K—A “‘x/ m : -»'~»——‘ .. The Dim ' ° he'd Prune There Are Many Ways of Making It Go. T's all your point of view. I If you regard the prune as the standby of third or fourth class boarding houses. the daily breakfast or supper adjunct of orphan asylums and old folks? homes, then you will pel‘hlpc have difficulty in devising distinguished dishes from the prune. But if you haven't permitted your. self to become prejudiced—then you may devise many ways of serving the bums with distinction. - Really delicious is a. salad made from prunes and oranges. Select the large plump prunes. seek and stew them thoroughly in the usunl way. Allow three to every portion of salad. These should be freed from the pits and cut in two. Like- wise, peel oranges. allowing one orange for four or six portions. and tree sections from skin end connec- tlve tissue. mace the prune and orange on littuce leaves and serve with mayonnaise dressing or French dressing. Another good prune sales is made by removing the stones from tender stewed prunes, filling the cavities with nutfmeets or cream cheese, and serving two or three of the prepared brunes on lettuce with mayonnaise or French dressing. There are several delicious prune puddings. Here' is one: Mix two tablespoons of butter and a. half cup of sugar till ens-aw. and then add about a. teaspoon of orange juice— no more—and one beaten egg. Now remove pits from a cup of raw prunes. and cut. in pieces about the size of raisins. Mix them with one and a. half cups of whole wheat flour. to which has been added three teaspoons of baking porrder. Add this to the sugar and butter mix- ture with a half cup of milk. Bake this in a shallow pen. When done sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with whipped cream or prune Juice. thickened with a very' little cornstarch. Here is another: Toast thin slices of bread. butter thickly. and fill a sorving dish with alternate layers of toast and hot stewed prunes well sweetened. Bake half an hour. Serve with any preferred sauce. Prune, whip is one of the most delicious of light desserts if made correctly. You will need for this cooked prunes pressod'through a riot-Pa. cupful after it has been sieved. For this amount boat five egg whites stiff and mix with the prunes. Add five tablespoons of powdered sugar. two teaspoons of lemon Juice and e veryiemali pinch of self. This may be served raw or cooked in e buttered dish in moder- ate oven for about thirty minutes. ‘ Prune gingerbread is delicious. Put into a. pan one cup 0‘ brown sugar, one cup New Orleans mo. liisses, one-half cup melted butter. lard or good drippings. one cup sour milk into which has been beaten one teaspoon sods. "'0 beaten °33" a teaspoons of storm “I. stated rind of a. lemon. one cup steamed and chopped prunes. “5 flour enough to make a rather at!!! better. There :s a difference in the “thicken- ing qualities of flour. bl“ "‘9 amount required will beabout three cups. For a Sweet Voice THE Orientals—who seem ,to know all there is to know about cosmetic secrets-use a delicate paste made of figs end apricots for strengthening the throat and sweetening the voice. The fruit is pared and cooked slowly with the same quantity of water till reduced to a thick Jam. when it is poured into‘smell chine boxes and dried in the sun. The negroes of the South. who are the‘closeet of our people to the secrets or nature. make infusions of plantain haves and chick-weed for hoarseness, while many creole ladies sip a dainty mix- ture of barley water end orange- flower water for the same thins. Anything which interferes with the general health wm eifcct the beauty and strength of the voice. and since the membrane of throat and nose is so delicate it must el- u'ays be given immediate care in time of trouble—or. better still. be kept in a healthy state with the fre- quent use of antiseptic washes. But a. lot of ugliness in youthful voices comes from bad habits alone. The young people are not corrected for their vocal errors in time. they are allowed to sing at too early an Ice. they sleep end sit in rooms too hot and dry. .thoy have the example of other badly trained children. or get the habit from their tone-deaf elders. But it is never too late for the girl who has been reelected in this way to 1111va will only realise that a sweet. well- reateet fascination» her success in it! attainment lies in herself. ' . M MAD! WITH CARROTO. Carrot marmaldde ls conlidsred by many equal to areas! marma- lade. and it is not difilcult to make. end a quarter. until rots end cook them cut thelemonsinbitsendcookine double boiler for fifteen minutes. g. measure the Drain the car” .w carrots end an equal anvil.t 9‘ “um“. gar. and boil tad/3'01““! until ‘ at; which will be col! 1 f" ”3“” Put in jars as 1°“ '0‘“ .- marmalade. g 1 ,, I , ‘ r ' i“"wl I ms: was a any, many y“... 