Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-08

should be gratined In . measure Loaf
sugar makes very acceptable candy for
them. II you have NOT spoiled them with
or havoring OF some kind on It. Small.
plainly-made cookies with currents in them
are usually quite appetizing. and small
have nice crisp crust are much better than
the kinds that have butter and cream Ia
them.
much water when the days are blisterIns
hot. try acid drinks with the least sugar
Imaginable In them. A few drops OF line
or lemon juice squeezed I'm a glass OF water
ana Few grains Of sugar added Will often
quench thirst when nothing else will Cold
tea Is said TO be quite as good.
Corn pudding is very nice. Ten medium
sized ears should be lightly pared down
and then stripped with a dull knife into
bowl. Add three well-beaten eggs a tea
spoonful of salt. half a cup Of milk and
tablespoonful Of flour. Beat we'll Melt a
heaping tablespoonful OF sweet butter in the
pudding dish and stir in the mass. Bake
half an hour.
Touch mosquito bites with strong salt
water, drop of coal oil or ammonia and
almost surely any one Of these viii cause
the itching to cease.
Wild cultivated green grapes iust
beginning to turn. make delicious Jelly
treat exactly as you would the ripper fruit.
iou can give II an exquisite flavor by toss
Ing two OF three rose geranium leaves in
the boiling juice.
fast delicacies at this season Of the wear
crate the corn in the milk into a bowl and
use two eggs. half a cup Of milk two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder and a half cup
OF hour to cupful of the grated corn.
Fry in sweet butter or meat drippngs as
you would griddle cakes Serve crisply hot
1t is said that a liberal use OF milk, ap-
piled as one would water, will clean up ink
IL used as soon as spilled.
How many people ever ate stewed cucum-
bers? Cut them in quarters, peel and re-
move the seeds salt. boil until tender and
serve with sweet cream on toasted bread.
Obstinate discolorations caused by par,nx
potatoes or peeling apples can be removed
with vigorous rubbing of the hands with
ripe tomato.
A well-known society woman saws she
never permits herself to go in neglige IN
very warm weather. TN winter" she says
Il give myself the luxury of hubbard
wrappers, loose shoes and go without cor
sets. when 1 have time. but in the summer
l keep myself scrupulously fixed up and
1 know by experience that l do not suffer
half as much with the heat as / used to
when 1 went around in big slippers and
loosely Tapping garments, vigorously using
a big fan and painting for breath of fresh
air. You may say what you please" she
concluded emphatically. but L know that
a well-dressed man or woman is very much
better pleased with self, very much better
company for others, very much happier in
every way than one who goes around down
at the heel whether the same is enforced
or INDUCED IN because Of laZiness."
Don't talk politics. don't talk religion in
hot weather; that is my recipe for keeping
COOL" said good-natured fat man. You
may run the gamut of all human emotions
and harp upon every string without stirring
your blood il you eschew those two topics,
and you can invite apoplexy in ten minutes
by the watch by discussing either with the
mercury at % degrees