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3 Questions for Wives

3. What is it that takes on the flavour of any fruit with which it is mixed?

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*2. Of tea legura, lemon pipa, coffee grounds and very greasy water, which may be thrown down your sink pipe with safety?

3. How can you be sure of removing any tang of onion or fish from vessels in which these have been cooked?

1. Rhubarb.

ANSWERS

2. Tea leaves and feinon pipa swell, and greasy water collects and helps to form an obstruction. Coffee grounds may be trusted to take the straight ahd narrow pipe path. ^

+ 3. Remove the odour of onion or fish from a frying pan by scalding vinegar in it and then washing in the usuni way. Saucepans should be washed in warm water to which a handful of salt has been added, then rinsed thoroughly in cold, clean water.

Be kind

to your

CACTUS

C

ACTI make very good pets for the careless. They need les attention than most plants. They flower. They have curious ways. They last sometimes for years. But even a cactus won't stand for everything. What is pie to one cactus is poison to another. For instance, there is this water question. You have to consider the type of plant, the season, and the temperature.

Too frequent watering causes decay, which is difficult to deal with. All the affected parts of the root and plant must be cut away, and what is left treated as a cutting and freshly rooted in sand.

When the weather is

hot your plant wants o drink when the soil in the pot is just dry. You can test this by the sound when you tap the pot.

In Butuner water in the even- when the sun won't evaporate the moisture and harden the soll. In spring and autumn water in the morning.

They are gind of an occasional spray from a syringe or a mouth atomiser. Treatment to be given at The above watering times. The white haired and white spined are specially responsive

Suit their Shapë

Ordinary pota are the best homes for mast varieties, though ones with developed tuberous roots need deeper pots and tubercle and hedgehog cacti pots generally prefer wide shallow like their own rools.

There

be musi

a large draining hole-se-that- the moisture can't collect, and the pat must be porous and un-

Earthenware glazed.

is all right Transplanting must be dune in the spring. Annually is enough for the first-sized kinds, and every thrce or four years for the larger.

be matured, freg The soll mus! from decomposition and permeable by water. Leaf mould, loom, and sund make the best mixture.

Sunny & South

In winter the pots should be in a sunny south window which is rarely opened. The white and strong spined varielles need a lot of sun. The light green thrive more in the shade.

While developing and unfolding its flower the cactus needs more water than at other times. 1 must not be moved during this-stage, and the same side must always be turned to the light.

A

COFFEE POT

answer to

women

whose husbands say,

"My wife can never

make good coffee.

2.5

¡OFFEE need not be any more difficult to make than brewing a cup of tea, provided Ayou keep in mind the following rules. They come from a French housewife, a coffee dealer, and a maitre d'hotel..

The coffee must be fresh.

It must be finely ground.

It should be kept in an air-tight lin.

A coffee-grinder of your own, keeping the coffee in whole berry form till needed, is the best arrangement. Otherwise buy it in small quan tities, so that you don't have any left over to go stale.

every breakfast

4 tablespoonful of coffee to cup is the usual amount allowed. A small pinch of salt brings out the flavour. For cafe au lait, one ground chicory berry is an improvement.

A La Francaise

THIS is the French jug-method. Tie

the coffee in a muslin tag, and pour on two spoonfuls of warm water to make the coffee swell.

This means that the boiling water,

which you must gradually pour on next, will filter through very slowly. Some French wives allow the filtering to take an hour, getting the best out of their coffee. Standing the jug in a pan of

Woman

SUDDENLY becomes interested in things domestic. Indulges in

light cookery, tries to knit or embroider, and buys home magazines as never before.

2. Becomes demonstrative and

affectionate towards

her

love if

heated water will keep it hot. The American' type. of percolator is splendid because it is so simple. All you do is but in the coffee and cold water, and leave them over the heat for fifteen minutes.

A Saucepan Method

To get a lovely aroma, hold the pan and dry coffee over the hent for a minute, taking care not to burn it. Next pour in the water, and bring to the boil three times. Let the

liquid stand six minules, then strain through some muslin into a heated jug. Serve with cream or hot milk. If the milk is removed from the heat before it boils it should not skin.

An Unorthodox Way

This method sounds all wrong,

but it makes good breakfast coffee and is quick and simple to do. Just put the coffee and cold water into a saucepan, bring to boiling-point, and add the milk. Remove at boiling-point again, and sicve into a warmed jug.

is in

she

particular to keep straight as to buck 11. The more deeply she loves, discomfort or lack of prestige as scam. Possibly she will appear in a

the more she acts in super- long as, she is with her lover. When volcc, ex- away from him; she will demand pale blue evening dress as well. ficial things. Manner,

occasion. Everything is done every

-

cancel or

mother and considerate in the home. She will also become tries to grasp front -thoughtful-with-servants,-polite situations so that she can discuss believes that she will please him by neglect anything or any one just to

to old them afterwards.

to strangers and kind ,people in buses.

3. Finds that she admires physi- cal and moral strength Imen and weakness in women, where

as a few weeks ago 'she would declare that the sexes were equal in all things.

rings.

every lime the

7. Turns to the sporting pages of pressions all will be different on more attention than usual.

the newspaper and occasionally to pique the male curiosity as to 16. Will break any engagement,

any promise, or page politieal what type of woman she is.. She

This is undersloodTM between giving him all women instead of just-drinks a cup of coffee with her loved women, and they do not even trouble 8. Da meeting the object of her one woman.

love' is either struck dumb leaves him to do the talking, and 12. Loses ull interest in food and to excuse themselves to each other. is rather rude and makes hurtful, porarily swayed by the opinion of the 17. Cries more easily, laughs more impertinent remarks which she re- grels terribly.

Mon.

all taste in the arts, being tom-

one.

think

quickly and sleeps less heavily. Looks more beautiful. 13. Tums to music-not as a rule interfere with the 9. Wants to

Wagnerian-when she is alone 18. Says that people are really

much kinder than you bachelor arrangements of the and even hums dance tunes during they ure and that It's a grand lite 4. Feels a tiny sick sensation beloved's flat or home by introduc- office hours, whether she dances or all this on a Monday morning at

telephone bell ing large bowls of towers, scented not.

the oflee with the boss in a fearful sohp, silk cushions, funcy curtains and Cruits.

14. Becomes extremely economical temper. 5. Keeps changing her appearance.

his over

money. Suggests 19. Becomes fussy over telephone love cheaper seats at the theatre, home- calls, always arranging that the Face powder, lipstick, perfume. 10. At the beginning of a

takes the initiative, wherens all are changed weekly, and never affair accepts all invitations cooked meals, bus instead of taxi man

she Is she satisfied with her appearance. to meet the young man immediately, rides. Probably is spending previously she rang him just as casu- 6. Becomes very feminine in her und then hastily brings out several, twice as much on clothes and hair- ally as she did others.

vague excuses as to why she may not sets herself-but that is different.

20. Is not interested in any other clothes, running to fluffy neck be able to meet him. If she is not

men-they simply do not exist lines, very dainty gloves and shoes, in love the excuses come first and 15.. Keeps her temper as and sheer stockings that she is most the acceptance lost.

before, Will put up with any for the time being.

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