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xne San Francisco Sunday uau
Significance of the New
Birth
DO you know which of all gems is
your special gem—which is your
birth month stone? Of course, you
know that you are represented in the
world of jewels by a gem or two, but
ran you tell which they are?
The jewelers at their convention held
recently In Kansas City agreed on an
official list of natal stones. This Is no
arbitrary choice. The list has been
sanctioned by the wise in such lore
through the ages, and the modern Jew
elers have merely put their stamp on
the oldest known record. Henceforth
it is to be the standard list of gems
for the months.
Januarys gem is the deep hued gar
net, indicative of constancy and fidelity.
"Let January's maiden be
All garnet gemmed with constancy,"
the couplet runs, and the garnet is
surely worthy of representing trust
and faith, for there is no more reliable
and unchangeable gem. Besides, it
has the recommendation of being per
petually fashionable. True, It has, like
any other gems, its seasons of greater
or less popularity, but it has always
been a steady favorite. Perhaps this
is on account of its adaptability and
general usefulness, for it Iβ not one
of those narrow and limited gems that
look well only in certain articles of
adornment; every piece of jewelry can
be made handsome and elegant when
set with the dark blood red garnet.
Who does not admire those sets of
garnet studded jewels that adorned our
grandmothers in their young days?
Their charm and fascination linger, and
many are the proud inheritors of such
jewels, who exhibit on rounded arms
gold bracelets closely set with myriads
of tiny garnets, and lockets, mounted
"with the dense colored stone, are hung
on the loveliest garnet set chains. Ear
rings and brooches and rings, combs
and pins are all set with the gem of the
first month of the year.
"In fitful February it's a verity
The amethyst denotes sincerity."
And so for February we have the
amethyst, known in America as the
most popular of all the lesser gems. Its
beautiful violet rays capture the heart
of all of us, and the person born in
February we consider very lucky.
"What, oh, what shall a March maid do?
Wear a bloodstone and be firm and true."
She will also have courage and pres
ence of mind, for these as well the
bloodstone will give her. But the dark
green stone with the bright vermilion
spots Is a stern, unrelentless gem that
is not suitable for any but the more
formal jewelry. For daytime wear in
pins and buckels or signet rings, and
for jewelry for the sterner sex it is ail
very well, but in jewels for dress oc
casions and at night in artificial light
it is utterly impossible; so the thought
ful jeweler, who knows the limitations
and appreciates the peculiarities of all
gems, has deemed it advisable to name
an alternate gem for March, and the
delicate sky blue aquamarine has *been
chosen for the place. This stone is
cited in many an old list, of Russian
origin, as representative for March, So
those born during the month of winds
have a choice between the bloodstone
and the aquamarine.
"The April girl has a brave defense.
The diamond guards her innocence."
Everybody admires the diamond, and,
since it is the most used of all gems,
it can not be held representative only
of the month of April; still we will all
envy the girl born in that month, for
no one can cheapen her birthday gift;
it must contain a diamond to symbol
ize her month.
"Sweet child of May, you'll taste the
caress
Of the emerald's promised happiness."
The brilliant green of early spring
seems reflected In May's gem, and,
with the combination It possesses of
wondrous beauty and tremendous price,
the "sweet child" who owns an em
erald might well be happy.
"Pearls for the girls of June—
precious wealth,
And to crown it all they bring her
health."
Here is one of the oldest traditions,
and the June pearl Is known through
out all the world, but there is another
gem that vies v.ith it for first place
for June —the moonstone, which has
Ailments Due to High Heeled Shoes
IX learning to walk with infinite dif
ficulty during infancy, the muscles
of the lower limbs are trained to
maintain tome degree of equilibrium
when the body is stationary in an up
right position with the heel flat on the
ground or only moderately raised.
If this static position of the foot is
changed by using excessively high heels
and thus strongly inclining the sole, the
anjcle between the foot and the leg is
increaeed and the lower limb is sup
ported only by the toes. In this po
sition the muscular equilibrium of the
leg and foot is destroyed. The muscles
of the posterior region must then con
tract in order to maintain the foot in
tkis abnormal position.
%£, may readily be understood that if,
in order to rest the foot, a person who
habitually wears high heeled shoes uses
heelless slippers at home, the muscles
of the leg are put to a rude test, which
they are unable to endure. Pains, con
tractions, swelling of the foot, enlarge
ment of the veins and misshapen toes
are the result, all these ailments be
ing due to this deplorable physiological
practice.
