On
bran alone is used. Heat the bran in the
reaching home I set about to see what 1
could do. By turning it upside down and
oven. — H. R.

pinning to the gas fixture, through the lin- A Cleaning Hint I have found that gaso-
ing, with hatpins, I found I had it in a good line will not make a circle
position and put the flowers and ribbon in on material if it is mixed with corn meal.
best condition possible by pulling in shape Rub the spot with the saturated corn meal
and left the hat to dry. When thoroughly until the spot disappears then brush
dry it was scarcely injured. Rose C. To Renew Hats thoroughly. —
Mrs. F. A.
 Things Good to Know
A Cupid Apron I would like to tell of a Zinc for Kitchen I would suggest to any
for Christmas Cupid's apron which has Tables housekeeper to use zinc
proved a very fetching on all places in the
gift for young girls. The apron proper kitchen where she works. For instance, a
is a with point downwards.
heart The working-table covered with zinc, or a shelf
bib also is a heart while two smaller put before a pleasant kitchen window where
hearts serve as pockets and grace the ends one can do all her dirty work, cutting of
of the strings. These can be made of sheer vegetables, meat, etc., is a great saving of
organdy, briar-stitched with blue or pink time when one would otherwise have to get
and edged with Valenciennes. Mrs. J. — out a board. If you have a plate gas-stove
on a table, have the table covered with zinc
by all means. It is safer, and when dishing
Utilizing Fruit Having lived several up one can set hot kettles from the stove on
it.— M. M.
and Vegetable y ears near a fruit dealer,
R , I have found many uses
Baskets
for the baskets which The Kitchen Has the drain pipe of
he me have. The small grape-baskets
lets
Drain your kitchen sink ever
I convenient for holding clothes-pins.
find A Cupid Apron clogged so that the water
I fasten a wire around the handle, and bend for Christmas did not flow off quickly? Try this simple
the other end so it will loop over the clothes- method next time before you put in a call
line, and in this position it can be easily for the plumber. Take a sl.ort piece of
pushed along. The larger ones I use for garden hose, a piece two feet in length will
bringing vegetables from the garden, and be sufficient. Attach to the cold water
cellar. The small peach-baskets, covered faucet. Next remove the strainer from the
with pretty cretonne, make nice scrap- top of the drain pipe and push the hose
baskets, for bedroom, or sitting-room. into the drain. Turn the water on and let
They are nice for mending-baskets, too, it flow, slowly at first, but increase flow as
much better than a stocking-bag. I keep the water is forced through the drain. The
several in the laundry, for soiled clothing, water may be allowed to run for half an
one for handkerchiefs, one for stockings, hour or more so that the pipe is thoroughly
another for collars, and so on it saves sort- ; cleaned. This method is very effective and
ing on wash-day, which is no small item, in in many cases will save a plumber's bill.
—
a busy household. Mrs. L. D. C.
To Measure the For the dress gauge
Skirt Length pictured take a lath ten
To Hide the A practical way of elimi-
inches long, a piece of
Sewing Machine n ^[ n S t he unsightly
smooth board about one or one-half inches
sewing machine from the thick and a short hatpin. With a carpenter's
bedroom of your the following: Make
flat is
plane smooth the lath and board and round
a dressing-table by fastening to the wall a one end of the lath. Then nail the other
board as long as your machine. Cover this end of the lath upright on the board.
with cretonne to match the coloring of the Measure from the floor and mark spaces
room, or lined dotted Swiss, if you prefer, one-inch apart on the lath and bore holes
as the latter launders. Gather or plait the
to admit of a hatpin, which should just
material around the two ends and the front, through snugly. This little article
slip
cutting the pieces long enough to reach the
becomes almost indispensable in the sew-
floor. Have a piece of plate glass cut to fit ing-room to measure the length of dresses.
the top of the table so as to keep it clean
(this can be covered with the usual linen
cloth), and hang a mirror over this table
Economy of We obtained from a
Space furnishing store a num-
on the wall. The machine slides under the
curtains in the space made for it and may ber of shirt boxes, and
in them packed things which, although not
be drawn out ready for use at any time.
in frequent use, must be at hand when
needed. Wenumbered the boxes with con-
spicuously large figures, and in our cabinet
When Weary of This state of mind is
cook-book placed cards, correspondingly
Housework generally reached soon
after dinner or the noon
numbered. On the cards was written a
complete list of the contents of the boxes.
meal. Lie down for at least halt an hour
in loose garments and stocking feet with
By referring first to the cards one is able
an interesting book or magazine. Then get
to locate any article. — C. W.
up, bathe and dress and look at the world
through clearer eyes. Wise housekeepers To Remove Rub common brown soap
To Hide the on tne s P ot and scrape
renovate every article of furniture in their Mildew
Sewing Machine
house when worn, and wise the woman who white chalk on it. Keep
renovates herself. — Sally Lunn. wet, and lay in the sun.

