- -- SaEREEEDEEenE ---------- ss v=) wer MICter wiricre tne Mercury re be standing. Your room need not look Se {) D bare. Keep out one or two or three ar- es ; FAMILY MEALS S ticles worth resting the eyes upon and k seek repose in empty spaces, where the FOR A WEEK » : » . other ornaments used to be. A well- : 7 C=: arranged vase of flowers does more to : n beautify the room in these summer days SUNDAY . than all the pieces of china and brass BREAKFAST. > A " you can pile up. Oranges, Indian meal mush end cream, *< P Your room will look better still and fried scallops, popovers, toast, tea and ry: é your work be made yet lighter if you -- LUNCHEON. ~ - take up heavy woolen rugs, which catch Jellie@ tongue, toasted English mufitng, ¥ f. ' the dust and require time and strength orange and banana saled, with mayon- _ ) to keep clean in the dusty season. If naise; toasted crackers and cheese, salted Se your floors are good enough to show pecans, choociate custards, cakes, tea, e ' bare, or to protect in the most trodden Fue Site SS ae cae co a of spinac soup, lam chops en a y ---- _-- a mats of woven grasses, casserole, string beans, salsify fritters, * cheap and attractive de- queen of puddings, with strawberries; % r) Signs, try these for the warm period. Diack coffee. 2 Better still, if you could afford it, be- ™ cause easier to take care of, would be a MONDAY * matting over the entire floor. This is q BRBAKFAST. a more readily kept clean than a bare Btewed rhubarb and cream, éried rusk pes floor with rugs, and has a cool effect : and milk, bacon and eggs, toast, tea end ' which is very restful, i ---- LUNCHDON. je So much for your parlor or sitting Jellied tongue (a left-over), scalloped po~ an room. In the dining room there are tatoes, tomato salad, plain; crackers and . other changes which will make life eas- cheese. cake and marmalade, cocoa. fer. I have spoken of the silver and ' DINNER. brasses. If you have large pieces of : Scotch onion soup, beiled mutton, with : 4 a these, put them away until it turns cool- caper sauce; young turnips, broiled toma- > bt : 5 er, I know they are very ornamental toes, strawberries and cream, black coffee, f. % and the pride of your heart, but, grant- ' TUESDAY 2 ing this, you will have to own that they BRBEAKFAST. a add very much to your work. They Berries, cracked wheat and cream, fried 4 must be bright and shining or they are : : founder cutlets, stewed potatoes, toast, ; & reproach to the housekeeper. You feol { tea and coffee. 4 that, and many a hot day, when you : i me prio sees einen oe a i ve z mutton (a "OV . dome voce bee wa ce ae ! cok ete Sead wih Pench tee ; . ing; crackers and cheese, bath buns end 'a bling yourself up polishing those blessed chocolate. * brasses or that cherished silver. So put DINNER. st « it away until cooler weather. Give the Mutton broth (based upon Hquor in he silver a good rubbing, wrap it in tissue which mutton was boiled), veal cutlets, & paper and put a bit of camphor with it Jerusalem artichokes, ee ee & and send it to the bank or some other @trawberry ice cream a e, * place where it will be off your mind and coftes, =e 5 WEDNESDAY BRBAKFASIT, } Oranges, rice jelly and cream, bacon Ri | and fried hominy, brown bread) toast, tea s and coffee, ° S : LUNCHEON, : é } Ragout of mutton and macaroni (@ left- ; : over), baked potatoes, coldsiaw, with cream dressing; crackers, cream cheese and gooseberry jam, tea. DINNER, Tomato and okra soup, stuffed and baked; ~ - fish, green peas, whipped potatoes, strawe i F te Che ott Tou Savion and cream, cake, black coffee, ) t BIE: OY MY O02 OLUSHS HURSDAY Ck (sit PAE ESM CS LPC Y Lay br Ae THU COS ZLSE OATES rere z Berries, cereal and cream, bacon -- them well away! By this 7 mean that sweet peppers, rice muffins, toast, tea an FEW years ago some one re- it is little good to Sere them up on coffee. marked that Americans dress J th t LUNCHEON. in summer @s though they dif theater Shelf only a little more remote Minced clams creamed on toast, sally Hived tn a cool aay i ff i than the one they occupied before, lunn, potatoes a la duchesse; lettuce and in reality, their country 1 spe aay HALE where they will still catch dust and be Green pea salad (a left-over), blanc mange land from June to Ratteaed ile: th @ burden on your mind. sepeltsatan hey -_-- ee DINNER The statoment is a trifle exagger- ics: or ita oes rig "éted gente Potato soup, baked calf's