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The Commoner.
FEBRUARY 8, 3007
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les with wide, light-obsciircrs, making
the legitimate functions of the room
Impossible on dark days, and sending
the family upstairs to their bedrooms
for cheer and comfort. A better plan
would be to put the porch in an angle
made by the main house and a wing,
or to build out a large square, project
ing in the fashion of a porte-cochere,
and screen it in by glass at one end,
to give if the sense of an out-door
loom, rather than of an exposed plat
form." To the observant person, it is a mat
ter of conjecture what purpose these
exposed platforms really serve. A
small porch over the door to act as a
protection against 1he dashing rains,
and for an occasional lounging place
for those who care to use it, is well
enough; but one rarely uses the "cov
ered shelf" unless dressed for exhibi
tion, and even then, a reserved person
hardly likes to be exposed to the gaze
of every passer-by. There is no sense
of privacy felt by the porch-lounger,
and one who seeks rest from toil dur
ing -the few leisure moments hardly
feels like "lolling" or lying on the
piazza couch or swinging in the ham
mock in so public a place. Such places
do not lend themselves to neglige, nor
to intimacy, nor to the personal con
versation among confiding friends.
The far less pretentious "stoop" at the
side or back of the house is much
more frequented; and it is here the
family oftonest assemble for the out
door air.
Then, too, these useless porches
make a great deal of unnecessary work
for the housewife, as it is by no means
easy to keep them to their legitimate
uses -they are such, handy places to
"ttu:ow things." They bar the light
from the rooms where such work as
reading, writing and sewing must be
carried on, besides shutting out the
sunshine, without which no room is (it
to live in. If there must be porches,
put them at the back of the house, and
away from windows. Don't "hood
the windows of the living or working
rooms, as you value your eyesight.
Query Box
Herma 0. For washing very thin,
MAY BE COFFEE
That Causes All the Trouble
When the house is afire, it's like a
body when disease begins to show, it's
no time to talk but time to act delay
is dangerous remove the cause of
the trouble at once.
"For a number of years," says a
Kansas lady, "I felt sure that coffee
was hurting me, and yet, I was so fond
of it, I could not give it up. I paltered
with my appetite and of course yielded
to the temptation to drink more. At
last I got so bad that I made up my
mind I must either quit the use of
coffee or die.
"Everything I ate distressed me, and
I suffered severely almost all the time
with palpitation of the heart. I fre
quently woke up in the night with the
feeling that I was almost gone, my
heart seem'ed so smothered and weak
in its action that I feared it would stop
beating. My breath grew short and the
least exertion set me to panting. 1
slept but little and suffered from rheu
matism. "Two years ago I stopped using the
old kind of coffee and began to use
Postum Food Coffee, and from the very
first I began to improve. It worked a
miracle! Now I can eat anything and
digest it without trouble. I sleep like
a baby, and my heart beats full, strong
and easily. My breathing has become
steady and normal, and my rheuma
tism has deft me. I feel like another
person, and it is all due to quitting
coffee and using Postum Food Coffee,
for I haven't used any medicine and
none would have done any good as
long as I kept drugging with coffee."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. "There's a Reason."
Read the little .book, "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. All grocers. .
delicate laces, baste them on some
material and then wash carefully in
suds. Putting into a fruit jar with
gasoline and shaking until clean is a
good way. Rinse in clean gasoline.
Nellie L. If you have put living
water into your cistern, that is prob
ably the cause of the spoilt water.
Rain or snow water will keep sweet
a long time, especially if filtered. Best
pumped out and lot fill from the roof.
Forestel. There, is an artificial silk
made from wood-pulp in Sweden. It
is claimed that it can hardly bo dis
tinguished from the real silk, but it
has been found that many dresses
made from it have been discarded, as
the creases made when one sits down
do not come out; hence, for many pur
poses, it is not desirable.
Mrs. J. N. There arc one piece
house dresses which are easy to make
and quite as comfortable, as the wrap
per, while they are much more dress;.'.
Work and wash dresses make up well
in these styles, of calico, sateen, per
cale, gingham, or other low-priced
wash goods. Paper patterns can be
had for ten cents each. Maternity
gowns are also shown in very dressy
makes.
