Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, September 13, 1919, Page 12, Image 12
The Bee's Household Arts Department Color in The Home. There is craze for sunshine col ' ors in house furnishing and decpra Uon now. The drab years have passed, and with them has gone the I taste for grays and fawns. Rooms j now glow with happier tints. A firm in Omaha which guides or inter- prets much of the most beautiful and a good deal of the most extrav 1 agant schemes of interior decora t tion has been lighting up the walls ,,nd windows, the carpets and the chairt of town and country man " sions with blues, purples, and oranges, jade greens and "flame," the last perhaps the newest color for faded rooms. The Chinese atmosphere is erery where just now and brilliant colors make a fine background for lacquer. For a great country house whose ' mistress is a lover of Chinese blue, a beautiful room has been designed in blues and orange. On the walls '"will be hand-blocked Chinese , pagoda-patterned cretonne in Chinese blue, with a little Chinese yellow in the pattern and the out- side mouldings yellow. The carpet and the curtains will be of brilliant "' orange, and the furniture is to be of , ' black lacquer. There is no color , so joyous or wonderful in its sug- gestion of youth as orange, and the ' sun coming into such a room floods - it with a red-gold glow. Such a room is this, however, is only for the rich. It is 15x18, and for its walls, cur , Mains and carpet its owner will pay high. " Rooms have to be studied like Tpeople, for their adornment. Their ' height, their width, and their rela tion to the sun must be considered. ).They also have to be treated in rela--tion to those who live in them. ll'eople are playing with colors now. ,.Some tints, like amber and yellow, are very difficult. You have to lead tup to them, and often before the . "scheme is complete the designer throws it up in dispair. Brown is ,!he most difficult of all. Of every 100 people who think they want '.brown, and come to the great furn ishing houses with their color a!ettes full of every tone. 95 resign themselves to another color. Greens cre the easiest colors to live with, .v'and joyous jade greens, some shot iwith blue, others with yellow, are now to be found in the most digiti zed rooms. Greens rest tired eyes Nn a way that captious, chilly blues i;an never do. Those who cannot '.change their furnishings often favor f this kindly color. '..Stripes and plain-colored dang lings give siie and height to a room ' 'Motley cretonnes or silks draw in and make it smaller. So it is well S to go warily when dealing with the ; brilliant furnishings of today. They are as proportionately costly as 'clothing, and a mistake in handling 4bem is difficult to remedy. Carpets ; are more than three times their for mer price, "and furninshing silks, ;(wfeich must be silk right through) are three times their pre-war rates, i Cretonne is two and a half times its ;old price. But they are all far love lier and not so staid and formal in -some fabrics nor so "worried" in 'others as those of 1914. The Ger "mans, it is comforting to know, can- 'not do anything like them. They J have their scouts now making a . round of the furnishing houses in take back (to Sweden they say, but ihe buyers know better)' with a 25 per cent discount. They want to copy them, but so far no one will . knowingly sell them, an inch of rduiaui sun vi uciuiuic. Household Hints For Wriggling Infant In one mother's bathroom is an ' arrangement which would be helpful U any mother of a wriggling, rolling uifant. It is a shelf attached to the asms SATURDAY cials Spe Colorado Osage Pink Meat ' Cantaloupes (every melon guaranteed), per crate, at v $1.35 Hubbard Squash, each, 2W. 25 and 304 Extra Fancy Green or Wax Beans, per quart 104 Large can Carnation Milk, at 14 Kellogg's Cornflakes, per pkg . .HVzO Z-b. can Crisco $1.03 Spring Chickens, lb., 364 Spring Lamb Legs, lb., 26 SOMMER BROTHERS Harney 188, 28th and Farnam SU. wall by hinges and pieces of clothes line suspended from the front cor ners to hooks in the wall about three feet above the shelf. This allows the shelf to be folded up against the wall when not in use and held there by small wire hooks. The shelf con sists of a yard of canvas stretched over a frame three feet in length and two in width. The canvas sags with