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Show Woman's Page Dancing Craze and Health One of the Beneficial Joys of ! Life But Common Sense Must Accompany Curried Lentils Nutritious Vegetable Dish Potato Dumpling Dump-ling With Sauce Recipe for Coffee Buns How to Protect Curtains Timely Hints ! for the Housewife. I i DANCING CRAZE AND HEALTH Wc all concede this craze for dancing danc-ing Is beneficial to all people as an exercise. It expands the lungs, u broadens the chest and If not over-It over-It done It deepens the breathing, which improves the health generally. But t there Is one great danger to be aoiv- ed taking cold. How many thought-l thought-l less young people will dance until -,i they are overheated and theh rush ' to the first open door or window and deliberately take their lives In ,tholr t hands by standing before it? I know jf of so many cases of pleurisy, rheu-matlsm rheu-matlsm and pneumonia contracted in ! this manner. ! Of course, you can't put old heads I on young shoulders, but there should be someone In every place where ,i people dauce to attend to the, ventl-latlon ventl-latlon and prevent dangerous drafts. Perspiration is one of the most Important functions of the human body; It Is a health giver, persplra-i persplra-i tlon carries from the skin all im-c im-c purities. Should a draft of cold air strike the body while one Is per- spiring freely the pores close irame-5 irame-5 dlately, congestion clogs the blood ff and disease follows. To be healthy blood must flow through the blood vessels unceasing- ly. Let that blood stop In any one Yt of the channels and some vital or-! or-! gau will be clogged. The lungs and heart, the pumping stations of the a blood, become hampered and distrl-'i distrl-'i bution s stopped. Warmth Is a won- j derful health giver; when warm the h muscles are limber and elastic, the f blood flows freely through the body -j and all of the functions are doing J their work. a After dancing one should be care-U care-U ' ful in cooling out. Never go directly I from a warm dancing room into the ; cold air. Wait a little while until ;f the excessive heat of the body has ;t , cooled .down. Then put on a warm I wrap and keep the mouth closed tor I 10 minutes after going into the cold air. If possible walk home, thus the reaction Is prevented which natural- ly follows heating exercise. If you wear low shoes for dancing always change them for high shoes or put on woolen spats before going out, as the ankles should be protected pro-tected from the cold as carefully as the throat should be. With a little care for the after of-': of-': ( forts dancing will prove to be a bene-i bene-i fit to the race. Remember; Dancing should be one of the beneficial joys of life, but common com-mon sense must guard and follow it to make it so. VEGETABLES FOR COLD DAYS Curried lentils make one of the t most nutritious vegetable dishes one l.: could imagine, and to this may be t added the greater attraction- of cheapness. For curried lentils wash ! and soak threo or four good sized tablespoonfuls of lentils overnight and in the morning boll them in enough slightly salted water to well 1 t cover and cook them until tender, but not broken. Strain off the liquor i carefully (reserving this as a founda-;; founda-;; tlon for vegetable stock). Fry a good f sized onion cut Into rings in one r ounce of well clarified drippings. Fry ,: in the same pan half a tcaspoonful i ; of mild curry powder for a minute 1 or two; then add three peeled and : sliced tomatoes and a heaped tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of rice flour, a teaspoonful of curry paste and a half a pint of ' stock. Potato Dumpling Peel eight large '. ! boiled potatoes, chop up finely four ' ounces of Buet freed from skin, etc., or use dripping. Mash the potatoes , Tree from lumps and add to them the ' suet, moistening it if necessary with a little milk or water, but be careful care-ful not to make it too moist. It should be rather dry. Add as much flour as the potatoes will take up (about one pound), and when it Is all incorporated roll into a ball, tie It up In a pudding- cloth and boll for four hours, adding more water as that In the pan bolls away, a"nd serve with the following sauce: Sauce Take four or fivo medium sized onions, put them In a pan with cold water and boll until lender; then chop up finely. Meanwhile melt two ounces of well clarified dripping in a pan over the fire and add to it one ounce of flour, and when thoroughly thor-oughly blended moisten with half a pint of warm water or stock If at hand, add gradually, and when It is all added let the sauce boll for three minutes, keeping it stirring all the time, add salt to taste and the chopped chop-ped up onions. Rub through a sieve If liked and serve very hot. COFFEE BUNS One cup scalded milk, one-third cup sugar, one-quarter cup lard, one-quarter cup butter, one-half even teaspoon tea-spoon 6alt and cinnamon. Melt and dissolve these In the hot milk. When lukewarm add one yeast cake dissolved dis-solved in one-quarter cup lukewarm water, add two beaten eggs. Mix In throe and one-half cups of bread flour, cover and let rise over nlgnc. In the morning add enough more flour and kneed 20 minutes. Let it rise until double its bulk. Knead again for five minutes, roll out into a sheet about one-half Inch thick, spread lightly with softened butter, sift over a very little cinnamon and one cup of sultana raisins. Roll up like a jelly roll, cut off slices one and one-half Inches wide, lay them with the cut side down on a well-greased well-greased pan. let rise until double their size. Bake in a moderately hot oven 15 or 20 minutes. When done glaze them with confectioner's sugar dissolved In cream or milk. TO PROTECT CURTAINS How not to muss panel lace sash curtains when the windows of sleeping sleep-ing rooms are opened at night has been a problem of many particular housewives. About halfway up the lower half of the curtain sew a small dress hood on either edge of the curtain cur-tain and one in the middle, If there Is heavy lace or strong material at that point. Beside the small ring screwed screw-ed into the wood rod of the window shade for the pull cork screw a similar sim-ilar ring into each end of the rod, where It will not be noticed. Catch the dress hooks Into the three corresponding corre-sponding rings on the window shade and roll the latter as high as it is desired 'to 'have "the window open. The screw rings can be put into the window jamb if preferred. TIMELY HINTS The next time your fire almost goes out throw a little granulated sugar on It, which will have the same effect as kerosene, but without being be-ing dangerous. Lamps will give a clear light without with-out smoke if the wick is trimmed the shape of the burner, and a small V cut from the center. Before frying liver dip the slices In hot water. The flavor will be much Improved. A slight draft on bread that is rising ris-ing may cause It to come up very slowly, and perhaps spoil it altogether. alto-gether. To protect blankets from becoming becom-ing soiled too quickly, cover them with cheesecloth, and knot at equal distance with colored yarn. When the cloth Is soiled, wash and use It again. To clean steel knives, take a piece of board 10 Inches lbng and six Inches Inch-es wide. Tack on to this a piece of bnissels carpet and sprinkle with fine emery. Rub the knives on this and they will clean with little labor. If the glass stopper is hard to remove re-move from the new 'bottle, dip a cloth In boiling water, and while It Is hot wrap It around the neck of the bottle. It will expand the glass and free the stopper. A lighted match can be used to heat the bottle bot-tle in the same manner. |