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Show I CThe Kitchen Cabinet J WIWB ' ' When autumn brtnas her nb'1"; And hU their sploed melanges fro To eteep the air from tart to atari With flood or equanderea potpourri. pot-pourri. .... Than ah. my Ufa, and O, "fr,J Wi two will etrike aoma trail 01 old. And lova cloaa hoarded all the year. In aolden bywaya ahalt be tola. " -Harriet W. Bytuonda, SEASONABLE RECIPES A dainty salad U always a welrom addition to any meal and she is ndeeo wise who will avail her- any meal ana wise who will avail herself her-self of the wonderful combinations to be found In almost any market or garden. , . Cheese and Pear Salad. -Arrange halves of fresh stewed or canned pears Individually on nests ol 1 lettuce leaves, flU the centers with rate cheese ana wv mayonnaise. Fresh pears, if very ripe, are delicious served thus. Sprinkle with a bit of lemon Juice and sugar, cover and let stand a few minutes to season. Chsess Balls and Watercress.-Take two cupfuls of cottage cheese, dry and unsalted. Mix it with one-half cupful of catsup, one and one-half teaspoon-fuls teaspoon-fuls of salt, one-half teaspoonful of paprika and one-third of a cupful of chopped nuts. Chill thoroughly and make Into balls. Place three or four balls on a bed of crisp watercress and serve Ice-cold with mayonnaise. This recipe will serve eight. Cottage cheese blended nth a highly-seasoned boiled dresslLV and served on watercress makes a n ost delicious simple salad. The Ideal washcloth for baby's bath Ig the one made of three or four thicknesses thick-nesses of gauze, bound around the edge with a soft ribbon or worked around with a soft-finished crochet cotton. cot-ton. . Lima beans, cooked until tender and served with butter and cream with seasoning, are delicious. A few hills of these beans will supply a small family fam-ily with plenty for the fall. To remove grease from matting, i scrape French chalk freely over the spot, sprinkle on enough benzine to moisten it, and when the benzine has evaporated brush off the chalk and the spot will have disappeared. A ruffle at the bottom of the kitchen apron Is not merely a trimming. Its fullness makes It outstanding, thus pre-1 pre-1 venting anything spilled from finding a landing place on the skirt. Pictures should be hung at the height of the eye of the average person. How many things, both juat and , unjust, are aanctioned by custom. LAUNDRY DISCOVERIES When ironing lace, embroidered garments or bedding or any kind of Initials or hnnd unrlt have a piece of an old Turkish towel fastened to one end of the lronlnj. board to lay these pieces on. Heavy, well-made laundry laun-dry baskets are expeo-' expeo-' slve, but bushel baskets may be bought for a few cenis and two or three of them kept Just for the clothing They are light, easy to , carry and one may have at many as convenient When recovering your ironing board use two thicknesses of cotton batting, if you haven't an old blanket to pad It When sending handkerchiefs to tbe laundry fasten them to a strip of tape and they will always come back together. to-gether. The Ironing Is but a few moments' mo-ments' work. With a small line on the piazza for banging small things and baby clothes, the doll clothespins are Just the size to bang them firmly on the cord. When arylng a washed sweater In winter lay It on a cloth on a window screen; place on two chairs over a hot air register. Lay the sweater so that It will dry In Its original form (flat In the back and the fullness In front) pulling out the sleeves to make them roomy. In cold weather when hanging out clothes mittens are unhandy and the Angers get numb so quickly, frr heating heat-ing the clothespins In the oven until tnod and hot this will keep the hands varm and hurry the hanging process. Sprinkle clothes with hot water and thoy mny be ironed within a few minute. Net. curtains may be WRKhed, slipped onto s rod top and r-ottom and hung to dry. Tliey will dry perfectly straight and even. Pull the heading nith the fingers when nearly dry and they win look If they had been earvfiilly otrctfbmt. Add Mt of persiHn to tbo boild rtarrh when making It This will Vep It from m'-Vina to he Iron, Always Al-ways save all Mr of hroken panOn from Jelly flame, a piece tho size of a small hoan ' "nfflrlent 'or two quarts of tarc. |
