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iwafcwiwiMw -rr NOVEMBER 12, 1909 The Commoner. glycerine and spirits of camphor, and add the Btrained juice of three lem ons; after hashing the hands at night, apply a few drops of the mix lure. "Troubled" Where personal cleanliness is observed, and the pers piration is still of bad odor, the cause inust lie in your health, or lack of it, and this must be attended to. For a local application, a few drops of ammonia in the wash, then a little alcohol, and a dusting with powdered boric acid, will help. Coolcing the Turkey When you have the turkey dressed, trussed and ready for the open, put in a large dripping pan on a rack, rub the surface with salt, and spread vi cma u paste made of one-third cupful of melted butter creamed with one-fourth cupful of flour and sea soned with a little powdered sage and white pepper. Set in a hot oven until the paste on the surface is a1 delicate brown, then gradually re duce the heat, and add to the fat in the pan two cupfuls of boiling water and one-half cupful of butter, and with this baste the surface of the turkey every fifteen minutes until it is done, which will require, for a ten pound turkey, aoout three hours cooking. Turn the turkey as it browns, until it is evenly colored all over. For the gravy, pour off six table spoonfuls of fat from the pan where the turkey was roasted, and with this brown six tablespoonfuls of flour; pour into this three cupfuls of stock in which the neck, pinions and gib lets have been cooked; cook five min utes, season with pepper and salt; strain; chop the giblets and neck meat fine and add to the gravy, or, Jf preferred, add one cupful of cooked and maahed chestnuts. - ' v -' For the Laundry To "'wash ecru linen so that it will retain its color, try this: Fill a ten- SOME HARD KNOCKS Woman Gets Rid of "Coffee Heart" , The injurious action of Coffee on the heart of many persons is well known, by physicians to be caused by caffeine. ThiB is the drug found by chemists in coffee and tea. A woman suffered a long time with severe heart trouble and finally her doctor told her she must give up coffee, as that was the principal cause of the trouble. She writes: "My heart was so weak it could not do its work properly. My hus band would sometimes have to carry me from the table, and it would seem that I would never breathe again. "The doctor told me that coffee was, causing the weakness of my heart. He said I must stop it, but it seemed I could not give it up until I was down in bed with nervous pros tration. "For eleven weeks I lay there and suffered. Finally Husband brought home some Postum and I quit coffee and started new and right. Slowly I got well. Now I do not have any headaches, nor those spells with weak heart. We know it is Postum that helped me. The doctor said the other day, 'I never thought you would be what you are.' I used to weigh 92 pounds and now. I weigh 158. "Postum has done much for me and I would not go back to coffee again for any money, for I believe it would kill me if I kept at it. Pos tum must be well boiled according to directions on pkg.f then it has a rich flavor and with cream is fine." Read "The Road to Wellville," found In pkgs. . "There's a Reason' Ever read tlio above letter? A. new ono appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and fall of human interest. quart Kettle full of good, clean, timothy hay, cover with soft water (the hay will sett In intun if wet) and boil until the water as sumes a greenish tinge. Wash the nen in this and rinBO in moro of the same, using no soap; mix the starch with a little of tho hay water also. It is also recommended that a tablespoon ful of black pepper be added to the water to set tho color. Or it may be soaked for fifteen min utes in a pailful of water to which has been added either a teaspoonful of sugar of lead or beef's gall. Or, make a couple of quarts of thick flour starch, thin by adding enough warm water to enable you to wash tho garment, wash without soap, and rinso in clear warm water. Tho lin en or cotton will bo clean, and nnnrtH no further starching. In washing fine table linen, each piece should be examined and stains removed beforo placing them in tho wash. They should not be washed with other clothes, as they can not thus be