ITOAÍE A N D F A R M M A G A Z IN E S E C T IO N
I 11 the H °me "" Fashions — Household Hints — Recipe
HE best way to prepare a new iron
kettle for use is to fill it with
T clean
potato peelings, boil them for
roast took less than three-feurths of a
kilowatt hour of energy, costing a trifle
an hour
more, then wash the kettle
over 2 cents.
with hot water, wipe it dry and rub
A 4-1 b. roast and six large potatoes
it with a little lard; repeat the rub
UTTERMILK is an old beautifier, in addition to massaging, you will be were baked together at a cost of 3vv.
bing for half a dozen times after us
A 5|-lb. chicken and twelve medium
but it is just as good for us as it working in a bleach for that dark look
ing 111 this way you will prevent rust
sized potatoes and toasted bread were
was for our grandmothers. They that so often appears about the eyes.
and all annoyances liable to occur with used buttermilk before many of the
It is an ideal warm weather drink. also thoroughly cooked for 3c. By us
the use of a new kettle.
preparations wo rely on wero thought If you will discard tea and coffee, and ing air-tight cookers with compart
of.
drink buttermilk instead, your complex ments a 4 lb. roast and six large po
To Wash W hite China Silk.
If your skin feels tired after a ride ion will soon become several shades tatoes together with a quart of tea were
When washing China silk never hang or walk in the sun, try bathing your
lighter and you will feel better and eooked for a cent and a half, and a 3-
it up to dry, but instead wring it out face with buttermilk iustead of water. sleep
1b. ham with twelve potatoes and a
better.
dry and wrap it in a piece of white I* irst wipe the dust and perspiration
small head of cabbage cost a little more
Still
another
use
for
buttermilk
which
material, leaving it this way for about from your skin with a dry towel. Then
is not a beauty hint, but makes for to render fit for human consumption.
one hour. Then iron it.
A 3-lb. pork roast, six large sweet po
apply the buttermilk and dry your face daintiness: If your lingerie is stained
By doing this you get much better ro immediately. You will feel refreshed
tatoes
and a can of corn and a 1-lb.
■ultd and the silk does not turn yellow. and you will have taken a step toward or darkened by perspiration, soak the fruit pudding were thoroughly cooked
stains in buttermilk for an hour before
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preventing tan and freckles.
washing and they will then easily yield for a trifle over 2Jc. In one ease a
Books of Needles.
family of three did a week *s cooking
Buttermilk will bleach out light to soap anil water.
with electricity at a cost of 73c.
The varieties of needle bonks on sale freckles aud sun tan. It will soothe
When using buttermilk on the face,
are legion. There is one that is espe sunburn.
do not let it get into the eves, nor into
cially convenient, says the 8L Louis
It will make your skin smooth a > l tho brows, as it will bleach the latter
Star. It has a neat little pressed pa white if used instead of water during and will make the eves ache.
per cover. There are a dozen sheets, the hot weather. It doesn’t contain the
Buttermilk is about the cheapest
perhaps, inside the cover, and each is grease that fresh milk does and will,
beautifier
that you can get, yet if you
labeled at the bottom with the sort of therefore, not build flesh.
HE smaller the cut of meat to bo
cave some of it within reach during
needles it contains. One sheet reads
Iu massaging out the tiny wrinkles tne Summer days you will have no
roasted, the hotter the oven must
‘‘Embroidery,” another “ Chenille and about the eyes, if you dip your fingers
be.
Y am ,” and others declare by their lit into buttermilk iustead of cold cream. need to slowly and painfully bleach off
To preserve the whiteness of arti
tan when Fall arrives.
tie labels that they hold straw needles,
chokes add a lump of sugar to the water
darning needles, upholstery needles and
while cooking.
sharps for ordinary sewing. One sheet
A tablcspoonful of vinegar put into
holds a little bodkin—-which in nothing
tho water when poaching eggs will keep
more than a ribbon needle, after all.
them from breaking.
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When making a rolypolv pudding
To Savo Time.
after spreading the paste with the jam
Once in every two or three years mark
sprinkle with a layer of fine bread
a stock of linen tapo to its entire
crumbs before rolling and tying. This
length with your name iu indelible ink.
prevents the jam from boiling out.
When a new garment is to be marked,
No matter how much dripping is
cut off the tape and sew ou.
used, fish, when being fried, is apt to
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stick to the p a n ’s bottom. If a table
Better Than Tacks.
spoonful of dry salt is put into the pan
Widths of matting that are sewed to
and rubbed over it it will be found sat
isfactory.
gether with a loose carpet thread stitch
look neater and wear better than when
staples or tacks are used to fasten the
Old Fashioned Souse
matting down.
Take pigs’ feet and head, thoroughly
clean and place in salt water to soak
Bloomers From Raincoats.
for twenty-four hours. Then boil until
Wide bloomers made out of old rain
the bones slip easily from tho m eat
coats will prove a boon to many moth
Take up and when cool enough to
ers, if used to tuck in the children *e
handle, carefully remove all bones.
clothes when they are cut uoors play
Mince or grind through a meat chopper,
ing in the snow.
season with salt, pepper and sage to
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suit the taste and press in a mold. This
Cleaning Windows.
is very nice sliced and placed in vine
gar, or for breakfast sliced and dipped
A rag dipped in p a raffin e will clean
in batter aud fried.
W.nduws p irie c ils and g ive a Lriglit
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Hess impossible to obtain w ith water.
