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IIOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION In the Home-Household Hints-Fashion Notes-Recipes 12 The Editor will be pleased to receive and pub I lab hints of tereat to our readers. May Manton Weekly Fashion Talk Household Hints. ALL paint marks can be removed from overalls by letting them soak for a day In turpentine. Tea stains should be rubbed with glycerine before the fabric is washed. Should fresh paint be spilled on the floor, pour some vinegar on it at once and wipe up with a soft cloth. Wine stains which have dried on the table cloth or napkins should be touched with a few drops of whisky before the linen is sent to the laun dry. Precipitated chalk is excellent for cleaning tarnished silver. Place a little in a saucer and add just enough liquid ammonia to moisten it. Rub this lightly over the silver, and the stains will quickly disappear. Then wash in hot suds, dry carefully, and polish with a clean chamois, leather. Wet fruit stains on woolen with tepid water, then rub on dry starch and hang out in the sun. Washing in kerosene before washing with soap and water is another way of taking out fruit stains. When it is necessary to iron a rough-dry garment at once, try this method: Damp it, roll tight, wrap in a cloth, and then in paper, and put it into the oven while the irons are heatiug. Evaporation will cause it to be thoroughly dampened in a very few minutes; but care must be taken that the oven Is not hot enough to scorch the things. Mix a small quantity of soft soap with the same proportion of pow dered starch and salt, and the Juice of a lemon to remove a mildew stain. Apply this mixture to both sides of the stain with a small brush, and If possible, let the article He on the grass all day and night until the stains have quite disappeared. Then wash In the usual way. ' Add two tablespoonfuls of soda to four quarts of water to clean enamel- ware. Immerse the discolored uten sils in the water and boll for half an hour; then scour them, using some of the soda water and a stiff brush If the stains are persistent boil a Bee ond time and use sand with the soda water for the second scouring. To remove a cinder or other foreign substance, lay over, the eye a cloth on which has been spread the beaten white of an egg, with a little sugar and pulverized alum added. Cold rain water and a good soap will usually remove machine grease stains. Silver or gold jewelry may be sat isfactorily cleaned by addiug a'tea spoonful of aifimonia to a cup of water and applying with a rag. Paint stains that are dry and old may be removed from cotton or woolen goods with chloroform. It is a good plan to first cover the spots with olive oil or butter. Olive oil is excellent for the health. A tablespoonful of it three times a day is recommended by many physi cians as a means of warding off ap pendicitis. To "set" the color in light shades of pink and blue soak the goods in salt water with a small lump of alum added. Use (he alum alone for the different shades of lilac and vio let. After the color has been "set" wash the garments in warm borax suds, which will help to keep the color in the goods. In washing chintz, wheat bran will be found more satisfactory than soap. Tie a quart of bran in a piece of cheesecloth and use this for rubbing on the material as one would soap. Do not use too hot water and rinse and blue us one would if washed in the usual way. Add a little vinegar to some warm water when cleaning leather furnl . ture, using a clean cloth or sponge. Wipe with a dry cloth. Then, to re store the polish, put two teaspoon f uls of turpentine with the whites of two eggs; beat a little and apply with a clean flannel cloth. Dry with an other cloth. All the cloths used should be soft and absolutely clean. IN THE FASHIONABLE REDINGOTE STYLE The Cdlter will be please to receive and publlsa favorite reripea. Dtrtt y Mty lint, t$l Tunic Dress with Low Belt for Mines and Small Women. 16 and 18 yeara. EVERYTHING that gives the redlngote suggestion Is fash ionable this Winter. Here is a dress that can be made just as it Is shown here, of one material, or with skirt, vest and sleeves of a contrasting material. This drawing was made from a frock of gabardine with edges . bound with s f 1 k e n braid, the color being midnight blue, but one could think of many ways in which the de sign, could be used. This frock is an essen tially practical one, if the skirt, vest and sleeves were made of charmeuse satin, or made of velvet it would 'be somewhat more elaborate In effect. If the entire redlngote were made of velvet and the skirt of broad cloth, It would be a still different result, and tf plain sergo were used for the redingote and Roman stripes for the skirt and vest, it would be a useful frock, but different from this one. The de sign !s adapted to all these uses and also to a great many others, Already many families are making up dresses In cotton stuffs, pique and the like. Pink or blue linen or poplin for the redingote and skirt I with white collar and cuffs scalloped, would! be pretty, and scalloped edges are exceedingly fashionable. The skirt la In two pieces, with a plait at ach side seam. The waist and tunic are finished separately and joined one to the other and the waist portion includes the vest. For the 16-year size will be required 6V& yds. of material 27 in. wide; 5V4 yds. 30, or 4 yds. 44 in. wide, with 8 yds. of braid. The May Manton pattern No. 8451 is cut in sizes for 16 and 18 years. It will bo mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this paper, on receipt of 10 cents. Sending a Kitchen to the Fair A COMPLETE kitchen with a real stove, Refrigerator, sink, work table and other necessaries is being sent by the Department of Agricul ture to San Francisco for the fair. This kitchen Is not a "model" in the sense