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HOUSEHOLD HINTS
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Thin shavings of sugared ginger and can
died orange peelings are a combination
that finds favor as sandwich filling.
A jelly sauce that is used for meats or
game requires that the jelly should be melt
ed to the liquid state, and tablespoonful
of wine added just as it is sent around.
A little pulverized chalk mostened with
ammonia and applied with brush will re-
move the mark caused by the dripping of
a faucet in a marble basin. An old tooth
brush is a good thing to use for this pur-
pose.
A knitted table padding is being offered
for use under table cloths. 1t is especial
ly recommended because 1t does not grow
hard after washing, as does the ordinary
table pad. For a polished table, too, it's
protection is claimed to be more perfect
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Two small hints on the word of cooking
authority are that a few grains of salt
sprinkled on coffee before adding the water
bring out and improve the favor, and that
apples are not so apt to break when the at
tempt to core them is made, if that is done
before they are peeled.
Some interesting statistics recently pub
Iished should be emphasized by the mother
of every young man in the land to her son.
They are from the general freight agent of
a large railroad who says that he will in
the future employ no young man who
smokes cigarettes, and that he intends to
get rid of all now in his department who
smoke them. "Eighty-five per cent" he
says. "of the mistakes made in the office
by my 200 clerks are traceable to the
thirty-two who use cigarettes"
A woman who has carefully studied the
effects of light at her dinners says that
unshaded candles in high old-fashioned
candelabra that branch out in many direc-
tions are absolutely the perfection of light
for table, and are, too, a most becoming
light to the face of the guests gathered
around 1t. The candelabra should be tall
enough to carry the lights fairly high The
pretty candle shades SO much in use are
decorative to the furnishings of the table
but they prevent the most effective and be-
coming light
A recipe for oyster bouillon calls for two
dozen large oysters, drained and chopped
fine. These are put into double boiler
and heated slowly in water, to draw out as
much juice as possible. They are then put
through fine sieve, and every bit of the
liquor pressed out. This liquor, added te
that already drained, is put on the fire ir
a porcelain saucepan, and into it is beater
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for about one minute, then remove from
the fire, and after it has stood for three
or four minutes, strain through piece OF
cheesecloth, doubled. Before serving, sea.
son and add as much hot milk as you have
oblongs is handed around with the bouillon
In selecting glass globes for the country
home, little point of judgment to be con
sidered was brought out by the purchase
, recently of some for suburban friend
. The globes were Of exquisite tint and beau.
tiful design, and in the shop where they
. were shown, all of their beauty was effect.
, lively brought out. On being mounted
however on the chandelier of the country
house, where the gas was poor in quality
and of low pressure, it was found that the
globes were anything but pretty. They
were so delicate in color as to have only g
sort of soled tint, and the design was not
at all a success. 1t is obviously very wei
to consider at the moment of selection the
future environment of all purchases.
A centerpiece of tall white tulips over a
bed of mignonette gave a spring-like effect
to a dinner of last week. The table was a
round one, than which there is no dinner
board more effective. Silver candlesticks
with white ard green shades contributed to
the vernal effect; the punch served in a
white tulip, resting on green leaf, carried
it farther on. Tall brass candlesticks, fully
four feet high, with single candle four
inches in diameter by way of light, arc
used in dining rooms as well as in bed
rooms, for which they are originally de-
signed. They are capable of sustaining
large silk or paper shades and do duty for
the piano lamp, which, for some reason,
has got into considerable disfavor in ths
most fashionable drawing rooms.
The weight of opinion is in favor of a
moderate amount of good, pure candy eat
en- by children with or soon after their
food, and that it is not only not in the least
detrimental but is positively beneficial.
1t is the cheap sweets manufactured out
of injurious compounds that have drawn
upon the practice the odium of medical
men. Pure sweets contribute valuable
force to the human system and need not be
feared. a Chicago physician claims that
one can scarcely eat too much pure chco-
late. If this authority would only go a lit
tie farther and tell us how we are to know
the pure from the impure, great burden
would be lifted from many mothers. who