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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
In the Home -- Fashions -- Household Hints ftecipes
FfeAlSINS are coming to be regarded
( as a food instead of as a mere acces-
v aory to cooking. As a winter food
they are considered specially valuable,
and are also said to contain aeids
which are a digestive tonic. They fur
nish in a natural form the sweet which
children crave. In cookery, in bread,
gingerbread and in puddings they moke
an agreeable diversity, and add nour
ishment. They need thorough mastica
tion, especially when uncooked.
Tea Stains on Linen.
This is an excellent method for re
moving tea stains on tablecloths. Im
mediately after the tea is spilled cover
the stain with common table salt, leav
ing it for about an hour. Then wash
in the usual manner, and find the stains
have entirely disappeared.
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Stains on Dishes.
To remove stains from fireproof
dishes which have become brown from
baking, try soaking them in a strong
borax water, and yon will find it very
satisfactory.
New Potatoes.
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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To Clean a Coffee Pot.
I dean my silver coffee pot in the fol
lowing manner and find it very satis
factory: Put a large 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.
On Looking Dainty
I AM sure every normal girl wants to
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 needs
great will power to overcome.
. There is a dangerous tendency to
ward stooping shoulders in the present
limp picturesque elothes now in fashion,
but don't give way to it.
Indulge in the baggy effects and
Kaygar and kimono styles, but don't
toop.
Simply let them fall into natural,
easy- lines.
A enunpled eollar, a guimpe that is
i so small that it gapes in the back just
between the hooks, a button missing
where its absenoe is revealed, a plain
pin where '.here should be a little sil
, et. or gilt safety pin, all these are ca
lamities when one starts off in a hur
ry ' and then is suddenly conscious of
them.
Of what use Is 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 are spoiled.
You've seen the girl who has a gen
erous dress allowaaee, yet somehow caa
not manage to look well dressed.
We've all seen her. She exists every
where. She wears her cloths badly in
the first place, and she has not the
slightest realization bf the value of
little things which go to make a suc
cessful toilette.
Her ribbons are crumpled, her fril
ling! are soiled, her eollar is not neat
ly pinned down In the back, bnt Insists
upon riding up under her eoat, so that
it soon loses its pristine freshness.
1 Honey Bread.
Here is a good recipe for honey bread
- loaf that is in demand and one that
will prove popular if used)
One and a half quarts milk, ounces
alt, 8 ounces honey, ounces lard, 2
evinces yeast (compressed), 6 to 6J
pounds strong flour.
Put honey and salt in part of milk
in order to dissolve them. Then dissolve
teasfc in remalndor of milk and make
ioogh hi regular way, Work dongh
, over as soon as It starts to drop in the
centerj lot come up again to Its full ca
(' pacify, then scale and put in pans. Do
' pot ep oyer too tot, . ,
Fashion Talks
BY MAT MANTON.
TASTES in sleeping garments are widely divided. On the one hand, there
are women who. want the daintiest gowns with round neck and short
sleeves and, on the other hand, there are those who are warm advocates
of pajamas. Undoubtedly, this last garment has advantages that are all its own
bnt there is a daintiness and a charm about the lingerie night gown that is quite
certain to appeal to the feminine mind, , ,
The kimono gown, 7944, is a very charming one yet perfectly simple, made
all in one piece with only two seams. Hand embroidery makes the prettiest
and daintiest finish and the design shown is by no means difficult but, when
time and labor are to be considered, a dainty effect can be obtained by using
the scallops only or by trimming with lace edging and insertion. In the small
view, there is a suggestion for beading that gives an Empire effect and for
slightly longer sleeves.
For the medium size, the gown will require 3 yards of material 36, 3 1-4
yards, 44 inches wide, with 3 3-8 yards of beading to trim as shown in the small
front view.
The May Manton pattern of the gown 7944 is cut in three sizes, small 34 or
33, medium 38 or 40, large 42 or 44 inches bust measure.
Pajamas inevitably are simple in style but a great many women are making
them of tub silk and silk is surely a delightful material to wear while sleeping.
Designs by
7944 One-Piece Night Gown, Small 34 or
7920 Women's Pajamas, 34 to 40 Bust.
7927 Bound Yoke Night Gown, Small 34 or 36, Medium 38 or 40, Large
42 or 44 Bust.
The coat shown here can be finished with open neck or with a collar that
makes it a little closer and with the front edges straight and closed with but
tons and button-holes. In the illustration, a striped pajama cloth is trimmed
with plain.
For the medium size, the pajamas will require 6 yards of material 27, 5 1-4
yards 36, with yard 27 inches wide for
The May Manton pattern 7920 is
measure.
