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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1914)
IIOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION In the Home -- Fashions -- Household Hints Recipes THE best way to prepare a new iron kettle for use is to fill it with clean potato peelings, boil them for an hour or more, then wash the kettle with hot water, wipe it dry and rub it with a little lard; repeat the rub bing for half a dozen times after us ing. In this way you will prevent rust and all annoyances liable to occur with the use of a new kettle. To Wash White China Silk. When washing China silk never hang it up to dry, but instead wring it out dry and wrap it in a piece of white material, leaving it this way for about one hour. Then iron it. By doing this you get much better re sults and the silk does not turn yellow. Books of Needles. The varieties of 'needle books on sale are legion. There is ouo that is espe cially convenient, says the St. Louis Star. It has a ucat little pressed pa per cover. There are a dozen sheets, perhaps, inside the cover, and each is labeled at the bottom with the sort of needles it contains. One sheet reads "Embroidery," another "Chenille and Yarn," and others declare by their lit tle labels that they hold straw needles, darning needles, upholstery needles and sharps for ordinary sewing. One sheet holds a little bodkin which ia nothing- more than a ribbon needle, after all. To Savo Time. ' Once in every two or three years mark a stock of linen tape to its entire length with your name in indelible -ink When a new garment is to be marked, cut off the tape and sew on. Better Than Tacks. .Widths of matting that are sewed to gether with a loose carpet thread stitch lok neater and wear better than -when staples or taeka are used to fusten the matting down. Bloomers From Eaincoats.. Wide bloomers made out of old rain coats will prove a boon to many moth era, if used to tuck in the children's! clothes when they are out aoors play ing in the snow. Cleaning Windovra. A rag dipped in paraffiue will clean windows- perfectly and give a bright Bess impossible to obtain with water. Tissue or any soft paper makes a good po4isbc.'. To Avoid Spots. Put a ruffle on the bottom of all krfchen aprons. You will be surprised how many drops and spots it catches which would otherwise land on your ikirt below the hem of your ajiron. , t Omelet Will Not Fall. Many a housewife has seen her beau tiful omelet shrink visibly when a meal has been unexpectedly delayed; yet it is easy to make an omelet that will i.ot fall. Instead of a tablespoonful of milk or water to each egg, use a table spoonful of white sauce. The omelet will be much improved, both in flavor and stability. Buttermilk Old Beautifier But Good UTTERMILK is an old beautifier, but it is just as good for us as it was for our grandmothers. They used buttermilk before many of the preparations we rely on were thought of. If yaw skin feels tired after a ride or walk in the sun, try bathing your faco with buttermilk instead of water. Pirst wipe -the dust and perspiration from your skin with a dry towel. Then apply the buttermilk and dry your face immediately. You will feel refreshed and you. will have taken a step toward preventing tan and freckles. Buttermilk will bleach out light freckles a4 sun tan. It will soothe sunburn. It will make your skin smooth a white if used instead of water during the hot weather. It doesn 't contain the grease that fresh milk does and will, therefore, not build flesh. In massaging out the tiny wrinkles about the eyes, if you dip your fingers iulo buttermilk- instead of cold cream, in addition to massaging, you will be working iu a bleach for that dark look that so often appears about the eyes. It is' an ideal warm weather drink. If you will discard tea and coffee, and drink buttermilk instead, your complex ion will soon become several shades lighter and you will feel better and sleep better. Still another use for buttermilk which is not a beauty hint, but makes for daiutiness: If your lingerie is stained or darkened by perspiration, soak the stains in buttermilk for an hour before washing and they will then easily yield to soap and water. When using buttermilk on the face, do not let it get into the eyes, nor into tho brows, as it will bleach the latter and will make the eyes ache. Buttermilk is about the cheapest beautifier that you can get, ret if you cave some of it within reach during toe bummer days you will have no teed to slowly and painfully bleach off tan when Fall arrives. Fashion Talks By May Manton roast took less than three-fourths of a kilowatt hour of energy, costing a trifle over 2 cents. A 4-lb. roast and six largo potatoes were baked together at a cost of 3vv. A 5J-lb. chicken and twelve medium sized potatoes and toasted bread were also thoroughly cooked for 3c. By us ing air-tight cookers with compart ments a 4-lb. roast and six largo po tatoes together with a quart of tea were corked for a cent and a half, and a 3 lb. ham with twelve potatoes and a small head of cabbage cost a little more to render fit for human consumption. A 3-lb. pork roast, six large sweet po tatoes and a can of corn and a l ib. fruit pudding were thoroughly cooked for a trifle over 2e. In one case a family of three did a week's cooking with electricity at a cost of 73c. Recipes THE smaller the cut of meat to bo roasteu, the hotter the oven must bo. To preserve the whiteness of arti chokes add a lump of sugar to the water while cooking. A tablespoonful of vinegar put into the water when poaching eggs will keep them from breaking. When making a rolypoly pudding after spreading the paste with the jam