lerican Agriculturist, July 19, 1924 
45 
What Other Home-Makers Have Discovered 
Short Cuts to Economy cmd Efficiency Contributed by A. A. Readers 
1IJET is a good substitute for lard jn 
> making pie crust. Try out the suet, 
then work into the flour and if the suet 
trippings are cold, use boiling water. The 
hie is better if it is served the same day 
[hat it is made. 
Fruits that require sweetening should 
pe cooked in the sugar. To do this, takes 
much less sugar and is therefore more 
(economical. Also, the sugar is apt to 
jmse fermentation after being eaten raw, 
and cause indigestion if it is not boiled 
before using. The flavor of coffee will 
be greatly improved if sufficient sweeten¬ 
ing is put in it when it is being boiled. A 
can of pure white sugar syrup, made by 
boiling sugar and w'ater together until the 
[right consistency is reached, may be kept 
in store for sweetening egg nogs, cream, 
[dressing or desserts. It also can be used 
for sweetening cocoa, postum, chocolate, 
orange juice and other beverages, also 
|lemonade, grape juice, cherry juice, etc. 
Materials for pie crust should always 
|be cold to start with. Then when the 
paste is mixed, chill it before rolling it 
out. It will be easier to roll and the crust 
will be flakier. If the crust, before being 
baked, is placed in the ice box or other 
cool place, it will keep for several days.— 
|Z. I. Dahvris. 
To Take Dents from Furniture 
Wet the part with warm water. Fold 
la piece of brown paper five or six times 
and soak in warm water; then lay it on 
the place. Set a warm (not hot) flat iron 
upon it, the warmth and moisture causes 
[the wood to swell and fill the dent.— 
L. T. Garland. 
For mending valuable glass objects, 
which would be disfigured by ordinary 
cement, chrome cement may be used. 
This is a mixture of five parts of gelatine 
to one of a solution of acid chromate of 
lime. The broken edges are covered with 
this, pressed together and exposed to 
sunlight; the effect of the latter being to 
render the compound insoluble even in 
boiling water.—Miss Lilliam V. Smith. 
Don’t use tobacco, or the ill-odored 
moth bails to keep moths from woolens 
during summer. Use whole cloves. Have 
them everywhere and insert some in every 
one of the men’s pockets. Make little 
bags and fill them with whole cloves and 
hang in the closets, and sprinkle in boxes, 
trunks, etc. Ground cloves leave an 
indelible stain on all garments so be sure 
to use the whole ones.— Mrs. C. A. B., 
N. Y. 
If you have no lids that fit your apple 
butter jars, a little heated paraffin run 
over the apple butter while still hot and 
then a clean cloth or a waxed paper tied 
or stuck with sealing wax over the top of 
the jar will keep it very nicely. 
Save all orange and lemon peelings, 
dry them thoroughly and when you tire 
of apple pies seasoned with cinnamon or 
nutmeg, scrape some of. either the lemon 
or orange peelings in and note the de¬ 
licious new taste. 
and 1 cup sugar to a cream. Add the 
stiffly-beaten white of an egg and a cup 
of crushed loganberries. 
Here are two rather unusual recipes. 
The one for Blackberry dumplings is, of 
course, applicable to other berries as 
well, but the gooseberry charlotte I have 
never tried in any other flavor: 
Blackberry Dumplings 
Soak 1 cup dried blackberries in 3 
quarts of cold water for 3 hours. Bring to 
J>0 THE left , No. 
2133, an attractive 
morning frock for percale 
or gingham with bind¬ 
ings of plain material. 
Sizes 36, 38 iO, 1$ and 
44 inches bust measure. 
For size 36, use 3fs 
yards of 36-ingh mate¬ 
rial. Price, 12c. 
Belou, No. 1493. 
o one-piece dress with 
set-m sleeves. An ideal 
summer style. It exits in 
sizes Sj, 36, 38, 4 0 and 
42 inches bust measure. 
