THE HOUSEHOLD

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3655, 5 June 1906, Page 4

THE HOUSEHOLD

THE QUESTION OF TIDINESS,

Its Profit and Loss—Why Some People Remain Untidy AU Their Lives. Tidiness Is satirized by a hundred wHt 6FS and despised by millions, but nobwsy tver argues against it seriously, unless we take tho allegation that strong men are hover tidy to bo a serious argument. It Would ho one perhaps if it were true, but, then, it la not. Great soldiers and sailors aro almost Invariably tidy. _ Many groat lawyers have been neat to finicalness, and tho same may bo said of some groat mon Of business. Indeed as many weak mon gro untidy as strong mon, and of the latter a largo proportion will bo found to bo of tho dreamy or tho reflective temperament. Dreamy people hate tidiness, and the Very reflective nro rarely quite tidy, the reason being tho saints in both cases, thas such persona, besides feeling the inherent dislike of most persons to small recurrent exertions without Immediate end, are an--1 noyed by interruptions to tho current of I thought. They want, as they say, to ho ■ at peace from trifles, and as somebody ' usually saves them from tho conscquonceh of their ways they remain untidy through life. 1 That they gain anything by their untidiness, except possibly sorno slight m!i-{ from irritability, is, however, a most ra-b assumption. They rarely save time, for they never can find anything. They do I not think more clearly, for the materials : for thought are never ready to hand, and it may questioned if their habit, adds oven to their mental peace. r Few people aro wholly unaware of their ov/n untidiness or escape from periodic impulses to correct it, and what with those 1 intermittent fits, which never do any good, and their occasional consciousness of tho trouble they give, they arc probably ns much disturbed as tho tidy, who, in--1 deed,in time become blissfully unconscious that they have adopted a habit, and la ' adopting it have materially increased their j own readiness for action. A Bit of Homo Furnishing. A pretty window seat is attainable by i using one of those common pine wash , benches that may bo purchased cheaply at any house furnisher’s. As usually bought these benches may prove too high

A SIMPLE WINDOW SEAT, and will require some Inches sawed off the legs, which are only upright boards. A wearable cushion may be found In one, with a denim covering. Make a chain stitched border around the edge and n large Sunflower, or other pronounced design, for tho center. This adornment can be done in outline in some contrasting color, There may bo a valance of silkaline or cretonne to harmonize. Tho same seat without a valance may be painted in old Ivory and finished off with a coating of enamel, with decoration formed of brass headed nails arranged in an ornamental design. The result of tho work Ims been delineated by Decorator and Furnisher, as Ist Uns accompanying out. The True Science of Sweeping. Tho Irno science of sweeping the most untidy room is to do it with a stout parlor broom and raise not so much as "fi snooze of dust.” No matter whether a i carpet or matting or a nice wood mosaic is the floor coveting, the work can bn ccconi' j plishod with absolute neatness and dls- ; patch, affirms a writer in tho New York j Sun, by laying a bund of well dampened sawdust along one side of tho floor and sweeping this over and over clear across tho apartment. Tho sawdust quietly licks up every mote and bit of lint which the i broom sots stirring before it lias time to float off into tho air, and so protects furniture and tho sweeper as well. Such a ! process can bo carried on in a sickroom without the least inconvenience to the invalid, and In this event, or where nurseries or schoolrooms are cleaned, it is wise to sprinkle a little disinfectant in tho sawdust. When tho work is done carefully, gather it all in a dustpan and tov. it into tho kitchen fire, burning it between meals. Fairy Pudding. Although a fairy's pudding, it were shame If wo less dainty mortals could not claim The privilege of making it to eat For a dessert that queens might call a treat. Put on one quart of milk to boil. Then stir Ouo cup of sugar (see you do not cn ) With three-fourths cup of buttor to a cream. Add twelve well beaten yolks of e.-gs. Yoa deem It is extravagant indeed? Ah, no Not in the lavish summer. Thou bestow With these Ingredients a heaping cup Of flour. With energy now beat it up And stir into the boiling milk with slow And steady hand. Then add the whites, like snow In daintiness, that to a froth more light Than maiden vanity you’ve beaten quite Exhaustingly. Now bake it with much care i (In that doth often dwell the virtue rare) In pudding dish, placed also in a pan i Of boiling water. Serve it for the man Who calls himself a pessimist. He’ll say, ; 1 ‘ For this I’d surely live another day. ’ ’ ! —Good Housekeeping. | j FUli Salad on Lettuco Leaves. f Two cupfuls of picked whlteflsh, a tablospoonful of capers chopped, a tablespoon ful of parsley chopped. Dressing For Fish Salad (without oil). —Half pint of milk, 2 lovel tablcspooufula of cornstarch, yolks of 3 eggs, a tcaapoonful of salt, of popper, butter the size of a walnut. Bring the milk to boil, moisten starch and add, cook tiilthlcknud smooth, add yolks beaten lightly, cook a minute, stirring constantly, remove from the fire and add the rest of tho Ingredients. Set away to cool. Pancake Kolia. Put in a pan 4 whole eggs, a pinch of salt, 1 of sugar, ;» spoonfuls of flour. Beat viil'i a quart, of milk. Tho preparation must bo very li-rlit. Make your pancakes in a frying mm lot pan, very thickly spread with butte*-. Turn them upside down on the tifl-ie, put-some currant or other .icily on bno skb.; roll ihcm. Po:-- :i;. m mi c i.b.te. L'ovu.-.r Ilium u lih sugar and candy thvm wit i: po.kfP. which you havo heat-rd redout samber?*t"'s S** tablets I