Empire effects are much liked for
that way or left plain as eaeh wearer may choose. There is a shallow little yoke
to which the gown is attached and the gown is slightly gathered at its upper
edge. Three styles of sleeves art- allowed, straight short ones, short ones with
curved edges and long ones gathered into bands. As shown here, the gown
Is made of white crepe de chine, that material being greatly in vogue.
For the medium size, the gown will
wiri with 2 vards of banding, li yards
The May Manton pattern of the gown 7927 is cut in throe sizes, small 34 or
36, medium 38 or 40, large 42 or 44 inehes
Ask your local mercnant iot wee
Hints On Fashions
THE WOMAN who knows how can
change the expression of her face
by bending the brim of her hat up
or down, and the pose of the hat is
more important than the fit of the
gown.
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Other ribbons are given metallic gold
edges, or art interwoven with gold and
are liked because of their gleam, Os
By May Manton
May Manton.
36, Medium 38 or 40, Large 42 or 44 Bust
the bands.
cut in sizes from 34 to 40 inches bust
night gowns and 7927 can be finished in
require 4 yards of material 36 or 44 inches
of beading.
Dust measure.
panurun. i u yiwamj uj,jiV Uu.
trich feathers and quills are also swept
over with a gilding brush.
The most popular straw seems to be
Belgian split, which is rather coarse
and very glossy. In fact, everything is
shiny or glittering. Not only straws
and flowers are shellaced, but ribbons
are lacquered and sailed '"glace" or
"oilcloth." These are said to be vater-
prool
Honray has 144 tm planting SMhtlts.
Tha first ni founde4 In 1900, and line
then 88 million treea hart bean planted, mora
that tare million having bean let oat last
Recipes
nANY of us have all kinds of worries
about bread. Somehow, we never
feel we have just the recipe we
want. There is always a hitch. Here,
however, ire several tried and tested
recipes: j ;
Opod White Bread..
If you wish to bake on Saturday, save
water in which potatoes were boiled
Thursday; add one-half eake good com
pressed yeast, one teaspoon each salt
and sugar; let stand till Friday eve
ning; add another pint of potato water,
another teaspoon each of salt and
sugar, ana 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, knead down,
lot rise and form into loaves and place
in pan, let rise and bake in moderate
oven one hour.
Baked Brown Bread. '
Beat two eircra with 1 curt miirsr. then
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add 2 tablespoons of melted butter, J
cup molasocs in which 1 rounded tea
spoon of soda has been mixod till it
ioams, 2 eups or sour or buttermilk, 2
cups of sifted graham flour. 1 cud cum.
meael, li cups whito flour, 1 teaspoon
ol salt. Hake in two coffeo cans ouo
hour.
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Pickled Crab Apples.
Do not remove stems. To five nnnmk
of the fruit add one-half as much tuwir,
one pint of vinegar, one-half ounce stick
cinnamon and a few cloves. Steam the
crab armies until tonder. Ixiil t.h inm
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ten minutes, skim, put the apples in and
let Don rive minutes, tan immediately.
Draping Curtains
ANEW way of draping bedroom
curtains of sheer and soft, thin
materials like ensement cloth, cot
ton voile, marquisette or net, 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 o'eccupy about one third of the
space at each end of the polo, and next to
them are suspended two doublo widths
of material, both of which are hooked
back at the window sill, but while at
the top one of theso widths falls' natural-
ly, the upper inside corner of the other
width is brought forward to overlap
the first one and hooked to the polo
within three inches of tho end widths
inside edge.
Finally, several feet from tho polo at
the opposite side of tho window this
overlapping curtain is partly caught
back by a narrow ribbon or twist of
silk starting from its own end of the
pole.
The lapover fills In the space at tho
top of the. window, which draped-baek
curtains always form, and it is less stiff
in appearance than is. the short w.idth
of curtaining sometimes employed to
obviate the abrupt break at the center,
of the window pole.
Nut Bread.
Two and one-half euns white firm.
2 teaspoons baking powder, J cup sugar,
3-4 eup walnuts or pecan nut meat!
chopped fins, 1 egg beaten light, 1 cup
flouf. Sift -together the flour, baking
powder, sugar and salt and add the nnB
meats. Mix the beaten egg and the
milk together, and snr the liquid into
the dry ingredients. Bake in a mod.
erate oven for one hour.
. Camphorated oil will clean the marki
made by hot dishes on the . polishes
table.
Dont forget that there Is a goldaa
mean in feeding It's not the amount a
hen eats, but what she digests ajuj
assimilates, that brings the profit,
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Dont tackle poultry on a large scan
until yon bays made it pay on a nwdo ,
ate plan, , ' " " ' 1 C 'i (