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Cocoatiut Fat for Cooking. 
The talk about cotton-seed oil, on page 
462, prompts me to call the atention of 
housekeepers to cocoanut fat as a substi¬ 
tute for lard and cooking butter. The 
pure, refined cocoanut fat is put up and 
sold by the trade name of “Ko-Nut.” I 
have used it for 10 years, and it has 
always given entire satisfaction. It is of 
the same consistency as lard, hard when 
cool, liquid when hot. For frying and 
shortening it excels every material I have 
ever used. As a substitute for pork in 
baked beans it is a grand success. People 
who cannot digest cabbage boiled with 
pork, find no difficulty digesting cabbage 
boiled with “Ko-Nut.” It will keep for 
years, and never gets rancid. Those who 
are not using “Ko-Nut” are missing one 
of the finest products ever put on the 
market. It is a lift toward abolishing 
hog-pens and slaughter-houses. 
_J. A. WILSON. 
Home Dressmaking Hints. 
If one has several shirtwaists to make 
for the same person, it is a good plan to 
make a diagram on a piece of paper and 
write in the measurements,—length of 
shoulder seams, distance from back of 
neck binding to belt, length of sleeve and 
neck, etc., these measurements to be 
taken from a shirtwaist which is exactly 
right. Then if one has a pattern that fits, 
the waist can be made with but once try¬ 
ing it on,—that once to see to the setting 
of the sleeve. One is inclined to think 
she can remember all these little details, 
but if she waits long before the next 
waist is made, she is almost sure to for¬ 
get. so if she writes down all these little 
points, she will be saved much time and 
vexation of spirit. 
Did you ever do your basting with a 
flatiron? It works nicely on some kinds 
of goods,—ginghams, percales, prints, etc. 
Hems may be turned and ironed flat fully 
as quickly as they can be basted, and all 
the time used to pull out the threads is 
saved. _ s. b. r. 
A Homemade Down Quilt. 
“And they’ve a down quilt for every 
bed in the house.” I can remember just 
how my dear old great-aunt said this of 
her neighbors, the Smiths, with a shake 
of her grey curls. No clearer proof to 
her mind was needed of the over lux¬ 
uriousness and extravagance of the afore¬ 
said Smiths. I was younger then, and a 
down quilt meant no more to me than 
any other. The years that followed were 
spent in steam-heated city houses, so it 
was only when I returned to country life 
that the desirability of a bed covering 
which would combine great warmth and 
lightness became apparent to me. How 
well I remember those first Winter nights 
on the farm! With the thermometer 
hovering near the zero mark and the 
window open a wide crack, three or four 
heavy blankets were necessary to keep 
from freezing. The weight of them made 
me long for an Arctic sleeping bag which, 
after all, is the ideal bed covering so far 
as comfort and simplicity go. And oh. 
the bedmaking! Truly, the woman who 
wrestles for an hour every morning with 
heavy quilts needs no health lift nor other 
gymnastics. 
The outcome of my experience was a 
letter to a well-known Philadelphia firm 
asking for prices on down quilts. The 
answer was as follows: “Dear Madam— 
Replying to your valued favor, for a quilt 
6x6 feet, two pounds of down will be 
required, price per pound $5. Enclosed 
are samples of sateen for your selection 
at 25 and 30 cents a yard; yards will 
be required. Cost of making $1.50.” As 
it was out of the question to furnish the 
beds with quilts at $14 each, I tucked the 
letter into a pigeon hole of the desk with 
a sigh, and gave up the plan. 
The story would end here, had it not 
been for the fondness of one member of 
the family for green goose. One morn¬ 
ing in May, I was called out of the house 
by the children to look at “Papa’s new 
ducks,” and straightway I was introduced 
to Madam Greywing and her consort. 
For a few days, we kept the geese con¬ 
fined, lest they should stray away, but we 
soon found that this precaution was un¬ 
necessary, Madam Greywing was too 
familiar by far. She had been the pet of 
her former owner, and expected the same 
attention from us. She would come up 
on the porch and gaze into the window 
and squawk an indignant protest when 
driven off. Once, when the screen was 
carelessly left open in the evening, we 
found them peacefully settled for the night 
in the middle of the sitting-room carpet. 
