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length, throwing aside the stem and
point ends. String with common
needle and coarse thread, not allowing
the pieces to crowd each other. Hang
in a shady place to dry. When quite
dry, put away in a close jar or good
bag so that candle flies cannot get
to it to deposit eggs. Give the dried
vegetable an occasional sunning, or
bring to a mild heat in the oven.
When flavoring soups, it may bo tied
In a bag to Itself, if preferred.
French Beefsteak. Dip the steak
into melted butter and broil on a
gridiron over fresh coals. When
nearly done, sprinkle with salt and
pepper; have ready some finely
chopped parsley, mix with softened
butter and beaten to a cream and
pour into the middle of a platter. Dip
the pieces of steak in this, turning
them around ,the platter. Serve hot.
A little lemon juice improves them
for some.
Young Chickens. After cleaning,
split them open down the back, re
move all objectionable insides, wash
thoroughly, and wipe dry. Lay flat
Jn the baking pan, sprinkle with salt
and pepper; lay bits of butter all
over the pieces and sprinkle with
flour. A little thick cream may be
added. Bake until done in a hot oven;
or in a moderate one for one hour.
Tomato and Cucumber Salad. Six
fresh, ripe tomatoes, two cucumbers,
one onion, three hard-boiled eggs;
slice all thin and place in layers in a
salad bowl; add a dash of cayenne,
if liked, and salt and vinegar to taste.
Steam Green Peas. The most deli
cious way to cook Green neas is to
put them in a basin without any
water, and place in an old fashioned
j steamer; it will require half as long
again to cook them as the ordinary
way. When tender, season with but
ter, salt and pepper, and add a little
rich sweet cream. Serve hot.
For a Burn or Scald. Pour castor
oil over the part freely, then put on
a heavy coating of flour and bind up
quickly. This is recommended highly.
Caring For Paint Brushes
Every housewife has, or should
have one or more good paint brushes
and some cans of ready mixed paints.
Nothing brightens up wood-work of
any description more than a coating
of good paint, and nothing saves the
scrubbing brush more. When done
with using the brushes, it will pay
ner to take care of them, for their
uses are simply legion. Don'tlet
"John" borrow them: he should have
his own (which you should cheerfully
borrow when you want them). When
done with the brush, suspend it in
water, with the brush part not quite
touching the bottom of the vessel in
which it is suspended, being careful
that the water just covers the bristles,
not reaching the binding, which
should never be wet. Cared for in
this way, a brush will last a long
time. Some painters insist that a
varnish brush should never be put
in water, while others claim that it
does not matter; but all agree that
linseed ,-Dil is a good preservative, the
brush being suspended so that only
the hair is covered. It is a good
plan not only to have these paints
and brushes, but' to use them, and un
til tried, one has no idea what a
saving power" for the overworked
housewife is to be found in them.
The Commoner.
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in the bottom of it and then, looking
steadily- at the coin, dip them into
the water, keeping them open till
they are under water, then moving
the head from side to side, thus wash
ing the eyes thoroughly.
Headaches caused Dy eye trouble,
calling for the care of an oculist and
the wearing of glasses fitted to one's
eyes, are generally accompanied by
brain weariness, dizziness or vertigo,
and the headache is persistent. But
sometimes, eye trouble, whether in
ternal or resulting from muscular
weakness of the eyeball, will cause one
to suffer nausea and dyspepsia. Gen
erally, if the dyspepsia is removed,
and the headache continues, it is best
to consult an oculist, as the glasses
may not suit.
Many of the headaches of childhood
are directly traceable to eye-strain,
and if the headache comes on during
the afternoon, or after the eyes have
been used in reading or study, one
may be quite sure this is the cause.
In such cases, no time should be
lost in consulting the oculist, and the
wearing of suitable glasses is the
safest way out of the trouble. Eye
strain should in no case be neglected,
or greater trouble may follow, later
on. Brown Book.
When it is absolutely necessary
to keep at work, or to attend to some
important matter, and one develnns n
blinding headache, any one of the
coal tar remedies sold by druggists
may bo taken until one has time to
attend to the cause of the trouble.
But one should go always to a re
liable druggist or to a physician, to
make sure that one is getting the
real thing, and not some substitute
that the druggist may happen to have
on hand when he is out of the remedy
asked for. Brown Book.