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 Little Things to Remember
To Prevent a The difficult problem of Brass Polishing To one quart of hot
Plate from Slip- placing a dish on ice in a Pleasure water (soft if possible)
. the refrigerator so that add
one dessertspoon-
ping on Ice
j( wi „
ttg/Uy pu( W ; U be ..
ful of oxalic acid. Put the water in a
solved if one of the rubber rings used on granite pan and have enough to cover the
fruit jars is first placed on the ice and articles to be cleaned. Dip in your brass
the dish is placed on the rubber. — S. S. S. or copper ware for about two seconds, then
dry immediately with a soft linen cloth.
Mahogany Probably it would help The result is that the tarnish has absolutely
Furniture Polish some housekeepers to disappeared, the things look like new no —
know that an excellent more rubbing, no dirty hands, and a morn-
mahogany furniture polish is made from ing's work accomplished in a few minutes.
equal parts of pure olive oil and warm black Remember oxalic aciu is poison and
coffee. Just dampen a cheese-cloth with leaves a stain on wood. — H. B.
this mixture and pass over the surface
to be polished, then wipe with an old piece Meringues with After having difficulty
of silk. The result will be surprising. a Gas Stove for years in browning
To Prevent a Plate from meringues in my gas
Slipping on Ice oven where the heat comes from below, I
A Useful Chest I have caused myself
and others great annoy- stumbled upon the following scheme, which
ance of late by putting away things so care- isa perfect success. I place the pie or pud-
fully that they could not be found when ding under the burner of my gas plate, and
needed. I therefore have made a New the heat from above browns it beautifully.
Year's resolution to keep in the living-room If I have no other use for the gas at the
an upholstered box, fitted with a padlock same time, I put the teakettle or an iron
and key. In this I am to place all things griddle on it, so as to turn the heat down-
that I feel called upon to put away in a ward toward the meringue. Another un-
safe place. It is still too early to judge expected advantage is that the dish can he
of its usefulness, but I believe it may be a seen from any part of the kitchen, and is
success. Merit. not forgotten as it sometimes is when out
of sight in the oven. Mrs. C. —
Another Cure There are many ways of
for Mice getting rid of mice, but To Beat Carpets An excellent device in
try this. When mice or Rugs r "ff cleaning is to put an
trouble you hunt out their entrances to pan- old (probably saggy)
try or cupboard and plaster them with a wire bed spring upon the ground and lay
mixture of melted (just soft) laundry soap the rug or carpet to be beaten upon it. This
and red pepper. They will not come a sec- will keep the rugs off the ground thus al-
—
ond time. Mrs. B. C. N. lowing the dust to go through the springs
without settling upon the other side of the
Uses for the Wire The wire tea-stand is A Dumpling Steamer rug, as is the case when the article to be

Tea-Stand useful to place in a drip- beaten is spread on the ground. J. M. C. —

ping-pan or kettle when
roasting meat if you have no meat rack it ; A Dumpling A steamer that is inex-
can also be used for making toast. Use this Steamer pensive, yet best for
convenient article also to set a pie on while steaming dumplings, as
cooling. This allows a free circulation of no water can collect about the edges, is ar-
air under the pie and the crust will not be ranged as follows: Not being satisfied with
—
soggy. Mrs. P. F. L. the results obtained by steaming dumplings
the old-fashioned way I conceived the idea
A Use for Salt Save and wash all the of using a sieve, the kind with tin sides.
I use a cover with perforations for this.
Bags '' tl ' e c ' otn togs that salt
comes in and when you With this combination and a correctly pro-
have squash, turnip, or other
pumpkin, portioned recipe, dumplings fit for the most
watery vegetable to cook, wash and cut up epicurean taste can be produced. These
and put in the bag to boil. When soft you sieves can be obtained in any size and
can squeeze all the water out, press with used over any dish or kettle they will lit.

and they are light and easily handled.

potato-masher and turn out all ready for
ning with very little work. Mrs. K. —
For Corn Meal Grease the kettle 'with
In a Dark Cellar If your cellar is dark Muoh fresh lard before putting
and the coal shovel ba- in water and make a
the habit of eluding you, try painting it batter of the meal and some cold water.
In a Dark Cellar The wash easily and meal will
white and hanging it near the coal-bin. kettle will
It can easily be seen. not lump.

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 Helps with Personal Belongings
To Prolong the When a petticoat begins Simple Garment Small brass rings can be
Life of a to wear at 'he edge of
Hangers bought for three cents a
Petticoat
the hem '
tun
\ in anc dozen and make excel-
sew a row of waved} lent hangers for children's coats. When
braid on the edge, or embroider a shallow sewn on the inside band of boys' trousers
scallop. —
E. E. they save many a torn buttonhole, a button-
hole being what most boys use for a
A Closet Full A with
closet filled hanger.
of Boxes pasteboard boxes of all
sizes cannot fail to be Practical Use Do not throw away
of great benefit to the woman who wants for Old Dresses faded or outgrown house
a place for putting all sorts of possessions. dresses and wrappers
Little ribbons, good tissue-paper, odds and Cut off the waists, launder the skirts and
ends that would be useful at holiday time use them to cover your good skirts in the
or in planning some entertainment often be- closet. If one cares to take the trouble to
come soiled and mussed because there is boil and dip the old faded skirts into a uni-
no definite place for them. With neat, form shade of dye it will enhance their
clean boxes waiting, all such things may be A Closet Full of Boxes looks of course ; but I have found these
kept free from dust until silch time as they old house dress skirts make effective skirt
are needed. Pasted labels -should be used protectors just as they are. A
shirring tape
on the outside of each box, and the con- may be run through the belt and gathered
tents of each box marked oh them. tightly around the top of the skirt-hanger

To Curl
—
so as to keep out the dust. J. A. P.
Ostrich An easy way to curl
'

