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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

To make whites of eggs froth quickly in warm weather lay them In cold water for an hour before breaking. After break ing and separating yolks and whites. put tiny pinch of salt into the whites. They will stiffen sooner if this is done.
 Cakes calling for milk in the batter may be made as well with water. We like them better. Add little melted but ter if you don't use milk.
 A CALIFORNIA JUNIOR MEMBER"
 Who will not write with pencil when she gets older. She will also give name and ad- dress in full. She has made such a brave beginning in the work of discipleship that I overlook these flaws and print her use ful " items" thereby receiving her into full membership. May she go on as she has be- gum
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into a third pan of clear water, and wiped, one by one, as they came from water so hot that the hand could hardly bear to hold them. The wiping was as rapidly cone. There was none of what the sery- ants called dreening" My mother held that in draining the articles cooled and streaked She wiped fast, and said the heat " did half the work" Next came the china; finally the heavier dishes, etc. The handles of the knives never went into the water. They were of ivory, and the water would yellow them. The blades were dipped into a narrow pitcher of hot water and wiped at once
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~ o large percentage of housemothers in the city use gas ranges, and econ
 omy is 90 much in the minds of us > all just now, that the accompanying
 suggestions may not come amiss to the woman who would make every dollar do the full work of one hundred cents
 ION IRONING DAY l Save gas by turning an old agate iron pan over the irons. It keeps the air from them and retains the heat. When I stop to turn an article or to fold it, and have to set the iron down for a minute or two, it goes under the pan. Or although this is more troublesome-I set a kettle of soup or a pot roast upon the irons. so as to cook it slowly while the ironing is going on.
 Meringue upon buildings and pies will brown slowly-as 1t sheuld-if the dish be set under the blaze when one is cooking vegetables. It will color beautifully, and there is no danger of scorching.
 PORK AND BEANS may be baked with little trouble and by the use of very little gas if one knows how to manage it. (By the way, I will send you the recipe if you want it) While I am working l use .- large oven which covers two burners, but light only one and turn it low, for baking beans. I set pan of raw peanuts on top of the beanpot, and pan of crusts to dry. And they really dry. and don't brown. Or, if I have no crusts, I set a pan of suet or other fat to try out upon the pot. You can see the saving there.
 bake the beans all night. which makes them just right for breakfast. All who have eaten them praise my Boston baked beans
 And now. won't you say something of dish washing? Or don't you class that with gas economy .? Nearly every maid and mistress dislikes this sort of housework. l don't, for I make 1t as easy as possible
 Will you give us your ideas upon the eubfecf? Rugy MEMBER"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
Coming Chicken for Winter.

You asked the other day for a recipe for canning chicken for winter use. I have done this for years and 1 will tell you how.
 ITO CAN CHICKEN.-Paek the jars ful, of raw chicken cut into pieces such as you would use for fricassee. Press them down hard, sprinkling with salt and pepper as for present use. Sometimes l scatter tiny bits of fat salt pork among the meat. Then I use no more salt. Have the jar as full top tightly upon the rubbers. Set the jars ina broad bottomed pot upon board laid in the bottom to keep the glass from cracking the pot heats, and fill up to ths necks of the jars with cold water. Set over the fire and as the water heats un. screw each top little way to allow the steam 10 escape. Boil steadily for three hours. Then lift the kettle and contents to the table; open each jar in turn care fully and fill to the brim with boiling water. Replace the covers and screw tight and fast. Have but one jar open at time and do the filling as rapidly as you can. Set the pot and jars back over the fire and when the outer water begins to boil hard take the pot from the range and set aside with the Jars in 1t until it is perfectly cold
 Looking through the glass you will see thick layer of congealed fat upon the surface of the contents This helps to ex- clude the air. as paraffin would
 I have never lost a can put up in this way, and we have chicken pie and fricassee when poultry Is too expensive for us to think of buying 1t In the market We watch the markets and buy two or three pairs of fowls when the prices are al the lowest. Now and then I read of a con signment to this or that grocery, of fowls which must be sold off soon. Last year one large grocery had consignment of
 Virginia fowls which were offered at oG cents a pound. We were paying 25 and as for roasters and 34 for broilers. I bought six pairs and canned five. They lasted us all through the doeful season you have taught US to call pinch time. paid e for what would have cost me SIP later ID the year. MRS. E. T. II.
 Just what we have been trying to get for. To, these many monthsl l thank you for driving home the lesson I have tried often to inculcate. of watching the markets with your own eyes and not taking second hand reports through the telephone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
Beds Should Be We'll Aired.