the weight of the child, forming a hammock from which there is little danger of falling. This shelf for dressing and undressing baby is invaluable. Sick Room Hints, forget to be kind and Don't patient. Don't allow the sheets to become wrinkled. Don't jar the bed by leaning or sitting on it. Don't allow stale flowers to re main in the room. Don't have temperature of sick rooms over 65 degrees. Don't appear anxious. Don't rattle papers. Nothing gets on ones nerves more than this. Dont' allow the patient more water in the glass than he is allowed. Readers' Recipes Send your' favorite recipes to Mt Woman's Department of The Omaha Bee. To Make Perfume. Here is a simple method to obtain perfume from your garden blooms. Follow directions carefully: First, gather the petals of the roses, violets and other blooms as soon as they are open and quite dry. Tj make certain that there is no moisture on blooms, spread them out on a tray for a few minutes. Next, take a sheet of wadding and cut circular pieces of the material so that they will fit, say a quart fruit jar. Then get a large tin dish and on the bottom put some pieces of the wadding and pour on a quan tity of Lucca oil. See that the bits of cotton wool are thoroughly soak ed with the oil. You ought thus tp prepare about 10 or 12 pieces. Be sure that the fruit jar you use has been thoroughly cleaned. Have at hand a small quantity of table salt. Sprinkle a thin Jayer of this salt on the bottom of the jar, then cover this with petals place a piece of wadding which has been soaked in Lucca oil: Then put in some salt, make another layer of petals and another piece of wadding until the jar is quite filled. Now make certain that the jar is absolutely airtight. This can be done by covering the top with a grease-proof paper. Then the jar should be put in a warm place and if practicable, where it will get plenty of sunshine. The more the sun shines on the Afttls the better chance you will hate to obtain the best of the fragrance from the flowers. The jar must be left for at least two weeks, when the cover may be removed. Then press the oil from the layers of wadding and the extract thus obtained will be found to smell like the best per fume. The scent will live a long time Snow Cake. MRS. RUSSEL PHELPS. 4 level T. (at t. salt e, sugar. 1 egg whites 2 hi t baking- powdeil t. vanilla. Vi o. milk Mix and sift the flour, salt and baking powder. -Cream the fat and then add the sugar, and mix until the fat and sugar are well blended. Add the slightly beaten egg white and mix all thoroughly. Then add a little of the sifted flour and mix; next add a little of the milk. Add the flour and the milk alternately until all of the material is used up. Grease a narrow pan and bake for 45 minutes in a moderate oven. Lamb Pie With Potato Cover. MRS. W. H. AGNEW. 1 bunch carrots M t. pepper 3 email onions ' 4 T. flour 1 small bunch white ! T. fat turnips 1 pound potatoes 1 t. salt I c. cold lamb cut In 1 egg cubes. Cut the carrots into strips and the turnips in cubes and cook in enough water to cover. When nearly done add the onions, cut in quarters, and cook until all the vegetables are ten der. Drain the vegetables and save the water. Cook the potatoes until tender and drain, and save that wa ter. Melt the fat in a frying pan and brown the meat. Put the vege tables in the bottom of a casserole and add the meat. With the fat left in the pan and the water saved from the vegetables make a brown sauce by browning the flour in the fat and then adding the water. Season and pour over the cas serole. Put the casserole in a mod erate oven for about one-half hour until the meat is heated through. Mash the potatoes and add the slightly beaten egg and mix thor oughly. Cover the top of the cas serole with the mashed potato, so as to make a complete crust, and put it back into the oven for about IS minutes more, until the potato puffs slightly and begins to brown. Serve out of the casserole. Polish Potato Cakes. MRS. A. 6 medium sized potatoes. 6 T. flour. T. BERRY. 1 t. salt, 'i t. pepper. 