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14 HOME AND FAEM MAGAZINE SECTION In the Home - Fashions - Household Hints - Recipes i. s it r SINCE fashion has decreed that wo men shall wear gowns in which there appears not the vestigo of a .- sleeve, waist that are cut low In the front and more than low in the back, it behooves the woman who wishes to Wear them to pay a good deal of atten tion to the appearance of her neck and arms. Most women who have not bestowed some care on this part of the anatomy will find the elbow hard, callous and unsightly, but a nightly massage of tne joint with a gooa cold cream after the elbow has been thoroughly cleansed With pure soap, warm water and a brush will drive away the callous spots and make the skin soft, pink and beau tiful. When massaging the arms al ways remember to rub downward with long, strong strokes. i As for the neck, any disfiguring marks should be dabbed with lemon -. juice or diluted peroxide. In fact, to sponge the entire neck and shoulders with some powerful astringent of this crder would be a good idea before be ginning treatment, as the lemon juice or peroxide will do much to whiten the skin. .After this bleaching fluid Has been allowed to dry and remain on the skin for an hour or more the neck nd shoulders should be washed free of PaP tne? wiI1 not shrink or become the astringent with a good soap and Warm water and a good cold cream rub bed into the skin. Remember in massaging the throat that a downward stroke is the one to employ. As for massage of the shoul flers, no woman can do this for her self, and if she needs this treatment to improve her appearance she will have to call to her aid a mother, sis ter or a professional masseuse. Fashion Talks By May Manton few spoonfuls of salt to boiling water. Then add a few ounces of acetic acid, which can be purchased at any drug siore. Apply tins solution to old wall paper with a brush. After a few rain utes the old paper can be removed in great strips and with little dust or dirt. In making loaf cake, use one cup of corn starcn in place of one cup of flour. the cake is" sure to be light. In dark cakes use cold coffee instead of milk and it will be better flavored. To bleach table linen or muslin, or ocner unDieaened articles, place in s boiler with bluing water, as for rins ing. Boil up well and remove from the boiler to the line without rinsing. The next wasning will render them snowv wane. Add a few bread crumbs to the scrambled eggs for breakfast. They will improve the dish and make the eggs go farther. ir you wash woolens in cold water and borax instead of warm water and rough and coarse. Household Hints REASE the glue or mucilage stop VI per with lard or vaseline to pre vent Bticking. To mend holes in granite ware, press oft putty in the holes, both inside and Outside, and set away to harden. It will serve the purpose like a rivet. A fourth of a teaspoonful of ginger mixed with a teaspoonful of sugar add ed to the sponge to be set over night will make a quicker working sponge and sweeter bread. It is especially good in eold weather when the bread sponge is apt to work slowly. When blacking the stove, grease the finger nails with soap, tallow or vase- lino and no blacking will adhere to them. ."Life is mado up of little things" IS only too true, but most of us overlook me lime tuings ior cue larger ones, wnich are of no real consequence. If the shoestring breaks and another Is not at hand, overlap the broken end, ana sew tnem several times on the sew ing machine ana it will be as good and Btrong as a new one again. The old safety razor blades are handy lor ripping seams and facings, much better in fact than a scissors or knife. Try keeping one in the sewing basket. It is sometimes so hard to see the bright side, and if we can't find the bright side, let's polish up the dark tide. Grease the outside of pots and cook ing utensils, and smoke and grime will Hot adhere to them. Yhey can be wash ed bright and Bhiny with soap and wa ter after using. . A large hole in table linen can be suc cessfully mended on the sewing ma chine. Baste a piece of rather stiff pa per neatly under the worn or torn place and with rather fine thread sew over it in straight rows quite close together. After the hole is filled with rows across one way, go over it crosswise, so that the stitching really has the effect of fine darning. The paper can be torn away, or if it does not come off read ily lot it alono as it will soak off at ihe first laundering. Grass stain can be removed by satu rating the spots in kerosene, rolling the garment up for a few minutes and then washing with hot water and soap. To remove old wall paper, make a thick solution by adding flour and a 8299 Girl's Dress, 10 to 14 years. WITH STRAIGHT EDGES ADAPT-. ED TO BORDERED MATERIAL. SHORT OB LONG SLEEVES. There are so many pretty childlike effects to be found in the flouncings of the season that mothers will be sure to be glad of this frock. If it is made from lace it is pretty for dancing par ties and the like; if it is made from em- i I...- ..... uruiuereu Dauste or vouo, it is just a pretty little afternoon dress and, of course, plain material can be uBed with banding as finish or treated in any ef fective way. The edges of the skirt, the ruffles and the blouse are all straight and the straight edges always are easy to handle, so that the dress is a very simple one, while it is extremely dainty and dressy in effect. For a very handsome little frock could be used simple shadow lace flouncing with plain not for the ruffles and chemisetts with tho edges of the net be bound with silk to match the sash and to give touch of color. For the 12 year size, the dress will re quire 5 yds. of bordered material 20 in. wide or 4 yds. of plain material 27, 3 yds. 36, 2 3 8 yds. 44 in. wide, with 21 yds. 27, 1 yds. 30, 1 1-8 yds. 44 in. wide for the ruffles and chemisette. Tho pattern 8299 is cut in sizes, from 10 to 14 years of ago. Ask your mer chant for the pattern. 