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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-08
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Cheese RP1ra0s
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enough to get something worth while.
There is no virtue in wasting an article
which might be Of good to some one else
or for which You might provide yourself
with an equivalent which would be of real
service to you.
One of the best methods of saving money
is recognized to be the custom of laying
aside a little at time. You may get your
charity money or your Christmas money
or your vacation money by putting away all
the dimes or the nickels or the pennies
which come to you in change. If you have
ever tried it you know how the sum &C
cumuIates without your ever really missing
the amount you have saved.
Try the same plan in your hous hold
economies and see if it does not work as
well. Look out for all the tiny leaks and
stop them. If you could keep accurate
record of how much it would mean in the
course of the year it might not startle you
by its immensely, but no matter how small
the saving, it is better worth while to have
that than the loss which means nothing
except the increases in habits of wasteful
ness which profit no one in the world, and
impairs your own character. Take the
little foxes by any traps you may devise
and be sure your vines will not be slow to
show the Improvement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-08

one by setting a colander over a pot of
boiling water, fitting it tightly into the ket-
tie yet so far above the surface of the
water that it cannot reach it at its hardest
boil. Wash and drain the rice and put it
into the colander, leaving plenty of room
for swelling. Fit the top of a pail or plate
upon the colander and lay a thick folded
cloth upon the cover to keep in all the
steam.
Keep the water at a fast bubble until the
rice is tender. Try grain by biting it to
make sure of this. Each grain should be
whole and stand apart from the rest. Shake
up lightly to let the air get at the mass, and
set in the open oven to dry Off you would
boiled potatoes. Salt to taste, and turn
into hot vegeta bic dish.
An easier way of cooking rice that will
gain the same result is to throw a cupful of
washed rice loosely into two quarts of
boiling sailed water and let 1t boil fast until
tender. This should be in about twenty
minutes. Test by biting grain. 1t should
be translucent, tender, and unbroken.
Drain and dry off. Never put a spoon into
the rice while it is cooking. When pre-
pared in this way it is altogether another
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-08
little FOXES" OF THE HOME.

use save to throw away If you do not have
ger bread, or some one of the many other
recipes where sour milk is called for, use
it in pot cheese, which will keep for several
days, and is good with bread, with crack
ers and jam or cake, or in salad
take place in the pantry, with the gas
to open your eyes wide and look about you
to see leaks on every side
Carelessness is one of the worst. When
you let a pot boil dry or a pan stand in
the oven with a little food burning to the
bottom, or put a coffee pot where the di-
nect fame Of the gas will melt the solder
which holds on the handle or the spout, you
are guilty of as much extravaganza as
when you burn holes in the dish towel by
using it for holder to open the oven door
or to lift an iron from the stove.
You are wasting when you do not take
care of the commodities you have, when
bread gets stale on your hands because il
is not properly wrapped, when milk sours
because it has been left in the hot kitchen,
when ice melts because the door of the re-
frigerator is not carefully closed, when
crackers grow damp and musty because
they are kept in a paper bag instead of in a
tin. All the provisions that go bad before
they can be used are just so much dead
loss, and show your extravaganza in buy
ing, your inattention in caring for them. or
your heedEessness in planning their use.
Perhaps you do not call yourself wasteful.
but stop and think. Is there any other
word which describes the condition?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-08

