| Show DOMESTIC SCIENCE wee winkle makes the tour of the town much earlier these crisp october evenings and the small people whose prayer for just a little longer was sometimes granted in the long twilights of july and august should now be snugly tucked in bed soon after supper sleep and plenty of it is a most important desideratum to the growing child it is a great mistake for mothers to allow any child under the age of fourteen to get into the habit of sitting up until his elders retire or until he himself falls asleep on chair or sofa from sheer weariness and has to be dragged an unwilling captive to bed for the little children let the supper be light but nutritious then after a little playtime or a half hour of reading or storytelling carry them off to bed let them early learn to go to sleep alone without a light if near the rooms where the family are sitt ting but if some distance off with a night light especially if the child Is apt to be at all nervous or afraid for older children 9 should should be the limit and if possible books should be laid aside a half hour before that to give the brain a chance to rest early to bed is not only a distinct benefit to the children themselves but the busy mother especially needs the evening to herself when the children all in the fold her mind is at rest and she can take time to enjoy the new magazine the neighborly call the evening entertainment the e church prayer meeting without the co constant instant mental query what Is howard doing Is someone looking after the baby are tom and dick quarreling or Is mary in the draught it is all a matter of habit with the children and the sooner they understand that willie winkle running upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown night gown must find the weans in bed and no krite laddle laddie that winna fa asleep the better for all concerned A tapioca apple pudding recipe that lays this flattering unction to its soul all men are fond of it hails from philadelphia soak one half cup of tapioca over night in the morning cook until clear and tender in a pint of water not allowing it to become too stiff when clear sweeten to taste add slices of tart tender apples and put in oven just long enough to brown send to the table in the baking dish and serve with sugar and cream this to is also delicious with fresh peaches cut in little pieces the sale of cooking thermometers for household as well as hotel use is decidedly on the increase according to the house furnishing dealers this Is attributed to the fact that cooking is coming to be regarded more and more as a science requiring accuracy in its prosecution in hi order to produce the best results for some time it was necessary to buy the imported thermometers mo meters which were very expensive but american manufacturers have risen to the occasion and excellent ones can now be purchased here for about 3 8 they are made of iron and porcelain the standard holding the mercury inclining backward so that the marking can be readily read the correct heat for baking various different foods is thus set down in the thermometer for roas roasts tsin in ovens pork degrees beet beef degrees veal degrees mutton degrees puff pastry requires a temperature of degrees bread degrees pastry degrees and meat plea pies degrees when creps preps preparing ring sandwiches tor for a large lr EG company e or P ny it 1 tt is 5 S 0 W et une 8 n neo 0 mw wry to t D mak k t chwa h m jwj n w W h hours U 1 advance of the serving if a napkin is wrung out of hot water and wrapped around the sandwiches which should then be placed in a cold room they will keep as fresh and moist as though just spread never put meat away in the wrapping paper in which it comes from the butchers take out lay on a plate and cover ath a clean cloth kept for that purpose in brushing the teeth says a skillful dentist put the powder on the sides of the brush instead of the face as is commonly done then brush the teeth with an up and down motion instead of sideways side ways this not only prevents the waste of the powder but reaches the interstices between the teeth much better than can be done in any other way A novel but efficacious method of washing glasses in turkey is to put them in cold water and scrub them with green leaves usually figs this gives them a superb polish without the uses of soap while the pig per se is not a specially attractive subject for prolonged study there are some points forthe for the treatment of his Pork ship after he becomes such that every housekeeper can bear in mind with advantage to herself these ponts succinctly stated are that western pork is better than the eastern because it is corn fed that in ordering pork for a toast you should always call for your pork park that the reason some pork cooked with beans cooks anav to a sea of greasy crumbly fat is because it is from an old hog that the way to distinguish good pork when buying Is that salt pork from young pigs or yearlings yearnings year lings is firm hard and clese cle se in texture and its ita skin is thin and smooth while that from an old is rough scaly and full of bristles that clear white pork is better than that with a pinkish or yellowish tinge that pork tenderloin alone is tasteless and has to be treated with vari art ious high condiments to be made palatable that in boiling a ham you should add one cup of vinegar and one cup of sugar that the liquor in which ham is boiled makes a good foundation for pea soup that it is much cheaper to buy a fresh shoulder of pork and corn it for yourself allowing one gallon of salt to five gallons of water that pork drippings droppings drip pings make one of the best frying mediums for chickens or fish that apple sauce should always be an accompaniment for roast pork that cold roast pig sliced thin is almost equal to the breast of a 6 turkey that the leaf lard from the kidneys Is IP best that old or very old ham should he be parboiled five minutes before boiling I 1 that fried ham cooked too long will become hard and dry while the evolution of homemade home made sausage is now considered to be a work of supererogation it to is well to know how to do it if occasion demands demand or it if one would fain lie be surp sure of if what he to is eating an excellent family rulo rule calls for ten pounds of sweet fresh pork one third fat and two thirds lean chop fine or get th the family butcher to grind it season with one quarter of a pound of salt one ounce of pepper and half an ounce of sifted sage mix thoroughly make stout actton bags a yard long and four w inch inches es wide wring out of strong salt amter and aad dry pam th meat into the bags crowding it in clos closely ay tie and keep in a cool place placa when needed turn back the bag slice off the meat and took cools until brown and crisp in the valuable report on an oyster culture just ensued by the elsh commission mis filon the so called fattening of oysters just previous to sending to market to give them an illusive appearance of plumpness is Fe severely verely condemned not only aloes oes this process add nothing whatever to the nutritive qualities of the oleter but on the contrary it takes away H V per cent of its original nutritious substances protein fats carbohydrates and mineral salts and destroys its flavor it is during this process after being removed from their shells that oysters sometimes consume dl disease seas germs with their food which germs are afterward transferred 0 o human anatomy with serious results in deded it Is s not an impossible hypo thesis that the original source of the typhoid fever germs so often attributed to the consumption of raw oysters may have come from the polluted water in which the oysters have been fattened on the contrary the fish lommis sion combats the popular prejudice against green oysters in america A number of careful investigations say iray they have proved conclusively that such oysters contain no copper nor anything else deleterious but that the green color is derived from a harmless blue green substance which is found in certain of the lower plants in brackish or saline water such oysters are usually fat and well fed the result of the abundance of nutritious food if the color is undesirable it may be removed from the oysters by transferring for a time to waters in which the green food is deficient hot meats and soups will inevitably spoil if set away closely covered there must always be an escape for the hot air broths booths must be thoroughly cooled before going into ice chest and then only lightly covered EMMA PADDOCK TELFORD |
