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THE R.UKAL NEVV-VORKER 
is unwise to select a pale, delicate color, 
because the scarf is meant for real utility, 
and a bright color of wool soils very 
quickly. 
A fireless cooker demonstrated in one 
famous store had a sizzling roast of beef 
in one compartment, a frozen shcrbert in 
another and biscuits baking in the third. 
Such cooking seemed rather uncanny. An¬ 
other demonstration was of aluminum 
waffle irons that need no greasing. An im¬ 
provement for the gas range is a broiler 
plate that permits broiling over and not 
under the flame, thus saving gas. A new 
qsink protecting dishpan fits into the sink 
with a removable drain to catch refuse. 
Uncooked Tomato Relish. 
About a year ago in the columns of 
your paper I found a recipe for tomato 
relish made principally of tomatoes with 
onions, sugar, mustard, vinegar, etc., but 
it had the distinction of keeping without 
cooking or sealing. Would you repeat 
this? Mrs. j. c. c. 
This requires no cooking, and will keep 
in a crock, without sealing: One peck 
ripe tomatoes, skinned and chopped fine; 
add one-half cup salt, and let stand over 
night. Drain off juice, add three onions 
chopped, three chopped green peppers and 
three chopped heads of celery, roots and 
stalks; two ounces white mustard seed, 
one ounce cinnamon, 1 y 2 pint vinegar, 
one cupful grated horseradish, sugar to 
taste. 
Working Wonders with the Living Room. 
Part I. 
Parlors are no longer the fashion; the 
living room is the heart of the home 
instead of the “parlor” nowadays. Per¬ 
haps it does not please you and you do 
not know how to improve it. There may 
be ugly walls, curtains and perhaps ord¬ 
inary furniture to conjure with, and pos¬ 
sibly but little money to expend. 
First of all, sit down in the most com¬ 
fortable chair in your living room and 
take a survey of “things as they are” in 
an impersonal way, just as if you were 
a stranger calling for the first time. 
Does the room appeal to you? If not, 
why does it not? Does it draw every 
member of the family like a magnet? 
If not, there is something lacking. It is 
not the heart of your home, and there can 
be no family life without this center. 
“But,” you say despairingly, “we need 
so many new things.” 
The majority of us have accumulated 
too many already; what we all need is 
good taste, a better perception of color 
values and a very few dollars to accom¬ 
plish the rest It is the big reading table 
in the center, or a little one to one side 
of the room, with its cheery lamp, maga¬ 
zines, books, games and inviting chairs 
beside it; the restful couch in the corner 
with its plain covering and numerous al¬ 
luring pillows; the daintily dressed win¬ 
dows ; the arrangement of the pictures 
on the walls, the ivy trained over the 
mantel or around the window; the fern 
or the low bowl of Narcissi or other 
Winter blooming bulbs, of which you 
may have a succession—it is these little 
individual touches that count and trans¬ 
form the ugliest room into a cheery, in¬ 
viting, habitable place. Many of us have 
impossible walls with which to contend— 
startling figures that are out of the ques¬ 
tion as a background for either pictures or 
the general aspect of the room. If so. 
remember this is not an insurmountable 
obstacle. Plain wall paper may be pur¬ 
chased for a few cents a roll, and a plain 
surface is always best, no matter whether 
it is paper or tinting, as wonderful effects 
may be gained by having just the right 
background. 
I know a country girl who pa pc red her 
big livifag room with plain buff paper, 
using a mottled white paper for the ceiling 
at the nominal cost of two dollars. To be 
sure, she did the work herself, with the 
assistance of a younger member of the 
family, but it is worth the effort and the 
small expenditure. When the feat was 
accomplished the room appeared at least 
one-third larger than originally. Her 
background was exactly right. Remem¬ 
ber walls have to be lived with day after 
day and year after year. It is well, 
therefore, to bear this in mind. As walls 
make the home, shutting out the world, 
they should be as beautiful as possible 
and give us a sense of repose and charm. 
