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I What Every Woman Wants to Know Edited By Anne Rittenhouse tCepvrtcht. tin. he TV UeCUr Vewtpeper lyniimtti. NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFTS The House You Build i rpHERE ar vry few married ter save theee to give to the in valid or convalescent. a and blackberry Jam.

All these things are delletously made and THIS Is a good time to plan and make your Christmas gifts. Embroidered esrd-taMe covers aud crepe de chine camisoles? Certainly, if you wish to. But Iff jyiyf.X juice. lor one toing. These Juices serve making.

Not long ago a Juice, for one thing. These Juices making. Not long ago a tt IV -w, mexo exceneai guis. timer to au woman planted as a Christmas 1 I Vl i J-') Invalid or convalescent, or to a gift to a young prospective bride -Ji 1 4-'ffl housekeeper. But perhaps, be- a.

Jar or two of every sort of pre- (I i 5 r- ft MtTZZrP you won't be likely to wish serve. Jelly and pickle she put up 2x11 1 JklT lii V3 10 aw4jr mor couP'" ummer. The result was a TCll'J 1 1 y- time' TO" faad array of quite UsnaOng make excellent gifts, tuber to an Invalid or convalescent, or to a housekeeper. Iiut perhaps, because you won't be likely to with to give away more than a couple of bottle at a time, you bad Let woman planted as a Christmas gift to a young proepective bride a Jar or two of every sort of preserve. Jelly and pickle she put up (his summer.

The result waa a shining array of quite fascinating Peaches In Many Ways XOW IS THE TIME TO HAVE THEM THREE TIMES A DKY AND BETWEEN MEALS little pott and Jars a ad bottle and glass. Counting the things that are still to come, there will be grape, quince and crab- apple jelly, tomato catsup and chili sauce, mustard pickles and French green tomato pickles. pickled peaches, a concoction of nuts, nusini and other things called heavenly bask, tome choice sunned strawberries, canned pears, peaches, red raspberries, cherries and plums, spiced grspes, When You Stockings THE mere fact that yon have paid a high price for a stock leg dees not always meaa that 11 is somg 10 prove sensractory. You should be sure that it is es-actly suited to lit your type of foot and also suited for the sort of wear that you are going to give It Tbe woman who la stout or tail usually baa more trouble with runs in her stockings than from botes la 1 the toes or bee ml gfca probably does not measure her nocking wben she buys there. She takes the saleswoman word for It that Ji stocking of good sise.

What might prove to be an excellent type of stocking for a small woman would be quite unsuitable for tbe woman who is large. And certain excellent brands of stocking always run smaller than other. When rou find a bran that fills your requirements stick to It It Is a good plan always to ask the aaleswomaji to examine tbe stocking you buy. She doe this by putting her head through the stocking looking for defect in the weave. If you alwaya did this you would not have to face the later embaaraaamest of finding that your stockings had rua the first time you put them oa.

If yow have narrow feet take the pains to find ttorkfngs that ar narrow. Often seamless stockings are wider in tbe feet than those that have seams, and for this reason should not be selected unadvisedly by the woman with narrow feet Always examine personally the siie marks en each pair of the stockings yen buy to make sure that you are getting what rou ask for. Convenient Nails A long, smooth sail, say five 4M i 4 there are fascinating things you can make from fruit and flowers that will prove quite unusual and entirely satisfying to their recipients next Christmas morning. There are all kinds of fruit muskmelon, and the combination is delicious. The addition of whipped cream, candied fruits or pineapple syrup, however an adjiuon tried by some chefs for the sake of variety turns a really dainty dish Into one that Is quite unpalatable in its richness and strange medlev of flavor.

Peach Ice. Peel a dosen ripe peaches. Conk until jiearly soft In this syrup en cover, remove the stones, and rub through a Add the Juice of a lemon, three cups of water, a few- drops of almond extract, and. if quired, add a little more sugar. Freese, adding; the unbeaten whites of one or two eggs if deaired.

Peseh Foam. Press three or four ripe peAche ne cup IZl SV'T cup u.wn.s in one cup of boiling water. Add peax rmln Juice flavored with one tahieiipoon lemon Juice or almond extract and 01 in cool place, and wnen to Jell sdj the weli- beaten hites of two eggs, and beat together until very thick so It will not separate. Pour Into molds anu ln place untn Serve with custard sauce. firm.