Size 36 requires 3}4 
yards of 36-inch mate¬ 
rial with Vi yard con¬ 
trasting. Price, 12c. 
into individual dishes, sweeten the berries 
and juice to taste, and pour over dump¬ 
lings. Will serve five people. 
Gooseberry Charlotte 
Boil, in a porcelain kettle, one pound 
and one-half of gooseberries, heads and 
tails cut off, and one pound and one-half 
of sugar until the berries are soft. Press 
all through a colander. Line a plain 
circular mould with ladyfingers, or slices 
of sponge cake, or line it with light pie 
crust dough and bake. Pour in the 
cooked fruit mixture, and fit over it a 
circular slice of cake, or a baked cover of 
pastry. This cover should be well 
pressed down over the fruit. Let the 
whole become completely chilled, and at 
serving time invert on a platter, and pour 
over the whole a pint of soft custard. 
It has been calculated that a family of 
five requires 250 quarts of fruits and 40 
quarts of conserves and jellies in a year. 
Berries should form a large part of this 
reserve supply. They come along through 
the summer in such orderly sequence that 
it is easy to put up a few jars every so 
often. You’11 be glad you did, next 
winter, for they preserve well, and some 
times it almost seems, as you eat rasp¬ 
berry conserve, strawberry jellies, or 
canned blueberry pie that after all the 
berry patch is bearing all year round, right 
outside the kitchen door. 
fTWO summery styles 
for children are shown 
below. No. 1858 is an 
easily-made , comfortable 
little union suit which can 
also be used as a pajama 
pattern. It comes in sizes 
2, 4. 6, 8, 10 and 12 years, 
using 1 yards of 36-inch 
material for size 8. Price, 
12c 
No. 1928 is just right 
for the little girl’s white 
‘‘best” frock. It cuts in 
sizes 2, 4. 6 and 8 years- 
For size 4,' the dress and 
bloomers take yards 
36-inch material. Price 
12c. Embroidery pattern 
650 is 12c extra. 
More Berry Recipes 
Loganberry Batter Pudding 
Fill a small granite pudding dish about 
half full of fresh loganberries, cover with 
2 cups sugar. Dot with butter. Cover 
and set in oven while preparing the 
following batter; One egg; 1 cup sugar; 
K cup milk; 2 tablespoonfuls butter or 
other shortening, cups flour, 2 yi 
teaspoonfuls baking powder. Remove 
fruit from oven, spread this batter over 
the top and bake until a rich brown. 
Try loganberries in ice cream, added to 
tapioca, as jelly, with strawberries in 
jam. to give color to junket, as a sauce for 
puddings and custards, and in cake filling. 
For the latter, beat half a cup of butter 
TO ORDER: Write name, address, pattern 
numbers and sizes and enclose proper remittance 
in either stamps or coin (stamps are safer) and 
send to the Pattern Department, American Agri 
culturist, 461 Fourth Avenue, N. Y City. 
a boil and let boil 30 minutes. Then add 
dumplings made as follows: Into 1 cup of 
sweet milk, stir 1 heaping teaspoon baking 
powder and a little salt. Add flour 
enough to make a very stiff dough. Roll 
into 5 dumplings and boil 25 minutes, 
turning kettle gently once or twice so all 
parts will cook evenly. Sometimes the 
water boils away fast; in that case, add 
hot water enough to cook dumplings 
without burning. Remove dumplings 
Swift Currents 
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leaping up the side of the tinder-dry dis¬ 
tant ridge. “Airplane’s the way; get you 
over this forest in ten minutes. I’ll wire 
for a ‘ship’ this morning. Get it here in 
express car! Good-by, Felix!” And so, 
in the next moment, he was gone. 
F OR five days thenceforward she never 
saw him close enough to distinguish 
his form in the ranks of the specks which 
parsed by Mower, now to the east, now 
west, now north or south as men shifted 
back and forth from the fires. All during 
the week Felicia remained at the summit 
of Mower, sharing the cabin with Julia 
Shirley, who, relieved of switchboard 
duty, had arrived to stand alternate 
watches day and night; for the forest 
fires now were blazing ceaselessly, and 
every man who could be mustered was 
kept at work until he dropped. 