Doctor Dagron of Paris in a very sug
gestive article on this subject, pub
lished in the Gazette Medicale, states
that in addition to those immediate
symptoms secondary symptoms due to
the excessively high hels always pre
cede other later complications. He de
scribes the cases of a patient In whom
he recently observed that the tendone
OF INTEREST TO MAID AND MATRON
been put on the new official list as a
substitute for the pearl.
It was a good Idea, to add it, for it
is not every one who can wear the lus
trous pearl, and although they may
try time and again there are those who
have no success in keeping the pearl
unspoiled; the sheen will go and the
delicate tints change to cloudy brown.
For those unfortunate people there is
the illusive moonstone. It can hardly
be compared with the lovely pearl,
however, and few who are born in
June will prefer a moonstone to a
pearl.
"The ruby stole a spark from heaven
above,
To bring: the July maiden fervent love."
The r\iby and the deep red rose, em
blems of love, are the truest symbols
of vivid July. *
"The August maiden with sweet sim
plicity
Wears sardonyx, gem of felicity."
But she doesn't always have to, now
adays. She can wear the saucy peridot
and still have a gem symbolic of
August, for those kind Jewelers have
decided that an alternate for the
sturdy sardonyx was imperative, and
what could be more In contrast to it
than the bright sparkling peridot?
The stately sardonyx is not a prac
tical gem for all purposes, and so, for
the same reason that was given for
naming a substitute for the March
bloodstone, the peridot is put on the
official list for August, and for the dull,
flesh toned sard may be exchanged the
dark olive green of the peridot.
"Out. of the depths shall sapphires come.
Bringing September's child wisdom."
Sapphires are the gems of the mo
ment; their deep blue lines have captured
the laurel of fashion, and the Lady,
of Vogue is wise enough to appreciate
the extreme beauty of this glorious
gem.
"October's child In darkness oft may
grope,
The iridescent opal bids it hope."
Because there are etill those folk who
believe the opal might bring ill luck
the jewelers have thoughtfully named
another gem with the opal for October.
Those sceptical about the opal need not
forgo the beauty of color found in that
gem, for the tourmaline is its alternate
and the choice of color is most varied.
There are green, brown, pink, red and
violet tourmalines; others of blue, from
light sea blue to bluish black; and there
are tourmalines of white and black,
sometimes two colors are seen in cne
gem; they may be green externally, but
looking through this shimmering layer
can be seen the deep red heart of the
stone. An inch long tourmaline may
be the purest blue at one end and shade
into vivid green at the other end. There
are so many combinations and ar
rangements in the color of tourmalines
that it comes the nearest of any stone
to the colorful opal itself.
"Born in November, happy is she
Whom the topaz teaches fidelity."
There is plenty of promise and en-
couragement for the November maid;
besides the fidelity she shall know, an
other authority foresees trustworthy
friends and lovers for her.
"Who first comes to this wofld below
With drear November's fog and snow
Should prize the topaz , amber hue,
Emblem of friends and lovers true,"
is the way this verse runs, and It is
easy to believe in all things good from
the sun reflecting topaz.
"December's child shall live to bless
The turquoise that insured success."
One of the most popular of all the
gems and the brightest hued of all the
opaque stones, it has been the favorite
of princes, artists and gem admirers
throughout the ages. The turquoise is
the beauty loving Sarah Bernhardt's
favorite gem. But there are those who
can not wear the turquoise without
having it turn color; they can only
look on sadly while the brilliant and
most beautiful blue gem changes by
degrees to a muddy green, and for these
disappointed persons there is a solace
in the lovely lapis-lazuli.
"If cold December gave you birth,
The month of snow and Ice and mirth,
Place on your hand a turquoise blue,
Success will bless you if you do."
Aft of these gems have such beauty
aiyl charm that no one is warranted
in envying his neighbor. All may well
say, "My birthstone is a beautiful gem,"
and be thankful to the practical jew
elers for deciding on them for us.
of the deep seated muscles of the pos
terior region were covered with pain
ful, semisoft swellings, giving practi
cally the same sensation as an abscess.
The patient, who was considered to be
suffering , from varicose veins, In the
month of June was recommended to
practice brisk walking, gradually In
creasing the distance covered. Hβ did
so, and the pains in the legs became
worse. The subject was then advised
to go for the season to Bagnoles de
l'Orne.
