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The Home Table
PARSNIPS and turnips will soon be with us in full force. Every housewife realizes their nutritive value, but not every one knows how really palatable these "heavy" vegetables may be made. Try these recipes
Parsnip Stew.
Allow for one pound of fresh parsnips one pound of fat salt pork and one pound of potatoes; chop the pork fine, pare the potatoes and slice thin; scrape the parsnips and cut in thin slices; put a layer of pork in a stewpan, follow with a layer of potatoes, then one of parsnips.
Repeat with pork, potatoes and parsnips until all have been used. Cover with cold water, season with salt, pepper and celery salt, thicken with a little cracker, rolled fine, and set on the back of the stove, where it can cook gently for three quarters of an hour. Serve from a large tureen or bowl or from the kettle in which cooked.
Turnips au Gratin.
Peel and cut into cubes. Cover with cold water, cook five minutes, then drain and cover with boiling salted water or white stock and simmer gently until tender. Make a cup of good white sauce, using a tablespoon each of butter and flour. Melt the butter, add the flour; as soon as blended, without browning, add a tablespoon of grated cheese.
When it has melted pour in a cupful of milk, stirring until smooth and creamy. Season with salt and pepper and pour over turnips. Put into a well buttered gratin dish and, if too dry, add a little milk. Cover with buttered crumbs and brown in a quick oven.
Cauliflower in Batter.
Wash and cleanse the cauliflower and half boil it in salted water. Drain, divide the branches and shake in a quarter of a pint of vinegar seasoned with salt and pepper. Then fry in a batter. To make the batter, beat up one egg and sift in one cupful of flour; add half a cupful of milk, a pinch of salt and one tablespoon of olive oil. Mix smooth and stand the mixture in a cool place for one hour. Dip the branches of cauliflower separately, drop into smoking hot fat and fry to a golden brown. Drain. Serve hot, garnished with parsley.
Surprise Potatoes.
Take mashed potatoes, add salt, pepper, one teaspoon of onion juice, one tablespoon chopped parsley and milk enough to make smooth. Take a spoonful of potatoes, flatten out, lay a teaspoonful of cold chopped meat, well seasoned, in centre, then shape potatoes around meat, making a roll about three inches long, being sure the meat is well covered.
Roll in bread crumbs, then in beaten egg, then in bread crumbs again. Fry in deep hot fat. A small frankfurter or sausage, boiled till tender, then browned, is fine to use for the filling.
Rice Waffles
Heat one cupful of milk; add one tablespoonful and a half of butter substitute and the beaten yolk of one egg; then add one cupful and a half of flour and beat well.
Now add the beaten white of the egg, half a cupful of cooked rice and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Beat the batter for two minutes and cook on a hot, well greased waffle iron. When the waffles are done serve them hot with maple syrup, honey, powdered sugar or jelly.
Talks With Mothers
MANY mothers make the mistake of training much that is best out of their children, and, albeit with the best intentions in the world, this is a mistake that cannot be corrected in after life.
Most of us have certain standards of our own which we come at last to feel cannot be changed in any way, and either we are too apt to curb much that should be allowed to develop, or we are prone to be too lenient in our demands.
If we could only reach a middle ground, where we are neither too strict or too indulgent, it would be best for both mother and children, but as we are all of us human we usually err on one side or the other.
The mother who usually accomplishes the best results is she who makes a companion of her children. If she does this, and is the right kind of mother, she will find that they may stray away, but that they are very sure to come back to the fold.
So many mothers fail to remember their own childhood and expect so much more of their children than they have any right to do.
When you were a child going to school did you not find many problems that no one could solve but your mother or your father? In later life, did you not often feel that you must have their sympathy in your small affairs? Or, if you did not receive this sympathy and help, did you not feel that, in some way, you were defrauded?
Every child has the right to the companionship of his parents, as well as to their guidance. Most parents seem to think that their duties are only disciplinary, when, on the contrary, they do not pay half of their obligations to their children unless they are their playmates as well as their mentors.
One of the most successful women of the day has always been a companion to her three sons, in spite of the fact that not only did the usual duties of the mother fall to her lot, but that a large part of each day was given over to the grind of earning money devoted to their comfort and education.
She never let a day pass that she did not play as well as work with them. There were certain hours given to earning their bread and butter, and after that she devoted herself wholly to their other needs.
