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The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25

large and Complicated. For everything
height. ind that sitting at my task en-
ables me to do more of many kinds OF
work than sIs RysEsf K s. Phlsasphs Phi
Without suspecting it, you have
passed over to other busy houseworkers
one Of the most valuable bits of advice
l have ever had the pleasure of pub
fishing here. Forty years ago wrote
out q sentence which 1 underlined
NEVER STAND WHEN YOU CAN
DO YOUR WORK AS WE'LL WHILE
SITTING" l subJoined to. the pregnant
admonition:
IF 1 could have Johns ear for min
ute, would tell him that which would
lead him to watch you and to exercise
wholesome authority in this respect"
Johns pocket would be the heavier,
his heart and yours lighter and the
about in motorears while you use the
trolley IL each of our members would
but obey the homeIy Injunction. ..Au-
g gusta ,.,s <. H. ~, can a 90 more OF all \ kinds
spine and tired her feet until-as one
woman complained to me-she feels
as If her heels were working up to the
personal illustration, would confess
that | attribute much of my absolute
immunity from maladies that hamper
and affiict hundreds of my sex to the
practice of sitting. down when busy in
the kitchen and storeroorn. I trained
young cooks for the first quarter CEN
tury of my housewifely life, and made
all the cakes and puddings, jeIlies and
creams for our desserts until they were
competent to undertake the work l
had chair built of the right height
TO enable me to beat eggs, etc, at my
mixing-table. Again and again l have
made pies and lent a hand TO every
other sort of cookery in f,reflariuo fam
ily feasts and arranging for company
dinners, and gone through the festivi-
fatigue.
! could write for an hour upon this
subject without exhausting it.
Il wish our veterans would speak Of
their own discoveries along this line
And that our juniors would adopt the
excellent plan which Augusta K. e."
believes she evolved from her /clever
brain. AS she. did, The fact that
had thought of and put 1t into active
practice before she was born does not
invalidate her claim to the patent.
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enough TO read it. She is cruelty OVER
worked and she is half starved.
JUSTTCIA New York city,.
The above letter was sent directly
to me. and not through the medium
of the paper. 1 have given 1t in full
without the alteration of a word.
pass il on to readers, who may be
as deeply moved as l am, forbearing
a word of comment. Hundreds Of
saleswomen and clerks read our Ex-
change. Is "Justicia'' a fair type of
your order? Is her case exceptional?
These are questions L beg you to
answer frankly and briefly.
Those who have read the story to
the bitter end will not blame me for
yielding SO much room to it.
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To Remove Paint From Woolem
StHfs

Take a piece of uninjured material like
that which the paint has touched, and
with 1t rub the paint steadily anu
evenly. The spots Will vanish as by
magic
For Scratched Mahogany
Dip bit of tissue paper in ink and
rub the scratches with it. This done,
polish with the same paper, after the ink
has dried into the wood. / hope these
trihes, which have tried and not found
wanting may help some of your mem
bers. Mrs. NJ. d. II. fEvanston. lll).
They are just the little things which
are not trif1es except in the opinion OF
the modest donors. The worth of sirnpies
like these is incalculable. You recolleet
the fable of the trooper who picked up
a horseshoe on the battlefield and hung
IL about his neck from a cord. Hardy
had he got it in place when bullet
struck it and glanced off harmlessly;
Aha" said the man. Il now perceive
tnat very little arn1or is sufficient,
provided it be in the right place.
A woman defined happiness In my
nearing the other day as Having what
you want in the very nick of time. For
example. she added, when ones blot
ter hes close to ones hand at the pre-
clse moment when one needs 1t more
lhan one needs anything else in the
). Apply both illustrations to your
'brief7ets ,,
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Hard Butter Without Ice

