The Commoner.
MARCH 11; 1904.
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T5he Home Department
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liquid will not touch the varnish. If
the bugs are in the walls, apply wher
ever they can hide. This is reliable.
Mary B. As I am not a physician,
I cannot presume to prescribe for ail
ments. The most I can do is to give
some simple home remedies.
Louise M. I should certainly ad
vise the wash goods for every-day
wear in dresses and shirtwaists, as
one cannot be neat without being
clean, and in cities, the dresses and
waists become soiled in a very short
time; nothing gives such a feeling
of comfort as the fresh-laundned,
well-made and well-fitting apparel. In
offices and for school wear, the cor
duroys and velvets are very appro
priate, and the velvets come in many
beautiful colors and designs.
- Cako Mixtures.
To thoroughly combine cake mix
tures which contain butter, cream the
b.utter and sugar together, beat the
eggs together separately, as the rule
may require, and add to the creamed
butter and sugar with the milk. Sift
the flour and baking powder together,
then add to the other ingredients, and
lastly, having prepared the fruits,
nuts or similar ingredients, throw
into the mixture.
The more one whips the butter and
sugar, the finer the grain of cake.
Beat the cake-mixture with long, stea
dy strokes, and always in one direc
tion. To "fold" any ingredient into a
mixture means, literally, the same as
the definition for the word fold that
is, to double over, to confine in a fold,
and this is an entirely different move
ment from beating or whipping, which
are terms commonly given in rules for
cake making
When the yolks and whites of eggs
are separated, the whites are whipped
ON A RANCH
Woman Found tho Food That Fitted Her
A newspaper woman went out to a
Colorado ranch to rest and recuperate
and her experience with the food
problem is worth recounting. -
"The woman at the ranch was pre
eminently the worst housekeeper I
have eyer known, poor soul, and
poor me!
"I simply had to have food good
and plenty of it for I had broken
down from overwork and was so weak
I could not sit up over one hour at a
time. I knew I could not get well un
less I secured food I could easily di
gest and that would supply the great
est amount of nourishment.
"One day I obtained permission to
go through the pantry and see what
I could find. Among other things I
came across a package of Grape-Nuts
which I had heard of but never tried.
I read the description on the package,
ana Decame deeply interested so then
and there I got a saucer and some
cream and tried the famous food.
"It tasted delicious to me and
seemed to freshen and strengthen me
.greatly so I stipulated that Grape
Nuts and cream be provided each day
instead of other food and I literally
Jived on Grape-Nuts and cream for
two or three months.
"If you could have seen how fast I
got well it would have pleased and
surprised you. I am now perfectly
well and strong again and know ex
actly how. I got well and that was on
Grape-Nuts that furnished me a pow
erful food I could digest and make
use of. -
"It seems to me no brain worker
can afford to overlook Grape-Nuts af
ter my experience." Name giveii by
Poslum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Get the miniature book, "The Road
to Wellville," m each pkg.
stiff and added last to the mixture,
with this "folding iu ' movement;
thus tho air bubbles wilPremain in
tact, and the cako will be exceptional
ly light and palatable. In mixing
spongo cakes, and thoso mixtures
which do not contain butter, beat the
yolks of tho eggs and the sugar to
gether, add tho stiffly-beaten whites
with tho flavoring, and lastly, fold in
tho flour,. which has been sifted with
the baking powder. Household
Ledger.
The sugar most satisfactory to tho
ordinary housewife, in baking any
but the finest cakes, is the yery light
grade of brown sugar just tinged
with a yellow color; it is much pre
ferable to the granulated usually em
ployed. It creams more readily, and
makes a much finer-grained and
ijghter cake.
Candied peel, nuts, raisins or cur
rants should be dusted well with flour
and added to the cake-dough just be
fore it is poured into tha baking pans;
olherwise, they may settle to the bottom.
"Tho Weokly Wash."
