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THE STOLEN BLUE
NE bonny, balmy April
day.
So bright blue were the
skies,
Methought I’ll go straight
home and look
Into my dear wife’s
ayes.
Somehow. I couldn’t help
but think
A saucy elf or fay
Had stolen the blue from
out her eyes
For that celestial ray.
So home I hied me—sure
enough,
My dearest, best of
dears,
With bowed head in tne Kitcnen sai
Alone, dissolved in tears.
•• 'Tis as I thought,” I fiercely said.
“I knew that heavenly blue
That shines up in the sky to-day,
Had been a theft from you.”
Then through her tears my brave wife
smiled,
"No. dear, restrain your feelings.
These tears are in my eyes because
An onion I've been peeling.”
Blessed is the cream instead of milk
if one wishes a good cup of tea. It is
essential in tea as in coffee.
Blessed is the scalloped dish made
of the left-over turkey and aug
mented with sausage. The latter
supplies nearly all the required sea
soning. Make a light crust of bread
crumbs soaked in milk, then beaten
with an egg and a bit of butter. Cover
and bake.
Blessed are the onions which, in
stead of being fried in the usual
manner, are boiled first. Then flake
them, and toss lightly with a fork a
minute in hot butter. Serve on toast
with chopped parsley and the plebeian
dish is converted into a "swell” affair.
Blessed is the penny dropped
in with plum pudding for luck. (But
first boil the penny.)
To Keep Bread Fresh.
In the farmhouses of central Europe
break baking is done once every three
or four weeks—no oftener—and yet
stale bread is there unknown. Their
method of keeping the bread fresh is
to sprinkle flour into a large sack, and
Into this pack the loaves, taking care
to have the top crusts of the bread
touch each other. If they do have
to lie bottom to bottom, sprinkle
flour between them. Swing it in a dry
place. It must swing, and there must
be plenty of flour between the loaves.
The process sounds more odd than
reasonable, but it is one of the things
which is true—"because.”
THE INVALID’S LAMENT.
Bridget’s Beatitudes,
HE doctor said the other
day
That I must lie abed
Till after breakfast—
“Let them wait
On you a while,” he
said.
But, without me, at
' breakfast time,
| I fancy things go
|, wrong:
I The bacon isn’t fried
enough;
, The eggs boiled far too
long.
I follow every sound; X
know
table,
T tremble at her father's frown,
When I hear: “Quiet, Mabel!’’
And hark, a bubbling, hissing sound!
I hear: "Quick! Lift the cover!’’
I know as well as I were there,
The coffee's boiling over.
Bo there is not a punishment
On eartli of man's devising,
Like staying late abed. I know
In Heaven there's early rising.
A Company Suggestion.
It Is a good plan to have in the
house a can of Spanish peppers. They
keep well and are invaluable for add
ing a ‘ company” touch to the plainest
meal. In a hurry sandwiches may be
made of them,, mixed with cheese or
moistened with a little cream.
Plain hamburger steak or a mess of
left-over fowl is delicious with the ad
dition of the peppers. Cut the meat
Into cubes and cover with strips of the
peppers. Sprinkle all with bread
crumbs and brown.
Duchess Cake.
Take the weight of five eggs In
flour, butter and sugar. Beat all well
together and fill a square cake tin
two-thirds full of the mixture; bake
In moderate oven about three-quarters
of an hour.
When cold cut out the center, fill it
with canned apricots, from which the
liquor has been drained; brush the
cake lightly with any red jelly and
cover with whipped cream. Garnished
with blanched pistachio nuts or glace
cherries this is a most attractive and
delicious dessert. The foundation
recipe will do for a variety of filling.
That Cellar Step!
Is it dark? Are you afraid you will
fall in the dark, and so go sliding
along carefully for fear of a misstep?
That is easily remedied; paint the lasL
Btep a brilliant white. Or whitewash
it. You will then know when you are
at the bottom of the stairs, even with
a dim light.
Cuisine Queries.
What is “pilaff?” An oriental dish
of rice and meat, highly seasoned.
> What is “toffee?” A kind of candy.
THREE IN A BED
&
^HE poets sing of "Gentle
sleep.
