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BUYING EGGS BY WEIGHT FAVORED Practice of Selling Eggs by Weight Gaining Favor. (Prepared by the t'nited S'ates Department of Agriculture.) Apples, potatoes, string beans, and other products handled by the green grocer or fruit stand are now usually sold by weight instead of by count or measure, hut for some feason the habit of handling eggs by the dozen still per sists. As every housekeeper knows there is the greatest difference in the size wf eggs, even in the same box; and the most up-to-date cookbooks will call for “a capful of egg whites” or even better, so many "ounces” of egg white, rathe;* than a specific number of eggs. If women generally would weigh their eggs and persuade dealers that a dozen very small eggs is not worth as much as a dozen fine big ones, the cus tom of selling eggs by weight would soon become established. The United States Department of Agriculture favors this system of selling eggs as being fair to both buyer and seller. It would encourage the proper sorting and grad ing of eggs on the part of the producer, and the consumer who found her fam ily satisfied with little eggs could get them cheaper and leave the big ones for somebody else. NO RATS OR ROACHES REACH THIS CABINET Alabama Women Inspired by Home Demonstration Club. lFr< pared by the I'nltert States Department of Agriculture.) Because she liked carpentry, and needed an inexpensive kitchen cab inet. Alps. M. C. Leavelle of Buhl, Ala., decided to make one for herself. Her husband beeame interested and assist ed her, she states in a letter to the United States Department of Agricul ture, adding that the Inspiration for making the cabinet, as well as other kitchen improvements, came from the home demonstration club and coun ty home demonstration agent. “The dimensions of the cabinet." says Mrs. Leavelle. "are B1*. feet high, 40 inches wide and J feet thick. It consists of one large drawer and two ; medium-sized drawers in the bottom section. Over tins section is the table ; -46 inches long by 27 inches wide, which is covered with white oilcloth. The top section consists of one long box on the left side f<*r flour and sugar, a dish closet and two small drawers on the right side. The him Cabinet Is Rat and Roach-Proof. Acr f used Is poplar, which came from our farm. The doors of the top sec tion are made of screen wire. The total cost, including wire, latches, hinges and oilcloth, did not exceed 510. The tools used in making the rabinet were a band saw, hammer and 4r*AV-knife. My cabinet lias a double advantage over many I have seen in that it is rat-proof and roach-proof." With her husband’s assistance Mrs. Leaver I e has added to their home, since joining the Home Demonstration club, a kitchen sink made of wood and lined with sheet iron, a barrel for a water tank, a fireless cooker, a baby bed and a library table. The making of these articles lias saved them money and Mrs. Lea veil e is very proud of them. FAVORED FOR SCHOOL LUNCH Appetizing Combinations Suggested by Department of Agriculture Specialists. The following menus suggested by the United States Department of Ag riculture for the children’s lunch bas ket may remind the mother of sortie combinations not recently thought of and thus afford a change from the usual monotony of sandwich lunches. Crisp rolls, hollowed out and filled with chopped meat or fish moistened *nd seasoned or mixed with salad dressing; orange, apple, a mixture of sliced fruits or berries; cake. Lettuce or celery sandwiches; cup custard; jelly sandwiches. Cottage-cheese sandwiches or a pot of cream cheese with bread-and-butter sandwiches ; peanut sandwiches ; fruit; cake. Hard-boiled eggs; baking-powder biscuits; celery or radishes; brown sugar or maple-sugar sandwiches. Bottle of milk ; thin cornbread and butter; dates; apple. Baisin or nut bread with butter; cheese; orange; maple sugar. Baked bean and lettuce sandwiches; apple sauce; sweet chocolate. Sandwiches with sliced tender meat fur filling; baked apple; cookies or n few lumps of sugar. Slices of meat loaf or bean louf; sandwiches; stewed fruit; small frost ed cake. Tar Stains. Successfully to remove tar stains from clothing, put a little clean lard so the spot, then wash thoroughly with a pure soap and warm water. A refreshment tray to be clamped to the side of un automobile has been Mtcnted hv n Nebraska inventor. HANDLE FRUITS WITH CARE All Produce Coming From Market Should De Carefully Washed in Several Waters. Vegetables and fruits that are to be served raw must be handled and pre pared with great care. Most people will agree ibut such fruits as apples, oranges, and pears may be considered clean il’ they are picked from the trees in the orchard far enough from the road to escape dust. If they drop to the ground on dean grass, they may still be eaten without much risk, al though there will he more chance for their being contaminated with disease producing bacteria. There may some times be danger from poisons used in spraying fruit. All such fruits and all fresh fruits and vegetables, which come from the market should be thor oughly washed in several waters; apples and other large fruits, with un broken skins may be