The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27
ILL you please give mo recipe
for graham bread made with
sour milk and with molasse
IN II tn mako II dark?

in 1t to make 1t dark?
'2. Is there any way to clean
white straw hat at home? It has
turned yellow.
'3. I would also like to get a loaf cake
recipe and e. vinegar pie recipe.
IL. VIII you or someone please tell me
how can keep the pictures that come
with magazines? have quite number
want to keep and don't know how to
fix them. E. S.
!. See recipe column.
@ Knock head and bottom out OF a -four
barrel. Place within it pan OF lighted
sulphur. Suspend your hat. brirn down.
ward. by strings fastened to stick laid
across the open top Of the barrel. Lay
thick cloth over all. and newspapers upon
this; kept III place by board to exclude
the air. Leave thus for four hours. The
fumes of the sulphur will bleach your hat.
Hang in the sun and air to dissipate the
odor.
g. You will find both IN recipe column.
l. Have portfolio made by tying to-
gether at the back with cords passed
through sheets OF coarse brown paper.
Trim the pictures neatly and fit at the
corners into Sits cut In the paper to TT
the size Of each. The brown paper makes
a good background. You can arrange sew
eral small cuts upon one page.
II. Kindly inform me, at your leisure,
how to remove Indelible ink spots that
accidentally got on white dress.
'2. Also. how to clean the wicker work
of go-cart. A. ]. f.
l. Buy few cents worth Of cyanide OF
potassium. Wet the spots with hot water:
rub the cyanide into them and lay in the
sun. Wash the spots In an hours time
in borax water, and If a faint stain re-
mains repeat the process.
2. Go ell over It with brush wet with
suds. Wipe dry and rub with a flannel
wrung out in kerosene.
In reply to inquiry what to put on
the top of cinnamon cake, will tell
you what do. After the cake Is made
OF bread-sponge, milk, butter, sugar (not
too sweeD and the least bit Of lemon
r1nd-1 take fine-grated breadcrumbs, but
ter and sugar and rub them all to-
gether. brush cake over with milk or
egg. spread the mixture all over. then
dust cinnamon over the whole.
Ever since was married-more than
thirty years ago-I have done my own
baking. sometimes for nine In the FAM
ily-all grown. don't know what poor
risen bread or cake Is. usually have
bakers yeast; sometimes make my own
yeast. My husband says, Why, you
have made fortune by your baking
alonet AB.,.
insert this letter partly because it con-
tains useful hints anent home baking,
principally because the closing paragraph
points moral which cannot be too often
insisted upon. If husbands could divine
how word Of approval ughtens the
'housew!fe's burden the word would be-
more frequently and heartily spoken,
Every woman who keeps her husbands
house earns her living. II she keep It
well, saving money for him which neg
Hgent manager would sQnander. she de-
serves double honor.
A WIFE IS NorA HIREL1Nai
The printer will please paragraph that
sentence. and give # further prominence
by small ''caps. It should be placarded
In letters a foot long in every homo In the
land, Not one husband In thousand be-
'lieves It In his secret soul. ! have heard
good men-Christian fathers and husbands
reckon up how much they could have
laid aside. how much richer thsy would