AN you tell me how to wash
and starch dark blue percale
dresses so the starch will not
show? 1 have three little girls
and like to use the dark blue
goods, but the washerwomen cannot seem
to do them UP nicely, and don't know how
TO instruct them.
take this opportunity to express ap-
preciaion and gratefuIness for the helps >
in your column. Tt is, indeed, help for
a young housekeeper to have the advantage
Of experience and wisdom. E. P. L.
You may wash the percales in bran water,
II you like.
BRAN WATERPROOF two quarts OF
wheat bran in six quarts of water for half
an hour. Let it cool ana strain through
cheesecloth, pressing hard TO get out all
the mucilaginous matter. Should it be too
thick, dilute with cold water until it is of
she consistency of starch. After rinsing the
co1ored percales dip them in this and leave
for 1--WE minutes. Then wash, rubbing be-
tween your hands and put through the
wringer. Unless the gowns are badly sotled
you need soap in washing them. and you
need no starch in any case. The bran both
cleanses and stiffens-
OR-Malxe your starch dark coIored with
the blufrg. 1t will not show then between
the threads l once saw the walls of
billiard room in a fine nansion-colonial
style-that were ruined by the failure of
the men who hung them with dark green
denim, or some other thick stuff, to color
the paste. It oozed through, and in drying
left g whitish blur all over the walls.
I should, however, try the bran water
first
Is 1t George Eliot who says, '' OF what
use are we in the world If we do not make
life a little less difficult for those about
us?" I thank you for telling US that the
Helping Hand has been an aid to you. The
young housekeeper is the most conspicuous
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-08

chair and spare your spine and hips-and
nerves-and temper! Forty odd years ago
L had a chair constructed expressly for my
use when I had occasion to do kitchen
work 1 rolled pastry, beat up Syllabus,
meringues and mayonnaise, canned
picked, and preserved-without rising
from my comfortable seat-and never felt
fairly worn out and as cross as two
sticks " at the close of the day.
I have devoted what may be consider ed
an unreasonable length of time to this sin
gle point of kitchen usage. The student
of physiology will excuse my verboseness.
So will John, if he loves his wife, and is as
commemorative as R. A c."
In reply to the query thrown off the track
by the superior Importance of your second
proposition-you should knead, your bread
longer if you would have it of finer grain
and to make it tender add more shorten
ing.
Hon TO Steam Rice.
Will you kindly tell me how to steam
rice so that it will be light and 1aky?
MRS. C. B. W.
If you have no regular steamer, inprovise
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Watch Contents of Larder.

Go through your larder with the same
appreciation of wastes. How about that
soup-meat from which you say "an the
good has been cooked?" Recall the fact
that the well known bouiln = of the
F'rench-the most marvellous culinary ex-
perts and economists KNOWS moth
ing more nor less than the boiled meat
from which their pot-au-feu and their
bouillon are made. They do not throw
away the meat with the assertion that it
is worthless after boiling it for soup. They
put with it some of the liquor in which
it was cooked, add vegetables and season
ing and make a savory dish fit for the table
Of any one. Suppose you try this.
Exercise the same care with other left
overs of food. Nothing is too small to be
worth keeping. A tablespoonful of to-
matoes or of peas or of beans. a little rice,
a cold boiled potato, odds and ends of this
sort-none of them is too trit1ing to go
into a salad or to enrich a soup or to make
a part of a savory compound which will
help out at luncheon dinner. The de-
spised cheese parings may be ground up
and saved for macaroni or some dish au
gratin.
Stale cake, like stale bread. has many
uses, either by itself or in combination
with something else. The tablespoonful
of preserves left in the bottom of the jar
need not be eaten to save it," but put
aside to spread bread for child's
lunch; the leftover of preserves or des-
sert will help to give character to a corn
starch rice or bread pudding. Orange
and lemon peel may be thrown in cold
water to be candied or preserved for flu
ture service, fresh fruit which will not keep
may be stewed, even if there is only lit
tie of it.
know several housekeepers who do not
disdain to add to their store of jellies and
jams. a jar at time. by putting up the
fruit left from meaEfruit that will not
last overnight 1t is practically no trouble
to put it over the fire and cook it 80 that
it will keep.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-08
IMPORTANT NOTICE