Peseh Sponge. Rub a quart of peaches through sieve and sweeten to one cup of cream in which a pack- Birea nf ti 1 oived. and rh oen Ots- uv 1 se. fold in the tiffv beaten whites three eggs. Mould, chill and sem wlth cream.

Peseh Roll. Slft Pint of flour with four level teaspoons baking powder and half a teaspoon of salt work into It a iV T' water to make a Into an oblonr cover thickly with crushed peaches, sprinkle with sugar, ron up. pinch ir enos Together, and steam. serve hot rlth any preferred sauc. Peach Souffle.

Rub a quart of ripe peachee through a sieve. Add a cup of pow-dered sugar and the hites rf three eggs. Beat with en egjrreaier until very ligbt. then roia in the wh te of seven beaten to a stiff froth, mix carefully, turn Into a buttered baking-diah. bake until puffed and brown Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.

Peach Custard. Cover the bottom of a baking-dish with peeled, split and sweet. ened peaches, hollow-side up. Heat a quart of milk and thicken It with two tablespoons of cometarch rubbed smooth with a little cold milk. Flavor to tas'e, add four tablespoons of sugar, a pinch of salt two eggs well beaten, and a teaspoon of butter.

Coot until tnA constantly, then pour over the peaches, cover with meringue, and bake until puffed and nrown. serve either hot or cold. Peach Sage Pudding. Cook cup of sago untU soft In a double boiler with a quart of eaited water, adding boiling water as required. Fill a baking.

dish with peeled and cored peachee, stuffing the center with sugar snd spice. Four over a cup of water and bake until nearly done, then cover with sejro, sprinkle with Sugar, dot with butter and bak for forty minutes, serve with boiled custard ot sweetened cream. (oik who. It they make up their mind when they ere first married that they want soma time to llv In their own little borne, may not sometime achieve that ambition. It may not be (or the first ten years, but If money Is tared and energies are bent In that direction the little bouse may come sooner than you expect.

There Is one advantage In not building your own bora.i during the first (ew years. The longer you bare experience In keeping bouse the better Ideas you will have as to what sort of bouse you want, the better will be your tug gestiont to the builder. For don't Imagine that every one wlm is an architect or builder by profession has very good ideas to the way to make a bouse most convenient. He bas other things to think of and often the convenience of a house Is something that results entirely from the owner's revision of clans. Think it over.

Keep a little book in which you Jot down Ideas that you would, like to earry out Consider the question of bunga lows as compared with houses built on two or three floors. Flan your kitchen, incorporating points) you see In other people kitchens that have proved convenient. Try and make your house an all-year-round proposition. So often a bouse is planned ell in one tea-ton. It It then either a warm-weather bouse or a cold-weather bouse.

Have your plans in your mind for several yean and then' maybe you can Incorporate points in your designs that will make it good for all the year. See that your living room Is tunny, that there are no dark rooms. If possible, plan a sleeping porch, if it is only big enough for a bed or two. This need not be made so that yon can use it all the year round Just some porch adjoining your bedroom that can be screened and netted off where you can sleep when the nights are warm. This is something that the man who plant and builds bis house in the winter usually forgets.

The Best Way For You OMR experts in housewifery hold the opinion that there is some definite, single best way for doing every household tasa. Usually, according to this opinion, this best way la the way worked out in the laboratories of domestic science, a way that may be Identical with the way usually adopted by seasoned practical housewives, or not. Thus doing housework; is reduced to something as definite and Dreclse as a game or onage. niven a certain lay of the cards there undoubtedly always is a best play. The skill of the bridge player iienende on his ability alwaya to decide on that best way.

But in your opinion, is house- rnrir milt so BimDle aa that? Is the best wav for you, for Instance, the best way for your next door neighbor and are either of these best ways the same as the one laid down by the domestto science ex perts? Their Answpr. Most housewives would say no. For the situation Is altered very much by circum stances, circumstances depending on finances of the family, on strength of the housewife, on the disposition of the members of the household, on prejudices that can not be done away and must be taken into consideration. The problem of keeping cooking utensils In order is one that differ, ent housewives solve In different ways. The Important thing is to solve It.

