Show I mw 5cmNE In reading authors when you find BrlKht pawwifCPH that atrllto your mind A1111 which perhaps you may have reason To think on nt nnotlur season Bo not contented with the a glu i But take thorn down In blnck and white Such a respect Is wisely shown j As mates Another1 sense our lron I I ron 1 The housekeeper WhO heeds Byrons advice na to taking things down in black and white Is wise 1C to this i j I i habit she adds the equally useful one of discriminating clipping and pasting I past-Ing she soon provides herself with a I capital kitchen library at small expense J ex-pense There tire a few women who I hold themselves superior to rules and recipes declaring with great selfsuf ficiency that they carry everything S In their own heads AU women however how-ever are not equally gifted and one may be pardoned 1C they entertain serious misgivings as to how one small head can carry all Ita owner claims to know As a rule the best cooks do not disdain dis-dain lo utilize the experience of others and there Is quite as much need for the housekeeper to keep abreast of the times as the doctor the lawyer the photographer the manufacturer the chemist The world moves and despite Solo mons asseveration to the contrary there is frequently something new under un-der the sun While certain fixed principles may always be applied In the science of cookery and nutrition there are all the time new combinations and new discoveries that may bo added to ones I store of knowledge with advantage As in cookery so In other lines of household science and rare indeed Is I I the housekeeper who is too old or too bigoted to learn something new I 3n this connection n carefully selected topically arranged scrapbook Is a jaI ja-I forever With the multiplying OL household magazines and household I columns sanitation notes and pure I food discussions thero Is scarcely a paper or magazine but that offers some I bit oC useful Information to the housekeeper house-keeper While the scissors and pastepot should form a part of the kitchen bookshelf book-shelf equipment there are many ro cincH and suggestions whlth one does I not care to give a permanent abiding place until tried and approved For the preservation of these and for ready reference the Household Edition of the Perfect ScrapbOQk manufactured In New York will be found of great assistance This Is a goodsized book of twelve pages each page containing three pockets about seven inches in width and three in depth Newspaper clippings folded so that when they ure slipped into these pockets their headings head-ings will rise above Its edge far enough to be read at a glance enable each I compartment to furnish its own index II In this shipshape manner any number of good things may bo tucked compactly com-pactly away ready for use at a moments mo-ments notice When it Is deemed expedient to paste at once many housekeepers utilize old magazines cutting out not tearing every other page In this way one magazine may be devoted to fruits and vegetables a second to eggs und meats a third to cakes and desserts a fourth to emergencies and homenurs ing a fifth to the care of the house and so Jid Infinitum A sheet of clean Manila paper used to cover the magazine maga-zine with the name of the contents printed plainly I on the outside gives the books comprising the little library I a neat and uniform appearance A scrapbook paste that will not ferment fer-ment is made as follows Dissolve a teaspoonful and u half of powdered alum In a pint of cold water Stir flour enough to make about as thirk as common paste and bring to a boll stirring all the time Cook well and add when done a few drops of oil of cloves The alum will prevent fermentation fermen-tation while the oil of cloves destroys I vegetable mold The illustrated postcard craze which has been popular l In Europe for several years Is beginning to assume giant proportions pro-portions here and the stamp fad say the deulers Is l losing ground While the cards are of little practical value the space allowed for the written message being meager In the extreme travelers are fond oC sending them lo their irlentls at home from every city they visit In this way many a slayathome can lake JulIe a satisfactory journey by proxy Jn Europe Ihcse cards can usually bo obtained at the various sta llons and an inspiring sight il Is to seethe see-the traveler badly I bitten by the craze making the swiftest kind of a Might for the station every time the train slops In this country the stalloners or big department de-partment stores or curio shops seem to have a monopoly of the business Nearly Near-ly all the summer and winter resorts have their own cards now decorated with scene characterislic of time special spe-cial