The Swansea Gazette and Daily Shipping Register

To Mothers. —G We are sure you would all like to have a nice hot dinner ready for. the children they come bjuie from school, instead of giving them so much Bread and Butter and Bread and Jam, and tea. You may have beard that children aiv, not growing up as broad and strong as they vsed to do. fcjoaje people think that now they do so many lessons their brains take a great deal of the nourishment which used to go to their bcdies, and, they are wondering very much how we can get the children better fed. We fUJ know you cannot afford to spend a single penny more than you do in providing tor your little ones, and that you cannot get them Miik and Meat and Suet Puddings, which we know grow- -L ing children ought. to have. But if we tell oi something which will make them a nourish- ing and tasty dinner two or three times a week, without costing you a peony more than it does for bread, and without taking any more hreuig than it does vo boil a kettle, will you try It Y Take two loaves less a week, and spend the money in buying some lentils; they are l £ d. per lb. A pound oi lentils, cooked as we will show you, will make a good dinner for a family, and would oast l^d., while a loaf of bread costs at least B^d, isoak the lentils for 20 minutes, rinse them well, and put them in a saucepan with a little 8alt, and, if you can get it, some chopped onion. Boil these in just enough, water to cover them, until they are tender and are like minced -meat, stir M they thicken. The children wixJ enjoy this as it is, but it is nicer still with potatoes, or a little boiled nee put round it sometimes would make a change. Another day try a lentil prodding. This is Aik# pease pudding, but. It is more quickly cooked. Soak and rinse the lentils, tie them up in a cloth with a little salt, and boil well. Nothing makes nicer soup than lentils. Haif- a-pound of leauia and a few vegetables will make soup for four or five children. Another time you might try a potato pie. Prepare the lentils according to the first recipe, cover them with some inashed potato, and make brown. This is especially nice with plenty of onion, and a few scraps of bacon or meat. For Sunday's dinner get a few "pieces" iron- the butcher's, cook some lentils (first recipe), add them to the meat, and bake under a crust If you can manage it, get a pennyworth of curry-powder one day it will keep a long time if it is well covered. By adding a teuspooidul to half a pound of cooked lentils, a little more onion than usual and a very little sugar, you will have a nice supper dish (with a little rice round it) for yourseii and your husband. The children might like a little curry occasionally. Try haricot beans sometimes for a change. They are very cheap, but want. more soaking and cooking than lentils; they uiake, nico soup. Peas, too, are very nourishing. It you could give the children .tolled oats over/ day, or every other day, for breakfast instead of bread, it would he much better for them they do not take so long to cook as oat- masI does, and are very cheap. It was all this ki:ad of food which made Daniel and his companions "fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the King's meat" (Dan. 1. 15). in India and other parts lentils are regarded as the best food on which to take a long journey, and they are much used abroad. They con- tain more iie&b-forming and fat-forming pro- perties than beef and mutton. Add to all this 'that there is no cheaper food to be obtained, and we think you will be to have had them brought to your notice, and will never be without some in the house. Tell your neigh- bours about them. A few more hints Do not give the children cheap jam and cheap pkklea with their bread; good margarine and dripping (which you can buy at the butcheeii) are the right things to get if yon cannot afford baiter.. Skim milk is much better than no milk at ail, as even without the cream it haa things in it ■■ f.'iirvt) require, hut whatever milk yoo use don't forget to boil it. Consumption, scarlet, fever and diphtheria are less likely <o attack families where the milk is boiled. Rp member that boiled rice alone i6 not a snfti- ciently nourishing dinner for children in a cold climate, and thai bread and butter and tea ill no dinner at all for YOU. Do not take tea more than twice a day, and never after it has stood more than five minutes or so, M.B

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HINTS FOR THE HQM*. THE CURE OF ANAEMIA. Pth- factor in the prodwofcion of » Mfrilp 0 6e ordinary cases of anseraia is wxmewftw xMy aoostipa+ion, says a doctor in the POOW More than that, many caeee ma.IIce fSod aaawarieg. whore the only fctm ol treatraeet It fitIrd to cure constipation. St, you irmiSt dtaft* outioular attention to this matter. O&dStMMR^ 01 oaaxee, it should be possible, by at }«Mil ejection of food-stuffs, to attain the aeabaq jsprularity. Suoh articles of diet ae tfee OOMM Mmo breads and wholemeal bread, gingy Mead, stowed prunes or fig's or some other ftwffc. MMMt apples, jams, marmalade, golden 105(911* IroafilA, an extr" meal of porridge, and a 'WW* Vnied .on f*, supper 8.-ø helpful. NSjrtrt mm rooming, both for thie difficulty aad aa an atiti to the digestive organs, it is good tb sip a too faterful of water, either hot or cold. Water BMf I b» tak.:n freely between meals. Every BMWp togf, immediately after bi'oakfaat, the botA shoobd be given an opportunity to aafc. At tune ought the inclination be allowed to y» Sogarded. To write thus plainly is lorcen NfM* toe, for carelessness ol this sort^lies at fee mmA roost caeee of constipation. Should care MB Siaytl-ng fail to eradicate the fault, the best dM 0 yne is liquid extract of caaoara—either MM I ir in a mixture with glycerine—a su&oieaA M Wag taken at bedtime.

