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Forum tor Household Topics Milady s '(&tf)etcSD(3ncLJiifforxl5 Pleasurable Seme Hi mill I ll m CLASSIC DANCING BENEFITS How This Art of Poetic Motion Brings Grace of Carriage and Health to the User. KB N touring one often In f S ' H CaU hsi i' the Fsajswkr .'CjHL BHHHr f4 i a hue mat will hold mI3hC I :Mf ' WfS in or three' hats maj b made b) BBCr' tmB' taking to BKjjKA WKBKttKBBr- mL hiavy linen. matching the lining nf the JpBC3'' ' '' 'eT. l:TIT5r 5. if possible binding lliem togethei Baam? .MBea.. " JS ' laaaasBsaW' with tape at thr (dues, letting Ihe lop 10' ' ' ' open lengthwise and dividing them In- zr Y to three po h- I hi n sen on snap aaSaafr at Intervals. Fasten these strap to . jgyk, jS - Hr nsxi buttons (iihrt 'if the hood ''ST' g , Hasa bbb"" between jaft asw 'smmssmF- JBiS I front and bai It seati and 'tit1 list "ill ' "B : tip amr be protected ami r lite av aBssBaaBssF The Kitchen jr KsrSllopsd t lam-. One quart of long clam, half puuud of milk crackers. Kim through the meat chopper .Now put a layer of crackers, then one of i lams, with bits of bullet and sail and pepper till you have used lliem all. Pour one quart of milk over all and bake in a hot oven till brown. A price! Snuffle. Beat Ihc yolks of five eggs until thick, and continue beating while Ave tablespoons of sugar are added Then best in half cup Of apricots thai have been put through a trgetahle rlcer: then fold in Ihc whiles of Ihe Ihe eggs that have been heaien stiff. Serve half a canned apprlcni and a spoon of the sirup with each portion. Cocoa l Hilar. Place 12 tesspbont of cocoa In a saucepan and rub into smooth paste by adding half nip of milk. Add four cups of sugar, pic e nf butter size nf an egg ami one cup of milk. Place on flic and boll, ihrn add half cup of milk and cook until II forms a soft ball w hen dropped into i old waier. Take from fire, add vanilla and bcal until It is JuBt thick enough to pour Into but tered tins Hy adding half of milk last you will find fudge to be free from grain anil hi he nice and smooth When cool mark into one-inch blocks and break. Lemon Pie. Mix three tablespoons of cornstarch and tart-Quartern cup of sugar, sdd three-quarters cup of boiling water, stirring constantly Cook two min utes, add one leaspoon of butler, two cck volk (aol batten), grated rind of one lemon ami three tablespoons of lemon Juice. Line plate With paste and build In a fluted rim. Turn in mix ture which has been cooled anil bake till paslry Is well browned. Cool lightly and cover with meringue, then return to oven and hake me ringue In a slow oven about 15 min ules. French Fruit Salad. Two oranges. Ihree banana, half a pound Malaga grapes. 1-' English wal nut meats. I head lettuce. French dressing Peel orsnges. and remove pulp separately from each section. Perl bananas, and cut In quarter-Inch slices, Remove skins and seeds from grapes. Break walnut meat in pieces Mix prepared Ingredient and arrange on lettuce Icaics. Serve witli French Pressing You may sc a gl . If mayonnaise dressing Instead of the French if preferred In making the mayonnaise dressing for a fruit salad a spoonful of fine sugar can be sub stituted for ihe uiuslard. You can use less oil than in the usual mayon naise and the last minute when ready to serve add thick, fresh rrcam whipped. Currant Jelly. Pick over currants, bul do not. re move stems, wash and drain Wash a few in ihe bottom of a pressing ket tle, using a wooden potato masher; so continue until berries arc used Cook until currants look white, strain through a coarse strainer, then allow julci to drop through a double thick ness of cheesecloth or a jelly bag Measure, bring to the boiling point and boil five minutes, skim and pour Into glasses. Place in a sunny win dow and let aland -4 hours. Cover and keep in a cool, dry place. Orange Mousse. Mix two cup of fruit pulp with powdered sugar to sweeten with the w hip from one pint of cream. A small amount of lemon Juice brings ou. the flsvor of the oranges. Mold, pack and let stand in ice and salt, four hours. Shrimp 1 Untie. One-half teaspoon of salt, four ta blespoons bolter, two tablespoons of flour, a pinch of cayenne pepper, melted together, stirring constantly, then pour In gradually one and a half cups of milk as soon as II thickens. Add one CUP of shrimps broken In pieces and one cup of peas after drain ing from the liquor. Cook after add ing Shrimp! only enough to heat through well. Steamed Rice and Salman. A way to use salmon a little dif ferent from the usual recipe hi as fol lows: Line a bread pan. alighth but tered, with warm steamed rice. Fill Ihe center with et Id boiled salmon flaked and seasoned with s It. pepper and a slight grating of n tmeg. Cover with rice anil steam one hour. Run on a hot platter for serving snd pour i.rornd egg sauce made of one third cup of butter, three tablcstaions flour, i ne and a half cup hot water, half teaapoon sail, one-eighth