sprinkle with a layer of fine bread crumbs before rolling and tying. This prevents the jam from boiling out. No matter how much dripping is used, fish, when being fried, is apt to stick to tho pan's bottom. If a tablo- spoonful of dry salt is put into the pan and rubbed over it it will be found satisfactory. How to Clean. IUEN cleaning polished or parquet flooring or linoleum which has , bttn beeswaxed, a gaod idea is to tie a large, soft duster around a broom, going over the floor carefully with it taking, up the dust without causing any to fly about, as one does whes us ing a hair broom and sweeping in the usual way. This done,' remove duster and in its place cover the broom with a bag made of flannelet or any material you may have by you, sewing several thicknesses over the part to come in contact with the floor. The legs of old stockings will do for the padding, or better still, an old piece of velvet or plush. Then hold the broom slantwise, rubbing backward and for ward all over the floor, thus polishing the surface without the trouble of stop ping. Occasionally the floor will need a coat of floor -poluib, but the niethoi de scribed above is easy, and one is able to get over the work ia a few minutes ia' a perfectly satisfactory manner. I 8298 Surplice Blouse, 34 to 42 Bust. With Long or Three-Quarter Sleeves. THIS is aeason of bordered materi als for they are shown in marvel ous beauty and marvelous variety; consequently, this blouse must find ready welcome. It consists of just two pieces lapped at the front and back in surplice style. At whichever length the sleeves are finished, there are pretty and becoming frills. As a matter of course, plain material can be trimmed to suggest the bordered idea but flounc ing seems especially adapted to the style, and flouncings this year include the regulation embroideries and a great many voiles, crepes and chiffons. For the medium size, the blouse will require 2J yards of flouncing 18 in. wide, with i yd. of plain material 36 in. wide, Of 35 yds. of plain material 27, l-yis. or 36 or 44 inches wide, with 2 yds of ruffling, , The -pattern 8293 is cut in sizes from 34 to 42 inches bust measure. Ask your merchant for these patterns. N 8293 Kimono Coat, 34 to 42 Bust. 0 SUMMER coat could -be better adapted to its use than this one. It is short and jaunty and, at the same time, loose enough to allow a free circulation of air while it is the smart est possible. Incidentally, it can be ade by the veriest amateur without difficulty because there is nothing to fit. All fashionable wraps are Ioohc and these sleeves that extend to the neck dispense entirely with the sleeves that sometimes are a little difficult. The flaring collar in Normandy stylo gives a becoming and attractive finish. The little strap across the back will be liked by most wearers, but-it is not necessary and can be omitted if a still looser effect is wanted. For the medium size, the coat will require 3 yds. of material 27, 2 yds. 36, 1 yds. 44 in. wide, with J-yd. 27 for collar and cuffs. . The pattern 8293 is cut in sizes from 34 to 42 inches bust measur. Ask your merchant for this pattern. Old Fashioned Souse. Take pigs' feet and Jiead, thoroughly clean and place in salt water to soak for twenty-four hours. Then boil until the bones slip easily from tho meat. Take up and when cool enough to handle, carefully remove all bones. Mince or grind through a meat chopper, season with salt, pepper and sage to suit the taste and press in a mold. This is very nice sliced and placed in vine gar, or for breakfast sliced and dipped in batter and fried. Golden Betty. To mako a brown betty with cheese arrange in a deep earthenware dish al ternate layers of breadcrumbs and thin ly sliced apples. Senson with cinna mon, a little clove and brown sugar. ' Scatter some finely shaved mild full" cream cheese over each layer of apples and when the dish is full scatter bread, crumbs over the top and bake thirty five to forty minutes, placing the dish in a pan of water so that the pudding will not burn. Popcorn Balls. Pop corn in popper, put in pan. Take teacupf ul molasses, butter size of walnut and one teaspoonful vinegar. Cook all together until it will harden when dropped in cold water, then pour over corn and make in balls. i Thick Soup. Thick soups are often served with croutons or toasted triangles, which certainly add something to them. Crou tons are half-inch dicelike pieces of bread fried in fat until brown, while the triangles are small three-cornered bits of stale bread toasted or crisped in the oven, Electric Cooking Tried Out Here THE municipal plant at Kansas City, Kan., placed at the disposal of eight representative families vari ous electrical cooking devices with the requast that the women doing the cook ing make records of the food cooked and the tiem required for each operation No attempt was made to place the apparatus in the hands of experienced operators and the only instructions giv en were that for ecoromical operation the cooking devices should be discon nected from the line as soon as any op eration was completed, ' According to the reports a two pound Table Protected. A piece of wax paper placed under the centerpiece on a polished table will prevent the linen from adhering to the table in hot weather, as woll as pro vent a stain from cold water or an overfilled vase or rose bowl. Removing Bank Flavors. To dispose of the objectionable smell and taste in cooking utensils, in which fish, onions, turnips, cabbage, sauer kraut or other rankly llavored food has been cooked, wash tl.e utensil with Boap and warm water, and wipe dry; then wash with strong vinegar. No trace of the objectionable odor will be .left.