RECA USE of the enormous
Ii number of letters sent to the
department must ask con-
fributors to limit their con1nlunica-
ftons to 100 words, except in cases of
formulas or recipes which require
greater space. want all my cor
respondents to hare q showing in the
Corner, and If my request in this
respect IS complied with if will be
possible to print many more letters.
Attention is called to the fact that
Marion Hdrldnd cannot receive money
for patterns, as she has no connection
with any department that sells them.
Marion HUIdnd.
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some one whom they would help, If the
leavingS from your table which you have no
use for could be utilized by the suffering
poor, I would not have a word to say. But
when you throw away the ends of boaves
and the cut slices of bread, the dry biscuit
and the stale remnants. you are helping no
and hurting yourself Why do you
not put your ingenuity to work to prepare
dishes which will use the better pieces Of
dry bread and crisp the smaller pieces in
the oven to crush and use for crumbs in
cookery of various sorts?
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those who are ashamed to watch the little
leaks. It Is more likely to be those who
are not sufficiently sure OF themselves to
appreciate the elegance Of economy and
be proud of it
To return to the gas and electric light
waste. Does it seem too tiny to notice?
g estimate that you have lost much
as half cents worth a man said scorn-
fully to a woman the other night, when
she reproved some one for having left
the electric light turned on in a vacant
room.
And II that Is done every night for
month 1T amounts to Is cents" she re-
torted. Il am not a@ove saving the price
OF three trolley rides
Half a cent doesn't seem much when
you take 1t by Itself The trouble is that
the same waste goes on in every depart
ment Of the household. The electric light
or the gas left burning unneeded and I'M
needed for an hour two is so COM
mon an occurrence that one hardly notices
It I have always striven to impress upon
my household the fact that matches cost
less than gas, but what smile one
use to describe the cheap of turning
electric key? Yet waste the light
sooner than take that infinitesimal pain.
If there were a practica BILE meter by which
we could scale the waste of light we would
have a concrete notion of how much use
less expenditure goes in the home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-08
4 Word to Mothers.


Have you a nook in the Helping
Hand for a few words 1 should like to say
to other mothers? Many are in a state of
perpetual worry as to how they are ever to
get through with the days work. In the
first place. don't worry at ALL Be syste-
matte. Never let one weeks mending and
darning run over into the next. DO not put
an article that needs repairing into drawer
or closet until it is mended-
=. Rest when you are tired Rest is as
much duty as eating. See to it that you
get a regular supply Of it, Don't allow
yourself to get overtired. That means
wearing out. It is poor economy, not to
mention the unkindness to husband and
children.
3. Begin each new day thinking that
you have fifteen hours before you in which
to work and rest before bedtime. Make it
also a duty to get into the open air daily.
That is one way of laying in fresh supplies
of health
-" Rest, walk, and don't fret,
"A MOTHER
Kindly and sensible counsel from mother
to mother abounds today. Every word in
this brief letter deserves consideration. I
wonder sometimes why women do not in
commercial phrase, capitalize " their
physical forces Continual work and in
