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tgers move the laces gently up and
wn so (he soapy water runs through.
ie meshes and carries tnit the dirt;
Us soon as this water loofcs dark.
Rat lace into cleau suds and repeat
the process, until the lace looks clean
id the water is not discolored.
"Use clean, cold water to rinse them
in, and, if desired, dip the laces
through a- blue water that helps to
whiten -them. If the laces are very
old and look lifeless, put them through
.a thin starch- made rrom gum arable
jfknd water; which will give them fresh
ness.
Do not rub the nets while cleaning,
and when clean, pin It in shape on
the drying board and set in the sun
to dry and whiten as it dries. "When,
removed from the drying board, the
lace should be crisp and fresh look
ing. If the lace should look yellow
after the washing, rub it all over with
white soap after putting through the
blue water, and lay it out fiat on a
china platter, in the sun. Generally,
this treatment will bleach it out with
one trial? but if not, repeat until it
whitens.
For cleaning black lace at home,
hruBh it thoroughly with a soft whisk
to get out all the loose dust, then
dip it through ordinary drinking tea,
in which a little melted white soap
has been poured. When it is clean,
rinse through clear tea and soak in
ft a tea preparation for several hours
heforo drying. This last tea is maue
Nof one teaspoonful of gum arabic,
i me same 01 ary tea, iu wmuu uu ,
point of boiling water, letting them
cook over a slow fire into v. kind of
thin jelly, strain through a cloth and
use. Dip the lace in and out of this
preparation for several minutes, then
t put to dry, stretching out the edges
ti and figures in the pattern with pins
on a smooth surface, when dry, tne
lace should . be perfectly clean and
r freefrom all spots, crisp as new.
In order to succeed perfectly in. this
A-BUSY WOMAN
Can Do the Work of 3 or 4 If Well Fed
An energetic young woman living
just outside of N. Y. writes:
"I am at present doing all the house
work of a dairy farm, caring for 2
children, a vegetable and flower gar
den, a lanre number of fowls, besides
I; managing an extensive exchange busi
ness through the mails and pursuing
rav recular avocation as a writer tor
several newspapers and magazines
(designing fancy work for the latter)
t. anu an tne energy auu uuimy to uu
this I owe to Grape-Nuts food. -
"It was not always so. and a year
, mm -orhpn the shock of mv nursing
r, baby's death utterly prostrated me
land deranged my stomach and nerves
?o that I could not assimilate as mucn
jis n mouthful of solid food, and was
fn even worse condition mentally, he
: would have been a "rash propnet wno
would have predicted that it ever
v would be so.
"Prior to this great grief I had
t suffered for years with impaired
digestion, insomnia, agonizing cramps.
in the stomach, pain in tne suie, con
stipation, and other bowel derange
ments, all these were familiar to my
daily life. Medicines gave me no re
lief nothing did. until a few months
; ago, at a friend's suggestion, I be-
f. gan to use ijrape-xuis iuuu, uuu auu-
sequently gave up coffee entirely and
I adopted Postum Food coiiee at an
my meals.
"Today 1. am free from all tne
troubles I Jiave enumerated. My
i digestion is simply perfect, I asslm-
f ilate my food without tne least uis-
tress, enjoy sweet, restful sleep, and
.have a buoyant feeimg ot pleasure m
mv vnrlnri rhiHos. Tn fact. I am a
piew wpmanfi,entirely made over, and
f I repeat, I owe it all to Grape-Nuts
Band Postunr- Coffee." Name given by
f Postum Co., Rattle Creek, jUicn.
iTiiere's a reason. Keati tne uuie
ft "The Road to Well vine, m
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work, one will
p'erienau. Ex.
do better through
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' Rugs and Carpets
Red carpets, while pretty for cer
tain bright" effects, are diflioult ' to
keep looking well because 'gf , their
readiness to show tsvery' speck 'of
lint or' other' light 'deposit. Pretty
patterns, with delicate designs on
solid ground show soil much sooner
than a mixed design, and one snould
choose colors that will give a bright,
clean effect to the room hi' which they
are to serve,
Short lengths of carpets may often
be had quite 'cheaply at the large
caVpet house's, as in heavy consign
ments there are often a few yards
slightly damaged on outside of roll,
or sometimes only an insignificant
flaw in the weave, or a soiled spot,
or broken thread which renders the
length unsaleable, yet can be readily
overcome by a little cleaning, or darn
ing, and thus serve for rugs. Three
ply ingrains are gdod, but Will not
lie in place as well as the heavier
Brussels.