Plumes ostrich plumes when the To Keep To keep ostrich plumes

curl is out' of plumes or Ostrich Plumes during the summer, place
tips is to put them in a hoUoven. Leave the in a glass jar and screw
oven door open and watch the plumes that on the top.— Mrs. E. C. M.
they do not burn. In a short time they will
be like new. I just put my hat in the oven
For Stringing How often the string
on a paper if the plumes get damp and Beads on which beads are
straight. This is simple and easy and strung stretches, leaving
has helped me many times. — Mrs. M. E. T.
unsightly gaps in the chain, or worse still
it may break and the cherished beads go
scattering in every direction. I have found
Inexpensive Cut a flour barrel hoop
a remedy for this string beads on a
Dress Hangers m three parts. Cover I
:

violin string which is made of a very tough

each piece with a strip
of old cotton cloth about two inches wide by substance and which can be purchased for
winding it around each hoop and turning in the small sum of five cents. For small beads
the edges of the cloth to give them a neater the E string is the most suitable. K. S. —
finish. Then sew a piece of tape in the
Inexpensive Cuff links to harmonize
middle of each hoop long enough to hang
it up by. —
Miss M. D. B. Cuff Links vv tn buttons used on any
'

waist can be made by

joining two buttons with strong thread, al-
A Valuable My and white
linen
lowing the thread to separate the buttons
Button dresses were trimmed about a quarter of an inch. Bring the
ui h lar S e Iine " bu ttons,
Suggestion thread back and forth and then twine it
and
J.
to avoid having
around and around until a strong thread
them lost or broken when the articles were
is made. This manner of making cuff links
laundered I bought the fasteners which
enables one to have a variety of effec-
close with a snap, sewed part on the skirt
tive and pretty links that are both last-
and part on the back of button and simply
removed the buttons whenever the garment
—
ing and inexpensive. Mrs. G. F. DeL.
was laundered. The same idea can be To Remove To remove wrinkles
utilized with dress shields with excellent from clothes, hang the
results. — Mrs. C. E. G. Wrinkles from
bathroom,
articles in the
Clothes
shut the door and win-
A Corset Wher. the stays of the dows, turn on the hot water to fill the room
Suggestion corset punch through at with steam and leave the clothes for an
the top, instead of using hour or two. Dry in the open air, if pos-
goods to mend with, try covering the ends sible.— Mrs. J. E. R.
of these bones with pieces of old white
kid gloves. They are easily sewed on, To Renew Black To worn and white
and as the edges do not have to be turned To Remove Wrinkles
Kid Gloves fingers apply sweet oil
under make a smoother finish. The corset from Clothes
and black ink (equal
will also last longer. —
N. M. H. parts well mixed). Use a camel's-hair brush.

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 Little Things About the House
For Window* When one does not A Handy Place Having no handy place
Without Weight, have windows with for Tool* f° r small tools and use-
weights, it is very con- household utensils I
ful
venient to have small pieces of board with had the lower step of the back stairs made
notches sawed in them. This enables one into a box, the top of the step was hinged
to raise the window to different heights to lift up. Now my tools are always out of
without having to hunt for something of sight, yet I always know where to find
—
the desired size. Miss L. M. C. them.— Mrs. C. E.

To Keep I keep a small pail Individual After spilling a cup of

Wrapping Cord hanging by my kitchen Tray* into my lap, and
coffee
. jt to drop wrapping
table ruining my best gown, at
cord into when untying our club, I decided that I would never run
groceries. In this way a piece of string the risk of having that happen to anybody
is always on hand when needed. H. F. — when I entertained. I therefore bought
stamped tin trays by the dozen, and serve
To Run Rod* Housekeepers who have To Keep Wrapping
the plate and cup to each person on a tray.
in Curtain* trouble in running a rod The price is only fifty-five cents a dozen,
Cord at Hand and no one knows till she has tried them
hem of
through
the
sash curtains; —
Cut a little finger from what a comfort they are. Men are espe-
an old kid glove, slip it over the end cially delighted to have a place to set their
of the rod, and it will run through cups. "Merit."
smoothly. N. T.—
Saving Step* Busy housewives, save
For the Cut a circle of paper yourselves many steps, by
Candle*tick three inches in diameter having, upstairs and down, a market basket.
and lay it over the top As articles collect on either floor that be-
of the candlestick before putting the candle long on the other,',lay them in the basket
in. Just force paper, candle, and all into and carry them all-in one trip. In the same
the stick and you will save yourself the way have two slates, one in your bedroom
trouble of digging cold candle-grease off and one in the kitchen, with a pencil fas-
the stick when you wish to put in a new tened to each. If necessities are jotted
—
candle. Mrs. G. N. A. down as thought of, fewer articles will be
forgotten in making the shopping or mar-
To Reach High I have wooden boxes to keting lists.
Shelve* stand upon when I need
to reach the high shelves To Save the Place a large sponge in
in closets. I find them a great addition to
my house, and it saves the moving of chairs. Umbrella Stand the bottom of a china
They may be bought umbrella-jar and you
at a grocery store, will avoid striking the
stained to match the woodwork and fitted
bottom and breaking it. The sponge will
with casters. A hinged cover makes the To Save the also absorb the water from an umbrella,
box a useful receptacle for shoes. M. F. B. — Umbrella Stand
and may afterwards be wrung easily
out.— G. E. N.
A Use for Old broomstitcks are
Broomstick* often thrown away with A Protection to Housekeepers will find
the broom, but I have an old magazine very
the Kitchen
found three good uses for them. The
Table convenient on the kitch-
handles make good stout clothes sticks to be
en table. On it set pots,
used in lifting the clothes from the boiler; pans, skillets, etc., that are necessarily
varnished nicely they make good portiere somewhat black on the bottom. By tearing
poles where only a short one is required off a leaf or two of paper as they become
and lastly make a cap of some strong, soft soiled the magazine will last quite a while
material, draw it over an old broom and and save the labor of cleaning the
use it in sweeping hardwood floors. J. H. — table.— N. R. F.

