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14 HOME AND FARM MAGAZTNE SECTION R AISINS are coming to be regarded as a food instead of as a mere acces sory to cooking. As a winter food they are considered specially valuable, and are also said to contain acids which aro a digestive tonic. They fur BY M A Y MANTON. nish in a natural form the sweet which ASTES in sleeping garments are widely divided. On the one hand, there children crave. In cookery, in bread, are women who want the daintiest gowns with round neck and short gingerbread and in puddings they make sleeves and, on the other hand, there are those who are warm advocates an agreeable diversity, and add nour o f pajamas. Undoubtedly, this last garment has advantages that are all its own ishment. They need thorough mastica but there is a daintiness and a charm ab out the lingerie night gown that is quite tion, especially when uncooked. certain to appeal to the feminine mind. » * * The kimono gown, 7944, is a very charming one yet perfectly simple, made Remove Tea Stains on Linen. all in ono piece with only two seams.. Hand embroidery makes the prettiest This is an excellent method for re and daintiest finish and the design shown is by no means difficult but, when moving tea stains on tablecloths. Im time and labor are to be considered, a dainty effect can be obtained by using mediately after the tea is spilled cover the scallops only or by trimming with lace edging and insertion. In tho small the stain with common table salt, leav view, there is a suggestion for beading that gives an Empire effect and for ing it for about an hour. Then wash slightly longer sleeves. in the usual manner, and find the stains For the medium size, the gown will require 3J yards o f material 36, 3 1-4 hate entirely disappeared. yards, 44 inches wide, with 3 3 8 yards of beading to trim as shown in the small * * • : r : -M front view. Stains on Dishes. The May Manton pattern o f the gown 7944 is cut in three sizes, small 34 or To remove stains from fireproof dishes whieh have become brown from 30, medium 38 or 40, large 42 or 44 inches bust measure. baking, try soaking them in a strong Pajamas inevitably are simple in style but a great many women are making borax water, and you will find it very them o f tub silk and silk is surely a delightful material to wear while sleeping. T satisfactory. Recipes Fashion Talks By M ay Mantón • • * ANY o f us have all kinds o f worries about bread. Somehow, we never feel we have just the recipe we want. There is always a hitch. Here, however, are several tried and tested recipes: M Good White Bread. I f you wish to bake on Saturday, save water in which potatoes were boiled Thursday; add one-half cake good com pressed yeast, one teaspoon each salt and sugar; let stand till Friday eve ning; add another pint o f potato water, another teaspoon each o f salt and sugar, and enough good hard wheat flour to make batter, let stand till morning. Add a pint or more warm water and lard or butter the size of an egg, and flour enough to make stiff dough, knead well, let rise, lfnead down, let rise and form into loaves and place in pan, let rise and bake in moderate oven one hour. * * « New Potatoes. Baked Brown Bread. When boiling new potatoes always place them in boiling water, to which add a little salt and milk. This pre vents them from turning black. # * # If Beat two eggs with I cup sugar, then add 2 tablespoons o f melted butter, I cup molasses in which 1 rounded tea spoon of soda has been mixed till it foams, 2 eups of sour or buttermilk, 2 cups o f sifted graham flour, I cup corn- meael, II cups white flour, 1 teaspoon o f salt. Bake in two coffee cans one hour. | To Clean a Coffee Pot. I dean my silver coffee pot in the fol lowing manner and find it very satis factory: Put a largo piece of washing Soda into the pot to be cleaned, and fill it with boiling water. Then boil it for one hour over a spirit lamp. This makes the pot as bright inside as out and will not injure the silver in any way. I * Draping Curtains look dainty and pretty, only she doesn’t always know how to go about it. First and foremost let her stand straight. Stooping is a habit that one heeds great will power to overcome. There is a dangerous tendency to ward stooping shoulders in the present limp picturesque clothes now in fashion, but don’t give way to it. Indulge in the baggy effects and Maygar and kimono styles, but don ’t NEW wav of draping bedroom curtains o f sheer ami soft, thin materials like casement cloth, cot ton voile, marquisette or not, is to hang a single width at each end of the pole and let it fall in straight folds to tho floor. The hooks supporting these straight widths occcupy about one-third o f the space at each end o f the pole, and next to them are suspended two double widths of material, both of which are hooked back at tho window’ sill, but while at the top one o f these widths falls natural ly, the upper inside corner o f the other width is brought forward to overlap the first one and hooked to the pole within three inches o f the end widths inside edge. Finally, several feet from the pole at the opposite side of the window this overlapping curtain is partly caught back by a narrow ribhop or twist of