The treatment at that resort was put
off till the autumn, as the patient did
not wish to leave the family during its
sojourn at the seaside. The walking
exercise was continued, and such lone
excursions were made that the invalid
was at last obliged to remain in bed.
A doctor who was consulted found In
the posterior region of the leg, the
most painful part, a tumor aa large as
a walnut. This caused great suffering , .
The adjacent parts were swollen and β-n
abcess was diagnosed, on which It was
proposed to perform an Immediate op
eration.
Doctor Dagron, on being called In to
examine the patient, ascribed the ail
ment to the use of excessively high
heels, and. as a matter of fact, a com
plete cure was effected by a period of
repose followed by exercises In walking:
with shoes which had normal heels.
Doctor Dagron concludes by remark
ing that the devotees of fashion, In at
tempting to add to their height, make
a strange mistake In employing such
means.
EDITED
Begin Early to Teach Your Children
How to Cook
BEGIN early to develop in your girls
a pride in household achievement.
Late one afternoon, after, a long,
rainy day, a mother called her little
girl to her. "Mary," she said, "will
you make a raspberry pudding for
dinner tonight?"
"Oh, mother. I couldn't," the child
exclaimed, but her little face was alive
with interest and delight.
"Of course you can," said the mother.
"Get a pencil and paper and I will give
you the recipe. If you do exactly as I
tell you we will have a delicious des
sert and a delightful surprise for papa
when he hears you have made it all
yourself."
The pencil and paper were speedily
forthcoming and the little girl took
down the following instructions:
First light the oven.
Mix half a cup of sugar with one
tablespoon of butter until it is soft
and smooth.
Take one egg, separate the yolk from
the white.
Beat the white until very stiff.
Set the beaten white aside and beat
the yolk. When well beaten (the yolk
will not get stiff like the white), pour
Outguessing the Purveyors of Real and Sham Laces
MY dear lady, when you are sitting
on the veranda peacefully engaged
in needlework and conversation
and a mysterious stranger, who has
succeeded in eluding the espionage of
the hotel servitors, approaches you
stealthily and, kneeling on , the veranda,
proceeds to unfasten a bundle, mean-
while bestowing upon you either an
ingratiating smile or an appealing
moan, beware!
It isn't a bomb that is about to be
thrown at you, your life Is in no
danger except it be from the insinuat
ing germ, but the interesting visitor
is about to take away your faith in
human nature, to rob you of the respect
of your friends and to deplete your
pocketbook in a way that will make
you shudder with shame for years
afterward whenever you recall a com
fortable rocking chair on the veranda
and—the fateful visit of the itinerant
lace vender.
The lace peddler is everywhere now
adays. He, or generally it is she, trav
els from one summer resort to another
and spreads his wares before hotel pa
trons at seashore and mountain. The
exclusive private cottages also do not
escape the visits of this wandering
dealer in rare and beautiful webs, go
ing at bargain prices, and in between
times the busy lace merchant travels
to the remote farmhouse where a group
of innocent school teachers are spend
ing their vacation and leaves a few of
the lacy bargains behind as mementos.
It used to be that swarthy faced men
from eastern climes monopolised the
business of lace peddling to the sum
mer hotels. An interesting flavor of
orientalism attached to the silent,
smiling creatures whose wares were to
be had bo very far—so enticingly far—
below the market prices. But now the
lace peddlers are of all nations. Al
though the romance of the east is no
longer connected with all of them they
have all a picturesque tale to tell,
which lends the charm of personal in
terest to the lace bartering and gives
the necessary explanation of why the
laces are to be had so very cheap—
just for today.
The lace peddler comes to the sum
mer places something like the venders
of women's merchandise of old traveled
to the cattle bowere of fair women. Far
from the marts of trade the women
who are spending their summers in
the country are often easy prey to the
Itinerant merchants who furnish a
certain diversion from the usual occu
pations of the summer.
Just to prove that the Mechlin, the
cluny and the Valenciennes which arc
being offered at such great reductions
are real some of the peddleri are even
BY
in one and a half cups of milk and stir
until thoroughly mixed with the yolk.
Then mix the milk and egg with the
butter and add one teaspoon of vanilla
and sugar. Sift one cup of flour with
one teaspoon of baking powder and one
saltspoon of salt three times.
