The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-21
Suggestions for the Household.

AS a complexion beautifier the "salt
rub" is pronounced excellent by those
who ought to know. 1t is easily taken,
and for weakly children or those grow
ing too fast it is most strengthing.
Many private hospitals are introducing
it in their tonic treatment. Any coarse
salt will answer, the sea. salt being pre-
| ferred, however, and it is applied moist,
but not in solution. Make, in an earth
en- jar, a sort of slush of salt and water,
and taking it up in handfulls apply all
over the person, rubbing on briskly.
Afterwards spray or sponge with clear
water and dry with bath-towel. Verv
young children should be sponged off
with salt water, the strength of the So
luton being according to its effect upon
the skin. Afterwards they should be
wiped over with soft cloth dipped in
clear water. The effect of IMMIGRATION
is prompt and the result soon apparent
in the glow and smoothness of the COM
pleXion.
A jelley sauce for meats is made by
melting slowly in saucepan tumbler-
full of grape or current Jelly; when liq-
uid add tablespoonful of butter cut in
to bits. Let it boil one minute and
SOiNO ilhLhoulatciy, duulus taolOopOoh-
full of red wine before it is sent to the
table.
An oyster rarebit is chafing-dish
dainty that will soon be seasonable.
The New York Cooking School recipe
call for twenty oysters, from which the
"eye" of each has been removed. Drop
in the chatting. dish and shake till the
edges curl; put aside in hot bowl, and
in the blazer mix a tablespoonful of
butter, salt, and little cayenne. When
the butter has melted add a hslf-pound
of cheese finely chopped and stir to a
cream before mixing with it, gradually,
the liquor of the oysters, to which have
been added TWO eggs slightly beaten.
Finally put back the oysters for single
minute and serve Immediately in
squares of hot toast.
Iced tomatoes are recommended as
one of the most wholesome ways to
serve this vegetable fruit. The to-
matoes are scalded, the skins removed,
and are cooled in the ice box until Or
dered. They are arranged on a small
platter on bed of Clipped ice. Salt
or dust of powdered sugar is eaten
with them. To serve in this style,
small, fully ripe, fair tomatoes should
be selected.
A delicious and simple dessert, sea-
sonable at the moment, is cream rice
pudding with peaches. Cook in a
double boiler two tablespoonful of
rice with pint of milk in which is
dropped small piece of stick CHINA
mon. Add an extra cupful OF milk as
the rice becomes dry, and when cooked
tender add two tablespoonfuls of sugar
and tablespoonful of gelatine that has
been dissolved in a little cold water.
Remove the cinnamon, and pour the
rice into ring-mould, after beating in
a cupful of whipped cream. When
cold turn out and fill the center with
sliced peaches served with plain or
whipped cream.
The virtues of sterilized milk are
many, and it's use in the tenement dis
tricts during the summer season is of
undoubted value. To the better
placed mother with whose child plain
milk agrees, and who has reasonable
hope that the milk served to her is
pure, the sterilized or Pasteurized milk
does not offer the same inducements.
Some children refuse it utterly, dislik-
ing the taste, and there is no doubt that
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cation. Physicians say, too, that the
process renders the milk sterile alike Of
good and bad germs-those that are
needed in the system as well as those
whose introduction might be harmful.
Paying cash for everything used to
be woman's standard OF thrift, and
the feminine mind still recoils from a
load of debt. The busy women of to-
day, however, find that weekly or
monthly bills are great saving of time
and energy, and possesses two other
distinct advantages. A regular Gus
toner is well treated, and if poor or
ort-weighed goods are delivered, a
protest insures prompt improvement.
The business woman who does not
have to concern herself with the COM
missary department of the home has
discovered too, that the same principle
applies in her shopping needs. An
account with q reliable house, If she is