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The Commoner.
aome thick cream very stiff and dry
and spread over the tops of the pies
after they are cooked and cooled.
Housework by Machinery
A motor that will run anything
from a washing machine to a coffee
mill Is now ready for the housewife's
use. It is so constructed that the
housekeeper may wheel it about to
suit her work, attaching it to the
machine to bo run by it. Attached
to the tub, the clothes are washed
with no effort on her part, turning
the wringer and guiding the article
through the rollers. It can be at
tached to the meat-grinder, coffee
mill, ice cream freezer, sewing ma
chine, mangle, and its uses are nu
merous. Electricity is another ser
vant over which the housewife is
gaining control, and it looks now as
though there will be little left for
the housekeeper to do, within a few
years, except to "oversee'' the new
servant.
A
Worth Knowing
For cleaning white shoes, a ready
made preparation can now bo had
at shoe stores; a home preparation
is as follows: French chalk will
often remove the spots if used im
mediately when tho shoes are taken
off. Art gum can be used as an
eraser to remove dirt. Pipe clay
made into a soft paste with water
and applied as a paint, left until
dry and then brushed off, will clean
spots. If you have a tree for the
shoes, fit them on the tree and wash
with a soap suds containing a table
spoonful of ammonia to each quart;
wash with a brush and rinse with
clean water, place in the sun to dry.
For white suede or kid shoes, try
gasoline.
For a furniture polish to cover
A FINE NIGHT-CAP
Tho Best Tiling In the World to go
to Bed and Sleep on.
"My wife and I find that 4 tea
spoonfuls of Grape-Nuts and a cup
of hot milk, or some cream, with it,
makes the finest night-cap in the
world," says an Alleghany, Pa., man.
"We go to sleep as soon as we
strike the bed, and slumber like
babies till rising time in the morn
ing. "It is about 3 years now since we
began to use Grape-Nuts food, and
we always have it for breakfast and
before retiring and sometimes for
lunch. I was so sick from what the
doctors called acute indigestion and
brain fag before I began to use
Grape-Nuts that I could neither eat,
sleep nor work with any comfort.
"I was afflicted at the same time
with the most intense pains, accom
panied by a racking headache and
backache, every time I tried to eat
anything. Notwithstanding an un
usual pressure from my professional
duties, I was compelled for a time
to give up my work altogether.
"Then I put myself on a diet of
Grape-Nuts and cream alone, with
an occasional cup of Postum as a
runnernup, and sometimes a little
dry toast. I assure you that In less
than a week I felt like a new man; I
had gained six pounds in weight,
could sleep well and think well.
"The good work went on, and I
was soon ready to return to business,
and have been hard at it, and enjoy
ing It ever since.
"Command mo at any time any
one enquires as to the merits of
Grape-Nuts. You will find me al
ways ready to testify." Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek Mfch.
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellvllle," jtn pkgs. "There's a
reason."
Ever read tho above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
aSieyare genuine, true, and. full of
human interest.
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scratches and give a fine polish, tako
one quart of parafflno oil, ten conts
worth of wood alcohol and ono quart
of vinegar; mix and shako well be
fore using; apply with a soft cloth,
rub in well, and polish with a clean
soft cloth.
For cleaning whito net garments,
lay on a table and sprinkle it well
over with one part salt to three parts
Hour, warmed, but not hot, in the
oven; rub it well into the net, roll
up tightly and lay away a fow days.
Then take and shako out well. If
not clean the first time, repeat.
For cleaning black crepe, sponge
it with a weak solution of ammonia
and water, then hold it loosely over
a kettle of boiling water, letting it
lie in crinkles; when thoroughly
moist hang in a breeze, but do not
heat as it is drying. It is best to
"bunch" it in a heap instead of
hanging, turning it often while dry
ing. For stretching a tight shoo, put
the shoe on tho foot and lay over
the tight part a folded towel wet in
quite hot water; repeat, and the
moistened leather will "give" to suit
tho foot.
About Foods
When wo read of people in some
other locality starving becauso of
some disaster, failure of crops, or
the like, we aTo quick to "go down
in our pockets" and rush to their aid
anything we think will relievo them.
