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lengths  34  and  35  inches,  cost  $2.70 ;  they 
have  a  deep  flounce  trimmed  with  pin 
tucks  and  a  ruffle  at  the  edge. 
Sweaters  for  children  of  two  to  six 
years  were  $1.05  in  fiber  silk,  emerald  or 
cardinal.  Wool  sweaters  in  the  same 
sizes,  belted,  rose  and  blue,  were  $3.25 ; 
they  had  pretty  .striped  collars.  A  Nor¬ 
folk  model,  solid  colors  of  rose  and  blue, 
was  $2. 
Burning  the  Work 
“My  dear,”  remonstrated  Aunt  Sophie 
when  she  had  spent  a  week  in  my  home, 
“the  number  of  things  you  do  in  one.  day 
appalls  me.  I  should  burn  up  about  a 
quarter  of  the  kitchen  work  if  I  were 
you.” 
“Burn  up  the  work?”  I  repeated  in 
amazement.  “Whatever  do  you  meau, 
Aunt  Sophie?  Fred  is  always  complain¬ 
ing,  as  it  is,  about  my  putting  everything 
I  find  lying  about  into  the  fire. 
“Why,  Auntie,”  I  insisted,  warming  to 
my  subject,  “I  never  have  my  house 
filled  with  useless  truck  like  some  house¬ 
keepers.  This  very  morning  I  burned  the 
papers  and  envelopes  resulting  from  yes¬ 
terday’s  shopping,  yesterday’s  newspa¬ 
pers.  three  old  catalogs  of  Fred’s,  and 
three  paper  bags  and  an  empty  flour  sack 
from  the  kitchen.” 
“Exactly.”  said  Aunt  Sophie  dryly. 
“But  burning  papers  and  burning  work 
is  hardly  the  same  thing,  my  child.” 
“I  shall  be  glad  for  enlightenment,”  I 
admitted  with  proper  meekness. 
“We  will  consider  those  catalogues,” 
explained  Aunt  Sophie  judiciously. 
“Every  morning  since  I  have  been  here 
you  have  scoured  ‘kettle  rings’  off  the 
zinc  top  of  your  kitchen  table.  If  you 
had  had  one  of  those  catalogues  on  your 
kitchen  table  upou  which  to  set  the 
blackeued  utensil  you  would  have  saved 
yourself  at  least  six  semirings  in  one 
week.” 
“But  I  hate  a  mussy  old  paper  lying 
round,”  I  objected  not  too  graciously. 
“That  is  precisely  what  you  would 
not  have,”  smiled  Aunt  Sophie.  “Tear 
off  the  soiled  toil  sheet  after  each  meal 
and  burn  it  and  your  catalogue  will  he 
as  innocent  of  mussincss  as  the  day  it 
came  into  the  house.” 
“O — h !  Is  that  the  way  you  burn  the. 
work?  Please  toll  me  more,”  I  insisted. 
“Paper  hags  are  too  useful  to  he  de¬ 
stroyed  if  they  are  fresh  and  clean,”  con¬ 
tinued  Aunt  Sophie  thoughtfully.  “Noth¬ 
ing  is  handier  for  carrying  a  bit  of  lunch 
on  a  country  tramp  or  a  long  car  ride, 
because  they  can  be  folded  into  an  inof¬ 
fensive  little  twist  and  discarded  when 
lunch  is  over. 
“Use  a  paper  hag  whenever  possible  in 
sending  a  bit  of  food  to  a  neighbor.  Did 
you  ever  notice  how  much  more  you 'ap¬ 
preciate  such  a  remembrance  when  there 
is  no  dish  to  be  guarded  and  returned? 
“Tic  a  paper  hag  round  the  end  of  the 
food  chopper  when  you  have  dry  bread 
or  crackers  to  crumb  and  there  will 
be  no  scattered  crumbs  to  brush  up. 
“Keep  some  confectioner’s  sugar  in  a 
soft,  strong  paper  hag  into  which  drop 
the  doughnuts  you  wish  sugared ;  after 
a  shake  or  two  of  the  bag,  the  cakes  will 
be  evenly  coated  with  the  sugar.” 
“Oh,  I  always  do  that,”  I  announced 
triumphantly. 
“Then  no  doubt  you  have  crumbed  cro¬ 
quettes  in  the  same  manner?” 
But  this  was  a  new  idea  to  me. 
“By  handling  the  bag  gently  you  will 
find  yon  cau  get  the  crumbs  on  more 
evenly  and  keep  the  croquettes  in  shape 
better  than  when  done  in  any  other  way. 
