Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-07
Some Little Things That Help to
Smooth the Pathway.
WHY SOME ARE NOT GOOD COOKS
A Great Achievement to Be Suo.
cessful as a Homo Maken
WHEN TO WEAR A VEIL
Written Exclusively for The Evening Sta,

used as shovel to assist In hoisting ,ooa
to be bolted. The doctor is that tam,lv,.
best friend.
IL the baby is fret:ul ana can't co "a
sleep as ii ought TO. wet a cloth in colo
water and bind around its head, covering
Its eyes II possible. Sometimes the child's
head gets hot Just as that Of a grown per-
son WILL and the cool cloth soothes II.
The rooms that we live I'm are ,nIv Tn.
backgrounds Of our lives ana they should
be unobtrusive. but always harmonious. A
room filled WITH fripperies always seems to
be the reflex Of the mind that fashioned Il.
and enc is inclined to think that the mind
is as full of vagaries as the room.
The Heart and the stomach are the Da-
mon and Pythias Of life. And when the
heaft grows weary and sick Of life, the
stomach Will be in sympathy with it; they
always console each other.
A woman who is famed for her bro,Ied
steak gives the recipe in rhyme:
Pound well your meat until the nber,
break;
Be sure that next you have to bro,I the
steak,
Good coal in plenty; nor a moment leave
But turn it over, this way, and then that.
The lean should be quite rare, not no The
fat;
Heat well the platter now. and then tb.
juice receive:
Warm your butter-place IT on your meat
Salt and pepper. turn IT over-eat"
Stingy and lazy people never make roo8
COOKS. sungy COOK Will skimp the sea-
soning, and utterly ruin the dish. add milk
or water to make more cookies or pie crust
and put just half sweetening enough in he
cranberries. OF course the things she
dishes up are unpalatable. A law COOK
i does anything on time and The steak
Is burned to a cinder, or SO rare that Won
feel like cannibal for eating IL She hollis
the eggs too long or not long enough. sbe
hurries the bread. and puts the cake in a
cold oven; she gives you cold coffee and
warm milk, in fact she manages 10 rnsLs
life burden to the whole family.
A woman told me the other day how to
clean a black silk TO make il over. Rim IN
carefully and pick out all the threads IL
the SILK is very dirty. fix a tub of soft water
anu porax for IL, but If IL is only necessarv
wa, spon sa IL, take a bowl Of soft. warm
oered oorax to quart Of water Law the
Wluths OF SIX fiat on a table-one rha, ie
perfectly clean and free from varnish--or
SCRUB your bread board and use thar Take
perfectly clean cloth and din in the hora,
water ana rub the silk with energy helnr-
careful not to rub wrinkles in IL Ruh hof6
s niues ana 90 not spare the water After
you nave cleaned all the pieces GET a ,uh
OF warm water, and catch your silk niecas
SO as to hold them smoothly, and so,Ise
them up and down in the clean water Tyhsn
ths,, '" tii,, on tne table again AMI go over
me moisture possible. II the day is brisht
put the SILK out on the grass 10 6ry \,
.' iay on pieces Of newspaper ana dry IN
me siie mouse. You will ind that If you have
been careful to rub out an tba .SrinI-1
anu ruo no new ones in, that your silk viii
De as fresh as new. II must NOT he I-or.s
:, not iron taxes the life right out CT SIX.
MI. Beecher once said: Our vouns ,,r,.
saNe tne school room to assume a r3gbt
"a "h h they know nothing-the privilege
ana honor OF making a home n arorosr
would only understand how mncb la,
anu power Is requisite: what a noble bon-
orapie thing II is to succeed or become
fewsr h as nome maker there would be
lever boarding houses. fewer miserabie
uLi us husbands, fewer wild. reckless
Ai'oreh ana fewer worthless servants"
The way to cook a potato IN 90, 81.
very best nutriment from n is 10 bska :,
a i eau IL skin and ALL Horrible? MOI a
OH OF II. Wash the potato In two waters
tbe ,,n,a. onein wei with coarse cloth;
.ne p9tatoes should all be OF one size SO as
70 pahe IN a given time. When ready 10
serve, take each one in a cloth ana nress
uII the skin bursts; this will cause the
steam TO escape. and they will be as mesly
as can be. If you have a family that bas
not been taught TO respect the meal hour
90 not attempt to serve baked pota toes he
t Sause II they stand five minutes after hav-
ing reached the done" point they are NOT
Mt to eat
The gypsies have an odd cure for rbeuma-
less IL will not hurt TO try n Thev carry
a good-sized piece OF br1mstone IN The
pocket, and warrant IL to cure the worst
cases.
IL you wear a bonnet or small hat then he
sure that you must wear a veil A hat
may be Independent OF a ven, q bonnet
The combination OF black ana rose color
toilets.
Here is a recipe which the bright woman
who gave II, said was called English
monkey for the reason, probably, that a
man would be a monkey who did not like
II. Prepare cup OF stale bread crumbs
ana soak them for ten minutes in a cup
OF cream. Put tablespoonful OF butter
IN pan and let II get hot. then stir in q
10 the bread crumbs add one egg. wen
beaten, and some salt and a dust OF cay
enne pepper. then stir the whole OF II into
y, tne melted cheese and let # all cook slow
from burning Serve IT hot on hot toast
The chatelaine bags will be worn more
this summer than ever before. They come
fastened to belts to be worn with the blouse
waists, and very handsome ones are IN the
shops, with thin, fiat hooks. that will 20
under the tight waist and fasten on the
skirt belt without making the belt bulge
out through the waist.
You know surah and summer silk bodies
wear out quickly under the arms. get shiny
long before the skirt Of the gown is ready
is to make a bolero jacket OF lace, which
and newer way is TO make bolero jacket
for the top, as usual. Get three yards Of
lace, twelve inches wide; IL should be OF a
fairly heavy pattern, and have a good edge
either pointed or scalloped will do. Take
half the quantity for the waist; adjust the
taking care that a figure comes exactly over
bottom OF the bodice. and fasten with in
visible stitches to the waist. Fasten the
scallops neatly to the waist at the top ana
arm size Let the lace come well up ever
Finish the edge Of the bodice with a fold OF
edge OF IL, so that no edging is necessary.
The lace should be plain over the hips ana
be gathered in fine plaits in the front and
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