Made from Many nice things such Keeping Sciscor* A colored ribbon tied to
Starch Boxes a s trays, boxes, plaques, scissors will save many
may be made at
etc.,
Handy
minutes that are 6ther-
home from the common five-pound starch wise spent in looking for them, especially
boxes. I make many gifts from them each if they are used by children who forget
year, using my pyrography set and drawing
Keeping Scissor* Handy where they have left them. A piece of rib-
my own designs. The wood is almost as bon is always sure to show, where scissors
nice to burn as basswood. Mrs. E. W. D. — are half hidden under papers or sewing.

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 Helps in the Sick Room
Contents of the Have tacked to the in- Sunshine Bag It is hard to
find any-
Medicine side door of your medi- for Invalid that wil1 S' ve as
tnin g
Cabinet c ne cabinet an alphabet-
' much
pleasure to an in-
ically arranged list of all valid or shut-in as a sunshine bag. Make
drugs on hand. When a bottle or box is a bag of cretonne or other bright mate-
emptied have it replaced, ready for emer- rial, which may afterwards be used as a
gencies. —
Mrs. J. M. S. handkerchief bag or small laundry bag and
fill it with a number of little gifts prepared

For Tired Feet The following help is by different friends. Tie the packages with
used by nurses in some bright colored ribbons and leave one end
of the leading hospitals. Add a tablespoon- of each ribbon about half or three-quarters
ful of baking soda to a pint of common of a yard long, so that it will hang out of
bran and put in a basin, dampening with the bag. Each day one ribbon is to be
sufficient warm water to form a thin paste. pulled and the gift at the bottom opened.
Immerse the feet in this for ten or fifteen Try to have at least thirty, so that the
minutes, and great relief will be felt and bag will last a month. Aside from the
the danger of blistering eradicated. B. A. J. — Contents of Medicine pleasure of receiving the gifts the excite-
ment of having this little treat each day
Cabinet
for a month is a welcome break in a monot-
Pouring When pouring medicine
onous life. — M. D. M.
Medicine from a bottle always
pour from the opposite
side from the label. Directions may be ob- To Freshen Air Dip a sheet in a pail of
literated through careless pouring and mis- in Sick-room water to which has been
takes may —
occur. F. L. N.
ammonia or listerine.
added a small amount of
Wring out until al-
most dry, then hang in front of an open
To Extract a When a splinter has window where there is a gentle breeze.
Splinter been driven deep into
the hand it can be ex-
tracted without pain by steam. Nearly fill
An Emergency An emergency table in a
Table sick-room can easily be
a wide-mouth bottle with hot water, place
the injured part over the mouth of the bot-
managed where there is
a machine that has a drop-head. Open the
tle and press lightly. The suction will draw
machine and push the leaf over the bed.
the flesh down and in a minute or two the
steam will extract the splinter and inflam-
A square or rubber cloth under a white
cover will protect the wood, and make it
—
mation. Mrs. C. O. H.
attractive. —
E. D. A.

A Cover for From

pasteboard make
To Save Black If when children fall
the Tray a cover to fit the tray.
The sides can be long and Blue Spots and a lump appears,
one applies a paste made
strips of pasteboard sewed fast to the top
of ordinary baking soda and water there
cover, and should be at least six or eight
inches high. Line with white linen or mus- An Emergency Table for will be no discoloration. Mrs. W. N. —
lin, and cover the outside with figured the Sick Room
lawn or silkoline over fine cotton-batting.
Hot Cloths When hot cloths are
for Sickness needed for medical pur-
A curtain ring may be sewed on the top them
poses, heat in a
to serve as a handle for lifting. This will
keep the food hot while the tray is being
steam cooker or double boiler. M. —
carried to the sick-room. M. R. — For Scalds and Pare and scrape raw
To Amuse a In giving my little girl Burns potato and apply di-
rectly to scald or burn.
Sick Child her nourishment she
It will afford almost instant relief and the
cried to get up and sit
in her arm-chair at the table. This was im-
affected part will quickly heal. B. E. M. —
possible, but I did not want her to fret.
I had a discarded high-chair in the attic. For the Delicate A small boy who thought
I brought it down, sawed off the legs, spread Child be could not drink milk
a small blanket over back and arms, and was persuaded to change
put a little pillow in the seat. This chair his views when hismother thought of sup-
we put right in the bed and the child was plying him with straws purchased at a
delighted. She would even take her medi- soda fountain.
cine better, changing her position rested
her, and I could persuade her to eat more For an Invalid A
gift for an invalid
at a time. She could have a few toys on that proved a great suc-
the tray for a little while so the impro- For the Delicate Child cess was a hand magnifying glass and some
vised bed rest served many purposes. A. — prints of paintings by famous artists.