Recently, in my hearing, a number
of ladies were bewailing the discom
forts of the weekly wash-day, whether
the "work was done by themselves or
by a woman hired for the purpose.
One of them, turning to me, said: "Do
you not find wash-day the hardest
day of the week?" I replied, laugh
ingly, that I do not find it particularly
hard, whereupon several pairs of as
tonished eyes were turned upon me,
and my complaining sisters asked for
the methods by which wash-day is
robbed, for me, of its terrors.
Not having any secret methods, I
was glad to enlighten them and I
hop 3 they have profited by my dis
closure. In the first place, I believe
that every wife and mother should
avail herself of all the mechanical
helps she can get about her house
work, and I further believe that it is
the duty of the husband and father to
provide those helps, so far as his
meahs will allow him to, and that his
means will allow of it oftener than he
is willing to admit, even to himself.
The first cost of household machinery
is not large, and, with care, these
machines will last well on to a life
time, if of the best quality when pur
chased. No man of whatever trade
will pretend to work without the tools
his work calls for, and no man should
ask his wife to do with less. Ma
chinery costs less than doctor's fees.
One of the prime necessities m any
household is a good washing-machine
and wringer. Of course, we take it
for granted that tho wife has a good
and satisfactory range for heating
purposes, if there is no heating at
tachment to her machine, in order that
there will be no trouble about hot
water. The matter of water and fuel
must be looked after, as no self-respecting
machine will attempt to do
the work without these. Having these
necessities, the next factor to be con
sidered is the motive power a sort of
domestic storage battery; and this
must be supplied by some one besides
the wife. Everything should be got
ten ready the previous evening; or,
better, everything should be kept in
readiness at all times. The supply of
soap, starch, borax, blueing, sal soda,
ammonia, and other laundry necessi
ties, should not be allowed to "run
out," while there should be no leaky
boilers or tubs. Clothes pins, clothes
sticks, large ladles, basket and line,
with good stout props for the line,
should all be in place, and thus the
real work of wash-day will be greatly
lessened.
"When ready to do the washing, Just
start things as early as possible;
start in time so that the gude mon
will have plenty of time to "rub out"
on the machine at least the "first
suds' which he will be glad -to do
while you are attending to the break
fast, before he goes , to his work,
whatever it may be. If the gudo mon
is bo indifferent to his own interests
as to refuso to savo you this work,
coax tho children to do it for you; if
there are no children old enough to
take tho load off of you, it will still
bo easier for you than breaking your
self in two bending over a wash
board; but I think you can get tho
gude mon to help you. Husbands aro
not a bad lot, even though they some
times don't understand, and aro gen
erally ready to "sacriflco" themselves
for the general good, if they onco see
It In this way, tho wife will havo
little to do except to superintend and
oversee, and quite a laigo wash can
bo readily got out in two or three
hours, and the wife saved that dread
ful backache and exhaustion which,
more than anything else, upsets tho
comfort of the family.
-Washing, when properly done, is
more than tho more question of rub
bing the clothes through a lot of hot,
soapy water, and can bo made really
"one of the fine arts," and I confess
to a liking to superintend tho foamy
business, myself, when somebody else
"turns the crank." Wo really enjoy
our "wash-day," which, with us, is
but a matter of a couple of hours, and
I assure you, I never havo any of
those distressing backaches which
were inseparable from tho old way.
Try the machinery sisters.
Sorrvo Requested Roclpes.
Javelle Water. Take four pounds
of sal soda, put it in a porcelain, gran
ite or brass kettle; add four quarts of
cold water, let boll until dissolved,
then add a ten-cent box of chloride ol
lime (first mashing the lumps), boll
about a minute then remove from tho
fire and let stand over night, when the
lime will have settled. Pour off the
clear liquid into jugs and bottles and
keep tightly corked. A tablespoonful
of javelle water is tho amount used
for a tub two-thirds full of water;
when ready to boil your clothes, nave
your boiler two-thirds' full of water,
and Into this put two tablespoonfuls of
javelle water.
