The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-28
Raisin puddinu.

ter. Butter a porcelain pudding dish,
sprinkle a layer of the crumbs, then
a layer of mixed currants and seeded
rail- sugar, little grated lemon
peel ano rornd cinnamon. Next
place a |, " q crumbs and layer
OF coil slerries. Cover with
bread cruin,@ aEd spices, and pour
over the com L'a the liquid in which
the crarberrie. were cooked Cook
one-half hour ard serve with any
desired Sd ) 1t !, delicious served
with cream dip. favored with vanil-
la and nutmeg.
Always heat The salt crackers before
bringing them to the table with the
soup. 1t makes them more crisp and
appetizing
working With Furniture.
When / was child my playhouse"
was in cabinet shop. Another lille
girl and used to be sent home eNcsy
day for upsettdng the glue, saving o
valuable board or destroying some
thing we had no business to touch. My
chief diversion was to cling to the I'M
mense wheel lathe between two stand
ards while the other girl turned me
completely around. loved To ask
questions Child that was, I would
say: Nov why do you glue both
pieces Of wood before you stick them
together" and why do you put the
pieces In clamps for two days?" did
not know that glued pieces held bet
ter when both pieces were glued, nor
did | know ii Was necessary for them
TO be perfectly dry before the work
was completed. But asked the ques
tons. and when | asked too many,
was sent home. But went back the
next day. or went with the girl down
to her fathers blacksmith shop and
heated iron to ''sizzle" in the big water
pot And this is. just how got my
first practical information. II yen do
not think children are watching and
learning while they are PLAYING you
arc sadly mistaken watched the
men thin the varnish and sweep 1t
evenly with the grain of the wood,
never going over II when the brush
dragged. II IL was not smooth the
next day all of Che yarnish was rubbed
off with a fine sandpaper, But why
do you take it off?" | would asw, and
! was told that the first coat was a
filler. When the days were dark and
rainy, no vanishing was done, for
yarnish and paint become sticky on
damp days. and often on chilly days
o fire was made IN the big iron stove
to heat the room SO that the work
would dry. A bad place IN wood was
sawed out and a block was cut and
glued into the defective spot. This
was done when worm rot destroyed
the legs of furniture and weakened
the pieces. When chair was up
holsterad, the webbing was tightly
stretched across the bottom OF tho
chair with heavy iron pinches II re-
qures strength TO stretch the webbing
and that is why some Of you make
mistakes when you upholster a chair
you do not stretch the webbing
enough. Springs are tied together
with heavy Irvine aud are sometimes
lightly stuffed with excelsior. II rs
necessary to cover the springs with
coarse burlap before velour or
leather is stretched aud tackled, on the
springs Will work through the excel
sior or iute and destroy the cover
One has to use the pinchers TO stretch
the covers as we'll as the webbing It
is easy enough for women to do the
work If they get the right material.
Never place tacks closely together,
but stretch the material evenly and
tack about three or four inches apart;
use few tacks in corners for the gimp
must be turned there and you will
want space to tack It, If piece OF
veneer is knocked off an article OF
furniture, ohisei out the broken piece
and cut piece of veneer, glue 1t an /
put 1t on as patch. then weight II
until 1t dries. Fill the little cracks
with beeswax and varnish