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In the Home -- Fashions - Household Hints - Recipes
nOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
Recipes
Spiced Currants.
SIX POUNDS of eurrants, four
pounds sugar, one pint vinegar,
two tablespoons cinnamon, one
tablespoon cloves, one tablespoon
black pepper. Put the spices in a
Dag. Mash the currants and put
them on to boil. After cooking a
few minutes strain out the currants
through a colander; Add the Juice
to the vinegar, sugar and Bpices, let
them boil 15 to 20 minutes and pour
over the currants.
Apple Catsup.
Peel and quarter a dozen apples.
Stew in a very little water until soft,
then rub through sieve. To a quart
of the sifted apples add one teacup
sugar, one teaspoon pepper, one tea
spoon cloves, one teaspoon mustard,
two teaspoons cinnamon and two
medium-sized onions, chopped fine.
Stir all together, add one tablespoon
salt and half a pint of vinegar. Boil
one hour and bottle while hot
Fig Preserves.
Weigh figs and allow an equal
weight of sugar. Wash them, cover
with cold water and lot stand for 24
hours, drain and drop them into
boiling water and simmer until ten
der. Return to the cold water for
two days, changing the water once;
then make a syrup with the sugar
with one-quarter of its bulk of wa
ter, add for every five pounds the
thinly pared rind of a lemon and
one-quarter of an ounce of green
ginger; add the drained figs and
simmer for half an hour, then bottle
and seaL
Quince Jelly.
Peel, cut and core some fine ripe
quinces; put In sufficient cold water
to cover and stew gently till soft,
but not red. Strain Juice without
pressure, weigh and to every pound
of Juice allow one pound of crushed
sugar. Boil the juice (uncovered)
20 minutes, add the sugar and boll
again until it jollies about a quar
ter of an hour. Stir and skim well
all the time. Strain through thin
cloth Into jelly glasses and cover
when cold. The remainder of the
fruit can be made into marmalade,
with three-fourths of a pound of
sugar to every pound of quinces, or
It can be made into compotes or
tarts.
Green Grapo Jelly.
One gallon of grapes, three pounds
of sugar, one pint of vinegar, two
tablespoons of stick cinnamon, two
tablespoons of whole cloves.
Removo the stems from the
grapes, wash and drain, then put
grapes, vinegar and spices in a pre
serving kettle and cook until the
grapes are tender; turn Into a Jelly
bag and strain. Put the juice in a
kettlo and cook for 20 minutes, add
the sugar (heated in pan in slow
oven), and cook until it will jelly;
about five minutes will be needed.
Seal at once.
Tossed Shrimps.
Put one tablespoonful of butter
Into a frying pan and add two ta
blespoonsful of finely chopped pars
ley. Take a half pint of shelled
shrimps, dip them Into flour with
which white pepper, salt and a dash
of cayenne should previously have
been mixed; then throw the shrimps
Into the frying pan, shake them
about until they have absorbed all
the butter and serve very hot with
melted toast.
Aspic Jelly.
Aspic jelly can be made from any
stock. To three pints of clear stock
add two ounces of gelatin that has
been dissolved In cold water. Beat
together the whites and broken
Shells of two eggs and the yolk of
one egg, and add these to the stock.
Stir In a tablespoon of catsup, a
tablespoon of vinegar, a teaRpoon
each of savory, thyme, marjoram
and parsley, a blade of mace, two
whole cloves, white pepper and salt
to taste. Bring slowly to the boil
ing point. Take from the fire and
set aside to settle, then strain
through a flannel bag and set aside
to form Into a jelly.
Fashion Talks By May Manton
Household Hints
CHECKED MATERIAL MAKES PRETTY FROCKS FOR LITTLE GIRLS
(SCARCELY any ma-
J terial makes a
prettier school
frock than such a blue
and white check as the
one illustrated. It is
trimmed with black
velvet and with white
Henrietta cloth and
the tie and sash are
of velvet ribbon, and
altogether, it is an ex
ceedingly smart little
costume, showing new
and interesting fea
tures. The long-waist-ed
body portion blouses
becomingly over the
belt and there is a
slightly circular skirt
that can be trimmed
with one, two or three
ruffles. For the school
frock, this material is
as good as any that
can be thought of, but
this same design could
be utilized for a more
dressey afternoon frock
made of taffeta, crepe
de chine or challis or
some similar material
in a light, childlike
color with perhaps vel
vet collar and cuffs.
The simple silks are
fashionable for chil
dren and they certain
ly make a pretty effect
while challis, cashmere
and Henrietta cloth al
ways can be relied up
on to make handsome
frocks for little girls.
For the 12 year size
the dress will require
6 yards of material
27, 48 yards 36, 3 "
yards 44 inches wide,
with of a yard 27
Inches wide for collar
and cuffs, and a quar
ter of a yard 21 for
revers.
