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The Commoner.
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vegetables and stand away to cool.
Just before serving add a very littlo
whipped cream. Mrs. S. C, Tenn.
Baked Sweet Corn Take one
quart of grated corn and one cupful
of rich milk; mix well and thin with
more milk, if necessary; add a good
Bized lump of butter and season with
salt and pepper; a well-boaten egg
may be added. Pour into a buttered
pudding pan and bake slowly.
Edna D.
Escalloped Potatoes Place in a
dish a layer of thinly sliced raw po
tatoes, then a layer of onions cut up
line; sprinkle with pepper and salt,
a little flour and small bits of butter.
Repeat until the dish is full, omit
ting flour after first layer. Add
sweet cream or rich milk to nearly
cover, then steam, or bake slowly in
oven until done. Fine. Mrs. C. J.
Taggart, Mo.
Contributed Recipes
Chutney Sauce Take seven largo
apples, seven tomatoes, threo onions,
sixJ ounces of seedless raisins, ono
dessert spoonful of salt, the same
quantity of ground ginger, qne
eighth spoonful of red pepper, ono
dessert spoonful of anchovy essence,
ono tablespoonful of salad oil and
one-half pint of vinegar. Peel and
chop tho apples, and onions; pick
off all the little stems from the
raisins and cut each one in two;
place all tho ingredients except the
vinegar ,in a mortar and pound well
together. Boil the vinegar and let
it cool, then add gradually and slow
ly to the pounded mass. Stir well
and mix thoroughly, and when well
blended, put into small, wide
mouthed bottles . and cork down
closely. This Indian relish is for
cold meats.
Tomato Soy Use one peck of to-
..matoes and twelve good sized onions,
sliced and chopped; two quarts of
vinegar, one quart of brown sugar,
two tablespoonfuls each of salt,
ground mustard, and white pepper,
and one tablespoonful each of all
spice and cloves. Mix all together
and cook until tender, stirring to
keep from burning. C. L.
Sweet Spiced Cucumber Pickles
Select tiny green cucumbers and pour
over them a strong brine, heated to
boiling; when the brine has become
cold, heat it again and pour over the
cucumbers; let cool a second time,
then drain and throw the brine
away, washing the pickles in clear
cold water. Dry them and pack In a
jar. Make a syrup of one quart of
vinegar .and eight cups of brown
sugar. Put in mixed whole spices
to taste, using a tablespoonful to
each two-quart Jar. Heat vinegar
and spices to boiling point and pour
over the pickles. Let stand twenty
four hours, then pour off and re
heat and pour over the pickles again.
Put two or three small red peppers
In the top of each Jar; if tho syrup
seems thin, , pour off a third time
and thicken by heating. Lizette L.,
.Missouri.
hausted, sho will wrlU letters or
figuro up her accounts, and will
stoutly maintain that reading or
writing rests her! Woman's hos
pitals flourish because women know
nothing of the real work of resting.
And then, to crown everything, she
will worry, worry, worry; worry and
hurry are the woman's worst foes,
yet sho hugs them to her bosom with
spartan-liko courage.
Another mistake women make is
to cry. And that Is Just what they
do, every time they get nervous, or
out of heart. Tears do not always
bring a sense of relief, but they gen
erally do, and women, old and young,
tho world over, like to indulge in a
good cry. Tho strongest of us do
it; but it is one of tho greatest de
stroyers of beauty that can be found.
Tho emotions always bring out tho
ugly lines, droop the corners of tho
mouth and ruin the tissues about tho
eyes. Ono should seek to control
the emotions',- and give up tho habit
of tears. Take a nerve tonic, and
seek lively society; if you can not
get the society of healthy, cheerful
people, seek some congenial work,
or do anything to keep tho mind off
your own worries. Now you will ask
mo how it Is to be done, and I must
frankly tell you that I do not know
I have crying spells, too.
A Woman's Mjistakes
One of the mistakes of woman
kind is In not knowing-how to eat.