Every morning the beo should be stripped as soon as the late occupant rises. Bolster and mattress should be beaten and laid upon chairs to air and cool. The covers should be shaken In the air and disposed In such manner that the air may freely visit them. The mattress should be turned and laid on end to allow free circulation of the morning breeze. Three hours at least should elapse before the bed Is remade. Ii takes fully that length of time to dissipate the odor and warmth mbibed during the night
 Slop jars, etc, which cannot conveniently be removed from the bedroom should havs close tops and not be uncovered until they are taken from the chamber.
 There should be. absolutely no, odor in bedrooml
 Smells" as we ought 10 know by now. consist of infintestimal particles of matter floating In the air to the nostrils. When bedroom has the unpleasant stuny smell with which we are but too familiar IL Is unclean and needs purffication at once. "Glorify it by sending the pure outdoor air sweeping through 1t, and. if you can, let the sunshine go with 1t upon the pious mis- sion. By the way, sensitive olfactories are the most valuable auxiliarles the house. mother can have in this same matter Of sanitation. Never try to kill an evil odor by substituting the finest artificial perfume. It is disguise not punishment. Make clean work of the duty by running the !" bad smell " 10 earth and getting clear of 1t en- tirely. Suffer no temporizing with the de- mon If there be a lingering suspicion of dead and gone meals in the hall open all the windows. If the dercest tempest of the season be raging. Freezing Is less deadly than stagnant air surcha-ged with germ breeding atoms.
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general Nd91 lIt ShbJCNN pl Ohc VI
 your familiar talks in your Help ing Hand Corner?
 There are hundreds of housemothers who bestow little thought upon a matter so important to the welfare or the household that 1t should be seriously studied by all intelligent women.
 i" The Corner is of great benefit to me, as fl must be to other young housekeepers who are trying to do their work in the best possible way. MARY s. $.
 The papers teem with tales of sanitary reforms, based upon the discovery of abuses of health and the resources of sci- ence for keeping communities clean, there- fore, sane And all the while the public at large pays comparatively little attention to the homely Fundamental truth that sani- tation, like the charity that sweetens the moral and spiritual world, should begin al home.
 In compliance with the request of an es teemed correspondent. who. believe voices the sentiment of numerous housekeepers. old as well as young. we will touch upon certain measures. precautionary and re- medal, by which the health of the family may be bettered and maintained.
 IL goes without saying that cleanliness. declared of old to be next to godliness, which is the health of the soul, is Of para mount importance throughout the task. have referred before and with emphasis to Tyndales admirable treatise upon :" Dust and Disease Since dust Is omnipresent in our lower world it follows that war upon it must be incessant. Our housewife need not lay the fiattering unction to her soul that she can ever remit her efforts to get rid of 1t. Like the conflict with sin, original and home made. she must !" renew it boldly every day. until she lays her duster by and lies down to rest. and to be resolved into the dust she has battled with long and gal lantlY.
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arbitrary Of our secret societies. Personal- ly, l put upon record and gratefully, that the " grapevine telegraph has never borne bitter fruit in my own home. have, my friends gay been "slngularly fortu- nate " with respect to the yexed question that has brought hundreds of as well mean ing women 10 the grave and to the verge of insanity. But [ cannot close my eyes to the truth exempllied in the experience of my compeers
 do not crave forgiveness for dwelling so so long upon the topic. l should set up the word in Inch long capitals If 1 tried to con vey In type my sense of it's importance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
Mending Washing Machine.

Anybody who uses an electric washing machine land there are sundry patents of il in the marketl will read and maybe prof by this briefiet of domestic ways and means:
 Should the leather belt break. make a substitute of braided clothesline. Tie i very tightly in double knot, binding the ends smoothly 10 prevent fraying.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