silk starting from its own end o f the pole. The lapover fills in the space at the top o f the window, which draped back curtains always form, and it is less stiff in appearance than is the short width o f enrtaining sometimes employed to obviate the abrupt break at ths center of the window pole. A stoop. Honey Bread. Here I* a good recipe for koaey bread loaf that 1» ia demand and one thut trill prove popular If nsedt Ono and s half quarts milk. I t ounce» ■alt, 3 onncet honey, 9t ounesa lard, 2 ■uncos yeast (compressed), I Ie I t founds strong floor. Put honey and salt ta part of milk ia order to dissolve them. Then dissolve yeast In remainder of milk and make -•ough ia regular way. Work dough ever as noon at it starts to drop In the •enter; let come np again to its full ea- fa c .t y , than scale and pst ia pan a Do Bo4 keep ever too hot. * Do not remove stems. To five pounds o f the fruit add one-half as much sugar, one pint o f vinegar, one-half ounce stick cinnamou and a few cloves. Steam the crab apples until tender, boil the syrup ten minutes, skim, put the apples in and let boil five minutes. Can immediately. AM sure every normal girl wants to Simply let them fall into natural, easy lines. A crumpled eollar, a guirape that is sc small that it gapes in the back just between the hooka, a button missing where its absence is revealed, a plain pin where there should be a little sil vct or gilt safety pin, all these are ca 1 aim tic s when one starts o ff in a bur ry and then is suddenly conscious of them. Of what nse ie it to have a dainty blouse if you stoop so that it wrinkles and sags, or to have a handsome gown if you stand so badly that its graceful lines aro spoiled. You’ve seen the girl who has a gen erous dress allowance, yet somehow can not manage to look well dressed. W e V o all seen her. She exists every where. She wears her clothe badly in the first place, and the has not the slightest realisation of the value of little things whieh go to make a suc cessful toilette. Her ribbons are crumpled, her frfl lings are so fled, her eollar ta not neat^ fv pinned down In tho back, bat insism upon riding up under her cost, eo that It soon loses Its pristine fresh neat * Pickled Crab Apples. Designs by May Manton. 7941 One Piece Night down. Small 34 or 36, Medium 38 or 40, Large 42 or 44 Boat. 7920 Women’s Pajamas, 34 to 40 Bust. 7927 Bound Yoke Night down. Small 34 or 36, Medium 38 or 40, Large 42 or 44 Bust. The coat shown here can be finished with ojien neck or with a collar that makea it a little closer and with the front edges straight and closed with but- ton* and button heles. In the illustration, a striped pajama cloth is trimmed with plain. For the medium size, the pajamas will require 6* yards o f material 27, 6 1-4 yards 36, with 1 yard 27 niches wide for the bands. The May Manton pattern 7920 is cut in. sizes from 34 to 40 inches bust measure. Empire effects are much liked for night gown» and 7927 can be finished In that way or left plain as each wearer mag choose. There ie a »hallow little yoke to whieh the gown ia attached and the gown ia »lightly gathered at ita upper edge. Three etvlee * f sleeves urn nil .wed, straight short ones, short ones with carved edgee and long « iM gathered into bands As shown here, the gown 1« made of white erepc de chine, that material being greatly in vogue. Por tho »odium »tie, the gown will require 4 yards s f material 36 or 44 Inchon wide, with 1 yard» of banding. I t yard* of beading. The Mny Menton pattern of the gown 7927 in ent tn three »ises, small »4 or medium 28 or 40, large 42 or 44 inehee boat measure. Ask your local merchant for thee» patterns. He can probably aupply yon. Nut Bread. Two and one-half cups whit« flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, I cup sugar, 3 4 cop walnut« or pecan nut meats chopped fin«, 1 egg beaten light, 1 cup flour. Sift together the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt and add the nnt meats. Mix the beaten egg and the milk together, and stir the liquid into trieh feathers and quills are also swept the dry ingredients. Bake ha a mod* crate oven for one hour. over with a gilding brush. e e » Hints On Fashions W OM AN who known hew ean change the eapreesion of her face by beading the brim of her bat sp or down, sad the pose of the bat is more imxirVAJi* than the At nf the T hu gowm s e e The most popular straw seems te be camphorated oU will clean the marks Belgian split, whieh ts rather eos made by hot dishes om the polished and very glossy. In fact, everything Is table. shiny or glittering. Not only etrnwi and flower» are shellaced, but ribbons Don’t forget that there ts t guides art lacquered and »«lied “ glace” or i mean In feeding It's not the amount g “ oilcloth,” These are said te be water Lea esta, bat what she digests and proel j assimilate^ that brings ths profib H o m y has te* Wee pleating iih 'S " franSed ta 1000, sad sines Don’t tackle poultry os a large rc*1f Other ribbons are given metalli» gold T h . first m then M mllll«* trées have hens plseted. mor. i until yon hare made It pay on a modes» edgne, ee are interwoven with gold and ihee me million hevlag bean set enS lest ¿ate plan. • » r i are liked because of their gleam. Oa-
