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FOR WOMEN FOLKI

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FOR WOMEN FOLK I Homely Hints & Dainty Dishes. WITH PARS. INTERESTING TO THE MERE MAN. good quality of linen duck, linen crash, I and the best grades of gingham and pique j »ill stand successfully the salt air and sun. An accordion-plaited skirt may be leng. thtned by adding a yoke of the same shade to the top, or a yoke made of silk and folds of velvet ribbon. Dirty feeding-bottles should be thoroughly Tinsed in cold water before they are washed. Hot water drives the milk into the glass. If milk is kept in a large, shallow basin it will remain sweet for a longer time than if it jg kept in a deep jug. To boil the milk we give to the children renders it free from the possi- bility of causing infection. Milk is very apt I to take up any poisonous germS which may be ia the air. Haricot Puree One pint of haricot beans, one onion, one teaspoonful of salt. pepper, one pint of milk, and two quarts of water. Soak beans in cold water all night. Then put into saucepan with water, salt. and sliced onion. Let it boil gently for four hours. Then put it through a colander into a basin, stir in the milk, add pepper and salt, and pour back into saucepan to get hot. Stir while warming. When quite hot, Pour into a tureen and serve. Lambs-Sweetbreads. Place the sweetbread in a basin, and pour over enough boiling water to cover them. Let them stand for ten minutes. Take them out, and stew them in a stewpan for twenty minutes in milk, with a- pinch of salt. Then take them out and drain dry. Fry in egg and breadcrumbs. Place on a very hot dish, pour the milk into the frying-pan, and thicken and brown nicely; add pepper and salt. This makes a very nice breakfast or supper dish. Light Puddings for Invalids I Take a quarter of a pound of crumb part of wheaten bread, soak it in cold water until quite soft, then strain off the water. Beat up an egg; mix bread and egg together. Take small pudding-cloth, dip in boiling water, ring out, pour mixture into it, tie up, leaving room for mixture to swell. Put it at once into saucepan containing boiling water. Boil for twenty minutes; turn out on hot plate. Sugar and butter on pudding according to taste. Serve hot. Lamps I To ensure good light, the burners, chimneys. "and globes must be kept clean. Once in two months is not too often to clean burners that are in constant use. Put them in a saucepan of cold water,, with a handful of soda to each quart, and £ oil them for two hours, then wash in clean, hot water with soap and soda; rinse in cold water, and dry them with a soft cloth. The wicks, if clogged with oil, may be boiled in vinegar and water (a gill of vinegar to a pint of water), and dried in a cool oven. It is well to fill lamps daily, and by daylight. A nearly empty lamp is most likely to explode. Glass chimneys will take a brilliant polish if washed in warm water with a tea- spoonful of ammonia added, rinsed in cold water. and polished with a chamois or with soft tissue paper. Girls- Handling of Money I A girl can scarcely be too young to have some idea of the value of money, and a 'weekly allowance will teach her the pleasure of providing little gifts and knick-knacks out of her own pocket. At the age of fifteen or sixteen every girl should have an allowance, out of which she should buy her own gloves, stationary, and ribbons. This will teach her the use to which her pocket-money can be put. As she grows older her allowance should include money for her entire wardrobe. Such an allowance should be probationary, and should depend upon the girl's judgment a.nd care in the choosing of her clothes during the period when the first allowance is spent. She must learn to keep an account of every penny she spends. This will teach her many things in the handling of money, and she will profit by her mistakes. The Popular Guest The welcome house-guest is the girl who, if there are not many servants in the menage, has sufficient energy to take care of her own room while she is visiting. and if there are maids assigned to such duties she makes the duty as light as possible for them by putting away her own belongings and so necessitat- ing no extra work. She knows how to be pleasant to every member of the family and yet has tact enough to retire from a room when some special family affair is under discussion; she does not find children dis- agreeable or the various pets of the household things to be dreaded; she is the one who when her hostess is busy can entertain herself with a book, a bit of sewing, or the writing of a letter, and when her friends come to see her she does not disarrange the house- hold in which she is staying that she may entertain them. Don't Worry the Children I Children are often worried because their mothers are too attentive and continually reprove the small ones without reason. A child should be allowed to play or amuse itself in its own way without the constant direction of a nervous mother. A boy, for example, enjoys more a few simple toys and something which his own ingenuity has worked out than the most elaborii,to plaything that has been bought. In the same way the little girl will lavish her affections on a misshapen doll, probably made at home, while the most artistic production of the t"y shfp will lie in state, to be taken up on rare occasions. Keep children well, clothe them sensibly. let them understand they are to amuse 'themselves, and don't annoy them. If your selfish love has hitherto kept your children dependent upon you it is your duty lovingly to teach them self-reliance. A wholesome letting alone, and as much personal freedom as may be compatible with its moral development, brings the highest guod and the truest pleasure to a child.

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