made white as wanted. Soak tho linen in tepid water for three quarters of an hour and always wring by hand, for wringer creases do not always come out, at times; then wash carefully in a good suds and put into a boiler of cold water to which noth ing but borax has been added; bring the water to a boil, put through an other suds, rinse well, and hang on the line with tho edges perfectly even. They must be ironed rather damp. Flour starch should not bo used for fine laundry, as it gives a yellow tinge to some materials. A mixture of lump and gloss starch is best. When dried, instead of damping and rolling, wrap in quite damp towels, and let lie until ready to Iron. First iron the sleeves, then the front, last ly the back and collar, and place tho waist to dry on a hanger made from a roll of newspapers tied In the middle. 9 Seasonable Recipes Pumpkin Pie Having removed the rind and seeds, cut tho pumpkin in suitable pieces and grate; put in to a bag to drain off the water; when drained, put tho pumpkin into a good sized bowl, add two well beaten eggs, one cupful of fresh milk, two table spoonfuls of molasses, ono table spoonful of rolled cracker crumbs, one teaspoonful of ground ginger, a pinch of salt, and BUgar to taste. The pumpkin is not cooked before hand. Have a nice crust, lino tho bake dishes two or three days before fill ing and baking. This Insures a well baked under crust that will not ab sorb the moisture and be soggy. Just before serving, pile fluffs of whipped cream on each piece. Sweet Potato Pudding Boil ten der and mash two pounds of sweet potatoes; while hot, stir in three fourths of a pound of butter; add six eggs beaten separately, one pound of fine granulated sugar beaten into the yolks, and the juice and grated rind of two lemons. Beat together well and bake without crust in a but tered dish. Serve either hot or cold. Some acid jelly or jam ohould be served with it. Old Fashioned Pound Cake Twelve eggs, ono pound of butter, one pound of sugar, and three fourths pound of flour. Beat the eggs, white and yolk separately, un til very light; wash all the salt from the butter, and sift the flour into it a little at a time, creaming quite smooth. Beat the yolks of the eggs with the sugar, add the whites and beat together until very light; add these to the flour, and stir well. Sea son with one teaspoonful of lemon extract. Butter the pans and bake, giving it time to rise, as you would a loaf of bread. Annies and Pork Roast Season a quantity of pork cutlets with salt' and popper; pool and core somo tart, Juicy apples, and flavor with tho grated rind and tho Julco of two lemons, and Btrow among thorn plen ty of Bugar and a grating of nutmog. Placo a layer of cutlets In tho bot tom of a baking dish, then a layer of tho proparod apples, and contlnuo alternating until tho dish is full. Cover with a rich paatc, cut In small biscuits laid close together over tho top. Bako In a slow oven until the pork and apples nro thoroughly dono. Roast DuckTo ordinary poultry dressing, add a llttlo onion. Fill the duck, and sew up tho openings, and placo In a dripping pan with one-half cupful of butter and ono cupful of boiling water for basting. Baste fre quently until tender. Thicken the gravy In tho pan with browned flour and add tho julco of a lemon. In roasting ducks, the flro must be hot enough to prevent drying thorn, and they should be thoroughly cooked, but raro In tho scnao of not being dried dono. TIMISLi' WARNING A deaf but pious English lady, vis iting a small country town in Scot land, went to church armed with an oar trumpet. Tho oMor had never Boon ono, and viowod It with suapl cion and unoaslncwi. Aftor a short consultation ono of them wont up to tho lady, Just beforo tho opening of the florviccH and, wagging his finger at her warnlngly, whlsporod, "Ono toot, and yo'ro oot." Christian Register, FIRST PRIZK Milly -"Kitty got tho prize for a dinner at our cooking class." Tilly "How proud sho must bo! What is It?" Milly "A moHt useful book: 'Firnt Aid to tho Injured.'" Catholic News. Latest Fashions for Readers of The Commoner 3025 -Ladles' Shirt Waist. A good model for pongeo or taffetas, Six sizes--32 to 42. 3018 Girls' Semi-PrinccBB Dress with or without Fash and Blceve caps. 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