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Show ilfE SALT LAKE TkibUNB, tounlJA MUKN1XO, HEFTfCMBEK 25, lscf THE HOME HARMONIOUS EzAsiisLSEi AUTUMN THRIFT. tomatoes on vines which GREEN been pulled up and hung the roots, may be slowly ripened in such a way as to supply ripe fresh tomatoes for several months. An amateur gardener, the wife of a school principal, w ho learned gardening during food conservation me that she hung ,up days, hks-to- ld tomato vines in this way in a cellar and bad tomato salad from them on her husbands birthday In January. If you have not a garden of your own it is easy to find at this season many neglected tomato vines ail about, covered with green tomatqes, which may be had for the asking. Perhaps these will not be so abundant this year as usual because this season many a green tomato has dried up instead of ripening. to his labor. At whatever time the A BACHELbRS ROOM. gray, the walls covered with stippled rest of the family are allowed to en; paper in light blue-grawith, a tinge REAT LIRE comfort ia what the croach on his domain they should bear of mauve. The woodwork is painted bachelor Insist upon in his living in mind that violet with tiny moldings of black his desk, and his bookquarters. The male person in- case, and his favorite chair have a sign matching the black moldings that variably wants plain, unpretenthereon (invisible, perhaps, but none frame the pictures. The desk lamp tious furniture, but it must be substanless highly to he respected). Hands "has a shade of bright green glass. tial big, strong, squashy chairs n the The big easy chair is covered with off!" everything. A tiny feather duster should be kept green mohair velvet matching the As a rule the room fitted up for a. on the of tidying glass shade. It is piped with black taan costs at least twice as much as a without desk that will permit books and silk " moss." This has the most " post-erdisplacing reference morq elaborate looking room planned effect, backed against the open is When the papers. heavy cleaning for a woman would cost It corresponds done desk and table .bookcase, wheh Is not painted mauve be covshould top in price with the difference between ered with a dust doth and papers left and black like the rest of the woodtailor made and fluffy ruffled clothes. undisturbed. work In the room, but bright Chinese A premium is put upon satisfactory cut In the room must be either a day bed red. The footstool matches the chair, and material as against the disguise of or a The day bed on the other side of the so that the man long cheaper stuff plentifully garnished. may stretchdavenport, room has a cover of green and gun full for at it out is length, Men appreciate excellent cabinet work, ' well a known fact among lawyers and metal striped rep, with two black, two good thick rugs, and large, commodigreen, and one paprika colored cushiliterary people that the thinking appaous sofas and chairs. They look for ons." These are all piped with black, ratus works best when placed In a regood lighting by day and night. The cumbent position. Try that out on and handled with big black tassels. masculine sense of neatness is more Draw curtains at the windows are of yourself. than the feminine. naturally developed mauve velveteen, lined with paprika When I say that men like real colMen like a place for everything, and ors, I do not mean that they always rajah. The velvet side faces in and like everything in its place. Balance want a riot of It, but merely that they the rajah lining enlivens the dullness and symmetry of arrangement are inlike It of a pronounced depth. They of the stucco facade, that is seen from dulged in to the point of formality. An . like a few distracting notes in the the garden. A personal note is grantorderly air to them completes their feelroom. The most successful ltor 1 ed by grace of several framed photoing of comfort. know feels that he cannot work hapgraphs. " All of the furniture Is of brown maAs to colors, men like what they call pily without a vase or bowl of fresh An attractive accessory of table. flowere on his Plcturea hogany. they real colors. Demitones and indescrlb--' this room, not shown In this sketch, is able blends and faded tints are left to usually like in sets, framed In uniform a nest- - of tables with a nest of scarlet subtler natures. Give the men real frame. A set of Japanese prints nearash trays on it. One little table and ly always appeal. brown and blue and accidents tf real Women who work seem to acquire tray Is readily furnished to the chair orange or real red. I can hardly imagine an intelligent bachelors quarters some of the mannish common sense side of each guest. about furnishing, and learn how .o in Another piece of furniture Is an inwithout including in the mental picteresting old shaving stand, quite tall, ture some red bound books within easy troduce beauty without admitting fripwith an electric light fitted to each They bar out