cessant worry popular method of sui
eide Our mother says aptly that rest is as
truly duty eating.
Hon to Rdinproof Coat?
VIII you or some member of your
Helping Hand tell me II there Is any
thing I could apply to an old but good
looking raincoat to make it again water
proof? 1t seems to be made of some kind
of cloth the under side of which had the
water turning qualities.
ALSO can you tell us how to care for
shoes so that they will hold their new
appearance as long possible? I find
that the liquid polish used is death to the
leather.
II have tried your Rice Soufie which
c. o. lately told US how to make, and
find it simply delicioust Years ago L
clipped from some paper a recipe for
8 Ginger Crisps,' which often make when
eggs and butter are dear. Children espec-
tally like them.
I'm a rather large teacup stir three
level tablespoonfuls of butter and lard
mixed. Pour on three tablespoonfuls of
boiling water, then I'LL the cup with strip
or molasses. Stir in a teaspoonful Of soda
and as it foams up work in enough -four
to make dough to roll out thin OF
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~AKE US the foxes, the little foxes.
80 that spoil the vines
When Solomon made this
mark, in quite another connec-
ton, even so wise a man he
would never have foreseen its application
by a housekeeper OF any kind, least of all
by an American housekeeper of the TWEEN
tieth century
Yet I find them fitting the case in hand
with marvellous appropriateness. For my
talk today is concerning the small leaks
of the household. the little foxes which
ravage our domestic vines.
II am not penny wise and pound foolish"
I heard a woman say the other day.
am pound wise and penny foolish! save
on the pounds and let the pence look out for
themselves
Isn't that the case with a good many of
us when it comes to minor economies in
the home?
Luxury gets into the bIood!@ asserted
a man in recent popular play. Does not
lavishness also get into the blood? Does
not the American almost invariably con-
note comfort and extravaganza? Does he
feel himself weI1-of unless he can spend
more than is needed?
Take one of the minor wastes in the home.
How many of you feel it incumbent upon
you to turn down the gas or to extinguish
>
a few minutes? Doesn't 1t SAVIOR OF par
simony to you to think OF so minute saw
ing that?
A friend told me not long ago of visit
she had paid to the house Of a titled Eng
Iishman. The dwelling was superb in all
its appointments, there was q small army
Of servants. prosperity was manifest every
Ey8aer@but in each bedroom and dressing
room a small printed notice was tackled up
under the electric light fixtures: Please
turn out the light when leaving the room"
DID you ever hear of such meanness?''
asked my friend. " A titled Englishman.
teol A plain. everyday American would
have scorned to do such thing!'
Wealthy Set the Pace.
Certainly he would! Also he-and his
wife and daughterS-vvould scorn to
practice many another small economy
which would not in the least degrade them.
The trouble is that while there are some
men and women to whom such petty saw
ings are of no Importance, their conduct
sets the pace for many of US to whom
economy Is worth while Because the
millionaire does not care to recall the fact
that 1t takes a hundred cents to make
dollar the rest of US feel that we lower
our dignity by bearing 1t in mind. I may
remark, by the way, that the millionaire
did not reach his present status by ignor-
ing either dollars or cents. Also that the
customed to their possessions, are not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-08
Waste of Fuel Gas.