If you do not feel equal to the exer¬ 
tion, there is an easier and still cheaper 
way. I refer to tinting with one of the 
patent preparations. It is now possible 
to cover the walls with tints that are 
not only preservative but sanitary and 
durable. Some prefer the soft colored 
alabastines that are so easily freshened 
by a new coat. There are also washable 
tints from which to make a selection, 
which is a decided advantage if there are 
little folks in the home and tiny fingers 
to leave disfiguring marks on the light 
surface. I havfe even tinted over wall 
papers that were figured, in temporary 
abiding places where I did not care to go 
to the expense of either papering or tint¬ 
ing the plaster. 
Avoid red. Time was when this lurid 
shade was all the rage. It is past. Soft 
buff is especially desirable for a north 
room, as it gives a soft, sunny tone; a 
southern room usually needs to be toned 
down, and it may be decorated with old 
blue or gray, or green, if the latter is pre¬ 
ferred. So take your choice, after due 
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deliberation as to your furnishings; cur¬ 
tains, hangings, couch covers, etc. 
The color you put on your walls is, 
of course, a matter of taste. Personally, 
it gives me a great sense of pleasure to 
enter either a buff, or a gray-blue room. 
There is a charm about these colors that 
is out of the ordinary, and that I always 
associate with the idea of home. 
Bear in mind when decorating your liv¬ 
ing walls that you may wish to renovate 
the adjoining rooms, so a definite color 
scheme such as you might wish to carry 
out throughout will be desirable, with 
harmonizing tones for the various rooms. 
One of the loveliest farm homes in 
which I have ever visited has rough plas¬ 
tered walls painted. Another country 
home has rough boarded walls—a mere 
shack on the outside, but the walls are 
stained a rich wood brown, mission style. 
The sombre effect is lightened by the 
couch covers and hangings. Such a room 
can stand much green and red, like the 
Navajo colorings . r„ e. 
Coffee Cake. 
Can you give me a recipe for a eoff»*e 
roll, the kind you get at the baker’s? 
F. 11. 
We infer that the inquiry refers to the 
coffee ring sold by bakers here. There 
is an infinite variety in New York bak¬ 
eries—plain coffee cake with crumbed top, 
circular coffee rings, French coffee cake, 
Berlin coffee cake, very rich and fruity, 
with almond icing, honey cake, etc. The 
following is an excellent coffee cake: To 
two cupfuls of soft bread sponge that 
has been allowed to rise, add one-half 
cupful of warm milk, a little salt, one- 
quarter cupful of melted shortening, two 
eggs beaten with three-fourths cup of 
sugar. Add one-half of a grated nutmeg, 
some raisins or currants and as much 
warmed flour as can be worked in with 
a spoon. Put into a well greased tin, 
and let it rise. When very light moisten 
the top with milk, sprinkle with sugar 
and cinnamon and bake, covering with 
paper if it seems to brown too fast. 
Another method is to make dough as 
for milk bread over night; one pint of 
milk, scalded and cooled ; one tablespoon¬ 
ful butter melted in the hot milk; one 
tablespoonful sugar; one teaspoonful 
salt; one-half cup yeast; six or 
seven cups flour. Measure the milk 
after scalding; put in the mixing bowl, 
add sugar, salt and butter. When 
cool, add the yeast, and then stir in the 
flour, adding it gradually after five cups 
are in, so as not to get it too stiff. Knead 
till smooth and elastic; cover, let it rise 
over night. In the morning, make half of 
it into a loaf, and put to rise. Mix into 
the remainder half a cup of butter, 
creamed with a cup of sugar and one 
well-beaten egg. Beat and mix well, add 
half a cup of flour, or enough to make a 
dough that can be handled, and some cur¬ 
rants, or raisins, or a little candied peel 
or almonds. Let it rise, shape into a ring, 
and when very light, bake, finishing with 
a plain sugar icing put on thin. Almost 
every baker has his own methods for 
coffee cakes, but the above are very nice. 
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