Chopped Pickles in Rhyme 
Of fresh green tomatoes 
Take one-half a peck, 
Two firm heads of cabbage, 
(Cut out every speck). 
Fifteen large onions, 
And fifteen quite small, 
Twenty-five cucumbers, 
Chop with them all. 
Mix grated horseradish— 
One pint you need— 
With one-half a pound 
Of white mustard seed, 
Black pepper and cinnamon 
Finely ground up, 
Of each of these measure 
Just one-half a cup. 
One ounce of celery seed 
Add to this now, 
And a half cup of turmeric, 
You’ll need anyhow. 
Chop these vegetables up, 
Salt down for one night, 
And in the morning 
Squeeze them out tight. 
Cover with vinegar 
For two days, you know, 
Then drain them and mix in 
The spices that go. 
Four pounds of brown sugar 
To make a bit sweet, 
In six quarts of vinegar; 
Now you may heat. 
Boil all together 
Until you shall render 
The whole to become 
Sufficiently tender. 
This recipe has been tested 
With greatest success— 
There never wqs given 
A better. I guess. 
Now this is the truth— 
If you don’t agree. 
I think that you’d better 
Just try it and see. 
MRS. E. S. 
Simple Sweet Pickles 
I used the following recipe last Sum¬ 
mer. It was very simple, kept perfectly, 
and was very good. To one gallon of 
cider vinegar add one cup sugar, one cup 
salt and one cup ground mustard. Pour 
in crock and add cucumbers every day 
as picked until jar is full. Weight down 
below surface of pickle and cover with 
cloth and plate. Will keep the year 
round. MRS. w. m. 
Sweet Cucumber Pickles 
Will you give recipe for sweet pickles? 
MBS. D. F. B. 
Wash cucumbers and pack closely in 
jar, and pour over them boiling brine, 
one cup salt to one gallon cucumbers, 
dissolved in water enough to cover. Let 
stand 24 hours, drain, wipe dry, and cover 
with weak vinegar, boiling hot. Drain, 
then prepare fresh vinegar with mixed 
spices, nasturtium seed, two green pep¬ 
pers, and brown sugar to taste. Boil 
the spiced vinegar five minutes, then add 
the drained cucumbers, heat through and 
then seal in jars. The sweet pickles will 
not keen long in open crocks. 
Sliced Sweet Pickles.—Sliced cucum¬ 
bers, one quart vinegar, one cup sugar, 
tablespoon of cloves, tablespoon of cinna¬ 
mon. Take slicing cucumbers; six good- 
sized ones will make a quart; slice and 
put in a crock, cover with salr and let 
stand over night: in morning drain, put 
in preserving kettle vinegar, sugar, cloves, 
cinnamon, until at boiling point, put in 
sliced cucumbers, boil np and can. 
Pickled Pigs’ Feet 
Can you give us a recipe for pickling 
pigs’feet? G. H. D. 
To prepare pigs’ feet, wash and scrape 
well, and put to soak over night in cold 
salt water. In the morning scrape again, 
and put to soak again in salt water (not 
bri"e) ; at night r' -’nae the water again, 
salting water as before. The next morn¬ 
ing cover with cold water and bring slow¬ 
ly to a boil, skimming the water when 
needed. Boil until the meat is very ten¬ 
der. When cooked, drain from the water, 
put into a crock and cover with cold vine¬ 
gar, adding a few cloves and a pod of red 
pepper if liked. 
Oriental Jam 
Six quarts red currants, two pounds 
seeded raisins, four pounds sugar. Ex¬ 
press one pound of currant juice, into 
which put raisins and cook five minutes. 
Add three pounds mashed currants, cook 
20 minutes, add sugar and cook 20 min¬ 
utes longer. Put up in glasses like jelly. 
MRS. G. c. w. 
Little Helps 
Knee protectors for both boys and girls 
tuny be made of heavy black cloth of tough 
texture, or from the soft tops of ladies’ 
leather boots. Bind with braid, sew 
three strips of heavy garter elastic across 
the back, equi-distant from one another, 
to hold the pad in place, but not tight 
enough to interfere with comfort or cir¬ 
culation. When slipped over the knees 
they save the knees of stockings, and are 
almost hidden by the bagging of knicker¬ 
bockers or bloomers. 
A sand tray for children’s amusement 
i "? n 5 stor “y days is formed from a slial- 
.’ ''” x - zinc-bned. and set upon legs 
vith castors. In certain localities very 
one sand can be obtain'd, but sand or 
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gravel of some type can be secured almost 
anywhere. 
The latest kitchen improvement de¬ 
signed by one clever woman is a table 
sink, or a sink with leaves, to be raised 
when a broad working table is desired. 
The board surface is zinc-covered, and 
kettles and pans hang underneath. 