:. To keep table butter firm without. putting
Il in the refrigerator. set a ,.trivet'' or any
pat or mold M de Of put buftsf. upon upon the the trivet;
eay oner sDq po over
in such manner that the edge of the pot
the water. Cork the hole in the bottom Of
the flower pot tnow the upper parD and
Set all in cold place. and in q few
hours you have firm. cold butter. This is
those who have scanty IN % supply Of Ice op
small refrigerators.
Rice Removes Rust
Boil q cupful of rice in two quarts OF
water for thirty minutes. Let ii stand
overnight. and strain through cheesecloth.
Soak the iron-rust spots In the ricewater
for four or FIVE. hours. and rinse in clear
water. This will remove iron rust of long
standing.
To Restore Faded Upholstery
Beat the dust out thoroughlv and brush.
Then with stiff brush apply strong
lather of CASTLE soap and water. Sponge
an over the surface with with a strong s sol1. e
tion Of alum and water. Dissolve the alum
When dry. the upholstery r should ho be be'IS as
fresh IN color as when new. If the coiors
Rsve RsS faded 4 peyOpPd Pav the hoPs q
touch them with brush dipped in water
colors Of suitable shaoes. Nix the paints
I have often. read requests in the Ex-
change for methods of cleaning upholstered
furniture without removing the covers.
Little did dream that / had this valuable
-four .fogntsin iil., OF youth, in my own attic.
old faded thing before venturing upon costly
furniture
Il have not tried 1t nnyself as vet hut
am assured that il win work all right.)
To Prevent Bread and Flour From
Molding
II a small, clean stone be put into the
DO&
with moidy flour. Keep one in the bread
box and the bread and cake will not
Who sets us to wondering today ?
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The Kitchen Walls

How can I successfully whitewash my
kitchen? At first, thought it not neces-
sary. as the house is new. But now the
walls are smoke-stained and / should
like to clean them without the aid of
professional.
j. H. B. verona. s Dak).
You cannot clean whitewashed walls
without disfiguring them. advise
you to scrub them perfectly clean
and paint them a light gray or buff.
You may wash that every season
without injuring the wall cover.
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her in that iIlimitable future7 And just
here is where what might be called the
gospel of detail-the royal readers prin-
cfple of living and working and think
ing by. the single and present day
comes into play. If we are appalled, by
the consciousness of our own insignif-
eance IL we see mankind as tiny in
sects afoat upon that wide, wide sea-
let us bethink ourselves of the blessed
truth that we are to sail but one wave
at a time We have nothing to do
to the rapt voyager. We leave behind US
who has brought US thus far on the
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knelt and took possession of the new
sea and the shores bounding it in the
name OF his king. From our mountain
top we behold what is, already the en-
pire of our sovereign-"The earth is
the Lords, and the fullness thereof"
Yet the era upon which we are entering
is something which never was before
and that never will be again.
When your brain has stilled from the
thrill of that mighty thought shall we
not take counsel together for a little
while as to the part each of us Is to
play in the space appointed to him or to
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Ing of the body were forgotten in that
ecstatic hour. His name and that su-
preme moment are forever linked in his
tory with the peaks of Darien.
Dear children. we stand today upon
heights overlooking a yaster sea and
one yet more strange to us than the
wide stretch of the western ocean was
TO the rapt voyager. We leave behind us
the unbegnning spaces OF eternity past.
Before US widens eternity to come. The
sixteenth century adventurer, in imita-
ton of the greater discoverer of
Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-two.'
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MARION HARIAND THE HoUsEMoTHERs FRIEND HER STUDY

celestial way viii take care for the NOR
row. Don't vex your finite mind with
questions as to his purposes and his
manner of bringing these to pass. Take
him at his word and bend your ener-
gies to the performance of the duty that
lies nearest your hand.
The year that Is dead was trying to
thousands of wives and housemothers
throughout our land. 1t has been es-
pecially SO to wives through the perfec-
tion Of their loving sympathy with -hus-
bands struggling against financial diff
culties and fighting the battle of life as
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That ricewater should remove rust, and
soapsuds and alumwater restore lost
youth and beauty to brocade and Gre
tonne, and a stone absorb the moisture
that might, else, take the form of
mold-are things hard to be believed.
Yet so firm is our faith in the Judgment
and veracity of our cores pondent that
we venture to print her letter and to
advise the use of the preventives and
clea nsers she recommends.
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lBlttermiIk Pop

May an interested reader of the Exchange
contribute yet one more recipe for butter
milk popY This has been handed down in
our family from a York state Dutch
grandmother.
Bring any quantity OF buttermilk that is
wanted for the occasion to q boil. Salt to
taste and stir in enough cornmeal 10 make
q thick soup-or ''puree," as the French
would call 1t. In plain English this is
nothing but cornmeal mush. made too thin
for frying and with buttermilk instead OF
with water. Then, as grandmother used
you may put in any kind Of spice YOU
fancy" NAY c. tDetroit Mich.).
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

n ECAUSE Of the enormous
n Number Of letters sent to
the Exchange, must ask
contributors 20 limit their COM
s1tUnScGtsons to 100 4cordS, eEcept
GA cases Of formulas or recipes
sChtch require greater space. I
tCGnt all nly correspondents to
haze q showing IN the Corner,
and If M request fn this respect
IS complied soitb it 1osH be gossi-
BE TO print ndEu more letters.
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NEW YEARS DAY
BREAKEAST