Grease carefully a round cake tin.
One with the tube in the middle is
beet. Be sure the tube is well greased,
too.
Now beat the sifted flour, a little at
a time, into the balance and last of
all add the beaten whites.
Beat all together quickly and put
Into the tin and place In the oven. This
will take from 15 to 25 minutes to
bake, according to the heat of the
oven. It is better not to have the
oven too hot. Do not open the oven
for 15 minutes or the cake, which is
rising, may /all from the sudden
draft. Then take a wisp of a clean
broom, open the oven very gently and
stick the broom wisp into the cake.
If the batter sticks to the wisp the
cake is not done. Close the oven door
gently and leave until the wisp comes
out perfectly clean. Be careful to
close the oven door gently. Slamming
It might make the cake fall. When
done turn over on the dish on which
the pudding is to be served. It will
drop out of itself in a minute and the
tin can be gently lifted off.
While the cake is baking cream one
so thoughtful as to carry with them
the little pillows with the lace in
process of construction, the pins set
up and the pattern, usually a very lit
tle of the lace on the pillow is finished,
all marked out. When they unpack
their laces out comes the pillow also,
and the lace merchant sets down the
pillow hurriedly and without seeming
to have any desire for the onlooker to
notice it—and begins to display her
laces. The pattern which is on the
pillow may not be at all like the pat
tern of the lace which the woman has
for sale, but, nevertheless, the pres-.
ence of the little pillow with the lace
in the very act of being manufactured
is all convincing.
It is true that the women are rarely
seen to work on these laces. A shrewd
peddler may move a bobbin now and
then, perhaps there is one here and
there who can even proceed with the
lace making a little bit, although as a
general thing the pillow is simply a
stage property, never brought into
actual use at all. If yoti were to fol
low the course of the lace peddler
through the summer you would find
that the piece of lace set up on the
pillow never grows any longer. It is
exactly the same in August as it is in
July. It speaks but ill of the industry
of the lace peddler. Surely she must
have had a great deal of help to turn
out the quantity of lace which she car
ries if her speed of production is no
greater than that which the lace pil
low which she carries would indicate.
But in spite of this the little lace pil
low is the most efficacious "prop" in the
world to convince the lace purchaser
that the lace which the woman offers is
handmade. What though the laces
which she vends are the products of
looms in our own west and have been
turned out by the thousand yards by
tireless machinery instead of being
wrought slowly and painfully by hand
by the patient maker of real lace? Who
is going to doubt the appealing lace
peddler with bargains to sell in the face
of ocular demonstration of the little
loom?
Then there is the lace peddler with the
baby. A baby and a bargain fs, of
course, an irresistible combination for
any woman, and the lace peddler with
bargains to sell and a baby on her arm
—often a baby borrowed for the occa
sion, alas! for human nature—is sure of
almost as warm a reception as the ven
der with a pillow. The baby is put
down in some comfortable spot and the
lace is spread out before the group of
women on the veranda. Can they'doubt
a poor mother engaged in a worthy
effort to sell real laces for a fraction of
their cost? To do so would argue hearts
adamantine in quality. No, they glance
at the baby, they examine the bargains,
they buy. they buy very lavishly. L*t
us trust the baby is well fed that night
when the itinerant vender makes up
her accounts and pays the baby rental
to its enterprising parent.
"It is most extraordinary," said a lace
expert to whom many women come
bringing laces which they have bought
at bargains to be valued, "what .women
accustomed to real laces, and who can
VIRGINIA SLOANE
cup of powdered sugar with one lump
of butter the size of an egg and one
teaspoon of hot water. Beat together
until very light and creamy, and add
one tablespoon of raspberry jam or
half a cup of ripe raspberries. When
well mixed turn into a little glass dish
and have ready to serve with the cake.
When papa arrived that night there
was an air of mystery and suppressed
excitement which made him forget how
tired he was, and he had begun to won
der how much longer it would be be
fore he would be let Into the secret,
when, dinner over, the pudding was
brought on. It hardly needed mamma
to explain that Mary had made the
dessert. Her bright eyes and glowing
cheeks were evidence of that, and
papa, when he tasted the delicate cake
and delicious, creamy sauce, could
hardly believe that she had matie it all
herself. He said it was the most de
licious pudding he had ever tasted.
"She certainly has inherited your culi
nary instinct," he said, turning to
mamma.
