Rock Island Argus., October 05, 1912, HOME EDITION, Image 11

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NEW HELPS TO EASY HOUSEKEEPING
THE heai of the household de
partment of Columbia univer
sity of New York city has
written a very practical and
useful article on the proper way to
keep house.
f-vstem worked out to the letter, she
writes, must be found In business.
While every effort in the business
world has been directed towarl sim
plifying methods, women managing
households have labored under the
most complicated conditions. Today
as never before f.n'ls business men
worki-iir at the very minutest detail,
timing toward d..,r.E th very best
tl Irig .n tl.'- b-st tirn-, striving toward
efficiency. JuM as plainly as an archi
tect maps out the different parts of a
hou ; hows tie relation of one sec
tion to nr. - Mi'-r and r.ri'-ei-.-s the plan
i f tl.e whole, mo .lues the director of a
business se- not only the whole as a
unit, bu also the interdependence of
purt.s the relation of one department
to the others, the necessary co-ordination.
So the up to date woman consider?
housekeeping as a business with many
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WrjSTy ..---SEJf THE NEWEST THINGS IN
departments, each department affect- . today has need of them In her work.
Ing the others. I The value of accurate accounts as
If the housewife wishes to stand as well a their business neiessity is rec
a progressive and systematic business ognized in the entire business world,
worn in she must consider, as would a It is Just as impyrt.int to the house
business man, certain means toward j keeper as to the grocer or merchant,
producing a more ettlclent method of ' The organization of a business enter-
carrying on her household. If keen j
sense of new tools that make for bet- j
ter work, wise Judgment of values and
undertaking of sam r ways of doing '
things and ready accuracy in keeping
accounts are points that characterize
a good business bead the housekeeper i
It's Economical to Keep .
f urniture In Repair
QMiKSE are the days when the eco
nomical housewife begins to look
over the furniture around the house to
find cut Just what pie.es need repair
ing and w hich ones are in good enough
Condition to last another winter.
It Is ulways a wise plan to touch up
furniture, either In the way of oiling
or varnh hii:g, Just as soon as It begins
to look the le.'.st bit shabby. In this
iiiii e er thing around a house may bo
kept in jerfei-t condition and much
money saved, for to let every piece of
furniture ran down until it looks about
to fall to piei s is r.o real economy snd
r-liows a decidedly careless house
k.ei.r. It often takes three times as much
ini'iii y to tlx owr furniture which h.ia
been allowed p. g, mn, this state of
disrepute as it does to have each piece
repaired o it Plains to show the wear
of years.
lii n. t, o, w ;;h n few cents' worth of
turn.sti or oil ti e housekeeper can do
i.:i ti e b i g uj, th.it is required.
Tl.i real wood of the various furniture
Sets Mioiit. i the house should never be
varnished with anything which will de
stroy tt.e grain of the wood from sight.
Walnut f iin, lure, for lntance. should
tie oiled, as the beauty of this wood lies
In Its stioi.th waxlikc appearance.
A cert.i.n kind of wax may be used
!so fur pohsl u.g waltiut or mahogany
tables. Mahogany furniture, however,
looks best when polished with one of
the various furniture polishes which
are pn pared fur this beautiful wood.
heap furniture can be restored to very
good condition by a reliable varnish,
and often these pieces run Le painted
over wan splendid results.
GUT 10R THE BABY
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baby . ud one which Is easily made
and is cosily only 1n tlt::e ani la the
number of Intricate stitches Is a nun
1 1 r of caj. str:r-s These con be l.t jn
Oi red M pi-.rniel and can either be
owed on th.e cap or plnnej with tiny
gold pins Thie little pins should ac
company the cap atrmgs.
Very fine batiste or sheer lawn
should be used, cut into three and one
half inch strips, fifteen inches long,
which are then hemmed by hand. The
ends may le n.ale as elaborate as
desired. Dainty hemstitching with an
edge of tatting made of TO thread Is a
charming finish. A tiny scallop with a
blading Insertion of real lace is also
lovely, or embroidered ends with tiny
wreaths of forgeUnenoU asd eyelet
UoUs u.ajr b Ucd,
prise requires that a man have a thor
ough grasp of all its departments, and
an important one is that of keeping ac
counts. What must the housekeeper
do?