frilly curtains, reach, on book shelves, preferably open pery. sentimental embroidered sofa pillows, side of the mirror frame, and a small ones. drawer for the "safety" Instruments. pink and white effects, and mauddn In other countries men go about their pictures. There is no chest of drawers, chiffo-nlework in a more leisurely manner than or other article suggestive of bed- In the accompanying illustration the they do here. More work Is done at floors are stained with raw sienna, a room fitting. Drawers, shelves, trays, home where conveniences are at hand. tone somewhat deeper and rich r than and hangers are built Into an electric Where it Is possible tor a man to work oak, but not as dark as walnut. The lighted closet, and shoe racks are adat home a room should be consecrated good chenille rugs are of gun metal justed to the inside of the closet door. y y r, rh&s of flu? OiildiQti Wilbur had seen the various peddlers oome through the alley with horse and So when wagon pulling their wares. the scissors grinder appeared one day carrying the bulky machine on his back - there seemed to be but one explanation possible to the lad. When the man came near enough Wilbur asked sympathetically: Mister, is your horse A. J. dead? Lucille was 2V4 when her father bought a car. She asked her mother upon her first ride why her father put his hand out. "So a car wont run over us, " her mother replied. The next day Lucille was riding on her tricycle when her mother glanced at her and saw a chubby arm extended. When she saw her mother was look-- , So a car won't run lng she said: over me, and rode on. Mrs. S. B. There is a boy in our neighborhood whom we dislike to have our boy play with, as he is not a well behaved, youngster. Not long ago my husband saw our boy on the porch of the bad boy'j v Grandmother always cooked the best meals, and when Charles was there for supper she had some of the best biscuits and jam at least, so Charles He had been eating for thought. a While when his mother looked at him and saw that besides getting Jam all over his face and hands he had a spot on his otherwise clean suit. "Charles, Just look at your suit," she exclaimed. Charles looked and then remarked, "Well, but most of it's clean." D. M. cobblestones. Well get f. big stuffy couch to put in front of it, boney, the kind that isnt fashionable like mahogany, but mighty cosy when a couple of folks are in love. Say, .girl, I cant stop to think about you and me sitting on that big, comfy davenport. Id never get any farther. were distributed over all the rest of the space when grandma came in. Virginia looked up from her play and soberly remarked: Grandma, there doesn't seem much chance for you to . E. R. B. park here. One day a visitor commented upon the sprightllness of Louisas kitten. O, yes, she replied, Tibbys playE. T. L. ful but hes scratchful." house, and so he called to him and asked him what he was doing there. Howards got a birthday and Im at it." Inasmuch as he was the only one at It, my husband let him stay. Mrs. B. LOVE LETTERS A BUNGALOW FOR TWO. Its the kind you would DEAREST: and squatty, with close against its weathered shingles. In the living room theres a fireplace not one of those enameled affairs, but made of good old The evening was chilly and rainy, a fire had been laid in the grate. Mother sat at one side, and Virginia arid her dog and large family of dolls Theres one room thats almost all breakfast nook, I think they Toull want some flowers in it, too, and it will be a fins place to alt on rainy days. Almost as much light in that room as there is in your One day Bobble brought his mother the first peony to bloom, and told her it was the only pretty one as the others were Just beginning to hatch. s, a. Bobby nose. Daddy how did " Well, fell downstairs and hurt his ' said to him, "Why, Bobby, you fall? daddy,' I just missed a step, and then I came down sideards, and I specte when I hit the bottom I was wrongendards or I wouldnt have hurt-emy nose so much." F. J. d Don was much cast down because his grandparents were about to leave after a month's visit. He looked around the table, brightened up suddenly, and said: " Grandpa, why dont you go home gradually? "Why, sonny, what do you mean?" I asked. Why, I mean one at a time." N. P. K. a, cost. Last fall boxes of tomatoes costing around 40 cents had not been out of the market three weeks before I was charged 60 cents per pound for ripe tomatoes, and no better ones than I might have ripened in my own house. I then considered myself quite unthrifty. Green tomatoes in this case would have come from the market, and I would have been more unthrifty If I had neglected a garden supply. Mr. Rexford says: " Really, there 'is but little chance for waste of garden productions If there is an appreciative and prudent woman in the kitchen. ' Always Waste in Stores. But after all we are seeing move shocking wastes of food In stores than in gardens. Something ought to be clone about it, but what? The costs of growing and handling an3 transporting, with further handling, am all wasted in this case. In the time of autumn abundance this waste often reaches a climax, and the housewife could do her part in preventing It. 