When it comes to the gas used in cookery
the opportunity for leakage is even greater.
The oven lighted ahead of time and kept
burning when 1t is empty. the full head
turned on when mere glimmer would
answer. are on a par with the wasteful-
ness of fuel in a. coal range when the
stove is kept filed with coal at a red hot
stage instead of being left low when it is
not needed The open hampers and drafts,
the heaped UP firebox, do we not all know
them?
All the wastes are not in light and fuel
by any means. When it comes to the ex-
travagance in our kitchens words fail me!
I know that many Of you whom I try to
using provisions. but are there not, even
in your pantries, neglected economies
whose observance would seem to you to
SAVIOR of meanness? They have been de-
scribed as the cheese pairing and candle
ends kind of savings. Why, I ask you,
should not one save both candle ends and
cheese parings? Is there anything espe-
cialIy fine and generous about wasting
either one?
To my mind there is something peculiarly
repugnant in an extrava gance which profits
no one-unless it may be the dealer of whom
you buy more than you would If you took
care of the candle ends and the cheese par
ings. If you gave those odds and ends to
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cereal from the pasty, grayish stuff which
is all many know as plain boiled rice
The water in which it was cooked is
valuable addition to the stock pot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-08
Advice TO Kitchen Workers.

put pen to paper.
* X
Advice to Kitchen Workers.
VIII some kind member tell me why
my bread is coarse in texture and rather
tough? 'Cheavy,' some call it. I knead
it in a bread mixer.
I have a bit of advice to offer in ex-
change. It is this: Buy a cheap Office stool,
cut off from the legs about one and a half o.
two inches, keep it in the kitchen and use
it! Moreover (and a harder task some
times), teach the maids to use it. 1t should
be Just the right height to allow you to
sit comfortably at the sink in washing
dishes, at the mixing table. at the ironing
board, and while you clean silver. It is
light enough to be moved easily from place
to place. The use of it will save many an
hour of fatigue and backache- possibly
some serious disorder Women have to be
go much upon their feet in doing house
work that they should learn to sit when
ever 1t is practicable and the office stool
in the kitchen and laundry makes this pos
sible. r. A. c."
The sensible woman gives us no hint as to
her place of residence. Hence, rigid obedi-
ence to rules should shut her communica-
ton out from the Helping Hand. Because
she speaks so pleasantly the words of truth
and soberness I constrained to admit
her. I direct attention particularly to that
part of her letter which recommends the
use of the office stool Forty years ago in
the Familiar Talk which prefaced the first
edition of " Common Sense in the House
hold I said:
d" lay it down as a. safe and Imperative
rule for kitchen use NEVER STAND
WHEN YOU CAN DO YOUR WORK AS
WELL WHILE SITTING
We energetic authors are forbidden the
use of italics when we would raise our
voices and gesticulate II we were speak
ing. Forty years back in the past this
law did not govern printing Offices, and
that sentence was italtcised boldly. It
deserves larger capitals than it has re-
cefved-
I added: " If I could have Johns ear for
a minute I would tell him that which would
lead him to watch you and to exercise
wholesome authority in this regard"
Every Word in Earnest.
I meant it unen-every world I refterate
the advice with tenfold more earnestness.
We have a way of saying that cooks are
more prone to be cross than chambermaids
and mattresses. and a1lege as probable
reason that they get overheated and tagged
out working much over and about the
fire I am fully convinced, after much
study and observation that what the en-
ployer would account for in herself by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-08
Uses for Sour Mill.

Don't waste milk! I have been in house
holds where sour milk apparently had no
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-08
Tho Men Wrinkles. -

Z" Following you have two new wrinkles >:
Potato SAVING-T11-Grease the po-
tatoes lightly with lard before baking them.
This renders the skin thin and tender, so
that when peeled It does not adhere to
the inside of the potato nearly so closely
as when It is baked in the usual way
This saves the meahest and most nutri-
tious part of the potato. II usually comes
off with the skin and Is wasted
"(2J-TO RENOvATE sOILED Wells
Dip in alcohol several times. and squeeze
gently until the alcohol Is discolored with
the dirt from the veil Then pull out
into shape carefully. stretching a little
to the desired width. The veil will dry
with the handling. and be as fresh and
crisp as when new. GRACE NJ. B."
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Salad DRESSING Recipe Wanted.

Salad Dressing Recipe Wanted.
Please publish a recipe for apple salad
and dressing? 1 mean the dressing to
which a little onion Juice is added part
of the seasoning. I have eaten and liked
it. This is what am looking for.
&C. o. N"
am afraid you viii have to go further
afeld for the recipe. have sundry apple
salads. but none that is Favored with onion.
1t will probably be unearthed by some
member of the great family and sent to US.
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A~AKE US the foxes. the little foxes,
80 that spoil the vines
When Solomon made this re-
mark, in quite another connec-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-08

- AN you tell me how to wash
and starch dark blue percale
dresses so the starch will not
show? 1 have three little girls
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-08

figure in my field of vision whenever
put pen to paper.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-30

That the reporter Of the Market
street funny sheet better take tun.
bic 10 himself or cut out the slush IN
his Henwood letter. owing 10 the fact
that 70 u being considered huge
Joke. IL evident from the fact that the
following Item appeared In the
Moundsville Journal. and when 10 was
read BY manv prominent Republicans
last evening they stated that they had
heard Of the existing conditions and
that they had heard many prominent
Democrats state that they never heard
or some ~ the things said IN the
columns referred 10 that we're said 20
BE- going on In their party. Follow.
ing is the item.
The near approach 81 election day
In Benwood. which falls on next Tues.
day. finds the entire Republican
ticket. from Mayor Manley and Joseph
- shepherd for mayor end chief OF
police. down ~ the cOuncilmanic can.
didates. growing bigger and bigger
a. favorites. and every indication
points 10 n sweeping victory and an
unprecedented enforcement Of the
Grand Old Party
The Democrats. worried from tho
hret have now become almost
frenzied In their efforts 20 stem tho
tide Of popular sentiment. sweeping