Tomato Rarebit

½ cup of milk, 1 tablespoon of flour, 1 teaspoon of mustard, 1 cup of cheese, grated,

1 cup of strained tomatoes, 1 tablespoon of butter, 1 egg.

Make a sauce of the flour and milk, to this add the tomato with a little soda, then the cheese, then the egg beaten slightly, and mustard, salt and pepper to taste, and sprinkle with paprika. - Mrs. Roy Kellar.

Welsh Rarebit

1 tablespoon butter, 1 teaspoon corn starch, ½ cup thin cream, ½ lb. cream cheese,

¼, teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon mustard, Few grains cayenne, Toast or zephyrettes.

Melt butter, add corn starch, stir until well mixed, then add cream gradually and cook two minutes. Add cheese and stir until cheese is melted. Season and serve on zephyrettes or bread toasted on one side, rarebit being poured over untoasted side. - Mrs. Wm. Stoltzman.

Pigs In The Blanket

Salt and pepper large sized oysters, roll each one in a slice of breakfast bacon and pin with tooth picks. Fryin chafing dish until brown.

Mrs. M. J. Grieves.

Sweetbreads A La Bill En Chafing Dish

Four veal sweetbread diced, eight good sized fresh mushrooms, three fresh tomatoes peeled. Cut in small squares one cup chicken broth, let simmer for fifteen minutes; add salt and pepper. Serve on toast.

One of the World's Famous Chefs.

Polish For Silverware

Put half of a small cake of Ivory soap, shaved fine, and a quarter pound of whiting into one quart of water. Boil until dissolved. Use this paste as whiting is used, then polish with a fine cheese cloth. (Very good.)

Mrs. Merrill Schnebly.

Excellent Soap

Five pounds melted grease, 1 can of Lewis lye poured into 1 qt. of water. When both are quite cool, pour slowly into the grease, having previously added two-thirds lbs. of borax and two-thirds cup of ammonia, to the lye, stir well ten or fifteen minutes, or until it thickens well, pour into mold and when set cut into squares. - Mrs. C. H. Tanton.

Baking Powder

One pound cream of tartar, 5 cent package soda, ½ package corn starch. Sift 20 or more times. Put in Mason jars or eight cans to ripen 3 weeks. - Mrs. Fred H. Putman.

Splendid Hand Lotion

1 pint soft water,

10c worth of glycerine,

10c worth of bay rum,

5 c worth of gum tragacanth.

Put water on gum. Let stand 24 hours. Add bay rum and glycerine. Mix well and put in bottles or cold cream jars.

Mrs. A. R. McLaughlin.

In making meringue add ½ teaspoon baking powder to 2 whites of eggs. Add before beating. Fewer eggs are necessary, and it will hold up the meringue so much longer. - Mrs. Harriet Houston.

Marshmallow Cream. (Hand Lotion)

4 oz. glycerine, 4 oz. alcohol,

4 oz. rose water.

Dissolve ¼ oz. gum tragacanth in 1 quart soft water. (Takes about 24 hours). When thoroughly dissolved add other ingredients.

Mrs. H. B. Huey, Gibson City, Illinois.

An Excellent Way To Keep Lettuce

Wash each leaf in cold water, shake water off and place in an earthen dish, cover and keep in a cool place. If you do this the lettuce is ready for any meal and will keep several days. - Mrs. M. J. Grieves.

How To Peel Tomatoes Without Scalding

With the back of a paring knife rub the tomato carefully but firmly, being sure to cover entire surface. Puncture and remove the thin peeling.

Mrs. M. J. Grieves.

Washing Fluid Or Bleach

5 c salts of tartar, 5 c rock of ammonia,

Lewis lye, one can,

1 gal. of boiling soft water.

Use two-thirds of a cup to a boiler of water and add soap as usual. To mix: put all but water in a 3 gal. earthen or granite jar or pail and pour hot water over it. Do this out doors, when cool put in mason jars and lay lid on top, no rubbers. - Mrs. Joseph Ogle, Lawson, Neb.

Library Paste

8 oz. flour,

¼ oz. powdered alum,

1 ½ oz. glycerine,

1 dram oil of wintergreen, 1 ½ pints water.

Mix water, flour and alum to smooth paste and boil until it thickens. Do not let it burn nor cook too much. Take from fire, add oil and glycerine. Mix thoroughly. Will keep a year if kept air tight in a self sealing jar when not in use. - Mrs. W. C. Tobias.

Preserving Eggs

Sterilize a big stone jar and make a solution of 12 parts boiled water to 1 of powdered water glass. Select only fresh clean eggs. Put eggs in solution, cover with wooden board or stone jar cover. Keep in cool dry place. Eggs may be added at any time.

In grinding bread or cracker crumbs put a paper bag on the grinder and the crumbs are not scattered about.

To heat rolls, place in paper bag and put in oven. They will be as fresh as if just baked.