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r r 1 r THE - OREGON SUNDAY ' JOUBNAL, . PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH , 21, 1920. , 1 M " - ..... "I.-"- - .; I ' - ... . . J i ' " " 7 Vacuum By Mrs. Christine The Distinguished Authority AFTER almost every lecture women ask, "What vacuum cleaner do you recommend, Mrs. Frederickr It Is evidently a subject In which women are keenly Interested, especially since so many of them are doing their own work and since sweeping with the old corn broom la so unsatisfactory. Now I never "recommend" any- ' thins; but I am willing to tell why I think certain makes preferable er what are the good points of this end that cleaner and why. But 1 the first thing to understand is the principle underlying all vacuum cleaning. In the first place every vacuum cleaner operates on the principle of suction. This suction or with drawal of air Is so directed to the dirty carpet that dirt is pulled or sucked out of the fabric and con ducted Into what Is called a "dust bag." No matter what the make, this principle of 'suction holds good. But what makes the suction? This Is caused by some sort of "fan" which Is operated by a motor or by a bellows operated by hand power. Now it follows that the strength of the suction depends on the strength or quality of the motor. That Is, If we have a motor of little power it will follow that we have little suction. The first thing for a prospective customer to notice Is the motor of her vacuum cleaner. If possible select a motor made by a well known tlrm which specializes In motor manufacture, even though the rest of the machine be as sembled by another firm. And don't expect , to buy a high-grade, efficient motor for too low a price. A good motor alone, whether for a sewing machine, a washer ,or a vacuum cleaner, will cost from $18 to $20 and up. In other words, the woman must not expect to get a Vheap" machine which will give good, permanent service. We have said that the motor sucks up dust or such dirt as may he said to be almost microscopic unless taken in a mass or handful. (However, on every carpet there will be found what we may call "thrums," threads or pieces of waste which are not dust proper. Such threads cling to the carpet and cannot be removed even by -vacuum cleaning. They tiave to be brushed off. Therefore the Ideal ..cleaner is that which has a brush attachment or in which the suction Is sufficiently powerful or so man ipulated ai to remove threads and waste as well as dnst. In the old days (which are really Beauty s Question B WHAT can t do to make my oily skin, look dry! CON STANT READER.' Avoid vanishing creams or cos-l metlcs of any kind, except a little powder occasionally. Cold cream can 'be used with a facial massage once a week, but not any oftener. To overcome that excessive oili-l nesa bathe the skin frequently with a simple camphor water lotion.' which' is astringent in its effect and will minimize the sebaceous secre-j tion by contracting the glands and other vessels containing it. Avoid the use of glycerine when the skin is oily. Rosewater is good and so also is the following prep aration : Bicarbonate of soda 1 ounce Powdered orris root....! ounce Pulverized stpermaoetl. . ,yz dram W HAT will cure painful toe nails TK. C. R. Stop wearing shoes that cause any undue pressure over this re gion. The rubbing qt an ill-fitting shoe will create more painful gran ulations and ingrowing toenails than anything else. Bathe the feet nightly in hot water and then .ap ply a good antiseptic lotion to the nails. Pare them carefully and . keep a piece of absorbent cotton under the corner of the nail until the ingrowing tendency is cured. Cutting a V-shaped piece out ot the centre of the edge of the nail will also help to remedy this condition. How 'to Make L EVERY housekeeper knows that a lemon pie may be a failure or a success accord lng to the method of making. Have you ever had the experi ence of baking & lemon pie and baving the filling become thinner the longer it baked? This may oc cur if the main thickening agent Is cornstarch or flour instead of eggs. The reason is this: The acid of the lemon with the heat changes the starch to sugar. To prevent this, do not add the lemon to the filling until you have finished cook ing the filling. Place the filling iir a baked crust In other words, do : not add the lemon to the, filling and then cook for any great length of time. The following method ot com bining ingredients for, a lemon pie will faring good results, says a writer in American Cookery; Cleaners Frederick, on Household EiBciency. not more than six years back) vacuum cleaners were made very heavy. The machine Itself was heavy and the hose was almost as large as a street fire hose. But this kind of vacuum cleaner was soon found to he too heavy for the average woman to lift and move