The usual scrubbing cushion knelt upon 
by the average housekeeper jnay well take 
the form of a wooden box four or five 
inches high, with one end removed. Pad 
the bottom to spare the knees, and in one 
corner tack a little flat tin box for wash¬ 
ing powder or soap. The box may be 
set on castors or not, as the worker* pre¬ 
fers. 
To gain space when the oven is full of 
plates or round tins, a small tin can may 
be set in the middle, in the spot left empty 
between four pies, and another pie or 
round tin plate of anything else will bake 
on top of the can—which is a safe base 
if not too tall. 
Pad a box to keep rising bread dough 
in. Ilinge the cover on and pad that, 
too. If the compartment is barely large 
enough to receive the dough crock, the 
dough will rise briskly and beautifully 
light. I.ILLIAX TROTT. 
Favorite Recipes 
Oatmeal Bread.—The following is my 
recipe for oatmeal bread, which I made in 
wartime, and my family will not give it 
up; they prefer it to wheat bread. It 
comes in very good again, as wheat flour 
is getting so expensive. Set sponge early 
in the evening with two small yeast cakes 
and one-half cup warm water. Add just 
enough flour to run from the spoon. Do 
not stir too stiff. Take four cups oat¬ 
meal, two tablespoons salt, one and one- 
half cups molasses or brown sugar (I pre¬ 
fer brown sugar if you can get it) ; scald 
with eight cups of boiling water; set on 
stove and cook the oatmeal well. Cool to 
lukewarm, add sponge when light, then 
stir stiff with wheat flour. Let rise over 
night.. In the morning stir down and put 
Tight in tins, let rise and bake in a mod¬ 
erate oven. One does not have to touch 
the hands to the dough. This makes six 
loaves. 
Graham Bread.—Two and one-half cups 
graham flour, one cup wheat flour, two 
Embroidery Designs 
1059. Design for embroidering the front 
of ft blouse. Six separate motifs are also 
given. Transfer 20 cents. 
cups sour milk (scant), one cup molasses, 
one teaspoon salt, one scant teaspoon 
soda. 
Scrambled Eggs with Onions.—Frv the 
onions in a little butter or fat, the same 
as for ordinary fried onions. When done 
break in eggs, say one to a person. Stir 
them in the onions as if you were scram¬ 
bling eggs. Serve at once; delicious. 
A Good Way to Serve Dandelion.— 
Cook potatoes with the skins on. take 
four or five while hot. remove skins and 
mash, but not too fine. Have ready a 
quart or more of dandelion, washed and 
chopped rather fine; also have some bacon 
fried to a crisp. Pour over the dandelion 
and potatoes while hot. fat and all; add a 
little vinegar, season to taste, stir all to¬ 
gether and serve. 
To prevent cakes, pies, etc., from spoil- 
mg. give the key of the pantry to the chil¬ 
dren. s. B. T. 
If you have a cheaply available supply of firewood, you 
can use it to heat your whole house from one central 
heating plant, down in the cellar where it should be. You 
will be independent of the coal supply. 
The International Wood Burning Onepipe Heater is 
especially built for wood fuel, with big feed door and 
large, long firebox. It takes big chunks of wood, will 
keep fire over night and needs 
attention but few times a day. 
Built by a company with three- 
quarters of a century of heating 
experience, it is scientifically con¬ 
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fuel economy, and for many years 
of home heating satisfaction. Its 
triple inner casing keeps 
your cellar cool. 
Send for “'Wood Burning” 
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Homemade Toilet Soap 
Will you tell me bow to make good 
face soap? MRS. F. 
Fine toilet soaps call for a mixture of 
vegetable oil with the other fats, and we 
do not think there would be any economy 
in trying to make such soap at home. 
Coeoanut oil, palm oil. olive oil and pea¬ 
nut oil are used in making such soaps. 
Bergamot soap calls for 4 lbs. coeoanut 
oil, 1 lb. lard, 2^4 lbs. 40 deg. lye. Per¬ 
fume with one ounce oil of bergamot. 2^4 
drams oil of geranium. The same prepa¬ 
rations of fat and lard may be used with 
other perfumes. With good, clean tallow 
and the addition of borax a nice hard, 
white soap is made by ordinary domestic 
recipes, but naturally it does not compare 
with fine toilet soaps made with vegetable 
oils. 
Scripture Cake, I Kings XVII 1:13 
One cup butter, Judges v :25: two cups 
sugar, Jeremiah vi:20: cuds flour. 
Exodus xxix : 2 ; two cups raisins, I Sam¬ 
uels xxv :18; one cup almonds. Generis 
xl :1I; two cups figs, I Samuel xxx :12; 
one cup water, Genesis xxiv :17; six eggs, 
Tsaiah x :14 ; one large spoonful honey, 
Judges xiv:8; sweet snices to taste. 
I Kings x :2: three tablespoons baking 
powder, Galatians v :9. Follow’ Solomon’s 
advice for making good bovs, Proverbs 
xxiii:14. This v recipe is fine. M. R. 
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