head, rice cro« @ted, but it ia a fact that not unt} nen you take them out-in:the fall you quettes, spintwh, floating island, black cof+ ¢ will find an air of novelty about your Tee, within a comparatively short time old possessions, and you. will feel as have our men conformed to the cli- though you had s Christmas or « birth. FRIDAY \ Mate to a degrea permitting them to ; BREAKFAST, PD LULL. Wear negligee shirts and an casy atyle of dress. Our women have resorted to dlaphanous waists and short sleeves when they take their walks abroad, but neither men nor women seem to have learned to consider themselves during the heated term to the extent of making their work light. €3 Happily, the men's part of this does e not concern me at the moment. Into o ® man's work and methods of con- ducting it the Fates forbid that I Should attempt to intrude! But I can Bpeak advisedly about women and their pursults, and I do not believe I shall be contradicted when I say that fe not one woman out of ten has any idea of how to lighten her work in i the summer. t Oh, yes, of course I know there are : certain things which must be done % fnd cannot be evaded. The house a Must be kept clean; cooking must be = done; jellies and jams and preserves and pickles must be put up; beds But have you ever given serious | thought to reducing the amount of } work that must be done? j Take your parlor, for instance, , There are those curtains and those table covers and those draperies and rugs. Have I any idea how much time it takes every day just to dust those ornaments on the mantel and to keep the place looking any way de- cent? Ana@ the dining room ig just as bad, with the silver to clean and the brasses to polish. How ean one make such work as that lesa? i don't know that one can make it Vf lois Chagase to Puy hella ah i ee, MESS BE fi a Pts ss "less," exactly, but there are some parts of it that can be abolished al- together, and that would certainly serve to lighten that summer work of which we have been talking. In the first place, then, if I were you, I would take down those curtains and portieres, They are very pretty, as a matter of course, and help to make the room attractive, but have you any idea how much cooler the place would look without them? It would be cooler, too, for draperies shut off air and breeze as well as gather dust. If you must have something at the window besides shades --~and I own it looks alittle bare with no hangings at all--get some wash cur- tains. Does this seem ike advising fresh ex- pense? Do you suspect how little such curtains cost? You can buy pretty ones Which will serve you well for the sum- mer at $1.50 a pair, and if you chooge to buy the materia) by the yard and run a hem across the top and bottom of the tains the fading and soiling they will get in the time when the windows must be up and the dust blowing in. You will save, too, the brushing and beating you feel obliged to give them once in s0 often if you mean to keap clean at all. What else can be eliminated? Well, if it were my house, I would pack away those woolen table covers and put pretty wash covers on the tables in their place. They will look cooler and make you feel more comfortable. Next, I would banish nearly all fhas bric-a-brac and do away with one big pices of dusting which has to be accomplished daily in all weath- Zo ASCE ee OVC? COPA. your hands. If gome of the Pieces are dishes or pitchers or other articles you use constantly, discard them none the less and buy the cheap pressed glass to take their place, if you have nothing in the house that you can use. Such glass comes in good shapes, and you need not mind having it on your table, especially when you recollect that it is making your work lighter. Small silver, of course, you have to use, but the large pieces are only a luxury, after all, and no more real use than those brasses which give you so much pride and so much work. They, too, would better be tucked away until you feel more energy to expend upon polishing than you do in the summer. CLEP FS BEA Crmator F: The bedrooms may be swept clear of unnecessary articles which catch the dust and add to your work. The fine frilled covers you adorn your bureau with or disguise your bed in are better in the closet than anywhere else. Put on your bed and your bureau such cov- ers as can go into the tub when they are e Serine [pssve Fg0erand LBL 4 oe dirty. Take down those bunches of