The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-06
THINGS NEW AND NOVEL
 FOR THE HOUSEHOLD

| Brooklyn Eagle.
 A Long Island housewife of experience does not approve of the customary meth- cd of washing hair brushes unless one can replenish ones stock frequently. It softens the bristles too much, she says, no matter how carefully the brush 6 washed. Her plan is to take a clean cloth. wiring it out of warm water to which has been added liberal quantity | of ammonia, and wipe the bush perfectly clean without wetting it enough to injure | the bristles.
 Some suggestions for simple, easily pre- pared deserts from a Long Island con- ] trfbutor are here given: Tart apples, stewed, sweetened and served with whip ped cream. If desired, in place of the cream may be substituted thin cornstarch custard, made with the yolk of one egg, the white being beaten to a froth, fla- yored with lemon and vanilla, and piled | on top of the dish.
 Rice boiled with entrants and served with a hard sauce, made with one well l beaten egg, sugar, butter and f1avoring, makes a good luncheon dessert; likewise prunes, pitted, stewed with a little su- l gar and served with whipped cream. Grow the flowers you want, and do not | want too many, says Country Life in | America Most persons, when they make garden, order a quantity of labels 1 fatal mistakel Labels are for collections of plants-collections so big that you cannot remember, and when you cannot | remember you lose the intimacy, and when you lose the intimacy you lose the | essence of the garden. Choose a few | plants for the main plantings. These | must be hardy, vigorous, sure to thrive | whether it rains or shines. These plants you can buy in quantity and in large. | strong specimens. Each clump or group or border may be dominated by one kind of plant-foxgloves, hollyhocks, spreas, asters. The odd and unusual things you may grow as incidents, as jewelry is an incident to good dress. Miscellaneous mixtures are rarely satisfactory. The | point is that the character of the home | garden should be given by the plants | that are most sure to thrive. The novel; ties and oddities should be subjects of experiment; if they fail, the garden still semains.
 l Scallops are often served fried and with | sauce tartare, or, occasionally, la New | burg. They may also be offered escal- loped like their cousins german, oysters, and in this way are perhaps more digest | ible. Toss them first in saucepan in a | little butter, shaking often to prevent their burning. When partly cooked have ready a baking dish spread with layer of bread crumbs, on which put layer of scallops, alternating the two layers till the dish Is full, having the crumbs at | the top. Make a white sauce with two | tablespoonfuls of butter and two of four cook together and stir smooth in a pint of milk, pour it over the scallops and bake about half an hour or until we'll rowned.-Harper's Bazaar.
 | wise matron gives this advice with regard to guests to her sisters who dis | like smoking: Never entertain your hus- bands friends unless you have den or smoking room for them. Have a corner, no matter how small, where the men may | adjourn after dinner or just before bed time for chat and smoke. If there is | one thing that tries a husbands soul it is to have to acknowledge to his guests that his wife cannot endure the scent of even the best of Havanas.
 The animal nut cracker Is a convenience that has made its appearance on this side of the water in the past year or so. and has been considerably sought after as souvenir for progressive euchre and sim liar entertainments and wooden we'd dings.
 German technical factory, which has been making expensive experiments with high temperatures, has produced utensils made of molten quartz, says an exchange | After the melting was done, the manu- facture of bottles, glasses and other ar ticles was not much different in method from that used for making glass articles
 The objects made from molten quartz are flashing and clear, with the effect of diamonds. They are not brittle as glass and have the further advantage of not being affected easily by heat or cold. |
 | Glass articles as everybody knows from sad experience, will crack If hot liquids | are poured into them when they are cold or vice versa. Quartz articles. however can be heated to a cherry red and then ice cold water can be squirted on them without affecting them in the least.
 This is due to the fact that quartz neith- CT expands nor shrlnks much under changes of temperature.
 A new chair back or cushion lately seen
 
 tea cozy and slips over the back of the chair. Nearly every woman and surely every man knows the horror of having | the cushion cling to ones back when | leaving a chair, so In this one respect | the new cushion is looked upon as re- lief and then, too, it has In one side a large pocket where book paper or other light article can be slipped.
 The little brown or blue earthenware cups for baking custards and other dain- ties are very convenient. Topovers are delicious baked In them. so also are soft l cornbread, rice mullins and other break I fast breads.
 Glass towels should never be put in the weekly wash. but should be laundered | separately They should be washed in hot soap studs as often as they are used. rinsed in clear water and hung in the open air to dry.
 A new English photo frame of silver Is absolutely plain. very highly polished, 1 with the band one inch wide. These come in three styles, oval and round
 Some dainty flower dishes for table are in the shape of swans, They are made of semi-opaque glass and are to be filled with violets or other small flowers.
 Some very pretty silver platters for | game are to be seen at the silversmiths. They are appropriately decorated. The venison platter has a deer's head on the rim of the dish others have the head of 1 a pheasant. q terrapn and steer, etc.