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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1914)
13 In the Home - Fashions - Household Hints Recipes Household Hints Fashion Talks By May Manton HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION i. . Recipes $ The Editor will be pleased to receive and publish hints of Interest to our readers. LIME POWDER well sprinkled where cockroaches abound will drive them away. If bacon la soaked in water for a few minutes before frying it will pre vent the fat from running. When starching holland pinafores put a little (strong tea into the starch. This keeps the garments in good color. When boiling fowls or fish add to the water in which they are boiled the juice of half a lemon. This will make them beautifully white. If moths are in a carpet spread a damp towel over the part and iron It dry with a hot iron. The heat and steam will kill the worms and eggs, When making roly-poly pudding, after spreading the paste with jam, sprinkle a layer of fine bread crumbs before rolling and tying up. This pre vents the jam from boiling out Old nail holes in wood may be fill ed up by mixing sawdust with glue till it la of the consistency of stiff paste. Press this compound into the holes and it will become as hard as the wood itself. Before using a new saucepan fill it with water, with a lump of soda and some potato peelings, and let it boil for some hours. Then wash out thoroughly, and all danger from poi soning from the tinned lining will be gone. When washing pink ginghams and other pink cotton materials rinse in cold water in which you have put a little red ink. Use the ink exactly as you would bluing. The pink cloth will be as pink as when new, and never get that faded look. Grass stains on any material can be removed if moistened with a solu tion of chlorate of tin, and then washed immediately In plenty of cold water. It is wise always to keep a bottle of this solution. If the stained article cannot be washed, then alco hol must be used. Rain spots on cloth need not be regarded hopelessly. Wipe off the way of the nap with a silk handker chief or very soft brush. If this be done quickly, no marks will remain. Blotting paper has many other uses besides the absorption of ink. If grease is spilled on a rug or car pet cover the spot with a piece of blotting paper and place a warm Iron, not hot, over the spot. Grease on the wall may be removed by cov ering with blotting paper and press ing with a warm iron. Fine lace and collars may be quickly dried by being placed between two sheets of blot ting paper and covering with a weight. If you are short on rubber rings when canning, blotting-paper rings will serve just as well as rub ber. There are many more uses for blotting paper which will suggest themselves to the alert housewife. To ruin oilcloth clean It with hot water or soapsuds, and leave it half wiped, and it will look very bright while wet, but very dingy and dirty when dry, and will soon crack and peel off. But if you wish to preserve It, and have it look new and nice, wash it with soft flannel and luke warm water, and wipe perfectly dry. If you want the oilcloth to look ex tra nice, after it is dry, drop a few spoonfuls of milk over It and rub with a dry cloth. Vinegar added to sour milk for griddle cakes will cause It to foam lighter In connection with the soda. Bar soap when bought should be cot Into square pieces and put in a dry place. It will last better after Shrinking and drying. To remove finger marks, from var nished furniture use iweet oil. A MGUT GOWN THAT CAX BE MADE WITH OB WITHOUT A YOKE f HERE is a very pretty, .very girl ish night gown that can be made in two such different ways that one will give no possible hint of the other. On the figure, there is a round yoke and the gown is gathered and joined to it while the opening is made be neath the panel-like extension. Such a gown affords good op portunity for the use of all-over material or for hand embroidery and for the ruffles that are so dainty and feminine in effect. In the small view, the yoke has been omitted and the neek edge fin ished with scallops and with slits for ribbon. The gown finished in that way is drawn on over the head. There is no opening and less labor required for the making, for, including the scallops, it can be put together-in a very few hours. Whichever finish is chosen the gown is a pretty one and it can be made of fine lawn or batiste, of fine handkerchief linen or the washable silks that constantly are growing in favor. As shown here, the gown with the yoke is made from fine ba tiste with all-over eye let embroidery. A still daintier effect could be obtained by embroid ering tome simple lit tle vine on a plain yoke and using frills of lace instead of em broidery. Girls who find needle work pleas ant employment will be sure to like this last suggestion. Design by May Manton. For the 16 year size, 33 Night Gown for Misses and Small Women, the gown will require 1 and 18 Years. WeV, Wit ' 01 a " the ihe May Manton pattern 8365 is cut in sizes for 