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Show AROUND Mi,,ems of ,nferest , UAIICC '( 9fl?rf!l to tne Housewife the HOUSE mwMmm Herring Salad. Boil and cut up about nix potatoes as for potato salad. Place in a bowl with two pickled herrings (boned and cut into strips), a hard-boiled egg chopped fine, and a grated apple. Make a dressing of 2 tablespoon-fuls tablespoon-fuls each of cream, salad oil, vinegar, vine-gar, and pepper to taste, and pour over salad. Watering IIou.se Plants. Kinse water from milk bottles will make house plants healthy and vigorous. Selecting Meals. Good beef or pork or calves' liver is very bright in color and has little odor. Remember Re-member these points when selecting select-ing it. Stuffed Celery. Elend two tablespoons ta-blespoons of peanut butter with two tablespoons of butter and one-quarter one-quarter pound of grated cheese. Work until smooth, then add one-quarter one-quarter teaspoon of worcester- Bhire sauce and paprika, then stuff crisp celery hearts. This mixture is also delicious as a sandwich spread or to use for stuffing dates or prunes. For Meringues. Eggs that are several days old make better meringues than fresh ones. Preserving Stockings. Because perspiration acids are among the worst enemies of good hose, clothing cloth-ing experts advise washing stockings stock-ings after each wearing in lukewarm luke-warm water with mild soap. Caring for Knit Garments. In wearing and caring for knit garments, gar-ments, beware of rough surfaces, which cause thread breaks. Give the garment rest periods; ste'am and reblock occasionally. For Cooling Cakes. An ordinary ordi-nary wire dish-drying rack makes a good cake cooling rack when turned upside down. A Needed Utensil. A knife sharpener is as essential a piece of household equipment as the coffee cof-fee pot. Not even an expert carver is able to do much with a dull knife. |