about. So has arisen the type called the "portable" cleaner, which Is more like a mop handle fitted with a foot at Its base. In this type the parts are gen erally aluminum, which makes tt much easier to lift and also much neater In appearance. The rubber hose Is eliminated and the foot of the cleaner Is pushed, directly over the carpet, (back and forth like a carpet sweeper, but with a slower motion. The current is transmit ted through a heavy wire tubing, 'which is fitted with a plug and which may be attached to any elec tric light socket. Speaking of sockets reminds me that there is now on the market what Is called a "two-way plug." This enables the use of both a light bulb and a utility at the same time. In other words, it is not nec essary to unscrew a bulb in order to Attach a vacuum cleaner or other utility. Several of these two way plugs would be useful in any home. We spoke a moment ago of the strength of the motor. However, lei me give a warning: It is not wise to purchase a cleaner with such a strong motor that it will remove the nap from the carpets as Well as the dirt. I have known of several cases - where beautiful rags were injured by the use of a too powerful cleaner. In my own experience I have found that what are com monly Called "Jute" rUgS Or "Jap anese fibre" rugs must never be cleaned in this manner. The cross weaving Is not securely woven in and a, high-powered Meaner Just sucks up the rug piece after piece, leafing only the canvas back. So, beware! The nest cleaners to-day are made with acts of attachments, and It Is worth while for the woman to purchase such attachments at the time she buys her cleaner.. I don't know how It is, but many women seem quite crasy to buy "attachments" of some sort, such as for a sewing machine, and then never use a single one of them. I'm quite sure that this is true in regard to the average woman who pays for a tucker, a plaiter or other tcceasory, and I am afraid that the ame is true of the woman who buys a vacuum cleaner set of tools. This contains a wail brush, a mat tress tool, a floor polisher, a drap ery tool, etc. But there is no rea- ox WHAT should I do to remove wrinkles from bit neoV I want to snake It plump and pretty. ANXIOUS. A very simple way of removing those telltale wrinkles from the neck is to bathe it several times a day with the following astringent lotion: Witch hazel .1 ounce Rosewater . .1 ounce Then at sight rub Into the skin a good skin-food like lanolin. H OW can X rid myself of freckles?"-CONSTANCE. Here la one of the best freckle remedies I have aver used: Lactic aeld 4 ounces Glycerine 1 ounce Rosewater ounce Apply a small quantity of this to the unwelcome spots every night before you retire. IS there any permanent way of removing superfluous hairs? KATy. There are a number of prepara tions that will overcome this trouble temporarily, but why bother? Unless it is very conspic uous I do not in the least object to this growth. It is like the down on the peach. And who can truth fully say he prefers the appearance of the smooth-skinned apple or pear to the peach? Pi emon le Mix cornstarch and cold water and add to boiling water. Cook in double boiler until transparent - Mix the sugar and butter and add to the cornstarch mixture. Mix lemon juice and yolks of eggs, add to mixture and remove from fire. Place filling in haked crust Cover with meringue and brown in oven. To make a) "one-crust pie" stretch the pastry over the outside ot the pie plate and press the edges firmly against the edge of the plate. Prick the centre of the crust with a fork. . The baked crust will be of the desired shape and can be easily re moved from the pie plate and put , on a large plate or platter ready for the filling. The above method Is very simple and will save the housewife the dis appointment of the shrunken and misshapen one-crust pie. ' "The setting of a pair of beautiful eyes are almost as important as the eyes themselves.' Photograph Posed by MISS GRACE DARLING at CAMPBELL STUDIO son why such attachments cannot be made of real Value. During the annual house clean ing is the time to get 100 per cent out of a vacuum clearer and Us attachments. Why drag mat tresses out into the yard and thrash them for an hour with a wire car pet beater when three times as much dust can be removed while the mattress rests quietly on the bed and the mattress cleaning tool is used on it? Why need one get up on a rickety stepladder and use one's hands to dislodge the dust from the door ledge when every particle can be removed by the use of the vacuum wall cleaning at tachment t Pillows, tufted cushions and all similar forms of padded and cov St. Patrick's Irish. Pancakes. QCALD 1 cup milk with 3 ounces O batter. Add gradually 1 pound whole wheat flour and teaspoon salt. Beat thoroughly. Roll out about 4 Inch thick, cut into squares and cook on a