The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-08-20

} your hat or another pair of sleasy,
cheap. open-work stockings.
! You can shampoo your own hair. II
is very easy. Plenty of clean, lukewarm
water and good, honest soap will do
the job. You have no idea until you
have tried 1t what a deliciously conn
Portable feeling clean hair viii impart
on top of a good bath and clean clothes.
You can manicure your own nails II
Is not at all difficult. IL you keep your
nails well trimmed and the skin pressed
back from the roots, It viii cure you Of
hang nails and also Of biting your nails.
Biting the nails Is an awful habit
/ 1t Is pity that men and women ara
so often slouchy In their attire. even
when hea1thily clean In person. I not
long ago heard young man say that
he had ceased going with young w6s
| man whom he admired q great deal Just
4 because she was so very Indifferent to
her personal appearance. He said she
was bright, sunny-tempered and a good
companion. but her hair was like a
brush heap. her nails had always rims
OF black, her teeth were seldom brushed,
SO her breath was awful. and her shirt
waists and dress-skirts seemed to have
| no use for each other at all.
| To be practical and plain about II, if
you want to be factor In life remems
| Der that brain" isn't everything. You
4 may be proud as you please and poor as
they grow 'em, but IL you want to be-
liked, and il you want to be comforts
able and help to make the world really
| better. You have got to clean up, and
present personal appearance orfges
left.
An important detail to be remembered
Is that baby, like grown person. re-
Lose rf-l,,.
1t Is not quantity so much as quality that
Is to be reduced, for a child always re-
quires certain amount OF liquid on
which the digestive organs must act,
but they should not work so hard as in
Winter, when the whole system ii
stronger. When the liver begins to act
too frequently. a slight reduction of the
quantity of cream, used In modified
milk. adding as much water as cream
has been taken away. win sometimes be
enough to make baby we'll. No mother
should take chances, tho, with dysen-
terry. and the services of a physician
must be called without delay.
Here is an appetizing dish: Get
shank of pork, a liver of a young pig
and pound Of barley. Cut the liver
and meat into small pieces Cover with
water and cook slowly until tender. Put
boiled 10 minutes. Take up with a per-
forated spoon, and put into your chops.
ping tray. Wash the barley and soak
for an hour while the meat is cooking.
When you take up the meat, turn the
soaked and drained barley into the pot
containing the broth and simmer ten
der. 1t should beca thick mush Crate
an onion and mince thyme or any herb
you may like, and mix with the chopped
meet. II there Is not enough liquor to
cover fhe-barley, add water, and stir
often to prevent sticking to the sides
of the pot.
When the meat and liver are chopped
fine stir into the barley mush III, the
pot. Mix well.
This makes a big kettleful II YOU
do not want so much. buy half the,
quantity Of materials 1t will not cost
much IL you get all. A pigs liver is but
10 cents; the meat will be but 10 or II
cents more; an onion is q penny, and
barley is five cents pound -,is-
Let the mush and meat get cold and
stiff; slice, and fry as you would fry
Drowned hash. Serve baked potatoes
with 1t and some sweet relish or pickle.
If you want the daintiest sweet imag.
Unable to nibble on go right out to the
kitchen now and put some prunes on to
soak. Several hours later, perhaps right
after dinner, stew them in the same
water. Then drain them. and when they
are cold take the stones out, just as you
would treat dates.
Boil together one and one-half cups
of sugar, one-half square chocolate, and
cup Of milk until thick
sirup is formed; then add one-half cup
chopped English walnut or pecan meats.
Remove from the fire; add a half-tea-
spoonful vanilla and beat until creamy.
Fill the prunes with the mixture and
press the edges together. Dissolve some
gum arabic in water and dip each prune
in it; then in granulated sugar. Set in
a warm place until dry. and you won't
recognize your humble Old friend, the
prune, in its new guise. ,,e
An authority says curtains can be
washed at home quite as satisfactorily
'or few cents as tho one paid so cents
/ pair for Cleaning" by professional.
According to a successful cleaner, this
process should be followed: Make suds
With warm water and white soap. Then
he water is put into an immense tub or
rat that has revolving arms something
ike those found in washing machines.
Next the curtains are thoroly shaken
n order to free them from dust. Then
hey are placed in wide-meshed bags
ike the string shopping bags. The re-
Tolving arms send the water thru and
hru both bags and curtains. When
lean they are taken from the suds and,
till in the bags, are rinsed in clean
water.
The bags are used to protect the curs
aims from the revolving arms, which.
# course, might catch the meshes and
ear them.
This authority advises home cleaners
o make the suds. then immerse the cur
aims (not using bags) and souse them
Ip and down with the hands. without
until all the dirt has disap-
reared. They must then be rinsed in
lean, cold water. hung up to dry and
yell shaken, when they are ready for
se again.
Your room will look better and your
york be made lighter il you take up
eavy wooden rugs. which catch the dust
nd require time and strength to keep
lean in the dusty season. If your floors
re good enough to show bare, or to
rotect in the most trodden places with
he mats of woven grasses. which come
4 cheap and attractive designs. try
hese for the warm period. Better still.
you could afford 1t, because easier to
AXE care of, would be mating over
ne entire floor. This is more readily
ept clean than a bare floor with rugs,
nd has a cool effect which is very rest-
III. $500.
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