The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923, May 17, 1907, Page 11, Image 13
-f-rrrT',r'r"' T'ti'v'r - ws ir, 5-wrvrKfl w wt5jw w v' ?r'H wHpir" - i MAY 17?lBi07' The Commoner. 11 restraint continues, and- counts for much In all their relations." Success, "Be sure you have your own ap proval first and last If you resolve that you will never forfeit confidence in yourself, and that you will never take chances of your own disapproval, whatever you have or do not have, you will have a bulwark which will be your stay whether in prosperity or in adversity." Marsden. . For Girl Stenographers A girl who wishes a position as stenographer has a good chance for employment during the summer months, as there are frequent adver tisements for substitutes for regular clerks, away on a vacation. Such work must, at the best, be but tem porary, but capable' girls sometimes get steady positions In this way who have tried in vain for an opening dur ing the busy season. Being painstak ing, they made a good Impression on their temporary employer, who men tioned to some frlendthat he had a fine substitute, and this friend, need ing, or knowing soine one who did, a stenographer, was glad to give her em ployment. Another excellent chance for a girl who is sure of her speed is, to call at the office of the machine she is familiar With or in the habit of using and take an examination of her speed. If this is satisfactory, there may be immediate employment in the office, or her name will be put on the eligible list, and when applications are made for stenographers as they often, are in such effices she will be recom mended. Housekeeper. The Charcoal Iron One o.' our i carters writes of an iron, used by hi s mother, which was self hearing, and asks where one can be had now. Thfc old-fashioned charcoal iron, with removable top and hard wood handle. In the body of which1 a' fire was kindled, using charcoal as fuel, was self-heating, regulated to any desired heat by a little "damper" !n the back end. This damper was usu ally left open, and the motion in iron ing clothes created a draft, the lit tle smoke made passing out of a sort of chimney at the top of the iron. The housewives who used them and many did either bought their charcoal of the dealer, or made their own, char ing wood, and sifting the ashes from the charged coals, and keeping the coals as fuel for ironing day. To in crease the heat at any time, the iron was set in the draft, with, the damper end to the door, and soon heated up. The charcoal iron can still be had from large hardware dealers, or from the "department" or mail order stores, and will cost about $1, exclusive of freight charges. It does away with the hot fire on ironing day, and one can do good work-with it Query Box " Mrs. A. PT. See "Whitewash" inv another column. ' S. M. Rinse the calico in salt water to brighten colors. - M. S. For the ticks on the children, use camphorated oil in the day time, and at night wash with tar soap, changing clothes to sleep in. L. S. To sweeten the cellar, use plenty of whitewash on the walls, and set pans of unslacked lime about on the floor. "Subscriber" Cultivated parsnips do not become poisonous, but get tough and lose their flavor when be ginning to grow in the spring. "In" the paper is correct not "on" it Sallie G. To remove the scratches on furniture, take a gill of sperm oil and one teaspoonful of turpentine, add mix -well; apply to the scratches with n woolen cloth and lots of energy. .Fannie Don't starch your, colored clothes. Wash them in thin starch, as you would in soapsuds, rinse, and dry; they will be stiff enough, Col ored muslins should be. washed ina lather of pure-white soap and cold' water. If the color is green, add a little ammonia; if black, a little salt. M. R. To paste the oil cloth on the walls, make a paste as for paper and to each pailful of paste add a hand ful of glue, previously softened and liquified. Flow the paste on the walls as well as the cloth, and hang the cloth as you would paper. Housewife Corrosive sublimate and wood alcohol, one ounce to a half gal lon, is one of the best liquid bug de stroyers known. Use a common oil can with a long spout, inject into crev ices, spray the edges of baseboards, joints and rough places on the bed stead, and the seams and corners of the mattress. Shut up the room for a day after doing this. Have prepared only enough for use at one time, as both the sublimate and the alcohol are deadly poison, and should not be left setting about where there are careless people or children. Some Timely Recipes Strawberry Float Make a custard with 'the beaten yolks of four eggs, one pint of milk, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, a pinch of salt and half a teaspoonful of vanilla flavoring. