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Show LITTLE HINTS FOR HOME-MAKERS. The Five O'clock Tea. In furnishing the 5 o'clock tea table, whether ttea or chocolate is served, each cup should be different in design and coloring. Among the odd dishes for the table a dish for mayonnaise dressing, is not to be despised. de-spised. It is of German ware, and both in coloring and shape resembles a large tomato. In this same ware is a huge orange for holding marmalade or pelly. Bohemian Bo-hemian glass is much used for finger bowls, claret jug and punch cups. When gilded and jeweled it is most effective. Dish of New Potatoes. Peel, wash and boil one quart potatoes with one quart -water, add one tablespoonful salt. When done, drain off . the water, return the saucepan with potatoes to the fire again, cover and let them remain two minutes, then shake them up, put them into a hot dish and pour over the following-sauce: place a saucepan with one tablespoonful butter over the fire, add one-half tablespoonful flour,, stir and cook a few minutes, add half a pint of milk., cook three minutes, add one tablespoonful fine-chopped parsley, pour the sauce over the potatoes tmd serve. ... ' ' 3 New Hint on Packing. Here is something some-thing for the woman who is packing away winter flannels and furs to remember. re-member. She may envelop her belongings belong-ings in all 'the evil-smelling concoctions of a drug shop and put them away in the air-tight gloom of cedar chests, but if the eggs of the moth are already In the garments, their doom is sure. Before Be-fore a woolen garment is put away, it should be quickly pressed with a hot iron. Heat will destroy the egg. Then the odoriferous moth ball and the penetrating pen-etrating camphor will do their work of keeping out more moths. Clam a la Tobasco. Chop one dozen clams fine and stir them for five minutes min-utes over a slow flame in one cupful of clam liquor and one tablespoonful of butter.. .Add the juice of half a lemon, some salt and pepper and a few drops of tobasco sauce and a sprig of chopped parsley. Serve on toasted crackers. - A Summer Silk Waist. Because it adapts itself so delightfully 4) that most fashionable of trimmings tucking tuck-ing summer or China silk has been revived re-vived for the hot weather season with great favor. A very popular patterns after which to model a silk waist is the one which consists of laying the material in a succession suc-cession of wide tucks from neck to belt. The sleeves are developed upon the same lines and the only part of the waist .that is minus the tucked treatment is the wide plait which turns back to form the fastening. Waists of this .description can be worn with any skirt and they are seen in a great variety of colors upon the, bargain counters just now. They are cheaper than the taffeta designs and possess all of the advantages of taffeta without the undesirable stiff effect which looks so uncomfortable in warm weather. These all over tucked waists are also seen in nun's veiling and the imitation crepe materials. They make a very dressy bodice indeed if finished at the neck with a stock of ribbon to which is attached a jabet of soft blonde lace. Waters for the Mouth. Mouth waters are worth recommending. Aside from their agreeable odors and the sweet taste they put in the mouth, they have hygienic properties that give them dental value. There are orchid, orange clove, wintergreen, lemon, vanilla and attar scents. The lotions are strong, and a few drops in a tumbler of water will, as the French say, fumigate the whole inside mouth. ' .' Curtains of Fresh Green. The open ! fireplace, gaunt and dismal looking j without its flaming logs, now stares j the housekeeper in the face. The fa- i vorite way. of hiding its cheerlessness J from public view is With potted plants, i but some one has discovered that the j draught coming down the chimney is bad for the plants. An ingenious contrivance con-trivance to' prevent injury in this way-is way-is to place a screen in the opening and to mass the plants in front of it. Some of the bracket screens with receptacles for flower , pots branching out on each side are also admirable for summer fireplaces. Pots containing vines, if .the vines are properly trained, is that of a curtain of fresh green. |