An excellent way to use up berries
without cooking is to make a flaky
pie-dough, roll it thin, spread it with
butter and then, folding it over, pass
the rolling pin over it, making it not
too thin. Bake in saucers, and when
done, pull the layers apart, fill in
nicely sugared fruit and serve. A
meringue may be added, or whipped
cream, but is not necessary. In su
garing berries or fruit, use the best
granulated sugar, and sugar to suit
the individual taste.
For Tirea Eyes
When the eyes are very tired, after
being used, relief may often be ob
tained by bathing them with witch
hazel; or by bathing them with clear
cold water, and to do this, fill a basin
"with clear water, place a bright coin
JVN OLD AND WELL TR1KD ItKMKDY
tenth? W!W8V2w,,fi SooTniNQ Sviiup for children
tPth K sh.0uld always bo used for children wliilo
wind P&1& softens the puras, aUaysnll pain, cures
Twmv1,0ttnnstno bcst remedy for diarrhoea,
nrenty-nvo cents a hot tie.
For The Sewing Room
Women who would .dress well on
a limited amount of spending money
should take plenty of time to plan for
the buying and having made of their
garments. Among other things, they
must eschew novelties, as a general
thing, and stick to the standard fab
rics. They should decide just how
much or how little shall go to each
garment, cutting off. all unnecessary
exnenditures iii the way of accesso
ries, trimmings and Nother details
which add to the cost, but not to the
effectiveness of the finished garment.
If one is an expert needle woman,
or can handle the sewing machine
with skill, it is only necessary to get
some good paper pattern that is of
the right size for her, and carry out
the design, or have her dressmaker
db it for her. A home dressmaker
will suit the individual, not the class.
Many excellent ready-made garments
are to be had, but the factories dress
all women alike, and if one is at all
fastidious about the fit of her gar
ment, it has to be, in some sort, made
over to suit her. If all women were
formed in like proportion, the matter
would be of easy solution, but they
are not.
Care should be taken that the pat
tern be laid properly on the material,
as no garment will hang right if it
is cut the wrong way of the cloth.
The directions which accompany the
pattern should be well studied before
attempt is made to use it. All notches
and other markings must bo marked
on tho cloth, and used at the pattern
directs. It is a good plan to fit tho
patterns together, and thus get a bot
ter idea how tho pieces will mako
up. In putting the pieces together,
do not stretch tho gores, for as much
depends on tho seaming as on tho
cutting. Tho notches should be
matched, and the gored side should
be held loosely next to tho machine.
Very few, if any patterns, will fit
without some alteration in the gar
ment, but tho cloth should be cut
like tho pattern, observing the indi
vidual lengths and measures in cut
ting. For instance: hardly any two
women have the same hip or the same
length from waist to floor; or around
tho waist and bust measure, or tho
length of the waist under tho arms.
All these matters, and others of equal
importance, must be studied in trying
to fit the pattern to tho form. It tho
skirt is too long. lay a tuck around
the skirt about half way between tho
hip and tho knee, in order not to in
terfere with the flare or finish at tho
lower edge. This tuck in the pattern
may be pinned or basted.
In fitting a skirt, pin a narrow belt
tightly around the waist, and adjust
tho skirt, pinning to the belt, until
perfectly fitted, having the center of
the front hang perfectly straight. If
the front of tho skirt inclines to
spread, or pouch out at tho bottom,
it can generally ho remedied by rais
ing tho skirt at the sides and back,
and all fullness should ho taken from
the seams, rather than the darts; or
tho pleats of the tucked skirt may be
lapped at the waist line. All scams
should be neatly pressed, and the
edges bound or, for goods of close
texture, pinked. A great deal de
pends on careful pressing.
A "Sure Cure"
We are all looking for a sure cure
for dyspepsia and indigestion, and an
exchange tells us that one has been
found. An English physician, it is
claimed, has an institution to which
dyspeptics are admitted for a time,
and from which they come forth
"sound and in their right mind," after
undergoing for two or three weeks, a
course of the mirth treatment. In this
institution, it is claimed, a few dys
peptic patients sit around a room and
smile at each other. One of them
says "Ha!" the next one gives a "Ha!
Ha!" and r, third gives three "Ha's."