“Empty  flour  sacks  are  always  useful. 
Open  and  spread  smoothly  on  the  work 
table  they  are  convenient  upon  which  to 
place  newly  baked  cookies,  cakes  or 
doughnuts. 
“Flour  sacks  and  other  heavy  paper 
bags  are  excellent  for  holding  vegetable 
parings  and  similar  refuse.  Place  the 
bag  in  the  garbage  pail  and  when  it  is 
removed  everything  goes  with  it  leaving 
a  clean  pail.” 
“I  never  thought  of  that,”  I  gasped, 
“I’ve  burned  heaps  of  sacks,  and  I  do 
so  abhor  scrubbing  that  pail !” 
“What  is  best  about  using  a  paper  hag 
for  garbage  is  that  all  fly  eggs  that  may 
have  been  deposited  are  removed  also,” 
Aunt  Sophie  added.  “Removing  flies  in¬ 
directly  lessens  the  housewife’s  work 
also. 
“I  noticed  you  throwing  away  a  sheet 
of  waxed  uaiier.  I  find  it  handy  fnT  cov¬ 
ering  a  cut  cake  to  prevent  it  drying, 
and  for  lining  cake  tins.  Often  it  can 
be  used  in  place  of  a  plate  for  setting 
away  fruit  or  vegetables,  saving  the  wash¬ 
ing  of  a  dish. 
“Make  the  yesterday's  newspapers 
work  for  you  every  morning.  A  large 
piece  crumpled  into  a  soft  ball  is  fine 
for  removing  grease  from  the  stove,  or 
any  unpleasant  accumulation  of  grease  or 
food  from  cooking  utensils. 
“Lay  a  sheet  of  the  paper  before  the 
range  when  the  ash-pan  must  be  removed 
and  save  cleaning  the  floor.  Place  a 
sheet  on  the  table  before  you  prepare  vege¬ 
tables  or  clean  silver  or  start  any  work 
that  leaves  disorder  behind.  Place  a 
fresh  sheet  on  the  tray  of  the  gas  stove 
and  save  yourself  an  unpleasant  task; 
when  the  paper  becomes  soiled  it  is  much 
easier  to  take  it  out  and  burn  it  than  to 
scrub  the  tray. 
“I  like  to  keep  the  draining  basket 
lined  with  a  single  sheet  of  newspaper. 
Make  a  little  tear  in  the  center  to  allow 
the  water  to  drain  out  and  when  the 
basket  is  emptied  each  morning  you  have 
only  to  rinse  it  in  boiling  water. 
“Then  those  envelopes  we  acquired 
yesterday  on  our  shopping  trip — I  like 
them  to  keep  my  pattern  box  neat  and 
orderly.  One  large  envelope  labeled 
Embroidery  Designs 
No.  515  is  n  design  for  n  large  balsam  pil¬ 
low  top.  The  plue  eoluiK  are  tinted  in  light 
brown,  the  stems  in  dark  brown  and  the 
needles  in  light  foliage  green.  It  may  be 
embroidered  with  the  outline  atiteh  or  used 
without  embroidery.  The  design  is  on  loose 
weave  tan  art  linen,  size  1S.\2'J  inches  and 
with  mercerized  Hess  and  material  for  inside; 
pillow  together  with  four-inch  knotted  fringe 
for  trimming,  costs  70  cents. 
‘Aprons’  will  hold  till  your  apron  pat¬ 
terns.  Label  another  Tlousedresses,’ 
and  so  on  through  the  list. 
“The  large  envelopes  are  handy  for 
packing  out-of-season  garments,  and  each 
should  be  marked  with  a  list  of  its  con¬ 
tents, 
“The  smaller  envelopes  are  so  conven¬ 
ient  on  a  short  journey.  In  one  I  place 
handkerchiefs,  in  another  gloves,  in  an¬ 
other  collars.  Several  empty  ones  are 
taken  along  to  hold  soiled  articles.  Such 
an  envelope  holds  enough  stationary, 
postcards  and  stamps  for  a  week’s  jour¬ 
ney.  They  take  up  less  room  than  any 
traveling  receptacle  made  for  the  pur¬ 
pose,  and  keep  the  traveling  bag  orderly 
and  convenient.” 
“Is  there  anything  else,”  I  gasped, 
“that  can  possibly  be  done  With  old  pa¬ 
per  ?” 
“No  doubt  you’ll  discover  things  for 
yourself,”  Aunt  Sophie  laughed,  “when 
you  learn  never  to  do  a  bit  of  work  that 
you  cau  wipe  up  with  a  piece  of  paper 
and  put  in  the  lire.” 
