Show MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE HOUSEWIFE BY MIRION M RION HARLAND 6 L T NOTICE SOME TIME AGO YOU I 1 save gave a recipe for tor peanut butter JL which included milk butter If It the nuts are put through the mill mut twice the butter will w l be found to be very oily and soft and will not need milk butter butte The addition of o anything except salt will Induce mold whereas the pure peanut butter will w l keep for lor months in a cool place A little water can be added just before afore using thoroughly mixing it in la inThis laThis This is always done at the Battle Creek Sanitarium as the peanut butter of or It Itself Itself itself self Is 15 rather too rich for delicate stomachs achs ache F E A B Bo Without subscribing In full to the principles and practice of or the thorough paced vegetarian an I lend a a willing ear to any suggestion that tends to lessen lesen the consumption of meat during hot weather We Ve eat too much flesh and we eat it Jt too often Meat three times a day Is 15 not a prudent diet from April to De December December December cember PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO clean a carpet without taking It up Beating Is 13 hard work and when done at home is 13 never neer well done To have even an Ingrain carpet cleaned by steam or otherwise at a factory Involves heavy expense You Tou spoke last summer of a away away away way of a scrubbing carpets on the floor How is 15 it done L A S 8 SIf SIt If It you will send me state stamped ed and self addressed envelope I will help help you Y U out of the present dilemma by giving the name of o something that will cleanse car carpets carpets pets pet on the floor also rugs curtains etc ete WILL WELL SOME ONE KINDLY GIVE me a bill of ot fare for one week for tor three people not to cost 01 over er 51 n per day Breakfast lunch and dinner T I 1 have tried very hard to do this but It cost me 14 to 18 per week for my table AIRS MRS W J G GHere GHere GHere Here Is something that should put household economists upon their met tle Will notable housemothers write down carefully considered menus that may cast light upon a perplexed sisters pathway She pays too much for her table Prove this by making out a weekly bill of a fare prices attached and send in at your earliest convenience ROW HOW CAN THE COUNTLESS scams in the hands be eradicated They are good catch places for all kinds of at grime the stains from paring potatoes the handling of wood in filling tIlling up stove the washing up of oilcloth much Is used In country all tend to make my hands very bad in appearance and as al I till fill the capacity of organist on some occasions I am much embarrassed Would be grateful to you or some member of the constituency for tor information of ot some something something thing that will remove the grime and then some Bome treatment by which the seams can be filled up or smoothed over I kept putting oft off all winter asking for lor this information thinking that what I Iwas Iwas Iwas was using would perhaps be effectual but as time wore on my hands got worse I used equal parts of benzoin and glycerine after washing trashing my hands and before retiring I also aIso use meal and lemon Jemon juice frequently I often otten soften dishwater with bicar bicarbonate bicarbonate bonate of or soda or borax thinking to improve them somewhat but all to no avail Are there such things as rubber gloves that could be used obtained to advantage vantage in fn kitchen hen and d where obtained CAEDMON There are such things as rubber gloves and many man housewives use them My commonsensible counsel to you would be beto beto beto to cleanse your hands thoroughly with withold withold withold old castile soap and oatmeal while still damp apply appl a lotion the name of which I will give upon receipt of ot stamped and envelope then draw on ona ona ona a pair of o loose old kid gloves Johns If you jou ou can get them and keep them on all night Cut off ort the Ups tips U s of ot the fin fingers gers gets fasten the seams at top t p se so they will not rip and do all ail your OUr dirty work with these gloves on You can pare po pe potatoes and wash dishes without removing removing removIng ing them Whenever you wash your hands follow the tho directions I have given gien and In a few weeks you will have bars whole smooth hands TO HOUSECLEANING SISTERS I will wUl say I 1 am told of ot and have tried cold tea to wash woodwork just wipe with damp cloth and dry This will not clean spots from painted Pt woodwork and I X clean the Ute drain in my Icebox by putting quite a lot Jot of o baking soda In the pipe and flushing with boiling water I 1 will give gle you a gingerbread recipe It makes gingerbread possible for more people cup cu black molasses nil 1111 cup with sugar 23 3 cup of butter or lard fill cup with boiling water 1 egg 1 i teaspoon baking soda 1 l teaspoon ginger singer 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 E cups flour tour some Sour flour a little more and some a little less but you can tell when mixing about how much bake almost an RR hour ft OC in a slow oven My husband says poor pear Marion Harland with a groan 0 O K M AL John may save his compassion for somebody who does not know by deity daily experience the delight of exchanging facts and fancies and fads if l you OU like with coworkers like yourself and anda a score of others who have grown thus l to be mine own familiar friends J 1 1 I SHOULD LIKE TO ASK IF ANY Alry ANYone ANYone one can tell me how to dry beef beer or deer d We can get plenty of oC meat m t In the sum SUf mer but it wont keep long and In the winter we cant get any So I would like some way may of a keeping for winter UM use u Also some acme way of or keeping fish ish ri h I hope ho this letter Jetter Is not too long and that my recipe is plain MRS H P H a HOther HOther Other housewives are similarly lOCated located ed Some have trustworthy recipes for curing meat and fish tl h Will they let us U have them WOULD YOU PLEASE INFORM me as to hoW I could clean a a light col cot colored colored ored peau de chine silk sUk waist t tB B R H nu 3 With gasoline carefully I can tell teU you of an agent In use in my family which can be applied with less expendi ture of labor and will do the work well w n but the information can be sent by mail mall alone If you care c re to write for tor It the helper Is Js at your service FOR YEARS I HAVE HA VB BEEN TRY lug ing to get a recipe for Charlote Chariot e Russe like JUke mother used to tomake tomake tomake make and I never have got one LK Do 1 Donot 0 not you think among your many fol ful lowers you sou coul could J get it for me If you do not know how bow to make it yourself I Iv will v tell ten you as nearly as I can remember how It was made In the first er would send end me rue to a drug store for some isinglass it came In sheets sheet and looked a whitish green That was years ago before gelatine was known and she used to say It was made from fish Mother would break it into bits and put It to soak over night in cold coldwater coldwater Coldwater water The next day she would slice sponge cake and line Une a glass dish with it She would make some kind of a 3 yellow custard and pour over this cake then set it Jt on Ice and it would be just like yellow jelly That is as far as I can c n remember re remember remember member I have forgotten how she fixed it on top Now do you ou suppose from this de description description description j you ou or 01 your our many constituents can understand what I want w nt It seems tome to tome tome me whenever any anyone one wants an anything thing quite old all one has to do is to write to you to get it L C P 1 I can answer confidently for the con constituency constituency constituency and gratefully for nay my myself elf elt 2 2 Because so many people of expert experience experience ence and who are blessed with good goed memories belong to our circle ra |