Affairs of the Garden '
In the-work of transplanting, or
setting out of plants, planting seeds,
etc., one must do more or less hand
ling of the soil, and the hands will
become rough and grimy and hard
to get clean by ordinary means. Be
fore washing, one should rub into
the hand thoroughly some kind of
grease lard will do; let it. stay 6n
the hands, rubbing them as in soap
suds, for a few minutes, then wash
them in soft warm soap suds, and
dry with corn meal. It pays to use
good, vegetable oil soap on the Tiands,
at all times, but particularly when
one is out in tile open at work.
Gloves, or mittens for garden work
may be made of any soft, thick "cloth;
or an old pair of cotton (not woolen)
socks or stockings may be put into
shape- for the- work. At many of the
city and village stores', gloves made
of drilling or canton flannel can be
had for from five to ten cents the pair,,
and, at this price, it is cheaper to
buy than to make. But if one has
more time than money, onertfali may
be bought,, ripped apart tor a pattern,
and others may thus be made as
wanted. They wear well, and save!
the hands very much.
Do not forget to transplant your let
tuce. If allowed to grow up in the
bod where it is sown, it does not
make nice heads; but if set out In
rows "so it can be "cultivated, the
tiny plants being gix to ten Indies
apart, they will head up like a cab
bage, with beautifully tender inside
leaves. A good treatise on practical
gardening is a necessity to any one
who wishes to make the most of time,
labor .and land. Almost any agricul
tural paper can tell you where one
may be'obtained, ana what work is
the most practical. -"
sand and 'sawdust Well Jnto the fur,
and then beat it out nvziinight rattan
sticks. Fon.tho ermine and other llhf
furs, treat? similarly wfth . plaster 'or
Paris -and corn 'stflrgh, or prioi qoYif
rauai. -mis will rresnen and. clean,
as ,wll as tsoften.-
. Jpsie. Thanks tor Hie plan of the
flower gaiSlen. I am afraid 'the aver
age farmwifb will find it di'fiicdlt to
get the wire fencing, or the man to
look after it Pin money is not al
ways plentiful in l he farm wife's
pocket. It may help some one, how
ever, and 1 will givo it. - -
Requested Recipes
Cream Puffs. Boil together oho
cupful of water and one cupful of
flour (the flour to be stirred into the
water wliile boiling). Let cook two
minutes, remove from the stove and,
When cool enough so that you can
press your finger.into the dough with
out burning, add three eggs, One at
a time, beating them in separately.
Drop by spoonfuls in Well-buttered
gem-tins and bake twenty minutes,
or until well-browned, in a hot oven.
This will make a dozen puffs. For
the filling: One egg, three table
spoonfuls of sugar, two teaspoonfuls
of corn starch and a pinch of salt.
Beat all together, stir into a cup of
boiling milk, cook until it thickens,
remove from the stove, flavor with a
teaspoonful of any flavor liked, and
when' puffs and filling are cool, open
the puffs on top and fill as many as
you wish. H. G. D.
Oat Meal Cookies. One cup of but
ter, one cup of sugar, three eggs, four
tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, three
fourths 'teaspoonfuls of soda, half tea
spoonful of salt, spide to taste, two
cupfuls .oat meal flour and, if liked,
chopped nuts may 15e added. Drop with
a spoon on buttered tins. Bake in
moderate oven. O. L.
Query Box ;
,7. S. Prepared" rennei, can be had,
with directions for using, from your
druggist. .
H. H., and others Thanks for in
formation regarding the reliability of
the "water-glass" method of keeping
eggs.
Mother. Make .the little one's every
day dresses of brown linen or crash
the ".Holland" linen of our mothers'
time. 4-
AVJM. P. Some, one has been "jol
lying" you about the cocpanuts. They
are shipped as . they grow on the
trees.
