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very little and open the shoulder and
undor-arm seams a very little.
Great care must be taken to get
sleeves exactly alike, as nothing is
more awkward than sleeves that set
differently and are of different
lengths. Be careful of the basting,
holding the arm-hole with the sleeve
toward you as you sew; this makes
It easier to adjust the gathers. The
top of the sleeve should be gathered
between the notches with two rows
of fine stitches.
Exterminating Water Bugs
One of the best remedies for water
bugs and cockroaches is boiling wa
ter and a strong soap powder. First
clean out all corners, cracks and
crevices; for the large cracks, use
brush, for the smaller, an old knife
blade, and for the very small ones,
a strong pin. After all dirt is re
moved, saturate every place with the
boiling water and soap powder; wash
ing soda will do instead of the pow
der, if preferred. In either case,
there would be much paint left on
the wood. A soap powder that can
be used on the hands or delicate
goods is not strong enough; use the
strongest to be had. The water must
be boiling and the powder well dis
solved. Use it plentifully. After
everything is well cleaned, scalded
and thoroughly dry, fill every corner
and crack with the strongest insect
powder to be had the Persian Is
one of the best, but it must be fresh
EDITOR BROWNE
Of the Rockford Morning Star.
"About seven years ago I ceased
drinking coffee to give your Postum
a trial.
"I had suffered acutely from vari
ous forms of Indigestion and my
stomach had become so disordered
as to repel almost every sort of sub
stantial food. My general health
was bad. At close intervals I would
suffer severe attacks which confined
me in bed for a week or more. Soon
after changing from coffee to Postum
the indigestion abated, and in a' short
time ceased entirely. I have con
tinued the daily use of your excel
lent Food Drink and assure you most
cordially that I am indebted to you
for the relief it has brought me.
"Wishing you a continued success,
I am Yours very truly,
J. Stanley Browne,
Managing Editor."
Of course, when a man's health
shows he can stand coffee without
trouble, let him drink it, but most
highly organized brain-workers simp
ly cannot.
Th9 drugs natural to the coffee
berry affect the stomaqh and other
organs and thence to the complex
nervous system, throwing it out of
balance and producing disorders in
various parts of the body. Keep up
this daily poisoning and serious
disease generally supervenes. So
when man or woman finds that coffee
is a smooth but deadly enemy and
health is of any value at all, there
Is but one road quit.
It Is easy to find out If coffee be
the cause of the troubles, for if left
off 10 days and Postum be used in
its place and the sick and diseased
conditions begin to disappear, m the
proof Is unanswerable.
Postum' is not good if made by
short boiling. It must be boiled full
15 minutes after boiling begins,
when the crisp flavor and the food
elements are brought out of the
grains and the beverage is ready to
.fnlflll its mission of palatable com
fort' and renewing the cells and nerve
centres broken down by coffee,
"There's a Reason.
Get the little book. The Road to
Wellville," m pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A
lew one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full of
Imznan interne.
and strong. If boards or mouldings
can bo removed, it is best to do so,
if the bugs are strongly intrenched
behind thorn, then they should bo
nailed back in place after the pow
der is used. The powder will prob
ably not instantly kill the bugs; but
they cannot live long where it is
plentifully used in full strength. A
powder generally loses strength after
a while, and must be renewed.
Spriuklo the powder around the
steam radiator pipes, the tub and
sink pipes, or in any crack in the
floor. This is especially necessary
to do in the kitchen. Then never
leave food of any kind uncovered, no
matter if you have no bugs, for in
spito of care, uncoverod foods will
attract them from other apartments;
a few may be brought in with the
groceries or other provisions, and
they soon establish themselves and
multiply. But the one strongest es
sential is absolute cleanliness, with
'no wet or damp corners or old wet
rags lying about. Whether water
bugs carry disease germs with them
or not, they are filthy things that
no housewife wants about her.
Cooking Figs
One of our readers asks how figs
should be cooked and preserved,
meaning the fresh figs, just from the
tree. It is claimed by those who
live where figs grow that they are
delicious eaten raw; but where one
has an abundance, they should be
preserved in some way. To candy
figs, skin figs before they get over
ripe, cut in halves, dip in hot syrup,
let dry, and repeat until well cooked.
