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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1914)
HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION f In the Home - Fashions Household Hints - Recipes Household Hints IF STARCHED clothes become wet with rain while on the line do not take them down. Allow them to re main till dry and they will retain their original stiffness. Do not put cereals or evaporated fruit away in paper bags, which invite bugs and mice. Instead use old pre serve jars for the purpose. Linen stored in a closet warm and poorly ventilated will become yellow and will crack earlier than if stored otherwise. The properly constructed linen closet should be in a eool, dry place. Each shelf should be eovered with linen slips fastened with drawing pins. Have the linen slips broad enough to fold back and cover the contents of the shelves. Old sheets may be used for this purpose. Meal times should be contented, com fortable, cheerful times, for the sake of the health and happiness of the family. Do not select these occasions for goneral fault findings and scoldings just because everyone is handy and cannot get away easily. If seasons of reproof and correction must come, let it be later, and between individuals. A room which has been newly paint ed should not be used as a sleeping room nntil the smell of paint has en tirely disappeared. A pailful of fresh water kept in the room and changed frequently, will help to purify the air. The fumes of certain kinds of paint are dangerous. 'When cleaning off a spot with gaso line, to prevent the ring which is al most as unsightly as the original spot, while the cloth is still wet with the gasoline rub it well with dry salt. After washing and drying fruit jars to put them away, cut a small piece of paper and put into each jar before screwing the top in place, and the mnsty odor which is generally notice able when they are opened will be lack lag. The paper absorbs all the moisture. Turn out a can of corn, draining off tho superfluous liquor. Add to the corn one-half teacup of chopped sweet peppers from which the seeds have been removed. Stir in a little chopped and fried bacon, season to taste and serve. Canned tomatoes are also good served in this way, with a little minced onion added to them. Never put a quantity of new soap in the pantry its odor is penetrating, and delicate articles take on the flavor. It is economy to get both laundry and toilet soap by the box and dry it thor- To prevent dumplings in a stew from being tough, rest them on tho meat and potatoes. Do not let them sink into broth. When nnta are bought shelled, it is best to pour hot water over them be fore using. They arc often exposed to dust and insects and the hot water will cleanse them while also freshen ing their flavor and improving their appearance. When roasting whole potatoes, do not forget to burst them open when taking them from the oven to allow the escape of steam and prevent sogginess. Who of ns, on sitting down to write a letter, when many things had been in thought to write, has not felt a sud den dearth of topics! Why not keep marked envelopes and cards for regu lar correspondents! While busy about your housework, you think of some thing you wish to write. Mako a note of it on a card and slip it into its special envelope. Then when yon sit down to write the letters you save time and thought, and your letters are far more satisfactory to your friends, oughly beforo using." Fashion Talks By May Manton MOIRE CREPES ARE AMONG THE SMARTEST OF AUTUMN FABRICS JtllERE ARE MANY I beautiful silks this autumn but nothing is prettier than the moiro crepe that makes this gown. It is soft and takes eminently beauti ful foldR and lines and is beautiful in texture. The blouse beneath the over-waist is made of white net with a picot edge and the costume is altogether a very fasci nating and dainty one. The single big rose tuck ed into the belt is of velvet and velvet Toses arc being much used as pnrnitnres. Unquestion ably the not is very dainty and pretty be neath the crepe, but the edges of the sleeves and the edges of the chem isette portion are all straight so that lace ean be used. Among impor tant features of the sea son are silks showing metal threads. If a very brilliant gown were wanted, one of these eonld be used in place of the moire crepe or plain Bilk would be handsome for the over-blouse and skirt with lace showing metal threads for the sleeves and chemisette portions. Gold and silver threads woven with silk and gold and silver em broideries will be ex tensively used and some of the new tissues are so thin as to be almost transparent in spite of the quantity of metal used. For the medium size, the bodice 'will require 1 yards of material 36 inches wide for the foun dation blouse with yards of net 44 inches wido and 1J yards 38 or 44 inches wido for the over-portions; the skirt 4 yards 36 or 44 inches wide. The May Manton pat tern of the bodice 8321 is cut in sizes from 34 to 42 inches bust measure; of the skirt 8309 from 24 to 32 waist. They will be mailed to any address by the fashion Department of this paper, on receipt of 10 cents for each. Bread Cake. Two cups bread spongs, two enps sugar, two eggs, one teaspoon lemon ex tract, one teaspoon cinnamon, one tea spoon allspice, one teaspoon nutmeg, one teaspoon soda dissolved in no w tnt nne-half" teaspoon salt, one cup raisins, one-half cup melted butter, one and one-quarter cups Hour, mix anu ptit in baking pan; set in warm place; let rise an hour and bake 45 minutes, 8309 R li I ' Design by May Manton. 