The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-11-22
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Healthful and Helpful Costumes in Favor.
A Dissertation on Breakfast.

PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR WOMEN.
Children who are learning to creep
may be improved in appearance if over
the white dress is put little colored skirt
with straps for the arms to be slipped
through; make these of the pretty pink
or blue ginghams-not the checked
goods, but plain.
A little curry powder in a chopped
pickle gives delicious flavor to it. a
tablespoonful of the powder to four
quarts of pickle is about the right guam
tity to use, unless you like TO use the
curry in place of pepper; then at least
twice this quantity should be put in.
A lovely gift for grandma is of a
shawl made thus: Choose a square of
dap d ete or of cashmere, and it may be
black or white, or a soft fawn color;
feather-stitch a narrow hem, and then
crochet border with zephyr of the same
shade. These shawls are SO soft and
light, and so much prettier than plain
square or one with fringe, that they are
really graceful
The beautiful embroidery that is put
on the corner of table spreads is to great
extent an example of loves labor lost.
The folds hide much of the work and
entirely spoil the effect, SO it is becom-
ing the fashion TO put the design be-
tween the corners. Ii the space left at
the corners looks bare or unfinished, q
diagonal or other figure of plush may be
put on.
When making soup in which roots or
herbs are used, a good way is to put the
meat in the bottom of the kettle and
place the roots or herbs on it, having
first cut them in small pieces; cover
with cold water, and then put plate
over the meat, pressing it down closely;
let this cook slowly, and when this wa
ter is almost exhausted put in the de-
sired quantity for the soup.
A very handsome design for a toilet
cushion and mats is to combine blue
silk and crimson or cardinal or wine
eolored plush or yelyet. Have the cush-
ions and mats square; across on one end
diagonally put bias strip of the velvet.
sew it firmly with blind stitches; above
this on the silk embroider spray OF
flowers; a carnation pink with buds and
leaves is suitable and effective.
The delicate table carrots now raised
by advanced gardeners are as unlike
the coarse anu common vegetable once
known as the carrot as it is possible to
be and retain any of the same charac-
teristics. These latter-day ones may be
used in many ways which add to the
excellence of dinner If boiled tender
and mashed and seasoned as YOU season
turnips they make a good entree. An
other way is to parboil them, cut in
small pieces, and brown in butter. Still
another way is to boil them and serve
with cream, as you do peas.
Robert Collyer once, when lecturing
to country audience, contrasted the
strictness of the old days and the laxity
of the precent time, and, while CON-
mending the latter, made this remark:
LET the children begin at which end OF
dinner they please. A young mother
who hung on the words of wisdom, treas
ured this particular saying, and few
days after proceeded to put it in prac-
tice, but somehow it did not seem SO
sensible at midday, and she was herself
reminded of Mr.. Browning's line that
"colors seen by candlelight are not the
same by day. but with the mild persis-
tence of her sex, she would not aban-
don the stand she had taken without a
good deal of argument. Where is the
narm in giving the child his piece of the
pie or dish of pudding first, if he pre-
fers 1t In that way?' she asked herself,
and she did not get very definite re-
ply; but when she turned, as every wife
should, to the acknowledged head of the
house, she was at once enlightened,
OF course the child would prefer the
sweet first, and appetite for the more
nourishing and substantial part OF the
meal would be diminished. This is the
reason why even cookie little while
before dinner is not conduciVeto health
After more thought the mother arrived
at the conclusion that the pretty theory
must be given up, and she instituted a
rule that never between meals should
one Of the children have anything I'M
less he or she were hungry enough to
demand bread and butter without SUI
gar.-EUening Post.