1 egg. Grate the raw potato on a fine grater and strain off the juice. Add the flour and seasoning and SR1HNER'S THE BEST MACARONI Jtjm tvtn en PC a S vegan 2;iirWrBB8 MACARONI Never befbfe attained in a Beverage f.UND'S Peerless Beverage "The Every-Day Soft Drink' is not to be classed as merely something good to drink. It's not the sort of a soft drink you would be satisfied to accept a sub- v stitute for. Nothing can, nothing will satisfy like Cund s. It's a beverage of distinctive quality. It - has a flavor that is strictly its own. A rich delicious goodness, the like of which you have never tasted. Made with skill ac quired through 64 years of experience in producing superior beverages. Nothing you will tike so well. Try hi You will admit we are right. By die glass or case for home use. Your dealer can supply you. The Grocers' Specialties Co. Max Olsen & Co. Wholesale Distributor ' . II (Si 03 1M B'g PEERLESS the well-beaten egg. Drop from a tablespoon into a frying pan with about six tablespoons of hot fat. Serve hot with gravy or sugar and cinnamon. Coratian Stuffed' Peppers. MRS. C. C. CLOUD. I medium green t salt peppers. H t. pepper. Hi cups rice. 3 slices bacon. 1 err- T- flour. 1 chopped onion. cup around 4 medium tomatoes, cooked meat. Cut a slice off the top of the pep pers. Remove the seeds, wash and cook for about three minutes in slightly salted water and drain. Boil the rice 20 minutes and strain. Save the water. Cut the bacon in small pieces and fry. Remove the pieces of bacon and fry the onion until slightly browned and then add the cooked rice to the bacon fat and onion. Fry all together until the rice is slightly brown. Remove from the frying pan, and add the ground meat and the seasoning and a slightly beaten egg. Stuff the peppers nearly full and stand them up in a casserole or baking dish. Add one-half cup of water or stock and the tomatoes cut up. Cover the dish and bake slowly for about an hour. Remove the cover from the dih. Strain off some of the gravy in the dish and mix with the two tablespoons of flour. Pour this over the top and let the peppers brown. Serve in the casserole. Peach Shortcake. MRS. J. A. BENDER. 1 cup flour. l-;t cup milk or 2 t. baking powder. water. i . salt. 3 T. vegetable fat. 2 t. sugar. Mix and sift all tht dry materials. Work in the fat with the finger tips or a fork and add the milk grad ually. Toss on a floured board and pat out. Put in a round tin or cut nto larige individual biscuits. Bake in a hot oven 20 minutes. When baked, split, butter and cover with the sliced sugared peaches. Allow about 'A medium peaches for each person. This recipe makes four good sized individual short cakes. The dough may be mixed in the morning and put in the ice box and baked at night. Juicy Berry Pies. I have always been troubled with the juice running out of berry pies until I discovered this simple rem edy: "Cut the corner off an en velope, cut a small piece off the point of this and insert the result ing funnel in the slit through the center of the pie, putting the large end down. The juice buBbles up into this funnel and none runs out This never-failing device might be used for any juicy pies. RUTH HORNER. Lock Box 486, Tama, la. ' Okra Fritters. MRS. C. fl. CONNOR Omaha. 1 can okra. cup of milk or 1 cup flour. water. 2 eggs, well beaten. 4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon yeast 20 drops Mcllhenny's powder. tabasco sauce. Drain the okra, mash thoroughly, add eggs, flour and seasoning; mix well and fry by spoonfuls, in , hot lard of butter. Cheese Balls. Mash one-Jialf pound cottage cheese in a bowl. Add one-half tea spoon salt, one-fourth teaspoon red pepper and one-half chopped green pepper. Make balls and serve with crackers. (Pepper may be omit ted.) Plum Chutney Stone and chop four ounces of raisins and add three ounces each of chopped onions and garlic and two ounces of crushed mustard seed. Pound these in the chopping bowl with the potato masher to a smooth mass. Place in a preserv ing kettle 14 ounces of stoned plums, add two cupfuls of vinegar, five ounces of sugar, half a tea spoonful of salt and a quarter of a teaspoonful of paprika. Cook until the fruit is very soft; mash in the syrup and gradually beat in the rai sin mixture with a teaspoonful of ground mixed spices. Fill the tiny self-sealing glass pars to overflow ing and seal as for canned fruit. Kinks in Preserving. Use good dry, not overripe fruit Use good sugar. A copper preserving pan is best, but one of agate or enamel ware is good tin spoils the color of jam. The jam should boil quickly all the time or the color will be bad. Skim the jam well and