The May Manton
pattern of the dress
8320 is cut in sizes
from 10 to 14 years, j
It will be mailed to j
any address by the
Fashion Department of
this paper, on- receipt
of 10 cents.
Design by May Mantotl.
8320 Girl's Dress, JO to It years.
Clean Books for the Children
A CHILD will remember what it
reads much longer than a mes
sage from the pulpit. Let us
give our children books containing
noblo characters, such as Gene Strat
ton Porter has portrayed in "The
Girl From the Limberlost" and
"Freckles." Harold Bell Wright's
works are all true to nature, having
noble character and a good moral.
I shall not try to enumerate the
many good works, which are being
written by men and women who are
trying by their pens to make the
world better. Readiug is like travel
ing, it broadens our vision. Few of
us can afford the expense of a trip
to the remote parts of our own coun
try, but we can all afford the price
of a good book.
In writing a story, the author goes
to the place where he expects to lay
its plot and studies local conditions.
After reading the story, we have
quite a good idea of that locality,
naturally, historically and geograph
ically. "The Trail of the Lonesome
rinc," by John Fox, Jr., gives us a
fine picture of life in West Virginia
and Kentucky. Also the awful work
ings of a mountain feud. "The Sky
Pilot," by Ralph Connors, takes us
up to northwestern Canada, so If we
can not travel ourselves, let us do so
by reading.
Boys and girls should be supplied
with books, suitable to their age.
Don't allow the detective or the
wild western story in your homes.
Those stories give the boys the
wrong impression of life. Detective
work is a business, not a romance.
In the story, the detective always
comes out all right, but in real life
sometimes he does not come back at
all. The firm of Finkertons could
testify to this. Wild western stories
cause our boys to become thugs,
highwaymen and bank robbers.
All stories have a vein of love
running through them. A story, to
be interesting, must have a woman
in it, and where a woman is there
will be love, but bar from your
homes the silly story that is nothing
but love. It gives your daughter a
mistaken view of life. She will ex
pect a young man to fall upon his
knees to offer his hand in marriage,
a thing no self-respecting young man
would do, but that is the attitude
they strike in her favorite story, and
she will not accept r proposal made
in a straight-forward way, such as
men use In real life.
But worse than that, is the story
that pictures the girl running away
from her parents and going to the
city, and becoming a great lady or
actress, or marrying a rich man.
That is not true to nature. A girl
that runs away and goes to the city,
without friends, will be far more
likely to become a great nothing,
and is taking great chances of get
ting in a white slave den. As we love
POLISH freshly-washed lamp chim
neys with dry salt.
Rub a freshly-cut lemon over InK
immediately after it has been spilled
on carpet. No matter what the color
of the carpet, this will take out the
fresh stain without injury to it.
Clean tennis balls with pipe clay?
Take a cake of pipe clay and dis
solve it in just as much water as
it will hold. Stir it well and add
a tallow candle, melted. Mix all to
gether and allow to cool. Then re
move all the dust from the tenuis
ball by brushing them with a stift
brush. Take a lump of the pipe
clay mixture and dissolve it in cold
water to the consistency of cream
Apply to the tennis balls with a
sponge.
Remove the odor of food from a
wooden chopping bowl by soaking
the bowl in boiling water in which
a little soda is dissolved. A table-
spoonful of soda to a gallon of wa
ter is the proportion.
A simple and excellent way to re
move dirty marks from a mackin
tosh is to cut a raw potato in slices
and rub it well on the marks. Raw
potato will also remove mud stains
from dress skirts, children's coat3
and men's trousers.
Use molasses and alcohol to take
out grass stains and lemon juice
with salt for mildew patches. The
mildewed article should be put in the
sun and the treatment repeated if it
does not at first succeed.
Raw potato juice will remove
stains from the hands and also from
woolen fabrics.
To avoid the "ring" which often
forms around spots cleaned with
gasoline add a small quantity of salt
to the gasoline used in cleaning.
To whiten hardwood floors add
two tablespoonfuls of paraffin to the
hot, soapy water used for washing
the floor. This is an old remedy,
but a good one, for it not only
cleanses the boards but also destroys
any insects that may be lurking in
cracks of the floor.
To clean painted walls do not use
soap, but dissolve two ounces of
borax In two quarts of water and add
one teaspoonful of ammonia. Use
half the mixture in a pail of warm
water. After washing the walls rub
with clean cloths until dry.
Eucalyptus oil will remove grease
stains from any kind of material
without injuring it. Apply a little
of the oil with a clean piece of flan-
1 nel, aud rub the material gently un
j til the stains disappear,
j A paste of common baking soda
I and water spread on a burn will stop
j the pain and inflammation almo:;t
j immediately.
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our daughters, let us keep these
things far from them.
Let us be more careful of the
books we read, than of the food we
eat. Unclean food might kill the
body, but unclean literature will kill
the soul. Let us fill our homes with
good, clean literature that will train
the minds and educate the heart, as
well as amuse. Mrs. George Em
rick.