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. 7 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, 1908. KESrnPOiCCf 5niH5 (&PEA0TY f ! " " """ " " I I PracticaJ Frocks for School THE MOST conspicuous feature of dressmaking for school girls in this day and ape Is the simplicity of the outfit as a whole. Or perhaps the better term would be its utility and compactness. Time was when the mothor, pit-kin up a remnant of this and another of that, built by degrees a Fall wardrobe containing; many use less and unnecessary articles. Today the mother who is up-to-date and a stood manager plans her daughter's outfit as judiciously as she does her own. Instead of giving the girl a number of changes In "bargain" raiment, the latter get a fw good things and Is taaght how to take care of them. The girl In her teens has an outfit planned very much on her mother's. For school days she has two costumes, a stout tailored suit for clear weather, a raln-sklrt and water-proof coat for stormy weather. For best wear, church visiting, the matinee, etc, she has a better tailored suit or a one-piece frock with matching hat and separate jacket. Phe will have In addition a pretty house frock to wear at borne and re lieve her tailored clothes, an evening dress and something aimple and strong to wear when helping mother round the house. To wear with the tailored school suit, she will have either a matching hlrt waist In rough silk, or taffeta albatross or unshrinkable wash flan nels, plain or striped, or. If both house and school are steam-heated and she Is a typical, healthy American girl, she will wear heavy tailored waists of wash material, madras, galatea, etc, all Winter. In fact, in all large cities where team heat is generally employed and houses are kept uniformly warm, chil dren wear wash frocks the year round In the house. Sometimes this Is varied by the Introduction of a wash guimpe with a wool jumper. For the tailored suit to be used day after day at school, a mixed goods Is always better than plain. A broad cloth Is not a good Investment for such usage. Serge cheviot. French. Eng lish and Scotch worsteds and tweeds, es pecially those with invisible stripes or riircki. are always good. The pleated skirt remains In vogue for the growing girl and the wise mother will carefully ai-oicl tlght-flttlng skirts for the awkward ase. Tlie new bands are droped almost to the hem of the skirt, or are laid In a deep point. The new coats are cut m IHilnts. one In the back and two In the front, giving a cutaway effect. They are arml-nttlng. have long, plain sleeves and show a return of the velvet collar, thoush one In plain cloth or braided is more ser viceable for hard usage. The new raincoats are plainer than last season. A deep, rich tan shade Is more fvhlonable than the gay plaid and striped effects shown last season. The smartest hats for school wear are r felt, with drooping lines, trimmed sim ply with ribbon made Into choux rather than wide bows, and very long quills or win as. For the best tailored suit there Is noth ing better than broadcloth, and the new blurs are particularly becoming to young girls. Avoid such shades as mustard and toupe for tho sallow, growing girl. In green broadcloths both the moss and plstache make lovely seml-tallored suits, comblued with braid and net In Just the right shades of ecru for the blouse. Fuchsia and "dregs of wine" are among the new rich shades of red becoming to girls. For house frocks worn by girls of all ages, cashmere is in great demand and it comes in some exquisite shades showing to great advantage under artificial light. These Include geranium. red-copper, peach and old rose, sapphire, turquoise and Persian, hyacinth and prune, cahelle. friexe and morocco all variants of such staple hues as red. blue, purple and brown. Silk braids and folds of self-tone messaline or soft 6atin are used to trim For young girls the princess design, elab orately Inset with lace and softened by a silken girdle and sash ends, is extremely good, but the girls in their later teens find empire frocks very becoming, espe cially the high, full-backed skirt. Some very good designs are shown in this connection. The tailored suit for school wear is copied from a model de veloped in herringbone of a rich myrtle green. The cuffs and collar are of plain other help. Most of them didn't though. They grabbed up a suit-case in each hand, with a bundle of golf stocks over their shoulders In some cases, and plod ded sturdily out into the street. And there wasn't a growl or a whine or a complaint from any of them. Later that afternoon, when the man was siting comfortably in a cafe which commanded the approach to the Grand Central Station, he fell to observing the women who struggled along under heavy burdens. He had never paid par ticular attention to the subject before, but the porter's comments and the re markable exhibition he had seen on leaving the train interested him keenly. He wrote down some of the Good Looks and Social Season THE Summer girl Is now paying the price of her holiday Indiscretions. The demure style of hair dressing, the rather severe fashioning of gowns and other features of Fall modes, require uncommon youthfulnees