3?st even in well-sp~ uses the dining.m;n table between meals was covered It’s ,Announ 1" an engagement has been for. many announced, and has not. merely been whispered about~ by ell means mention the event—which we always take for granted to be a “happy event"—-whcn you next see the young women. We congratulate the engaged man end we felicitate or extend good wishes to the fiancee. That 1- to say, w assume. when we speak to ”the; yo g men, that he has. after persistent courtship. fiml- ly won the hand of the woman in all the world whom he wishes for his bride. Therefore we say something like this: “This is the best of good news, Mr. Brown. Please accept my congratulations." It is customary to shake hands with the recently en- gaged young man. and from one young men to another with whom he is well acquainted. something as hearty as a slap on the back is not out of place by way of emphasis. Always remember that the courteous point of view is that the young man is the luckiest of suitors. If you know in your heart that Brown has been courting Jane Jones for three years and has only recently turned his thoughts to quiet little Molly Smith. whose mother has been coex- ing him for a season or so.. your tone ‘of congratulation should not indicate this inside information. Yet there are some persons who give engagement congratulations and fclc icitetions as if they were offering consolation. “My dear Mr. Brown, I am so glad that you chose a girl like Molly." the tectlcss woman may say. "It is always quiet girls like her that make the best wives," indi- cating of course that Molly is nei- ther so pretty nor so clever as Jane Jones. ’ In felidteting the engaged girl it is in extremely bad taste to offcr any testing or teasing remark. although some persons always feel that the announcement of an engagement gives the signal for horse play. "What a delightful piece of news." one woman may say to another on hearing of her engagement. “May I be one of the first to wish you all the happiness in the world!” And a men may say something like this: “Please let me wish you every hap- piness. and please tell Tom that he always was a lucky fellow." it is better to say- something like this than to make a painfully fennel sincerest felicitetion. and kindly ex- tend my hearty congratulations to Mr. Brown." O 0 Giving Orders ANY perform, in an effort! to M show consideration to subor- dinetes. really cause confusion by giving orders and directions very badly. Men who served in the re- cent war will tell you that the ofiio cer who.gave his orders very dis- tinctly and concisely was usually more admired than the other officer those orders were indistinct end in- definite—other things being equal. The housewife should remember that the rudder man who works for her works better and is better satisfied if orders are quite definite. If you say to the women who works by the day: “You might wash up that fioor when you get to it." what do you expect the women to do? “Might' always suggests "ought not.” Of course you really expect to have the door washed, you expect that the woman will get down on her knees and scrub it. But you feel that it igtectful merely to sug- gestit. Putyourselfin the womans place. Wouldn't you rather be told definitely to scrub the finer than to have suggestions thrown at.~ you in the other flashlon? With young workers or with workers who are not over intelligent it is always better to glvo instruc— tionsone etetiine. Donttelltho little fifteen-yeer-otld giar: who is working for you or summer what you want her to do all day and then expect'et evening that she will have accomplished all he? asks. Tell her"‘very clearly. and very dis- tinctly, in words she will under- stand. exactly what you want her to do. . speech such as: “Pray accept nt' li‘_; . '7 »771I Very Woman Edited B» ‘ Cog/89M 1.9 fyLWJ‘IcMzhhepapazsmi _... Your Dining-Room Table» 7‘ . 1 with a heavy stun cover. No at- less. indeed. those heavy possum- tempt was made to beautify the meal table cloths. of‘red and brown table. to make it attractive. save and green. were consideredes beau- when e meal was in progress; un- tifyinz. 'I Your Age. Secret It’s A Yours, of Course, To Do With It As You OT infrequently foreign men in N this country are struck by the fact that American women re- gard the question of their age as something that is to be concealed as cal-etuiiy as‘Captaln Kidd concealed the location of his buried treasure. A very courteous young Hollander with a pretty wife had been in this country but a. few weeks when they boarded a. crowded car with a busi- ness friend of the Hollander’s and his middle-aged wife. There was but one seat available. and' the American lady stood back to permit the other to be seated. The Hollander lady, who did not speak English, stood back deferentially and murmured something very prettily in her native tongue while her husband interpret- ed. “My wife begs you to be sent- ed." he said. “because you are older than she is." There was something in the glance of the American wom~ an as she promptly took the seat that led the youung Europeans to suspect that American middle-aged ladies do not like tobe reminded of the honor that is due to their years. Of course a. well~bred American men or woman does not make a break of that sort. no matter what his attitude toward the woman who wishes to minimize her age. To an English aristocrat there is always the feeling that the woman who conceals her exact age is an ignobilis—that is, a person without claim to family prestige. To a great extent in