Connecticut western news., 1909-10-21
PARAGRAPHS OF
 WOMANLY WISDOM
OF INTEREST T0ALL HOUSEWIVES
This Author Discusses Many Subjects Dear to the Feminine Heart Gives Good Recipes for Making Green To- mato Pies and Pickles.


 Good Recipes for Making Green To-
 matO Pies and Pickles.
 The flowers are withered now and scar, It is the autumn of the year;
 The wind is moaning through the
 grass.
 There are no leaves on bush or tree;- The seasons come, the seasons pass. Nothing tastes better to the children after they get home from school than nice bean soup, Other kinds may do now and then, but bean soupis always good,
 Soaking the hands above the wrists in hot water will sometimes relieve head. ache found this out while washing dishes and clothes when my head was aching. Keeping the feet warm at the same time also helps.
 Sheets and long table cloths are bad things to take from the boiler to the tub on washdays. Did you ever think of looping them up in n big loose knot be- fore placing them into the boiler? Try that and see if you don't find it a great improvement.
 When a baby is fed with a bottle the milk often gets too cool before he has finished it. A rubber bag filled with hot water and placed under the bottle will keep it warm, and also serve as n support to tip the bottle of milk at tho right angle for him to get 1t easily.
 Green tomatoes will make excellent pies next winter if you pare them, cut in thick slices, and to seven pounds of them add three pounds of sugar and cook very slowly till clear and tender. Do not add any water. When the pies are made, thin slices of lemon added will improve the flavor.
 Some women after they have used pattern just roll it up and tuck it away almost anywhere it happens, and when they want to use it the next time it ourla up acts so that there is no doing any thing with it. If they would just lay the pattern out flat and put them where they might stay that way, all this trou- ble would be avoided.
 A good many times we blanc sore toes on the shoes we wear, when it isn n't the shoes at all, but a big hummock in the stocking where it has been mended. It is great knacS to darn socks so that they will be smooth and nice. Take lessons of grandmother about that. Young folks may know some things grandmother doesn't, but when it comes to fixing things she can beat us.
 To mend china: Dissolve half an ounce of gum arabic in three tablespoonfuls of boiling water and add enough plaster of Paris to make a thick paste. Then moisten the surface of the broken pieces with a camels s.hair brush and apply a thin coating of the cement. Press the edges tightly together and bind with cord. When dry remove the cord and clean the crack with a cloth dipped in warm water.
 Green tomato pickle; Take one peck green tomatoes, slice and sprinkle with salt; put in jar, press tight and keep over night, in the morning drain through colander; add one dozen sliced onions. half ounce black pepper, one ounce ground mustard seed, one teaspoonful red pepper, one ounce cloves, one ounce allspice and one pound brown sugar. Put in kettle, cover with good vinegar and bniI until tandar
 Do not spend all of the fine October days in pickliug, preserving, houseclean- ing or sewing, but occasionally gather up the children and go for walk or a drive through the woods, and thus lay up a supply of health and pleasant mem oriss for the winter months to come. Take some of the neighbours children along to help have n good time. Remember that so glorious a pageant will not be spread before your eyes for another year, SO en- Joy it while you may.-From October Farm Journal.
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