BREAKFAST
Grapefruit, cereal and cream. fried
chicken and corn fritters sally lunn toast,
tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON
5eef bOuilion in cups, cold corned beef,
whole wheat bread, baked pork and beans.
chicken and celery salad with ulay0nnaiSo
dressing (made or canned cnickenl. crack
ers and cheese. chocolate blanc mango with
whipped cream. iea.
DINNER
Macaronl soup with parnesan cheese,
roast turkey. scalloped oysters eranberryI
sauce. celery. stswed chestnutS with turkey
gravy. riced potatoes (DrOwned), callLts
flower. mince pie. black coffee.
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when the purse Is light and food -
dear. Have you ever thought why the
handiwork Of short-sighted people is
proverbially neat? Seeing little be-
yond what is in their fingers and close
to their eyes. their attention does not
wander to distracting objects. There is
a moral lesson in that. Look for it,
One OF the most charming sketches
that have appeared in a periodical for
many a day is George s. Merriam's
'Reco1lections" of his dear friend Ed
ward Everett Hale. published last No
vember. In it we have Doctor Hale's in
terpreta ton of his celebrated four mot
toes for everyday living:
Look up, and not down:
Look forward, and not back;
Look out. and not in;
Lend hand
Said the lover OF his kind:
They are just a modern version OF
Paurs Faith. hope and charity. To
look up, and not down-that is faith.
To look forward. and not back-that is
hope. To look out. and not in-that is
charity in thought To lend a hand
that is charity IN action"
The translation was beautiful IN
thought. How the grand old man lived
1t out to the latest hour Of his beneh-
cent earthly pilgrimage a grateful
country viii not forget.
With~this Familiar Talk 10 the count
less homes represented In our constitu-
ency go loving wishes for better times
and brighter days dWing the year that
is upon us. More fervent and loving is
the desire that strength and grace may
be granted by the hour TO every per-
picked and sorrowing soul in the dark
and cloudy day to
ACT! ACT! IN the living present,
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
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dnpePs Charloffe Rgsse

Kindly reprint the recipe recently given
for Angels Charlotte Russe.s. It con-
tanned whipped cream. tnarshnailows,
Amends and chefriez but neglected
to observe the proportions.
n. NJ P (Watervliet, Mich.).
My memory has no record OF any
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THE HOUSEMOTHERS' EXCHANGE

recipe under that name. If it appeared
in the Exchange. some careful soul has
kept it and 1t will be sent in. II you
saw it elsewhere. it is pretty certain
that you will get it ell the same Our
members are as yigiiant as they are
obliging.
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Il Housearife's Patent

You invite brief contributions of what the
perience
can't think of anything l have that Is
worth sending, unless to say that always
hit down to iron. OF course. ] must stand
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SATURDAY

BREAKFAST
Grapas, cereal and cream. Danfsh. cat
meal mullins, toast. tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON
Creaned Ash "a letL-cver) stewed pota-
toes. toasted oatmeal mullins (from break
fastl. apple sauce and c0okys. tea.
DINNER
Vegetables soup (Dertly a left-over). veal
outlets, tomato sauce. earned lima beam,
nodded. rice. banana charlotte russo. black
coffes-
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WEDNESDAY