European society generally persons in good society are mem- bers of old and well-known families. No one who has not lived in Eng- land knows how impossible it is for a. native-born English person to get away either from the facts of his or her family history, or—if there is no family history—from the fact that she or ,he is an ignobilis. So well: born women in England generally are all listed and dated in some one of the books of English peerage or gentry, and to try to conceal the date put down there in black and white would be absurd. A pretty actress of unknown family. or a nouvcen-riohe shop-keeper's wife could conceal her age. but a duchess never! and so the duchess does not try. It is all down in Burke's peer- age and a Ozon other books that everyone has in his library. And since duchesses are socially more to be copied than pretty actresses or ehop-keepers' wives. be they ever i . THE USE OF SARCASM. “U SE sarcasm on any one else in the world." said a mother the other day. -"but don't use it on your children." This is excellent advice as far as the injunction not to be sarcastic to children goes, but poor advice if it bids you be meastic to others. Most celever persons are endowed with the ability to use sarcasm, but wise persons use itin ordinary con- versation )1 they would use tire- errns, only when other means of self-defe have failed. Almost a. great 'prcachers and teachers hav indulged in sarcasm. Prom the‘wor s of Christ you will find somb of the most poigncnt bits of urcaem. Buddha and Mohamet and the Hebrew prophets were oc- casionally sarcastic—but it was only when they were hard pressed by those who opposed them, never when they wished to give instruc‘ tion or correction to simple folk or those whose allegiance they already possessed. 'There is really no place for car- casm in ordinary accial conversa- tion. To‘use it would be like using Please. so rich, the rest of British femininity takes the lead and makes less bones of age than we. “’berever there are old families and well-known families this sort of thing will happen. and gradually the idea. spreads about that the only women who can hide her use is the woman of unimportant family. . The idea. that is behind this little bit. of deception in most women's minds is that if people knew how old they really were they would be banished from "youthful society and would have to give up all the youth- ful things so dear to their hearts. But nowadays mothers toddle with their daughters' suitors, grandmoth— ers play golf with their grandsons-- and no .one A'cally cares whether a. woman be seventeen or seventy if she has the heart of youth within her. System In" Repairs It‘s the Thing That Counts. '1‘ is not only the question of pay- 1 ing for repairs that make for the difficulty in keeping a. house in the plug of condition. The difficulty also lies in seeing the need of re- pairs. And sometimes the need for a certain repair is perfectly patent. but what is lacking is some system of getting the necessary work done. For instance. a. certain door in your house sticks. You do not use the door very frequently, perhaps. It may be the door to a. guest room. to a. supply closet or to the attic stairs. Naturally when you do use it you are very much tried by the sticking. But naturally you can do nothing about it at the time and the matter slips your mind till a. later occasion. ’ Certain weak places in the roof are apt to remind us of themselves only in the event of a. very heavy storm. Smell rains do not make them apparent. Then the large storm is upon us and we wonder how the matter ever happened to slip our mind A Good Method. Here is a method adopted by one efficient householder: Twice a. year she has a. carpenter come—always for one day. and for more if it is necessary. Twice a. year a plumber comes. Twice a year comes a painter and paperhanger. It is a standing engagement just as one would have with the dentist. W’ith the carpenter the house- holder makes the tour of her entire house, testing every door and win- dow to see that it is moving smooth- ly. that the locks are right and everything shipshape. Sometimes a. little work is needed in closets. such as the placing of a. .wooden rod to hold clothes hangers. Sometimes a door sill has warped and needs only- a little planing. Sometimes the car- penter’s services are called upon to make some trifling repair on a piece of furniture. But after he has fin- ished there is nothing left that hammer or saw. or plane need to do within that house. 