The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-08-18

few sulphur matches Wash immedi-
ately with water in which a little am
mOnia or soda has been dissolved.
| Stains that nothing else will remove
are often taken out by the vapor aris-
ing from burning sulphur, but the ma
terial must be washed thoroughly at
once.
A Fish Sauce.-To make cream sauce:
Put three tablespoonfuls of butter into
saucepan and plave over the fire.
When the butter is hot add two table
spconfuls of -four, and stir until
smooth and frothy. Draw the pan to
one side of the range and gradually
stir into the flour one pint of cold milk.
Put it over the fire again, and stir until
it boils. Add a few drops of onion
juice and salt and cayenne pepper to
taste. To make this a green sauce,
tie together a small bunch of parsley
and put it in a dish of boiling sailed
water to which has been added a piece
of soda the size of pea. Cook for five
minutes, and take out the parsley.
Then with silver knife scrape the
leaves from the stems and chop them
with the knife before stirring them
into the sauce.
Tea Tables.-Tea tables are rather
difficult to- decorate. as it has become
the fashion to. make a perfect mosaic
of dishes over theOf dishes over the
entire surface. The most satisfactory
manner is to fill long and slender shafts
of glass with light and rather spread
ing flowers, and insert these with
sort of method between the multifari-
Gus plates. The large tea table is far
prettier covered with colored silk
cloth than with plain white naDery,
which always gives one the feeling of
a meal. Widths of the inexpensive
china silk. joined by insertions of lace
dyed to the tone of the silk chosen.
and edged only with deep hem, make
lovely covers, and should be selected
in exactly the tones of the flowers to
be used An extremely simple manner
of getting an effect also is to have
all sweets and cakes iced and coIo~ed
to match. This entails no more ex-
pense and gives d distinction to the
very simplest table.
Pineapple Cake.-A delicious cake is
made with pineapple filing To make
the cake. cream together half a cup
of butter and one cup of sugar; add
half a cup of sweet milk and the whites
of four eggs beaten light. Sift a heap
ing teaspoonful of Ddking powder into
one and one-half cups of flor and add
to the other ingredients. Bake the cake
in three round layers. Make a filling
by putting in a bowl the whites of
two eggs, one tablespoonful of the
juice from the chopped pineapple and
one cup of confectioners' sugar. Beat
until it is light and white; continue
beating and adding a little more sugar
until the mixture is thick enough to be
easily spread and yet will not run off
the cake. Put on one side icing enough
for the top of the cake, and with the
remainder stir in very finely chopped
pineapple, putting in as much of the
fuit as the icing will hold and stick to-
gether. When the cakes are cold put
thick layer of this icing between
them and cover the top layer with the
plain icing.
Fashionable Chir5graphy.-In chirO-
graphy the large hand both English
and round, is affected, and to be quite
I'D to date one should not write more
than three or four lines on each page.
In beginning letter or note the prefer
ence is given to the fourth page, and
the letter is continued over the first
page, then on the second, ending on the
third. Some prefer to write only on
the fourth and first pages, leaving the
second and third blank. No particular
style of pen is used exclusively this
season. and either steel or gold. stub or
diamond point is chosen, to suit the
fancy of the writer. Drenden china
penholders are as plentiful as black
berries in their season, and come with
both gilt and silver mountings. A very
aristocratic looking holder is of tor
toise shell twisted to resemble horn
and mounted with silver in an antique
design.
Cleaning Oilcloth.-An oilcloth may
be cleaned and made to last as long
again if treated in the following man
ner: Cut into pieces half an ounce of
beeswax, put in a saucer, cover entire
ly with turpentine, and place in the
oven until melted. After washing the
oilcloth thoroughly with flannel, rub
the whole surface lightly with bit of
flannel dipped in the melted wax and
turpentine. Then rub with a dry cloth.
A polish is produced and the surface
is lightly coated with the wax. When
the floor requires to be cleaned the wax
is washed off, together with the dust or
dirt that may have gathered, while the
oilcIoth is preserved
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Hunt For Dessert.-A delicate dish
for dessert is made of one pint of sweet
cream, with one ounce of gelatine dis
solved and mixed with it; stir in any
fruit you choose, but do not put the
juice in; you can save that for pudding