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cushion cover. After they are sewed
together, fill the cups with cotton
and run stitches of yarn across to
keep the cotton in place. Where
remnants are used, and only a small
quantity of each color, make all the
cups first, then arrange alternately
dark and, light, making the combi
nations of colors as harmonious as
possible. About three yards of yarn
make a cup, but two or three har
monious colors may be used together
if the scraps are short in lengths.
uermantown yarn and Pansy zephyr
are used single, but if there are finer
yarns, such as saxony, use it double.
The effect of this cover is somewhat
like the biscuit cushions made of silk.
If new yam, in length and har
monious colors are used, exquisite
designs can be worked out. The cups
are made in this way: Chain four
and join in a ring; chain four, and
work sixteen doubles into the ring,
and join on top of the first four
chain. .Make the doubles loose and
fluffy, and there must be sixteen, or
a number divisible by four. If it
does not cup naturally, hold in the
edge to make it. This is pretty
"pick-up" work for the piazza.
The Plcturo Post-Cards
The modern picture post-card has
become as much a necessity to the
traveler aB a wafer formerly was to a
letter-writer. Nothing can be
simpler, or a greater time-saver, or
give a better idea of the famous
places or lands through which one
passes, or show more satisfactorily
the buildings and scenes of a village
or city, than tho well executed post
cards that may be bought anywhere
for from five cents each to ten cents
a dozen, and only requires a stamp
and an address. Nothing gives more
pleasure for the money to the stay-at-homes,
and a "picture post-card"
is always welcome, as a reminder of
the absent friend. But It should not
take tho place of tho letter.
BUSINESS WOMEN
A Lunch Fit For a King
An active and successful young
lady tells her food experience:
"Some years ago I suffered from
nervous prostration, induced by
continuous brain strain and im
proper tood, . added to a great grief.
"I was ordered to give up my
work, as there was great danger of
my mind failing me altogether. My
stomach was in bad condition (ner
vous dyspepsia, I think now) and
when Grape-Nuts food was recom
mended to me, I had no faith in it.
However, I tried it,, and soon there
was a marked improvement in my
condition.
"I had been troubled with faint
spells, and had used a stimulant to
revive me. I found that by eating
Grape-Nuts at such times I was re
lieved and Buffered no bad effects,
which was 'a great gain. As to my
other troubles nervous prostration,
dyspepsia, etc. on the Grape-Nuts
diet they soon disappeared.
"I wish especially to call the at
tention of office girls to the great
benefit I derived from the use of
Grape-Nuts as a noon luncheon. I
was thoroughly tired of cheap res
taurants and ordinary lunches, and
so made the experiment of taking a
package of Grape-nuts food with me,
and, then slipping out at noon and
getting a nickel's worth of sweet
cream to add to it.
"I found that this simple dish,
finished off with an apple, peach,
orange, or a bunch of grapes made
a lunch 'fit for a king, and one that
agreed with me perfectly.
"I throve so on my Grape-Nuts diet
that I did not have to give up my
work at all, and in the two years
have had only four lost days charged
up against mo.
"Let me add that your suggestions
in the little book, 'Road to Wellville,'
are, in my opinion, invaluable,
especially to women." Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read "The Road to Wellville" in
pkgs.
"There's a Reason."
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full of
human interest.
Query Box
Mrs. M. Every night and morn
ing sprinkle into each drain pipe in
the toilet room a tablespoonful of
chloride of lime. A can of this
should be kept in the bath room out
of the reach of the children. This
will kill injurious germs when the
pipes are flushed with boiling water.
E. L. For the tired, aching feet,
put into hot water enough to batho
them, a small handful of common
baking soda, or a' largo handful of
coarse salt. Batho the feet In this,
then drench with cold water quickly
and rub dry.
Housewife Beef gall will set tho
color in silks, woolens and cottons.
One teaspoonful of the gall is suffi
cient for one gallon of water.
Spotted goods washed in this will bo
almost like new.
Tessle To prevent black and
white calico fading, put three cup
fuls of salt into four quarts of hot
water, and as soon as the salt is dis
solved, while the water is still hot,
put in the goods and leave until it
cools.
Laundress Fof whitening laces
and linens that" havo yellowed by
long lying, make a strong suds with
carbolated soap, such as is used on
the toilet table, and put the articles
in the suds. Let them Ho for twenty-four
hours, then wash lightly,
rinse well, and they will bo found
clean and bleached.