Lonesome r-It .would be better for
you to buy a work on needlecraft and
fancy-stitches; then you can study
them at your leisure. Get it through
your book dealer.. ,
, Errata. In our issiio of April 6 in
the article on preserving eggs, the
types made me say "salipati of soda,"
Tt -should be "silicate." - . -
Prnncie. For the dark furs, rub hot
EXPLAINING EARTHQUAKES
Writing for the Omaha WorldHor
old, General B. F. Test,, well known
throughout the west, says: -
The San Francisco earthquake is
one of the : features of meteorology
affecting the earth since the creation,
Rain, snow, tornadoes, hurricanes,
cyclones, earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions are all meteorological, and
they are produced by the same cause.
It is true some earthquakes .are lo--cal.
An explosion or a passing loco
motive will jar the earth in their im
mediate vicinity, but it takes some
thing more to shake a continent. Since
the. discovery of radium it is claimed
all of the different elements are re
solvable into one, and that one is
electricity. This claim has been dem
onstrated, in part, by light and heat.
Electricity will produce both, and
both are resolvable into electricity.
Gravitation is magnetic or magnetism
and primarily magnetism is electric
ity. Gravitation attracts, so does a
magnet, and a magnet becomes an
electro-magnet when imbued with
electricity. The sunlight is magnetic;
so is the moonlight. Both Will draw
the faces of plants toward them, as
we see in the sunflower, the daisy and
other plants. An electric brush light
will exert the same power over tender
plants if placed in a conservatory at
night. Hence the sunlight and moon
light are electric or electro-magnetic,
as you will. The sun and moon ai'0
also magnets because they affect the
earth and other celestial bodies, as-r
well as the atmosphere and the tides.
The remaining members of the solar
system are magnets because they af
fect each other, as well as the sun,
moon and the earth. Through this
electric power the sun forces the
planets around it at different veloci
ties, and the planets in turn, absorb
ing this power from the sun, move
their satellites around them as well
as influencing each other, and throw
a , powerful influence, qvor comets
iy cater the solar system. Tho
WEwWMk. influenced h&p DoweV
fiirJ orTHtfctro.fliagnotf :in space,
called -by some nsrrbnomcfs the
Thrtm of God. That it ift"fuperior
to the. sun is shown nv: tlm nnie
,the cinrth always pointing ftTfiife same
tm-ecuon tiio north pole forthe 'north
wesT. and the south jwliUw tIiesoutii
east. Moving with-, different velocities
around the auu, the planets approach
and recede from each other. As they
approach each necessarily affects- the
other. This way demonstrated in flic
discovery of the planet Neptune.
When close together they are said
to be in conjunction. Those coirjunc-
nVU;? qualified in regard ?? cer
tain bodiesVenus, Mercury and the
mpon. When Venus and Mercury
pass between the earth and the sun
they aro In inferior conjunction. When
the sun passes between them and tho
earijithey are in superior conjunction.
When tho moon passes between tho
earth and the sun w say it is new
moon. When the earth passes" be
tween the moon and the sun it is
full moon. The planets whose orbits
aro farther than the earth's are in
opposition when tho earth Is between
hem and the sun. u f8 impossible
to describe the power tho sun exerts
to throw these bodies around it, but
it is mormons. Take the planet Ju
piter, it is 1,200 times larger than
the earth, yet the sun forces it to
turn itself over in less than ten hours
Don't Be Downed
Many a man, young
and old, has given way
to discouragement be
cause he thought he was
"n. good," when the
trouble was that he was
trying to do the wrong
work.
But if you are ambi
tiousintelligent, capable
of development in sales-'
manship and Want to be
your own man,- and the
wearied man of no
'Mob' then we can be
helpful to you and you
tn lis. "NTn "inh" vnn
ever had is as potential,
is as Dig lor tne tuture,
as large in what it leads
to, as a connection with
the aales department of
The Ladies' Home
Journal and The Sat
urday Evening Post.
'flfi'e commissions arc large-, as
large on new sales us on old, pay
able at once, and apply alike on
regular prize distributions of
5,000.00 a month ana" special
awards of nearly rc.o,ooo,oo in
the year.
Write and ask how.
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