Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-05

Dishcloths and cleaning cloths are staples
in the housefurnishng store. dishcloths sell
ing at ten cents each and floorcloths at five
cents A most satisfactory dishcloth is one
made from three thicknesses Of old cotton
cloth stitched together diagonally and cross
wise This sheds lint, is pliable and soft
and is easily kept white and clean by daily
scalding All cleaning and busting cloths
should be hemmed, as nothing is more dis
astrous to plumbing than a lot Of lint.
Old pieces of soft muslin should never be
thrown away, as they are invaluable IN
sickness Old sheets cut in strips. rolled
tightly ard fastened with a safety pin make
fine bandages, and even IN the best regu-
lated house bandage may be called for In
a hurry. Old blankets are fine for padding
the ironing board, ana a square heated at
night and folded about the feet of a child
or old person will often bring quiet sleep
which would otherwise be long in coming.
Bed Filling.
A sad suggestion comes to US from over
the sea-that cheap mattresses are stuffed
with flock made from old rags bought from
the rag pickers and put through the hocking
machine without dsinfecting washing.
A higher priced grade of mattress stamped
guarantee washed filing" is a shade bet
ter, but even so, liable to suspicion. 1t is %
be hoped that analogous conditions are
not to be found here. but a cheap mat
tress is always open to suspicion.
Ready-made White Clothes.
With the markdown in all kinds q
white goods 1t is a great temptation TO
lay in a supply of Undertaking wher-
ever they can be found the cheapest. This
is commemorate, If assured that they have
been made under sanitary conditions and
not In sweat shops, or. worse yet, the
tenements where for starvation wages
children and men and women in all stages
of disease employed. The health OF
tenement workers is VIGOROUSLY bad, tu-
berculosis being known as their distinctive
disease. This disease starts most often
in the tenements, but does not stop there.
Adults and children in all stages Of sick
found finishing different articles
of clothing up to the day of their death.
and there is every chance for the diffusion
of disease germs in such goods. The pur-
chaser does not realize the risk Of infec-
ton in buying tenement made goods. The
remedy offered by the National Consum-
ers League in this special trade of wom-
ems white underwear is TO offer TO pur-
chasers goods that have not been finished
in the tenement. The league, which Is
composed of the best-known humantari-
ans In the country, with John Graham
Brooks of Cambridge president, gives
a label to manufacturers who give no
work outside their factory, employ no
children under sixteen years and never re-
quire overtime to be worked. The label Is
placed on every garment made by manu-
facturers who have signed an agreement
chasers distinguish their product from
the ordinary tenement made goods. Sixty
firms throughout the United States have
been authorized TO use this label.
What Women Can Do to Help.
In the leaflets sent out by this organiza-
ton, women are implored to help the
league in their struggle TO abolish the
sweatshop and tenement work by always
asking for womens underwear with the
Consumers League label. II such goods
can not be secured In your city. they say.
please write to for list OF manufac-
turers." When purchasers are no longer
indifferent and by their demand make the
label Indispensable. tenement made apparel
will be replaced by garments made in clean
factories.
ANY interested in this movement Is in
vited to write to the National Consumers
League, 105 East 22d street, New York city.
where all inquiries and requests for ltera-
ture will be answered.
Plum Pudding Glace.
In place of the old-fashioned plum pud-
ding an iced plum pudding is often served
at Twelfth Night dinner. This is sim
ply an ice cream filled and decorated with
an abundance of canded fruits and nuts.
If preferred the body of the cream may be
purchased at the caterers either chocolate
or vanilla, then the chopped candied fruits
and nuts added, stirred well and repacked
in the freezer until needed. he-freeZer
may be turned Ave minutes or 80. but not
long enough to soiidify the fruit. An ex-
cellent English pudding OF this kind, simu-
latng a plum pudding in appearance, Is
made from three pnts of chocolate cream.
to which Is added three ounces Malaga
raisins cut IN quarters, three ounces can
died cherries, a heaping tablespoonful each
candied c.tron and orange peel chopped fine
and the whole soaked for twelve hours with
glass of sherry. Pack and freeze. Serve
with a Sabillon sauce.
Better still rs this fruit cream made with
out wine. Soak level tablespoonful gela-
tine in a little cold milk. saving out from
three cups of milk three tablespoonfuls
more to be added to the sugar. -four and
egg Heat the rest OF the milk to near
boiling point in the double boiler, then stir
in gradually two fun tablespoonfuls flour.
one cup sugar dissolved in the three table
spoonfus reserved milk and one well beaten
egg When the custard is cooked add the
softened gelatine a teaspoonful vanilla and
a cup cream. Freeze. After freezing, add
one-quarter pound chopped figs. one-half
pound English walnuts (measured in the
shelly. and two tab;espoonfuls candied cher,
r,es. Beat well with a large spoon and
pack.