Show f Exchange JI v I ENJOY the Hous wi es Ex Er Exchange Exchange change I house housewife housewife housewife as am a young y ung wife myself I have hae never mitten ritten to you before but as every little seems to help he p me perhaps my little mite would help some other of the thes sisters s I think that th t the way I make my for winter is the easiest and best I have tried tri i d I sew the material all up like a pil pillowcase pillowcase pillowcase with only o ly one end open and that not hemmed Then I lay that on the dining table bible t ble or carpet whichever is most convenient turned wrong side up Next ext I take t tal e emy my bale of cotton and lay on even then pin cotton to each corner and start at the open end and roll and an roll r ll until the cotton is inside This makes it nice and even Then I sew up the open end of the com corn comfortable comfortable lay on table and proceed to tie and knot The beauty of making in this way is that they can be b taken aken off oft and washed like a pillow cover by un Untying J tying them as the cotton then lies in shape and Is s easily rolled in iii and ani retied My les are all of light shades of cheesecloth and when I take them off to wash if they fade I just dye them over in inthe inthe inthe the original color with a good dye and they will last ast until worn out without losing their delicate colors I can easily complete a comfortable in two and a half hours Would some member please send me a good tried nut cake recipe and favor a young housewife t Did any of the members ever eer try making rhubarb jelly i I had just lovely success with mine I took half ball rhubarb and half garden beets washed clean and peeled Put them themon on with a little hot water and nd cook until soft rub through a colander and aad a then through a jelly bag Pro Proceed Proceed as for apple jelly je and you will have something nice My jelly was just like liver it was so tender and the beets make it jell fell and make makes a anice anice nice pinkish color MRS J d L B BOur BOur Our far Western members are pe peculiarly affluent in novelties This letter from Colorado is a fresh proof of their energetic originality May I ask Mrs J d r L B if the addition of beet su ar to the rhu rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb barb does not impart a rather in insipid insipid sweetness ss to the jelly Or is there enough acid in the rhubarb to counteract this i The recipe is new and we have her word for it that the product t is satisfactory A recipe for nut cake will be found in the recipe column It is ismy ismy ismy my own and has las been tested by many years usage WOULD you kindly siggesta a aplan V V plan or menu for an sri informal informal mal mel oyster supper to be served to ten gentlemen all of whom are hearty eaters i Please give recipe for making an oyster cocktaiL I am an interested reader of all your letters and recipes I try many of the them very satisfactory IDA Begin with oyster cocktails See Recipe Column Follow with stewed oysters Send around crack crackers ers era and lemon with these Clear Olear the table and serve fried oysters garnished with sliced lemon and watercress Pass with this course brown bread cut thin and buttered and if you like potatoes scalloped or a la Ia with white sauce poured over them Now N w vary ary vJ ry the sameness of the oyster menu t eDu by broiled squabs on toast accompanied by lettuce salad with French ZEren dressing dr ng Serve ice cream all with black blackI coffee Q If I you cannot get squabs 1 ing chain then three thre single cro are crochets crochets chets chefs into the eighth stitch then en seven single crochets croch ts Second row Plain singla cro crochet crochet chet che picking up tp the back stitch to form the rib Third row Eight single cro crochet i chet chot three single crochet into the tha ninth stitch then eight single s cro crochet ro o chet diet Fourth row Plain Continue like this until you have seventeen ribs the last row having stitches on each ea side of the centre stitch Then start stait tw n four stitches backward and for forward ward long enough for sole m f St Sten en at back iL Y H HI H HIT a aI I T 1 AM a s constant reader of the 1 Exchange andal anda andY aI ways find so many helpful things that r I want to send some gooc good things too I feel that nothing should be but we should give as well as take 1 My first st is a glove cleaner that t I Ic c costs cents and will clean six pairs of gloves One quart deodorized benzine ounce chloroform Ys ounce ether 3 ounce alcohol 4 ounce oil of cologne Put a little in a bowl squeeze the gloves in the liquid until the dirt comes out then rinse in fri more m re of the dry on the bands handa In five minutes the gloves are ready to tow wear w 2 The best thing in the world for the hair is and petro petroleum petroleum leum laura jelly Buy five cents ent worth of each and rub ruba a little on the scalp every night for two weeks Massage the scalp also and continue the massage for four months This is warranted to make the hair curL Although my hair was straight as asa asa asa a string it made it curly and 1 I used a curling iron for two years 3 8 For floors I use linseed oil and turpentine oil and one third turpentine 4 If you have never tried boiled apples instead of baked do so They are delicious Put the apples appl S Sin in a granite iron kettle with a little water and sugar and boil until the apples are soft Take them out ont and bo boil l down the juice Pour over the apples It Itis is like apple jelly when wh cold 5 We have a furnace and grates still sometimes we want a little heat when not cold enough for furnace This is not an advertisement but butI I am so glad to know now of some litie lite oil heater that does not smoke arid is odorless that I want others t to ta know about the neat heater which costs little and will heat a room in a afew afew afew few minutes Now will you kindly ten tell me how to clean a linen duster without washing Washing makes linen shrink and nd it never looks the same s me meas as before LUCILE This quintette of useful ful hints comes from California and bears out my boast of the resourceful generosity of our Western mem members members bers bars Lucile may clean the duster with wit parts of fine salt s R and flour rubbed into every stitch of the material and left on all night before it is brushed out outI outI T I I HAVE EAVE HA VB a light coat which I 1 1 bought only 0 a month ago I was was caught in the rain about two weeks ago and now the rain spots are plainly visible Would you yon kindly kin inform me how I can get these th se spots out By so doing you y u will greatly oblige me EGG HARBOR As I have said to others to whom o 0 a alike like accident has ha happened if j the cloth of your coat had been sponged before the garment garm nt w was was s made up rain drops would now My advice is to have the whole hole coat sponged spon dJ even at this t is late day by a tailor have broiled il d cl chicken ck with the salad T L thank mk you Ifor ci r saying that my my recipes are aro good g dJ They have h ve all allent ent tested unless U Jess iless when I say ex cx expressly pressly pi that they thera aro r contributed J JIO IO IOA A correspondent who 11 is a faithful reader as well v says says In answer to the query How should one make mak bedroom slip slippers pits pers j I herewith enclose full di directions directions directions for making the same Begin egin with tha a chain of sixteen stitches s 3 Ei t row freaks seven sev single si f crochet cro t stitches hes into to each ea h follow fallow i io j 2 |