The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-06
MARION HARLAND'S HELPING
 HAND HINTS FOR THE HOME
By MARION KIRKLAND
Peach Short Cake

Peach Short Cake
 (Kfndness of c. U.)
 Put into bowl two cups of sifted nour' two tablespoonfuls of butter, one-haif teaspoonful of salt three teaspoonruio of baking powder, and one cup or milk. Mix well, adding flour if necessary to make a soft dough. Roll into two sheets, butter the top of one and the bottom or the other, and lay them on top of each other. Bake. and when done spread or pour over each layer six large sliced peaches that have been brought to boil in cup of granulated sugar and one-half tea cupful of water.
 Cocoanut Cake in Orange Cups
 (Kindness of Mrs. E. H.)
 Cut the tops from four oranges and scoop out all the pulp. Remove the seeds and add to the pulp the juice of lemon, one pint of water, and g. cupful of sugar Boil for ten minutes, then add one-half cup of shredded cocoanut and freeze. Fill the orange rinds just before serving
 
 Ink Stain
 Gan you and will you tell me what will remove ink from linen. also what will re- move varnish that has been pressed into linen with a hot from Thanking you you for the above. A READEh.
 1. If you have read the Corner with a tolerable degree of attention you must have seen advice to ink singers again and again. (By the way, the tribe must be on the increase We have daily cries from them) Salts of lemon, lemon juice and salt cream of tartar, oxalic acid and chlorinated soda-one and all will extract ink Wet with it; leave alone for ten minutes and rinse with cold water; re- peat: rinse and lay in the sun all day, wetting hourly with lemon juice. Soak over night and lay in the sun all day. wetting hourly with lemon juice. Soak over night, and that should be the end of the ink.
 2. Wet a sponge with benzine and press for several minutes over the varnish. When it may be scraped off, treat as you would any other stain.
 Refrigerator
 twill you please tell me how to keep a refrigerator sweet and clean? Mine is new, enamel lined. I clean it thoroughly every week by removing all the food and | ice, then washing it out with hot, soapy suds and cleansing the pipes and trap, but still there is a peculiar taste to every thing keep in 1t. What more would | you suggest? NANCY" | Set upon each shelf saucer of pulver- | zed charcoal. It will absorb the odor and | keep the interior sweet. Renew every I other day until the effect is gained | To fumigate would be substituting one | unpleasant odor for another. Charcoal is absolutely odorless.
 Stiff Cuffs
 l "Please publish in your Helping Hand denartment directions for making stiff cuffs-as stiff as a first class laundry makes them. The cuffs are attached to l the shirt. s. L. O."
 Make thin jelly of gum arabic and boiling water. This is a good recipe: One ounce of the best gum arabic and one- half pint of boiling water. Pour the water over the gum and let 1t stand, stir ring frequently; strain through cloth | and then bottle.
 Keep this on hand. and when you would stiffen the cuffs add to the starch about tablespoonful to cupful of the latter | Mix well and use.
 l In ironing press very hard and pass the | iron back and forth until it glides over the surface as upon ice. Much of the gloss of laundered garments and napery depends upon this hard pressing. |
 | Red Ants
 q am a constant reader of your Help | ing Hand, which helps me every day. Now ask you to help me rid my kitchen of little red ants. I have tried many | things, but all fail Also how can wash taffeta ribbon so that 1t will retain It's stiffness? Please let me know through the netx edition of the paper. l MRS. WILLIAM K" | fla which you have put little tartar emetic. Lay in the places most infested by the I pests and see how soon they will fill l them. This accomplished. drop the sponges in boiling water; rinse off the ''corpses," squeeze and dry. and set again. Don't let the children get hold or ! them. Another and additional precaution against the invaders is to scald pantry and sink with boiling red pepper tea. 1 9 Cover a clean board with thin white cloth tackled on securely. Pin the ribbon taut upon this from end to end. With a new clean brush scrub the ribbon hard with cold, soft water, changing often. Clean both sides and let the ribbon dry upon the board Then press with a warm iron through two thicknesses of cloth Lastly. roll upon g. spool or round stick.
 Old Stocking Idea
 Here is an old stocking idea that seems rood Please send it to the lady that i asked for old carpets.
 "Irstead of throwing away -onr old | stockings when the feet are worn ont, cut off the feet ard rip inc stocking Ut the l seams Now saw them together, keeping | t.,e narrow parts together, and of them make the top part of your peticoats. After tue stockings have been sewed together ft taem about the hips. sew on 8 wcis. band, and trim off evenly about the bot | tom. Add corded silk ruffle the neces- sary length and attach it to the stock !sng sop by French seam, and you have