pho- tographs, behind which the moths are finding pleasant nesting places; dust themgoff and pack them away. Follow a like course with any other germ-hos- telry with which your sleeping rooms may be cumbered, When you put these things away, put day or a wedding celebration all over again. When you have lightened your work in this fashion, do not, I beg of you, look upon the time you have saved as just so much more leisure in which to do something else in the line of useful occupation. Don't think that now you will have a chance to get ahead with the fall sewing, or catch up on this or Grapefruit, cereal and cream, bacon afd fried mush, boiled eggs, toast, tea and cof- fee. LUNCHBON. Calf's head en tortue (a left-over), browned potatoes, fried tomatoes, gra biscuits and honey, iced milk. DINNER. Mock turtle soup, salmon steaks with lemon sauce, potatoes a ja lyonnaise, spin- ach souffle (a left-over), strawberries and cream, cake, black coffee. that pieca of work which fell behind a last winter, Instead of that, resolve to SATURDAY get a little rest and to devote yourself BREAKFAST. to the study of repose as a fine art--re- Pose for yourself, not for some one else! Do the things you think you never have time to do. Read a magazine in the morning in the hour you usually give to dusting the bric-a-brac or clean- ing the silver. Take a walk in the aft- ernoon and He in the hammock tn the evening. Recollect all the time that you have made your work lighter and have just so much lelsure to the good, all your own to spend exactly as you please, There is a cessation of many duties that press upon you in the cold weather. Don't fill up that space and the other you have won for yourself by the drastic measures I have recom- mended with any task you feel you must do. Give your conscience and your spinal column both a rest, and de- pend upon it that you will do better work all next winter for what you leave undone now. Manes Hortancs Oranges, cereal and cream, fricasseed eggs, muffins, toast, tea and cofiee, LUNCHEON. Salmon croquettes (a left-over), creamed potatoes, graham bread and nut sandwiches, crackers and cheese, cookies and cocoa. DINNER, Yesterday's soup, veal potple (use the ealf's braims and tongue in this), string beans, macaroni, with tomato and cheese sauce; eherry roly-poly, with brandy sauce; black ooffee. e 7. Habit of Borrowing 66 EITHER a borrower nor a lend- N er be."' Mrs. A. was the for- mer; she used to borrow tea from Mrs. B. She always returned it when her "barre! of groceries came from the town'--but in a quality inferior to that borrowed. Long-suffering Mrs. B. had an inspira- tion. Instead of adding the "returned tea' to her stock of that commodity, she placed it apart and the next time that Mrs. A. came a-borrowing she lent her her own tea. That solved the bor- rowing problem. Sch E HOUSEMOTHERS' EXCHANGE... | know where she may buy burlaps as a foundation for rugs, and how to get the hooks used in drawing the bits of flannel, etc.. through the burlaps, Here in Ottawa we buy our vegetables by the bag; so we always have a lot of burlaps on hand. if we will but keep the bags, As to the hooked rugs, we used to make them through the long, hard winters, ond the hooks were also home-made. I have One fashioned out of the tine of a broken fork, Any scissors-grinder could make one. One of my neighbors uses a large-headed nail. She haw kept it for years and says she could not have a better hook. I think one might be whittled out of a plece of hard wood. Now, a bit of friendly advice to your poor dyspeptics: I read once in a treatise on health that imperfect circulation in the stomach ts a frequent cause of indi- gestion, causing chilliness, ete. If the sufferer would wear a ten-inch-wide flannel bandage pinned fairly tight about the stomach and bowels she would find that it would cure faulty circulation of the etomach and thus cure indigestion. This may be worth trying. Mrs. J. W. W. (Ottawa, Canada), Tt 1s so well worth trying that I recommend it confidently, I have known it to be tried and with excel- | SEB that a correspondent wishes to healthful circulation is re-establish- ed; then taken off gradually, a strip at a time, to avoid chill. In cholera seasons the boards of health in vari- ous cities strongly advised the wear- ing of a red flannel bandage as a preventive of the dread plague. I may drop a word to the woman who asked for burlap patterns. I hold an address of a place where they may be had. I may not print it here, but I will send it to the querist desiring the information u on receipt of a stamped and self-addressed en- velope, "Prepared Flour" I have been reading some of your recipes in an old paper, and I observe that one recipe calls for "prepared flour.'