safely washed with soap. Dried 1 nuts should be particularly well washed, warns the United States Department of Agriculture. If tlu-y are then put into a warm oven to dry, they will absorb the water that clings to them and thus be softened and im proved in taste. Dipping in boiling water kills many, if not all, of the bacteria and other organisms that are likely to ding to fresh fruit and does not injure the flavor of many kinds even when they are kept immersed for several seconds. For instance, grapes, apples, pears, peaches and plums, are not injured by this treatment, and un ripe strawberries are often improved by it. A wire frying basket for hold ing the friut will be found a con venience. CUP CAKES ARE FINE FOR TEA Make Excellent Change for Sunday Night Supper—Many Kinds of Frostings Good. Make cup cakes for a change instead of layer cake and serve them with afternoon tea. for lunch, or Sunday night supper. Frostings of many kinds are acceptable hut none are more wholesome or better liked than those llavored with orange juice and rind. Cup Cakes. Vi cupful butter or l cupful milk other fat 3 cupfuls hour 2 cupfuls sugar 3 tea spoonfuls 4 eggs baking powder Mix according to the usual method for butter cakes, and bake in gem tins. This recipe should make 24 cakes. The following frosting is rec ommended by the Fnited States De partment of Agriculture as a means of using orange juice and uncooked yolks of eggs: Orange Frosting. 2 tablespoonfuls Yolk of one egg orange juice Confect ioners’ Grated rind of one sugar , orange Let the rind stand in the orange juice for 13 or 20 minutes. Strain and add the yolk of the egg to the juice, mix thoroughly and add confectioners’ sugar gradually, heating thoroughly until or the right consistency to spread. AW Aound /Ac House When you have chicken giblets to use make a little pie of them. * * * All breadcrumbs should be saved and dried to use in scalloped dishes. You can remove iodine stains from any fabric by soaking the article in lime water. Cornmeal Is excellent for cleaning articles of flannel and for taking dust from straw hats. * * * Lemon juice will remove stains from the hands with moist sugar. This usual ly proves effective. You can usually remove a paint stain easily if you use equal parts of am monia and turpentine. * * • A 4 per cent solution of soda and water will lighten overexposed blue prints. * • » Never put cooked potatoes on the table in a covered dish, as they ab sorb their own moisture and become sodden. • • • After boiling a piece of ham or bacon the liquor should be allowed to stand until cold; the fat should then be skimmed ofT and the water pressed from It. It can then be used fer cook lue. Coeds Learning to Be Expert Riflewomen Lieut. Hoy C.reen, United States army ottieial stationed at the University of Cincinnati and in charge of the mili tary training division there, lias discovered that many of the girl students are excellent ritle shots, lie lias organized tlie coeds into a ritle company and three times a week they have indoor and outdoor ritle shooting practice, using the regulation ranges. 11 iris have qualified at target practice to permit them becoming regular members of the company. Huge Hydro-Electric Generator maso-kv.v. < w ijacaraC3® The largest liydro-eleetrie plant in the world has been installed at the Niagara Falls power plant, i’hotogmph shows the generator, developing 70.(X>0 horsepower. Canada Takes Armenian Orphans Fifty Armenian orphan hoys—recent victims of war and famine in the Near East—are learning to be farmers at their new home at Georgetown near Toronto, Ont. The boys were brought to Canada, with the consent of the government, by the Canadian Near East Relief comn^ttee. When they grow up they will be given farm lands in western Canada. Ambassador to England Sails Frank B. Kellogg, the new United States ambassador to the Court of St. James in London, has sailed on the S. S. President Harding. Mr. Kellogg was accompanied by Mrs. Kellogg and Frederick Russell Dolbeare, who will be first secretary of the American embassy. INTERESTING ITEMS Birmingham, Ala., has organized n school to teach textile designing to women. An electric spark which will jump one inch in air, will travel about 75 inches in neon, one of the rare gnses, contained in the air. Furfural, a chemical obtained from corncobs, can be used In the manufac ture of a synthetic resin suitable for the making of pipestems. Italy Is second only to Germany In the number of her native children in America. A company that recently laid a new telegraph cable from England to India and is continuing it tp Singapore plans to extend it to Hong Kong. One woman prominent In official so ciety in Washington believes she has established something of a record by making 42 calls In a single afternoon HE’S A GOOD AMERICAN An exclusive photograph, just re ceived from the Philippines, of the famous Kmilio Agninaldo—the princi pal figure in the Filipino insurrection against the Americans, which did not end until this very able commander was captured, lie has strictly ob served his oath of allegiance to the United States and refuses to take part in island polities. OMAHA HEIRESS MARRIED Vernelle Head, Omaha's richest and most beautiful heiress, who was mar ried to Raymond Burr, director and manager of the Sinclair Oil company in France. Mr. Burr’s father is a wealthy oil magnate and they make their home in Paris. The marriage took place in Omaha January 3, and the couple will result* in Paris. Wrong Kind of Piper. A London concert agent, meet ing with an urgent demand for the serv ices of a performer on the bagpipes, rang up the London office of a Scot tish daily newspaper and asked if they could advise him where to get a piper. The reply, which came In cockney accents In the form of a question— “Dite of Issue?”