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 Helps in the Bedroom
Knocker* A recent fad which has Dainty Bureau Much is gained if in-
the merit of real utility- Drawers stead of making linings or
is the use of tiny knockers on the doors pads for the bureau draw-
of bedrooms and other rooms in private ers, the drawers themselves are made dainty.
houses. A
charming little knocker picked I first give the inside as many coats of white
up recently in a London antique shop and paint as is necessary to give a clear white
brought home for a young girl's bedroom tone, and then a coat of white enamel.
door is a tiny brass cupid. The figure is This gives a perfectly smooth surface,
about four inches long, beautifully which is fresher than any other lining could
modeled. One chubby knee is drawn up be. The drawers look neat and attractive,
and forms the handle of the knocker which and when cleaning is desired a simple wip-
is hinged to an oval brass plate with screw ing with a damp cloth produces a perfect
holes for the fastening. A
small brass cleanliness. I have carried out the same
anchor is used on a door of the library in idea with all the shelves, cupboards, and
a seaside bungalow. Individuality can be drawers in the house, whether for linen,
thus shown in the choice of knockers, and china, or kitchen utensils, and find them
for this reason they are popular as gifts. more easily cared for than when arranged
In a large family they are to be further with other covers. This really makes a
recommended upon the ground of good substitute for the highly recom-
privacy. — M. S.
Jars for Dressing
—
mended glass shelves. Mrs. C. B.
Table Use
Closet Room If short of closetroom, To Keep the Try keeping the chil-
place hooks on the back Closet Floor dren's shoes together in
of the headboard of a wooden bed. Many pairs by the use of
things can be hung there out of sight.
N eat clothes-pins. This will
Place the bed across a corner. T. — mother and the owners of the
relieve the
shoes of constant sorting, and will keep
Jars for Any one once using the closet floor from getting disorderly.
Dressing Tablet china jars with lids to
replace the old - time A Bar for the Instead of using a
"catch-alls" and "hair-receivers" on their
Clothes Closet hroomstick in your
dressing-tables will acknowledge their su- clothes-closet to suspend
periority. They are entirely practical and extra coat and skirt hangers, try a nickel
sanitary, and can be bought at the ten-cent liar towel-rack with screws at each end.
stores (under the guise of cracker-jars One can be bought for ten cents, screws
and sugar-bowls), or they may be as costly and all, and looks very neat. Mine is placed
as the purse allows. I have two pairs on my on the under-side of a shelf, is screwed
dressing-table. One I use for hair comb- to the bottom of it and gives great satis-
ings, the other for small belongings, hand- faction.— E. S.
kerchiefs, jabots, ties, etc., awaiting laun-
dering. Two smaller ones I use for My Home-made When one has a bedroom
wire hairpins and odds and ends of Closet without a clothes-closet
—
jewelry. Mrs. A. A. S. A Bar for the Clothes
Closet
a very satisfactory sub-
stitute may be made with two shelves the
A New The washable colored
Idea for same size, about twelve inches wide and as
the Bedroom cotton table-covers (not long as desired. One should be placed just
cloths) used so much in at the top of the baseboard, the other about
country homes make excellent counter- fifty inches above it. A narrow board to
panes for all-year use for boys' beds. They hold the hooks should be fastened to the
come in many combinations of color so lower side of the upper shelf where it comes
will match any ordinary color scheme, are against the wall. Hooks can also be screwed
cheaper than the fancy colored counter- to the underside of this shelf, utilizing all
panes and not so heavy to launder. the space. Finish with two curtains which
meet in the centre and slide on a rod at
A Door Closet Where room is scarce both top and bottom. If the curtain must
and closets few I have continue around the end of the shelves that
purchased brackets for ten cents and put part can be tacked as there is no need to
them on the back of a door with a medium open it there.
shelf attached. Put hangers from the top If desired a third shelf may be placed
of shelf and then make a curtain and at- about a foot above the upper one and
tach it with hooks and there is a handy finished with a short curtain. This makes
clothes-closet with the use of the door re- a good place to keep hats, etc., while the
tained. I have also put a long low box lower shelf, which forms the bottom of the
on the bottom of the same door with brack- clothes-closet and which is really designed
ets purchased for five cents, and used the A Door Closet to keep out dust, makes a convenient place
box for shoes. —C. W. for shoes. — Mrs. A. H.

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 Helps with Children
A Help for the To quickly dry a mat- Plan to Secure Children often neglect to
Nursery tress which has been Children's Help perform the duties that
wet, and this often hap- are assigned them, and to
pens where there are children in spite of secure their undivided interest in their work
the utmost precautions, I fill a hot-water I have tried the following plan with very
bag with very hot water and lay over the gratifying success. I have two slates in the
wet place, moving or refilling if necessary. kitchen, and each morning I write on each
Results are quick and very satis- slate the work that I shall expect each one
factory. —
Mrs. M. P. to do. When a task is completed it may be
crossed off, and when the slate is clean it
For Soap When children wish to is understood that playtime has arrived. I
Bubbles blow bubbles and have find the children like this idea, it saves
no clay pipes an empty disputes, arranges their work to good ad-
spool is a good substitute. D. H. — vantage, and they try to see which will have

Home-made One yard

of heavy un-
—
the first clean slate. Mrs. G. P. K.

