The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-26

with a wire attachment to an ordinary
electric light socket. AS long as the
current is turned on, the pad remains
heated at an even temperature.
The general housework girl is rarely
employed in New York except in small
apartments where accommodations fol
more than one servant are lacking. Ii
Brooklyn, however, many families liv.
ing in commodious houses keep only
one girl, who looks after the houseworl
generally. In these families, however
outside assistance is almost always en-
ployed. A man, perhaps, will come once
a month to wash the windows; twice
a month or oftener a woman will come
for a days thorough cleaning and usu-
/ ally permanent arrangement will be
made with some outside helper to fiji
the. place of the resident girl on hel
Thursdays and Sundays out. House
keepers who try this arrangement as
sert that the work is better and more
cheaply done, and the plan altogether
more to their liking than to keep two
resident maids
An excellent dish for a luncheon
course, or to be offered at Sunday might
tea, has it's foundation in beef extract
Three or four beef capsules or a table
spoonful of the condensed extract are
dissolved in a pint of boiling water
and thoroughly seasoned. To this is
added little gelatine, enough to hold
it firm when set, but not solid Have
ready some egg-cups, into which dice Of
Sweetbread, hard boiled eggs, shrimps
| mushrooms, or cold veal have beer
placed. Pour the solution of
juice and gelatine into the cups, putting
them in cool place that their con-
tents may become jelly. They should
be thoroughly chilled when served, an6
each little mold turned out on a lettuce
leaf, with spoonful of stiff mayonaise
at the side. This dish may be prepared
in large mold, if preferred, and sliced
and served cold, with tartare sauce, fol
luncheon
At a boys birthday party a pretty
effect was contributed with small pa
per flags of all nations placed in a zig
gag line up and down the length CT
the table. To hold the flags oval po-
tatoes had been selected and cut in
half Each potato was painted a dark
red, and the stem of the flag stuck into
the apex as the fiat side rested on the
table. To prevent a discoloration VI
the cloth from the raw potatoes, each
piece rested on a tiny red paper lace
mat such as is used by caterers to put
under ices and bonbons. Between the
flags We're piled little bundles of snap
ping notices that were tied with red
ribbon.
A circular just issued by the Art
Committee of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs is at once broad and
practical in it's scope. After several
specific recommendations to different
classes of clubs, it includes a general
suggestion to all clubs. OF this, one
clause is directly applicable to the
housekeeper, whether she be a club
woman or not. 1t suggests 1.-The urgent
necessity of cultivating the ability to
buy correctly by a careful and sys-
tematic selection of articles which shall
be of good design and harmonious in
color.' No more advice is more needed.
There is not a. purchase, whether trivial
or expensive, that does not come within
the province of this suggestion.
In a New York apartment-houser re-
Gently built is included a servants sit
ting-room. This is in the basement.
is comfortably fitted, and is open to all
of the servants employed in the apart
ment. On certain evenings in the week
company is permitted there. The
scheme is in the nature of an expert
ment. the success of which will be well
come to apartment housekeepers. One
of their difficulties in securing and
keeping good servants lies in the fact
that there is usually no suitable place
in which the servant may spend her
leisure hours or receive a friend. Her
box of a kitchen precludes hospitality
and often there is no servants en-
trance.
Rather thick slices of Boston brown
bread, toasted on both sides, and with
a poached egg slipped upon each slice
make an appetizing luncheon or break
fast dish.
AT a tea the other day hot raspberry
shrub was offered in tall glasses, thin
slice of lemon floating in each glass. II
cannot be said this drink was as pala-
table as the fruit vinegar. served in its
usual way iced, and with settler.
A Little Vagabond.
Now who NAV this be?'' | questioned,