—did not prove very helpful. Coming and Going. First Freshman (putting up pictures) —"I can’t tlnd a single pin. Where do they all go, anyway?” Second Fresh man—“It’s hard to tell, because they’re [jointed in one direction and headed lr another." Only Centenarian Bride. The only centenarian bride of which actual record exists was Mafgaret Sub burie, who was one hundred years old at the time of her marriage to Thoma* Bell am ie, on November 20. 1C09, !■ tiki towb of Chtypole, England. “STRAIGHT AND SLIM” FROCKS HEADWEAR FOR EVENING WEAR \I7T1ILE fashionables show a dls* N't position to favor bouffant party frocks for youthful wearers, straight lines and the slim silhouette continue to flourish in all other directions, the mode pays tribute to simplicity but encourages1*!!riations in achieving the “straight and slim" edict so that we have draped, flounced and tiered dresses as well as those of long un broken lines. The plump woman re joices in tiie latter and her thin sis ters have reason to be thankful for the former. The tiered skirt has proved to be one of the most pleasing variations In dresses of tlie straight-line mode. It l»as appeared with horizontal flounces. extends about the brow unit disap pears under the hair at the sides, fastening at the back. A band of this kind is shown in the lower of the two figures pictured. It is finished with flower motifs embroidered in metallic and silk threads, and centered with glass cabochons, but many bands of t!i.!s kind have no decoration. Be sides the plain gold or silver ribbons, two-toned ribbons, showing colored silk thread woven in with metallic threads and plain soft satin ribbons are available for these bunds. Two lengths of metallic ribbon, stud ded with fiat, pearl beads and a row ,,f rhinestones, make up the brilliant I hand shown on the upper figure and It Suit Frock Made With Tiered Skirt. is In the model pictured, or with Jounces set on in diagonal lines, and s a chic style in any case. For a thin figure a dress with three rather full flounces and a gathered bodice is recommended—it will obliterate angles and fill out deficiencies. Tlie outstanding feature of the dress pictured appears In its trimming, which is of striped ribbon. It is looped to the depth of each flounce at the right side and is used to head is equally pretty in gold or silver. Sil ver and narrow black velvet ribbon, with rhinestone or pearl decoration, make bands that are wonderfully in fective with white hair, mil are shown In dignified designs, while the com bination i f colored silks in two-toned metallic ribbons makes it possible to choose bands that tone in with colors in the hair or eyes. Almost any woman cnn contrive a Mock Jewels Used in Head Bands, them. A girdle and bow are made of it and it covers the side fastening of the bodice. Gold, silver, precious stones—as they are translated into ribbons and mock jewels by looms and labora tories, make those climaxes of the evening toilette that adorn the head. Headbands and dance hats, in the finest of fine things in craftsmanship, complete the ensemble fittingly—for young and old alike—when occasion calls for brilliant lothes. Everything that gleams is likely to find itself in the company of gleaming hair and everything that sparkles must vie with sparkling eyes. Headbands vary little in design, whether fashioned for matrons or the younger set. For youthful wearers the most popular style has been the band of wide gold or silver ribbon which lovely bit of headwear to finish off her evening toilette because there is so little restriction in materials used and they are so universally sold in millinery and fancy work shops. Noth ing is more worth while for nothing contributes a touch so vivid and tell ing. The Right Shade. It Is Important today to get Just the right shade of hosiery to go with your pumps of brown suede. The proper shade, while It Is brown, has a distinct and deeply pinkish cast. It Is, in ef fect, cinnamon and against It the smart cut-out buckles show off well. Attractive Hat. As attractive as It Is easily copied Is a hat covered with Indian squares. The corners are arranged to form u •••tom i>n rhM brim. Gems and Embroidery. In a rather subtle way, gents and embroidery set each other off on the new evening gowns. A jade comh and short Jade necklace, for example, ex actly match in color the punel of green embroidery on a black chiffon velvet frock. Of Odd Design. Magyar embroidery. extremely bright anti odd in design, Is among the novel trimmings popular today for the still fashionable overblouae.
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