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and drop them In large spoonfuls Into a pan of boiling milk, cook a minute, turn over carefully and cook a min ute longer. Lift out with a skimmer onto a platter or large plate. The milk may uo tnen used for the custard. Put a layer of fine, ripe, sweetened berries in the bottom of a deep glass dish; pour over It a layer of the custard, then alternate layers of berries and custard until the dish is nearly full; the custard should be very cold, so as not to combine with the berries until just before serving. Heap the whites of the eggs on top, and garnish with fine large berries. Creamed Chicken Dress and joint a young chicken as for frying; have a deep baking dish on top of the stove with bottom and sides freshly greased with lard. Roll thd pieces of chicken in flour, after salting to taste, until entirely covered with the flour; lay each piece quickly into tne not uaicmg pan, and cover with a quart of rich sweet milk that has previously been heated until just at the boiling point Cover the pan closely, and as soon ns the milk begins to boll, which should be very soon, put Into the oven, and bake slowly for half an hour or so. Remove the cover, turn the pieces of chicken, replace cover and bake until tender, which should be in another half hour. The milk will have formed a delicious jelly with the flour' and juices of the chicken. Stuffed Tomatoes Remove the stem ends of any number of tomatoes, scoop out the inside, taking care not to break the skin; then fill with the following forcemeat: One cupful of boiled rice, one cupful of finely chopped bread crumbs, tablespoonful of minced onion browned in two teaspoonfuls of but ter, and a few sprays of parsley Tor garnish. Serve with pork chops. , lated sugar and mix it well with three-fourths pound of butter by nib bing; then break nine eggs into a sep arate dish and beat (yolks and white) until a stiff froth; then slowly stir to gether eggs,, butter and sugar, adding one pound of flour, beating slowly. Beat all together until light, and bake one and one-half hours in a slow oven. Take time to beat well. Irish Potato Salad One quart of cold-boiled potatoes, one pint of chopped onions, four hard-boiled eggs; chop all together, mix well, add vine gar, salt, popper and oil to taste, and stir thoroughly. Let stand hnlf an hour to blend flavors. Salad Dressing One large cupful of rich milk, one egg, tablespoonful of flour, same of sugar, teaspoonful of grouud mustard, two teaspoonfuls of butter. Place nearly all the milk in a double boiler on the stove, and rub r.p into a paste the flour, mustard and sugar with the rest of the milk: when the milk boils, add the rest of the in gredients, stirring and cooking until smooth and thick; then add, stirring slowly, vinegar, salt, pepper and oil to taste. The butter may bo omitted and the same quantity of olive oil used in its stead. Some Contributed Recipes Strawberry Shortcake Sifted flour, two and one-half cups; melted butter, three tablespoonfuls; baking powder, two level tablespoonfuls which should be .sifted with the flour, small pinch of salt, one tablespoonful of sugar mixed with one cupful of sweet milk. Mix lightly and knead as little as pos sible to make smooth. Cut the dough into four pieces, roll to fit the baking tins, spread each rolled section with butter, folding two of the buttered sides together, which will allow them to separate easily. After baking, opon find spread again with butter, fill each layer with berries sugared to taste, piling one layer on top of the-other, and cover the top layer with whipped cream, or a layer of sugared berries. If the taking powder is very strong, less may be used, making a very light dough. w Grandmother's. Pound Cake Take one pound of the fine-grained granu- "Ohicken Pie" Answering "A Subscrlbcr"--CIean and cut up a pair of tender young chickens and put them In a sauce-pan with just enough water to cover them; add a quarter of a pound of butter, and salt and pepper to taste. Cover tae vessel and let them stew until tender enough to remove the bones. Make a rich biscuit dough with one quart of flour, salt to taste, half a pound of butter and quarter pound of mm (or an lard will do), and four tea spoonfuls of baking powder sifted with tiie flour. Mix with cold milk or wa ter, lightly not too stiff, kneading just enough to make it easy to handle. Line-a deep pan with some of the dough, if an under crust is desired; if not put a layer of the boned chicken' in the bottom of the pan, put "bits cf butter over it sprinkle well with sift ed flour, and then another layer of chicken, butter and flour until all the chicken Is in the pan. For the pie, a gill of flour and a quarter of a pound of butter is enough between layers. Have the chicken broth boiled down to one pint; pour Into the pan three gills of rich sweet cream and the pint of broth. Roll