Removing Bones From Fish. To re
move bone3 from either fresh or salt
fish, while raw, take the headless fish
in the left hand, split down the back;
with the right thumb carefully push
the meat from the flesh side of the
backbone, then gently force the thumb
between the backbone and the skin
of the fish from head to tail; now
gently pull side wise, and the ribs ad
hering to the backbone will come out
with it. All the remaining bones can
be removed by catching them between
the thumb and the sharp blade of a
knife. Salt fish will reouire freah Pil
ing first
For Sweeping Without DustMake
a warm cleansing suds of rain-water
and some good washing powder, and
have your broom perfectly clean or a
new one may be used. Dip the broom
into tho suds, being careful to shake
all the water possible out of it before
using; then take a width at a time,
sweeping with short, quick strokes,
and. whenever the broom gathers the
dirt for an inch or two on the points
of the straws (which it will very soon
do), dip it again in the water until
clean. As soon as tho water looks
soiled or black, change to fresh suds
and continue sweeping by widths un
til the carpet has all been gone over,
and the colors will look bright and
new. One such sweeping, unless tho
room is much used, will keep the car
pet looking fresh and clean for a
week.
If one cannot afford a good grade
of linoleum or oil-cloth, the next best
thing is to have the kitchen floor
smoothed, the cracks filled, and the
boards well oiled with boiled linseed
oil.
Reward of Merit.
A New Catarrh Cure Secures National
Popularity In Lew Than One Year.
Throughout a great nation of
eighty million it is a desperate strug
gle to secure even a recognition for a
now article to say nothing of achicv-
jppiPfc
tfr&iHv
gi fim'm
ing popular favor, and yet within ono
year Stuart's Catarrh Tablets, the new
catarrh cure, has met with such suc
cess that today it can be found in ev
ery drug store throughout the United
States and Canada.
To bo sure a largo amount of adver
tising was necessary in the first in
stance to bring tho remedy to tho at
tention of the public, but everyone fa
miliar with tho subject knows that
advertising alono never made any ar
ticle permanently successful. It must
havo in addition absolute, undeniable
merit, and this tho new catarrh euro
certainly possesses in a marked de
gree. Physicians, who formerly depended
upon inhalers, sprays and local washes
or ointments, now use Stuart's Catarrh
Tablets because, as one of the most
prominent stated, these tablets con
tain in pleasant, convenient form all
the really eillclent catarrh remedies,
such as red gum, blood root and sim
ilar antiseptics.
They contain no cocaine nor oniate.
and aro given to little children with
entire safety and benefit.
Dr. J. J. Reitlger, of Covington, Ky.,
says: "I suffered from catarrh in my
head and throat every fall, with stop
page of the nose and irritation in the
throat affecting my voice and often
extending to tho stomach, causing
catarrh of the stomach. I bought a
fifty-cent package of Stuart's Catarrh
Tablets at my druggist's, carried them
in my pocket and used them faithfully,
and the vay in which'thoy cleared my
head and throat was certainly re
markable. I had no catarrh last win
ter and spring and consider myself
entirely free from any catarrhal trou
ble." Mrs. Jerome Ellison, of Wheeling,
W. Va., writes: "I suffered from
catarrh nearly my whole life and last
winter my two children also suffered
from catarrhal colds and sore throat
so much they were out of school a
large portion of tno winter. My
brother who was cured of catarrhal
deafness by using Stuart's Catarrh
Tablets urged me to try them so much
that I did so and am truly thankful
for what they have done for mysolf
and my children. I always keep a
box of the tablets in tho house and at
the first appearance of a cold or 6oro
throat we nip it in the bud and ca
tarrh is no. longer a household af
fliction with us."
Full sized packages of Stuart's Ca
tarrh Tablets are sold for fifty cents
at all druggists.
Send for book on cause and cure of
catarrh mailed free. Address; F. A.
Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich.
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