D. IT. Vaseline is said to induce a
growth of hair on the face, but I think
it depends more on the tendency of the
hair to grow there than upon the
emollient used. With many women,
nothing would induce a growth of
hair, while, with others, it seems im
possible to prevent it. Cocoa butter
is excellent for the hands, neck and
some faces, but a finer cream should
be used on the face.
Mrs. L. B. You should be careful to
buy your creams of a reliable firm, as
many oils become rancid very quickly,
and in that case, will bring about the
results you describe. The simplest
emollients are the best and safest.
(2) Use the pumice stone as directed.
It is harmless.
"Your Work"
"You may be sure that, if you do
not feel yourself growing in your work,
and your life broadening and deepen
ing, if your task is not a perpetual
tonic to you, you have not found your
place. If your work is drudgery to
you, if you are always longing for the
lunch hour, or the closing hour, to re
lease you from the work that bores
you, you may be sure you have not
found your niche. Unless you go to
your task with delight greater than
that with which you leave it. it be
longs to some other person." Success.
If a person does a thing for pure
love of it, regardless of the money re
ward; if they think of it, in season and
out of season, if they talk of it, are
drawn to it, believe in it, in spite of
the protest of friends, and prophesied
of failure, and if they are always on
the look out for items and information
regarding it, there-is hope for success
for that person along that line of busi
ness. But if it is taken up solely be
cause it is believed that there is in it
the most profit for the least work, or
that it is "respectable," or to be
looked upon solely as a means of get
ing a living while waiting a chance to
get married it is just as well to let
it alone.
Some Requested Recipes
Suet., for Shortening. Remove the
fibre from six ounces of beef suet, and
chop fine; mix with it one pound of
Hour and a teaspoouful of salt, and
put it through the chopper again. Mix
with a knife, adding gradually suffi
cient ice water to just moisten, and it
is ready to roll out for use. This is
especially nice for apple dumplings or
meat pies.
llaggis. Chop the uncooked heart,
tongue, and half the liver of a sheep
and mix with them one-half their
weight in chopped bacon; add a half
cupful of stale bread crumbs, the
grated rind of one lemon, a teaspoon
ful of salt, and a quarter teaspoonful
of black-popper and two well-beaten
eggs; pack this, thoroughly mixed, Jiito
a well-buttered mould, cover, place in
a kettle partly filled with boiling water,
cover closely, and boil slowly for two
hours. When done, turn it out on a
dish, and serve it plain, or with Bech
amel sauce.
Bechamel sauce. Put one table-spoonful-of
butter in a frying-pan, and
when melted add an even tablespoon
ful of flour; mix until smooth, add one
gill of cream and one gill of stock;
stir continuously until It boils, take ;t
from the fire, add the beaten yolks r,
two eggs, a half teaspoonful of salt,
quarter teaspoonful of, pepper, and It
is ready to serve. Do not boil after
adding the eggs.
Oyster Chowder. Three slices of
nice, pickled pork; two onions; thive
potatoes; three dozen crackers, soaked;
live dozen oysters; one quart of milk;
seasoning. Boil the pork, onions and
potatoes together until nearly done;
put into the pot the oysters, milk,
crackers and seasoning; boil five min
utes and serve.
Oyster Shortcake. Make a good
shortcake dough and bake on pie
plates; put a quart of dysters over the
fire with a little water, half a cup f
milk, two teaspoonfuls of buttor, a
little salt and pepper; thicken with a
tnblespoonful of Hour. When the
cakes are baked, split and spread the
oyster mixture between, and put part
on top.
Floral Notos
If you are going to raise sweet peas,
this season, plant them as soon as the
ground can be worked, even if it
should freeze afterwards. Many plant
the peas in the fall, and they germi
nate very early in the spring. Their
growth should be made in the cool
weather of the early spring, as they do
not give much bloom if planted late.
Many plants should be started i.i
boxes in the house, if no other method
can bo had. Use shallow boxes; cigar
boxes are good, and easy to handle.
Have good drainage, and keep the
earth moist. Water carefully until
the plants are of good size. Panes of
window glass may bo laid over the
toj) of the boxes, and will retain the
moisture and warm air.