BREAKFAST
Oranges, cereal and cream, sausage and
griddle cakes, toast tea and coffee
LUNCHEON
Yesterdays soup IN cups. cheese fondu,
quick graham biscuits. tomato toast. cOOkys
and tea.
DINNER
Chicken grmbo soup biased upon canned
chicken soup). mutton chops en- casserole,
canned green peas mashed potatoes, pruna
and nut Jelly ana cake. black coffee.
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III
Heart within, and God oerhead.
That is the keynote OF my motherly
chat today with my dearly beloved con-
sdtuents. whom the ten years of our
close compsnionship have ripened into
kindred.
One Of the good old customs" the
passing OF which is lamented by the
aforementioned sentimental dreamers.
IS the habit of making New Year reso-
lutions. Our strenuous common -sensi-
ble day laborer (all real workers are
ThatD smiles increduIously when as
sured that the practice was enjoined
upon Christians by the pulpit, and the
duty TO obey the Injunction inculcated
by pioUs mothers upon their offspring,
IN that hOary and moss-grown.
long ago" II mattered not that
these New Year resolutions TO turn over
a fresh leaf and TO record thereupon. in
the sight OF high heaven, the bettered
thought and purpose, were invariably
broken and the very memory Of them
lost before the next first day OF January
drove the backslider TO a repetition OF
the farce II was the thing to plan a
moral and spiritual heusecleaning on
New Years day. when the rest Of the
bills came in.
Franklin must have had the fashion In
mind when he suggested to his thrifty
father TO say grace over the whole bar
rel Of pork when 1t was packed down,
instead Of doing It by driblets three
times a day. Be sure the boy had a
strong bias at that tender age for the
economy that came out in force in Poor
Richards Almanac"
would not speak irreverently of the
birthday Of another year. Another poet
OF the last century-George d. Prentice
in his magnificent lines upon The Clos
ing Year" reminds us that
n Is e time for memory and for tears
Because memories that will not down
press the tears from hearts and eyes, I
would direct saddened souls in the dawn
Of another cycle TO look forward. We
talked together Of royal readers" some
weeks ago. Now. If ever, is the rally
ing season for these
Every schoolboy knows the story of
Balboa. the Spanish adventurer who
2mmOrtahzed his name by being the
first Of European explorers TO climb the
peaks Of Darien and 10 look from that
height upon the Pacific ocean. Behind
him flashed In the sun the tributaries
OF the Atlantic, over which he had voy-
aged in the wild hope OF seeing the
other side OF the world. Perils, hard
ehips, the travail OF soul and the suffer-
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THURSDAY

BREAKFAST
Sliced pineapple. cereal and cream, bacon
waInes and maple syrup. toast. tea and
LUNCHEON
Mince Of liver with tomato sauce "a left
overl stuffed potatoes. egg and lettuca
salad crackers and cheese. not gingerbread
DINNER
Julienne soup. broiied pork chops with
apple sauce. Drowned sweet potatoes. cream
ed onions. rice pudding black coffee.
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sMesem Hskss.<
FAMILY MEALS
FOR A WEEK
MONDAY

MONDAY
BREAKFAST
Oranges. cereal and cream, devlled kid
neyS, rice muf1ns. toast Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON
Yesterdays pork and beans, potato pun
Ga left-over), corn bread. lettuce and
celery salad, crackers and cheese. dough-
nuts and Jam cocoa.
DINNER
Oyster blsque turkey scallop "a left
over, sealloped caullh0wer "a left-overls
sweet potatoes, plum pudding, black cof-
fee.
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TUESDAY

BREAKFAST
Stewed apples cereal and cream, bacon
and eggs. French rolls. toast. tea and
LUNCHEON
Finnan haddie potato fritters scalloped
sweet potatoes "a left-over), thin bread and
butter. apple cake, tea.
DINNER
Turkey rack SOUP. larded and baked calfs
liver, spinach (canned). mashed turnip5s
chestnut pudding. black coffee
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t0OSe 4.
lost positions that seemed secure. More
have felt the letters of debt contracted
because it was a simple impossibility to
make one dollar do the work of two.
Housemothers have grown old under
the stress of that same problem. One
said to me yesterday:
''It is always the same story: Unto
him that hath shall be given My hGs-
band lost, through no fault OF his,
situation he had held with honor for
fifteen years. The head of the firm had
a brother-in-law whom he wished TO put
into Harrys place. He picked a quarrel
with my husband for that reason. and
none other. That man rides to his place
of business every morning in his motor
car Last summer he took his wife
abroad and did the continent in his
own machine. We have used up the
small sum we had put away toward
rainy day and Harry has just secured
a situation after six months agonized
search for one. His salary is half OF
that we had for twelve years and the
price of living is twice as great. Ma
poleon said Providence is on the side OF
the army that has the biggest guns In
our country the Lord sides with those
that have most money"
If I were to reveal the secrets OF
the confessional in which scores of other
women have poured out to me tales as
sad and misanthropy as bitter. this
would be "a dark page. For them the
year OF our Lord 1910 has been like the
very Valley of the Shadow of Death.
Would to heaven could set every one
of these upon the sunlit peaks of Darien
and turn the wan eyes toward a bright
ening horizon!
To each my motherly counsel is:
First, and above all else, hold fast 70
your faith in the Fathers wisdom and
love for you-you, personally and indi-
viduallyl You may not know what is
for your best and truest good. He
does! With this persuasion bound upon
the failing heart. grasp the next duty
with both hands and take short views
of life.
A clever New England tale. by the
author of Cape Cod Folks, introduces
us to one who was a royal roader
without knowing 1T. She had three
pairs of glasses for daily use. One
pair she named her "nigh-tos''; a sec
ond, ''mejums' the third, ''fur-offs.
We do well to wear the "nign-tos'
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FRIDAY

