The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-11
TAKING USE OF THINGS LEFT OVER.

and place on your table rounds or squares and dollies. Don't take the best of these. either! Some more of those leftovers of damask may be put in their place and will answer every purpose.
 Do not think by this thatI am counsel ing raggedness and untidiness. Nothing of the sort. Your plain hemmed squares may not make what once heard a wom- an call dressy table" but they will be as neat in their way as the hand scalloped and embroidered or lace trimmed doiies and other ornamental linens. And if you do not have even such squares, you are entirely justified if you resort to the crepe paper furnishings for the table and dis card articles which will add to your washing.
 In your further endeavor to use up what you have, give an inspection to the contents of your preserve closet. Some- times such articles have all been eaten during the winter and spring, but often there are remnants left which will not keep we'll for another season. Put them to use now. If they are too sugary or sirupy to serve on the table in their pres ent state, convert them into desserts WIuCu WAli SlNC thC pClCHt Ol IllclI udVOI- ing and will not reveal their deterioration of texture. As matter of course, fresh fruit desserts, either alone or in some pleasing combination, are the ideal sweets for summer. but even at that sea- son there will come now and then raw. chilly days when hot dessert or one from something besides fresh fruit will be acceptable, and then is the time to ;rda ir form.
 If canned vegetables remain they. too. can be served cooked. Corn fritters, corn pudding, pea pancakes, souff1es. and soups of various vegetables are made all most as we'll from canned vegetables as from fresh, and the stock that has lasted over on your pantry shelves Is better disposed of in this way than in any other, unless you grant yourself the luxury of generosity and give them away to others whose need is greater than yours.
 This luxury of generosity may also we'll be practiced with regard to your leftover clothes, whether they are the ones you unearth from up attic or those you con- slider before putting them up secure against the moths for the summer. Have you Hpec1Hc purpose In saving that waist which always twisted, that skirt which never hung right, that frock which 1t will hardly pay to make over again? If you have, well and good. Return it to the closet or pack 1t down in moth balls. and take comfort in the thought that you will be gratified when you pull it out again another season.
 But If you are uncertain upon this point, or if you are not uncertain. but sure that you will never have any real service out of the garments of the class to which have referred. for the love of mercy. why do you keep them? Some- times I think there are magpie features about all of us. We keep and treasure articles not because they are of present or prospective value but because we can't bear to part with them. It would be a good thing for us all to conquer this tendency and to give the things we can- not use ourselves to those persons to whom the leftovers will be help and a saving, who can utilize them and will be grateful for the money the gift will save them.