This was only the beginning. After
that, one thing at a time, Mary learned
to make all kinds of dishes, until one
day, about a year after the episode of
the raspberry pudding, she went to her
mother and asked, the maid being out,
if she might not get the whole dinner.
LOUISE EDWARDS.
well afford to buy them, will often be
deceived into purchasing from these lace
peddlers. Women come to me with lace
that they have bought of these peddlers
at what they are assured are bargain
prices, and many times the lace is not
only machine made but of such cheap
quality that good class shops would not
carry it even among their Imitation
laces.
"Much of this lace Is made by firms
In the west, and these firms employ
women to peddle It around to the sum
mer resorts and country places. The
women tell sorrowful tales of destitu
tion and assure the purchasers that
they have made the laces themselves
or that their friends have. Quantities
of it are-purchased for use on lingerie
and for table linen. After the pur
chase the women who have bought
the lace often are so Jubilant over
their bargains that they come to me
or to some other lace expert to value
it, and then, of course, the truth ap
pears. The only wonder is that the
women can always be made to believe
that they ar# able to get good lace
cheaper from these venders than from
the regular dealers.
"Not long ago a woman friend of
mine, who is spending the summer in
the country not very far from New
York, telephoned me to say that she
had picked up a wonderful bargain in
Valenciennes lace which she was going
to use for her daughter's trousseau.
She wanted to come in and show It to
me just so that I could tell her whaf
a wonderful purchase she had made.
She came and proudly unrolled her
lace. She had paid $40 for a quantity
of narrow Valenciennes which at the
market price for real Valenciennes of
this widtfi would have been worth
about %"& or $80. I looked at it in
perfect horror, and could scarcely be
lieve that she had made such a mis
take, for the lace she had bought was
not 10 cents a yard. It was
the very cheapest machine lace.
"Embroidered table sets trimmed
with lace are sold by the peddlers for
hand work when they are entirely
made by machine and trimmed with
machine made lace. The material of
which they are made Is often not even
linen. How the women who buy them
can be deceived I don't know, but that
they are is shown every day by the
women who afterward *how their pur
chases as great bargains, 'only to learn
from more discriminating friends that
they have been terribly cheated. A
relative of mine recently bou*ght from
one of these peddlers at a summer
resort a centerpiece and doilies of linen
which were supposedly decorated with
Italian cut work and bordered with
real cluny lace. She Had paid $25 for
the set, and, of course, if it had been
what was represented by the peddler
the price would have been Incredibly
low, but my unfortunate relative had
possessed herself of a set that could
have been purchased anywhere for
about $2. The embroidery was done
by machine, the lace edge was machine
made, and the material of which the
set was made was not linen, but union
cloth.
"Sometimes the women set very
angry when they find out how they
have been deceived in their lace pur
chases and threaten to have the ven
ders punished, but as their names are
unknown and their whereabouts Is also
a mystery the purchasers usually tad
To Serve Dinner in a Small
Apartment
TO the woman with a kitchen and a
cook, to say nothing of a corps of
servants, giving a dinner is simply
giving an order. But to the young
housekeeper of moderate means, who
lives in a small apartment with no
kitchen at all, the question of enter
taining in her own home is a matter
that requires thought to solve. If the
culinary art is the mainspring of civili
zation the young housekeeper should
rejoice if she has a knowledge of that
art and can give her friends home
cooking and an individualized enter
tainment. That it takes forethought,
time and trouble is the first thing to
realize. But it can be done.
In the first place, it is not always
easy to find room for dishes enough
to serve a dinner of five or six courses
for six or eight persons in a small
apartment with limited closet space,
but a young housekeeper who is most
successful in her entertaining finds this
difficulty solved by havrng a corner
closet made of open shelves reaching
from the floor nearly to the picture
molding. She always has one mad«
in any apartment she occupies. The
expense is small, it is pretty, and on
it she can place a wonderful number
of glasses and dishes. Her cups hang
from hooks screwed into the cleats
on which rest the shelves, and by put
ting in a few tacks in the back of the
shelves her larger plates stand up
across the back of each shelf. She puts
a brass rod across the top shelf and
from this hang inexpensive silk cur
tains which match her draperies. So
much for the dishes.