If a man is not to be fed when she
Is, sho thinks a .-cup of tea, or any
old thing Is good enough. If she
needs to save money, sho does it at
tho cost of the butcher; If she Is
busy, she will not waste time in eat
ing; If she Is unhappy sho goes with
out food. A man eats, If the brok
er's man Is at the door; or If his
work drives, or if tho undertaker is
In the house. And ho Is right. A
woman makes the further mistake of
ordering ico cream for her lunch;
he man orders roast beef. Then sho
floes not know how to rest; if she
is tired enough to sit down, sho
jjnends clothes, darns stockings,
chochets. or knits: If tired enough
lo lie down, sho readB. If sho Is ex-
For tho Toilet
White hair should never be washed
with green or yellow soap, as such
soap yellows it: use a nuro castile
soap that has been reduced to a Jelly
in soft water. Soap should not be
rubbed on tho hair, as it is hard to
entirely remove; tho suds only
should be used. The hair should be
rinsed through two or three waters,
in order to remove every particle of
soap suds. A few drops of bluing
in. tho last rinse water is advised.
Dry with soft, wann towels, in tho
sunshine if possible. Let get thor
oughly dry before putting up.
One of the best hair tonics, which
is in no sense a dye or stain, Itf made
in this wise: One pint of best bay
rum, twenty grains of quinine, and
two scant tablespoonfuls of common
table salt; apply twice dally, to
scalp, rubbing it In well. These
tonics are not for hair dressings, but
aTe Intended for application to tho
scalp, and the renewed tono of the
roots of tho hair will send out a bet
ter growth.
Where the salt does not agree with
the scalp or hair, try this: One
quart of bay rum, ono ounce each
of castor oil and tincture of canthar
ides. Half the quantity may be
made. If the hair Is oily, us only
half the amount of oil. Apply to
the scalp with massage night and
morning.
Another tonic is as follows: Bay
rum. ten ounces: resorcin. twenty
grains; cantharides, three drams;
massage tne scalp with the finger
tips for ten minutes, every day, and
apply tne tonic every other day.
Keep the hair and scalp clean by
shampooing every threo weeks.
One of the very best freckle re
movers Is a wash made of butter
milk allowed to sour not rotten
sour, but acid enough to drink nice
ly. Tho drinking of buttermilk Is
excellent for the liver, but buttermilk
is very hard to get away-from the
farm. The so-called buttermilk re
tailed from the dairy depots in
cities is rarely anything but tho
soured leavings of tho sweet milk,
and never to be recognized as the
"simon-pure" article.
Into a boiler a largo armful of tim
othy hay onough to half-flll tho
boiler; pour over this boiling soft
water onough to cover tho hay woll,
and boll until tho water is a dark
green. Strain this, and turn into tho
"hay tea" tho starch, mixing It woll.
A quart of thick starch Is about tho
right proportion; wash tho dross
through this starch water, rubbing
out all spots, just as you would with
soap suds. When cloan, put into a
ciear rinse water, and wash woll to
romovo all colored starch watorr
using two waters. if necessary. Hang
In tho shade to dry. When perfectly
dry, damp tho garment quite damp,
roll up until ready to Iron; iron on
tho wrong side with quite a hot iron,
ironing until perfectly dry.
For delicate colored fabrics, use
tho starch with clear water, as the
starch will remove dirt nw well as
soap, and thero will bo no faded gar
ments. If the garment is a "solid"
blue, make the rinse water quite
blue some use a "cotton goods
dye," sold for ten cents per package.
Fop pink, or red, take a pieco of turkey-red
calico of the "warranted to
fado" quality, and boil out tho color,
then test with a bit of tho material,
and when of the right shade, rinse
tho garment out of this "dye' wa
ter. Remember that colors are
brightest while the eoods are wot.
In drying and ironing, they becomo
fainter.
Dirty, or stained goods should
never bo put into hot clear water,
as this is apt to set the color; hot
soap suds expands the fibre of the
goods, while the alkali softens the
dirt, and facilitates Its removal. A
handful of borax In the rinse water
whitens the clothes.
Folding a Skirt
To fold a dress skirt properly for
packing, to avoid the crease down
the front, fasten the skirt band and
pin tho back to the middle of the
band in front; lay tho skirt on a
table or other flat surface, right side
out with the front breadth down:
smooth out all the creases and lay
folds flat; then begin at tho outer
edges and roll each toward the center
hack until the two rolls meet. In
this way tho hang of tho skirt is not
injured, there are no wrinkles and
the front breadth is smooth and flat.
If the skirt is too long for the trunk,
fold it over near the top and place
a roll of tissue paper under the -fold.