(liven a certain amount of money for
weekly or monthly allowance, her
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SMART MODEL IN BROWN VELOURS.
"yrELOLRS hats are very smart this season and for certain occasions are tak
ing tr-.e place of the more dressy velvet creating The illustration st ows
a delightful velours creation in a lovely shade of cinnamon bn.aa tr-ai -.-.eu
wun feathers of the same color.
worn with
colors of t
unbecoming
nair ana eye U Is an Ideal combination.
this very fetching hat. In fact, brown is among the most a,, rovl mer.ls. ) ing It ,u "from height ten hour,
he season, but It Is a color that should be chosen .i-h .nr.. ,;.r . i, . . ... J . " . a Ir' m elht to ten hours
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problem Is how to gain a practical
knowledge of the actual amount of
money necessary for living expenses
and the running of the family. As
business men learn to know the right
expenditure of money, the housewife
must If lrn the value of money and
what It ought to buy. This she may do
by studying what experienced house
keepers have accomplished 1 attend
ing lectures and courses offered for
such training. It is a good tiling f ir i
the housekeeping novice to remember
that the good financier does 1101 spend
his entire allowance, but uses the sur- j
plus in one department for replenish-
ing In others. To know where to;
economize ami where to be lavish, to j
lie on the alert for the little wastes so
often disregarded, only training and
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KITCHEN
experience can
realize
Ideal
these things
In the illustration are shown some of
the new inventions for making kitchen
work easy. The woman who does her
own work will appreciate them. All
of these articles have the added advan
tage of being attractive enough in ap
pearance to be hung boldly out In
plain s!ght.
Ti e pie lish In Its nickel stand is of
earthenware and the l ie may be baked
in this dish, w Inch is bet into the dainty
stand fur an appearance on the dinner
table.
In one of the other cuts is pictured
the newest thought in lemon squeezers
and also a long handled olive pitter,
which will also spear olives from a tall
bottle.
THE TURNIP IN
fllXIP l'L'HKK A LA CRKME
1'eel, slice and mince a dozen small
turniis, blanch and drain them. Place
In a saucepan with about two ounces
of butter, fry for a few minutes with
out coloring, then add enough white
stock to cover, and a few stalks of
parsley. Cook until quite tender, then
drain and take out the parsley. Pass
it all through a sieve, reheat the puree
in the saucepan with a piece of butter
and a pinch of sugar. Season with salt,
P ppcr and grated nutmeg. If the
pune is too thick reduce it. Finally add
two or thre,.- tabiespoorifuls of cream.
Turnip Soup. Cook the turnips as
stated in the above recipe, but add
tiier more stock to the puree to give
r the consistency of soup. Pass it all
rough a sieve and reheat the soup,
a t it simmer slowly for about half an
our. Skim and add one-half gill of
i. ilk or cream and a piece of fresh
it t. r. Serve the soup with croutons
'f fried bread
;!azed Turnips. Wash and peel a
innch of young turnips and cut them
'y means of a large vegetable spoon in
I lie shape of olives or large balls. Put
'.hem in a pan with one ounce of but
;er, season with salt, pepper and a
pinch of sugar and moisten with a lit
tle stock. Bring to the boil and sim
mer gently until cooked. They must
: :ive absorbed all their stock and be
sl'BhtS.Vj colored. Turnips prepared In
this way are served as a vegetable or
a garnish for entrees.
Turnips a l ltalier.ne. Wash a bunch
of young turnips and peel them thin.
NEW ENGLISH
SIOXO the useful and serviceable:
garments needed by tne scnooigiri
is a raincoat. Some stunning English
coats, intended to be worn when the
chilly November rains come down, are
in the shops for sale. These new coats
ere fashioned from soft toned cravenette
or rubberized cloth, and a decidedly
good feature of them is the ventilation
piece across the back in addition to the
on under the arms.
