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14 HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION In the Home - Fashions - Household Hints Recipes THE various kinds of cereals require different lengths of time for cook . ing. Wheat preparations should be cooked at least two hours; oat meal is pot thoroughly cooked short of five hours. If cereal is purchased in a pack ago, it is advisable to double the length Of timo for cooking specified in the di rections. A general rule for combining the ingredients in cooking cereal por ducts is as follows: Allow one tea Bpoonful of salt to each quart of water. Bring the water to a boil in the upper part of the double boiler and slowly stir in tho cereal. After tho mixture has boiled tip, place the vessel over hot wator in tho lowor part of tho boiler and cook the required length of time, without stirring. Enough water should be used in cooking the cereal to swell the grains to the maximum size; but guard against the gruel consistency, as the cereal will then slip down in all probability without thorough mastica tion. Fruits served with cereals provide delicious variations, ltice cooked with raisins, steamed rice with figs as a gar nish and dates with oatmeal are whole some and dainty breakfast dishes. Way to Wash Bedding W"3E following is the best way to I wash blankets: Slice half a cake of any good laundry soap in two quarts of water. Set on the stove and stir un til dissolved. When dissolved, add to cold water in a tub. To this soapy water add four tablespoonfuls of powdered borax. Soak the blankets in this over night or for several hours. Wash io this water. Rinse twice in cold water, wring and hang on the line. This recipe will wash four blankets. Be sure and use only cold wator, and they will come forth as soft and beautifuras when new. A teaspoonful of glycerine added to the rinse water will improve them. Arcry heavy blankets may sometimes be cleaned by hanging them on the line and turning the hose on them, spraying them all over. Stretch them full length, and fasten a heavy weight at each hang ing corner to prevent tho wind from swaying and wrapping thorn into a roll upon the line. The weights hold them in shape, and when spread out in this manner they dry quickly. Cotton blankets are washed differ ently from those mado of wool. Soap them well with laundry soap, fold, and allow them to soak in tepid water. Wash them in an hour or so and place' in a boiler of hot suds to steam, not boil. Binse in several waters. Use a very little bluing and dry them double on the line. Tress dry on the wrong side. . Quilts that are liable to fade if trashed, may be cleaned with gasoline. Allow it to remain over night. Drain and place in a second tub of gasoline. Strain -the gasoline in the first tub and use it, with a fresh supply for cleaning the second piece. When washing col ored quilts avoid using alkali. It will run the colors and ruin the material. If quilts are badly soiled, put kerosene in tho first tub. It will cut the dirt. Bedding washed early in the spring may be dried out of doors, bit the pieces should afterward be thrown over a line hung in a room, to dry thoroughly. Ticking should be soaked in water con taining borax. Iron the pieces dry, If thin, coat lightly with paraffin on the wrong side. This will prevent feathers irom working through. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. CIMFOBTS and quilts dried in a good stiff breeze will be as light and fluffy as when new. Save cold tea left after supper and 'use in place of water on your house plants. If yonr rugs curl at the edges they way be made to lie flat by dampening the curled edges, and pressing with a Jiot iron on the wrong side. Lamp chimneys rubbed with salt af ter washing have a surprising brilliancy. A few drops of turpentine added to the water in which clothes are boiled will whiten thera, Clean gilt frames with a sponge mois- tenou with turpentine. Creamed cauliflower served in green - makes a dish as tasty as it is ing to the eye. fou must clean a window in a hurry on a cold day dampen a rag in alcohol; it will work fine. Dried fruits should be thoroughly washed and soaked until they swell to normal sira, before stewing. Little scraps of sheer white material can be made into dainty little handker chiefs for the children to carry to school. , Borax is most effective in softening water for laundry purposes, as it whit ens the clothes and does not injure the hands. A teaspoonful of creolin put into a quart of tepid water makes a good dis Fashion Talks 8297 One-Piece Skirt With Yoke For Misses and Small Women, 16 and 18 Tears. With Single or double puffed tunic with natural waist line or with high waist lino with or without shirring and frill. IRLS who are planning summer U frocks will be sure to like this skirt. It is the very newest to have appeared and is in every way charming for summer fabrics. Since it can be mnde with single or double puffed tunic, ib-can be utilized for dif fcrent purposes and for different ma terials and can be varied in many ways. This is a silk season and any one of the summer silks will be