By this time it is no difficult matter
for the rest of them to keep up the
treatment, until tho sides aches with
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laughter. If one has but little sense
of the humorous, it certainly can be
increased by this method, and one
finds food for laughter for the rest of
the day in remembering the seance of
the morning. It is claimed that at the
rate of a couple of hours' giggling and
guffawing every morning, for two or
three weeks, the worst case of dys
pepsia can bo cured. There seems
no reason why the treatment might
not just as well bo given at home and
save the large fee the doctor is
claimed to exact for the use of his in
stitution. Why not try it? For a con
firmed dyspeptic, the fact that he can
laugh would bo a very very novel bit
of knowledge.
should bo wnshablo, and no colors
should bo used except thoso that will
go through tho process of laundering
with satisfactory results.
Requested Rcclpco
Rhubarb For canning without
cooking, take the tendor stalks of
rhubarb, cutting in halMnch lengths.
HH tho can as full aa possible by
crowd ng (not pounding) tho pieces
in with a spoon; cover with clear cold
water and seal as you would any
fruit, air tight. For use, in early win
ter, drain oft tho water, add sugar,
btittor, and, if dosirca, flavoring, and
"80 as fresh for pies and puddlnga.
Glass should bo used.
Canning Peas. These are somewhat
hard for the average housewife to can
and keep successfully, but many do
can them and keep them, and to do so,
care must bo taken to observe cortaln
rules. Hero Is a recommended recipe:
Have tho peas fresh and noliim..
young or too old. Fill glass jars full
of poas, shaking down well so they
will bo pretty solid. Pour into tho
cans enough cold water to fill to over
flowing, then screw the cover on as
tight as you can. Place a cloth, hoijio
hay, or a rack in tho bottom of your
holler to prevont contact of jars with
tho bottom. On this put a layer o'f
cans In any position you prefer; over
tho fire, bring to n boil and boil
steadily for threo hours. Steady holi
ng is insisted on for success. After
boiling for three hours, lift the boiler
from the Are, lot tho water cool with
the jars in it; then take the jars
from the water and tighten the tops
as tight as possible, put them back
In the water and let remain until cold,
lake out, wrap each can in thick pa
per to exclude the light and keep in
a cool, dry cellar, covered by a pieco
of carpet, or sacking to keep dark.
Tops and rubbers must be tested as
recommended in "Query Box,", botoro
putting tho peas in.
IN COLONEL'S TOWN
Things Happen
For The Metal Bedstead
Valances, when used on metal bed
steads, have a disagreeable way of
drooping or sagging, at dliferent
points, when merely adjusted along
the sides and ends with tapes. This
can be avoided by making a cheese
cloth (or other) spread that will just
fit over the springs, and to this, the
valances are sewn or buttoned all
along the edges. This is put in place
over the springs before the mattress
is laid on, and the valances will al
ways be kept in place.. It Is needless
to say that everything about the bed
From thq homo of tho famous
"Kcyhnel Keeyartah of Cartorsvillo,"
away down south, comes an enthusias
tic letter about Postum.
"I was in very delicate health, sufv
fering from indigestion and a nervous
trouble so severe that I could hardly
sleep. Tho doctor ordered me to dis
continue the use of the old kind of
coffee, which was, like poison to me,
producing such extreme disturbance!
that I could not control myself. Bu
such was my love for It that I coultl
not get my own consent to give it ui
for some time, and continued to suffeir
till my father one day brought hornet
a package of Postum Food Coffee.
"I had the now food drink caretully
prepared according to directions, and.
gave it a fair trial. It proved to have!
a rich flavor and made a healthy
wholesome and delightful drink. To
my taste the addition of cream greatly
improves it.
"My health began to improve as
soon as me drug errect oi the old
coffee was removed and the Postum
Coffee had time to make Us influence
felt. My nervous troubles were speed
ily relieved and the sleep which the
old coffee -drove from my nillow al
ways came to soothe and strengthen
me after I had drunk Postum In a
very short time I began to sleep bet
ter than I had for years before. I
have now used Postum Coffee for sev
eral years and like it better and find
it more beneficial than when I first
began. It is an unspeakable joy to
be relieved of the old distress and
sickness." Name given by Postum
Company, Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Read the little book, "The Road to
IWellville," in each pkg. , .
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