'The thrifty peoples of the world would not waste a cabbage, yet we see them wasted all the time by the hundreds of pounds, and are indifferent Cabbage can be canned or mado into slaw. Those who grow andf store their own cabbages leave the stem on, but stems, after the top has been cut off. will grow little bunches of leaves that make delicious greens. When the stems are left in the soil in late tali and after early frosts these bunches of sprouts are as sweet and dainty as the best Brussel sprouts grown. People who care for their own home grown cabbages turn them upside dow n for a day or so before they put them ir. cellar or pit, also upside down. They may be buried also. The thrify housewife may easily in a supply of onions at the heightlay of the onion harvest, when they cost a,bout $? loss per hundred pounds. They will keep for some time in an apartment storeroom with an open window. Onions, of ail the things We have around, in small quantity or large, need ventilation. In a closed can they will grow musty, in an airless paper bag they will be heated, so as to both sprout and rot quickly. If hung up in thirfbags in an airy place they will keep for months, the red ones best and the yellow ones next the latter sort we find most abundant in our market. It is best to buy them we know the harvesting period has been, dry. In the case of onions we may. as with other things, put them away with things which will quickly destroy them, and so we must sort them. Open crates op shelves, in dry, well ventilated place i are excellent for onions. While we want and must have air for onions, we exclude air from almost all the othr things tb .t grw in the ground, and so we pack them in sand or dirt, or florists moss. Sphagnum to pack ifiosg is excellent in roots for winter, and all of these things may be used for the .things we wish to force and bleach for salads. The list of roots is rather long, and may include radishes. TV-- ' they are stored in sand in a cool cellar, especially the black radishes, may be restored to crbpness, If not crisp when taken from the sand, by dropping them into cold water for a time. Cucumbers may be kept for weeks in cold sand. I believe It Is always best to leave the stem end up. A few horseradish roots are worth having In Our sand pile. These may easily be forced for greens. Treatment of Fruit."' Fine fruit purchased In the market, if without bruise, and If wiped clean and dry. may be wrapped, each piece separately, in oiled paper, and if put in a dark, dry and cool place, will keep for a long time while the price doubles in the market. Grapes hung up by the stem In bags may be kept in the same way, butlt is a little harder to get them clean, and we must remember that it is often what we can put away with our perishables that Is so likely to destroy them, even when ventilation, and temperature for keeping them is Tepper. . Peppers are the easiest of aU. things to string and dry. Old fashioned people will take pleasure in drying a few apples on strings, perhaps using an electric fan to help in the work. But there aje extended and valuable treatises on the subject of drying wljlch are easily procurable. Farmers Bulletin 841, on " Drying Fruits and Vegetables in the Home, costs nothing but the trouble of sending to the division of publication. United States Department of Agriculture, 'Washington, D. C., for it The effort in this article Is to, show how many ways there are of saving and caring for the things at hand, by banging them high, storing them in good air, burying them In dirt or sand, drying and storing, brining, planting them for further growth, and so forth. A little chopped parsley can be taken up and potted and will grow all winter. This is the most economical way to manage parsley, so many bushels of which are wasted. European cooks utilize it far more completely and advantageously than we do, but that ia a story by itself. It may be kept growing until severe cold weather under boards and siraw, but roots may be dug up, trimmed slightly, the top cut back, then planted in six inch pots. Keep in a sunny W'lndow and water when necessary. Chicory. One of the pleasantest things many a housewife baa learned to grow or fores for winter salads, and to save the expense of buying at from sixty cents to one dollar a pound, la what in summer is called chicory, a thing bitter as gall of leaf, but when blanched is called "French endive." or Brussclslof." or "Witloof," and so forth. The large chicory roots are grown during the summer months at the edge of many a garden, but those woman With her hair Seeing dressed In the, latest style, high upon her head, Jane exclaimed: O, mamma, look. Is hair up in style now?" M. R. correct. Such