* I ama young girl. just learning to cook, and I do not know what that means, unless that the flour is to be sifted. and salt and bak- ing powder added. Will you kindly let me know, as I wish to try some of the formulas that call for "prepared flour"? MARGUERITE (Mishawaka, Ind.). Flour may be prepared, as you say, by the addition, in just proportions, of bak- ing powder and salt. The term, as used in recipes for cookery, usually, {f not always, signifies certain brands of flour that are put up and sold as "prepared flour." They demand neither cream of tartar and soca nor baking powders of any kind. Some do not need shortening. They are a great convenience, but they should not be laid in by the large quan- tity, as the dampness of tse atmosphere may injure them by blending premature- ly alkali and acid they hola suspended in their original strength. When they For Luncheon or Supper Philadelphia Pepperpot Is a nice dish for luncheon or supper, and is also cheap. For materials: Get one pdtnd of boiled tripe, four medium-sized potatoes cut small, one onion, sliced; a bunch of pot- herbs (or thyme and sweet marjoram to taste). Cut tripe and potatoes into inch cubes. Boil the tripe an hour; put In the Dotatoes, and cook until they are done. Serve with buttered bread and coffee. If you have stock in which to boil the tripe, or if you wish to add beef or veal, you may; but it Is good without. This might help your inquiring "Restaurateur," and . § excellent for the mother of ravenous oy' s. 'Tripe, breaded, dippsd in eggs and cracker crumbs, then fried, is good for supper. Cleaning Clothes. My husband gets his clothes very dirty. I clean them myself, and save quite a good bit in a year. Brush well, turning all the pockets. Make a good suds of strong soap and water, to which a tablespoonful of am- monia is added. Put the trousers into this and souse them up and down. Then, laying them on a board, scrub them well with a stout (fiber) scrubbing brush. Rinse in two or three waters if they are very dirty. The first water should be of soap and ammonia suds. Sponge the coat and vest with suds and ammonia. Your irons should be very hot and as heavy as you can get them. Cover the garments with a damp cloth and press hard, using all the strength you can mus- ter. Put a rolling-pin under the top of the sleeves where they are padded. When the trousers are dry, lay the seams to- gether and press through a damp cloth with a hot iron. When it has been pressed, hang the suit up to dry where it is warm, putting the coat on a hanger to keep the shape of the shoulders. Overalls need no rubbing, and white ones will be of a good color, if put over the fire faithfully solved. Add a tablespoonful of ammonia, and pour over the clothes. Keep pounding the clothes with a heavy gtick as they boll. Do this in two soapy and one clear water&, and rinse once, The pounding (or poking) is important. T used to faint two or three times in do- ing my washing for the week, but by doing it in this way I have no trouble, and am only moderately tired: Put warm water in the tub--not too much. Wash first the tablecloths, then the bed- clothes. Anothor water for towels and rough pieces. and, last of all, fine under- wear. Rinso in a pail of warm wator, changing often, and blue, The warm water takes all the soap out and makee them white, without boiling, if the water be changed often enough. By doing the heavy pieces first, while one is fresh, if one is t{» tired to undertake the fine articles they Ky be quickly done next day. After awhile 'a whole wash may be done in a couple #f hours, A Baby Basket. Lastly! An inexpensive baby basket may be made of a wire dish drainer, that costs but 10 cents, Fit a piece of cardboard in the bottom, covering as for a workbas- ket, using white lawn, over pink or blue, and covering the back with a piece of long cloth. I'm afraid I have said too much, but these things have helped me so much that I wanted to pass them on. (Mrs.) A. B. (Philadelphia.) A theologian defined inspiration somewhat in this fashion: "What in- spires me is inspired." Without stop- ping to consider