That knits the raveled
sleeve of care,”
mnniTir And "iy experience has
proved
That sleep is welcome
anywhere.
I’ve slept In Sitka’s frigid
clime,
'Neath tropic skies In
Dahomey, '
Dike Sleepers Seven, any
place,
’Most any time, ’most
anywhere.
But there’s one memory,
best of all.
When everything is done and said,
'Twas when, on cold nights, at the farm,
We youngsters slept, three in a bed.
With Tom and Jack on either side.
And little me, squeezed In the middle,
And pillow fights, and ghostly tales—
Ah, when I play on memory's fiddle,
The sweetest music ever heard.
Fond retrospect, at twilight, brings.
When boyhood dreams come floating
back.
Soft music, over phantom strings.
Caps.
In the days of our great-grandmoth
ers, and even the grandmothers of
some of us, the women wore caps aft
er they were forty. For women were,
by the way, much older at 40 than
they are now. All marks by which
we used to tabulate the years are
effaced in this new (and, shall we not
say, more enlightened) generation.
However, caps were pretty and,
rightly made, becoming, and there are
signs of a return to the fashion which
may be commonplace, ugly or piquant
as the owner wills. They are begin
ning to creep in with Ihe ultra fash
ionable; they are worn by the semi-in
valid, and are made as accompaniment
to the new designs In lingerie. A
lace-edged Charlotte Corday cap is
very attractive and becoming, and
bids fair to be popular, worn with a
lounging robe, or even tea gown.
Banana Deliciosa.
Cut three stale sponge cakes into
slices and soak in rum punch.
Cut four bananas through a fine
sieve, sweeten and spread over the
sponge cake. Add sweetened whipped
cream and serve.
The rum punch is prepared thus:
Into a large glass put a teaspoon pow
dered sugar, a wineglass of Jamaica
rum and one of brandy. Add one-half
pint boiling water, a little lemon juice,
and grated nutmeg.
In the banana deliciosa plain sherry
may be used instead of the punch.
THE BELLS.
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ING-A-LING. the break
fast bell;
Earliest, first morning
noise.
Ling’ring dreams the
sound destroys.
Scarce awake, you’re
“Hurry! breakfast will
get (‘old!’’
“Gee! how good those
biscuits smell!'*
Ting-a-ling, the break
fast bell.
Cling-a-clang. the bell
for school.
“Where are all my
school-books, moth
"Come back, Judy, wait for brother.”
"I'll be late for school, please hurry!”
"Eat your oatmeal, dear, don't worry!
Haste makes waste, so runs the rule.”
Cling-a-clang, the bell for school.
Rat-tat-tat and ding-dong-ding:
Listen, there's the postman’s ring.
Then the rear door—back we wend,
Just to hear: "Umbrells to mend.”
Then the telephone rings clear.
Ding, dong, bell, the grinder’s here.
Until Gabriel's horn resounds.
We shall hear the same old sounds.
Hark! from morn till night they ring!
Rat-tat-tat and ting-a-ling.
Lemon Marmalade.
Choose sound fruit with fresh peel
ing. Boil two hours, keeping covered
till tender. Change water often, but
always substitute water which is boil
ing. When done, slice thinly, remov
ing seeds. Allow for each pound of
fruit, two of loaf sugar, and a pint
of the water in which lemons were
boiled. Boil these together 15 min
utes, skimming carefully. Then add
the sliced fruit, and cook another half
hour or more. Put in jars and cover
with pieces of paper soaked in brandy.
Some like the addition of oranges in
the proportion of two oranges to, say,
six lemons. This marmalade makes
an excellent garnish for meats, and is
useful to trim up emergency dishes,
even when the taste of the marmalade
is not popular.
“Salmagundi.”
This name has come to signify any
dish which is a mixture of various in
gredients. It is proper, therefore, to
give the title to any medley of flavors
—any mixture of fruits, meats or veg
etables.
But the original salmagundi was a
mess of chopped meat and pickled her
rings. This was cooked in oil, pepper
and onions were added, and the whole
highly seasoned with vinegar and
spices.
It takes its name from the Countess
Salmagondi, lady of honor to the wife
of Henry of Navarre.