8321 Fancy Bodice With Over Blouse, 34 to 42 Bust 8309 Draped One-Piece Skirt, 24 to 32 Waist. Arts and Crafts In Farm Homes THE State Art Commission of Min nesota is fostering arts and crafts in farm homes. Few. Bavo those who have experi enced it can realize tho loneliness and mental starvation of the average life on tho farm, especially in isolated localities, and anything which will miti gate this should receive attention, it is nscloss to lament the drift of the riRincr veneration from the farm to the o rt eity, unless some practical means can be found of making lilo on tne iarm more attractive, when creative genius comes into play, as it does in crafts manship, or in any sort ol artistic de velopment, timo ceases to pass slowly, for self and surroundings are forgotten. The State Art Commission of Minne sota was first put to work as an art elub, which becamo state-wide in its activities and was finally placed un der tho government and given as ap propriation for use in the distribution of circulating art libraries and for prizes to encourage tho development of artistic genius. It was discovered that among the foreigners in many localities the arts and crafts of older countries were re tained among tho older members of the family, but such activities were falling into disuse for lack of encouragement. Recipes The Art Commission made it a point to encourage the revival of weaving, lace making and basket weaving along tho old country lines and stimulated the interest of the workers by placing be fore them new designs and better ma terials than they had been using. When the outside world took an in terest in the activities of the olders, the rising generation began to find the work worth while, and as a result there are few idle hands in villages or in country communities where such in terests have been encouraged. Farm life has been enriched, talents hav been discovered and industry developed in several fields through tho work of this commission. An increased revenue for tho farm by reason of tho spare time products is one result; and the encouragement of better grades of flax for weaving goes to show that when betterment begins it follows all along the line. Aside' from material benefits, how ever, tho fact that life has been made moro bearable to the women living on tb farms is the main issue. It was said at ono timo that the insani asy lums wen filled with women from the farms. Loneliness and monotony arc the food of mental unbalance. Either the women who experience those to Molasses Cookies. Two cups and one-half hot molasses, one cup of shortening (hatf butter and half lard), one teaspoonful or ginger and one of cinnamon; dissolve two te&- spoonfuls of saleratus in a cup of luke warm water and throw in as quickly as possible; add some flour and stir a few minutes as you would soft cake, then add moro flour; mix as soft as you can conveniently and roll out. Pickled Peaches. Sprinkle one-half gallon of sugai crjillnn and one-half of peeled peaches with a dove in each poach. Let this stand over night. Drain the juice into a preserving kettle and boil hard 15 to 20 minutes. Ada two pina of strong vinegar to the boiling juica Put the peaches in and boil all to gether nntil peaches are tender. Pot the fruit in cans, pour syrup over and seal while hot. Bread Scallops. Soak one teacup of bread crumbs in half a pint of milk, beat into them one large fresh egg, add half a cup oi grated cheese, a tablespoon of melted butter and a grain or two of cayenne. Butter some patty-pans, sprinklo fine bread crumbs over them, then put little of the mixture in each pan ana sprinkle bread crumbs over tho top. Bake for a quarter of an hour in a very hot oven and Berve in the patty pans, i Ico Cream Cake. Take tho whites of five eggs, on and a half cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one cup of milk, one-half teaspoonful of soda, ono toaspoonful cream tartar, three cups of flour. Sep arato this mixture and color half with strawberry coloring. Flavcr this wita vanilla, the white with lemon. Put in the white, then the pink. Bake slowly. Rico Cake. Take half a pound of clarifiod hu tor, eight eggs well beaten, leaving out the whites of two, three-quarters of a pound of pounded sugar, and tho grated peel of a lemon; mix these well to gether; then add grounded rice and dried flour, half a pound of each; currants and candied peel may be add ed, when approved. Absolutely Pare Vegetable Soap and High Grade Toilet Preparations. 100 Agents Wanted 100: SCHWINGE BROS. CO. 229 Madison Street, Portland, Ore, Stamped gowns only99e SPECIAL ORDER TODAY This handsome suggestion for a Christmas Gift complete with cotton to embroider. (Speeify ini tial wanted) OSTLY 99 THE NEEDLE- CRAFT SHOP 342 Alder St. Portland, Ore. an extreme degree make their hus bands so miserablo that they sell the farm at any sacrifice and go to the city to live, or the women aro them selves sacrificed. If every state would follow tho ex ample of the Art Commission of Min nesota, fiirm life would soon bo tran formed.