air. In evaporating, the oil loses volatile properties, but leaves something which ab- sorbs and holds the dust. After the cloth becomes stiff-that is. when it has taken up all the germ laden dust 1t can hold-it Is dropped into boiling water, wrung out. and recharged with kerosene. The advantage of the process is obvious. Whereas, the feather duster, beloved of the housemaid and the easy going mistress, scatters the offending particles to settle again and float to other parts of the apartment, the ' dust less captures, partly sterilizes, and then scalds the life out of them. Let not the feather duster be so much as named among us in this warfare. It Is a menace to do- nestle health, an invention of the adyer- sary of law and order. Instead of 1t use soft cloth, whether oil soaked or not, and wash 1t often in boiling water.
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 Care of the Bathroom.
 The care of the bathroom claims a lead ing paragraph. I know one man whose family was poisoned by sewer gas flowing from a defective trap" Two of the chill dren died and the rest narrowly escaped like fate The father. mortified by the mshap, stubbornly refused to have a bath room and toilet closet in any part of the house thereafter. A wiser course is to make sure that everything connected with the system of sewerage is in perfect order. and that 1t Is kept safe and sound. Then see that the pipes are flushed twice week, oftener in summer. with boiling water. Take the time of day when the heat of the boiler is at its highest. open the faucet and send a torrent of hot water through the pipes leading from tub, washstand, and closet. Keep up the rush for ten minutes. Twice week pour a good disinfeetant con- taining chloride of lime into the traps be- fore turning on the hot water Scala out washbowl and tub daily, adding soap, and if the water be hard, add ammonia to the stream.
 Every member of the household should have his or her own washcloth or sponge. and. whenever practicable. individual cake of soap You cannot lay too much stress upon this point. It is uncleanly and dangerous to use sponge or cloth belong
 ing to another person. Our sensibilities have been shocked and our credulity strained within the last year by published reports of medical experts concerning the actual perils of public drinking fountains, Statistics as to the prevalence of foul dis eases communicated by the general use of a common drinking cup or tumbler are un- believable to the average reader We do not take them into account of the expedi- ency of care in the use of ones brothers or sisters bath sponge. Yet the fact cannot be ignored that trifling cutaneous disease may be communicated by the practice even in clean families. Nor that the insensible precipitation and particles of effete matter thrown off by the cuticle under friction and the softening of hot water, remain. in part. In the pores of the sponge and in the threads of the crash cloth, and may be deposited upon the skin of the next bather. The soap is less dangerous, inasmuch as the water cleanses it, and the alkali neutralizes greasy and acid deposits. Yet l have in
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years back of us to !" run through the fam ily." Whooping cough, measles, and scar let fever never retreated in good order from the house without numbering all the eligt- ble victims upon the premises.
 That was matter of course It remained an insoluble mystery that all the children should have bad colds at the same time.
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mind more than one case of cutaneous dis case contracted by the use of soap of fine quality which had been used by one af- iicted by what Is known to the vulgar as seven years itch The irritation caused by poison ivy may be transmitted in the same way.
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able quarter. Neither chamber ever had ray of sunshine the year round. One sickens at the suggestion of the sluice of sewer gas which must have ebbed and flowed above the heads of the sleeping chil- dren. I was in no way amazed when the mother lamented the "malarial tendencies" displayed by her darlings. She could not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
Mingling of Brcaihs Dangerous.

It is not month since I saw pretty woman snatch p1ece of cake from tho hand of young fellow with whom she was chatting at table and proceed to nibble it daintily, setting her pearly teeth in the prints his had left In the slice. To complete the dlsgustful play she dipped her spoon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
Only Ten Per Cent Keep Scrpants.


 Only Ten Per Cent Keep Scpants.
 Miss Tarbell Is recognized as one of the most profound thinkers and one of the abest writers in America. It would be pre- sumption in me to attempt criticism or argument in this. her acknowledged field. All that she asserts of the return to feudal customs in the matter of domestic service doubtless is true with regard to compara- lively small set of employers.
 There are numerous milllonaires in our country, but they represent very small percentage of the population of these United States. A careful collector of sta tlstics bearing upon this subject afnrms that 90 per cent of the women in America keep no servants We may be staggered by the computation until we reflect that this includes foreign born and colored residents. We readily grant that the proportion of the comfortably off middle class folk among us who keep but one maid to a family is probably at least one-third of the remaining 10 per cent For a household of average size two maids are adjudged to be equal to the regular work by those whose incomes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

4sIt Is now ready to be used as belt. and 1t works to a charm. L. M. V."
 Thank youl Electricity has been har- messed to so many household implements that your word will find interested read
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
Three Things Repaired.

My mother wore gloves while washing dishes. The fingers were cut down far enough to allow the use of the dainty tips, which were the only part of her hands wet in the process. Following her example, I have never found dishwashing rksome have again and again timed myself when the duty fell to me in the absence of the waitress. In fifteen minutes the work it took her an hour to do was accomplished Three things are requisite to the swift and right performance of the task: Plenty of hot water, at least two pans, and enough clean soft towels 10 turn out each piece dry from the rapid manipulation. There is no need of a change of dress. A big apron protects it and gloves shield the hands She is slovenly or ignorant per- former who plunges her hands into the suds at any stage of the performance. There should be no grease in the suds. The first hot rinsing water should take 1t off
 A teaspoonful of washing soda or dash of ammonia in the rinsing water makes clean work of grease.
 There Is to my notion but one proper method of washing dishes I add mourn fully that in over half a century of active housewifery I have had but one waitress or butler who did it as thought 1t should be done. That was pretty bright, Irish
 greenhorn," who had never seen a silver fork before showed her how to wash 1t. She lived with me eight years, and in all that time my china. glass. and silver were cleansed to my taste. In parting from her at the end of that time I told her that she would take good care of her own store of plenishing," and why I said 1t.
 She opened her blue eyes wide: But you see, ma am. you took me when didn't know any better nor to do just as you told mel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
4 Junior Members Contribution.