BhEAkFASI
Oranges, cereal and cream, hshbaIlA
cornnleal mullins, toast. tea and coffee
LUNCHEON
Clam pates. hot potato salad. green pepper
TOAST. crackers. cream cheese and goose
berry jam. tea.
DINNER
Cream OF carrot sOun baked and Dreaded
haubut. fried French potatoes, pickles. horn-
black coffee.
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- REAMERS and sentimentalisrs
call ours an iconoclastic age.
It is undoubtedly true that In
the stress Of positive duties and
sn The face OF stern facts we have not
time 10 daily with superstitious fancies
and imaginary obligations. In the
middle Of the last century a great poet
set the pace" for thought and action:
Life is real: life is earnest
In the last lines Of the grand psalm
he shouts the wsr-cry Of that real and
earnest life:
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-09-15

FAMOUS futile Strain Rose Comb Rhode Is
L land Reds. Great Inland Strain s. &. Black
Miporcas. Stock for sale; eggs in season. Dep.
ner d Son, Spokane. Wash
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sides. [ know many people who have
changed from wet to dry mash feed
ing and not one of them has returned
to the wet mash. The dry mash is
fed in hoppers, the fowls have access
to it at all times and at any time
few fowls Will generally be found at
the hopper but they do not eat much
at a time. l have observed the same
fowl at the hopper six times IN one
day, taxing but few bites at time
and presume she made several other
visits when | was not there. A good
formula for dry mash is as follows:
Bran 49,. ......... NO0 i"''
MlddllngS. ....... 1OO
Yellow corn feed meal. -..... 100
Alfalfa meal ..............lO O
Soy bean meal 80. ....,....l OO
Fine beef srcapS. ..,.... lOO
And my reason for not adding one
pound of fine table salt to this print
ed formula is that | am afraid some
careless person will make slovenly
Job of mixing and fail to get the salt
thoroughly distributed throughout the
mash.
LAYING fowls should be we'll one
might almost say heavily fed. Two
good grain feeds per day in the lit
ter. which latter should be deep and
reasonably clean. A morning feed OF
wheat and cats and an evening feed
of wheat alone, in connection with
the dry mash above described, makes
a very satisfactory ration. A quart
of grain to % Leghorns is about the
average, but no hard and fast rule
can be followed; they should have
all they want; no fowl can lay we'll
unless fed we'll. In cold weather the
fowls should re ceive an extra feed at
night consisting Of whole corn. 1t is
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There is hardly farm in the states
of the middle West without its flock
OF thoroughbred chickens, and it is
generally flock of some considerable
size too. SO general and so extensive
is the production of poultry by the
farmers there that that particular
section of the country is become the
paradise of the call varieties poul-
tryman, who advertises many breeds
of fowls but raises none, depending
on the farmers of the vicinity to sup
DIV him with all the material neces-
sary to fill his orders.
In no other rural communities are
mortgages so scarce and pianos and
automobiles so plentiful and it is
significant fact that on every farm can
be found one or more incubators, and
in most cases, it will be found that
the incubator was there before the
mortgage departed and the automobile
arrived.
For much of this rural prosperity
is due to the poultry raised on the
farms. The farmer, who was wont in
the good old mortgaged days to turn
his nose up at chickens as feminine
side issue and somewhat doubtful
source Of "pin money! now consld-
ers the poultry one of the farm crops,
devotes time and labor and thought
to his fowls and the best methods OF
handling them and freely acknowl-
edges that an acre in poultry brings
him more revenue than many acres In
wheat and that the same amount OF
money Invested in poultry pays
larger dividend than when invested in
any other form of livestock.
Now what the middle west farmer
has done the Washington farmer can
also do, and then some besides. For
he has the finest climate in the world
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Feeding for Eggs.

l am in receipt of many questions
regarding the feeding of laying
fowls. SO numerous are these ques-
tons, that, the time being fitting
one, ] think that [ had best cover
them all by brief article on the
subject 1t should be borne in
mind that most of my experience has
been obtained with Leghorns but as
this breed is in great majority in
the Northwest, comprising in my
opinion, nine tenths of the laying
fowls, most of the questions will be
suited.
To begin with, it is generally con.
coded that the dry mash gives some
what better results, in the long run,
than the wet mash does and there is
a considerable saving in labor be-