The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-08
Salt and Corn Starch Beads

The following is the recipe for making
 salt and cornstarch beads: Place one cup of salt on the stove and heat until it pops. Remove it and add one-half cup
 of cornstarch and one tablespoon of gum arabic. Put into this half cup of boil ing water in which dye has ben dissolved. Knead and mold. If the dough gets too soft, set the bowl in boiling water and stir until 1t has become hard enough to roll into balls. Place in the window to dry the beads, allowing the sunshine to get through the glass with which you have
 covered them. This prevents the beads from fading and makes them sparkle. Pierce with a hatpin before drying them, so that they may be strung easily.
 INTERESTED READER" | Tn spite of the fact that the formula for making cornstarch and salt beads has | been printed many times In the Corner | two constant readers have asked for it
 within month. We are under sensible | obligations to the correspondent who has sent it in. Nevertheless. I call attention to the assertion that 1t will not reappear l for six months to come. Please cut it l out and preserve 1t carefully.
 Objects to Some Applicants
 This week l am turning down four and supplying three persons with music When I receive a letter upon paper with a business firms name from people who
 want something for nothing. they do not get 1t. I have a great deal of music on hand, but 1t is for poor people only. Son. sequently, should you hear from kick er, refer him to the stores I am only too glad to help the really worthy. but others cannot graft on me. Imagine re- ceiving a typewriter letter asking for a few pieces of music! Some people have
 the wrong idea of your Corner. It Is not
 free dispensary for the general public, but for the needy public. Drop them a line to that effect. !. R. H." You bring frankly to light what too many readers are prone to overlook-that | the aim of our Corner Is to help those i who need our aid. The woman who can | buy all the music she wants, yet writes to
 us for 1t, defrauds her who must count
 her pennies carefully before deciding that
 she can venture upon the purchase of a single copy of the song or instrumental composition for which she longs. l take exception to but one clause in your well
 conceived and we'll put remonstrance. I have really mothery tenderness for
 stenographers and typewriters. Perhaps
 because I have the honor of knowing so many whose fingers support parents. young brothers and sisters, and-saddest of all to tell-dissipated or invalided hus-
 bands. They are obliged to practice wise and rigid economy, yet are often women of refined tastes and longings for higher
 
 lives. The girl who sends you type
 written petition for music may not use her machine. but her employers, and in the
 brief intermission that separates morn ing and afternoon of toll. It Is a hopeful sign of her growth in elevating tastes
 that she preserves her love for music un-
 der the strain of the monotonous pound and click of her trade. Do not grudge her
 the dreams of the evenings book and
 music which brighten the long. dreary
 stretch of q 10-hour day.
 Children for Adoption
 Reading in the Corner of mother who wants two children, and having been a matron at an orphanage, knowing the children and our praying for homes for them, l write to tell you of a little girl and her brother whom I wanted to take.
 but being old, with no settled home. could not The girl is one of the smartest and most reliable children for her age l ever have seen She was under my espe- cial care Her brother is in another build | ing. If you will write to the manager and then go there. you may get child of any age you desire There are two large girls l should love to see in good homes If you can place any of the chil- dren, please write to me, for they are all dear to me- MRS. M. J. l..
 The communication from the warm
 hearted ex-matron of the orphanage is