Books for bleached domestic will
Children make a large book. Cut
into leaves the desired
size. Hem raw edges and sew together in
the middle. For small children paste in
pictures of animals, children, farmyard
scenes, etc. Larger children find scenes of
any one country or nation interesting and
instructive. —
Mrs. J. E. D.
For the Try filling
Children wine-glasses
You
have something
will
dainty to serve at luncheon and a delicacy
that simply delights the children. They are
pleased to have a little glass of jelly all their
own, made especially for them. Even older
children delight to take these to their sick
friends.— Mrs. E. C. B.
Care of Baby's Many people
Bottle that they cannot turn the
nipple of the baby's bot-
tle inside out for cleansing purposes with-
out tearing it. I have found this method
easy and entirely successful. Take the rub-
ber end of a lead pencil and press in the
small end of the nipple, then draw the
larger end down over the pencil and the
nipple is turned in a second. well-roundedA
stick may be used instead of a pencil, and
is, of course, more sanitary. C. K. S. — made $100 the first year with practically no
Mid-Morning My
children are allowed
Lunches a simple lunch at 10
a. m. and 3 p. m., and I
find it a great economy of time, materials,
labor, and patience to prepare the bread
and butter sandwiches before leaving the
breakfast or lunch table, while the mate-
rials are at hand, thus often utilizing
broken bits of bread and dabs of jam left
from the meal. What a comfort later
not to be obliged to leave my work to wait
on the children, as the lunch is wrapped
in waxed paper and put where they can
The Joy of When rainy times come
Variety and the children are kept
indoors they tire of their
playthings. I accidentally lose some of the
Plan to Secure
toys. The next rainy day that comes I
Children's Help
put them where they "just happen" to find
them. They seem like new toys, and the
last used pleasures disappear in the same
way. By playing this losing and finding
game without the children's knowledge they
a few small do not tire of their things as soon. Is
with jelly. not the same true of grown-ups with
articles of food and with the pretty things
around the house? The joy of variety and
the refreshment of change is a possibility
of improvement for every housekeeper.
A Children's A friend who had to eke
out a small income and
Club
was not able to be away
complain from home on account of leaving her aged
mother, hit upon the plan of forming a
children's club, ages five to twelve, meet-
ing every Saturday from 1.30 to 5.30, dues
two dimes. The parents were delighted to
have the children in safe, experienced hands
every Saturday afternoon, the children en-
For the Children joyed the games she played with them, the
resurrected toys which transformed the
living-room into a club-room, and the
cookies provided by "Grandma." My friend
—
expense to herself. M. A. De F.
To Keep Chil- To keep children's hair
ribbons from mussing
dren's Hair
cut a piece of cardboard
RiDbons
ui
: m..i.
neat •i_ •1 j r
six inches long and four
inches wide. Roll the ribbons on this every
night after removing them from the hair.
This will save frequent pressing. Card-
board foundations such as described may
be covered with silk and would make excel-
lent gifts for the young girls of one's
—
acquaintance. H. Y.

get it themselves when I give permission. In the Nursery The baby's diapers can be
As it is thoroughly understood this is all folded cornerwise ready
they can have, much Mid- Morning Lunches
teasing is saved both for use instead of folded in squares. I
parties. — J. D. —
find this a great help. J. A. G.

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 Helps with Shoes and Stockings
Last Summer's When tan shoes are left A Stocking Always wash stockings
Tan Shoes over, and are out of sea- Help before wearing and holes
son, buy a bottle of shoe will not appear in them
dye (not blacking) and transform the tan so quickly. — M. A. F.
shoes into new black ones. New black but-
tons must be put on, as the tan buttons Shapely Shoes This is a satisfactory
do not stay dyed. One coat of dye on the and inexpensive sub-
shoes is all that is necessary. cobbler A stitute for shoe trees. Crowd cotton into
will do this, but he will charge as much the toes of shoes when you take them off,
for one pair as your bottle of dye (large while they are warm from contact with the
enough for several pairs), will cost. feet, and all wrinkles and creases will dis-
Ordinary polishing will keep the shoes in appear. At the same time rub them with a
good condition as long as they wear. little vaseline, using a soft cloth, and they
will be bright, clean, and pliable as well as
To Make Cut from the side of an shapely. Gazelle S.
Rubbers Wear °|d rubber or a heavy
piece broadcloth a
of For Children 's Rubbers For Children's When putting on chil-
piece the shape and a larger than the
little Rubbers dren's rubbers, to save
heel, and paste inside. One
will find that time and fingers, use a
the shoe cuts through the piece pasted into slipper horn. — Mrs. W. L. T.
the rubber and the rubber is thus saved. I
have worn out two or three inside pieces Pretty Shoes to Shoes of delicate colors
of rubber to a single pair of rubbers.— J. Match Gowns are hard to find and
always expensive. At
Shoe Lacing When the tips of shoe- one time I wanted a pair of light gray shoes,
Tip, laces pull off, twist the and this is how I managed. A pair of
ends of the strings and white canvas shoes which were somewhat
dip into the glue bottle. When dry they soiled, I first scrubbed with good white
are as good, or better, than they were when soap and water, using a small brush, then
new.— E. D. P. drying them in the sunshine. I mixed a
little black and white oil paint until I got

Rubbers that The mother of two the desired shade of gray. This I mixed in
sturdy girls less- a cup half full of the turpentine. Very little
Wear little
ened the rub-
cost of —
of the paint is needed just enough to color
bers considerably last winter by purchasing the canvas. Brush the liquid over the shoes
the heavy rolled-edge boys' rubbers for her with a small paint-brush, and you will be
small daughters. She found that boys' rub- surprised to find how nice they look. They
bers wore about three times as long as the dry with no streaks. Match them in ribbon
heaviest rubbers manufactured for girls' for ties. Of course, any color may be made
—
wear, and cost but little more. Mrs. C. W. Pretty Shoe* to Match to match any gown. —
Miss N. B.
Gowns
Fastening Hose I have a useful hint for Overshoes not If mothers will oil the
tne mother who uses for Needed soles of children's shoes
Supporters
her children the hose- about twice a month with
supporters which pin to a body. Reen force vaseline (not too much), they will find
the body as usual the place where the
at overshoes will not be needed to keep out
supporter is to be pinned, then sew very —
the dampness A. R. M.
firmly, about three-quarters of an inch
apart and with heads toward each other, For Tired Feet Pasting a piece of heavy
two round eyes, and run the pin of the sup- cloth or felt on the heels
porter through these eyes, so that the pull of my house shoes I find a good substitute
will be on the eyes instead of on the —
for rubber heels. M. L. M.
—
material. B. L. S.
To CleanMy shoe dealer told me
For the Family A good way to keep over- White Shoes nothing was more satis-
Overshoes shoes off the floor is to factory for white kid
have a strong tape hung shoes than a common rubber eraser. I
up in a convenient place with spring clothes- found "art" rubber even better. I also clean
pins attached. Pin the youngest child's rub- gloves, both white and colored, with the
bers on the bottom pin, next youngest just rubber.— M. L. W.
above, etc. There should be a pin for every
member of the family. The hall closet is In Washing To keep black stockings
a good place to have this useful device. By Black Stockings irom turning brown use
this plan one is able to get one's rubbew in
For Family Overshoes
plenty of bluing water.
the dark without making a mistake. J. K. B. — A. W.

