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13 In the Home - Fashions - Household Hints - Recipes HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION Household Hints VINEGAB heated to the boiling point will soften paint brushes that have become dry and hard. A teaspoonful of lemon juice in a small tup of black coffee is a safe remedy for bilious headache. A tiny pinch of carbonate of soda or alt added to milk as soon as it ar rives will help to preserve it from taming sonr. One onnee of Epsom salts added to a gallon of water makes an excellent rinsing mixture for colored blouses and Washing dresses. To stop hiccough, give the patient teaspoonful of granulated sugar and vinegar. If this does not afford instant relief, repeat the dose. Colored handkerchiefs should bo soak ed in cold salt water for a short time before they are washed. This will pre vent the colors from running of fading. Vegetable and fruit stains on the fingers can be removed by dipping the fingers in very strong tea for a few minutes and then washing them in elear, warm water. If you are annoyod by flies in your bed room, soak a sponge in oil of lavender, and tie it, to the top of the bed. Flies hate the smell of laven der, and will not approach it. To clean lamp glasses hold them over jug of boiling water until well teamed, then polish with a dry dus ' ter. It is far less trouble than wash ing, and the glasses very rarely break. Every housekeeper should possess a wooden spoon for stirring all fruits or soups containing any acid whatever. Never nse a tin spoon, as the acid will unite with the tin, forming a poison Ous compound. The backs of all kid gloves are most excellent for an interlining in holders, cither for ironing or for the stove. They give protection to the hands without adding materially to the bulk of the holder. Old stockings make a pliable, soft enter cover for a holder. It is impossible to polish glass if washed in water containing any trace of grease. If one is inclined to bend forward in walking, placing the hands behind will help to stand erect. If a turkey or chicken is rubbed in side with a cut lemon it will make the meat white, juicy and tender. Get a cheap tin teapot to melt par affin in and always keep it for this purpose. Once used, you will never do without it. The melted paraffin pour? so easily just where it is wanted and need not all be used at one time. It pays to study tastes and needs and cookery. Indigestion is the root of jnoro evils (of tempers as well as of organs) than is commonly recognized. Tack the ice eream freezer as usual," then pour a little hot water over the ice to start the melting quickly or fill np to the overflow hole with cool water. Tender plants and sturdy trees be some crooked and dwarfed if they meot With too much opposition and so do human souls. Some traning and prun ing is good for both but it must not be overdone. ' As soon as the apples for the salad are cut pour a little lemon juice over them. This keeps them from becoming discolored an-' blends niecly with the dressing, improving tho flavor. If you will add a beaten egg to the mashed potato that is to be made into eakes, they will stay in Bhape better, brown nicer and be finer flavored. A cup of hot water in the oven with eako and pastry will prevent scorching. In baking goms or muffins one of the enps may be filled with water instead of batter. A tablespoonful of castor oil around the roots of ferns and palms once a month will give growth and fresh color. Just remember to cover the egg yolk that you did not need right away, with water. Then it will not be dried out and injured or useless when you want to use it some hours later. Fashion Talks By May Manton POCKETS AND FLARE AT THE LOWER EDGE MAKE NEW FEATURES OF FASHIONABLE SKIRTS. THE LATEST DESIGNS foT practical skirts are many of them showing inserted pockets and flaro at the lower edge and both features are much to be desired for walking, for golf and for all outdoor occupations. This skirt includes also a fitted yoke that is exceedingly smart and can be made with or with out suspenders. The blouse that is worn with it is a new one also with a plain yoke and sleeves cut in one and full lower portions. As shown here, the skirt is made of epongo show ing lines of green on a whito ground and the blouse is of handker chief linen and the ma terials are among the smartest and best liked of the summer, but every reader will recog nize tho fact that ma terials and combinations can be varied again and again. For the practical blouse, handkerchief linen, crepe and voile are the preferred ma terials but this model eould be made from or gandie or from crepe de ehine and become adapt ed different uses. Sinee the sleeves can be either three-quarter or full length, they suit all needs and all occa sions. The skirt is cut in two portions and when he flare is want ed, wedge-shaped pieees are inserted at the side seams.' If the plain nar row skirt is wanted, the seams arc stitched for the entire length. The pockets, too, are option al, although almost every woman will be glad to welcoroo them. For general summer wear, linen epongo is one of the best possible materials, but it, is easy to think of this skirt made of serge or ga bardine for traveling and occasions of the sort or from plain linen