The record-union., 1899-04-02

For making tea use either china or
earthen pot, which you are never TO
wash, but clean by scaldlng. Four
boiling water in the pot, ana stano II
on the stove long enough TO make sure
it is heated through and through; >then
pour it all off. and put in the tea-one
teaspoonful to each half pint of water
to be used Now put in the water,
which should just have reached the
boil, take a tea kettle off the stove, re-
move the lid, stand the teapot in the
opening. and let it remain five or six
minutes Or send the pot Immediately
to the table, and cover with cozy for
ten minutes. 1t is best in instructing
a servant to tell her to look into the
tea-kettle when she thinks it is boil
ing, to see that the water is really bub-
bling. The above method gives an ex-
cellent eupful of bright tea, but an add
cd step in the process will give still
finer result. 1t is to wash the tea by
pouring off the first cupful of water
Instantly after adding it, then proceed
ing as above. This quick boiling
water rinse carries off dust impurities,
and the tea when made has as a con-
sequence a finer bouquet.
The class of milliners who come to
the house and work by the day is be-
coming larger each season. A wom-
an who has one or two daughters finds
1t great economy to employ these
visiting milliners at least twice a year
They utilize materials that have already
seen service, renovating them if nee
essary, and usually skillfully adapting
them to second-b best and shopping hats.
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a. rule the milliner charges three dollars
for a full day, or two dollars for half
Gay. The price is fully earned, and is
paid with a cheerful countenance by
her employer as she sees the spring or
fall array of hats and bonnets, often
entirely evolved from things in the
house."
A tea-eaddy of cut glass with a screw
top of solid silver, upon which mon
ogram may be engraved if desired, is
a recent and most ornamental addition
to the ) O'Clock tea tray.
In a model school of the city it is a
practice in one class to have the pupils
slowly increase their speaking vocab
ulary by learning three new words
week. This practice could be admira-
bly, applied in any family of children.
Much graceless speech heard is the re-
suit of uncorrected carelessness in
early life. In the school referred to the
qualities of the different words are
shown. The interest taken by the pu-
pills when they find that Saxon words
are strong and simple, that Roman
words are apt to express brutality and
that the Greek derivatives are dra-
matte, leads them out of philology into
geography and history. While the
home teacher need not go so far as
this, it is worth some effort to put chill
dren in the way of giving up slovenly,
careless speech and acquiring the
knowledge and use of good, expressive
words.
Instead of teaspoonful of rum in
each half of grapefruit served, couple
of branded cherries may be used. To
make grapefruit salad, the skin and.
seeds are carefully removed from each
section before it is cut into small
pieces. The pieces are piled on lettuce
leaves and dressed with a French dress
ing. A similar salad may be made of
bits of pineapple, with either mayon-
naise or French dressing. Cream
cheese balls, served in a bed of lettuce
with French dressing, is a pretty as
well as good salad.
A correspondent asks for some ex-
plicit directions for laundry work, the
burden of which in the household rou-
tine she rightfully deplores. 1t is a
pity that at least in the cities there
should not be established cooperative
laundries in which household washing
could be done at minimum rates. Some
careful housekeepers protest against
this suggestion, saying that nothing
would induce them to send the family
washing to be laundered with promis-
cuous lot of soiled clothes coming from
everywhere. This objection, however,
would not exist in the properly man
and sanitary principles, where the
clothing was properly disinfected. The
French manage these things better than
we: all washing is done outside, and in
consequence ''blue Monday is elimin-
ated from the household week How
ever, since washing day in most fami-
lies comes once in seven, it is desirable
that it should be met in the best pos
sible way.
To begin with, the question arises
whether clothes shall be soaked or not
the night before. The best laundry
teachers say that they should not If
done at all, it should be in lukewarm
water and without soap, or, if soap is
used, the greatest care should be taken
to see that stained article is put in
the tub of soapy water. Hot water or
soap sets many stains, and often there
may be what is called blind stain,
which is one unsuspected until brought
out by the hot water or soap. To soak
clothes over night in water in which
a washing powder has been dissolved
yellows, rots and practically ruins the
clothes. OF course fannels are never