BAPir COMFORTERS. 1% fart that dummy teata are stIP feaotf fef I .,be tvorsories of the well-to-do claaaes is a ftaoc to the mothers of England, says Dr. TfiMw teth iiioan Oheaser in the World, and Via Wtfki I Shere 18 some excuse for the women of IAn working classes who are too ignorant and tIN ^ard-working to give the matter proper M» iiaferation. In thoir eyes a little dirt wul da baby no harm; the comforter is "clean enough*' & it gate a casaal "wipe" on a dirty apron; A# baby has to swallow u« proverbial peck of dict< tbey think it may as w-ell bejfin early. And • woman -who has to wash and cook ana scrub tw dx or eight children and a husband is glad 4W which will keop the baby quiet. 8mI Mich excuses cannot be found for tbe iqotbm *I a higher social grade. ?hey cannot plead %noe, because not one n fifty doctors tolerotet .pmforters • and to give a child a comforter to Keep hriisa quiet and encourage him to sleep wath. doing evil that good may oome»

HOW TO REST GEE FUIINITDBIL Fttrattu.re required to be revarakhed flbooid be well washed with strong borax-water, kt Ofdar to remove tho grease and other blemishes then wiped dry and given a. good coat o* vasaimb. Ink-atains, or other disfiguring spote, may IN vemo-ved by dipping a feethejr in a nsistiiro at ùwe}vo drops of spirits of nitro and a tablespono ftil of rainwater and applying it to th-o stpote. lb fiemovo leaser stains, and giro furnitian aot badly defaced a polish, use two tablespoon* Ma of sweet oil, a tablespoon-ful of tgrpenttog, Vld a tableapoonful of strong borax-'wate*; MB Weil, and rub il,, with a eoft flannel doth. Scratches and denta on furniture may be ow <!&3i!y erased by wetting with warm weder and wiring with a wet cloth, and applying a tw# %on until the moisture is eTapjoratoa, altn artttch a ckvth saturated with linseed oil should laid oyer the pkoee for several days beioM varnishing. Now will retain its glossy appat «aae for years without the aid of furnitwn polish if it is wiped over ove»y week wife 9 lamp window loat^jer,

SANDWIGHrES FOR AFTEPNOON TBA. To make ceeam cheese sandwiches epanat „*me slices oF beaad with /rosh oream afteem piooe a little parsley very finely, and sprinkle ¥ over the slices. Season with salt and a little pepper, join togetlic;. and servo. Orange and date sandwich "j rejiresent an at- tractive novoity for winter la-parties. In tbf instance, a cupful J dafcaa should bi shopped up as finely .S passible, and tbe stawas twnoved. Then sprinkle the strained juice of mi grange <mr1f' the date puree, and work well to- or inilt; a patf*. Spread sorae than disH of ifreah 9* eako with Devonefejre crown, and WtltdwMn two together, placing a layer of t#w dftte puroo betwG0n each. Savoury wndwiofoes filled wttfc gnted ton-jwr v«ry popular at present. Th* bread tkoaM bo battered, then cut in thin slices, ImM lfc» jug- gpjinkled with, the end of a smaked eK, tongao, grated. whil« the rest is bwiJ with the yo& of a hard-boiled egg, robbed through a sfevc. sHc«s ihanM Jms hts laid togetliv, cart evwritf, «»d anrved wlA a oearfcrft of eress. Gingerbread aamatwibhM may be preommtt be outtiag thin slices from a flat cake, lie £ *•*•%► 8027 of aiinosi waferlike («na»t-e«»y. Baeit 90H «be«ld be buttered or spi^aad thk«|y wift hm9Q# a&erBttbafy, two placed — £ poeod ti&o ucywmost—and then covered witlk » pkian dice. jSkj triple sandwiches should be poemiest geit&gr together, cut in half or quartered—da pending upon the sia* of tho 'Wikc and serve* W afternoon tea