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Show (Tlie Kitchen Cabinet ((c). 1929. Western Newspaper Union 1 "Those who live on the mfiuntnins have a longer day than those who live In the valley. Sometimes nil we need to brighten our day Is to rise a Utile higher." THIS AND THAT As we all know, disease germs have a much better soil In which to grow on or in a body m kept perfectly clean. Is is wise to kce,i away I mm dis ease as much as pi 'Mile, to avoid cn wds during an epidemic of any kind, for even (he strongest body and healthiest person may die from Infection. A vigorous, healthy body is more able to throw iff disease germs. Sf It Is best to grow that kind of a body and keep It clean Inside and out. If one perspires much a good hot scrub Is necessary every day, followed by a cold shower and rub. A daily shower and rub, with two or three hot baths weekly will be sufficient for the average aver-age person to keep sweet. For those who have rheumatic trouble our health doctors now rec onimend hot epsom salt baths two or three times a sveek. Allow a pound ol salts to a tub of hot water and soak the body ia it for fifteen minutes. Pat wilh a oath towel to remove excess moisture, but allow the salts to dry on. This is a good and safe way to remove surplus fat, we are informed A tired body after a strenuous day can be restored and refreshed by n good cleansing bath. It takes but a few minutes and Is well worth the trouble. Often a restless baby will relax re-lax and go happily to sleep If it is bathed befort being put to hed. After propel atteutSui tins been i given the body as to cleanliness, we must consider it equally Important to look after our food. Buying food tint must be handled by market people is so common and many are so careless In such handling that every woman should latronize only those who have spotless shelves and chan hands and aprons or uniform.' Sinks and bath tubs are so hard to keep white and ringless that extra care should be used. A small bottle if kerosene will do wonders just dampen damp-en a cloth and wipe the ring around the tub and it will quickly disappear. Where stains of Iron or other minerals min-erals in ihe water are common, buy a bottle of muriatic acid. This is poison and should he carefully guarded. Drop a tahlespo nful into the stained porcelain, por-celain, let stand a half minute or longer long-er if very much discolored, then rinse off well. This will remove lime de posits which hold odors and make bathrooms most objectionable. Good Things to Eat. A nice luncheon 01 supper dish when one can think of nothing that r 1 appeals Is: Frizzled Beef. Melt butter in a . frying pan and stir until. it browns with the beef. Add more butter, remove the beef and thicken with Hour, adding milk to make a rich sauce. It et 11 rn the meat and pour over well bulterefl toast. Glorified Rice. Add one-half cupful of rice to three quarts of boiling water with one teaspoonful of sail. Cook thirty uiinutes or until tender. Drain, rinse with cold water and put in a cold place ready to serve. Add two cupfuls ot crushed pineapple, ten marshniallows cut Into fourths, two thirds of a cupful of blanched and shredded almonds, one-halt cupful of powdered sugar and a (upful of whipped cream with a few grains of salt. Servi in glasses and garnish wilh cherries. Piazza Punch. This is good on or off the piazza. Take one and one half cupfuls of orange iuice. one cupful of white grape juice and a pint of ginger ale. Mix and serve at on -e This makes enough to serve live or six glasses. Fruit Fritters. Beat one i'gg until light, add one fourth cupful ol milk, one-half cupful ol Hour sifted with one-third of a teaspoonful ot linking powder, cue-halt teaspoonful of sim-iu and one fourth teaspnoriful ol salt Mix and add one-half feaspoonful of 1 oil. Take sections of orange, dip Into the ballet and fry In deep fat Drain and sprinkle wilh powderod sugar and serve with oraur;e sauce. Cresm of Oyster Soup. Cook one pint of oysters in tlieir own liqun until curled, then remove and drain. Strain the brnili, add to it one pint of rich milk. hot. two teaspoonfuls of salt and one-fourth teaspoonful of pepper. Add one tablespoon ful of btilter to one of Hour and stir into the J milk. Add Ihe oysters, a pint of diced I celery which has born slewed and Is hot. let come to the simmering point and serve at once. More soup may be made by doubling Ihe milk and adding double the bolter and fKC.r. Date Gems. Sift one cuplul of flour, foiu te.ispoonfuls ot nni-ing powder, one cupful ot graham Hour, one half teaspoonful ff salt Add the graham Hour to one cupful ol ehopp " dales, mix all rogetliei and add one and one half cupfuls of milk and two tahlesponnfuls ot melted hi; n-r Mix Binl hake in gem nans thlr'y minutes 1 "HoJUc I'YUirdLt |