One houeewlfe manages to do this by placing everything in a logical place. Thus she has every thins; needed for breakfast In one place from the coffee and coffee pot to the cereal and double boiler. All baking and cake making things are placed In another place with flour, baking powder. egg beaters. etc.

all at hand. And so It roes. The woman who has arranged her kitchen In that way has a mind that works logically. Another has i mind that likes to see all dishes ar ranged together In even gradation of sixes, all utensils hung In an even series from the largest to the small est. A Man's Way.

Another housewife or, rather, i house-husband, for It Is a bachelor whose summer hobby is In keeping house for himself for the entertain ment of many house guests has another method that the domestic science experts might frown upon, but which Is not to be scorned since It solves the problem of neatness for him aa nothing else could. He has many hooks on which to hang everything he needs In cooking. In order to make sure that everything always goes on the hook Intended for It no matter who clears up after a meal he has carefully drawn a line around every object when in place. AJI you must do In putting things away Is to find the line to fit the object In question. Here Is s' nutmeg-grater and here an egg-turner, here a very large spoon, and here a vegetable press.

You cannot mistake their Outlines. And So it goes. After all, the best way for you la the way that you know to be the best way for you. i Then there are boxes of pre-! serves for the young housekeeper, of your who baa not yet conquered the trick of preserve Selecting Your Washclolhs LLi is the ideal material for washcloths, because it give up the soil so much more readily than cotton. This is especially true of children's washcloths that naturally are used more carelessly than those of adults.

It is almost impossible to buy ready-made linen washcloths, however. Since the war it has been quite as difficult to buy Turkish toweling of linen, which in the old days waa- chosen tor washcloths by many housewives. This they bcuplit by the yard, cut it into convenient sixes for washcloths and crocheted around with linen thread. If you have any linen Turkish towels on hand treasure tbem carefully and tbey have worn in tbe middle save tbem to cut up into washcloth. The ends are always firm when the center part has given way and will yield several good, substantial washcloths.

For young children a very good washcloth ran be made from tbe heaviest linen huckaback. This can be hemmed all around and provided with a tape loop. For a cotton washcloth a good selection and one that la inexpensive is a washcloth made from three thicknesses of white gaute. A doctor's wife always has this sort of washcloth for member ot her family and delights her bouse guests by presenting them with one when they come to visit her. As a matter of fact the material costs but three and thfrd cents for a cloth and she makes tbem la odds and ends ot time wben she would be doing nothing else.

She folds the gaute In three-ply and then, turning in the edge of the outside pieces, runt It coarsely but securely around the edge. With washcloths as inexpensive as this il matter to discard one aner it falls to become pure white after It comes from the laundry. THE NICKNACKS OF FASHION. Creem net edged with real lac ts on ot the favorite fabrics for neck-wear. Some of the new collars, of this material, are made with frills like Jabots down the front Plaited or braided ribbon forms the trimming band on many new hats.

Flat fabric flowers ar not new, snd they have been overdone In the rnedr-to-wear ckMhea, but they are better than the borreous-colored girdle which attempt to make a black crep. de chine gewm lees funereal attractively pecked. Ton can save from your own pastry or boy very attractive Jars for Jams and marmalade. Yon can label them with bought pesters already printed, or you can print the name of your specialties yourself on sticky pasters that come tor the purpose. A few yean ago the shops took up the fad of making up food gift boxes.

They got together boxes at Christmas containing a box of randy, a Jar of salted nuts, a couple of glasses of Jelly, as many of Jam, and a bottle of grape Juice. The choice varied, of course, and sometime two or three pint or quart Jars of specially choice (ruit was included in the gift box. Now yon yourself can' get np such a box. And the best of It is that you can do most of tbe work now. To be sure, at Christmas time you have to1 make the candy and box it, and salt the ants snd pack them daintily In a little Jar.

You can buy a pretty covered or glass Jar as part of your gift for the purpose. If you are giving the gift to a tea drinker, and if you wish to spend more money, you might incla'ie an attractive little metal tea bcx i or eeanister filled with choice tea, land at tea cup. too, if you want. That was a trick of one shop that got np and told gift boxes for mother's day delivery the tea. caddy and pretty china teacup.

