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Show iyifoikm s'.eel over, go that the surface may have a very lifjht but warm coating of oil. Appla Float One quart of milk, four eggs, yolks and -white beaten separately, four tablespoonfuls of suffar, two teaspoon-fuls teaspoon-fuls cf vanilla extract, ileat the milk to scalding: point, add the sugrar to tho yolks and pour one cup of hot milk over them; stir well, return to tha saucepan and boil until it begins to thicken. When cool flavor aud pour into a glass dish. Have ready two cupfuls of apples which have been stewed until tender and rubbed throuffh a aieve. Add these to the well-beaten whites, into which a small quantity of sugar has been beaten, heap up the custard and serve. Opening canned fruit an hour or two be- : fore U9ing. that it may regain the excluded oxygen, improves the flavor. 1 I OUR HA1KPINS. Tha Mysterious Little Articles That Hold ; the Coiffure. Tbc use of the hairpin is as great a mystery mys-tery to the average man as the spread of cholera is to the scientist, despite the fact that nearly every man has at some period of his existanco been designated aa a ''hairpin" of some kind or other by one of his irate fellows. fel-lows. For the benefit of these as well as that of the gentler sex, which uses it so extensively, ex-tensively, but which is generally unaware of the means or manner of its manufacture, we append a few statistics: Hairpins are made by automatic aud complicated machines. ma-chines. . Tha colled wire is put upon drums J and becomes straightened as it feeds itself to the machine. It passes along until it reaches two cutters, which point the end at the same time that they cut it to the length required. This piece of wire then slips along an iron plate until it reaches a slot, through which it is pressed into regular shape. The hairpins hair-pins are then put into a pan and japanned, after which they are heated in an oven with a temperature of from 300 to 400 degrees. There are but four American factories. The largest are in Birmingham and Walerbury, Conn., the others in Philadelphia and Brooklyn. Five hundred thousand dollars' worth of hairpins are annually imported from England, France and Germany. Judging by the immense amount of money thus expended it would appear that the headgear of a large portion of our feminine population is somewhat extraneous. SWEET, CLEAN SPONGES. How to Keep a Bathroom Accessory In Wholesome Condition. Nothing in the bathroom should be sa carefully looked after as the sponge. Instead In-stead of being left to dry iu the sponge basket bas-ket it is, ac a rule, dropped down in some corner and allowed to soak or given a onesided one-sided chance on the sill outside the room. It is simply useless to expect to keep your sponge in a sweet and wholesome condition so long as they are treated in this manner. In the first place, they must- not only be thoroughly washed, but in order to prevent their becoming foul, each part of the sponge should be exposed to the air. Fastidious women see to it that this toilet article is cleansed by dropping it into water in which a large lump of soda has been dissolved, afterward boiling it for sixty minutes, when it is rinsed in cold water and given a sun bath until entirely dry. Providence Journal. AS CRACEFUL AS CAN BE- An Kventng Dress, n Street Cos turn sad -Frock for a Tot. A stylish evening gown, considerably nodillcd. but distinctly influenced by the Empire idea, is of embroidered chiffon in a pale tint of rose du Barry, and has sleeves aud a draping about the neck of light Char-.rcuse Char-.rcuse green. A ruffle of lace at the edge of ihe skirt has a twist of the velvet above it, and a scarf of the velvet finishes the waist. This, it must be remembered, is without eeettis, draped and folded cleverly upon a fitted lining. A rich and beautiful street gown is of hort velour, a dull brown mossy soft cloth on a rich heliotrope ground. The trimming of velvet, in tho same reddish tint of the heliotrope, is arranged in a roll at the edge of the ekirt with groups of lace-shaped tabs above at intervals, and in a deep pelerine plaited on the shoulders and in front, but plain at the back, which opens at the neck over a cravat of cream lace. The hat is of eatia with velvet trimmings and pale heliotrope helio-trope trimmings. The heavy twilled square shawl, of fine Saxony wool in the tartan colors make the warmest and most effective of coats for little girls. They are cut in loose, long garments gar-ments belted i:i at tho waist with a cord of scarlet, and have deep-pointed collars edged with Persian lamb, either ia black or white. Pretty Tain O'Shan'.er caps of silk in the same plaid, or Mack velvet with bows of tar-tun tar-tun ribbon, are worn with the coats. JV'eic York Han. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Sueeestions for Housekeepers That May - . J'rove Valuable. Recipe for pine apple pudding: One pound can of pineaDple cut into small pieces in a pudd.ng dish; sprinkle with a little sugar and let it stand. One quart of milk in a pail set in boiling water. Wet three tablespoonfuls tablespoon-fuls of lightly sifted flower, mix it with the beaten yolks of three eggs, one-half cup of sugar and a pinch of salt. Stir this into the scalding milk, stirrina: it constantly to keep it stiicolh; w hen thick remove from the fire, and when nearly cool pour over the fruit. Make a meringue of the whites of the eggs and two spoonfuls of sugar; put this over the top and brown. This recipe makes enough for six persons. Leather may be kept from moulding by 'perfuming it with tar of birch. Vegetables should always be put in cold water half an hour before using them; it will freshen them up wonderfully. Nitre is excellent for a cold, especially a feverish one. Use ten drops to a teaspoon-ful, teaspoon-ful, accordiug to age, once in four hours. To keep polished sieel from rustine after cleaning, or when not in use, take a cloth with a liitlo sweet oil on ft and wipe the |