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DECEMBER 17, 1909
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etove, and brush until a good polish
is obtained.
To prepate caramel sweet potatoes
boil the potatoes until tender, slice,
and dip them first In melted butter
and then Ii granulated sugar; then
put them into a hot oven and leave
until a coating of caramel is formed.
They are both delicious and nourish
ing. When a silk petticoat" has been
worn two or three times, it should
be pressed with a hot iron to pre
vent the splitting of the silk; new
creases will form each time it is
pressed, in a different place, and the
silk will thus wear much longer. Try
this on your skirts.
We should no longer allow the
kitchen to bo located in the ugliest
corner of the building; ample sun
light, plenty of windows and -convenient
doors; we should make the
kitchen the pleasantest room of the
house, as the house mother spends
How to Make a
Nice Xmas Present
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One Beautiful Sliver Plated Sugar
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SET! itTJlT. "I0'?; " carta, for
wh?nw h00k In th0 kIchen on
which to hang waste newspapers, and
when wanted, pull them off. News
papers will save a great dea? of
cleaning about tho kitchen, if used
for covers for tables, floors, and
bie,;seB'nftop whicu tAey shoVbS
burnt. They come in handy about
wnk.and for Pushing "things"
and furniture, as well as stoves.
Renovating Velvets, Etc
Now that fashion has. decreed that
we may again use velvets, hero aro
some hints on caring for it.
No matter how good a quality of
velvet is purchased, velvet will al
most invariably leave a soiled mark
on any white fabric it comes in con
tact with, and many women aro in
despair at the dirty line it leaves
across tho neck of tho white shirt
waist. To prevent this, wipe the
velvet thoroughly with a1 "soft cloth
slightly moist, then rub a rag sat
urated in pure alcohol over it. This
method, if done onco a week, will
prevent the velvet from "crocking."
While the home woman often fails
to do the work of renovating as well
as it is done by the professional, yet
uuore are many things she can do,
if careful, which will save much ex
pense. To re-dress crepe, steam over
a hot iron, as you would silk or vel
vet, pulling it in all directions; to
remove stains from crepe or grena
dine, Don a Handful of fig leaves in
ono qufetrt of water until reduced to
one pint; rub the stains with a
sponge wet in this water.
To wash silk plush caps, bands for
hats, plush coats for children, etc.,
first remove all dust by switching;
spread it on a bop.rd or block and
sponge every inch of it with warm
rainwater with ammonia a table
spoonful to the gallon in it; then
take a dry sponge and rub tho plush
until it Is perfectly dry; then brush
with a soft brush to raise tho pile.
To raise the nap of a beayor hat,
take a small switch and beat until
the fur is fully aroused. Velvet, in
steaming, should . not bo allowed to
become too wet, as this will make
it stiff.
To remove paints from silk goods,
saturate the goods with equal parts
of turpentine and ammonia; then
rub in soap suds and let dry between
blotting paper under a heavy weight.
The suds may be applied by spong
ing vith a soft cloth or clean sponge,
then rinsed with another sponging
with clear tepid water.
Testing Butter
Here is a simple test to apply by
which it is known at once whether
the butter one buys is the real ar
ticle, or only a grade of oleomarge
rine, or a mixture of tallow with a
little good butter:
Put a' lump of the article the size
of a hickorynut into a big kitchen
spoon and heat it over the flame of
a lamp turned low, or the gas jet.
As the grease melts, turn on the heat
to make it boil; stir while heating
with a skewer, or the end of a burnt
match, that it may all be well heat
ed. If it is real cow's butter, there
will be foamy bubbles all around the
edge, and no sputter; if there Is tal
low or other grease added, it will
boil with a lot of spluttering, and
there will be no bubbles. Oleomar
gerine makes no froth or bubbles at
all, and makes more noise. Often,
old, rancid butter is beaten up with
fresh milk, after being boiled and
aired, and is then worked uplnto
pats and sold aB fresh butter. Every
housewife should know how to test
the purity of food products, and one
of the most frequent frauds she
meets with is in the shape of a
mixture of all sorts of greases (made
to look, and so far as possible, to
taste like real butter. It is often
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by the namo of hnttnr ?; ' " 7.. t"?
buTter" l08S PrlC Umn Ul0' rcml cow'a
THE CHEERFUL GIVER
"No, I don't go to church very
ofton, a young man declared to the
girl whom he had accompanied to a
i.uubu ui worship m Dauphin Htreet
Sunday evening, "but when I do go
I make up for my absences by slip
plng a flvo dollar gold piece in tho
offering.
"I don't think I havo been to
church in six months, so that sort
of squares mo," ho whispered, when
he dropped a coin about tho size of
tho flvo dollar pleco In the box as
tho usher passed it.
At tho close of tho servico (ho
minister aroso and announced: "Tho
collection for foreign missions this
evening amounted to $3.2G."
The young man didn't havo much
Philadelphia Times.
walk.
A DUSTY" SPOT
A school Inspector, noted for hln
Idiosyncrasies, hnpponod to notlco
that a terrestrial trlnhn in mm nt tu
class rooms was very dusty. ThlH
unnoyou mm, and, putting hl flngor
on tho" globe, ho crlod out, "Thcro'H
dust hero an Inch thick!" "It's
thlckor than that, sir," calmly re
plied the now teacher. "What do you
mean?" asked tho Inspector sharply.
"Why," came tho antiwar, "you'vo
got your linger on tho doHert of Sa
hara." London Dally Nowo.
COItKKItS
An Irish evangelist -always ad
dressed his hearers as "dear souls,"
but ho came to grief, when, addres
sing an audience in Ireland, ho called
them "dear Cork souls." The Chris
tian Register.
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