or galatea or any simi lar material. In the back view, the gnwn is shown made of whito linen with trimming of applo green, making a very dainty, summerlike effect. For the medium size, tho blouse will require Zi yards of material 97 9 Trnr,U 3l5 11 vanis 44 inches wide; Dp8iKn bT Mb-v Mr,ntot1' the skirt 38 yards 36 8288 Blouse With Toke and Sleeve in One, or 44, 2i yards 52 3i t0 10 Bust inches wide. 8281 Two-Piece Skirt, 22 to 30 Waist The May Manton pattern of tho blonse 8288 is cut in sizes from 34 to 40 inches bust measure; of the skirt 8281 from 22 to 3D waist. They will be mailed to any address by tho Fashion Department of this paper, on re ceipt ot IU cents for eacn. l I ' ' Jf'- $0 tt-Hi U -HI v 11 C-'AJ: .'X; ' 1 mm 1 ' '. ! ' 1' i J, I ROM tM ---- hkJ 8ZS1 YEARS AGO, when a church or neighborhood picnic was planned, a list of things necessary to eat and drink was struck off and passed about among those who were to furnish them, each one selecting the article she was willing to supply and "nicking" it off the list. This came to be spoken of as "pick and nick" and in time became changed into tho word picnic, which, in duo course, came to be applied to the outing itself. OW, as well as young, look forward with delight to an occasional day in the open, under tho blue skies, and take, a. new loaso of life from even so short a period of rest and close in timacy with Nature; so, try for sev eral of these day excursions before warm weather ts past. A day each week, or even two days a month dur ing the summer will give you new life and prove a positive boon to jaded nerves. A shawl, a cushion, a good book and an appetizing lunch are all that is needful to make you feel a very queen. ' The following simple recipes are de licious for the picnic lunch basket: Saratoga Chips Slice thin, into cold water, medium sized potatoes, and let them stand for ono and one-half hours, changing the water twice. Drain, and drop into boiling water for one minute. Drain again, and plungo into cold wa ter. Dry between towels and fry in hot fat until browned, keeping in con stant motion with a skimmer. Remove to dripping pan, lined with brown paper, and sprinkle with salt to taste. Recipes I : For the Fall Picnicker Gelatine Frosting. KE tablespoonful gelatine, two ta blespoonfuls of eold water; when the gelatine is soft, one tablespoon ful of hot water. When entirely dis solved add one cup of powdered sugar, and beat whilo it is yet warm until white and light; lemon to taste. Give good measure to all the ingredients. This frosts one sheet of eake. , Pear Pickles. Select small pears (the Seckle is a good one), pare but leave whole. They should be ripe, but not soft. Make a symp of one pound of sugar, two pints good vinegar, one-half pint hot water and a goodly supply of mixed spices; when boiling drop in pears and cook 10 minutes, then take off the fire. Next morning drain off liquor, boil and pour over the pears. Do this for seven morn ings, adding more vinegar to the liquid if it seems to need it. Put in a stone jar and weight down with a plate, cover and keep in a cool place. Coeoannt Filling for Cake. This is made from fresh cocoannt. Grate the coeoanut. Cook one cup of sugar with a quarter of a cup of cocoa nut milk until it spins a thread. Add this slowly to the beaten white of one egg, beating nil the time. When this mixture is nearly cold, beat in as much grated eocoamtt as desired. Put this between and on top of layer cakes, and lastly, over all sprinkle more of the fresh coeoanut. Pineapple Cake. Three eups sugar, one cup butter, five eggs, three and one half cup:' of flour, one-half cup cold water, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake in layers; spread each layer with a thick icing, then cover with grated pineapple. Plaee on next layer end treat as before. Quick Cake rut a piece of butter into a cup (about one-fourth cup) and set into the oven to melt. Sift one cup of sugar and one cup of flour into a bowl, with one teaspoon, linking pow der. Break an egg into the hot butter and fill tho cup witu milk. Add t flour and sugar and beat the whole wcll Bake in a moderate oven. If you like your sandwiches thin it is well to butter tho bread before rut ting; then if wrapped in paraffin paper or nn old napkin, wrung as dry possible from hot water, they will keep delightfully fresh until lunch time. Hard boiled eggs, shelled when hot, rolled in a mixture of salt and pop per, and wrapped in oiled paper, ara most tasty, the seasoning striking to tho very heart of the eg;,'. Pickles, of course, or the small, ten der pickled beans, are a part of every well appointed lunch basket. The small jars in which cold cream, beef extract or malted milk samples sometimes come, if saved and filled with jellies, are just the thing for a pienie lunch, as they fit into a small space and can be thrown away when emptied. Lemonade is, of course, the regular picnic drink, but cold tea is a good sub stitute and is even preferred by many. Lime and grape juice are also excellent. And with all the rest, do not forget yonr salt shaker. Stamped SPECIAL - NIGHT GOWNS only 99c ORDER TODAY This handsome suezcsb'on for a Christmas Gift com- plete with cotton to embroider. (Specify iniliilwulcct) k 99c rV1 THE NEEDLECRAFT SHOP 342 ALDER ST,. PORTLAND. ORE.
