Show HOUSEHOLD HINTS th 0 restlessness of the american people is proverbial abc this season it manifests itself in plans for the summer ane children are now out of school in a few days and the whole family will flit to tho summer home with joyful whether be a tent or one of the modern mansions cottage solely because of its temporary une A change is a good thing aej the grown people feel the need of it as well as the children change indeed sighed the little house mother as she bent patiently over a pile of rainbow hood small garments that just roust be used although most of them too short or too faded to seem available 1 I really dont find it much of a change except that the view out of the kitch on window Is different my dear it you could see those children eat when they spend the days in the open you would know that I 1 at least dont spend my summer days with folded hands but the children have a great time and it does them worlds of good it is time that the little mother had a bit of the holiday too and a brood of happy hearty children can help her to have it if they know how to go about it the big out is one of the things that the family sees in pursuit of hut that one of the party should slave for the spirit of fair play that Is taught he boy and girl both at school and home will help them recognize this too often the husband and father fails to appreciate tho situation mother has always been tho one who attended to the home duties probably his mother was n notable housekeeper who would not trust any one in her kitchen though fortunately that type ip fast dying out father works all day at the office or store and needs the rest and they cant keep a maid with grocery bills climbing skyward every month and tho children needing more clothes and college for two staring a follow in file face its too bad but cant now he really as selfish as ho seems and he put the situation into actual words but this is practically his attitude mother is to blame for the view he takes more than he is for she helped him to his idea of her work when they were first married by the position she took then she remember this but goes around with a little sore spot in her heart where she keeps the memories of tho way he used to help her when they were lerat married and housekeeping was a joke anyway suppose you try to make this summer a holiday all around begin before you leave home buy wooden plates enough to last al summer for the evening meals if that meal is usually very simple there will not be much to do in the etchen is over paper help if mother dds the washing as she often does take canned goods that may be used vil hout cooking in cabes of emergency af tireless cooker should be part of the equipment it works chilo you go for a walk with the children have fresh fruits or ds sort as far as possible and go without desserts when you cant gei fruit live the simple life in earnest we eat too rauch any way each choul Jl assume certain duties and do them without being told often ohp effort to got help from a family 0 f children requires a greater effort than 0 o do the work anes salt but lt air to the child not to exact some thought tor others too often mothers blame for thoughtless be cause they train them to lot others do the luty that is their own each child that is alj enough should care for its own room making the bed and attending to the water supply it will be good for father to make it his duty to wipe the supper als aes ae lie did in those days that are beginning to seem so far away he will bo surprised to fini how pleasant that hour will become when he and the little mother are busily working with time to talk of all the small daily happenings chis is mothers opportunity it she makes it a season 0 complaint and nagging she will richly deserae des erye her fate when she finds herself deserted some women find it almost impossible to take life pleasantly there should be a school for housewives where this particular branch is ahey should learn to follow the wise example of the old philosopher who when asked how he kept so young replied well I 1 takes life easy sometimes I 1 sets and thinks and sometimes I 1 just sets does anybody think the housewife folds her hands in rest after house cleaning time a minute even as she routes out the last glory hole and hangs the last mop rag to dry the street peddlers are calling berries strawberries ten cents a box and visions of depleted pantry shelves haunt her waking and sleeping the empty fruit cellar grins at her like a child who has shed its milk teeth and she realizes that time and the strawberry season wait for no woman A drive through a village street at this season of alie year will convince one that while the opportunity for hearing scientific lectures on the subject of hunting the genalo microbe to his lair and there doing him to death may not have been so great as it has been with the resident of the town common sense and experience have been great teachers every picket of the fences will be adorned with inverted fruit jars hanging in the sun to sweeten the reason why somo jars of fruit hlll spoil even when canned by some of the most careful work era is often duo to lack of this very pimple precaution all empty jara hould have a thorough cleansing now boiling in a solution of soda will do much towards making them chemically clean then let them aland in a sunny place sheltered from dust till needed it they are then boiled again and atod while hot tho percentage of loss will not bo great all tops that are in any way imper feet must bo discarded and old rubber rings are seldom safe to uso ono jar of spoiled fruit will bo a greater loss than the price of a dozen now rings when Tire paring tor the canning sea son be sure and provide a patent for the can tops it WA do tho work better quicker and with less risk of burns than the old method of tightening the tops by hand A fruit jar filler will also prevent burna and consequent brain storms do not try to do all your canning at once A few jars at a almo and the work hlll be dono without fatigue and dona better than to attempt large quantities the problem of sugar Is one that confronts many an ambitious housekeeper the bills that must bo kept within a certain limit will not stretch so elastically as to cover tho expenses of enough fruit for the winter because so much sugar is required to thosa who consider tills problem and most of us must tho process of canning without sugar may be of use the fruit put up in athla way deepa just as well and can be combined with sugar when required winter during the strawberries canned without fill perfectly clean hot cans berries the best and soundest fruit place cans on araw in wash boiler fill the boiler half way to the tops of cans with cold water I 1 he lids should be placed lightly on top but must not be screwed doan place lid on bollar and brinar water to a hart boil the fruit will sink down as it heats and two cans may be filled from a third boil five minutes after this is done and tighten alio lops this fruit will keep as well as if cooked in sugar as the sugar is way a preservative in making strawberry jelly or is better if the fruits press to extract the juicer witha measure the juice and allow a pound of sugar to a pint of uncooked juice strain through a jelly bag and boll for 15 minutes add the sugar and stir till dissolved then boll five min utcy more nestby Test by drop a cou panto when a thin fill the glasses and stand to cool coer with cither the tin tops paper mastej over carefully or a thin him of par aanne the latter is the estand cleanest for ol 01 d fashioned preserves the pound for pound receipt of our grand is best of all be auretto remember that in making jelly you must use cane sugar as beet sugar will not J ally asa change from strawberries and cream or the delectable shortcake try strawberry custard pie make a rich thick custard with civo eggs one cup of sugar and one quart of sweet milk thickened with dicina have ready two baked pie crusts as for any custard pie pour in the custard while hot drop in berries thai have been washed and dried pour over the top a meringue made from the whites of the and a half a cup of sugar and make a delicate brown in a slow ovon serve either hot or cold |