39
 Toilet Helps
To Clean the
Dissolve a tablespoonful
Comb and Brush of baking soda in a
basin
of water. Let
the comb remain in the solution while
washing the brush. Shake the bristles of
the brush in the water until all dirt is re-
moved. Do not wet brush handle and back
more than is necessary. Rinse in clear
cold water. M.

To Clean a When a sponge smells

Sponge sour rub the juice of a
fresh lemon through it
thoroughly, then rinse in lukewarm water
several times. It will become as sweet as
—
when new. G. H.
To Clean the Comb
Baking Soda The regular use of com- and Brush
for Bathing mon baking soda in the
bath will be found an
efficaciousremedy for disagreeable perspira-
tion odors. Slightly moisten a small
quantity of soda in the palm of the hand
and apply to the parts affected as one would
use soap. Allow the soda to remain several
moments, then wash off as in the case of
soap.— Mrs. Wm. R. T.

Violet Sachet The pure and undiluted

scent of violets can be
obtained in the following way Secure the
:

blooms. They must be fresh and perfectly

—
dry March blown violets are the most
fragrant. Remove stems and place in a
•fruit jar; pour over an equal quantity of
corn meal, one-third violets, one-third meal
and the remaining space empty. Shake
loosely together and screw on lid. Set in a
cool place, shaking the contents a little every
day, allowing fresh air to enter the jar by
removing cover for a few seconds each Individual Towel Racks
time. When the flowers turn brown, the
work is complete, and meal and blooms are
ready to pack into sachet bags. Corn meal
is a powerful absorbent of odors, and will
retain perfume for years, if kept dry. R. R.—
A Handy A receptacle for soiled
Hamper clothes may be made
very easily from a piece
—
of straw matting one yard wide and one 3D
and two-thirds or almost two yards long.
Sew together with strong twine. Make
the bottom of the basket and the cover
ro
from a piece of matting cut round and bound
with a strip of denim or strong cloth to keep
it from fraying. The height of the basket
is the width of the matting and so the basket
itself will not need binding. Strengthen
with three barrel hoops, placed at the top,
centre, and bottom, and tacked to the mat-
ting by brass-headed tacks. Use a larger
hoop for edging the cover, which is fastened
to it by strong twine. Sew a handle on the
cover and on each side to lift it by.
 When
The Gift Drawer The gift drawer began
as a Christmas aid, but
is now a year-round institution of great
value. Into it go all pretty boxes, pieces
of baby ribbon, good tissue paper, and small
articles that do not fit into any particular
place in our home. Suggestions read in
newspapers are clipped, put in an envelope
marked "hints," also a note of the page in
a magazine or book too valuable to mutilate,
so that reference may be ready when
required. Into this drawer go also all pretty
scraps that might be suited for construct-
ing small gifts, and many a little trifle picked
up when the "gift drawer" is in mind, also,
of course, finished bits of handiwork. There
is always something in the "gift drawer"
for birthdays and special occasions, and
when Christmas comes around again its aid
is invaluable. — Mrs. H. G Fair Exchange
Our BulletinIn the hall under the
Board telephone, stands a small
table which we call the
"Bulletin Board." Upon it goes the mail
that comes for every member of the family
absent when the postman calls. Here we
keep a pad of paper and a pencil, the latter
tied to the table and never taken from it.
This receives telephone messages for any
absent member of the family, lists of
groceries to be taken to the store or tele-
phoned there, and any memorandum apt
to be forgotten when "some one goes down
town." The bulletin board also receives
cards of callers, both social and business,
and circulars likely to be of interest to
anybody are left there for a day. H. K. O. — —
A Time Saver for I lere is a simple device
the Mother Let- t>>' which the busy mother
can write half a dozen
ter Writer
letters to children away
from the family nest, and do it in half an
hour, too Get typewriting paper and sheets
!
of the duplicating carbon paper used in
typewriting. Suppose there are four letters
to write. Take four sheets of paper and
between them, with the shiny face down,
place three sheets of carbon paper. On top
of these write heavily to make the deep
imprint, then pull the sheets apart and the
letters are ready to send off. When the fam-
ily news has been retailed in this way the
personal heading and a word of cheering
individual love and advice is added to each
as a postscript, and the newsy personal let-
ters are ready for all the flock in the time
it would take to write one. E. M. B. — ornamental covers, such a calendar could
A Beneficial A "Help for
decided
Cluh Housekeepers" is a Town
and Country Club, which
can be formed by the ladies of any small
suburban town and those of a nearby
In these days of trolley cars, transportation
Thinking of Others
is easy, and while the object of the club may
be charitable, educational or literary it
should have a brief time for "Experiences."
These are frank accounts and information
concerning both city and rural life, for both
types of humanity have much to learn from
each other. The city woman can tell the
country woman any number of interesting
facts about shopping; where to get certain
things, how to buy to advantage, etc., while
the city woman has much to learn from the
country woman regarding birds and flowers,
gardening, cooking of many old-fashioned
delicacies that are not in recipe books, etc.
The country woman needs to have her city
sister's example in little matters of speech
and dress, while the country woman can
The Gift Drawer teach a wholesome lesson of simplicity and
directions for general healthful living. — S.
Some years ago I had a
navy blue chiffon broad-
cloth suit in excellent condition, and still
in good style, although it had done duty for
two seasons. One day the idea occurred to
me to try and exchange it for something
that I needed, so I published an advertise-
ment in another city, describing the suit and
offering to exchange it for fancy needle-
work. Several replies resulted, and I wrote
to a woman who lived on an isolated ranch,
and had a husband who thought women
needed neither money nor good clothes. I
sent her the suit, and she embroidered some
exquisite lunch-cloths in exchange, I fur-
nishing the materials. Since then I send
her all of my discarded garments and hats,
and never have to buy linens for Christmas
or wedding gifts. Mrs. C. A. S.
Correspondence I have a number of
Our Bulletin Board
Help friends with whom I
keep up a regular cor-
respondence, and I have found that it
simplifies the task greatly to keep envelopes
addressed to them in a convenient place.
Into these I slip newspaper cuttings, notes
of things which interest that particular cor-
respondent and memoranda of various sub-
jects to be written of.
E. C. A.—
Housekeeping A
calendar arranged ac-
cording to individual
Calendar
preferences with spaces
for jotting down details about purchases,
prices for staple articles during the month,
and other interesting facts, would soon be
found a help when compared month by
month and year by year. Made with
be decorative enough for a gift. Ex. —
An After-Holiday a wise plan to make
It is
Expedient a l' st °f friends remem-
bered and one's particu-
Housekeeping Calendar
lar gift to each, when the holidays have
come and gone to avoid duplicating.
;
41
Helps when Shopping and Traveling
Quick As it is a matter of sur- A Help When When household goods
Shopping to some of my
Prise Moving are to be packed for
friends how I accomplish moving
or storage, it
so much shopping in the limited time be- will be the greatest convenience if the box
tween trains, perhaps my plan may help (or barrels) are numbered and a list taken
some one else. In the first place, I keep a of the articles as they are put in boxes or
handy pad and pencil on my desk, on which barrels, the number of the box or barrel put
I write everything that is needed when the on the list.— H. L.
want occurs. Before I go shopping I copy
from this list the things I intend to buy or To On a trip South, a friend
Travelers
investigate that day, grouping them accord-
suggested that I pin my
—
ing to kind, as drugs, dry-goods, etc., and
dress to the curtain of
arranging them according to the stores I the berth with safety-pins. I did so, and
am likely to visit. When I leave the train in the morning there was not a wrinkle to
I go directly to the farthest place and make
my purchases along the route back, thus >*PT"r —
be seen. Mrs. L. R. C.