16 and 18 years It I mm 4 The Editor will be pleased to receive and publish favor- itu recipes. P Learn the Art of Sweeping HOW MANY women really know how to handle a broom? It is safe to say that the number of women who really know the correct art of sweeping is very small indeed. Before beginning the broom should be dipped into hot soapsuds. Squeeze out the water, leaving the broom damp, but not dripping. This prac tice not only makes it easier to sweep but toughens the straw of the broom, and makes it soft so there 13 little danger of cutting the carpet. Before beginning work, a pailful of hot soapsuds should be in readiness In which to rinse the broom when It be comes dusty. To keep down dust, it Is well to soak a newspaper and after squeez ing out all the water possible, tear it into small pieces and scatter over the carpet. Or, if preferred, sprinkle the carpet with moist tea leaves, or clean moist sawdust. Begin work in a corner and work along the walls, around the room, gradually sweeping all the dirt to ward the center, where It should be taken up with dust brush and pan. It Is apparent that this method moves the dirt over the smallest possible space, and as a result, there will be less dusting to do. The wear on the carpet will not be nearly so great asj it is where the dirt is swept from room to room as is often done. A skilled sweeper can sweep a room without raising scarcely any dust The handle of the broom should never come to the perpendicular, but should always be inclined slightly lurwara. me sweeper stands on the unswept portion of the carpet and reaches back and draws the broom forward. The broom is lifted frnm the carpet for another stroke before it reaches the perpendicular. That cloud of dust that you noticed com ing out of your neighbor's door was caused by the sweeper using the broom with the handle Inclined back ward. By learning to sweep with the handle of the broom inclined for ward, one can do better work and will raise very little dust. Broom straw is hard and brittle and easily broken. Before using a new broom, It should be soaked in water for half an hour or so, after whjch It should be hung out In tha open air to dry. This will soften the , straw so one can sweep without dan ger of the hard straws cutting the fine threads of the carpet. When not in use the broom should be hung upside down to prevent the straws from adhering to one another. When hung upside down the broom will retain Us shape. ' $''S$SS$SSe''$3$ Potato Croquettes. OTATO croquettes are excellent and one of the nicest ways of serving the vegetable. Use two cups of mashed potatoes; warm them and add the yolks of two eggs well beaten, two tablespoonfuls of cream and one teaspoonful of onion juice. Season with salt, cayenne to taste, a grating of nutmeg, a teaspoonful of butter, and a tablespoonful of chop ped parsley. Mix, cool and proceed as for chicken croquettes. Jellied Chicken. Draw, pick and wash a smalt chicken, cover with warm water and simmer until the meat slips from the bones and there remains of the water about a coffee cup full. Lift oat the meat, and cut or shred into good sized pieces, throwing out all fat, bone and grizzel. Shim the fat from the liquor, add pepper and salt to season very highly, then bring to a boil with half an ounce of gelatine, which has been dissolved in just enough cold water to cover it. Poor this over the shredded chicken, stir thoroughly and pack Into a mold to form. Serve on a bed of lettuce, and pass apple or crabapple jelly with It Ask Cake. 1 quart corn meal. 2 teaspoons salt. 1 tablespoon lard or other short ening. Boiling water. Scald the meal; add the salt and shortening, and when the mixture is cool form it into oblong cakes, adoV ing more water if necessary. Wrap the cakes in cabbage leaves, or place one cabbage leaf under the cakes and one over them, and cover them with hot ashes. Prnit Cocktail. Chopped and iced fruits, commonly known as fruit cocktails, always fini favor with children and may be sub stituted for the richer frozen creams. Shredded pineapple and ripe bananas, sliced and mixed together with puV verised sugar may have poured over them a little lemon or orange juice and then be set in the refrigerator to ripen, time being given for the vari ous fruit flavors to mingle agreeably. When ready to serve fill sherbet glasses with chopped ice and add a couple of spoonfuls of the shredded fruit and the juice formed around 11 Stamped gowns only 99c SPECIAL ORDSR TODAY This handsome suggestion for a Christmas Gift complete with cotton to embroider (Specify ini tial wanted) ONLY 99 THE NEEDLE- CRAFT SHOP 342 Alder St. Portland, Ore. A new broom does good work be cause it is square and the straws are straight. Hence, in sweeping, it Is well to sweep with one side a while and then with the other. If there is any tendency of the broom to become one-sided, it is a certain indication that one side of the broom has been used more than the other. By keep ing the broom square as good work; can be done with an old broom as can be done with a new one.
