Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-09-23
Notes.
mi cnt nnt tha ideals.

Don't cut out the ideals.
Plan your work and then your work
plans.
Ifyou like the skins of baked pota-
toes, rub we'll with melted lard or butter
before putting in the oven and they will
be crisp and tender.
Have definite, worthy reward to look
forward to each year-something to
work for and plan for-and be contented
and happy.
Just before baking, dip the buns or
rolls into milk. The crust will bake
beautiful brown and be nice and crisp.
We are very careful that only good
copies are set for the children when We
want them to learn to write. Are we al
ways as careful about the copies set
them in the home life?
Don't wear yourself out preparing
elaborate meals for company. Simple
food, we'll cooked and nicely served, Is,
as someone said, preferable to an elabo-
rate meal with roasted hostess for hrst
course.
Oldtime advice to the contrary, 1t Is
not best to put salt on the carpet to clean
it, Carpets so cleaned will absorb moist
ure and seem damp unless every bit OF
salt is gotten out-practically an impos-
sibiiity. Buy, borrow or hire q good
vacuum cleaner.
Praise judiciously and encourage the
good traits always. Few really reform
because they are told that they are wick
ed.
Bread is the staff of life-only when 1t
is good bread.
A clothes tree on which to hang un-
finished garments Is great convenience
in a sewing room and keeps tho garments
from getting mussed.
Complacency is all right sometimes,
but it is surprising what jolt is some
times necessary to prevent one INDUCING
In an overdose.
Paste an envelope on the inside Of the
cover of the cook book. This is handy
for keeping loose recipes.
No woman has mastered the art OF
housekeeping or can make an entire sue.
cess of 1t till she is mistress OF every task
in her domain and of every labor-sav!ng
device she can press into service.
Arrange the kitchen 80 that utensils
and food materials are near each other.
There is no use in walking two or three
miles to get dinner.
Chickens may be raised In a variety of
ways, but it is an unfortunate fact that
those raised on paper are:the least trouble
and yield the most satisfactory re-
| turns.
We are reminded that there Is no din
ner without dish. washing. In other
words, most of the pleasantness Of life
has an undercurrent of unpleasantness
back of it. Be philosophical about 1t
yourself, and teach the young people to
cheerfully pay these "debts" as they
come.
When powdered sugar gets hard, run
it through the food chopper muc b
easier and better way of breaking the
Jumps than with roiling-pin.
System will increase effectiveness,
lengthen life and make it worth the liv.
ing.
| Laundry work ia not merely matter
of muscle. 1t needs some experience
and chemistry and considerable common
sense.
A little learning may be a dangerous
thing, but none at all is much more dan.
gerons. Educate-educate-but do il
sensibly.
The best cook lets nothing 60 20 waste
that can be used.
Systematic drinking of pure water
remedies and prevents many ills. 1t hat
no equal as a means of keeping one In
good health. Most Of US drink too little
of it.
Remember that it Is better for you and
better for the husband and children to
have you keep we'll and happy than tC
have you known as the best housekeepel
in the township without these attributes
A flannel bag containing wheat bran ID
excellent to clean dust of the wall
paper.
A crusty old man says, 1.-THE only sue
cessful way to keep children at home Ii
to lock 'em in the garrett" We believe
there is another way-to make home the
most congenial and pleasant place in the
world for them. That is usually accom-
plished, too, by letting their efforts helI
ia the "making" and by having then
properly appreciated.