the soundness or the fallacy of the "catchy" epigram, we may safely assert that, in nine times out of ten, what is helpful to one housemother will be useful to some- body else. Hence, it becomes a duty "to pass it on." I am glad to get a trustworthy recipe at last for "Philadelphia pep- perpot." But where does the pepper Coat Of Parnily"Mesls I did not see your "Family Meals for a Week" when you began the series, so do not know for what you claim the menu may be carried out per week. I saw, how- ever, your answer to a query In which you Gsserted 'It might be done by pasople of moderate means. I have a family of three adults and two children. I should be glad to know what you consider would be the a:nount for such a family, I may say that I have very little at my disposal for house- hold expenses and living is very high here. P. M, H. (Ontario). IT wish I could answer your question categorically; but, as you say, prices are high fn your locality, as they are in mine. T was talking a day or two ago with a housewife whose family is exactly the same as yours--three adults and two children, She is a judicious manager, but she lamented to me that she could not set her table according to my menus on less than $15 per week. I told her frankly that she is doing well ff she can do it on that at the present prices of food. I say to you as I did to her, that each caterer for her own fam ly group must make selections and omissions to suit taste and means, I try to presenta fair and seasonable variety for everyday liv- ing. I do not think the menus extrava- gant. If we offer roast or broiled chick- en one day, look out for cheaper dishes for a few days thereafter. If expensive desserts fa}] into Saturday and Wednes- day, the intervening sweets are frugal, And I keep a diligent eye upon "left- overs."' Ginger Snaps 1 One cup of molasses polled five min.) > Must be made and clothing mended, curtains yourself, they will be cheaper [¢mt effect. The flannel should be f¢ fresh they save time and trouble. in a pail of cola water. First. fired soap come in? Is it a Quaker figure of greg ® Gué-neie ™olaeees, dolled By . Peas > "It's all there and it's all true." yet. And you will save your heavy cur- Worn night and day, until even and into A ewacepen: of water nd: boll un speech? slightly rounded teaspoonful of soda: one evon teaspoonful of ginger, One soant tea- Spoonful of galt; flour to ndle eastly. Roll very thin and bake quickly M. G, B, (Chicago). I take this time and place to say to the donor of the foregoing simple and good recipe that, failing her address in full and the stamped and self-ad- dressed envelope which never reached my hands if it were sent, I cannot anewer by mail her inquiry as to the business solvency and trustwortht- ness of "D, D.," whose naine she in- closed. I wish I could be of service to "M, G, &," for her letter hag en- listed my lyearty sympathy. esis. He is no longer able to occupy his the land to-day, he would indeed be four of his horses real zed an average KING EDWARD AS A FARMER. HOW ARARS FIGHT. hundred or more, will sweep down on WHISTLING PIGEONS, . a mornings, as he did when Prince of amazed at the revolution witch has of two hundred and twonty-four pounds ee : the herds of the enemy; and waik wry The gucer Chinese change pigoons ins fforse-Brceding is Uis Majesty's Parti- Wales, silling in his pleasant business made Sandringham one of the finest cach, 3 ; T> Kill an Dnemy in Battle is Discredit- <'o the attacking, the eles o late to song birds hy fastening whistles to : . Plaasure room at Sandringham, receiving and in- stcck-raising farms in the country. The King's. Scuthdowns end shert- able and Savage. beoly. In most inst NCOs, Ee se 4 their breasts. 'The wind of their Night Seer, Eeserate: 6lrucling the bailiffs and others con- The result of his majesty's labors is horns are as famous to-day as they were West ne leave thetr revenge to a future time, soe then causes a weird and plaintive musie King Edward has Leen an enthusiastic cerned in the management of his two- summarized by an unimpeachable au: ia the heyday of his active farming Despile their love of. fighting, the knowing that an immed ate agp da aii that is se'dom silenced in the pigeon 4 egricullurist for nearly half a century, thousand-acre farm. But in spite of his thority, Mr. Rider Haggard, who says: when Princes of Wales. Only a few Arabs are not fond of either blood she cause