xii AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
September, 1911 
Joist 
Hangers 
Should always be used 
around stairway wells 
and wherever a beam 
abuts its support. 
— eee 
BANE BROS. CO: Gin) eoucueeessee 
Where Smiles and Fresh Air Are Unknown 
A Family ‘‘Playground’’ in the New York Tenement District. 
"THOUSANDS of babies and nursing mothers are too sick to be taken to our fresh air homes, Sea Breeze, Junior Sea 
Breeze and Caroline Rest. We must therefore care for them at their tenement homes. 
$5.00 
will buy pure milk 
for a sick baby for 
a month. 
$10.00 
will restore a 
nursing mother 
to health. 
Hundreds 
of Babies 
have been Saved and Mothers Restored to Health by the A. I. C. P. 
HOW MANY WILL YOU HELP? Don’t ignore the generous impulse to 
give until it is too late. 
JIMMIE NEEDS NEW SHOES FOR SCHOOL 
He hasn't been. wearing any during vacation because the pair he wore «to school last year are now soleless. | Teacher 
won't allow him inside the school barefooted. Father earns hardly enough, after paying the rent for a few rooms, to buy the 
bare necessities of life for Jimmie’s brothers and sisters. This distressing combination of circumstances threatens Jimmie’s educa- 
tion. How would you like to have your children go to school or work in Jimmie’s shoes? The A. I. C. P. knows of thou- 
sands of needy and deserving boys and girls who must have shoes for school. Last year it spent for shoes alone nearly $7,000. 
WON’T YOU HELP JIMMIE? 
A SUGGESTION: 
As A. 1. C. P. Visitors FIND THEM 
As A.1.C. P. Nurses LEAVE THEM 
Have a lawn party or a children’s 
fair to help these poor families. 
Write for literature. 
Send gifts to 
R. S. MINTURN, Treasurer 
105 East 22nd Street 
NEW YORK 
'_ 2. © © © © © & © * 8 
Rete NG . eos United Charities Building 
The Shoes that Jimmie Left and Those He Received. 
New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor 
R. FULTON CUTTING, PRESIDENT 
a flat pan. Bake in a moderate oven so 
as to allow the corn meal to swell, then 
gradually increase the heat of the oven 
so as to cook the corn bread through, and 
bake it a good brown. 
The following is not a recipe, but a 
very valuable suggestion along the line 
of bread, which any housekeeper will ap- 
preciate, telling how to have steaming 
hot rolls for Sunday night supper with- 
out setting the bread to rise Saturday 
night or Sunday. When you are making 
bread, divide it, make half up in rolls or 
bread and the other half put into an air- 
tight, clean tin can, or pail, having first 
floured the pail. Then put a clean, white 
linen or muslin cloth over the pail and 
the tin cover over that and put the pail 
either on the ice in your refrigerator or 
else bury it away in the yard in a snow- 
drift. You are convinced this will ruin 
your dough. Not at all. If, by’ the end 
of the week, or the middle, you would 
like to have a pan of rolls, or a nice, fresh 
loaf of bread, seek the pail and with your 
hands mold up into shape either biscuits 
or rolls. Put into a pan, set away to rise, 
and you will find in what surprisingly 
quick time the dough will rise and how 
light and beautiful the rolls or bread will 
be, being none the worse for being 
chilled, yes, even frozen stiff. If you 
have any dough left put it in the pail and 
return to the cold again. Dough will 
keep two weeks fully, if not allowed to 
become heated and then put away again. 
It is such a handy thing to have this 
dough all ready at a moment’s notice if 
unexpected company comes in, as you 
will find if you will try it. 
Old-fashioned raised muffins, and what 
could be nicer? and yet, how seldom one 
sees or eats them in these days of quick 
meals. Use one cake of compressed 
yeast, three eggs, one pint of milk, one of 
water, salt, or all milk. Sufficient flour 
to make a thick but not stiff batter. Beat 
the eggs light, dissolve the yeast in the 
milk, add milk and eggs together, then 
sift in salt and flour. Beat the batter up 
wel], so that all the flour is well blended. 
Set away in moderately warm place to 
rise. In the morning if the batter is at 
all sour, add a_ saltspoonful of bak- 
ing soda dissolved in a little warm water. 
Use old-fashioned muffin rings to bake 
the muffins in, using a griddle on which 
to place the rings. Have the griddle hot, 
pour the batter into the rings and let the 
muffins rise and bake a nice brown and 
then turn them with the aid of a pancake 
turner and allow them to brown on the 
other side. Serve hot. 
THE HOOF OF THE HORSE 
HERE are toes on a horse’s hoof just 
as there are on the foot of a human 
being or on the foot of any animal 
that resembles the human foot. Further- 
more, a horse has “toe-nails.” The horn of 
the hoof grows in pretty much the same 
way that a toe-nail does. 
The growth of the hoof is more rapid in 
unshod horses than in the case of those 
wearing shoes. It grows still more rapidly 
in the case of horses that are well groomed 
and well fed. Generally speaking, however, 
the horn grows about one-third of an inch 
each month. 
Hind hoofs grow faster than fore hoofs. 
The toe of the hoof being the longest part, 
it takes longer for the horn to grow there 
than at the heel. For example, the toe will 
grow entirely down in from eleven to thir- 
teen months, while the heel will grow down 
in from three to five months. 