tea spoon pepper, beaten yolk of three eggs and one leaspoon lemon juice. Melt half butler, add flour with aes soniugs and pour on gradually hot wa ter. Boll live minutes and add re maining butter in mat. pieces. Cursy SPENDING THE INCOME BY MRS. McLTNE. MAKING the most of a moderat income is the problem which a great many women are try ing to solve. Many answers are found to this many-sided question, but fan Women have found satisfac tory solutions to all the parts of the problem. There are a great many families in 1 his muni ry who are in want, and there are also many families of great wealth. But the majority rests with the ones who are neither very rich nor very poor, but in moderate circum stances. The housewives whose hus bands makt moderate salaries have just as man and just as engrossing problems as the women whose mates dig ditches or carry a hod to earn their daily wage. One of the times w hen every woman feeU the desire for wealth is when her children are grow ing up without the sort of education that she would like 10 give them. Almost every mother feels strong ambition for her children, and if one is specially talented it al most breaks the mother-heart to be unable to develop that talent. You m: y have found that you could get along very well on your moderate income when there was only a ques tion of your own and your husband's needs. And when the children were very little the added drain on the purse was not so much greater. Bui now that same income seems all in small now that you would like to give your child music or drawing. French and German Irsaons. all of w hi h cotl money. You will find ihat there is very lit tle in the line of education which can not he acquired either entirely free or almost free of charge. The pub) it high sclfools teach German. French and Italian and have besides free (lasses in drawing There your child can lay a splendid foundation for fu ture sludy in any one of these lan guages or in art. Music Is the only thing which re quires an expenditure of money to gain a start. But after your child has made a start in music, if she is reajl talenie' she will soon be able to con tinue In r lessons for nothing, as there are Inn Hut ions w here free scholar ships are offered euh car. BY EDNA EGAN. HE esthetic dance, unlike the folk dance or the more con ventional ballroom dance, Is s personal and physical ex pression of the beautiful exempt from rule. It is opposed to the hard-and-fast regulation of calisthenics. i even more effective In producing symmetiy of form, absolute muscular control. pole and grace This kind of danc ing, dependent ss it is on responsive muscles and a happy frame of mind, is a most pleasurable form of exercise. And now for the practical aide of Its execution. Ixmse clothing is Impera tive, and a happy frame of mind is no unimportant consideration'. However, the purely physlcsl side of the exer cise can react on the mental and pro duce a care-free attitude where a grouch formerly ' held court I say looae clothing, becauae the free move ment of Ihe body cannot be hampered I Coqaefe WALKING BY lA'CII.I.K DAL'DET. A I. KING is the only exercise possible for every one. The busy man says he can not go to a gymnasium or take up regular gymnastic drill. To maintain health, you require no apparatus or equipment. b'xerrise is a matter of will aud desire You can secure improved health by using your muscles in a natural way. The purpose of exercise is not mere ly lo declop muscles, bul to use and develop energy. It strengthens Ihe heart by malting it work, and nourishes thr organs of the body and the muscles hy promot ing their activity. Use of the body increases its ca paslty for work. You can always walk. You will find it wholesome exercise. Get out into the fresh air. Walk more -ride less. Don't be afraid of the weather. Properly clad you ran enjoy almost any kind of weather. Walk moderate distances at first Lengthen the distance as your ability to withstand fatigue increases. Don't lire yourself. Fatigue is Ihe result of over-doing. Throw your shoulders back, allow your arms free swinging action Make the w hole body w alk. Don't merely bend vour knees. Keep an upright posture. Feel your si rcngtb. Don't slouch, crawl or dawdle Walk up and walk out with snap, vig or, interest, cnthuaiasm. Don't walk a certain number of miles each day because your doctor advises it. Have a purpose in every walk. Go somewhere. Sec something. Visit somebody. Get out of the busy places into ihc open spaces. l'e your eyes, your ears. Com mune with Nature, snd he occupied with thoughts unrelated to business, shop or store. Breathe In new life with every deep breath of fresh air. 4 and at the same time appear graceful. Just what sort of attire you will se lect for Ihe dance Is a matter that I best decided by your own taate. If "gym" bloomcra, a middy blouse and aoft shoes do not, in your estimation, detract from the beauty of appear ance that usually accompanies beauty of prise, why well and good. On the it lier hand. If clothea affect your moods and what woman doesn't "feel belter" In becoming clothes? and you would feel more like a sprite In the curlailed costume seen In rlasflic mursl decorations, then wear a dress like ihc one pictured. Its simplicity nf design .'ltd material places P readily within the capabilities of deft fingers Now that the all-Important clothes question has been settled. 