They seemed to consume as much grass 
as a cow, and their relish for sweet peas 
and other tidbits was appalling. My wrath 
knew no bounds when, one June day, I 
saw Madam placidly walking up the path 
between the rose bushes. Jerk, jerk, went 
the long, snaky neck. At every movement 
she snapped off a tender bud and devoured 
it. I vowed that a goose of such epic¬ 
urean tastes should be killed on the spot 
and eaten. Probably all that saved her 
life that day was my physical inability 
to carry out my threats. Madam’s first 
eggs all had soft shells, but we remedied 
that, and afterwards she laid six good 
ones. The nest was badly chosen, and 
the rats destroyed the eggs, so our first 
season amounted to nothing except some 
valuable experience. The second Spring 
she was more successful. Nine goslings 
were hatched, of which eight came to 
maturity. The gander’s devotion during 
the period of incubation was touching. 
He stood guard over the nest and woe to 
the pig, dog or child that came too near. 
When the holiday season arrived, the 
dressing of the eight full-grown, young 
geese fell to me. I found the task less 
difficult than I had anticipated, for I 
followed the advice of an old poultry man, 
scalded them well in very hot water, then 
dipped them for a moment into cold. 
The outside feathers peeled off easily, and 
then the fleecy inner coating, which was 
carefully put by itself. This down was 
quite unlike the short, chopped-up stuff 
sold under that name in the stores. We 
pronounced the nine-pound bird that 
graced our table decidedly good eating, 
and 1 stored away nearly a pint of clear 
oil against a time of need, for I have gone 
back to the remedy of our grandmothers 
for ear aches, colds, etc., and find it more 
effectual than many of the drugs put down 
in the pharmacopoeia. 
I was now the possessor of two large 
sacks of down, but the making of the 
quilt presented many difficulties. Luckily, 
I was not forced to experiment with this 
for the same Winter, a German lady 
moved into the community who had made 
such a coverlet. I was not long in mak¬ 
ing her acquaintance. The young matron 
proudly displayed her handiwork, which 
was a dream in pale blue and rose color, 
and answered all my questions. Here 
are some of the things I learned from her: 
A quilt 6 x 6 feet is too small for any 
but a single bed; V/2 yards long by the 
same width is a better size, and for this, 
three pounds of down will be required. 
A spare chamber or other room having a 
bare floor is the best place to undertake 
the work. After joining the breaths of 
sateen of the cover and lining, spread 
them out, one over the other on a table 
or other flat surface. The centers and 
edges should lie exactly together. Draw 
a series of continuous concentric circles on 
the cloth with chalk or pencil, beginning 
at the center and extending to the edges, 
and baste the cover and lining together. 
Leave an aperture in each circle large 
enough to admit the hand. After basting, 
they should be stitched with silk thread 
and then stuffed with the down until full 
and fluffy but not hard. It is best to do 
but one circle at a time. When all are 
filled, the edges may be finished with a 
silk cord or double row of stitching. In 
Germany these coverlets are often made 
like a big sack or feather bed, only of 
lighter weight, but most American house¬ 
keepers would probably prefer to confine 
the feathers more closely. Very hand¬ 
some embroidered covers of washable ma¬ 
terial are sometimes slipped over them. 
A day’s sunning and airing works 
wonders in restoring the lightness of the 
' quilt. 
I have briefly outlined how not to keep 
geese. When allowed their liberty, they 
are sure to be a nuisance, but where a 
bit of swampy meadow or other waste 
ground having water may be enclosed for 
them, they can be made a source of rev¬ 
enue for the farm. Much talk is heard 
nowadays about the feather bed being 
unhygienic but it will be long before the 
folk brought up in the good old way are 
willing to exchange it for the hard but 
more sanitary mattress. The woman who 
has tried snuggling under a feather cover¬ 
let on a cold Winter night will not rest 
until she possesses one, if not “a down 
quilt for every bed in the house.” 
M. E. COLEGROVE. 
Sectional View of 
Handle Showing 
Grellner Wedge. 
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