But how few of us realize that here,
right at our doors, there are thous
ands' of people starving every day; it
may be ono of "our own," within our
family circle; it may be that we, our
selves, are of the number; but wo do
not, heed. Everywhere, among both
young and old, people are starving
for mental and social food for
companionship; for something just
beyond the reach of our failing
hands. Did you ever think of it? I
speak from experience when I say
there is nothing so cruelly hard to
bear as isolation; loneliness because
of .being, through some cause, shut
out from our kind. Mental and
spiritual foods are as necessary as
that for the body, and the lack of
it is just as disastrous, though not
so readily recognized. At this season
of the year, one should begin to plan
for social life to fill the days of
winter now so near. Now is the
time to organize clubs, and arrange
for meetings of various kinds. While
these meetings will mean much to
the elders, to the young people they
will mean more, for youth is the
developing period of life. Much of
the social crime of the day is caused
by the starvation of isolation. The
mail delivery and the telephone is all
right; but more Is needed. Pleasant
gatherings where personal magnetism
may be freely exchanged under re
spectful restraints is the right, as
well as the demand of youth.
These gatherings bring out the best
that is in one, and relieve life of
much of the monotony which breeds
discontent. Get together and stay
together; get acquainted with each
other, and with the interests of
others. Think club, talk club, and be
sure to organize the club. Then make
It your business to attend Its meet
ings and make them interesting. You
may, yourself, be one of the starving
souls.
"The Dream Woman"
Through the expression of tender
sadness that illumines all the por
traits of the martyred Lincoln, we
see the signs of an old sorrow, and
in his eyes tho shadow of an old
heartache. There was a wfld-roso
slip of a girl in a slatted blue bon
net with whom he walked tho lanes
of his home-spun days. There was
a clever, cultured woman, whose bril
liant intellect WgAted his ascending
way to the Illinois legislature. And
thero was tho bcllo of tho gay social
set at Springfield who fluttered
across his path as it lod to Washing
ton. These wero tho women ho
courted. They all loved Lincoln.
Ono he loved; ono ho tried to love;
and ono ho married. To those wo
men, tho greatest Amorican was
nearer than tho lofty flguro on a
high pedestal; they heard his heart
beat.
One of them today lies near tho
Sangamon, whore he loved her. To
the last, thero was with him tho long,
long sorrow of her loss that cast its
shadow across his heart in youth.
Ono rests peacefully in a little ceme
tery at Pleasant Ridgo. Ono lies at
his side in the great mausoleum at
Springfield, where tho state keeps her
bier and his heaped with fresh, frag
rant flowors.
Wherover Lincoln wrought and
worked and achieved, ho was always
accompanied by the haunting memo
ries of an old love. She was the
dream woman who walked always by
his side, never yielding her place in
his heart to any living woman. In
remembering this, we boo the un
touched side of tho nation's hero,
and it throws a now light on the life
of this greatest of men. Delineator.
"The Fragnicnta"
One of our readers tells mo she
has quite a shelf full of canned
fruits and vegetables by using up
the few things that aro "loft-overs,"
perhaps but enough for ono Jar at a
time. They would have been con
signed to the garbage .can, but she
has been reading the Homo depart
ment, and has absorbed some of my
economical ideas therefrom. I as
suro you, sinters, that my Idoas havo
boon gained by practical oxperionco
with a slim purse, and tho sight of
wasto In absolutely painful to my
sense of economy.
Oddi) and Ends
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Papered walln may bo cleaned
with a mop of cheese cloth strips
an inch and a half wide and eight
Inches long fastened to a light
handle. Brush tho papor twice a
month, and keep tho brush washed
clean.
To remove hot water marks and
rings made by putting hot water
jugs, etc., on pollshod trays or tables,
apply a thin paste or salad oil and
table salt; loavo It on tho mark or
ring for an hour, then polish with a
dry cloth, and tho mark will dis
appear. For cleaning any paint, use soft
wator and coal oil, stirring tho mix
ture every time you dip tho cloth
in it, and always rinsing the scrub
cloth in clean water when used, so
the oil and water will always bo
clean. If it gets dirty, throw It out
and get clean. Rub tho wood work
perfectly dry before leaving it; other
wise, it is apt to gather lint.
Club women of tho largo cities
have taken up the cause of tho wife
who wonts fourteen to sixteen hours
a day; it is claimed that if tho men
work only eight hours a day, they
will have tlmo to come homo and
help get tho supper, and otherwise
relieve the woman who has to put In
the full time to keep up tho comfort
of tho family.
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