Although I am only Ii years old I should like to contribute my share to the Helping Hand corner. It Is never too soon. or too late, to begin good work. you know. Here are some items I know to be true:
 '' small handful of salt in the water in which potatoes are boiled with the skins on will make them more mealy.
 Potatoes that are to be baked should be perfectly dry when they go into the oven. They bake sooner than when put in damp from washing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

The changes in the weather were freely blamed for the epidemic character of the disorder. The idea that a common garden variety of cold In the head and sore throat with or without the complication of fever
 should be catching ' would have been
 booted out of court as absurd. Two and, if the bed were wide, three infants slept In one bed. often a fourth lay upon pallet upon the floor. winter and summer. where
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

Another ancient foe to comfort and health beloved by our forbears who knew no bet ter and which intelligent, reading. and thinking housemothers are now banishng from the home Is the double bed. It was an immutable law of the feverish cold fifty
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the results of the experiment Is therefore opportune.
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Double Bed Foe 10 Health.

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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-09-26
New Baggage Check.

A new baggage check, embodylng
number of unique features which are ex-
pected to lessen the number OF errors and
complaints, has just been placed in ser
vice by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The duplicate portion of the new check
is provided with spaces in which are
printed number of the principal bad
order" conditions in which baggage is
frequently received for checking.
A check, on being delivered to a pas
senger, will be perforated to show wheth-
er the piece of baggage is a trunk, suit
case or valise, fibre case, or tool chest
Another perforation will show the con-
dition in which it was received, whether
the bottom, side, top or end is broken,
lock or handle broken, hinges loose, Old
or worn, or whether the pieces OF baggage
is open. In this way the duplicate check
will contain a full description of the con-
dition OF the baggage when received tor
shipment.
The number on the Tag portion OF the
check is placed at the bottom, while on
the duplicate portion it is printed at the
top, SO that the two can be readily match
ed when making delivery ofbaggage.
1t is expected that with the use OF this
new form of check the liability OF mis-
matching numbers will be minimized, the
delivery of baggage expedited, and the
number of claims greatly reduced.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-09-26

tor told me to go to hospital. l did
not like that idea very well, so, when l
saw your advertisement in a paper, l
wrote to you for advice, and have done as
you told me. ! have taken Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
Liver Pills, and now / have my health.
eff sick and ailing women would only
know enough to take your medicine, they
would get relief. Mrs. BENZ. H. STAINS
Berry, Route 6, Box Is, Upper Sandusky,
Ohio.
If you have mysterious pains, irregu-
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For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
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for female ills, and such unquestionable
testimony as the above proves the value
of this famous remedy and should give
every one confidence.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-09-26
Prehistoric Images.

The British Museum is outfItting an
expedition to the Pacific to try to solve
the problem of gigantic prehistoric stone
images discovered on Carter Island.
mere speck in the ocean, about 25OO
miles west of Chile.
II is thought that maybe this little isle
of mystery is the last pinnacle ct a sub
| merged continent which once in bygone
ages occupied the greater part OF the
South Pacific and possibly joined Asia
and America. The inhabitants may have
gradually been forced to the top of the
last peak, there to perish, only after they
had erected their wonderful monument.
The island is only As square miles in
area, but on it there have been raised
immense platforms facing the sea and
formed of huge stones fittedtogether with
cement. Some of the separate stones
weigh five tons, and the sea wall at places
is 30 feet high ard % feet long. On the
land side OF the platform there are broad
stone terraces, on which stand upon ped
estals huge figures carved out OF lava
| from the crater OF an extinct volcano
several miles away.
There are in all $50 of the images,
most OF which have been thrown down
perhaps thousands of years ago. The
largest is 6S feet long from the top OF the
head to the hips, and its nose is IL feet
in length. None of the images shows a
figure below the hips and they seem to
have been originally set on their pedes-
tails as busts. Several Of the bustsweight
Is tons apiece.
The exploring expedition WILDE headed
by w. Scoresby Routledge, M. A., and
is due to leave London about August ]
on the 25O-ton motoryacht Mana, recently
launched at Whitstable.