being as long as possible without parcels

and saving return trips. If I wish to go A Help for Summer A Child's When away from home
afterwards to the club or to make calls I Packing High Chair is no high chair
an d there
available for a child, take
leave my shopping-bag at some convenient
place, thus saving my strength. —
E. G. H.
four door protectors and
screw on the bottom of the four legs of
an ordinary dining-room chair. This raises
When Any one who travels it a good bit. The protectors can be easily
Traveling much will find it better removed without marring the furniture.
to pack as much as pos-
sible in pasteboard boxes which fit the trunk Emergency When visiting sometimes,
well. Thin starched pieces which muss so ° r when on a journey
Dress Hangers
easily are kept from wrinkling in this way. where one cannot carry
If the boxes are labeled "Waists," "Skirts," all they wish, inconvenience may be experi-
"Fancy-work," etc., it "will save opening the enced because of an inadequate number of
wrong boxes when one is hurried. dress-hangers in the closets. Try a news-
paper rolled and tied in the middle with a
A Help for pack my large sailor
I string. Turn the ends down and you have
a hanger just as good for a light-weight
Summer Packing a "d dressy lace collars
by the following device, dress, and one which will keep it free from
without folding, and they are ready for use wrinkles. — M. H.
at the end of a journey. I have two large
pieces of pasteboard, the dimensions of the A Bed for Baby A unique and comfort-
largest collar. These may be covered with While Traveling ab, « Ded f°«" baby while

fancy silk or cretonne and the bottom cover traveling may be made
should have ribbons attached for tying of a Japanese straw telescope traveling-case.
securely. Within these place the collars flat Line the bottom piece as prettily as you
Emergency Dress please and tack a little flounce all around
and completely open. One of these collar- Hangers
holders makes an excellent gift, and is not the edge of the top, letting it hang over the
only practical but attractive if covered with outside. This flounce may be folded back
—
some dainty material. Mrs. G. R. L. in the case when the cover is put on, or may
be dispensed with entirely if desired. Put
a little mattress and tiny pillow in, or simply
Little Help in A nice way to keep col- a good sized pillow for a mattress, and
Traveling ' ars jabots, ribbons, and
>
some coverings, and baby will have a very
such things smooth when comfortable little bed. When he is wide-
packing in a suit-case, is to put them between awake all his belongings may be carried in
the different leaves of a magazine. This the case, the cover being strapped on. When
takes up less room than a box in a suit-case, baby is occupying the wee cot all the cloth-
and is very convenient when removed to ing, etc., may be placed in the cover. This
the dresser-drawer, as it keeps these small convenience helps both mother and child.
articles smooth and nice. N. M.—
A Safety Device If one is nervous about
A Use for Old Do not throw away the for the strange doors when
Spools spools when empty, keep Locked Door away from home take a
them until you go away heavy piece of wire, bend
next summer, and use them to slip over the double, hang on the door-knob and slip
nails or cheap hooks found in many cottage the ends through the key. The key can-
This will save many a waist and
A Safety Device for the
closets. Locked Door not then be turned or pushed out of the
—
gown. Mrs. A. McA. —
keyhole. Mrs. I. H.

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