1 The Plumber's Work. The plumber is told of any ob- vious dimcultles. dripping faucets or leaking pipes. But aside from repairing these things. he person- ally goes the round of the house. making sure that every bit of plumbing is acting}: well—behaved plumbing should. , . . The painter follows is the car— penter to cover up any work that he may have done that needs to be painted. But besides he touches up painted woodwork here and there. snd’ln rooms'whcre the walls are an unguarded foil in a fencing bout. ,, . , , tinted end not papered he trinket little repairs with this. Nowadays the 1&8, is to melt. the dining-room table e‘re'ally interest- ing thing to look at between meals. although our dining-rooms are kept more particularly for eating than they used to be. It is only. when space is lacking nowadays that we use the dining-room as a between- meals sitting-room thing which used to be rather frequently done. When. in the small cottage or apartment. meals are served on e table in the living-room. it is fur- nished forth between meals like any other liv -room table. only the furnishing are kept rather simple. so that they shall not be too difilcult replace. to remove three- times a day end . Wiliwmmhmlh li'or the dining-room table. white porcelain is in favor for between; meal use. Candlesticks and flower or fruit bowl are made of this glased and gleaming were. and they form strut: decorative table equipment. Blaokglass. too.ieegoodchoice for the between—meal table. - Four or two oandlesticks. with a. high dish for fruit. or a. low bowl for fiowers. may be used. Then. too. there are fern dishes. These are not much used at present at meal times. but they are do- oidedly good for» between-meal use. They ’may' be placed directly on the table. or" on a mirror. silveiI framed. Heavy filot lace runners on stash runners may be used—inst ' one. lengthwise of the table. ‘Viul’ll‘lllli Hi? w ‘ HAT do very well-bred ‘w people talk about?” sighed . a. young girl the other day when her mother had given her some suggestions on what not to talk about with casual acquaint- ances. "All the subjects that first pop into your head seem to be taboo." And there is the real crux of the situation; If you would be really well bred in your intercourse with other persons and would reap the certain benefits from this breeding. yOu must be alert to find topics of conversation. subjects for casual remarks that‘do not fall under the prescribed list. The well-bred person does not tell t c price he or she has paid for his clothes. his furniture,» his houses. his automobiles. or anything that is his or here. People of good taste enjoy their possessions not for what they cost but for their intrinsic beauty. their good quality or con- venience. If you must talk about your possessions. speak of the pleasure you take in them. but novel- of the money you paid for them. Do not talk about, your poor health, the symptomsgof illnesses. Hallmarke' off Breeding the state of your nerves. or your poor appetite before any but near members of your family. J). not discuss your love email-a Many a young women has been Judged as “badly bred" for no other reason in the world save that she has mentioned the fact that a. cer- tain man wanted, to marry her. or has boosted of her numerous pro- vocals. The weil.bred college man does not talk about his high record in college, the well-bred doctor does not boast of the cures )16 has ef- fected. the well—bred writer does not boast of the popularity of his writ- inge the well-bred mother does not. or at least she should not: boast of the precociousness or good looks of her children. 5. There is excellent reason for these rules. If you obherve them you are less likely to offend or irritate other people. Rom a purely selfish angle —by observing them you will keep from giving cause for caustic com- ment behind your back. and you will not‘ have given information about yourself that may be used against you at 8 late: time. Napkins at. Your ' Table ' HE careful hostess uses a fairly I large size napkin at dinner. although the extremely large dinner napkin. still favored in Eng- land. is not much used in this coun- try. The napkin should be folded and ironed so that it is a square of six- teen thickneseee. The small napkin used for refreshments or sometimes for breakfast or luncheon should be folded four ply, r it may be folded again diagonallfforlning a triangle of eight thicknesses, ,. It. is no longer conside good form to fold the napkins in fancy shapes, and never should the napkin be placed within the tumbler after the manner of old-fashionet coun- try hotels. 7' . It should be placed either on» the cloth in front of the diner, on a service plate set there or at the right of the plate if an appetizer or soup is at the place when you sit down. u If you have house guests and cannot afford to have a fresh napkin at every meal. you should at least have a fresh napkin at dinner time. Paper napkins are seldom excus— able ve at picnics or very informal refreshments. . ‘ ‘ It is'no longer-considered good form to have napkins marched. They are soft ; to the touch and more absorbent when left up- starched. . Napkin rings'ere not in the best form, but the practice of using them is certainly better than the chance of confusing napkins that must used for more then one meal. it? great headway in short time. remov- ing blemisheeby a little fresh tint. There is a surplus supply of the paper such as is used on ovary i’eom in the house and the painter. who also hangs paper. does a. half dam i The Old- Fashioned Sop “ F what you are eating before I the dessert has any liquid," says a. book on etiqfiette writ- ten over seventy years ago. "sop the breed and then raise it to ’the mauth. For articles of dessert having liquid a. spoon is usually provided." Apparently there are still some persons who cling to this