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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND,
1908.
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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.