1st us con sider the when, where and t.ow of the "poetry of motion" for amateurs When? .lust whenever you are so in clined The inclination is best taken advantage of in the early morning riiyaical or menial faligue is not con ducive lo any form of exercise, you know. Where? Preferably on a smooth broad aurfare. Carpet is no objection. And how? Begin by letting the whole body from head to iocs relax utterly. Let the head droop slowly until it falls quite limp on the chest. Iel the arms hang limply at your sides. Then re lax the whole body, waist, hips. legs, feet and all, until you fall all in a heap Repeat thia preliminary exer cise for several days, or until you are quite supple. Then you might begin limbering up your arms and wrists. Swing the arms backward and for ward and from aide to side, letting the wrists take rare of themselves. If they show any signs of stubbornness, then they require individual attention. This attention is best administered by w ringing the hands. Rigid w rists can not remain thus after such vigorous treatment. Now you are ready for the actual dance pose. In "Bacchanale" the waist is slightly bent, the weigh! nf the body rests on the forward foot, the head Is ihrown back and Ihe arms complete a circle above the head. You will no tice 1 liar ihe wrists are quite limp. Practice ihe pose as often as you care to: of course, not to the point of ex haustion. "Almost a curtsy." excepting the po sition of the arms. Is really nothing more than a curtsy. The bend comes directly from the waist, and the bal ance is on the backward foot. "Coquette'' demands a slightly curv ed torso, a coquettishly poised head snd the uplifted leg at right angles to the body "Breath of Spring" is best interpret ed by a stretching of the whole body from head to toe. The weight is car ried by either the right or the left foot. The other leg is raised from ihe hip. bending at the knee, with the calf swinging quite limp. You will note that "Butterfly" is composed of curves. From tfieipllft ed arm to the correspondingly uplifted leg is described a half circle. From the slightly bent head to the support ing root there is Just the suggesrion of a curve, sufficient to establish balance and harmony. Practice the poses in the order in which I have described them. Your mirror Is perhaps the best critic. At the beginning you will doubtless have difficulty In rounding out the "angles." Despite the wholly ungraceful aspect that you present, the muscular activ ity will do you an untold amount of good. Practice each pose aeveral times, relax and go to the next. But a last word of caution: If you would benefit mentally as well aa physically by the esthetic dance, make )ila of It So many of us are in need of diversion from our evcry-day activ ities. Yet when we play, we do it with so vigorous a will and way that it really isn'i playiug at all. Remember, if you would acquire grace, that grace of mind accompanies grace of body. A squared jaw and an I'm-bound-l'll-get-it-righl expression cannot be condu cive to limber joints, responsive mus cles and true grace. Play more. HARMONY IN DRESS BY LOUISE LA.NNOM. m IVEN "all the money in the world" to spend, a woman who is naturally dowdy, too stubborn to listen to people of good taste too unimaginative to picture herself in the clothes she sees, and quite unblessed with an eye for harmony of color and line, would look a thousand times more frumpy than if she had loss to spend Not long a'go a woman was seen sirolling into a fashionable reslau ranl with about IS ,000 worth of clothes on -and looking infinitely less smart than her blue serge suited companion who could not have In sured her entire costume at more than one hundred dollars The expensive lady had clad herself in coat of ko llnaky. whose belt, collar, cuffs and flaring band bore horizontal stripes so arranged (bat her fHe trot four of height looked like t lie same distance In circumference The flashing buckles on her bronze slippers had probably cost a sum to be noted in three figures. Her hat lore a towering mass of black paradise which would have been better suited to the stage than the street, and more becoming io a drum-major than lo any "mere woman. To complete the effect of utter dow -illness, she wore a dress of gi a georg- gJB F a tahlespoonful of peroxide is 2 M placed in two tablespoonfuls BaU of water and used at a gargle it w ill prove an excellent rem edy for tonailltis. About ten drops of peroxide In a half-glass of water used to clean the teeth will remove