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FOR WOMEN FOLK HOMELY HINTS AND DAINTY I DISHES. I The beet wly to clean brass chains is to ■place the articles in a. jam jar, cover them with paraffin, let them stand for five minutes, take them out, and rub with scouring soap. To clean rusty steel mix equal parta of salad oil and bath-brick and put it on the rusty steel for twenty-four hours. Then rab off with an old piece of flannel and polish with fine emery cloth. Why for ages have people eaten apple-sauce with their roast goose and sucking-pig ? Simply because the acids in the fruit assist in digesting the fats so abundant in this kind of fond. For the same reason, at the end of a heavy dinner we eat our cooked fruit, and when we want their digestive action even more developed we take them after dinner in their natural uncooked state as deesert. Cure for Corns. Take a piece of fresh lard about the siae of a walnut, and a piece of common lime about I ?he same size. Put the two together, let I 'iHevD J?rni33ii, aiKi I:i: am:in O' Scalds and Burns. I 4 v.C1 v ¡;J D' 'lIt;, Carefully remove or cat off any clcKhinz, and avoid breaking any blLrtsis. Cover tie 3LIfected part at once with flour or olive oil and lime water in equal quantities. Wrap carefully up in cotton wool to exchnie the air. Useful Hint. I Stains caused by the heat of the fire on white marble can be removed with spirits of ealts. Make a mop with a piece of old duster or flaainel, dip it in the salts and rub quickly on the marble; well rinse aaid polish in the usual manner. To Bleach Linen. I Make a strong lather with boap and hot water, and soak the linen in this for a few hours, and then hang out to dry in the sun. When the linen is dry, dip again in the suds, and repeat the processes until the linen is white. To Clean Paint. I A piece of ragr dipped in paraffin is an ex- cellent thing for cleaning paint. This should be rubbed on, and afterwards dried with a clean cloth. Paint cleaned in this manner is not so likely to be taken off as when washed with soap and water. I A Warm Quilt. I Wash, dry, and press some good piecee of old coata and trousers. Take each piece neatly into an old sheet or piece of un- bleached calico. Sew over this a. cover of pretty cretonne, and the rteult is a, nice warm &ad cheap quilt. Savoury Spanish Onions. I Peel four Spanish onions; put them in a II saucepan with a lump of butter as big as a walnut. Cook them in their own steam for several hours without removing the saucepan lid, but merely giving an occasional 4rhake to prevent burning. Season with pepper and IlaU. A Tasty Rhubarb Dish. I Fill a buttered pie-dish with cut rhubarb, and make a rich batter with one teaspoonful of baking-powder, three eggs, allowing a. tablespoonful of flour to each egg and sum- cient milk to form the nilixture into a rich cream. Pour it over the rhubarb and bake twenty minutes in a hot oven, and -erve with sagar and melted butter sauce. Lancashire 'Hot Pot. I For family use the remains of cold roast I beef make an excellent hot-pot, with the addi- tion of a little gravy which may be left oyer. 1 For a superior one fresh meat should be used, I and water instead of gravy, and an hour longer allowed in cooking. Cut up some nice- sized slices of potatoes, and pnt a layer at the bottom of the dish, then a layer of sliced onions, then a layer of beef cut into nic-s pieces. Repeat until the dish is full, then add a tablespoonful of flour, and season with pepper and salt, and a little ketchup if liked Then fta up with gravy. Pat niee large pota toes, cut in halves, on the top of the d«h. Then put on the 6tove to boil, and afterwards took two hours in the oven very, very gently. Artificial Cream. One breaifastcupful of milk, piece of but- ter the size of a nut, white of one egg. tabie- spoonful of caster sugar, one tablespoonful of cornflour. Put the milk with the butter in a lined saucepan, and let it oome just to the boiling point. Whip up the white of the eggs and the sugar, and work in the cornflour, add- ing a tablespoonful of milk at the same time. ¡ When well mixed together mix in a tittle at a time to the milk kept by the side of the I fire. Keep cn beating up with a fork until it thickens slightly. It should be about the thickness of ordinary cream. gtawod a3ide till eold, put m a glass dieh, and serve with fruit. Another recipe:One pint of milk, half- ounce of cornflour, a teaspoonful of sugar. Flavour with vanilla. Blend the cornflour with a little cold milk. Stir to it one pint of boiling milk. Cook three minutes, stirring all the time. Add the sugar and vanilla. To Arrange Room for Wedding. I The room should be draped in Japanese fashion, and any artistic furnishers would easily supply the right draperies. Strew the table with maidenhair fern, make a. lover's knot of white ribbon at each corner, a.nd put little Japanese figures in between. There are some pretty Japanese crackers which make the table resemble a miniature Japanese village. The bridemaids might be dressed ¡ as Japanese, with little Japanese fans in their hair. Coffee could be served in Japanese ware, and light refreshments need only be provided. Another plan is to place the tabta across the window and arrange chairs and coacfecs round the room. In the centre of the table put thef wedding cake, and about and around it arrange vases of flowers. For refreshments have plenty of sandwiches, fancy biscuits, fruit, sweets of every description, blanc- manges, and jellies. Pile up dessert plates at each corner of the table. On the side- board place a liberal supply of spoons, forks, and glasses. Tea and coffee should be served in another room. For decorations, clear the inantiepiem of ornaments and arramge flowers in moss.

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