Just about anything yon get ready can be td for your Christmas gift boxes If you can make some pretty theu and a pine-needle pillow or two, rest assured that yo will find the right place to bestow them when Christmas comes. Pick-Up Work DID it ever occnr to 70a that it your to-called pick-up work is too attractive It will cease to be pick-up work and will become tbe absorbing interest ot tie day? That is, if you have a sweater in the making yon may decide you will leave it where you can do It in leisure moments, when the duties ot your house do not call you. But yon find the working out of the pattern so absorbing that you linger over It, and it serve as a temptation to keep you away from the regular routine of your work. The tart that It (ewpa you la bo so bad as the fact joiat anything that keeps you from lyour regular work becomes a source of annoyance and irritation. Ton ar annoyed with yourself because yoa do not get your regular work done and yet yoa cannot resist the temptation to keep at work on the sweater.

And of course the sweater It soon finished and you have no nick -o a work left. 1 Now there is one sort of pick-tip jork tht wiU never tempt yoa to neglect your other work. That is the weekly mending. Yet there will always be on hand Just enough ot it to take your idle momenta. If you make a habit ot putting It in a large mending bee; to be kept somewhere on tbe ground floor, oa the porch In summer, you will see that It Is not diflScnlt to get through with It every week.

There ts never good sens la spending an entire day mending once a month or every six weeks. The beet tort ot mending is a little) done every week. Another sort ot good pick-up work consists ot the buttonholes to be put on new clothe that you have made. They, I ke will probably not offer enough stimulation to tempt you to neglect your other work, but they are not nnpleasant and are easily picked up and put down again. Saturday's Tasks SATURDAY" hat always beet one of the housewife's busiest days, but it it not a day with unpleasant associations.

We work as hard on Saturday as on Monday, yet we do not call it blue Saturday. Perhaps this is because general cleaning Thursday and jmday. to that only finishing need be made on Satur- baking sod other food preparation directly the dishes are done after breakfast Saturday. Much time is usually spent marketing on Saturday. One housewife who has thing well systema-tised always make up her lists for marketing oa Friday and then order all dry groceries on Friday so that all that needs must be ordered on Saturday are meat and vegetables.

Shs know exactly what the wants and there It never any having to wait tor the Saturday orders to he delivered before doing Saturday baking and cook-Is g. Here and There in Fashion's Wake SPANISH lace gowns are still in good fashion, and indeod they are so becoming and so lovely that everyone is glad to have them favored by fashion. Another thing it that they are really quite possible for the home dressmaker to fashion out of a few yards of lace and tome really good foundation fabric. Metallic lace, too, are much used in Parts, where they are sometimes embroidered with woolen threads. The twisted girdles that look something, in silhouette, like horse collars, are smart, and in spite of the cartoons and comment they have called for in Paris they continue to Attract discriminating attention from the wearers of charming clothes.

Ecru it the color most used In the smart midsummer neckwear. At least there is a great deal of ecru neckwear worn, it that is a fair way of judging its smartness. Fluffy -fufmpee, with (rills at the front, are made of net and lace, batiste and mull. Tiny cuff brims are evident on some of the smaller bats for autumn, Sometimes these narrow brims, with the little turned-up cuff section, are faced underneath with puffs and twists of velvet Thta effect it decidedly becoming and softening. Berthas of georgette or of fine net.

edged with deep scallops, are charming on frocks of black crepe. Turquoise blue? Of course, say the mlllinen. It will be much used (or autumn batt. Red browns and brown reds are In vogue for veil. Anybody who has teen peaches blushing under red netting within the last few weeks will not need persuading that red veils give a lovely color to whatever is under them.

Vests In mannish cut made of white pifiue are worn with street suits and sport tuits et thin wool mixtures. Filet order. mesh veils are ln good Evening coatt of metallic brocade with deep hems and cuffs and sometimes collars of fur are shown for late summer wear. A particularly lovely combination it silver brocade and gray fur. A fasc'nating frock for very little girl consist of trousers of plain-colored gingham, with an overblouse or tmock of figured cretonne, showing as Its domlnsnt color the color chosen for the gingham trousers.