ALICE  MARGARET  ASHTON. 
A  Homestead  in  Idaho 
We  are  having  a  blessing  in  disguise 
this  year.  Now  we  shall  appreciate  those 
lovely  apples  and  peaches  more  when  we 
get  them.  Last  year  peaches  and  apples 
were  so  plentiful  that  some  people  fed 
them  to  the  hogs  and  gave  them  away  by 
the  wagouload,  and  sold  them  by  the  car¬ 
load  cheap.  Not  so  this  year.  But 
wouldn’t  it  be  too  bad  to  have  such  lovely 
things  become  common?  Almost  all  the 
apples  and  peaches  were  killed  by  the  late 
frost,  but  the  wild  fruit  is  better  than 
usual,  so  some  of  us  are  gathering  and 
canning  these.  There  are  huckleberries, 
June  or  serviceberries,  elderberries  and 
several  other  kinds,  hut  these  are  the 
most  plentiful.  The  Juneberries  are 
extra  fine  and  sweet  this  year,  and  I 
sometimes  mix  them  with  strawberries 
and  sugar  and  they  make  fine  jam.  The 
Progressive  strawberries  are  doing  well 
and  help  a  lot  while  other  fruit  is  scarce, 
The  raspberries  and  blackberries  also  are 
plentiful. 
We  can  peas,  beans,  sweet  corn  and 
tomatoes,  all  in  glass  jars,  enough  for 
our  owu  use,  so  we  don’t  have  to  buy  any- 
canned  fruit  or  vegetables.  We  also  dry 
sweet  corn  and  new  peas,  and  it  looks  as 
if  we  would  have  bushels  of  dry  beans, 
more,  of  course,  than  we  can  use.  We 
also  make  cucumber  pickles  and  beet 
pickles.  We  grow  carrots,  parsnips  and 
potatoes.  We  try  to  make  the  farm  fur¬ 
nish  us  nearly  everything  we  eat.  We 
even  contemplate  grinding  our  own  wheat 
and  making  our  cereals  and  graham  flour. 
I  wonder  how  many  women  have  gar¬ 
den  seeds?  I  do.  I  save  nearly  all  kinds, 
but  there  are  a  few  kiuds  which  we  have 
to  send  to  a  seed-house  to  get.  Our  idea 
of  living  on  a  farm  is  to  raise  everything 
that  is  good  to  eat,  and  how  can  we  do  it 
unless  we  prepare  for  it?  Last  Spring 
when  we  had  our  garden  nearly  all 
planted  a  neighbor  came  over  and  said 
they  started  to  make  garden  and  had  no 
seeds,  and  would  like  to  get  some.  Of 
course,  we  gave  her  some.  But  I  thought 
that  was  the  funniest  thing,  that  they 
could  neglect  such  a  thing  till  so  late. 
Then  our  neighbors  on  the  other  side  are 
very  different.  Each  member  of  the  fam¬ 
ily  takes  an  interest  in  saving  seeds.  Even 
the  smallest  child  about  six  years  has  his 
own  collection,  and  last  Winter  those 
children  would  get  their  seeds  out  and 
look  at  them,  and  if  a  friend  gave  them 
some  more,  they  rejoiced  as  if  every  seed 
was  gold.  Then  in  the  Spring  you  should 
have  seen  their  garden.  It  was  beautiful, 
line  looking  and  fine  eating,  producing 
early  and  bountifully  all  Summer. 
I  have  “discovered”  what  to  do  to 
make  hens  lay.  Here  is  the  way,  short 
and  simple:  Givi*  them  garden  peas.  I 
learned  this  by  accident.  We  have  almost 
“oceans”  of  peas,  and  after  we  have  eaten 
and  canned  and  fed  the  hogs  all  we  need 
and  have  a  lot  drying  to  be  thrashed  the 
hens  get  at  them  and  eat  what  they  want. 
Then  they  lay  eggs  in  great  numbers.  I 
noticed  this  last  year  that  the  heus  laid 
more  when  they  got  peas.  We  had  been 
feeding  them  wheat  and  other  grains. 
We  have  not  had  a  good  rain  siuce  the 
second  of  July,  but  the  Alfalfa  fields  are 
green  and  beautiful  without  irrigation. 
Some  people  irrigate  around  here,  and 
some  do  dry  farming.  The  dry  farming 
almost  keeps  up  with  irrigation,  in  some 
things,  but  some  things  are  needing  more 
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