The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-03-24

The Boston Herald reprints a few use
full household economics from Lippincott'
as follows:
TO make biscuits light-dreneh witt
gasoline and ignite before serving. ~
get rid Of peddlers-buy all they have. IL
remove fruit stains from linen-use The
scissors To keep rats out OF the pantry
put all the food in the cellar To entertain
, women yisitors-let them read all YOU
private papers. To entertain men visi tor
feed the brutes. To keep husband al
home-look up all his clothes. To pro
pitiate the janitor-you can't do il.
Soak white lace in sweet milk over night,
then wash IN hot soapsuds and water.
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Genuine whalebone can be soaked in hot
water for half an hour and ironed with a
warm iron.
washed with warm soapsuds, rinsed and
dried in the sun.
Girls AS well as boys are nowadays
learning that hand work OF all kinds is
commendable and not demeaning, and they
are taking up the practical lines OF sewing
as well as embroidery, learning 10 cook
roasts and vegetables as well as fancy
desserts and chafing.dish delicaoies, and
even branching out into the craftsman's
lines and taking up such work as the ham.
mering OF silver, brass and copper, sculp.
ture, and other lines. And most girls be.
come proficient IN such work when they
are earnest in their application to it,
IL is very difficult matter to keep a
white yoke and collar in the condition of
absolute cleanliness that is demanded,
and for this reason the guimpe made en-.
tirely separate from the gown is the best
arrangement. II must fl perfectly and
be so constructed as TO seem part OF the
gown, never appear 20 be on the verge
OF parting company with It.
The best OF the kitchen range fire can
not be gotten out OF it II papers and food
scraps are thrown into it. The Goals |
should be kept clean from the time they |
are put into the stove until they come out
in ashes.
The saddle. back hats are surely not the
most graceful things in the world, yet we
are told that they are most certainly on
the way.
Even among the china novelties for the
teatable colos are vivid and strong. one
of the new ideas being cups and saucers
and sandwich plates half covered by a
single deep-colored flower.
Pale blue and mauve are successfully
this season, as are gray and
rose, black and gold, amber and light blue.
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There is a tendency on the part of many
invariably TO use perfumes on going TO the
theater. There are some people who are
100 selfish to care about the comforts OF
others, but the majority Of women If they
knew how very unpleasant the odor OF
perfumes was to many, often giving them
severe headache and sometimes causing
'eal illness, would refrain from using '
hem in any public gathering indoors. Ee
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Ii you live In the city or in the town =
n country where there is much passing |
~ your house, never allow yourself to I
light the lamp without first taking pains /
o draw down all the window shades. This .
dvice applies especially to those who live !,
n apartment houses and are so far above
he street level that they think no one can
ee them at their toilet woman sitting
the Wlnd0W OF her city nome the other a
ay, Just at dusk, was amused TO see in the .
window Of the apartment house opposite
whole little domestic comedy acted out,
ecause the dweller in the apartment house u
yould not take the trouble to pull down b
he shades. The chance observer saw the d
Their woman put the final touches to her p
air, slip into the waist of her dress-no, N
wasn't a princess-make her husband
)me and hook her up, and then put her
iirt on very carefully over her head OF
othing very notifying in this, you will is
~. OF course not, but little domestic sc