To have a table large enough to seat
.eight persons is another problem for
the small apartment hostess. The one
used by this young housekeeper is in
two parts. The basis is a folding table
that when opened up seats four. It
is made suitable for the larger num
ber of guests by the addition of a table
top made of thin pine Doards joined in
the middle with hinges, so it may be
folded up between times and stored
away in a closet where it takes little
or no room. This table top is secured
to the table proper with buttons, as
the carpenters call them, and is as
firm as any one could desire. The top
she uses was made by her husband, at a
cost of fB, and has been in use for sev
eral years. It is four feet eight inches
each way, the corners being rounded
off.
As for the cooking, one end 6t the
bathroom is utilized as a kitchenette.
On a solid little table is placed an as
bestus mat and an iron tray, and on
this a small gas stove with two holes
Js placed. To make it perfectly safe
the wall back of the stove is covered
with a sheet of heavy tin. Over one
of the holes is put a tin oven, and in
this can be kept, when not in use, sev
eral baking pans. The rest of the
cooking utensils are kept in a little
wooden cupboard made out of boxes
given to our housekeeper by her gro
cer.
The day of the dinner is set, the
guests are bidden to the feast and a
maid engaged to wait on the table.
The day before our young housekeeper
writes out her menu and makes her
purchases for the dinner. She decides
to have grape fruit, soup, roast chick
that it is too much trouble to seek
revenge at the hands of the police.
"The real Valenciennes lace is usu
ally to be told from the machine made
by the irregularity of the web; the
machine made lace has a very smooth,
regular web; the irregular quality
marks all the real laces as distin
guished from the machine made laces
to some 'extent, but not so pro
nouncedly as in the Valenciennes. The
real lace is always softer to the touch
than the machine made lace.
"Peddlers now sell also a great deal
of lace as Irish crochet, some of which
is really hand made lace, but of a less
valuable sort than the Irish crochet.
The Irish crochet Is made of a special
kind of thread of the very best quality
and very strong, so that the lace made
of it will last forever.
# "The cheap crochet which is being
represented as Irish, although often
made by hand, has none of these wear
ing qualities, because it is made of the
poorest possible thread, what we call
basting thread, which will not wear at
"Learn to Make Cake," Says April
Grandmother
HfpHAT big round fruit cake which
I has just come by express isn't to
be cut today. Our guests would
devour every crumb of it. Not that .1
believe there is anything too good to
offer to our 500 friends," exo'.ained
the April Grandmother, "but that es
pecial fruit cake Hhoitld not bo wasted
on an afternoon reception gathering.
Its duplicate isn't to be purchased for
money. It was sent to me by a young
woman friend from a western Pennsyl
vania town, and if she were obliged
to tarn a living for herself she could
do so by too selling of the fruit cakes
which she now sends about the country
as gifts to appreciative relatives and
friends.
"You could learn to make quite as
pood cakes as this one." The April
Grandmother directly addressed her
youngest descendant. "I've never
known a young girl possessed of so
decided a taste for Cake making. The
only trouble is that your baking pe
riods are so irregular .that I never
knew -whether our cake' tins are full
to bursting or bare as Mother Hub
bard's cupboard. And the person who
practices at any art intermittently
never arrives at a state of absolute per
fection. Yes," continued the April
Grandmother, "I certainly regard cake
making as an art. although it is done
with a spoon lnstea'd of with a brush,
because I know that only a few spe
cially favored persons have 'cake
sense.'" t
'They instinctively know when the pro
portions of the Ingredients are correct
and when the oven is right, whereas
the rest of the universe only hope that
their cake won't be tough or collapse.
There's all the difference in the world
between the two conditions, and that's
why I'm sure the first one is a heaven
bestowed talent to be made the most
of."
Th% April Grandmother seated her
self at a side table at one end of the
ens served with potatoes au gratln,
peas and currant jelly, this to be fol
lowed by a lettuce salad, and the din
ner to be finished with ice cream, cake
and coffee.
As many things as possible should be
prepared the day before, which is one
secret of success in a smal} apartment
dinner. The chickens can be stuffed
and prepared for roasting, the salad
washed, placed in a salad dish and put
in the icebox ready to be served and
dressed at the proper time. The pota
toes au gratin can also be prepared
the day before, all ready for baking.
Just here the sceptical housewife with
a kitchen of her own may exclaim,
"How is It possible to bake both
chickens and scalloped potatoes In a
tiny square oven?" But it is quite pos
sible, for the chicken can be roasted
on the bottom slide of the oven and on
the top slide a baking dish will slip
in easily.