Dahlia seeds are coarse, and grow
readily, and ns they grow should bo
transplanted to more roomy quarters
several times before setting in the
border. Canna seeds are very hard
shelled, and before putting into the soil
should have a little groove filed in the
shell. A three-cornered file will do,
and the white of the inside should be
barely exposed. Canna seeds may be
put into a cup and boiling water
poured over them, and left to stand
until the water cools. Many of them
will be found swollen and the shells
burst, and these should be planted in
soil at once, while such as are not,
should have boiling water again poured
over them, in order to break the shell.
Scarlet salvias make a beautiful
showing in late summer and early au
tumn, and may be started in-doors,
transplanting as they grow, and they
will thus come into bloom much earlier.
It will be difficult to raise plants sue
cessfully in rooms where gas is used
for fuel or illuminating, and even
where dry furnace heat is used 10
warm the building, the best results
canot be obtained.
For the Seamstress
For setting insertion Into lawns or
muslins, stitch the insertion onto the
goods just where it Is to stay, and then
cut the material away from under it,
leaving an edge sufficient to makp a
tiny hem under the insertion.
For hemming ti curve or round edge,
measure carefully for the width of -Jie
hem every few Indies and baste
strongly; 4f it is to be machine
stitched, do not hurry it, but slowly
and closely follow the edge. If the
hem is to be sowed by hand, the
stitches need not be very close to
gether, but care must bo taken not to
1'ft but two threads of the cloth to flu
stitch, and on the wrong side see thit
the stitch is well hidden under the
folded edge before the needle goes
through to the outside. Thus the
thread shows very little on either the
wrong or the right side, and the work
when done will look well.
A "milliner's fold" is a pretty trim
ming to finish olT with, cither as a
heading or to cover the connection
where one rufilo stands up and another
falls. Cut a bias piece one inch wide;
fold over the upper edge onto the right
side of the cloth about a quarter of an
inch, and baste. Turn the lower eilge
up toward the upper edge and turn
tills edge In again, and with a blind
xtitch, entirely underneath, sew this
lower part onto the basted upper part,
so as to hold It down. You have thus
a neat double fold showing, one a lit
tle higher than the other. This is hard
to describe, but any milliner will show
you how it is done, if you cannot suc
ceed by following the above directions.
T0v
J'jA.
For a neat closing for the collar,
sew on the boned side of the closing
three small buttons, witli three small,
corresponding loops on the other side,
making the loops on the inside edge of
the hem, so as not to extend beyond
the end of the collar. The hem of the
end thus serves as a Hap, concealing
the fastening. The cuffs may be
finished in the same way as the- zo-lnr.
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL
Fow Pooplo Know How Usoful it is in Pre
serving Hoalth and Boauty
Costs nothing To Try
Nearly everybody knows that char
coal is the safest and most efficient
disinfectant and purifier in nature,
but few realize its value when taken
into the human system for the same
cleansing purpose.
Charcoal is a remedy that the more
you take of It the better; it is not a
drug at all, but simply absorbs the
gases and impurities always present
in the stomach and intestines and car
ries them out of the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
eating onions and other odorous veg
etables, and completely neutralizes a
disagreeable breath arising from any
habit or indulgence.
Charcoal effectually clears and im
proves the complexion, it whitens the
teeth and further acts as a natural
and eminently safe cathartic.
It absorbs the injurious gases which
collect in the stomach and bowels; it
disinfects the mouth and throat from
the poison of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal in one
form or another, but probably the
best charcoal and the most for the
money is in Stuart's Charcoal Loz
enges; they are composed of the finest
powdered Willow charcoal and other
harmless antiseptics in tablet for a
or rather 'in the form of large, pleas
and tasting lozenges, the charcoal be
ing mixed with honey.
The daily use of the lozenges will
soon tell in a much improved condi
tion of the general health, better com
plexion, sweeter breath and purer
blood, and the beauty of it is, that no
possible harm can result from their
continued use, but on the contrary,
great benefit.
A Buffalo physician in speaking of
the benefits of charcoal says: "! ad
vise Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges to all
patients suffering from gas in stom
ach and bowels, and to clear the com
plexion and purify the breath, mouth
and throat; 1 also believe the liver is
greatly benefited by the daily use of
them; they cost but twenty-five cents
a"box at drug stores, and although in
some sense a patent preparation, jet
I believe I get more and better char
coal in Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges
than in any of the ordinary charcoal
tablets."
Send your name and address today
for a free trial package and see for
vourself. P. A. Stuart Co., 7G Stuart
Bldg., Marshall, Mich.