items as squashes, pumpkins, citron melons, and other membeis of the gourd f amily will keep from harvest time around to summer time again, if properly harvested and stored, but we see them ruined eften within three weeks or less from harvest time. If you buy these things in the market, try to get unbrulsed specimens with a piece of the stem attached. These keep best wherd it Is light and airy Instead of in the dark, and where the temperature averages fifty degrees. Phare kept citron melon until wpll into the winter in an ordinary kitchen, where the wiqdow was always open. who know how may purchase these for winter forcing. , Any one doing this should get-- - specific directions for caring for them. Much has boon printed first and last on the subject. The growth from one large root may furnish the crisp w'hlts club, the leaves of which, when separated, will make enough salad for four people, delicious and dainty with French dressing, or It may be used as a beautiful basis for a fruit salad, in which case it Is best to dress them with French dressing before adding ' the fruit, Plain dandelion roots of large size may be treated in exactly the same way as the French endive or chicory roots, and give long white leaves that 'make an excellent and most attractive ealad, I have not tried it, nor seen it mentioned anywhere, but I have every reason to believe that oyster plant roots could be forced in the same way for an excellent salad material. In corn shocking time the housewife could get two things of service, the liusks, for tamalehke cakes of corn meal sold meal, which need not bo the hot, rather crude tasting things tamales generally are, and some corn on the cob for parching an excellent Hem snd historic for the Thanskglving feast. The Indians taught the white man how to parch corn, and also how to grind it and carry it in a pouch at the belt as food on long Journeys. Common field corn 1? as palatable as sweet corn for the purpose, I think. Parched Corn. Pick over a cup of .corn, pour boiling water over it to cover, let it stand five minutes, then drain for twenty and wipe dry. Put a tablespoon of butter or other sweet fat in a cast frying pan (heavy bottom) over the fire turned low, and when it ia melted put in corn. Stir all the time for twenty minutes, when each kernel should be thoroughly brown, and some will break or pop slightly. Turn out on absorbent paper, and, if you like, sprinkle with salt. This quickly grows stale, aa does popped corn, but while fresb and crisp fine, mixed with sugar and used in various ways. As in the case of drying, there is much printed matter to be obtained on the subject of brining. Any number of things, from mushrooms to pork, may be brined, but the old slovenly ways are far less safe today than formerly, because we live in air far less than clean. It is highly objectionable to eat food that comes out of a brine with an iridescent or a flaky film over It. The art of dry salting is mostly lost except among the very poor race,e where it is more of a curse than it may, be ground blessing. We may talk about autumn thrift, but a ith our city markets it is in considerable measure an all the year around thrift to conserve the perishable foods. If buyer at large knew more about caring for fresh goods a larger variety would be ofobtainable, the great and at a lower cost. One waste of this season is that of Sweet expotatoes, which are thereby made pensive where they should be cheap. Teas and Beans. It Is not necessary to say anything about laying in a supply of dry beans and peas at harvest time. No products ars so "easy to store as these. But, unfortunately, when we consider the more perishable things we find Uiat different conditions aie required for different commodities. Turnip shrivel in dry air and a lower temperature ia required for foods stored in moist air than ip dry, otherwise the bacteria and in their work of decomposifungi-get tion. In putting anything away, it is highly Important to see that it is in the proper condition for keeping. Much of the decay of fruits and vegetables , in storage is not due to storage, but to conditions existing before they were put away. It is all a long, long story, but if we are ever to overcome the extreme evils of buying food, hand to mouth fashion, wa must learn this story, and there is no more important time than at the harvest season. UlismM Practical and Fancy Needlework HANDKERCHIEF CORNERS. unusually pretty were seen recently, SOME ascorners many women will wish to on their Christmas sewing as early aa this, these suggestions may not come amiss. These handkerchiefs are still made of the gayly colored linens as well as white, and contrasting shades or color are used for decorative work. No. 1 was made of lavender linen, worked in black. The edges were rolled and finished with the tiny crossed etltch in black. Then in one corner three threads were drawn each cWhj, d like the illustration, and double in black. No. 