The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-03

Bedspreads which have grown shabby
may give long and valuable service as
sounding cloths for the dining table.
The bags in leather and velvet which
Vaughan 4 Burnett are offering at bar
gain prices include many lovely ones as
their window display has shown. Their
line is always of the highest quality and,
therefore, this reduction sale offers rare
chance.
Knives with pearl or ivory handles
should never be put in very hot water.
1t causes them to crack and turn dark and
softens the cement with which they are
secured to the blades.
Fresh apples for pies are beginning to
get scarce but the Stebbins grocery has
a supply of very good ones. They have
some more of those fine dates and Eng
lish walnuts and a fresh shipment OF
potato chips.
Peach betty is even more delicious than
apple betty, and Is made in the same
way. Use cream for the moisture after
the various layers of fruit, bread crumbs
and seasoning have been built up, and you
will have a rich dessert everyone will
enjoy.
Watching Mrs. f. F. Bailey as she
constructed a hair switch of snow-white
and brown hair, using a few hairs at a
time and making il an exact match for
a sample sent by a customer, l maryeled
at the low price asked for the work in
Volved. y bit different from city prices.
After ironing stiff collars roll them
tightly and slip them inside of a glass
tumbler until they are thoroughly dry. In
this way they viii keep their shape and
occupy less space.
Miss Mack of the Royal Millinery store
has chosen some charming hats for both
dress and sports for beginning the season.
You will find call at this up-to-the- min
ute little shop well worth your while.
In mixing cake or bread if you need
both hands for the mixing. and the bowl
slips, set it on wet cloth and it will
stay firm.
Peptona." 1t is a suggestive name,
isn't it? 1t is a tonic sold at the Brooks
House Pharmacy which will enrich your
blood, tone up your system, make you eat
and begin to make You feel yourself again.
AT this time of year many need bracing
up bit.
Lamp chimneys and other glassware
boiled in salt water are considerably :
toughened.
1t is not bit too early TO begin spring p,
sewing and the new wash goods at J. E. |
Mann's will Just make you long TO get
busy with patterns, scissors and thimble |
Such lovely voiles, ginghams. and other
fabrics which you must see to appreciate. !
Put hard, dry lemons in water to
soften the skin before trying to cut them
The skin will absorb some of the water
and make 1T easier to squeeze the juice |
out.
Remember you can get Fairbanks |
raiSin bread at your grOcer's every Thurs
day. Its return will be as welcome as
that of the raised doughnuts. After two
years absence it seems better than ever.
A black marble clock may be polished
by cleaning with cold water and soap.
Then rub dry with a flannel. and polish
with white wax applied with a piece of
flannel.
/ have seen those 9x12 Administer rugs
which the f. w. Keuch store is Offering
for $43 and find them to be of good quail
lty, rich in colOring and of desirable pat
terms. They are the sort that have been
priced at from $50 to S6S.
If when ironing starched things the
iron gets sticky it is because the things
are too wet, or too much starch has been
used. To remedy this, rub the iron with
cloth dipped in parafin every time it is
taken off the stove.
You doubtless know what Colorite can
do for an old hat and now the manufac-
turers have produced f,olorite fabric