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Show LITTLE HINTS FOR MOME-MAKERS. Care of Linens. Linens that have been stained by tea or coffee may be cleansed by moistening the spots with water and holding them over the fumes of. a. small jpiece of burning sulphur or ; U I !' i - Charming little cutaway jackets are now made with open front and scalloped scal-loped edges. They are worn with the very long fichu of lace tied in a big bow under the chin, with ends hanging nearly to the floor. Embroidered Em-broidered lace is used for both the jacket and the fichu. A perfectly plain gown needs no other ornaments than these. I a few sulphur matches. Wash immediately immedi-ately with water in which a little ammonia am-monia or soda has been dissolved. Stains that nothing else will remove are often taken out by the vapor arising aris-ing from burning sulphur, but the material ma-terial must be washed thoroughly at once. A Fish Sauce. To make cream sauce: Put three tablespoonfuls of butter into a saucepan and plave over the fire. When the butter is hot add two table-spoonfuls table-spoonfuls of Hour, and stir until smooth and frothy. Draw the pan to one side of the range and gradually stir into the flour one pint of cold milk. Put it over the fire again, and stir until it boils. Add a few drops of onion juice and salt and cayenne pepper to taste. To make this a green sauce, tie together a small bunch of parsley and put it in a dish of boiling salted water to which has been added a piece of soda the size of a pea. Cook for five minutes, and take out the parsley. Then with a silver knife scrape the leaves from the stems and chop them with the knife before stirring them into the sauce. Tea Tables. Tea tables are rather difficult to decorate, as it has become the fashion to, make a perfect mosaic of dishes over theof dishes over the entire surface. The most satisfactory manner is to fill long and slender shafts of glass with light and rather spreading spread-ing flowers, and insert these with a sort of method between the multifarious multifari-ous plates. The large tea table is far prettier covered with a colored silk cloth than with plain white napery, which always gives one the feeling of a meal. Widths of the inexpensive china silk, joined by insertions of lace dyed to the tone of the silk chosen. I and edged only with a deep hem, make lovely covers, and should be selected in exactly the tones of tne Powers to be used. An extremely simple manner j of getting an effect also is to have all sweets and cakes iced and colored tig match. This entails no more expense ex-pense and gives a distinction to tho very simplest table. Pineapple Cake. A delicious cake is made with a pineapple filling. To make the cake, cream together half a cuu of butter and one cup of sugar; add half a cup of sweet milk and the whites of four eggs beaten light. Sift a heaping heap-ing teaspoonful of baking powder into one and one-half cups of tlor and add to the other ingredients. Rake the cake i in three round layers. Make a filling by putting in a bowl the whites of two eggs, one tablespoonful of the juice from the chopped pineapple 'and one cup of confectioners' sugar. Beat until it is light and white; continue beating and adding a little more sugar until the mixture is thick enough to be i easily spread and yet will not run off the cake. Put on one side icing enough for the top of the cake, and with the remainder stir in very finely chopped pineapple, putting in as much of the fuit as the icing will hold and stick together. to-gether. When the cakes are cold put a thick layer of this icing between them and cover the top layer with the plain icing. Fashionable Chir.igraphy. In chiro-graphy chiro-graphy the large hand, both English and round, is affected, and to be quite up to date one should not write more than three or four lines on each page. In beginning a letter or note the preference prefer-ence is given to the fourth page, and the letter is continued over the first page, then on the second, ending en the third. Some prefer to write only on the fourth and first' pages, leaving the second and third blank. No particular style of pen is used exclusively this season, and either steel or gold, stub or diamond point is chosen, to suit the fancy of the writer. Drenden china penholders are as plentiful as blackberries black-berries in their season, and come with both gilt and silver mountings. A very aristocratic looking holder is of tortoise tor-toise shell twisted to resemble a horn and mounted with silver in an antique design. i Cleaning Oilcloth. An oilcloth may be cleaned and made to last as long again if treated in the following manner: man-ner: Cut into pieces half an ounce of beeswax, put in a saucer, cover entirely entire-ly with turpentine, and place in the oven until melted. After washing the oilcloth thoroughly with a flannel, rub the whole surface lightly with a bit of flannel dipped in the melted wax and turpentine. Then rub with a dry cloth. A polish is produced and the surface is lightly coated with the wax. When the floor requires to be cleaned the wax is washed off, together with" the dust or dirt that may have gathered, while the oilcloth is preserved. Hunt For Dessert. A delicate dish for dessert is made of one pint of sweet cream, with one ounce of gelatine dissolved dis-solved and mixed with it; stir in any fruit you choose, but do not put the juice in; you can save that for, pudding sauce, or to flavor jelly with: sweeten to your taste, add a glassful of sweet wine: pour into a mold, and let it become be-come cold and hard before serving; serve with yowdered sugar. The Corsage Bouquet. The drooping bouquet, which almost looks as if it were falling to pieces, is the correct thing. The long, slender stems of flowers flow-ers are secured by a loop and ends of broad ribbon, usually of the same color j as th1 blossoms. A recent English fad is the revival of the ungainly Mat bou- I quet, backed with evergreens. I A famous English Egyptologist has discovered that many of the queer medical med-ical refines- found in old English and German books came fn.rr the ancient Egyptians. They were - not known to the Creeks, but were Spread from Salerno, Sa-lerno, the great medical school of the Middle Ages, to which they must have come through Coptic and -Arabic trans- ( lations. It is no longer considered an error against taste to wear mock gems under certain conditions namely sec in buckles buck-les for the waist belt or neck ribbon, an well as to ornament hats and bonnets i with them. Th shops in which this simile jewelry li shown make the'most f gorgeous displays, and the designs are I often uncommonly good, being gener- ally copied from Louis XV or Loui3 XVI models. |