2 was a white linen handkerchief with a tiny hemstitched hem as an edge finish. Then the four crossed lines were done in a rose thread, using the tiniest possible outline stitch, and the small squares were well padded and embroidered in the pink. No. 3 was in a rather dark blue Unen with a rolled crossed stitch edge worked in white. The crossed lines were in the outline stitch in white also. There were tiny buds embroidered in colors in the squares. hem-atitche- No. 4 was of pink linen with a hemstitched edge, and the lines were hemstitched like No. 1, and worked in Just the right shade of greea. A little rose wa embroidered at each corr.e . six add ttonal on - oriured. A darker pink was used for the roses, and a touch of green could also be r added. Another handkerchief was beautifully hemstitched and a ring embroidered in one corner? and in this ring initial. The ling was about was the size of a penny. White linen would be pretty for this, and the ring and ini.:! co jld be in white, black or some color. DRY CLEANING AT HOME & s4fmQ ' windows, call them. eyes, dear. The kitchen is white and blue. Looks i more like a parlor than a kitchen, and you'll look more like a princess than a cook, in your blue and white dresses. And there's a regular old fashioned backyard with a cherry tree and a clothesline and a place for a hammock. When the weather is too warm for the fireplace we'll hold hands in the hammock, sweetness, so we're sure to be happy the year around. I've gone all through that llttlj house seeing you in every room, sweetheart, watching you gather flowers along the fence, kissing my hand to you when you waved me good by of a morning, and I've decided it's a bargain at four thousand dollars. See, here, honey girl, whets to hin-- , der our starting out together right away? The bungalow only needs you to make it a piece of heaven, and I am aching for a sight of you. If you leave on Saturday at six Ill meet you here at eleven." We'U have lunch under the cherry tree tea with the parson, and supper on honeymoon trail. . W. O. H. a In reference to the pulling up of tomato vines, that veteran in vegetable gardening, Eben E. P.evford. has written: "If frost nips the tomato vines before all their ffiiit is fully ripened," pull them up and hang them against a wall where the sun chn got at them. Hang blankets over them if the nights are cold. Here they will ripen as perfectly as on the vines in the garden, and one can enjoy fresh fruit from them until the eo nrlng of very cold weather. The old fashioned" housewife ripened tomatoes in the window on ledges and on the top of the lower sash, and for slower work put them away in drawers. She did it because ripe tomatoes were not purchasable In late fall, and early winter. We may do it to save the 60 Or 70 cehta'a pound which they Fresh candied citron is best for our puddings and cakes and excellent Tor our fruited brown breads, ice cream puddmgs, and so forth. Usually tepid water Is SUGAR to remove without the of soap. Sulphuric Arid. No matter how dilute the arid. If It is splashed on cotton and allowed to dry, it makes a hole. If such an ac- cident occurrs, apply dilute ammonia liberally at once. Wool and silk resist PIGTAILS better, and if the garment be put in water at once, most of the damage Is avoided. Most colors are changed it the acid dries in, but if it is washed at once and ammonia applied afterward. flie colors will probably be restored. When It is feared that ammonia will- - ruin the color if applied directly, wring out a cloth in ammonia and hold just above the spot, and the By Mildred Burled fumes will rapidly neutralize the sulphuric acid. Table Tops, When they have become spotted with white stains they can usually be restored if the stains are slightly smeared with oil containing a very little turpentine. Then rub hard with a soft flannel. Tallow, Scrape off all that is poadtle, ssd U Is old, soften with a little Then use carbon tetrachloride. the tallow castor oil. Tannin. a Bemr cohtijt Sponge repeatedly with water and alcohol, then treat with eau de Javelle and wash well. Tar. Usually a combination of solvents wqrka best for removing tar. Carbon tetrachloride will do it if the stains are not too old, otherwise brush first with chloroform and then use the carbon tetrachloride. Sometimes ether vyill take them out when all else falls. On silk it is often necessary to soften the stain with fresh olL Work it in well, but do not injure the threads or separate the fiber. A good way to clean it is to stretch the spot over a Mason Jar.' When it cornea time to clean, run a ring of pure solvent around the outline made by the top of the Jar and work in toward the center, letting the dirty solvent drop in the bottle. Tobacco. Use hot water and soap on cotton, a little ammonia in the water. On wool or silk use permanganate of potassium if white or the colors are fast to these bleaches. First, however, , try the direction for cottons. |