Dwyer long ago had gone from Lassiter, 
leaving two women in his place; girls 
stood sentinel upon Mt. Kenton and on 
Blackbear Butte, and a girl’s voice tele¬ 
phoned in from Salishan Peak the alarm 
which first warned of the outbreak of the 
blaze on Kalispel. This was down the 
river, in thick jungle-like lodge-pole pine, 
dry as kindling, and so situated in the 
valley that the southwest wind which was 
blowing fanned the flames as in a furnace, 
with the gap between Salishan and Kalis¬ 
pel for a flue. 
This fire was as near to the Mower as to 
the Salishan lookout, but so thick about 
Mower was the smoke from fires further 
south that Felicia could not certainly 
locate the position of the new blaze even 
after it w’as reported; so thick, indeed, 
was the smoke, that when an airplane 
passed by in distinct hearing, Felicia got 
not a glimpse of it. 
“It passed half a mile north, I think,” 
she estimated in reporting it. “Went 
out of hearing to the West.” 
“Lieutenant Crandall has volunteered 
to fly for us,” forest headquarters in¬ 
formed the lookouts then, restoring 
Tony’s military rank for the occasion. 
“He hopes to catch and cut off any one 
setting fires; he has wireless-telephone 
equipment by which he will report at once 
location of any new blaze. To assist him 
and identify your post, you will spread 
strips as follows.” And headquarters de¬ 
tailed the distinguishing marks for each 
station. 
Felicia and Julia spread on Mower 
summit their “strips,” composed of 
blankets and bedding arranged in a big V 
and weighted down with stones. 
The best prismatic binoculars no 
longer offered any useful service. Pun 
gent, yellow haze rolled up over Mower, 
eddied and streamed before the sharp 
round disk of the rust-red sun, and flowed 
into the valley, dimming and obscuring. 
And upon the smoke rode silence; or¬ 
dinarily with such a wind, the rustle of 
the dry pine branches down on the flanks 
of Mower would have been plainly 
audible; frequently, too, the far-away roar 
of the cascades of the run reached to the 
mountain-top; but today the smoke 
seemed to smother all usual sound—or was 
it Felicia’s ears which shut out all but the 
distant thrash of airscrew and the drone 
of motor explosions? 
T ONY had passed in the direction Oi 
Kalispel, and long after she could argue 
to herself that she yet heard the sound of 
his engine, Felicia sat gazing to the 
Northeast and straining to hear. He had 
passed over the fire, she was sure; now 
was he on his way back? Or did her 
fancy supply that hum? At any rate, it 
was gone again; he had returned over 
the burning area. 
Dangerous duty he had undertaken, 
but invaluable, she knew, if he did no 
more than discover and report the progress 
and limits of the fires; for the other look¬ 
out stations already were, or soon would 
become, as useless as Mower; but Tony, 
flying freely everywhere, instantly could 
call men to flames which could still be 
controlled, and prevent the dispatch of 
the forest forces to districts which no 
human power could save. But the peril 
to him was great. 
When Tony was away at war, Felicia 
had learned enough about flying to under¬ 
stand that such a pilot as he had little to 
fear, even though his engine failed, if he 
were flying about aviation fields or over 
ground where a man might make a forced 
landing with success. 
But the forest and mountains offered 
no one such landing-place within many, 
many miles Indeed, Felicia tried vainly 
to think of more than one suitable place; 
besides the leveled green of the camp’s 
tennis-courts, from which Tony un¬ 
doubtedly had “hopped off,” she could 
think of only the streets of Acheron and 
small rough patches here and there where 
only a desperate pilot would land. There 
was direct danger to him, accordingly, 
' if he were lost in the smoke and could not 
return to the camp. Forest headquarters 
realized this when it ordered the mountain 
tops marked to guide him. 
{To be continued) 
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