the top crust one-half inch thick and lay on the top of the chicken, crimping the edges; cut two slits in the top crust to let the steam out Bake siowiy until done, ana serve hot, cut ting into suitable sized pieces 'and dishing, serving the gravy with eacli piece. portions usod in the woll-known "government whitewash," for out side work. The' proportions "given will raako a largo amount, and it is claimed to bo as good and lasting. as paint for outside work: Take orfo half bushol of fresh, unslacked limo; pour over it enough boiling wator to baroly cover Jt; covor tho barrel to keep tho steam In; and ' whon slacked strain tho limo through a wire slovo: n.ftt tn f n peck of clean salt previously dis solved in warm water, tlireo pounds of ground rice boiled to a thin paste, and stirred in boiling hot; have pre viously dissolved one pound of clean glue by first soaking until soft in cold wator, then putting into a small kettlo and sotting inside a larger one containing wator, which is to bo kopt boiling until tho glue is dis solved. Pour this glue into tho limo wator, and add five gallons of hot water to tho mixture Stir it well, and lot stand for a few days, cover ing from dirt. Whon ready to use, it should bo put on very hot, and for this purpose should bo kopt in a ket tlo on a portable furnace. About one pint of this mixture is supposed to covor a square yard on tho outside of a house. Coloring matter may bo put in, and made any desired shade. Greon must not bo mixed with lime, as the lime destroys tho w green color, and tho color Is sup posed to affoct tho whitewash so as to make it peel and crack. Cmr tains Window curtains are to soften, not exclude tho light, and should bo made of materials which will best servo such purpose. Casement net, fish not, swiss muslin, bobbinot, scrim, madras, chintz, cretonne, tho new soft sateens, raw silk are all used. Bobbinot, edged with a good quality of lace, and a band of inser tion, lasts well, and looks well; dot ted Swiss may be ruffled, or foft plain with a suitable hem; will wash and wear well, and Is cool and In viting. To off-set shrinking when launaerea, tne nom may bo turned soveral times and hand-sewed, or several tucks, hand-sowed, may be run near tho bottom, After washing, the surplus material may be loft out, and the length of the curtain un changed. Curtains should hang straight, and may be sill-length, or just escape tho floor. For a large, or double win dow, curtains sill-length may hang at each side, with a valance across tho top. Wliitewasli Get stone lime which Is fine arid Well burned and free from shale. It must be unslacked. The amount of lime must be governed by the amount of whitewash you wish to make. , A piece as big as a man's doubled fists will make a pailful of whitewash. Put your jime in a pan, tun, or whatever is suitable for the amount and pour ori enough boiling water to barely cover it, and leave until It has broken to .pieces, after which slowly add enough water to make It like very thick cream, stirring until smooth. Take out enough of tills lime into your bucket to make what you wish to use, and thin it down with water to the proper consistency adding a double handful of common salt to each pailful of whitewash, which prevents It from peeling off and adds to its brightness. Do not put the white wash on too thick as this is one cause of its peeling off. For in side work, where the plaster has a smooth finish, for each pailof white wash use a large teaspoonful of vetf etlan rqd, powdered finely and well mixed with the whitewash. This will give a nice rose-tint Other colors- may bo used. No. 2 This is said to, be the pro- FIT THE GROCER , , Wife Made the Suggestion A grocer has excellent opportunity to know tho effects of special fooda on his customers. A Cleveland gro cer has -a long list of customers that have been helped in health by leav ing off coffee and using Postum Food Coffee. He says, regarding his own exper ience: "Two years ago I had been drinking coffee and must say that I was almost wrecked in my nerves. "Particularly in tho morning I was so irritable and upset that I could hardly wait until tho cnrrna was served, and then I had no ap petite for breakfast and did not feel like attending to my store duties. "One day my wile suggested that Inasmuch as I was selling so much Postum there must bo some meritin it and .suggested that we try it. ' I took home a package and she pre pared It according to directions. Tire result was a very happy one. My nervousness gradually disappeared and today I am all right. I would advise everyone affected in any way with nervousness or" stomach troubles, to leave off coffee and hro Tostum Food Coffee." "There',s a iteason."- Read, "The Road to Well ville," in ikgs. fMMiAlLr Vn.-.-MHHiufai' H AV ttoiUj (fh'CA'J'l . .Ji. j. JU.l'-Jlttl''!-"tt''