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HOME AND FARM MAGAZTNE SECTION
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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.
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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
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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.
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satisfactory.
Recipes
Fashion Talks By M ay Mantón
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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gowm
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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.
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are liked because of their gleam. Oa-