The day of the dinner arrives and
our young housekeeper proceeds to set
her table as soon as her apartment is
in order for the day. In the center
of the middle room she places her
table, with its sizable table top, over
it a canton flannel silence cloth, then
her very finest linen table cloth. A
white lace centerpiece goes in the mid
dle of this, and on it is placed a, bowl
of roses. Around the roses she puts
four silver candlesticks.
As she wishes to make the waiting as
easy as possible for her one maid she
decides to use her large dinner plates
as place plates. The grapefruit plates,
with doily and glass to hold the fruit,
will be placed on these, and at the
end of this course the soup plates will
take their place. With the soup
finished the plates will be ready for the
meat course.
A napkin with a dinner knife and
tablespoon are put at the right and
two forks at the left of each cover.
The spoon for the grape fruit she puts
on its own plate. Glasses for water
are at each place, while on each side
of the table are placed salt cellars
and peppers, also small silver dishes
for olives and salted almonds. On
a side table she places plates for salad
with large serving spoon and fork and
a dish also for crackers and cheese
to be passed with the salad. The
dessert plates are also made ready with
a fork and spoon and finger bowl on
each, as she has not enough plates
to serve her finger bowls separately at
the end of her dinner. The after din
ner coffee cups with spoons and a
small silver bowl containing lump
sugar are also made ready and a menu
of her dinner in its regular courses
is written out plainly and pinned up
in her bathroom for her waitress , use,
as her bathroom is to serve not only
as kitchen but butler's pantry as well.
With all these things made ready it
will be time to undertake the cooking
of the dinner, which a good cook book,
a fertile mind and deft fingers should
make a success.
The young housekeeper should not
be discouraged if her apartment is
small, but be an adventurous enough
home maker to attempt a dinner party
and her friends will say that they have
never had a better time and she will
have added another feather to her cap.
all, but will pull right out, exactly as
basting thread would if we were to
use it to stitch with. Some of this
crochet is made in Austria and some
in Japan, and the purchaser should
realize that this lace, even when hand
made, is not worth what the genuine
Irish crochet is worth because of the
quality of the thread. The sale of
such vast quantities of this lace at
lower prices than the genuine Irish
crochet could be sold for has naturally
hurt the sale of the real Irish crochet
except with the small minority of dis
criminating persons who can not be
deceived.
"No doubt some of the lace which
is peddled around in the summer time
is what it is supposed to be," concluded
the lace expert, "for there are women
who earn an honest living , in this
fashion, but they are not able to offer
good lace at less than the market
price, and the purchaser may be cure
that it is wiser to consult an expert
before purchasing lace bargains from
irresponsible and unknown peddlers."
butler's pantry and hastily scribbled
a few lines on a brown paper bay.
"For the sake of encouraging , you
to perfect your talent and to prepare
now for the 'rainy period,' which is
liable to come to any of us, here is an
order for a certain number of cakes
to be made, baked and delivered to our
cook by you each week for the re
mainder of this year. You will kindly
notice that I have not specified the sort
of cakes to be furnished, but merely
that they shall be of varied kinds
and not similar for two successive
weeks. Because your present cake list
is not a long one, you will be obliged
to extend it considerably if you wish
to earn the pin money mentioned in
this order, and to do this you will have
to collect a number of new recipe*
wherever possible, from the household
departments of newspapers and maga
zines, from published and private recipe
books and by conferring with all of the
experienced housekeepers and the eld
erly cooks of your acquaintance.
"You will also notice," continued the
April Grandmother, "that you are to
furnish your own materials and pay
your share of the range expense as
we!! as the wage of the kitchen maid
who usually assists you. This is the
only means by which you can learn
how to charge for your cakes, but I
think that you will have to price them
at about twice the amount which the
materials cost to buy. That will give
you a fair wage for your own time an»
labor over my charge against you for
the use of the range and the maid's
services. Every time that we have a
party I shall take care that each femi
nine guest knows who made the cakes
for it. and I shall be greatly surprised
if before six months have elapsed
housewives who are indifferent cake
makers are not offering you absurdly
large sums for fruit cakes, angel food
loaves and all manner of sugary com
fits. Even though we do not need any
addition to our income the poor are
ever with us. and I don't know a
sweeter means of gathering money for
them."