Golden Betty.
Tissue or any soft paper makes a good
polisher.
To make a brown betty with cheese
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arrange in a deep earthenware dish al
To Avoid Spots
ternate layers of breadcrumbs and thin-
ly sliced apples. Season with cinna
P u t a ru ttle on the bottom of all
mon, a little clovo and brown sugar.
kit-'h en aprons. You wall be su rp rised
Scatter some finely shaved mild full
how m au y drops s n d s|Mits i t c atch e s
cream cheese over each layer of apples
w h .h w ould o th e rw ise laud ou vour
and when the dish is full scatter bread
sk irt below the ham it y o u r apron.
crumbs over the top and bake thirty-
8298 Surplice Blouse, 34 to 42 Bust.
five to forty minutes, placing the dish
Omelet Will Not Fall.
8293 Kimono Coat, 34 to 42 Bust.
With Long or Three Quarter Sleeves.
M ny a housewife lias seen her beau
in a pan of water so that the pudding
O
SUMMER
coat
could
bo
better
HIS is a season of bordered materi
will not burn.
tifili omelet shrink visibly when a meal
adapted to its use than this one.
als, for they are shown in marvel
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has >een unexpectedly delayed; yet it
it is short and jaunty and, at the
ous beauty and marvelous variety;
is ca i,v to make an omelet that will i ot
Popcorn
’Sails.
same time, loose enough to allow a free
fall, Inst ad ot a tablespoonful of consequently, this blouse must find a circulation of air while it is the smart
Pop
corn
in
popper,
put in pan. Take
milk or water to each egg, use a table I ready welcome. It consists of just two est possible. Incidentally, it can be teacupful molasses, butter size of walnut
I
pieces
lap|>ed
at
the
front
and
back
in
sp w nful of whit« sauce. The
made by the veriest amateur without and one teaspoonful vinegar. Cook all
will '>• much impro ed, both in flavor •”,rPl«ee 8t.v |P- A‘ whichever length the difficulty because there is nothing to together until it will harden when
sleeves are finished, there are pretty
sn d
ib:li;v.
and becoming frills. As a matter of fit. All fashionable wraps are loose dropped in cold water, then pour over
course, plain material can be trimmed and these sleeves that extend to the corn and make in balls.
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How to Clean.
to suggest the bordered idea but flounc neck dispense entirely with the sleeves
Thick Soup.
dll KN cleaning polished or parquet mg seems especially adapted to the that sometimes are a little difficult.
flooring or linoleum which has style, and flouncing« this year.include The flaring collar in Normandy stylo
Thick soups are often served with
been be-swaxed, a good idea is to the regulation embroideries and a great gives a becoming and attractive finish. croutons or toasted triangles, which
The little strap across the back will be certainly add something to them. Crou
tie a large. •» ift duster around a broosn. many voiles, crepes and chiffons.
liked by most wearers, but it is not
going over the floor carefully with it
the medium site, the blouse will necessary and can be omitted if a still tons are half inch dicelike pieces of
—taking up th l ist w ithout causing i For
,rc 2 |
j , of
,
bread fried in fst until brown, while
looser effect is wanted.
any to fly abou
B does when us 1 wide,
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- « yd.
- of - plain
-
’
the triangles are small three cornered
with
material
36
in.
in g a h air broom and sw eeping in the
For the medium size, the coat will bits of stale bread toasted or crisped ia
wide, or JJ yds. of plain material 27,
asu al way.
the oven.
lj-yda or 36 or 44 inches wide, with require 31 yds. of material 27, 2J yds.
This done, remove duster and in its 2 yds of ruffling.
36, l i yds. 44 in. wide, with } yd. 27
place cover the broom with a bag made
for collar and cuffs.
Table Protected.
I he pattern 6298 is cut in sizes from
of f. innelet or any material you may
The pattern 8293 is cut in sizes from
A piece of wax paper placed under
have iiy you, sewing several thicknesses 34 to 42 inches bust measure. Ask your 34 to 42 inches bust tneasur'. Ask
the centerpiece on a polished table will
over tho part to come iu contact with merchant for these patterrg.
your merchant for this pattern.
prevent the linen from adhering to ths
the floor.
table in hot weather, as well as pre
The legs of old stockings will do for
vent a stain from cold water or aa
the pa bling, or better still, an old piece
overfilled vase or rose bowl.
of velvet or plush. Then hold the broom
slantwise, rubbing backward and for
ward i> over the I.cor, thus polishing
Removing Rank Flavor«.
HE municipal plant at Kansas City,
No attempt was made th place the
the Surface without the trouble of stop
To dispose of the objectionable swell
Kan.,
placed
at
the
disposal
of
ping
apparatus in the hands of ex|>erienced snd taste in cooking utensils, in which
eight representative families vari
Occasionally the floor will need a ous electrical cooking devices with the operators and the only instructions giv fi»h. onions, turnips, cabbage, sauer
eoat ,.f floor polish, but the method de request that the women doing the cook en were that for eeoi omical operation kraut or other rankly Favored food has
sentii-d above is easy, and one is able ing make records of the food cooked the cooking devices should be discon been cooked, wash the utensil with soap
nectee from the line as soon as any op and warm water, and wipe dry; then
to get over the work in a few nunut
arid the Lem required for each opera oration was completed.
ta a perfectly satisfactory manuer
wash n a h string viuegar. No trscq
USS.
Recording to the reports a two pound of the objectionable odor vidi be le f t
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