8295 Corset Cover, 34 to 42 Bust This surplice corset cover is one of tho newest and prettiest to be seen. Added to its prettiness, it is made of flouncing and, consequently, means al most no labor. There are only shoulder and under arm seams. The armhols edges are finished with insertion and lace endging and there is a narrow belt at tho waist line. If the flouncing is not liked, any plain material can be used with suitable finish for the edges and any fine lingerie material would be pretty with the edges scalloped and em broidered by hand but, as a matter of course, flouncing, whether embroidery or lace, means far less labor. For the medium size, the corset cover will require 2i yds. of flouncing 16 in. wide or 1 yd. of plain material 36 i yd. 44 in. wide, with 1J yds. of edging, 1 yd. of banding. The pattern 8295 is cut in sizes from 34 to 42 inches, bust measure. Vacation Accessories IP YOU spend tho hot months at a I sea or mountain resort you will need a bountiful supply .of accessories. The clever needlewoman will be glad that she can fashion these when she catches a glimpse of the sum spent by her less fortunate sister who is forced to purchase everything required for her vacation. First of all, yon will need a pretty negligee to slip on while dressing or resting. Fashion this of a washable material, such as crepe da chine, cotton crepe, dotted or embroidered swiss, ba tiste or flowered dimity. You will have no difficulty in finding a becoming de sign for making this negligee, for many patterns eome for the purpose. Join the sections of the negligee with entro-deux or French seams, and trim the front and hem with bands of lace insertion. Finish the neck line with a sailor col lar finished with a narrow frill of the material edged with lace. Above this place two or three tows of insertion. Fasten the negligee with tiestrines of ribbon to match the predominating col or of the negligee. If yon tango, yon will need a tango cap of lace. Purchase plain white or cream net for the crown and gather or shirr it to fit the head snugly. The brim is of handsome lace fitted over a wire frame, forming pointed wing ends which resemble those of tho stiffly starched linen on the cap of the Nor mandy peasant. An additional charm is produced by sowing small pearl beads about the edge of the brim, and the more expensive caps have tho design in the lace outlined with the beads. The summer vacation wardrobe shonld be well stocked with neckwear, and the dainty chemisettes and collars of white mull are practical for summer wear. Make a shallow half-collar of tho mull, hemstitching the border. To each end join a stitched frill which can be drawn down each side of the pointed neck lino. Four of these collars will not be too many for the vacationist. A variety of blouses is a necessity to the woman who spends the summer away from home. If you purchase crepe de ehine or batiste, you will find them most satisfactory materials for fashion ing the summer blouse. Use a pattern with kimono sleeveB or dropped shoulder seams and join the sections neatly, stitching them by hand. There is an mimitablo charm about the hand-made blouse. A model having a surplice front is also to be recommended, for a single or double frill of Valenciennes lace out lining the neck line and front is all the trimming required to make this a blouse of exceptional beauty. Loops and but tons sewn to the underside of the blouse front will close it properly. Frills of lace stitched to the long or short sleeves eompleto tho blouse. Other accessories which yon can make are boudoir caps and sliiioers. coatees of silk or linen, lingerie anil capos for evening wear. Recipes w Baked Brown Bread. HEN this is once tried, one will never go back to the steamed brown bread, and when once eaten is preferred to the other. Baked Brown Bread. Two and a half mpfuls of sour milk, one-half of a cup of sugar, four cupfuls of graham flour, two teaspoonfuls of soda, raisins (as many as liked), three quarters of a cup f molasses, a pinch of salt. Let stand one hour, then bake one hour in covered cans, Milk Muffins. To make these delicious muffins use one cupful of milk, three eggs beaten light, one tablespoonful of butter, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking powdor. Add sufficient flour to make the batter somewhat thicker than for pancakes. Bake in muffin tins in a quick oven. Baked Apple Dumplings. Pare and core six nice round apples. Put a piece of butter and a teaspoonful of sugar into each. Then mawe a cover ing as follows: Tako four cups of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, and four tea spoonfuls of baking powder and stir thoroughly. Add a piece of lard as large as a duck egg. Moisten with milk, a pint, more or less, according as the handling of tho dough permits. Work it quickly and lightly. Form the dough into cup shapes and in them place the applo, drawing tho edges together in the middle. Pierce all over with a fork and bake in a quick oven about 20 min utes. Serve hot with cream and sngar. Dato Crackers. Two cupfuls of flour, 2 cupfuls rolled oats, 1 cupful sugar, 1 cupful butter, 1 toaspoonful baking soda, 1 cupful wa ter. Mix and divide the dough into equal parts. Have 1 pound Btonod dates. 1 cupful of brown sugar, 1 cupful of chopped walnuts. Put in stew pan, cook till soft, let cool, roll one-half of dough thin, then spread the filling. Roll the other half of the dough and put on top. Cut in squares, cook i hot oven till a nice brown. These crack ers are delicious, served with coffee. Meat on Toast Take cooked meat of any kind. Pat through the meat grinder with a little onion. Then put in pan with a little water and piece of butter, salt and pepper. Heat hot and put on toasted kircad, This is a good way to ise up pieces of meat and makes a nice disk for supper, 4 Poor Man's Boiled Dinner. Two pigs' knuckles, one head of car bage, one large turnip, one carrot, four largo potatoes! boil knuckles two hours, then add cabbago, turnip, carrot; boil half an hour, then add potatoos; boil half an hour. Delicious. ' Apples for Pies. Apples cut in irregular pieces will cook more quickly in a pie than if sliced, for thoy do not pack closely as slices do, and so the hot air comes more oasily in contact 'with the fruit and cooking is facilitated.