tartar and harden the gums. A few drops of peroxide put on an open wound imme diately will take out the poison. The wound should be bathed every day in w ater to which a few dropa of the per oxide have been added and it will heal very quickly. RUDE oil is one of the very best remedies for falling hair and dandruff. Apply it to the scalp every other day, but massage the scalp daily and then brush the hair afterwards. Another good remedy for dandruff is to rub castor oil into the scalp every day. This will not make the hair very oily if one is careful to use only a little at a time. m VERY fsshion returns sooner or later, and now walnut fur niture is coming in again. Not the ornate and carved walnut horrors of early Victorian days, how ever, but simple', beautiful pieces of this really fine wood in Queen Anne design. A dining room set of burl walnut in Queen Anne pattern retails for four hundred dollars which proves how fashionable and exclusive walnut has become. L forms of pendant dress orna ments are to be seen at the trimming counters There is a large selection of bead tas sels, silver beads, crystals, gold and bronze beads and those in colors as well. Similar tassels come in glass drops, and pearl-drop ornaments are numerous. Cord and ball trimmings in cotton and linen and wool are ef fective when used in the right place. THERE is a strange fascination about Chinese things: the country and race remain to a great extent a twentieth cen tury world mystery. Our modes for ette which was not in harmony with any other part of her costume. The keynote of smartness is fitness, and after fitness comes harmony, which makes the garments you wear look congenial and happy. Then there is a certain dasli and origiuality about putting them on. No woman ever was smart whose sense of fitness, plus harmony plus dash, were not bulwarked anil but tressed hy neatness. lx-arn what J ou as an individual can wear Keep thr details of your cos tume harmonious. Put ou each gar ment as if your entire effect depended on it alone. And as you value your reputation for good dressing, remem ber that a trip to the gasoline bowl or laundry tub in time is aa impor tant as the far-famed stilch which saves the infamous nine. the year are, it is said, to be large lr a la Chinots. and the Paris creators have gone to the Chinese Empire for inspiration alike in color and in line. Mandarin hats and coolie cbapeaux are already in our midst, and rery charming they are, being, it must be understood, highly developed from the original inspiration. Dresses and coats are also to be of Chinese char acter So far. It is not proposed -to-In-' troduce pigtails! , V ECRU curtains, after many wash ings, lose their color, but ther may be made to look like new; it they are washed in thia. manner: Soak the curtains la cold, salt water for an hour or two. Then. wring them out, put them In a tab o clear warm water and wash tbenv' carefully until perfectly clean. PuO 5 cents' worth, of dry saffron into ay quart of water, boil for a moment and strain. Put this into the rinsing; ' water, saving a little for the starch, water. Rinse them quickly through the yellow water. Then make a rery tbln. clear starch, color It with tha saffron, put the curtains through this, spread them on a sheet, roll tightly for a moment and they are ready to Iron. iii lhe is a timely lip ror girls:. I She had had a young man mj calling on her regularly and derotedly for some time. Ona day she met him on the street. She had on a new hat and looked her pret n'est, so he observed, and she saw ha did. "Do you like itf" she queried, "Oh. yes." he responded. "Forty dol lars." she said with evident pride. Soon after he went upon hia way and she hers. Days passed, and then weeks. His calls had ceased sudden ly. Then one day she met him on the street again. "Why don"I you come tu see me any more?" she queried. "Hat!" he responded with laconic fer vor. THE well-groomed woman whom you meet at the breakfast ta ble, office or shops is the c.ne who never Ignores her bedtime toilet, no matter what the hour nf re tirement She believes it just as es sential to retire wholesomely clean, giving certain toilet details their atten tion, aa to emerge refreshed In the morning, says Hortense. No woman in the world is more appreciative of this simple truth than the French woman, no matter her social caste, and to this is due their immaculate ap pearance which makes an instant ap leal. especially to foreigners Where the rising hour is an early one. th business woman cannot afford to rusks a leisurely morning toilet. Where cer tain details haic been attended to th night before, her toilet I made in half the rime, and the ncrius flmii. espe cially where trains are mad, la hap pily eliminated No woman need make an elaborate toilet unless she Is an disposed. Attention to the few essen tisls Is all that is necessary Thte daily rare not only encourages heal'h and ' a .... , but preset I cs them aa well.