Every girl who goes to college knows
how convenient a coat of this kind is
to run across the campus in or when
going to the schoolhouse.
Dressed In one of these coats the
your.g girl knows that she will be care
fully ;rottcted from the wind and
snrm of the early winter weather.
while at the same time realizing that
rstia, tut wim a gwod raiccoai ail thia
An egg balver Is another convenience
shown. It Is used for cutting hard boil
ed eggs in half. An egg sllcer is of
value to the woman who serves dainty
salads.
The apple corer and sllcer and the
new coffee strainer and drip make es
pecial appeals to all good housekeepers.
Most or tnese articles are of bright
nickel. Some of them include white
porcelain or enameled ware In their
makeup.
Every woman who is on the lookout
for new household conveninces will be
enthusiastic over the latest silver
cleaning pan. This device has a me
tallic pan, inside of which is a Per
forated rest, and all you have to do Is
to place in warm water a teaspoonful
or salt, a tablespoonful of soda, and in
this Immerse the silver. The metal of
the pan is said to attack all foreign
UTENSILS
matter, eating
Instantly from the
silver.
There are many different sizes, and
shapes of these pans, which run in
price from a little over a dollar up to
several hundred dollars, the latter be
ing designed for hotel use.
The silver cleaning pan will last a
lifetime, as there Is nothing to get out
of order or weaken as time pass.-s
It's a wonder that no one until re
cently has thought of making a scoop
ed out chopping board, but it's in
the shops now, a small strong board
with a depressed center for cutting and
chopping small amounts of vegetables
and meats. Such a board M worth
half a dozen ordinary chopping bowls
that clutter the closet and are a bother
to wash.
VARIOUS STYLES
If large, cut them In half, cook them
for twenty minutes in salted water.
Strain off the water and drain the tur
nips. Melt one ounce of butter In an
earthenware casserole or. failing this,
use a pie dish. Put in the turnips, add
ing a little white sauce between each
layer. Season with a little salt and
pepper. Sprinkle a small handful of
breadcrumbs iwer the top, also somo
grated cheese an I a little melted but
ter. Bake in an oven for about thirty
minutes and send to table in the same
dish.
Turnips au Oratln. Peel lightly eight
or nine medium sized young turnips,
cut them into slices and wash and
drain them thoroughly. Melt two
ounces of butter In a stewpan. When
hot put in the turnips and stir over a
brisk fire, season with pepper and salt,
moisten with a little stock and cook
until tender. Rub through a sieve or
drain them. Arrange the slices on the
puree in a well buttered pie dish and
pour over them a bechamel sauce.
Sprinkle the surface with fine bread
crumbs and add a few tiny bits of but
ter here and there. Bake In a quick
oven for about ten minutes, long
enough to brow n the top nicely.
Bechamel Sauce. Make a white
sauce, using equal quantities of chicken
stock and cream as the liquid. If the
chicken stock has not been flavored
with vegetables, etc., fry a generous
tabltspoonful of vegetables, carrot,
onion, parsley, etc., in the butter be
fore adding the flour. Do not. how
ever, allow them to color. Strain be
fore serving.
RAINCOATS
trouble is avoided and the topcoat can
be kept for sunshiny days.
These English coats may be also used
for traveling and for motoring and are
Just the thing to wear to church on a
stormy morning.
BUTTERMILK COTTAGE CHEESE
yERT few housewives know that de
licious cottage cheese can be made
from buttermilk as well as from plain
sour milk. Many farm households
have, been denied the cheese because
they use cream separators and accu
mulate no sour milk. To make the
cheese put the buttermilk in a Jar on
the back part of the stove, where It
j will heat Blowly. It requires a little
more heating to curd than docs the
other milk. When it has entirely sepa
rated pour off the whey and turn the
' cream or rich milk.
Don't Spoil Your Expression
With Facial Gymnastics
fpHIS story Is Intended for the girt or
woman mi mattes idviu i wnan -
These contortions form lines that do
not come with old age. They are sim
ply the result of our dally tricks of ex
pression, and if we wish to become old
er with pleasant faces it behooves us
to be careful what we do with our fea
tures day by day.
