The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-06-01
THE HOME.

HOW ONE WOMAN PAPERS A ROOM.
have hung paper many years and the first
thing that do is to make the size or paste.
Many use starch but use flour as 1t is very
much cheaper and is just as good; stir cup
OF flour smoothly In little water and pour in
to it four quarts of boiling water. Let it just
boil, then take off the stove and cool. Trim
the paper on the right side edge, then meas
ure the length or height of the room and
notch the figure. Cut up in lengths; one roll
usually makes, six lengths for country
houses. Then lay one strip above the other,
right side down. Paste the first strip, then
double the bottom up on the same strip and
take the top In your hands and get up as
high as you can and place the trimmed side
70 the edge where you want to begin then
up. down and stick that to the right edge.
Now take common brush broom and brush
across from right to left and the paper is on.
The next strip will be more difficult as you
times there will be air In spots to remove
these take pin and prick small hole, then
brush again.
Don'ttry to paper close to the top of the
room as the border will cover the edge. The
corners are the hardest to do we'll. always
spread paste with whitewash brush, 1t
holds paste so we'll and does not work so
quickly. A long board is also needed the
length and little wider than the paper If
possible. always do my own painting. as
It costs SO. much to hire everything done.
Prepared paint will need a little more oil,
usually, and after painting, good coat of
varnish helps wonderfully and makes clean
ing easy. The floor OF common sized room
can be painted three coats for a dollar, and
| in three days be all right for use. AS boards
IT laying paper are not always handy.
| have sometimes taken two tables aad placed
them close together and found them good
| substitute for board.-N. e. Farmer
THE sHoRTCAKR SEASON.
These are the days when strawberry
shcrtcakes are abroad in the land; and
what varied race they arel Thick and
thin, long or round, tough as we'll as short,
made with eggs and without eggs, sweetened
and unsweetened, till the name becomes
meaningless. The true shortcake Is neither
bread nor cake nor pastry, though bearing
what might be called differing likeness"
| to each. 1t is modernized form of our
| grandmothers' pandowdies.
Probably the reason that the word short
cake Is so intimately associated with the
strawberries is because that berry suffers
such loss of flavor In cooking. Americans
are so addicted to pie however. that they do
not really relish fruit without some form
Va "a nov accompanying AS anu lilo cuOILCdk6
| is satisfactory foundation for the uncooked
berries.
The dough for shortcake is not unlike
that for the old-fashioned sour cream or but
termilk biscuit Modern housekeepers
would be fortunate If they could return to
these older methods, for baking powders are
erately sour milk or cream will require one
half teaspo0nful soda, therefore, If sweet
milk be used, with the same amount of soda
must be combined twice as much or one tea
spoonful cream OF tartar. If baking powder
be used. two teaspoonfuls is the equivalent
OF one teaspoonful cream of tartar and one
half teaspOonful soda, because some starchy
substance Is used In the powder to preserve
its raising qualities. To one cupful of -four
one level teaspoonful of baking powder is
usually allowed. This and one quarter tea
spoonful salt are sifted with the -four sever
al times, to be sure they are we'll mixed, the
non-rounding tablespoonful of butter is
rubbed In and with 0ne-fourth to one-half
| cup sweet milk the whole Is mixed to soft
| dough.
Take as many cupfuls of flour, with other
ingredients in right proportion, as the size of
your family or their appetites demand.
There can no definite rule be given for the
quantity OF milk, as different brands of -four
absorb different amounts. Mix the dough
little by little, adding the milk gradually
until it becomes soft spongy mass, yet stiff
enough to separate from the sides of the mix
ing bowl.
Now toss it lightly upon a Toured board
and roll 1t over and over with broad knife
blade until well Toured.
II one pint of flour has been used divide in
two parts, and pat or rCll each to fit round
pan eight or 10 inches IN diameter. Put one
layer In the pan. spread with softened butter,
and place the other layer on top. Bake from
10 to 30 minutes.
This arrangement in layers is preferable
to the old method of tearing apart hot cake
to put the berries within the butter between
makes the layers separate easily, and the
soft inside is not as doughty and pasty as Is
the case when the hot cake is cut or torn.
Then have plenty of berries mashed and
sweetened and slightly warmed; then fill the
cakes, sprinkle with powdered sugar, or hide
under whipped cream.
The beauty of the shortcake lies in the
abundance OF berries served, and 1t Is well to
have bowl OF crushed berries to serve as
sauce.
Whipped cream is also necessary for Its
perfection, and may be spread over the top
or served separately.
Not only the strawberry, but many other
fruits, raw or cooked, may be served in the
crisp crusts of Standardization Travel
Ter.
PROPER NAMES FOR GIRLS.
1t seems that more than one hundred of
the women teachers in the Boston public
schools are officially recognized by their pet
names, such as Kitte, Bessie Mollie, Tillie,
Gertie, Tudie, Clemmie and the like. Ac-
cordingly amember Of the school BOARD has
offered resolution that hereafter only the
real names, and not the nursery appellatons,
shall be recognized.
That is good sign 1t will teach women
to have more regard for the dignity which
inheres in a name and to which it gives ex-
preston. But, unfortunately, In these days
there are women who actually were baptized
with such nicknames. Susie and Sallie were
regarded by the bad taste Of their parents as
lar prettier than the old fashioned Susan and
Satan, ana the babies received at the font
" papy names which they have felt compelled
W Near In their womanhood.
pd ane WIeIcned fashion is passing away in
tD s ana whereabouts, we are glad to learn
AiT " IL si,e Evening Transcript of that town.
fed n 10 aasnlonable now to give more digni-
neu names: and the storehouse of English ap-
wa b.. ior women is full of them, names
enda m p roa women distinguished in history and
o o,u 70 us by the best associations of
~ iiaoG Inc women's colleges of New
tsta ~ seems, are cultivating this better
saoSo. Cnougn nursery names appear fire.
| leges. Va our normal COL
Don't give a girl a pet name nv which =, g.
an lmpertlnence to call any woman who is
not nearly related to you or bonnd tn vor h.,
the closest ties OF friendship and Intimacy.