or its simulation In the girl who would make a good ap pearance at evening functions. Conse quently, with dances, card parties and other functions of a social nature looming work. The coarse-grained, large-pored, oily skin requires an entirely different treatment, including the use of astrin gents. For the tender skin, employ very soft wash-cloths, the best of all being raw silk, such - as is made in Japan or China and can be bought at any oriental shop. Next to silk in value as a wash rag comes soft old table linen or Turkish toweling which is worn with much usage and very soft. With either of these, avoid CHECKED CLOTH BUTTONING ON SHOULDER. JUMPER DRESS WITH PANEL. AFTERNOON FROCK 'OF IVORY LAN SDOWNE AND CARDINAL BRAID. these frocks, with plenty of tucked net or all-over lace at throat and wrist. Like her mother, the young girl is coming back to long sleeves, and the thin girl can wear the shirred or mousquetalra sleeves admirably. Another fabric very popular for house frocks is lansdowne. which is more silky and lighter weight than cashmere. In many shades It can be washed and Is par ticularly useful for simply fashioned gowns on this account. For evening frocks there Is nothing prettier than net over a colored slip, and this can be found plaia or In figured de signs. It Is trimmed with silk soutache and bias folds of silk, with- lace Insets. cloth, the matching blouse of unshrink able flannel showing a dull green stripe in a rich tan ground with, green stitch ing and stock. The little frock buttoned on the shoul der is Intended for a girl of 12 or less and Is a most useful design for school wear. Another pretty1 frock for the girl Just entering her teens is the one of ivory white lansdowne, trimmed with cardinal red braid In a rather heavy silk design, with a finish of tassels. This model Is most effective on the tall, thin girl. For the little girls In the house, the box-pleated dress with panel finish Is very good and can be developed in any supple fabric. MART DEAN. Gentle Art of Being Inconspicuous ) MOST interesting letter has reached I my desk from the pen of an 18- year-old correspondent. I am quot ing at aome length because the writer raises problems of Interest to every girl. "I suffer tortures when in public from the realisation that people stare at me. I have tried in vain to learn why they do tola I am not a beautiful girl, nor am I particularly homely. I have no striking feature like a crooked nose or cross eye am Just ordinarily good-looking, lljr mother makes my clothes, but ahe does It well. They are just as pretty as those worn by any of my friends, and she haa a style, too. I think I know how to behave in public and I do not under stand why I attract more attention than any girl friends with whom I am riding or walking." Now, there are some of my sophisticated readers who will trace vanity between the lines of that letter, but I believe they are wrong. A girl who sends me no plioto graph of herself and who writes a very ladylike, legible letter is not seeking silly flattery at the hand of an unknown correspondent- She is truly distressed. The Question Is the cause. Her critics should bear in mind that viimettmes a girl has a defeot of which she Is really not aware. I remember one very sad case of a charming girl who could not control her speaking voice. It was often pitched too low or too high. Sometimes he almost shouted when she talked In public and her friends, out of mistaken kindness, did not tell her of this defect. Suddenly the girl discovered that she missed much tirat was said by those around her. and she consulted the family doctor. He found that she was becoming deaf and could not pitch her own voice correctly because of this affliction of which her friends were ignorant. Again a girl may sufiVr equal agony through self-consciousnt--s. Imagining that 10 Is being stared at when she la receiv ing merely a most Impersonal, passing gtin-e. This Is due either to a realisation of defects that exist or to the inability to f'rg't self. Tl:e one cure for this la the cim-ation of an absorbing interest In s:lirs When talking to a guest, or your hostess or some one you meet casually on t'i street, from the minute you greet t!im. dear conscious girl, fix your thoneht on the penon with whom you are sp.vik.ng. 1k not allow it to wander to yourself or the possibility that your hat Is riNtked or your clove unbuttoned. Tlunk that. Just for th.se few morue-iits. th p-on before you Is very, very impor tant nnri your thoughts will be concen tered upon her. and all aelf-conwlous-ress mill disappear. Thrre is absolutely no cure for that agonlurg sense tliat your feet are larger than Mary Brwn's and your gloves do not f:t as well as Grace Smith's except a greater Interest In the fact that Mary Brown ha Invited you to her home and you must show appreciation, or Grace tm!th has a very pretty room which it is jour duty aa guest to admire. Hut often a girl may think she is do ing nothing to attract attention when by some breach of good manners or, good form in dress, she is unconsciously mak ing berseif conspicuous. For instance, c-nly the other morning I went to my of fice In company with a girl who though otherwise