griddle, turning often, for an hour or more. Serve with "butter and Jam or pre serves. Cream of Green Pea Soup. DRAIN 1 can green peas, rinse with cold water and set aside, if time permits, to reoxygenate. Add 2 cups cold water, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 "small onion, 1 teaspoon salt and a dash of pepper, and cook f ently hour. Press through po tato ricer, reheat and combine gradually with 2 cups white sauce made as follows 3 Melt 2 table spoons butter, add 2 tablespoons flour, blend well and gradually add 2 cups milk. Stir constantly until smooth and thick. v Perfection Salad. CUT 2 cups cold cooked chicken, in small cubes. Wash, scrape, it necessary, and dice 2 cups ten der white celery. Wash, skin, seed and cut in halves about 1V& cups white grapes. Mix lightly and marinate with enough French dressing to moisten. Set in ice box until ready to serve. Arrange in small nests of crisp lettuce leaves, decorate with a little cooked cream dressing and sprinkle finely chopped pistachio nuts or parsley on the dressing. This is an excep tionally good salad. Appetizing Menus for the Week t TUESDAY I WEDNESDAY t THITltSnAT I FimiV t SATURDAY I MONDAY TUESDAY Breakfast Cereal. Sliced Bail an e. Creamed Dned Beef, Thin Cora Bread, Coffee. ZttitcTteon Boiled Salmon, White Sauce, Green Pea. Apple Turnover. Breakfast Cereal, Hot Dates, Potato Omelet, Coffee. Luncheon Carrot Soup, Left over Salmon and Potato Balls, Buttered Beet, Soft' Ginger Cookie. Dinner Bo3ed Tongue, Baked Potatoes, Spinach, Home-made Fickle, Tapioca Pudding. Cream. Red Kidney Beans wun spaghetti and Broiled Baeoa, Jellied Cooked Dressing. Q 1819, Intanatiaul Teatorq Sarrloa, Ine. f, ered furnishings can be thoroughly cleaned in a short while by the use of a vacuum cleaner. Bookcases, ornaments and all kinds of grill work can be "thoroughly cleaned only by the vacuum method, I never knew what it was to have a thoroughly clean typewriter until I had used a vacuum cleaner on the bottom of It The result was mar vellouB. The old Idea of cleaning was merely the scattering of dust, while the new idea is absorptlon. When we use the old corn broom we never really remove the ddst from the room at all. We merely teat it out of the floor covering into the air, from which It falls for us to remove again. The result is what we might call a vicious, circle. Day Recipes Savory Green Sandwiches. WASH about cup butter and heat until creamy. Add a very little green vegetable color ing, taking care not to get butter too green.- Drain 6 anchovies, wipe perfectly dry, remove bones and pound to a smooth paste. Add gradually to the colored butter.- If desired, add a little finely chopped parsley or cucumber pickle. Use as any sandwich filling. Three sar dines may be substituted for the anchovies. Green Mayonnaise. COOK H cup green peas, 1 leaf mint, 1 sprig parsley and a few spinach leaves until tender. Press through fine leve. Add enough of this vegetable pulp to thick mayonnaise dressing to sea son and color It This is to be served with cold mutton or lamb. When wanted to serve with fish omit the mint leaf. Spinach Souffle. MELT 2 tablespoons butter, add 2 tablespoons flour, H tea spoon salt and a dash each of pep per and mace. Blend well and add cup milk gradually, stirring con stantly until smooth and thick. Add or 1 cup finely chopped cooked spinach. Beat egg yolks until. lemon colored, gradually add reheated eauce and spinach mix ture, beating constantly. Fold in stiffly beaten whites of 3 eggs and pour into a well-buttered baking dish. Bake in a moderate oven until firm in centre. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY St. Patrick' D7 Breakfast Stewed Fruit, Hominy, Scrambled Egg, Toad, Co See. Luncheon , Potato Soupt, Moulded Spinach, Shamrock. Rolls, Tea. Dinner Rout Limb, Potatoes! Crtea Pea. Perfection Salad, Tiny Sandwiches Green Butter, Pistachio Cream, , Coffee, Breakfast MasheJ Potato Cakes. Salt Mackerel, Toast, Tomato Jam, Cottee. Breakfast Boiled Rise, Apple Sauce, Bran Muf in, Coffee. Luncheon Creamed Potatoes, Hot CbecM Toast, Sliced Tongue, Pickled Beets, Boston Brown Bread, Tea. Dinner Breaded Fish Chop, Tomato Sauce, Mashed Potatoes Boiled Onions. Lemon Jelly. Stewed Prune. One-eg CakeT Dinner Left-over Lamb in Casserole with Vegetabkt, Virginia Spoon Bread, Lettuce Salad. Rice Pudding, firest Bxitala Slants Bwetttj, The vacuum cleaner stands at the head of the list of all utilities of the absorptive type of cleaning. For the woman who does her own work there Is unquestionably no other one piece of equipment of such every-day value. A room which is vacuum cleaned stays clean for longer than the room swept with a corn broom, even when perfectly swept. To-day our Standards of cleanliness are higher, end What was considered clean even a few years ago does not meet with the demands of the mod em