These must be protected from flies
while drying.
' Figs may be made into jam, or
spiced, or preserved. For jam. take
figs of varying degrees of ripeness,
slip down the skin, inserting a knife
at the stem and stripping it down,
or if the figs are very ripe, use
the skins. Cut the fig into several
pieces, use half their weight in
sugar, and no water. Set them on
the rear of the stove where there is
to be a fire a long time, as it takes
long, slow cooking to bring out the
water; cook them down to the de
sired consistence. Excess of sugar
robs the fruit of its flavor; long cook
ing is imperative. Where figs can
be "cured" on the tree, they are
the best, and to protect the fruit
from birds, throw a net over the
tree.
For spiced figs, take the brown or
black figs, when ripe', but not
cracked; leave the skin on, cut a
trifle off the top, stick several cloves
into every one, put in a kettle
and shake over them half their
weight in sugar, with a small
cupful of vinegar to seven pounds
of fruit. Cinnamon sticks may be
used. Let stand, over - night to
drain water from the fruit, and add
no water to the fruit at any time.
The above recipes are furnished
by a California reader, Mrs. T.
Delaney.
"Gathering Up the Fragments"
When a tablecloth of good material
becomes too worn for further use as
a table-cloth, hold it up between you
and the light, find all the thin, worn
places,' and mark around them with
a blue pencil;, then cut the cloth
first into as large squares as the
good parts will allow, and these
larger pieces may be used as nap
kins or tray-cloths; then cut the
next larger pieces, which may serve
as squares to put under the chil
dren's plates, or to cover occasional
soiled spots; the still smaller pieces
may be used for doileys. These
pieces may be finished as desired
hem-stitched, fringed, over-cast, or
buttonhole-stitched. This lo much
bettor than to toss the material into
the rag-bag, and will help out on
manv occasions, saving the apkins
I and finer table dressings.
Talks With Commoner Readers No. 3
Haven't you felt, many times during your llfo, that when your
own Interests prompt you to do a cortaln thing, and you act on tho
suggestion, that It was tho wlso and profitable thing for you to do?
And havon't you found mnny times that it is always cnslor to
do tho things you WANT TO do than tho things you OUGHT TO do?
But haven't you also discovered that tho things you OUGHT TO DO
are Just as important, if not moro so, than tho things you WANT
TO DO?
Haven't you also felt many times, In looking over tho advertise
ments in The Commoner, that thoro is often something advertised
that you not only WANT, but something you OUGHT to have? "Now
that is just what I havo always wanted just what I have been look
ing for." Perhaps you were really in earnest about your own best
interests and wroto to the advertiser that very day to find out what
he had to offer. Or, perhaps, you wore a little caroless about tho
matter, put itpff until tomorrow, or your paper was lost or destroyed,
and4 you did not got to write at all. But you still had a longing dcop .
down in your heart that you OUGHT to havo written. You still
feel that you havo missed something by your own delay.
When you see something you want, something you Intend -to
buy oven at a f'uturo date, tho only wise, sensiblo money-saving
plan Is to put your desires into immediate action. It is just as easy
to attend to it today, and less harder on you than to carry
it on your mind for an indefinite time.
In looking over The Commoner advertisements this week, if you
find something you want or havo been looking for, why not write
at once to the advertisers? You may find that what they havo to
offer is just what you need. Incidentally you may got somo ono
idea or suggestion that will be worth dollars to you. Remember,
also, that you are dealing with reliable business men, who are able
to render valuable service to you. Your own interests should prompt
you to write today.
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' Waist 8802, cut in sizes 32, 34,
36, 38, 40 and 42 inches, bust
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measure. The entire costume re
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for the medium size.
This calls for two separate pat
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Sizes: Small, medium and large.
Requires 5 yards of 36-inch material
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WAIST PATTERN
Waist, 8586, cut in sizes 32, 34,
36, 38, 40 and 42 inches, bust
measure. Requires 3 yards of 36
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Requires "2 yards of 36-inch ma
terial for tho making.
This calls for two separate pat
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Sizes, 6, 8, 10, 12 and "14 years.
Requires 4 yards of 36-inch ma
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