well dreased. made herself most conspicuous by the manner In which she had adjusted her Jacket. Phe wore a very pretty tailored suit In black and ahile stripe, a black hat trimmed with quiet rib bons and quills, black ahoea and stock ings and a black silk shirtwaist. But the latter was short-sleeved, and this thoughtless girl had pushed up her coat sleeves, wrinkling them, to the elbows, and wore no gloves, but carrying black kid mousquetaire gloves tn her hand. If she had allowed her coat sleeves to reach the wrist as designed, she might even have carried her gloves in her hand It was a very hot morning, for heavy kid gloves but if she really did not wish to attract attention, she should have worn the gloves, too. Another girl who attracted much atten tion on the train was one dressed in tail ored clothes, but wearing no gloves and much Jewelry. She had a diamond sun burst most inappropriate brooch for a young woman to wear on the street at any time pinned at the collar of a shirt waist that cost about $2.50, her watch was a gaily enameled affair pinned on her coat. Her belt was fastened with an en ameled buckle set with Imitation gems. Her wrist was decked with several thin bangles which clattered like castenets and her ungloved hands were covered with rings, a big turquoise set with pearls, an opal gltstening with diamons, etc. Now even if this Jewelry was genuine, which we who saw doubted, a morning shopping trip was not the time or the place for their exhibition and every one who passed certainly did stare at her. Another girl who attracts attention is he who talks of Intimate, personal mat ters on the car, either out loud or by put ting her hand before her lips and whis pering steadily and rather loudly to her I companion. Then there is the girl who is pretty and knows it. She does not mean to flirt, but ' she simply must make sure that every man in the car or on the block notices ber. The result is inevitable. She at tracts attention and comment that are not flattering. A pretty girl will be seen by members of both sexes. She does not have to cast languishing glances. A girl much to be pitied is she who al lows young men to be too ardent in their attentions, especially In public places. You all recognize the description. They sit on a cross seat In the car and the girl finds herself occupying about one-third the seat, close to the window. The young man has his arm on the back of the seat and ostentatiously flicks bits of dust off her shoulder or tucks Imaginary loose bairs into place. He tries to peep under her hat brim into her eyes and when they separate at the end of the journey, he holds her hand an unpardonable and un necessary time. Naturally every one on the car or boat does notice this couple, and if the girl has any distance to walk after leaving the young man, other male passengers are very apt to follow and annoy her. All the world loves a lover but love making In public places is a sure cause of ridicule and laughter. If you find that you are an object of attention, first study yourself. It may be self-consciousness. Next have a talk with your mother or elder sister, or even your brother. Young men note details. in sis ters til at the latter little realise. And never on leaving the house fall to take a good look at yourself in a full-length mirror, slake sure that there are no sag. ging skirts, no uncaught belts, no untied laces. The modern girl is a picture of trimness and trlgness or she Is conspicu ous. PRUDENCE STANDISH things he saw, and this is what he wrote: 'There was a thin, weak-looking woman hustling westward along Forty second street, who carried a baby, which rested in the crook of her left arm a red-cheeked, fat and sassy baby, which was nervous and fretful and squirmed and kicked constantly. Hanging from her shoulder was a bundle of golf sticks, and her right Little Woman snd the Suitcase New York Bun. THE Adirondack Express had passed the tunnel and wa crawling into the terminal when George, the col ored porter the only whisk broom man ipulator In the business perhaps who speaks with his particular accent came Into the smoking-room of the Pullman and ducked his head toward the sole oc cupant thereof. "Say. chief." said George apologetical ly, -can you take care of your own suit case? I wouldn't ask you to If my ALL UNRUFFLED. whole car wasn't full of women folks who are traveling alone and every one of them is loaded down with baggage. There ain't a man with 'em and every lady has got more'n a mewl could han dle. There ought to be a law again' men let tin their women go away Tom home with all that truck to carry 'round. It tn't human no how." The man in the smoking-room got up and followed George back through the chair car. The passengers, save for two men. were women who were return ing from vacations or outings up state. Valises, ault-cases,' hat-boxes, bundles of golf sticks, tennis racquets, rolls of bla-nkets strapped together and various odds and ends were piled around each chair. Several women had babies to take'eare of beside. "Now you wouldn't think a man would let one of his women folks go tralpsln' aroun' with all that stuff, would you?" asked George. "How do you s'pose they figure