"We all have ugly little tricks of expression.-
says an authority on physi
cal culture. "We speak from one cor
ner of our mouth and so drag it down
there, and when we are fifty that line
is irrevocably fixed, and we look dis
agreeable. "Many people use their eyebrows In
a most extraordinary manner. They
lift one or the other or keep both raised
so high that one longs to say, "Do re
lax them and let them down.
"Of course frowning well, it's very
hard not to get the frowning lines be
tween the brows. It is the most nat
ural thing In the world when one Is In
tently thinking to knit them or when
we try hard to see some distant object
Still, if one can remember to relax she
may not have a furrowed brow when
she Is in middle age. I know a girl
who frowns when she scrubs herself in
the tub. Actually, she has to laugh
when it occurs to her that she is
frowning at the soap and wash cloth
and is as desperately Intent as if she
were settling state questions.
"Another of my friends, a Jolly young I
girl, has the oddest way of wrinkling
up her nose at the tip. Just like a pink
and white bunny. She may say some
thing ever so tender or beautiful or
soul inspiring, but that ridiculous lit
tle wiggle of her nose tip spoils the
whole thing.
"I sat recently with a charging look
ing girl, who was blissfully ignorant of
the fact that she gave every now and
then a very naughty wink with her
right eye. At first I naturally supposed
It was to emphasize some remark, but
several recurrences of the wink prompt
ed me to wonder whnt would happen if
some puffy old gentleman or irreverent
youth ever got one of these winks.
Such a thing can be treated by an ocu
list and the habit broken.
"Holding the lips badly mars many a
pretty face. In nine cases out of ten
the teeth are to blame. They p-otrude.
do not fit together or do somet ing of
that sort. Nowadays every one nows
how necessary it is to attend to such
matters in a child, and better looking
mouths are the result.
"The "prunes and prisms' practices of
our grandmothers were not so bad. aft
er nil. Almost anything Is better than
letting all the lines of the face sag
and droop, and if some kind friend
points out to us that we have some
personal wrinkle In the way of facial
gymnastics we had better try to eradi
cate It at once."
DO YOU KNOW
THF:N punching eyelets place the
material over a cake of white
soap. This makes a firm edge, which
Is easily worked over. It also prevents
the fabric from raveling.
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WRAP OF A8TRAKHAN WEAVE IN S0F1 GRAY.
piIERE are many new coatings that Imitate snort peiied furs, and one of the
most attractive of these fabrics, an astrakhan-like weave in a soft gray
shade, has been made up into this motoring coat The pointed collar may e
opened to form a deep revers when desired, though the coat, as pictured here. Is
buttoned closely about the neck. Velvet collar and cuff and Velvet bound but
tonholes give color to the gray wrap.
A SENSATION Of THE HOUR
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TUB "DROPPINO OFP" GOWN.
YEW evening gowns in Paris have
the effect of falling off carelessly
at the hip. This Imported costum
shows a "dropping off" skirt of black
charmeuse over a gown of white satin.
The long sleeves are also ultra modish,
PAQUIN ON NEW MODES
TT la a very difficult matter at any
time of the year to state for certain
what will be the next form that the
feminine toilet will assume in dress,
says Puquin. the famous designer. Th
(Ireek Is now Inspiring Paris and In
cidentally the whole world since Paris
sets the pace in these matters. t
Dresses will be more "flou" this year
than they were last year, with the ex
ception of tailor mades, which will
continue to have the tight skirt, so be
coming and so convenient for street
wear. But It is a fact that evening
gowns will be much fuller at the hem.
with beautiful draperies and exquisite
trimmings of pearls and diamonds.
Sleeves will be long for day wear, but
even here Individual taste counts for so
much. One thing Is certain the waist
line after many wanderings ban re
turned to its normal plac. It will be
seen that flowers will enter largely
into evening dresses. Veilings will not
fail to be greatly worn by those women
who love soft eftects
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