housewife. Stop, look and purchase the best make of cleaner that your purse affords, and rest assured that your household tasks will be easier. ' By Mary Lee Swann, The Well-Known Writer s9td Lecturer on Cooking. Shamrock Bolls. QCALD 1 cup milk, add cap w butter, 1 tablespoon sugar and 1 teaspoon salt Cool and when lukewarm add M yeast cake, dis solved in 2 or 8 tablespoons luke warm water. Add 1 cups flour and heat 15 or 20 minutes. Cover and set aside to rise until light and spongy. Cut down and add about 1 cups flour or enough to make a dough that can be easily kneaded. Let rise again, toss out on slightly floured board, knead and make very small cflover leaf shapes. Each roll win require 3 or 4 tiny balls of dough -and one small piece rolled to represent a stem. Place in a greased baking sheet, cover, let rise and bake in a hot oven. Cream of Spinach Soup. PICK over and wash"l "cuartof spinach. Cook in 1 cup salted water with, a small pinch of bay leaf until spinach is very tender. Press through sieve. Melt 2 table spoons butter, add 2 tablespoons flour, 1 teaspoon salt and a dash of pepper and blend thoroughly. Add 2 cups milk and stir until smooth and creamy. Combine with spinach iralp, mix well and serve hot Pistachio Ice Cream. OOALD 1 quart rich' milk with X O cup sugar. Cool and add 1 tablespoon vanilla and 1 teaspoon almond extract. Color as desired with green vegetable coloring. Freeze, using three parts ice and one part salt. SATURDAY SUNDAY Breakfast Stewed Fruit. Cereal, Corn Muffin. Coffee. Luncheon Breakfast Oranges, Oatmeal. Buttered Tout, Coffee. Dinner Smothered Chicken, Cream Gravy, Masbed Tornips. Potato Balls. Currant Jelly, Biscuits, Baked Apple. Supper Scrambled Eggs Reheated Biscuit. .Apple Sauce, i Tea, Lima Bean Puree J Battered Tout. Apricot Trifle. Tea. Dinner Beef BaB with Spinach, Baked Potatoes, Cranberry Jelly, Baked Chocolate Costard. Coffee. Tke Eyes' By Lina Cuvalieri, The Host Famous Living fietaty. jTf BBS surroundings, fthe eyes I x 'tjralimostfc as the eya themselves. Keep . Haei away ftom the eyes by keep- ?ng them well rested. Also mas sage lightly about them tor four or five minutes. Never longer, be cause too much massage will tire the exceedingly delicate muscles about the eyes and cause them to eag. Massage them Just before retir ing with any good cold cream. Rub with a light rotary motion with the tips of tire second and third fingers, outward and away from the corners of the eyes. With the same fingers stroke the muscles that He along the upper edge ot the cheekbone. The stroke should be a slow, sweep ing one from the lower corner ot 'the eye to the'edgefhVhalr-lineT Never touch the soft, flabby skin beneath the eye with any but the gentlest pressure possible. Other wise it will make wrinkles. A third valuable Stroke is above and along' the upper edge of the eye brows. It is most soothing and restful. The eyelashes depend for their length and beauty upon the condi tion of the eyelids. Do not allow them to become inflamed. If they are irritated the lashes will be weakened and will stop growing or will fall out. To make them grow long and evenly they should he clipped two or three times a year. If the eyelashes grow thin and straggly looking it may be because the eyes are strained and the lids inflamed. To remedy such a con dition I recommend the following prescription-: Rosewater, 1-3 glass; witch hazel, glass. Warm and apply by opening the eye when cov ered with an eyecup full of the mix ture, thus giving the eye a thor ough baih. Another remedy which I will give will quickly allay a more serious In flammatory condition of the eyes: Camphor water, 1 ounce; powdered borax, 3 grains; infusion of sassa fras pith, 2 ounces. Apply with an eye-dropper, the glass tube with a rubber bulb attached that can be obtained in any drug store. Apply as frequently as is needed to allay the inflammation. The growth ot the eyelashes can be promoted by frequent brushing with an eyelash brush, also by care fully clipping the ends twice a year. Brush the lashes upward and the brows toward the temples, An '.'All G SEND your" invitations written in green ink on pale green paper. Furnish green hair fillets for the girls and green rib bon for neckties for the men. These Bhould be made in sets hav ing no two sets alike, says Alice Burrell in "The Party Complete.', You can very easily accomplish this by varying the shade of green just a little or the width of the ribbon. Each man must go to look for the girl whose ribbon matches' his. When he finds her she must tie his tie and he must adjust the fillet on her hair. No matter how gro tesquely arranged the ribbons must stay that way. They are partners for the evening. Limericks are good fun for a St. Patrick's party particularly if they are personal. Before your guests arrive write the first line of a limerick on a separate sheet of