it out. anyway? The idea of a little KO-pound woman luggin' a baby and oarryln' enough baggage to keep a six-foot porter sweatin'. Ain't it a scan dal, chief?" When the train came to a standstill George hustled the mass of baggage off the car as best he could and called por ters for such of the women aa wanted ass tr DO THEY BELONG TOGETHER? hand gripped a suit-case as big as a small trunk, steamer size. "It was a wonderf.pl sight to me. That woman kept smiling as she walked along, soothing the baby. Right behind her was a man and his wife, apparently, who had just returned from the country. He was a strapping big fellow with broad shoulders and stout arms, . but you would have thought he was carrying a ton of iron from the fuss he made over the single suit case he had. "His wife had a small valise in one hand and a big satchel In the other. The man kept stopping to shift the case from his right hand to his left, or vice versa, mopping his forehead and complaining. You could tell It from his face. When he stopped to rest she stopped too, but she never put down the two grips. "After them walked a woman with two children, a baby in her arms and a small boy who tugged at the heavy suit-case she was carrying;. The woman ahead, the returned vacationist must look to her grooming. Last week we discussed the hands and their abuse during vacation days. Today we will start with the complexion. Tan. so attractive and fetching on the out door girl during July and August, some how looks coarse and unfeminine by comparison with decolette evening frocks. So the bulk of my letters plead for some quick method to fade out tan. Having duly Impressed our friends with the fact that we led the simple outdoor life dur ing the Summer, we will now proceed to get rid of all evidence thereof and ac quire the proper city, hothouse complex ion. To start with ordinary tan or rough ness, two sorts of treatments are neces sary. For the dry, tender skin of fine texture, creams and emulsions will do the the use of soap, or lemon juice so gen erally recommended for tan. Use instead a very fine almond cream. The formula for Kentucky cold cream, so often quoted in this department, is excellent for mas sage purposes. It will be sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. The face should be massaged with this every night and on returning from a particular ly long and dusty trip during the day. After working the cream into the face and wiping It off with soft bits of linen, wash the face thoroughly with just as hot water as you can bear, and then ap ply the following -cucumber lotion, allow ing it to dry on the skin: Oil of sweet almonds..,. 4 ounces Fresh cucumber juice 10 ounces Essence of cucumbers S ounces White castile soap (powdered). ounce Tincture of benzoin 2-3 drachm ' The juice of cucumbers Is obtained by boiling them in a very little water. Slice them very thin, ekin and all, and let them cook slowly till soft and mushy; strain through a fine sieve and then through a cloth. Make the essence by putting an ounce and a half of the Juice onto the same quantity of high proof alcohol. Put the essence with the soap in a large Jar or bottle the larger the better, as the mixture requires much shaking. After a few hours, when the soap Is dissolved, add the cucumber Juice, shake-until thor oughly mixed, then pour out Into an earthen bottle and add the oil and the benzoin, stirring constantly till you have a creamy liquid. Be sure that the cu cumber Juice is strong, for it is the nat ural arsenic in the cucumber which im parts its wonderfully whitening powers. Put the emulsion in small bottles, keep tightly corked and in the dark, and al ways shake before using. The girl with a tender skin should use nothing stronger than these to reduce tan, resting assured that In a week or so . her skin will be quite white once more. Instead of soap, both girls, she with the fine, tender skin and she with the oily skin, may use instead of soan the almond meal so often described In this depart ment, formula for which will re sent on request. In addition to this, the oily skin, which is most unattractive when tanned and burned, should be treated with astrin gents. After washing the face with a camel's hair complexion brush on which you scattered almond meal, rinse tt In tepid water containing a few drops of tincture of benzoin. Never rinse the face In cold water. Then, Instead of applying the usual face powder, use this lotion: Pulverized borax, one ounce; pure gly cerine, two ounces; camphor water (not spirits of camphor), two quarts. Allow this to dry of itself, and wind up by applying the following liquid white: Pure oxide of zinc, one ounce; glyce rine, one drachm: rosewater, four ounces; essence of rose. 15 drops. Sift the zinc, dissolving It In Just enough of the rosewater to cover It, then add the glycerine, next the remainder of the rosewater. Shake well and apply with a soft sponge or a piece of antiseptic gauze. - - This latter should also be used Instead of the regulation face powder when dress ing to appear under gas or electric light. It keeps the skin clean and cool looking much longer, but it must be rubbed In thoroughly or It will be uneven and streaked. It