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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.
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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.