The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-29
Womanly Wisdom.

Womanly Wisdom.
Nothing tastes better to the chill
dren after they get home from school
than nice bean soup. Other kinos
may do now and then, but bean soup
is always good.
Many folks put salt in the water
in which they boil green corn ana
then they wonder what makes the
kernels SO hard. Try leaving the
salt out and see if that doesn't fix
the matter all right.
Soaking the hands above the wrists
in hot water will sometimes relieve
a headiche. l found this out while
washing dishes and clothes when
my head was aching. Keeping the
feet warm at the same time also
helps.
Green tomatoes will make excel
lent 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 slow
ly till clear and tender. Do not add
any water. When the pies are
made, thin slices of lemon added
will improve the flavor.
Sheets and long table-cloths are
bad things to take from the boiler
to the tub on wash-days. Did you
ever think of looping them up in
a big loose knot before placing them
into the boiler? Try that and see
If yoI don't find it great improve
ment.
When a baby is fed with a bot
fore he has finished it. A rubber
bag filled with hot water and placed
under the bottle will keep it warm,
and also serves as support to tip
the bottle of milk at the right angle
for him to get it easily.
Some women after they have used
a pattern just roll it up and tuck it
away almost anywhere it happens,
and when they want to use it next
time it curls up and acts so that
there is no doing anything with it.
If they would just lay the patterns
out fiat and put them where they
might stay that way, all this trouble
would be avoided.
A good many times we blame sore
toes on the shoes we wear, when 1t
isn't the shoes at all, but a big
hummock in the stocking where 1t
has been mended. 1t is great
knack to darn socks so that they
will be smooth and nice. Take les
sons of grandmother about that
Young folks may know some things
grandmother doesn't, but when il
comes to fixing things she can beat
us.
To mend china: Dissolve half an
ounce of gum arabic in three table.
spoonfuls of boiling water and add
enough plaster of Paris to make a
thick paste. Then moisten the sur
face of the broken pieces with a
camel's-hair brush and apply a thin
coating of the cement. Press the
edges tightly together and bind with
a 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, hall
ounce black pepper, one ounce ground
mustard, a quarter pound mustard
seed, one teaspoonful red pepper
one OUNCE cloves, one ounce all
spice and one pound brown sugar
Put in kettle, cover with good vine.
gar and boil until tender.
Do not spend all the fine October
days in picking, preserving, house.
cleaning or sewing, but occasionally
gather up the children and go fol
walk or a drive through the woods
and thus lay up a supply of health
and pleasant memories for the win.
ter months to come. Take some oi
the naiphhnr'c ohi11rau oIn.o