charming made with the double puff and frill but the model also is a pretty one for cotton crepe and all materials of such sort. For a dancing frock, a smart and attractive effect can be obtained by omitting the lower puff and substituting a flounce of lace. White taffeta mado in this way with a bodice of lace makes a really ideal dross for summer functions. There is only one piece in the skirt but it is joined to a yoke beneath the tunic and the upper edge of tho puff is attached to this yoke at whatever point the fin ish is made. For the 18 year size, the skirt will require 5 3-4 yds. of material 27, 4 yds. 30, 8 yds. 44 in. wide. The pattern 8297 is cut in sizes for 16 and 18 years. Recipes THE latest addition to culinary lit erature contains a recipe for brown bread, contributed by the former Mrs. Cleveland: "Take one bowlful of Indian meal, one bowlful of rye flour and one bowlful of sour milk, one large cupful of molasses, one teaspoonful of salt. Bteam ior two anu a nan nours and bake from 20 minutes to half an hour, depending upon the heat of the oven. Strawberry Conserve, Mrs. William Jennings Bryan gives a recipe for strawberry conserve that sounds very good. Four boxes of straw berries and one pineapple aro required. Crush tho berries a little. Put pine apple througBT a meat grinder, using coarsest wheel. Place pineapple over infectant in which to dip the broom whon sweeping. It is said that white vegetables like cauliflower will keep their color while boiling if a couple of lumps of sugar are put into the water. Have some clever and bright quota tions from your favorite authors hang ing in. the kitchen; they may cheer you when the cake burns. You'll find it an excellent habit to always wash dishes and tidy the kitchen before starting your daily work else where in the house. By May Manton 8215 Child's Petticoat, 2 to 8 ears. With High or Natural Waist Line. Clothing that is supported at the shoulders and unconfined at the waist lino is perhaps the best for little chil dren. This petticoat is very charming in a simple dainty way and Is closed by means of buttons and button' holes at the shoulders, the back portion being cut to form straps. On the figure it is made of batiste with scalloped edgos and there is a great tendency toward a finish of that sort. Scallops wear well and are very pretty, while hand work gives a certain sense of refine ment not to be found in any other trimming. Children's frocks must be straight and narrow as well as their elders' and the simplo finish is' desir able, but wherever needed the frill can bo added. There are only two portions to the petticoat, and, consequently, only under arm seams. In the back viow the neck and armhole edges are finished with under facings and narrow frills. For tho 4-year size the petticoat will require lb yds. of material 30, 1-3 yd, 44 in. wide with 1 3-4 yds. embroidery 3 in. wide for the ruffle, 1 1-4 yds. of insertion, 2 3-4 yds of edging. The pattern of tho petticoat 8215 is cut in sizes from 2 to 6 years. Ask your merchant for this pattern. slow fire until juice comes out; add berries. If there does not seem to be juico enough to keep fruit from burn ing add a littlo water. When tho fruit is tender add sugar to taste. Boil down to the thickness -dosired. Stir con stantly. Texas Corn Bread. Mrs. Albert Sidney Burleson, wife of the postmaster general, is a uative of Texas, and sho has given a recipo for genuine Texas corn bread. Sho says "The best corn bread in the world is mnde of simple cornmcal, scalded with a littlo boiling water and thinned with cold water; salt aud melted lard, two tablespoonfuls to a cupful of meal. Bake in a shallow pan insido tho oven or on a griddle on top of tho stove. We never eat corn bread made in any ether way. ' Dressing Beef. Very quaint arc tho recipes furnished by Mrs. Champ Clark, wife of tho speak er of the house of representatives, tor some of them date back to revolution ary days. Here is one: " To dress beef sufficient for two gentlemen, with a fire made of two newspapers. "LeU the beef be cut in slices and Dut on a Dewter clatter. Pour on water sufficient to cover the slices, salt and pepper to taste and cover with another platter, inverted. Placo the dish upon a stool, buttom upward, the legs of such a length as to raise the platter several inches from the board, cut tno news naners into strins. lieht with a candle and apply them gradually, so as to keep a low fire under the whole aisn. w neu the paper is burned the steak will be done." Pear Preserves. Mrs. Clark is also the happy possessor of Martha Washington's recipe for pear preserves.' "Ye pears should be very iresne. Washe and put them into boiling lye for a minute. Removo and place them m cold water. Next put ye fruit into a prepared sirupe of sugar and water. Use half a poung of sugar for everie pouna of ye fruit; water to dissolve. Now cook for a quarter of an hour. Remove and put on plate to cool. Boyle sugar down to one-half its original quantetio. Pot ye sirupe and pears into jars ana add brandy. Seal while hotte." Sic and Cheese. 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