Some Good Recipes
Fresh Fish Clean a five-pound
trout and rub it well with salt,
pepper and a little ginger. Place in
a large fish pan and barely cover it
with cold water. Add one-half cup
of vinegar, large tablespoonful of
salt, three bay leaves, a few wholo
black peppers, one lemon, sliced and
seeds removed, three carrots, one
largo sliced onion, a few pieces of
celery, including the leaves; let all
boil in the oven for half an hour,
and servo hot.
Sauce for fish Rub the yolks of
three hard-boiled eggs with a piece
of butter the size of an egg; add
three raw yolks; mix three large
spoonfuls of French mustard into one
cupful of the Btrained gravy from the
fish, and gradually add this to the
eggs and butter. Then add the juice
of a lemon and one tablespoonful of
Worcestershire sauce, two table
spoonfuls of catsup, one. pinch of red
pepper, a tablespoonful of sugar and
a little salt. Then chop together two
big dill pickles, two celery stalks, one
carrot that has been cooked with the
fish, and mix the other Ingredients.
Lay the whole fish, lifted care
fully on a platter, and completely
cover all but the head with the fol
lowing: First, a row of chopped
beets, then a row of chopped whites
of hard-boiled eggs, then a row of
chopped yolks of hard boiled eggs,
then another row of beets, then a
row of chopped carrots dotted with
beet stars. Pour sauce over the fish
and serve in portions, adding the
sauce to each portion.
Tomato sauce for fish On the fish
In the baking pan, lay one or two
tomatoes, skewering them down to
the fish with toothpicks or small
skewers, run through the tomatoes
into the fish. When the fish Is baked
done, remove to a platter, add one
half teacupful of tomato to the gravy
In tho pan, and set on tho stove to
cook; thicken with a 1 ittlo flour
stirred thin, with water, and season
with pepper and salt. Servo the
sauco with portions of tho fish.
Requested Recipes
Strawberry Shortcake Sift two
and one-half cups of Hour with two
level tablespoonfuls of baking
powder; add three tablespoonfuls of
butter, small pinch of salt, oho table
spoonful of sugar dissolved in one
cupful of sweet milk; mix as you
would biscuit dough, using only the
fingertips, and working rapidly; do
not knead any more than necessary
for rolling. Cut tho lump of dough
into four pieces, rolling each of these
to fit tho baking tins. After rolling,
spread each section with butter, fold
ing two of tho buttered sides to
gether. Put on tins and bake just
enough for tho dough to bo dono
clear through. After baking, open
tho layers and spread again with but
ter, then fill each layer with berries,
placing one layer above tho other,
and heaping the top layer with the
nicest berries. This is very tender,
and if cooked carefully, will liter
ally "melt in your mouth."
A rich shortcake For the pastry,
three cupfuls of flour with which
sift two heaping teaspoonfuls of
yeast powder, and one scant tea
spoonful of salt; one cupful of lard,
yolk of two eggs. Rub the lard and
flour thoroughly together; boat, tho
'egg' 'yolks, and add sufficient water
td them to make pasto like piecrust;
roll this out thicker than for plo
crust, and bake In threo jolly tine;
lap tho edges over about one-half
inch and crimp as for custard pio.
Make throe of these molds, prick to
prevent blisters forming, and bake in
a hot oven for ton minutes. Take
from tho oven and spread with but
ter on tho Inside. Havo two boxes
of strawberries washed and hulled
and well drained; save about a
coffeo-cupful of tho finest berries for
tho top layer; crush tho remainder,
add a small pinch of salt, and
sweeten to taste. Fill tho pastry
shells, being liberal with tho crushed
berries, but fill only as full as tho
sholls will hold without running over
when tho shells are set on top of
each other as for layer cake. For
tho top shell, make a meringue thus:
Whites of two eggs, ono cup of sugar,
a pinch of salt and whip tho whites
to a stiff froth, adding the sugar
slowly. Put this by spoonfuls into
the top shell and smooth down with
a knlfe-blado. Set the largo, fine
strawberries, one by one, on end, Into
the frosting, letting tho berries touch,
but not top each other.. Instead of
i tho meringue, a coffee cupful of thick
sweet cream, whipped and sweetened,
makes a much richer top dressing
than the egg whites. Adolo M.,
Missouri.
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