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Show Woman's Page i :! . "' ,1 i) Fedestal-shaped Box for Holding Laundr Covered With j Cretonne and Lined With Oil Cloth Fits Cosily Into Ii ; Corner Kow to Decorate a Child's Room Bright I Ideas in Pictures Recipes and Household Hints Frosting Window Glass Three Good Recipes for the Economical Housewife. U PEDESTAL LAUNDRY HOLDERS. ji Better, far than the laundry bas la (: the pedestal-shaped box, which may v be as elegant looking as its owner (j) elects to have It and may stand about !;j Iho dressing room on an equality with the other necessary pieces oC furnl-"i; furnl-"i; lure. The pedestal may be made or J: the most ordinary wood, since invan 1"; rably It is covered with cretonne, worsted wor-sted brocade or any thick, closely woven window draping materiaL It should be neatly finished at the edges ' with a gimp or a fancy braid. InBide i it may be lined with white oilcloth, i although that is not necessary, and i I It has a flat lid which when closed, 3 : makes a convenient table top. The 1 j:, laundry pedestal fits coBlly into a a 1 1 corner, out of the way, but it looks i - f- nicely standing beside the bed, as it a ; is precisely the right size to hold c j night light, a book, and a carafe. TO DECORATE CHILD'S ROOM. ' Nowadays, tine furniture and artis ; ticrwall paper go a great way in beau- Itifying any room, and a full purse is all that Is needed if one wishes to put oneself in the hands of an interior in-terior decorator. But there are rooms where a little ingenuity and taste are sufficient to convert them , from dull, uninteresting ones to bright and cheerful abodes. This js especially true of a child's room. I have in mind a small second-story back bedroom of the conventional city . house. It has only, one window, yet the walls are so cheerful that the oc-i oc-i cupant, a girl of 10, needs nothing i else to fill her heart and mind with j pretty thoughts and bright ideas. To produce this bright, successful I room her mother used plenty of paste i si and many large, highly colored pic- Itures, posters and panel pictures. These she cut out and pasted artis tically on the walls, i 111 In the same room stood an old j j Japanese screen, and this was given - j the same treatment with smaller pic-If pic-If tures of every variety. 1 1 This room proved a delight to the little 10-year-old girl. Each picture became a playmate, a companion, a Visitor to her, and nightly her mother sat at the foot of her bed, before kiso-ing kiso-ing her good night, and told her stories stor-ies about the picture children, imbuing im-buing them with life and Interest. One day sickness assailed the little lit-tle maid, and then the room became a double pride and pleasure. RECIPES AND HOUSEHOLD HINTS Frosting Window Glass. Make a saturate solution of boiling water, Epsom salts and pounded alum. al-um. Put In all the" salts and alum the water will dissolve. When it is cold strain through coar3e cheesecloth to get rid of sediment. Wash the windows arid wipe dry. Then apply the solution with a brush or sponge. Several applications may be necessa-1 T. Allow ench to dry before putting jn a second coat. Milk 'Stains on Plush. Milk stalnts are easily treated. Sponge with a mixture of equal parts of ether and alcohol with a tablespoon ful of ammonia to each pint of the mixture. This will take out the greasy milk. Raise the pile of the plush by steaming. Thousand Island Salad Dressing. Four tablespoons good mayonnaise, four tablespoons whipped cream, two tablespoons tarragon vinegar, juice of one-half lemon. Add one hard boiled egg, half a pimento, and a little chives minced together and mix well. Cucumber Salad Dressing. Peel a cucumber and chop fine squeeze It through a cheesecloth and drain dry, then add French dressing and lemon to flavor to taste. Good with sliced tomatoes. ' Pre6to Cake. Put Into a mixing bowl one cup (lour, one cup sugar, one teaspoon baking powder. In a measuring cup melt a lump of butter size of a wal- nut, add one unbeaten egg and fill up with milk, turn into tlie dry Ingredients Ingredi-ents and stir well. Bake In a loat and frost, or bake In layers and put together with a custard. To make a marble cake put part of the batter Into a pan, add a tablespoon cocoa to the remainder, stir well and pour over the plain portion in the pan. It you turn the batter into a shallow pan and sprinkle with spice it is a good coffee cake, or add to it two tablespoons table-spoons cocoa and It is a devil's cake, or nuts and fruit cake. |