can be used on the arms, throat and face as well. And right here a word about the neck. Girls who have been wearing the Gibson stock or the high-shaped collar all Bum mer will find when they turn to decoi lettage that there is very apt to be more or less discoloration of the neck. Often there is a distinct yellowish stain to mark where the top of the collar touched the skin. For this I have an excellent bleach ing formula, which will be furnished on request, including stamped and addressed envelope. It is necessary only when the barking Is deep. Ordinarily, massage with cucumber lotion will remove collar traces. . In making up for the evening bear in mind that juet now the florid facets not fashionable. Avoid rouge on the cheek bones. If you are naturally somewhat pallid, .be rather grateful, as you are then In style. If you are florid, use an- oat meal whitener for your skin and - avoid rich foods and alcoholic drinks of all sorts. If you are pale, bear in mind that this pallor must not Include white lips. The fashionable woman of today has scarlet Hps, and if these are pale, she uses very skilfully a bit of Hp salve, col ored with alkanet, a formula for which will be furnished if requested. Lip salve or rouge can be purchased at almost any drug store or beauty parlor, but any read er will see the importance of having ab solutely pure drugs to use on the Hps. It is much safer to use a home-made salve for this purpose. KATHARINE) MORTON. THE LITTLE ONE. to the hotel. I used to see women come sailing up the walk fresh faced and smiling, who had lugged double the weight. "There's another phase to the thing. A woman, no matter how much she is ballasted, can steer a suit case through a street crowd with the precision and neatness of one of Uncle Sam's tor pedo boat commanders taking his boat at 20 knots speed through rock-strewn waters. Sometimes she goes ac about that same gait. If you will take the trouble to notice some day you will see that she never bumps anybody on the shins I say, on the shins never collides with news-stands, never gets traffic tangled up. No. A man In the same position is as helpless as a water logged derelict in a north Atlantic storm. Sometimes he realizes this. He will bump along the street drunkenly, butting into Innocent passersby, wal loping folks over the legs, gectlng the suit case between his own legs and stumbling over It, and he will show every time how sore he is. "Note A woman can steer a truck load of baggage through a knothole without scaling a piece of leather as big as a fingernail off any valise or case. She can sidestep like Jimmy Brltt, she has a wonderful eye for dis tance and she is a remarkable Judge of pace. , "The queer thing about it Is the en durance and downright muscularity these tiny little women show when some big lubber of a husband puts them up against the task of carting the whole family's luggage. I've seen a woman sometimes with an English clergyman as an escort a woman that you could knock over with a plnfeather, one who Is laid up for three days with the sort of sick headache that a man "would fix right with one gin rlckey, walk two miles under at least a hun dred pounds of truck. Put a man up against a proposition of that sort, and no matter how husky he is he will want to 'lay' down. There's where the yellow streak shows up. If he Is shamed into carrying less than half of the luggage he will gloom and growl and grouch all the way, mut tering, cursing under his breath, and with the face of a half-boiled devil. A woman In 87 cases out of 90 Is game as a Boston screw-tailed terrier. I've said It." Timely Tips for Fall Shoppers wasn't much bigger than a postage stamp, but she had a load that a Fer cheron would have balked under. Do you suppose a man would have done that? Not on your life! "There was a passing show I watched for an hour or more, and I deduced from my observations that there la the makings of a mighty good truck horse in every woman. Honestly, It was funny how some of those big huskies laid down under the same burdens that that two-by-slx wives were toting cheerfully. I used to think that women did most of the whining in this world, but after spending a little time study ing the suit-case problem I changed my mind. Up in the country I used to see the same thing, but I had never thought much about It- Sitting on the hotel veranda I often saw men who were big enough to stand up with Jeffries lose their tempers, get red faced and grouchy and altogether unpleasant merely because they had to carry a piffling little suit case a quarter of a mile, maybe, from the railway station The' Tailored Suit. Harper's Bazar. The tailor gown, that stand-by for fair or stormy weather, for practical or spe cial occasions. Is the one item of all oth ers to which most careful attention should be given. What constitutes such a suit will be an entirely different conception in the mind of one woman from that in the mind of another. Everything is set tled by the individual demands and the individual tastes of the women. Just now simple skirt lines, a high waist line of the skirt and a short one in the jacket, a fancy sleeve richly but simply trimmed, flat eatin bindings or flat