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FOR a smart and useful walking costume, no style could be more suitable
than the one illustrated here. The skirt is quite plain, and trimmed at
the foot by a band of plaid. The revers, waist-coat and cuffs are also of
plaid; the remainder of the coat is plain and tight-fitting. A motor cap
of the cloth is worn.
Materials required: 7% yards cloth 4S inches wide, 1% yard plaid 46
inches wide, 4 large and 1 dozen small buttons.
The second picture shows a charming costume, in Atlantic green face
cloth; a panel is cut down the center of front, widening as it nears the foot
of cloth, which is cut in turrets over a deep band of chiffon velvet in a darker
green; velvet covered buttons are sewn in each turret. Shaped straps of ma
terial are brought round at the top of the high-waisted skirt, and joined to
gether by straight straps of material over a vest of chiffon velvet; the other
material on bodice is quite plain; the long tight-fitting sleeves are of velvet.
Hat of green stretched chiffon velvet, trimmed with roses and ribbon.
Materials required: 6V2 yards cloth 4S inches wide, 4 yards chiffon vel
vet, 2 dozen buttons.
BAR PINS STILL ARE POPULAR.
Dress Accessory of Which Seemingly
There Cannot Be Too Many.
There is no diminution in the popu
larity of the bar pin. It is used for
collars, for the stock and for jabots.
Every girl needs as many as she can
get. She wants them in sets of col
ored stones to match the color scheme
of her various costumes, and she wants
them in different sizes for different
uses.
As far as the fashions go, she can
not have too many. Therefore, the
manufacturers are bringing them out
anew in all kinds of lovely shapes and
settings.
The horseshoe has been run to the
ground and few of the new ones are in
this shape. Lovely as the bowknot'
was it did not become widely popular
in semi-precious stones. The straight
bar has always been an excellent in
vestment, especially in three sizes.
The new bar pin used to catch the
lower edges of the turnover collar and
the jabot under it is in the shape of a
new moon. The crescent is slight in ,
its curves, it is not wide even at the
center, its ends are sharp.
PRETTY THEATER WAIST.
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Blouse of mauve chiffon-mousseline
trimmed with bands of white Venetian
lace and with motifs of Irish guipure.
The long sleeves are tucked length
wise and elaborately trimmed to cor
respond.
A Simple Guest Room.
The very simplest guest room that
any one could imagine! The floor had
on it a gray rag carpet. The walls
were covered with a plain gray paper,
and a black moulding joined them to
the ceiling. The narrow, old-fashioned
woodwork of window and door sills
>made streaks of black, in keeping
with the molding above. The hang
ings were gray Japanese crepe.
“Many tones of quiet grays,” as said
the poet; but they served to throw
into relief odd bits of blue and yellow
Moorish pottery and a row of blue
books. The books were the point of
the whole gray scheme of things, for
the hostess had covered them all in
blue holland linen and had titled the
hacks on small yellow pasters.
DAILY BATH FOR CLEANLINESS.
Weekly Ablution of Our Ancestors
No Longer Suffices.
There is many a man or woman
who would be horrified to be told
that he or she falls short of cleanli
ness, yet such is the case even when
one prides herself on personal dain
tiness.
You cannot be clean if you do not
take at least one bath each day. If
that seems like a harsh judgment try
going for two days without a bath,
then wipe off the skin with cold
cream. The condition of that cloth
is an unpleasant revelation.
The daily bath need not be in a
tub, but it should be more than the
British cold sponge that with many
does duty for cleanliness. Cold water,
no matter how invigorating, does not
remove soil.
A bath to be cleansing should con
sist of plenty of hot water—soft, if
possible—a pure soap and a scrubbing
brush, and plenty of friction in dry
ing. Cold water may be used later
as a spray or tonic, but the warm
bath is essential.
It is doubly necessary, if one lives
in cities, that care is paid to bathing.
The grime of tue big town is not only
disfiguring, it is germ-laden, and every
effort should be made to keep free
of it.
In addition to the daily bath one
should be particular to wash the face,
ears and neck, and under the arms
each time she dresses. The hands, as
most of us know to our sorrow, need
scrubbing a dozen times a day.