IT IS COLBY'S NEXT MOVE
Tho other day Secretary Cobuni
got a lottor from II. R. Colby of
Waterloo, Iowa, editor of Kimball's
Dairy Fariuor. Colby has Just made
a trip through Kansas, and sought to
navo a littlo good naturod fun with
tho Kansas secretary, for the two are
groat friends. So ho wrote:
"It is bo dry in Kansas that the
Ashes aro sticking their hoads down
into tho bottom of tho streams in tho
hopo of finding some moisturo and
tho people aro pulling them up like
radishes."
When they try that kind of Jokes
on Secretary Coburn they got an
other chanco to movo, as Coburn's
reply will testify:
"Tho story is in pan true, except
as to tho pulling up the fish Iiko rad
ishes. As a matter of fact, tho fish
stick up out of tho ground flvo or
six feet. Between tho semi-weekly
showers tho sun cures them In such,
a way that they mako fenco posts
that are more durablo than cement,
and for this purposo they aro vory
popular. Except that it is ofton nec
essary in reducing their slzo to halve
or quarter them which, on account
of their hardness, requires specially
tempered and hardened saws similar
to those used for sawing granito,
their abundanco would mako them
less expensivo than tho poorest Cot
tonwood." Kansas City Journal.
HER RESPONSIBILITY
"Susannah," asked the prcachor,
when it carno her turn to answer tho
usual question in such cases, "do
you take this man to be your wedded
husband, for better or for worse "
"Jos' as he is, pahson," she Inter
rupted; "Jos' as he Is. Ef ho gits
any bettah Ah'll know do good
Lawd's gwlno to take 'im; an ef he
gits any wusser, w'y Ah'll tend to
'Im myself." Youth's Companion.
LACK OF MONEY
Was n Godsend in TIUs Case
For tho Laundry
The natural color of linen dress
goods is a grayish green, and It Is
called "brown" linen. It should be
washed In thin flour starch, using
no soap. Make the flour starch just
no vnn -would for anv laundrv nnr-
pose, and strain out all lumps. Put
Rules for Health
A clean and cheerful house makes
a happy home.
Frugality and sobriety form tho
best elixir of longevity.
Rise early, retire early, and fill the
day with work.
Cleanliness prevents rust; tho best
cared-for machines last the longest
and do the best work.
Enough sleep repairs waste and
strengthens; too much sleep softens
and enfeebles.
Cheerfulness makes love of life;
love of life is half of health. Sad
ness and discouracement hastens tho
coming of old age and feebleness.
water ana oreaa maintain life;
pure air and sunshine are indispen
sable to health.
By distractions and amusements,
the mind Is refreshed and invigorat
ed; but abuse of them leads to dis
sipation, and dissipation to vice.
To be sensibly dressed Is to give
freedom to one's movements and suf
ficient warmth to protect against sud
den changes of temperature.
If you gain your living by your In
tellect, do not allow your arms and
legs to get stiff from disuse; If you
earn your living by physical labor,
do not allow your mental powers to
eet rusty, but enlarge your mental
outlook by thought. Medical Re
view. v
It is not always that 'a lack of
money is a benefit.
"A lady, of Green Forest. Ark..
owes her health to tho fact that sho
could not pay in advance tho foo
demanded by a specialist to treat her
for stomach trouble. In telling of
her case sho says:
"I had been treated by four differ
ent physicians during 10 years of
stomach trouble. Lately I called on
another who told me ho could pot
cure me; that I had neuralgia of tho
stomach. Then I went to a specialist
who told me I had catarrh of tho
stomach and said ho could cure mo
in four months but would have to
have his money down. I could not
raise tho necessary sum and in mv
extremity I was led to quit coffeo and
try Postum,,
"So I stopped coffee and gave Pos
tum a thorough trial and the results
have been magical. I now sleep well
at night, something I had not dono
for a long time; tho pain in my
stomach is gone and I am a different
woman.
"I dreaded to quit coffee because
every time I had tried to stop It I
suffered from severe headaches, so I
continued to drink It although I had
reason to believe It was injurious to
mo, and was tho cause of my stom
ach trouble and extreme nervousness.
But when I had Postum to shift to It
was different.
"To my surprise I did not miss
coffee when I began to drink Postum.
"Coffeo had been steadily and
surely killing me and I didn't fully
realize what was doing it until I quit
and changed to Postum."
Ever read tho nbovo letter? A new
ono appears frim time to time. They
aro genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.
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