Capes are still In good fashion for little girlt. Many of red are shown. In which the young wearers are entirely suggestive of Little Red Riding Hood. Strap wrist gloves are the kind especially favored at the moment BroBie It en. of tbe colors that the new fashion tor brown of every shad fast brought into proiMnrnee, In lace and In tulle and In metallic brocade it is especially good.

If you have a Spanish lace shawl In the attio don't let it stay there. Tbey are decidedly in fashion now, so get your out and wear It. PEACHES sre, and for the next few weeks will be, at their best and cheapest So have them every day and more than once a clay, If your family likes them. And if you use a little Imagination In serving them there are few families that will tire of them before the end of the season. Hore are some ways of using them to suggest new Ideas to the cook: Peach Meringue.

This dish requires Very ripe, luscious peaches. Peel them, cut In halves, and remove the stones. Put a layer of the peaches In a pudding dish; sprinkle with powdered sugar and cover with whipped cream, sweetened and flavored; continue in this order until the dish Is full. Brown quickly under a gas broiler on the top put the whites of two or three egg. beaten stiff and sweetened.

Set in the refrigerator for sn hour or two before serving. Peseh Dumplings. TheBe may be made of biwuit dough or of rich plecAiot relied into rounds six Inches across. Pinch the edges Into cup shape. Arrange In baking pan and put a peeled peach in the center of each.

Sprinkle with sugar and dot with butter, then bake in a hot oven. Baked Peaches. Plunge the ripe peaches into boiling water for a moment when the skins will rub crl ss easily aa the skin of a -ldd ta.t. Arrange ln a rather deep baking dish, sprinkle with sugar snd cinnamon and dot the top, of the peaches with ...1.0 iutd. Ami a vup 'l foiling water to the baking pan and bake In a steady, moderate oven.

Serve hot or cold. Peach Fritters. Peel and spilt ripe ceaehea with i I piwtii iui an nour. j.Tin. Qip in i fritter batter, fry brown in deep fat, drain, sprinkle with powdered sugar, and serve.

Peach Pie. Une a pie-tin with puff-paste, fill with pared peaches in halves or quarters, well covered with sugar: put on upper cfust and bake; or botjvb wunoui upper crusi, maxe until none, remove rrom me oven, and cover with a meringue made of the whites of two eggs, beaten to a stiff froth with two tablespoons powdered sugar; return to oven snd brown slightly. Peach DelioM. Peel and split ripe peaches nd All a baking dish, sprinkling each layer of fruit with sugar. Dot the top with butter, add a cup of water and sprinkle with flour.

Make a crust of one and one-half cups of flour sifted with a little salt and a teaspoon of baking' powder, rubbing Into the flour then half a cud of lard and adding Ice water to mix. Cover the peaches with a thin aheet of the dough, slit the crust and serve hot with fresh cream. Peeoh Snow. For peach snow, beat a con ot cream until it is stiff and add half a cup of sugar and two egg; whites, beaten stilt Cut up quart of peachee in a glass dish and pour the cream mixture over them. The peaches and the cream should both he chilled through before mixing.

Serve them as soon at they are mixed. Peeoh lee Creem. Peseh Ice cream la nowadays often served In the half of a rip I i i 1 1 i 1 .) lyr kUch5e. at th.o?Pth.l'-h'-S hX perhaps, and this rves airin' Ior Heures on good place te keep a ball of day. with the men ot the family twtne that ts so often needed In 'at home and possibly week-end every household.

guest. A good long nail placed outside It It a good plan to arrange just below or at the side of your, your week so that Saturday can bathroom window I a good place entirely given over to prepara-jto hang the brush used to clean jtion for Sunday. That 1. do the me oainroom piumoing. Two aails placed at the back of the china shelf possibly aa Inch irom tc oaca neip to keep the; day.

It la a comfort to be able platter from slipping forward osjto attack the Saturday morning the sheif. A paper spike it always dangerous proposition anywhere. Not infrequently it has cat the haad ot the one who attempted te file papers upon it. Assuredly It should never be need where there are children about It you wish cm place te keep the lip that come with year food supplies, get a long, thin nail with small head. Tack this against the wall or woodwork and Impale the bills and slips upon this, Is as easy matter to press ths papers over the small head and it casaot possibly cause injury..