ilk or cream and
bake one half hour. Serve with tomato sauce.

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[Illustration: Jessie Tarbox Beals

Utilizing a Chimney Corner for a Book Case]

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Homely Virtues

"Scorn not the homely virtues. We are prone
To search through all the world for something new;
And yet sometimes old-fashioned things are best--
Old-fashioned work, old-fashioned rectitude,
Old-fashioned honor and old-fashioned prayer,
Old-fashioned patience that can bide its time,
Old-fashioned firesides sacred from the world,
Old-fashioned satisfaction, with enough
Old-fashioned candour and simplicity,
Old-fashioned folks that practice what they preach."

Answers to Correspondents

_Please tell me the proper way to send wedding announcements. In a
family where there are several young men and women do I send each a
separate one?_

If economy is no object send each a separate card. If you do not care to
do this and they are brothers and sisters you may say "The Misses Brown"
and "The Messrs. James and John Wilson."

_I would like very much to be able to help other housekeepers, but I
always feel that I only know the simple things of my rather humdrum life
in the country._--MRS. D., OHIO.

What you know is not known to everyone, nor is what any housekeeper
knows a matter of everyday use with other housekeepers. Everyone has
some short cut or recipe, or personal way of doing things that would
lighten the way for others. Your recommendation of butterine for
instance, would carry weight with some housekeepers who had never before
thought of trying it and they would be grateful always for being shown
how to cut their butter bill. So with the other suggestions in your good
letter from which I have taken extracts for the other pages. I want just
such letters as yours. We must not forget that the younger generation of
housekeepers are starting housekeeping and scanning columns like these
for "the things everyone knows."

_Yellow and white scheme for coming-out party._--H. M. B.

Many thanks for the nice things you say about the Cook Book. Am very
glad you have enjoyed it so long. The color scheme you mention could be
carried out further by wearing white dresses with yellow sashes and hair
ribbons. Have yellow ices and cakes with white and yellow frosting. Egg
sandwiches, potato salad garnished with hard boiled eggs halved