antiquated custom. As a. matter of fact the practice of sopping food prevailed for many thousands of years before any one thought of calling it bad manners. You may find refers cos in the Bible and in Shakespea to the sop of bread. Obviously’the trouble with the sOp was that it was very hard to use it delutily. One hed‘ to be highly skilled to use it without letting the liquid into which it had been dipped drip and without soiling the fingers. There.ere some persons who, ap- parently for economy's sake. use a sop of bread to sponge .up the last bit of greVy on the plate. Have you ever noticed a. person doing this surreptitiously, knowing that it was bad forehand thinking that no one law him. ’ . a In one thing presentueagcsrc- sembles that of seventy years ago. Spoons are not considered good form before dessert save to with tea. or'coaeexor soup. That we do not oorrectly‘eet peas. beans or other vegetables with the spoon. So the tendency'is to prepare these vegetables for the table -wit.hout liquid. They, used to be served swimming in milk; now they are usually drained «1‘ served merely with butter. Ste ed tomatoes offer a problem. However. if they are taken on the plate install of spoon for yegetebles the use of the little Lbilzdlvldull side duh, which used to small seuocritisnots'odifilcul o' earthen: with a fork. ,wub moi build their own homes. Enlarge er Build? Some persons think the only sell- tfon to the problem is to build 8 house readily saleable and whoa time comes for a larger house sm- ato dispose of the firstlet the and possibly better one. But al- ways it must be remembered that moving is expensive, consuming money not only but strength end time as well. Moreover, if it necessary to receive the price of the first house before building the use- ond house then there must be two moves with furniture in storage in the interval and the family poll!” in edloarding house. And last. but not least. by that plan you must leave many things that must have become dear through association. I! you have planted a garden it must be left for the buyer of the house. xgyouhaveheldont-omplannhg much of e garden with the thought that you would not mega-creme!!! in vs the house then much. it is quite possible, you know. so have additions put on the old house while you still "carry on business as usual"—-not very comfortable some- times. hut more economical tbs-I going elsewhere. But adding to a house is «ten Il- pensive and awkward. . Consider Enlargement. The really best thing to do is to consider possible enlargement whu you build your noun. Perheps the best way to go about this is to make plans for the sort of house you thing you would like in five. six. eight. ten years to come. Then from this larger house make elim- inatione until you come down to the modest house you can afford. When this is done the task of making ed- ditions is not so expensive- lf pos- sible the kitchen will remain in sinus place. because ehsnglus position of kitchen fixtures or 0th. plumbing is always expensive. Some of the most ettraotfvd housesofthepasthavebseuthere- suit of frequent enlargements. Thu! lseccrtalntypsofvilh‘ehouloh New England. with roofs at 1h!“ heights. the first marking the small house from which the start was made—which eventually be” the kitchen end of the house—the second larger marking the first ad- dition. and finally a more spacious section yet which eventually became the main section of the house Built at different times as t1)... parts were the house that resulted is not awkward. but usually most attractive. and surely richer is es- societions than the house that is the result of but one building. On a Motor Tri FOR a short or long motor trip let your hostess seat you. Un- less you are aged or infirm east to take what seems to be the least comfortable seat. but don't insist. Perhaps somebody also likes that sent best. Sometimes young woman guests make an eifort to take the front seat with the men member of the family who is driving the car. and sometimes they do this with the plea that they "don't in the least mind riding in the front.” attempt- ing, no doubt. to convey the is: sion that they are self.“ and unselflhh in taking thet sss'. Usually their little ruse is quite transparent. If there are several women and only one man. the young woman of makes no move to monopolise the masculine m. When on an overnight trip. and you stay at a. hotel it is customary for the host or hostess to deft" expenses unlue some previou er- rangement of another sort has made. If you are your host's guest and you feel that you must make complaints about the poem or meals at the hotel, make them to the host or hostess who is paying the hills. a guest to call the waiter and tell him that your chop is not well enough done or ‘thet you went a better cut of chicken. If you mud kick. kick to the hostess. but don’t butter or water. or if there is acts. ally something wrong with the food. then make your complaint in quiet a manner as possible. Don't be a nuisance to popular. l .. 3‘". i k . A , > ‘ L ‘ .1“ I: fit ‘ .. ~, ‘ , It is distinctly rude when you are- ' it Al- Off-vie w... '.5‘ (t i
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