that every housewife Is to try to make hers as nearly like it as pos sible, but is rather a composite of many possible model kitchens which Is designed to illustrate various es sential principles of convenient kitch en arrangement. The American housewife, for whose special benefit the model has been constructed, must judge from it what appliances and improvements in arrangement will best fit her peculiar household needs and those of her purse. One general idea emphasized by the Department's San Francisco bound kitchen Is that the size of the ordinary kitchen should be small rather than large If the room Is to he used only for the preparation of the meals. It should be as compact as possible to save traveling back and forth. The stove, table, and sink should be as near together as Is con venient, and the distances to supplies and the dining-room or pantry sin uld be short. On the floor of the model room the distances most commonly traveled in preparing and serving meals are Indicated by straight lines. "The fewer ornaments the better in a housewife's workshop" Is the text of another lesson of this little exhibit. Corners are roundod; sur faces are plain; there are as few moldings as possible to catch dirt wnicn must be removed with so much effort. One feature Is a table with legs that may be raised or lowered to suit the height of the worker. Th refrigerator, as it stands. would never In the world recommend Itself to any thrifty housewife, for one part of it U lined with solid porcelain, another with enameled steel, another with zinc painted with enamel paint, and another with un palnted lno. However, this refrig erator preaches a sermon of Its own, for the advantages and disadvantages of each particular lining are ex plained in labels attached. Each woman who reads may look for what suits her own refrigerator, and housewives from the north or from the south, from a high, dry region or a low, moist region may each de cide which feature 1b most adaptable for her own use and pocketbook. A stew kettle Is shown in several common materials in the model kitchen, but no particular make Is recommended. The aim is to show Vogeluble Variations, WHEN plainly cooked vegetables begin to pall, a variation in the manner of cooking has quite the effect of a new substance, and there are many ways of cooking and serv ing every kiud of garden product to make It more appetizing. Cabbage Hash. Chop fine equal quantities of cold boiled potatoes and cabbage (boiled), and salt to taste. To a quart of the vegetables add one-half to three fourths of a cupful of sweet cream and let simmer until thoroughly heated through. licet s. Wash the beets well, cook until tender, drop into cold water and slip off the skins, then cut In eighths lengthwise. Make a sauce with two tablespoonfuls of butter, four table spoonfuls of lemon juice, one-halt teaspoonful of salt, a dash of cayeuno and let boil up once, then pour hot over the beets just before serving. Diced Turnips. Peel and slice the turnips and cut in dice an inch square, boll until tender In as little water as possible. To one quart of turnips add one tablespoonful of sugar, and salt to taste. When they are boiled as dry as possible, add two or three table spoonfuls of cream mixed with one well-beaten egg. Raked Cabbage. Chop three pounds of cabbage, stir into It one tablespoonful of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, a dash of red pepper, one teaspoonful of dry mus tard, two tablespoonfuls of butter and one-half cupful of water. Put Into a buttered casserole, dot with bits or butter, cover, and bake in a hot oven for one and one-fourth hours. Vegetablo Oysters, Scrape and rinse the roots, and slice them thin, throwing Into vinegar and water to keep them from turn ing dark colored. Put into boiling salted water and boll until tender. Make a sauce with the beaten yolks of two eggs, two tablespoonfuls each of flour and thick sweet cream, mix well and add gradually one pint of the water In which the oyster plant was boiled, and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Place over the fire to boil until the thickening Is well cooked, pour over the oysters and serve hot. Curried Carrots. Cook one and one-half pounds of small carrots, peeled and cut in quar. ters lengthwise. Scrape and chop one small carrot and a small talk of cel er, and fry to a light brown in one tableSDOOnful of butter Thnn nrfit one tablespoonful of flour, one des sertspoonful of curry powder, and cook slowly for five minutes. Add one-half of an annifi. nppipri Mrcd and chopped, one-fourth cupful of smea tomato puip and one and one half cupfuls of vegetable stock. Cov er, and let boll gently for 20 minutes, strain, return to the fire, season with salt and pepper, and add the carrots and two sliced hard-boiled egges. when all are thoroughly hot, serve in a border of boiled rice, garnished with parsley. sauce pans or kettles made of steel, aluminum, enamelware, copper and earthenware, and descriptive labels explain how each material excels in Its own way and its disadvantages. On the walls of the model are shown samples of the more common floor coverings and wall finishes with labels setting forth the relative mer its andd rawbacks of each. Linoleum and oil cloth have their strong points, and so havn tinted nnintoi dhj un dressed wall surfaces. Varnished wall paper is good for some purposes and unvarnlBhed for others. Superfluous Hair Kemoved easily end quickly by "Demosant," the newest end best hair remover. Will not Injure or dls color the skin. Removes unsightly and unnatural hirsute growths In 1 minutes. Does not smart or dis figure and Is guaranteed to give ab solute satisfaction. Doe not stim ulate the growth of new hair. Will be mailed postpaid In plain wrapper upon receipt of price, tea, or any druggist can obtain It for you. Es- 1 land Of i.owraiunfs, orc- (