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Show J J OKUY loss work more, I f W'itsle less plve more, Preach less practice more. Pome one has well said that the optimist opti-mist Is the man who makes lemonade of the lemons that are handed to him. WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG Just to leave your work and your worries your dishes In the sink, your beds unmade, your marketing undone, un-done, and, if need lie, your doors unlockedand un-lockedand go forth into the great outside world, is to run with eager feet toward peace. It Is good to go and see a friend and talk it over; but It Is better to go out under the sky and forget it. Let the unhurried world of nature preach to you of steadfast peace and growth under unceasing change. Let the big, empty sky replace re-place the cobwebbed ceiling of your house-bound consciousness, flood the dark places with wholesome sunshine. When you go back to your dishes they will almost wash themselves, for all the good fairies out-of-doors will come home with you and lend a willing will-ing hand to your work. Try Some Changes In Potato Cookery. Cook-ery. We should all be as ambitious as the gentleman who was told that there were over two hundred ways of cooking potatoes. He replied by saying: "I am going to iearn them all. I already know two." Buttered Potatoes. Cut potatoes into eighths or quarters and parboil, drain and finish cooking in butter, turning often to give them an even brown. Add salt and cayenne for seasoning. sea-soning. They may be baked in a paper pa-per bag and are hard to equal for flavor, cooked in that way. Rellly Potatoes. Have ready one quart of cold cooked potatoes cut in pieces the size of small beans. Put the potatoes into a hot skillet with three tablespoonfuls of fat -in which a Bmall onion and three green peppers pep-pers have been cooked. Add a cup rf thick tomato, sifted. Season with salt and pepper and cook until dry. Serve with fish or cold meat. Sugar Potatoes. Parboil and cut in fourth-inch slices good sweet pota toes. Simmer for an hour or more In a sirup made with a cup of white sugar, a fourth of a cup of water and a teaspoonful of butter. Baste the slices and let the sirup cook away before be-fore serving. NXIETY, worry and fretting Jtm jL destroy nutrition by ruining the digestion and preventing assimilation of the nutriment In the food. Whatever affects the brain cells, the nutritive centers cen-ters of the body, afreets the health, the life. Wotrv or anxiety Injures certain cells of the brain, often beyond repair. The supply of nerve nutriment Is cut oft, and all the normal processes cf the body are disarranged and disordered while one Is troubled or anxious. That is why worry kills. A FEW FILLINGS FOR CAKES. For a quick filling and Icing, use the white of an egg, a teaspoonful ol lemon juice and a cup of powdered sugar. Stir well together and beat five minutes. Add more sugar If not stiff enough. Pineapple Filling. Add to stiff boiled frosting a tablespoonful of gelatine gel-atine dissolved in a little pineapple Juice, a half cup of grated pineapple and enough lemon Juice to make it pleasantly tart. Fruit Filling. A cup of seeded raisins, rais-ins, half a pound of blanched almonds, half a pound of chopped dates and a fourth of a pound of finely minced citron (all put through the meat chopper chop-per is a saving of time), then add enough boiled frosting to make a smooth paste and sufficient quantity. Caramel Filling. To a pound of light brown sugar add -a half cup of milk and a tablespoonful of butter. Boil until it makes a soft ball in water. Cool without stirring, then beat to a cream, adding a teaspoonful of van-Ilia van-Ilia or other flavoring and chopped fruit or nuts as desired. Coffee rolling. To a cup of hot milk add two tablespoonfuls of cornstarch corn-starch and a half teaspoonful of butler, but-ler, the yolks of two c-ggs beaten with a half cup of strong coffee and a half cup of sugar. Return to the fire and cook until thick; cool before using. Fig Filling. Cook a pound of figs, chopped, in three-fourths of a cup of water and a half cup of sugar. Stir and simmer until smooth; add a, tablespoonful table-spoonful of lemon juice, cool and spread between the layers of cake. Grated chocolate added to boiled frosting flavored with vanilla ia a good and quick filling to prepare. |