the marauders to hust e th cas Yauntod cities of Pekin and Canton, 'The ' Bays a wriler in the London Express. multifarious engagements, the King still "It is a wonderful farm, for I imag- months ago one of his shorthorn: bulls, or savagery, Although the various widully, and thus lessen their value. Belgians, gréat pigeon flyers, fasten : For many years his shorthorns, shire manages to continue and supervise the in: that nowhere is so much high-bred "Pride of Sunshine," fetched the high tribes are constantly at war among phe rules of Arabic warfare are strict- whistles beneath the wings of valuable 4 horses, thoroughbreds, hackneys and preed'ng cf stock. His slockkeepers are slock to be seen upon the same area, At price of four hundred guineas. Not that themselves, they show an extraordinary ly carried out. To kill an enemy in bat- racing carriers, claiming that tho shrill Southdown yep have been second fo enthusiastic in his service, and the re- least, in all my extensive journeying this is a.record, One such bull, destined lack of vindictiveness, and are very tlo is discreditable and savage. To' Noise is a sure protection against hawks mene in the Kingdom. It might' be er sult has been that the King is even more throughout the twenty-six counties in for Argentina, brought no less than a merciful towards their conquered foes. wound slightly is the object, and to do. and other birds of prey, As a sanilar Toneously supposed that the ng wins successful at the shows now than he was England of which I have examined the thousand guineas, The Sandringham An Arab seldom fights to kill -- He this with a lance requires much skill. protection, reeds, emitting an odd wuil- : at the Senigaftarel shows merely be- when he was Prince of Wales. agriculture, I have not found its equal." shorthorns are coveted by breeders ev- aims rather at capture, incapacitation, To surrender is no disgrace; flight is as ing sound, are fixed to the tail feathors ' ha Ad he is King, Farmers, who ought King Edward may well be proud of his If there is one department of his hiyini erywhere, and picked bulls amiong them or frightening his opponent into sub- justifiable as attack; while to attack at af the despateh bearing pigeons of the » kf now, are quick to controvert the remarkable record, particularly if he re- at in which King Edward takes: partl- - have often been sold for fabulous sums. mission, He will brun villages, and : night is regarded as most unfair. The German army, Mca. The King névor shows an ani: calls the candition of the Sandrt gham cular pleasure it is that ofshorse-breed- King Edward's example and patron- ruin crops, and do much material dam- whdle business is, in fact, an elaborate mal he has not bred himgelf, and his farm lands. whence many of these tri- ing, and he was greatly delighted, there- age have been of incalculable benefit to age, but he never takes life unneces- form of sport, a4 _ t cattle win purely on their merits, be» umphs have come, before he put them fore, at the achievement of his shire stal- agriculture in England. He has always sarily. ; , ' Be ae ve Mother--"Now, Charlie, you mrust be cause they are the "best. inlo cultivation. A famous agricultur- lion, Premyictor, in winning the first been interested in the work of the Royal They fight in most instances with the A Bedouin never speaks not pai ee a& very good boy, You have a Mice new Since he came to the throne, affairs isl who inspected the land before King prize in the International Stock Exhibi- Agricultural Society, of which he has lance, used javelin-wise, _ This weapon even if he himself has suffere 4 ber ced, brother. Aren't ou. pleased?" ight Of state have prevent hig majesty from Edward set about lransforming it, re- tion at Chicago. been president several times, and he is is a light bamboo some eighteen feet in there is as little neon ned chagrin ear-old Charlio--"Oh, 1 dont know, devoting as much (Me ag he would like ported: 'It is a very barren soil, barely The success of the King's shires has also a patron of the British Dairy Farm- length, with a long knife-like head. two hereditary enemies as between two ft's always the way; just as I'm gotl ng lo his farming and agricultural inter- capahle of cultivation," Could he revisit been extraordinary. At one sale fifly- ers' Association. on in the workd, competition boins,' A band or horsemen, numbering two leams of football or lacrosse players.