Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-07
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Melt lard, as for doughnuts, and fry
raw sliced potatoes.
A woman who walks q great deal
and is always comfortable has her
Monday shoes and her Tuesday
shoes, etc. She never has tired feet
and never corn.
To Make Shoes Last.
Coat sOles of shoes with three or
four coats of opal varnish and they
will never need resoling.
Potato Salad.
Boil eight gOod-sized potatoes until
soft, drain and mash. Put with
them one third cup of sweet milk,
one tablespoonful butter, one table
spoonful vinegar, q little onion juice,
and one well-beaten egg, slice three
hard-bOiled eggs over the salad and
shake salt and pepper on to taste.
To Stop Bleedinf
From whatever source bleeding
arises prompt rem edial measures are
imperative. II from an artery or
from vein the best method is to put
pressure on each side OF the wound
Chat nearest the heart and that most
remote from it) so as to prevent fur
ther access of blood to the part. Or
dinary bleeding from cut or bruise
may be arrested by the application
of cold water.
Use Of chloroform.
An English physician points out
that doctors are sOmtimes blamed for
the death of patients under chloro-
form, when the catastrophe is due
entirely to the parents or friends,
who ignore the strict orders not to
give any food before the operation,
and by administering milk, eggs, and
orange, or chocolates, to fOrtify
him for the operations, brings on
fatal complications.
A Novel coverint for the Floor.
An inexpensive floor covering for
a chamber or bathroom, fill all the
cracks with the following filler: Make
flour paste, stiff; tear paper in small
pieces, and then add to the hot paste;
stir thoroughly and fill all cracks on
the floor smoothly. Then select wall
paper as near a carpet pattern as
possible and paper the floor the same
as you would a side wall. Dry per-
fectly, after which give it coat of
shellac or varnish. With ordinary
use it will last four or five years.
Green Apple and Onion Pie.
Six apples and six onions each.
Line a square tin with pastry, peel
and core apples; put layer of ap-
pies, cut thin, then layer Of strong
onions, cut thin, then layer of salt,
fat pork cut off rind; don't cut the
pork too very thin; three-fourths of
cup of sugar over this, sprinkle
spices, repeat from first until the tin
is full, then cover with crust and bake
one and One-half hours, or until the
pork is done. Be sure and use plenty
of sugar as the sweeter this pie is the
better it will be.
Strawberry Float.
Make custard with the beaten
yOlks of four eggs, one pint of milk,
four tablespoOnfuls of sugar, pinch
of salt, and half q teaspOOnful of va
nilla flavoring. Beat the whites of the
eggs to a stiff froth, and drop them
in large spoonfuls into pan of boil
ing milk, cook o minute, turn over
carefully and cook q minute longer.
Lift out with a skinner on to o platter
or large plate. The milk may be then
used for the custard. Put layer OF
fine, ripe, sweetened berries in the
bottom of q deep glass dish; pour over
it layer of the custard, then alter
nate layers of berries and custard
until the dish is nearly full; the Gus
tard should be very cold, so as not to
combine with the berries until just
before serving. Heap the whites OF
eggs on top, and garnish with fine
large berries.
Have Rest Hour.
| Farmers wives should have q few
minutes at least every day to lie
down and rest. Commence this
practice now and you will be SO much
more able to endure the cares and
work every housekeeper must neces-
sarily have, especially on the farms,
where it is almost impossible to
get good health. System, carefully
management and a rest hour, or hall
hour, are wonderful helpers in the
Journey of life. We so often hear
that life on the farm is drudgery, but
it need not be so if we are interested
in our work. Country living has
many cares, yet it brings beautiful
thoughts of the peace and quiet ol
of nature, of the songs of the birds,
and practical thought of garden
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