It is folly, as is so often done, to
point to our ancestors’ weekly bath
and superb strength. Times have
changed and so have ideals of clean
liness, and the person who takes two
baths a week these days is ashamed
to have it found out.
nose l/Olor for Children.
One of the new quaint tones in pink,
which is almost rose colored, is a fa
vorite for children's clothes. Coats
and hats are made of it for street
wear, and little slips for older girls
are built of it in silk, cashmere, ehif
foil, messaline and other new fabrics.
The coats of old rose are made oi
supple broadcloth, cut quite severely
with large pockets and long sleeves
edged with fur.
There is also a turnover collar oi
this fur, which may be ermine, beaver
dyed squirrel or chinchilla.
With such a coat goes a broad
brimmed sailor or soft rose beaver,
trimmed with a band of the fur around
the crown, with a head of the animal
in front.
To Protect the Fingers.
Pretty nearly everybody is making
or learning to make Irish crochet lace,
so that any information on this inter
esting subject is usually received with
joy.
The, inexperienced finds that the
sharp end of the crochet needle pricks
their fingers and that they, for this
reason, cannot keep up the work very
long at a time. The best way to over
come this difficulty is to wear ». tiny
piece of courtplaster over the ‘.ip of
the finger where the needle touches.
It will not interfere with the guidance
of the needle, as a thimble might do,
but it will prevent the finger from be
coming sore and will protect it from
the possibility of callousness.
ODOR SHOULD BE ELUSIVE
Just a Suggestion of Perfume Is
AH the Really Dainty Girl
Will Allow Herself.
MANY girls who are decked for con
quest unconsciously make them
selves a nuisance to every one who
comes near them by their choice of
perfumes. If they would but learn
that heavy scent is vulgar life would
be more comfortable for those who
come their way.
The girl who restrains her love of
onions for the sake of her fellow man,
who would be horrified at the thought
of an odor from perspiration, will sat
urate herself with cologne or sachets
and think she has added the finishing
touch of elegance.
There are some persons who are
made ill by even a suggestion of per
fumery; there are others who become
unconscious from the smell of heavy
scent in a close room, while still oth
ers are made to sneeze violently by
breathing satchet powder.
No refined girl would want to make
herself a nuisance to her neighbors.
Leaving the question of lack of refine
ment out of it, perfumes should not
be used excessively from a humani
tarian standpoint. We should refrain
from any practice that may make oth
ers uncomfortable.
A girl once wondered at her lack
of popularity. She was a charming
girl, but slipped up on many an invi
tation that went to less attractive
friends. Her amazement was great
when a candid older woman told her
that her lack of invitations was due to
her love of tuberoses, which she con
stantly wore.
A heavy odor of perfumery also
gives rise to unpleasant suggestions
that it is necessary to deaden un
cleanly odors, that it is a substitute
for personal daintiness.
An odor to be permissible should be
so elusive as to be almost imper
ceptible. Delicate sachets may be
placed among one’s clothes. The new
American Beauty pad makes every
thing fragrant. So do the slips of per
fumed pasteboard. Toilet waters used
after the bath, or in it, rarely are ob
jectionable, as they have a fresh,
clean smell. Heavy perfumes such as
musk, attar of roses, tuberoses or pat
chouli, should be tabooed. A drop
may make the wearer a nuisance.
If one cannot refrain from the per
fume habit, and this habit is as com
mon to a certain type of man as to
women, at least a scent should not be
used when one is going into a public
assemblage. No one has a right for a
personal gratification to make others
miserable.
The doctor who goes to church
smelling of iodoform or the germ-fear
ful woman who attends a theater
reeking of asafoetida may be no
more of a nuisance than the girl who
has poured the perfume flask over her
self as a finishing touch to her toilet.
Japanese Scarfs.
Now that half the women one knows
are dressnig themselves up in the
floating scarf which the women of the
eighteenth century loved, many kinds
of new materials are being brought
into play.
Chiffon with a tiny fringe of metal
or crystals is still in the lead with its
rival of black tulle embroidered in
gold, but the new thing is a scarf of
Japanese satin embroidered with flow
ers or in tiny figures. One woman
who has a yellow satin scarf on which
is outlined quaint little men and wom
en, with lotus flowers between, wears
it around the shoulders over a hand
some evening gown.