attractions Among the sets published pub-lished recently In New York are Central Cen-tral park scenes and aterfront views public and historic buildings homes and birthplaces of statesmen Arizona Ari-zona this year has sent forth by Its crowd of tourists a flood of picturesque burros grotesque Suaharos or giant cactus trees supple Indian women with lie earthen alias or water jars poIsed upon their heads and Navajo looms with the weavers at work In Paris business houses oven art catering to the prevailing craze haying hay-ing their own > cards printed with clever illustrations for their patrons to send to their friends at home At this season when so many are sending Mowers from their suburban home to friends or lloxvur missions In the city suggestions as to the packing ns given by a member of one of the Mower missions are In order After selecting se-lecting the freshest and soundest Mowers Mow-ers preferably tho halfopened ones cover the bottom of the box or basket I with damp newspapers or a few leaves I or ferns sprinkled Lay the Mowers in lightly In layers sprinkled and separated sepa-rated by damp paper Sprinkle the upper up-per layer a little more thoroughly than those below and covir closely wlthdamp newspaper to exclude the air as much as possible and pro tect them from the heal A champagne basket which may be procured any large grocers Js especially convenient for sending Mowers In quantity Fruit should be packed In a separate tin box or basket and never mixed with the Mowers When the laundry is sent out of the house time chan1pane basket Is the handiest thing Imaginable for carry Ing the clothes Securely roped It may bo sent Into the city by express doing away with the bothersome l packing in paper parcels A note of warning Is again raised rqlullve to the euro necessary in tho use of vegetables and berries lint have been raised with sewage Irrigation A case In point Is the typhoid epidemic Which occurred in the Insane asylum at Northampton Mass lust summer I This was traced by the State Board of Health to the use of celerj which had been banked with earth from Miter beds over which the sou age from the asylum had been conveyed In this same connection appears the necessity for the careful washing of all vegetables vege-tables especially those to be used as Naiads Besides ihe free and indls crlmlatc uso hellebore paris green creosote and other Insecticides by the I market gardeners there arc the Moat lug germs of all sorts of disease animal ani-mal and vegetable to be taken into account Fruit also should ho thoroughly thor-oughly wiped off before bringing to the table the skin of oranges bananas melons apples pears and poaches being be-ing especially open to suspicion IMrs Roror gives the following explicit ex-plicit directions for making German Horns the nicest of all rolls to serve without butter with salad or cold meats at an evening collation Scald one pint of milk add to It three tablespoonfuls table-spoonfuls of butter and a tablespoon fill of sugar When the milk is lukewarm luke-warm add ono compressed yeast cake dissolved In four tablespoonfuls oC cold water Now stir in suMlclcnt flour u little over a pint to make Pa dough that you can knead until it loses Its stickiness adding flour of course as you need This dough must be fine grained and light and will require ut Itjast fifteen minutes continuous I kneading Put It back into time bowl I I cover und stand In a warm place for three hours Turn the dough out j I lightly on a board roll It out in a sheet a half inch thick cut It into crescent l shaped biscuitsplace them In greased 1 shallow baking pans when they cannot can-not possibly touch each other cover I and stand In u warm place for thirty minutes They must be very light Run them Into a quick oven While j I they are baking beat together a tablespoonful I table-spoonful of sugar one of while of eggS egg-S and one of milk Have ready chopped fine it least three dozen blanched ul I mondH When the rolls have been In the oven ten minutes take them out twm brush each one quickly with the egg mixture und dust them thickly with the chopped alrnondn The almonds must be sprinkled over the moment I I the roll Is brushed as the heat of the J roll will quickly dry the glazing and then the almonds will not Itlek Now I put them back in the oven for five minute and the rolls will be golden brown I I Corks that have been steeped in I vaseline says the National Druggist are an excellent substitute for glass I stoppers Acid In no way affects them and chemical fumes do not cause decay I de-cay In them neither do they become I fixed by a blow or long disuse In J short they have all the utilities of i the glass EMMA without PADDOCK Its disadvantages TEIFORp |