Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-10
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Home Maker
EDTTED BY
ALICE f. TALCOTT. .
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.


handy in the kitchen, and these
placed under pots and kettles. If
this is done every day when the pans
are taken from the stove no grease
spots will mar the kitchen table.
Avoid open shelves in kitchen,
as the dust soon gathers there. A
wide window shade is splendid for
keeping out the dust. and far more
sanitary than a curtain.
Croquettes TO be fried in deep fat
should stand for Is minutes in the
warm kitchen before being cooked.
This will help the browning process.
Sprinkle flour very sparingly on
the top of loaf of cake to stop
frosting from running off.
When the holes in heels of stock
ings are too big to darn, cut out the
worn part entirely. then with GRO
chet needle and darning cotton or
saXony go round and round with dou-
BILE crochet stitch. gradually dimin-
ishing the stitches until the hole has
been completely filled. When the
hole gets small enough, slip in your
wooden darning egg, so as to get the
right shape to the heel. 1t is much
quicker and stronger than darning,
and is especially good for boys
stockings.
Have you ever searched for a
much-needed button in the machine
drawer or the shoebox and found, to
your pain, the points of rusty pins?
Besides the danger of this way, the
annoying failure is time-loser, and
can be eliminated from the catalogue
of troubles in the sewing room.
You have glass bottles that have
use which you never suspected. They
are excellent holders for buttons. No
more hunting in the dark and dust!
You can see the buttons for which
you are searching and can shake
them to the top, where they can be
easily reached
An easy way to hold buttons of the
same make is to string them on
hairpin. Straighten out hairpin
bend back one end for about half an
inch, run the points through the
holes, and when all the buttons are
there turn down the other end so as
10 hold them securely. This is one
of the most convenient ways to keep
buttons that are not affected by the
weather or exposure, such as the
bone buttons Tor underwear Invisi-
bic hairpins can be used for smaller
holes.
To protect waist. double a piece
of the goods into two or three thick
nesses, about ono inch wide and
three long Sew these thicknesses
together like pad. Then sew one
edge lengthwise to your waist, on
middle of back at the waistline. BY
pinning or buttoning your skirt to
. this pad you will prevent many a
tear on your nice waists This is for
a waist buttoned in front. For one
buttoned in the back make the pad
into two parts about one inch wide
and two long. Sew one-half on the
buttonhole side and the other half
on the button side.
Before turning the hem of a dress
finish the skirt band, then put the
skirt on. Rest one end of a yard
stick on the floor letting it stand
against the skirt; place pins in the
skirt at top Of the yardstick: repeat
around the skirt making a line of
pins one yard from the floor. Then
spread the skirt out on the table. If
you want the bottom of the skirt two
inches from the floor, lay on the
yardstick and from each pin measure
"a inches, putting another row of
pins; turn the hem along this row
and try on the skirt before mirror
set on the floor
In crocheting an edge on a towel
or dolly, it is usually difficult the
first time around to introduce the
crochet hook. There is danger not
only of splitting the threads, but also
OF the hoo k slipping the threads and
piercing the finger. This difficulty
may be overcome by using a coarse
tNo. 81 needle. unthreaded, and
stitching on the machine around the
dolly with a short stitch about three
sixteenths of an inch from the edge.
Then the crochet hook can be insert
ed in the holes without any diff
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