often when it begins to grow less and change color; pour a little on a plate and cool. If it is a jelly it is done. Pour jam into dry, clean jars and when cold cover with parchment pa- Let This Be Your Dessert for Sunday COCOANUT Vanilla Ice Cream, With Ceylon Grated Cocoanut Harding's Ice Cream is the best Dessert after all and it's so little trouble to get, for there's a dealer close by. Feed the Kiddies Plenty of ard IRQ Order your loaf today. Look for the little Red, White and Blue label. For it has the greatest food value per loaf, money can buy. Good, nourishing bread is essential for school children; it will keep them in prime condition physically and mentally. PETERSEN & FEGAU BAKING CO. We Always Lead in Low Prices and Quality at the Washington Market Home dressed spring chickens, per lb 32 Fresh beef tenderloin, per lb i..S7J4 Choice steer sirloin or. round steak, per lb '. .25 Choice steer rump roast, per lb ...202 Choice steer beef roast, per lb 15 and 17 Fresh beef tongues, lb. . .25 Short ribs of beef, per lb., 10 Genuine spring legs of lamb, per lb 22 Genuine spring lamb roast, Extra fancy young veal chops, per lb 202 Extra fancy young veal roast, per lb 17 Ht and 20 Veal breast with pocket for dressing, per lb. ...... 15 Pure lard, per lbv. ... .32 t Compound lard, per lb., 27 4t All brands creamery butter, per lb 59 Sugar cured picnic hams, per lb 25 Caroline milk, 2 cans for 256 Peerless laundry tablets, washes clothes without rubbing, 16 tablets to the box, per box 25 per lb 15 A Fall Line of Fruits and Vegetables at the Lowest Prices. Washington Market 1407 DOUGLAS E5K3 per or paraffine. Keep ia a cool, dry place. If two kinds of fruit be used cook the harder kind first. Don'ts for Jelly Making. Don't try to make jelly from fruits low in pectin unless pectin is added. Pectin is the substance in fruits that causes the juice to "jell." Don't use overripe fruit for jelly. Underripe fruit gives better results. Don't use too much sugar. A syrupy jelly is apt to be the result. Don't use too little sugar or boil too long after the jellying point has been reached or the jelly will be tough. Don't cook the fruit too long be fore straining the juice. A. cloudy jelly may be the outcome. Don t boil too much of the strained juice with the sugar at one time in one vessel. The juice with the sugar should be about three inches deep. Something New. In some localities it is very hard to get ice. An iceless refrigerator can be made with a cloth covered frame, placed where the breezes may reacn it and fastened so it will not blow away. This one is made of four small posts with a flat cover at the top to put the pan of water on. The sides should be covered with cotton cloth and reach to the bot tom. Have a pan of water on top on which soft rags are placed, with the eds touching the box These are used to slowly syphon the water from 4he pan to the cloth. Cooking a Dinner. FlatPush I heard that a tin dinner pail on the ground near the house at Palms, Mich., reflected the sun's rays against the house. Smoke was seen and then there was a blaze. Bensonhurst That must have been the orpin of the fireless cooker. I reckon. Yonkers Statesman. Husband "You never kiss me ex cept when you want money " Wife "Well isn't that often enough?" Tid Bits. Saving Soap. When you have a lot of pjeces of hand soap, save them, and put them in a saucepan with a little hot water.'enough to dissolve the soap, and set on the back of the stove to dissolve. ' Stir into a smooth paste nsl'tirn Jntrt a run nr nnv WinH of jorm desired, when cold, cut around the edge and tne soap will come out in a nice cake and can be used much easier than the small pieces and to much better advantage. Another use for small pieces of washing soap is the soap shakers. CgTOJ THE BEST III BREAD SKINNCR BAKING COMPANY DOUGLAS -IOAZ Skinner's the Best Macaroni and v Spaghetti Recipe Book Free Omaha $wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimnimiitiiiiM tiiiiiimuiitiifmniiinnniiiHiitmninimmmnmmninHnmmntmn t What Could Be Sweeter? 1 I 1 Can you imagine anything more wonderful than a J good, big Sunday dinner topped off with Ice Cream m , As good as its name implies. The Special for This Sunday is "MANHATTAN CUSTARD" Your Druggist Can Supply You. Fairmont Creamery Co. i L'j.iti i ! 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