Show 0 MAN or woman 0 the humblest sort can really be strong gentle pure and good without the world being better tor it without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence 0 that goodness 1 brooks making use of the things at hand real genius displays itself in the cook who has few materials and utensils to use almost anybody with all the markets at command can prepare a good meal but the person who if able to do this with little to do with la an artist of no mean value at a little evening reception the punch bowl was planned to be decorated about its base with great clusters of purple grapes at the last moment no grape leaves could be procured so we resorted to the roof garden and picked enough leaves of the castor bean on which to arrange the grapes these leaves were even more beautiful than the grape leaves would have been how many beautiful and usable things we have about us all the time it we just open our eyes we find what we are looking tor did you ever want a bread board with none available try using a well floured piece of maella paper it serves every purpose two pieces paper used to sift baking powder and flour are a great convenience as they are lifted and emptied so easily use a dish set in the top of your teakettle tor a double boiler save nasturtium seeds to pickle and use as capers household hints put a little i a er tunnel in th opening of your berry pie and the juice will boll up in it and none bet wasted never throw away dry cheese grate it add cream red pepper and salt and serve it as a cream cheese there are so many nice ways of busine usine dry cheese with macaroni on rs toasted and in for the F course there Is nothing that seems quit so nice to begin a luncheon with fresh fruit served in an attractive manner A section or two of orange with a few beautiful cherries on the stems and garnished with the leaves makes a pretty service A touch ot green always adds beauty to a dish and there are always leaves HAT furniture can give such finish to a room tender george eliot woman s face the beauty of a lovely woman Is itta music german salad small head ot cabbage chop fine one and one onion season with salt and cayenne cut into small cubes one slice ot salt pork fry until brown then pour over the cabbage mix well and add a little hot vinegar refrigerator helps it Is not advisable to pile the the slice ol 01 in it promiscuously breakfast ham is often carelessly left in with the dinner roast which spoils the flavor of the latter A dish of cold boiled onions la thoughtlessly set near the butter which at once absorbs its distinctive odor without advantage to itself celery Is laid near the cream pitcher and turnips or boiled cabbage set by the cooling custard for supper through such carelessness and ignorance the loss Is sometimes great milk cream and butter should be kept as much as possible from all food aa they readily absorb any flavor at hand meat and poultry should not rest against each other but be ar ranged so that the air can circulate about them it meat and poultry are to hang they should be suspended with the choicest part down that they may settle there household hints save all your paper cracker boxes with the waxed paper to wrap and pack the sandwiches when going on a picnic don t keep house without a la a flexible broad bladed knife they are indispensable in scraping out dishes in cake making for spreading aings and handling an omelet peach blossom cake one cupful of pulverized sugar one halt cupful butter stir together until like thick cream then add two tea spoons ful baking powder one cupful of flour one half cupful sweet milk the beaten whites of three eggs flavor thoroughly with extract of gake in two shallow tins frost wibb clear icing sprinkle with pink pul sugar and cocoanut sweet corn fritters grate six ears of corn add three eggs a good pinch of salt and a tablespoonful of sugar a cup and a halt milk a teaspoonful of baking powder and beat thoroughly together drop by the tablespoonful into smoking hot fat serve with or without sugar syrup peach surprise peel and chop two quarts of ripe eaches add to them a pound and aalt of sugar two cupfuls of cold water and the whites of five eggs put all together do not beat the eggs into a freezer and freeze |