Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-21

do housework may take COM
Tort In reading what DIR. Sar-
gent Harvard's authority on
physical perfection. has TO say about
, homework as beauty's aid. According
to him, woman won't have to run after
the beauty doctor. nor even 90 to the
high-priced gymnasium classes-her own
| home furnishing her the stage setting
and apparatus for physical betterment.
His rules for homework are as follows:
Where woman does her own house
work, with its manifold varieties of phys-
ical requirements, nearly every muscle of
| the body must be brought into action
during the day. Nothing is better for
| the development of the thighs or for the
reduction of fat there than running up
and down stairs. No better exercise can
be devised for strengthening the chest
and Strengthening the spine than scrub
bling floors on the hands and knees, espe-
cially if the left arm as well as the right
be used.
Sweeping with a long-handled corn
broom, il the broom be used on both
sides, so that both arms may be used in
the same way furnishes an admirable
means of development of the chest and
shoulders.
If a carpet sweeper is used instead of
a broom, the abdominal muscles as well
as those of the back are brought into
| action, and the eNtensor and fleXor
muscles of the arm are much used Work
ing lawn mower brings the same group
of muscles into still more powerful ac-
ton. kneading bread is specific for
finely shaped forearm An hours work
at the washboard is equal to similar eff
forts with the chest weights de-
veloper of the upper arms, back and
shoulders. If coupled with exercise, the
woman who would fain be well and
beautiful looks out for her diet, eating
the good spring vegetables, each a little
medicine chest in itself, she will doubtless
achieve her purpose, and that without re-
course to physician. Among the whole
some spring vegetables the onion usually
ranks first, the old couplet running:
Eat onions in May
And all the year after physicians may play.
Containing a large amount of sulphur
| it stands approved as complexion
beautifier. Besides that, il tones up the
stomach, soothes the nerves. loosens a
| cold, quiets cough and stimulates the
kidneys. As an appetizer there is moth
ing to excel young homegrown onions
or the Spanish or Bermudas sliced wafer
thin, lightly salted and placed between
thin slices of bread and butter If one is
distressed by a burning sensation after
eating onions, it can be remedied by COW
ering the sliced onions with cold water
for an hour before eating, then pressing
out as much of the juice as possible.
Cress is another wholesome spring veg
etable. believed by the ancients to excel
as system invigorator and mental slim
ulant. This belief was crystallized into
into proverb attributed to Pllny:
Eat cress and learn wit.
Analysed, it contains sulphur, iodine.
iron, phosphate and other salts which
enable it to prevent scurvy, promote di-
gestion, remedy phthiss and induce per-
Spiration.
1t is claimed for asparagus that it
Gains the action of the heart, stimulates
the kidneys and acts a preventive of
calculi. The dandeion stands approved
according to the doctors for its aperent,
detergent and diuretic properties.
Fresh mint stimulates digestion and
ala vs. pains, particularly heat head
aches. All Older housewives know the
value of the various spring Differs and
dandelion Wine but younger women may
be glad to know how to prepare them, as
we'll as a little out of the ordinary way
of preparing seasonable vegetables.
Root Beer.
Put one pint of bran in kettle with
gallon of soft water. some twigs or
spruce, hemlock or cedar, a little sassa-
fras, with roots of dock and burdOck,
plantain and dandelion Boil and strain.
then add a tablespoonful of ginger. half
cup of molasses and a cup of yeast do
not add the yeast until the mixture has
cooled to lukewarm. Fill jugs full. 50
that in fermentation they may run over
Leave uncorked. When fermentation
ceases cork and keep in cool place.
Dandelion Wine.
Pick Just the blossoms, cutting the
stems off close to the flower. or the wine
will be bitter. Put a gallon of the bios
SONS in a kettle with gallon of water
Let it stand three days, add the yellow
rind of three lemons and three oranges,
boil fifteen minutes, then strain. When
lukewarm add the juice of the lemons
and oranges. four pounds of white sugar
and one yeast cake. Stand in a warm
place for a week, strain and stand for
three weeks longer. then bottle.
Stewed Dandelions.
Wash and let stand in cold water for
an hour. Drain, put in saucepan with
boiling water to cover and cook twenty
minutes longer until tender. Turn
into a colander, drain, pressing thorough
ly to get out all the water. then chop.
Put a Tablespoonful of butter or good
drippings in frying pan and when melt
ed add a tablespoonful of flour: stir until
blended, then add leaves, and salt and
pepper to season. Moisten with broth,
toss until Well heated and serve.
Dandelions and Bacon.
clean careIullN, lear Dy leaI. n ndII
peck of dandelions. Let stand in pan
of cold water. after cleansing, for an
hour or longer. Put into a saucepan.
cover with boiling. lightly salted water
and cook ten minutes.
Drain in a colander and return to the
saucepan, with a pound or less of bacon,
two onions sliced, a teaSpoonful of salt
and pepper to season.
Pour on fresh boiling water to cover.
put on the saucepan lid and cook. until
tender and nearly dry. Pile in the center
of a hot DISH slice the bacon and lay
in a circle round the dandelions. Serve
with boiled potatoes.
Dandelion Salad.
For salad use the common dandelion.
blanched by growing through q depth Of
SANDY soil or under cover Of earthen pots.
is preferred by many to the choicest
crosses. Grown in this way and not al
lowed to bloom, one may have successive
crops of leaves until frost comes, while
the leaves are white. crisp and tender,
without the bitter tang that marks the
dandelion Of the field. To serve as q
salad wash thoroughly, shake dry and
dress with French dressing or salt only.
EMMA PADDOCK TEIFORD.