silk braids, to gether with plain or ornamental silk or braided buttons, are the features. If the .tailored suit is purchased with the idea of wearing it out. say, in three months, the plaited skirt for those who like them may be selected. The newest idea, however, is the sheath-top, gored skirt, rather narrower than we have seen It for a season, and with no trimming at the foot. AMONG ttie novelties shown in good shops are these: . Suede shoes in all the new colorings of cloth and velvet, with large, flat, mother-of-pearl or smoked pearl buttons. Solid patent leather shoes, vamps and uppers, with jet buttons. Brocaded slippers with gilt and silver heels for evening wear. Enameled buckles in every possible color combination, to match all fabrics. Satin hat frames from S3 up, which re quire no trimming save feathers and large buckles. Exaggerated hat crowns built entirely of lightly curled ostrich feathers, simulating a grenadier's tall hat. These are used on satin or silk hats without any trim ming. Cord and tassel effects in all sorts of trimming silK, wool and beads for drap ing over the new flat sleeves and across the fronts of gowns. Jet balls, large and heavy, for finishing off the dlrectolre sashes. Ready - made dlrectolre and empire bertha effects with sash ends in the front, in all sorts of beaded, braided and embroidered banding to match all the new dress colorings. Inexpensive rhlnestone ornaments in the form of daisies, fleur-de-lis and crescents for sewing on the popular black ribbon throat bands. Union underwear and tights in mer cerized cotton, dark and light coloring, . to wear under the new tight-fitting drop skirts. Chiffon veils for motoring," in Per sian patterns on black and other dark grounds. These are not used over the eyes, but around the hats. MARY DEAN. Cookies for the Lunch Pail POR the school children's lunch boxes, cookies are always better than cake, especially layer cake. Here are some re liable recipes for cookies that all chil dren will like. Lemon Cookies Cream thoroughly half a pound of butter and half a pound of granulated sugar. Add two eggs beaten light, three-fourths of a pound of flour, the grated rind of one small lemon and the juice of two. Roll out very thin and cut into discs or circles, sprinkle thickly witli coarse powdered sugar and bake in a quick oven. These should be pale yel low, not brown. Chocolate Wafers Grate a cup of chocolate and set the cup into hot, not boiling, water to melt. Mix together one cup of brown sugar, one cup of white su gar (granulated or powdered) and one cup of butter. When creamy, add one beaten egg, and then the melted choco late, stirring briskly. Finally add two cups of flour and one teaspoon of vanilla, mix lightly, roll thin and bake in a quick oven. Fruit Cookies Seed and chop finely one cup of raisins. Flour these and set them aside. Beat together one and one-half cups of brown sugar, and on cup of shortening, butter and lard mixed. When creamy, add one beaten egg, four table spoons of sweet milk, one teaspoon of baking soda and enough flour to make a stiff batter. Add here your floured rsts Ins with nutmeg (grated) cinnamon and ground cloves to taste. Add enough more flour to make a stiff dough; roll rather thin and bake in a quick oven.. Kitchen Hints That Save Time TO get best results with rice, wash quickly In cold water and drop slow ly into water that is boiling rapidly. Rice prepared in this fashion will be soft and mealy, yet whole in 20 minutes or half an hour. Have plenty of water in the ket tle and drain the rice directly it is cooked before the water stops boiling. Save fuel by washing beans and all dried fruits until the water poured oft is clear. Then soak over night, covering them with warm, not cold, water. To get best results with macaroni, do not break it before cooking. Drop It whole into salted boiling water, cook 20 minutes, drain in a colander, coil it in the baking dish, pour cream sauce over it and finish off with grated cheese and bits of butter. Bake golden brown. You lose much .of the substance in breaking it in short lengths before cooking. Mix prunes and raisins for a supper dish. The raisins give the prunes a tang that is savory. To make the mint jelly, so popular and expensive at ' exchange and tea rooms, try this recipe: WTash, and bruise a bunch of fresh mint; cover with a pint of boiling water and simmer .very gently 15 minutes. Strain, and to every pint of this liquid, while hot, allow a package of ready-to-use lemon Jelly pow der. Add sugar to taste. Stir until sugar and jelly powder aro dissolved. Mould and set on ice to harden. Garnish with fresh mint leaves. Canning Peaches. - New York Times. To can peaches, allow one-half pound of sugar to one pound of peaches.-; Put the sugar on the Are with a little water and let boll until the syrup is perfectly clear. Pack the Jars tightly with the peaches and fill with the syrup. . Put these Jars in a large boiler of water. Stand them on wood and do not let them touch each other. The -water should be within three inches from top of the Jar. Cover the boiler and boil until ten der. When the water is oold. remove the jars, fill up with boiling water and seal- air tight.