The Japanese jacket has long had a
place for evening wear, but the Jap
anese scarf is a new addition to this
season’s costumes.
Flowers of Silver.
On a large hat of soft black beaver
the trimming is formed by a leafless
garland of large marguerites made of
silver tissue. The contour of each
petal is outlined with a narrow band of
black, fleecy beaver, in marked con
trast with the delicate texture of the
metallic goods.
PROPER CARE OF THE NECK
Woman Tells How to Avoid Double
Chin and Sagging Throat Mus
cles, the Marks of Age.
“Uow do 1 keep my back straight
** and my neck from sagging1’”
said the woman who spent hours each
day at a typewriter. “I wr* with
my chest up and my ayes turned ceil
ingward.
“I never allow myself to stoop, sit
ting well back on my chair to make
the erect position possible, and, when
ever I do not have to look at iny copy
I throw the neck back.
“When taking dictation it i3 qujte
easy to keep the head up and I ar
range my notes on a rack on the
level with my eyes. Naturally, I use
the touch system, so the keys need
not be watched.
“Often, when working in a room by
myself I twist my head and take neck
stretching movements while writing
to fight off the double chin and sag
ging throat muscles that are so com
mon for women who sit at a desk or
piano much.
“The way I happened to think of
combining neck development and
work was by watching my grandmoth
er. Her throat is as thin and supple
as a girl's, though she is nearly 80,
and she has none of the sagging lines
that most of us connect with age.
“She told me that whenever she got
a chance during the day, whenever
she had to plan any of her work or
wanted a minute's rest, she sat with
her eyes turned heavenward, her
chest up and the muscles at the back
of the neck contracted.
“Often as she sat there she would
massage the throat muscles with the
tips of her fingers or draw the palms
of her hands alternately from the line
of her chin toward her chest. She
usually carried a small tube of cold
cream in her pocket and would put
just enough on her fingers to keep the
skin from getting sore.
“How did she manage about her
collar? She never wore one around
the house, but had her morning frocks
made with a narrow' surplice neck to
give freedom and air to the throat.
“Grandmothernever w'eni to a beau
ty doctor in her life, but she agrees
with most of them that a tight collar
is fatal to a beautiful throat. I can
not go collarless in an office, but I
take it off the minute I reach home
and always wear a Dutch neck dross
in the evening.”
Fashionable fur stoles are long and
are extremely wide.
Lace yokes and sleeves continue
popular in spite of their long use.
The lace coat figures as a part of
many of the dressy frocks of the sea
son.
White furs are worn as toques,
stoles and muffs, not to mention trim
mings.
Cashmere de soie and dull henrietta
are the most approved mourning ma
terials.
A new shade of dark green, very
popular with young girls, is called At
lantic.
The walking stick, after a period of
retirement, is now highly fashionable
for men.
An immense automobile muff has
constructed in it a special pocket for
carrying a pet dog.
When Climbing Stairs.
I have heard girls complain because
they have to climb so many flights of
stairs in order to reach their rooms.
Now, with a little practice they will be
able to go up the stairs without feel
ing the climb at all. Hold the head
erect, the chest up, breathe slowly and
deeply and put the ball of the foot
firmly on each step.
If you follow this method you will
soon form the habit of making the
climbing task less tiresome.
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From Inner Decoration.
Fire-Side Shelves—Low Shelves at the Side.
NEXT to the couch bookshelf in popularity is that which is placed in n\‘^_
ence to the fireplace. There is something cozily suggestive in >h<?
ciation of books and a fireplace, it makes one think of long, corntoi * '
winter evenings with bright ilatnes and a good story, not to mention 1‘. j
apples and kindred delicacies as a variant to literary absorption and B
friend sitting on the opposite side of the hearth to help enjoy the even k
a sociable silence. The couch, the fireplace and the bookshelf are an 1>*
in friendly relations with each other. The couch or chimney seat , j.s
and is upholstered in striped chintz. Above the seat is a shelf for the ^
and above this shelf are little glass wall cupboards. Tea things may j* t
in one of'the wall closets and confections in another—a moderate “
such as will not damage the complexion, and in the third the apples tot
,ug.—New York Herald.