parser and pass them around for the guests to complete. For in stance "There once was a girl named Jeannette," and so on, using the name of each person at the party. Give a certain length of time for the limericks to be written and then collect them and read them aloud. They should be voted upon by the guests and the best should be awarded a prize. "The Blarney Stone" is an amus ing game, that you will want to play. Bring in the biggest stone Household Helps Basting Velvet, USE sewing silk instead of Cot ton when hasting velvet and there will he no traces left when the stltohes are removed. - To Whiten Clothes. CLOTHES that have become yel low should be washed as usual and then soaked overnight in water to which cream of tartar (one teaspoon! ul to a quart) has been added. Cleaning: Lamp Chimneys. IN peeling potatoes do not discard, skins, tout place in vessel and cover with water. Pnt in chimneys and set to simmer for three hours on back of stove. They will be as bright as new when taken out and rinsed and dried. Settings training the arch to he high tad piquant. For eyebrows that are weak and thja this lotion is excel lent and , should be applied fre quently: Bulphate ot quinine. 10 - grains ; Ott of sweet almonds, 1 ounces. The eyebrows should be kept clean by brushing ; with a tin eyebrow brush. Half a dozen strokes upon each eyebrow are enough. The lashes should be brushed upward. That makes them curly. Sometimes eyebrows grow unevenly. They begin well, but end drearily, In a straggling line ot sparse hairs, or in no hairs at all. Massaging the scant part of the eyebrows with lanolin will improve them wonderfully. Occasionally the eyelashes show a bothersome tendency to curve in ward, usually, on the lower lid. To insure comfort and avoid danger ous irritation of the eyes they should be removed by careful manipulation of hair forceps made especially for the purpose. Girls often aSk me how to make their eyelashes darker. There ara, plenty of dyes and stains for the eyelashes, but I do not recommend them because they are likely to be injurious. The application of any one of them to the eyelashes by an unsteady hand might allow some of it to get into and so permanently injure the eyes. Eyelashes are often too light be cause they are faded. To restore them to their original color, try clipping the ends carefully but very slightly every two months. This sometimes strengthens, stimulates and so darkens them. If your eyelids are encrusted when you wake -up in the morning, don't attempt to remove the en- crustatlonL. until you have first moistened them with a lotion from your eye-cup. The best one for this purpose is made by dissolving an ounce of boracic acid in a pint of rosewater. Styes-are . ugly and disfiguring. In their first stages they can be re moved by bathing with peroxide ot hydrogen, or by applying ethereal collodion with a camel's hair brush. Do not get any of this into the eye itself, however. If the condition has progressed far. a tiny flaxseed poultice soon brings it to the "ripe" stage, after which it can be lanced by an ordinary needle that has been sterilized by passing ft through a flame. Party reen that you can get and place it on J .table or a pedestal. Tell the mea one by one, to kiss the Blarney stone and pick up one of the cards lying beside it. On this card was written the name ot the girl to ' whom he must pay the most extrav agant compliment that he could in vent Here is a guessing game that yon' will like. Write the following seven questions on a card, leaving room to insert the answers: What Indian Dance would SL Patrick have prohibited? Answer i The Snake Dance. What Irish city means a top of el bottle T Answer Cork. What Irish county would make good Winter coatf Answer Ulster. What does an Irishman refuse to eat at breakfast? Answer Orange. Why Is arpaste diamond like afl Irish clover? Answer It's a sham rock. What country has fit. Patrick's colors? Answer Greenland, Why should a pine tree he made St. Patrick's emblem? Answer It's evergreen. For refreshments serve potato salad, celery - stalk, olive sand wiches, pistachio ice cream and cake with green Icing. Decorate your table with green crepe paper and flowers made' green by putting the steins in green Ink. Sham rocks are also appropriate for the table setting. Peripiration Stains. R1 UB perspiration stains with soap slightly dampened and ltythe garment in the sunlight to Bread in Pea Soup. PUTTING a piece of bread into bet Soup prevents the Teas from sinking to the bottom of the saucepan and turniig. Darning Stockings. SILK-finlshed crochet cotton Is excellent , for darning cotton stockings, because the mended places will 4e soft and won't hurt the -feet, as often happens with ordinary darning cotton. : ; ; A Sink Apron. MAKE a small oilcloth apron and keep hanging near the sink to wear when washing dishes.
