Show HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS it Is better to steam vegetables vegetables in boiling loso lose 30 to BO 50 per cent of their mineral salts it if steamed only 10 per cent is lost sprinkle chopped candied gin ger over thin biscuit dough then spread the tha combination with soft butter cut into strips a fourth ot of an irich inch wide and two inches long boko bake quickly serve hot try chiting your ice cubes with vegetable dyes A spring salad tor for instance Is delightful to look at and unusually crisp it if it is set in a bowl of green ice cubes desserts may bo be worked out in tile the somo same way tack several of heavy c loth cloth or paper over the corners of the table before covering it with now new oll oilcloth cloth tho the recovering job will then bo be easier cosier and will look much neater 0 0 0 1 I place a piece of zinc on red hot coals in tho the kitchen range or furnace tho the vapor that arises while tho the zinc melts will remove soot from tho the chimney I 1 |