Children even more than grown people, need sympathy. The world to them is a strange place, and many things that we of an older growth know not only to be harmless, but beneficial, are to them objects of terror and fear.
No child should ever go his father or mother with a problem and be thrust aside. If you cannot help him in any material way, you can at least give to him the comfort of understanding.
And it should be remembered that if your children are to develop in any natural way they are going to have wills of their own, which you may find it hard to control.
The best way to control children is to teach them to control themselves. The child who is put on his honor must develop honor.
The boy or girl who is given to understand that he is trusted will seldom betray that trust.
If you do not play with your "kiddies" you will miss some of the happiest moments that life has to give you. Play time is the training time of the young, so the hours that you spend with them on the tennis court or on the ball ground, in the woods or on the water, over the library table in the evening, or before the fire engrossed in some indoor game--these are not wasted hours, but perhaps the most valuable that your children may ever know.
Besides the value to your children you will find that the hours spent with them are broadening to yourself in many ways. Grown persons as well as children need their play time, when the cares of the day are put aside and the mind is allowed to relax, or else concentrates itself in some entirely new and interesting problem.
At first you may find that you do not like the games your boys and girls like, but as you throw yourself into their interests you will find that your own interests will develop.
One woman spends the summers with her sons camping in the woods. At first she did not like these jauntings at all. She was somewhat frail and nervous of temperament, and at night she used to lie awake and imagine all kinds of terrors. But at the end of her first camping season she found that her appetite was as keen as a child's, that she no longer tired so easily and that she slept nine hours each night without turning over.
Now she says she would not miss these summers in the woods any more than her sons would, and not only have they drawn her into closer companionship with her children, but they have made her a strong and healthy mother instead of one who was anaemic and nervous and more or less of an invalid.
When You Appear In Public
Did you ever go into a tea room where everything was very restful and pleasing and suddenly become conscious of a loud voice which seemed to jar on the delightful surroundings as rudely as if some one had thrown a hard missile into the room?
Or have you ever gone into such a public place and disturbed the others present by your own uncouth manners? For it is certainly most uncouth to go into any public place and make yourself conspicuous by being noisy or calling special attention to yourself in any way.
Public Manners.
[On] the whole, it is really remarkable what good manners prevail in most public places in our cities. For the most part these who frequent the tea rooms, cafeterias and restaurants of the city are quiet and inconspicuous in manner--so much so that those who are loud in manner attract an undue amount of attention.
In a restaurant which is very popular with girls because the prices are reasonable and the service excellent a girl and an older woman attracted a great deal of attention the other day, and, if they had only known it, were commented upon by many present for their lack of good manners.
The girl sat across the table from her mother, and the entire twenty minutes or more which was spent at lunch were punctuated by a running fire of conversation carried on at the top of her voice.
It seemed as if her mother must have been deaf, to be able to endure a voice so highly pitched, but she evidently was not, and even if she had been it was hardly necessary to carry on a personal conversation in a public place in such a way as to make herself a perfect nuisance.
Before they had left the restaurant every on in hearing distance knew that the girl very much disliked a woman with who she was associated in her work; that she considered a cheque she had recently received entirely too small for the work she had done and that she had been offered work far more remunerative, which she expected to take.
As she rattled on about her importance to the firm by whom she was employed, the meagre salary they paid her, the large responsibilities which were hers and the fine salary she was to get with the new job, one could but feel that she had much to learn in the business world before she would be fitted for any position of importance.
No one in the restaurant was in the least interested in her affairs. But they were forced to hear about them, for she talked of them so continuously and so loudly that there was nothing to do but listen.
As a usual thing, when one goes out to luncheon it is as much for the change from the routine of the office as it is for the food which is served.
Often one has a friend with whom one may like to talk over things of mutual interest, or it may be some problem must be thought out, or better still, the mind given a rest for a while.
No one wishes to hear about the affairs of a perfect stranger in whom they have not the slightest concern. Men have and expression which, if vulgar, is rather to the point:-"If you want to talk about yourself, go hire a hall." Like many expressions of the street, it has a basis in good, common sense.
In all probability the mother of the girl who insisted on forcing her affairs on the attention of those around her was very much interested. But she must have been very much embarrassed at the method her daughter took to give her the information.
You may be very sure that your real friends and your family, if they are worth while, are interested in all your small successes or your difficulties, if they are real. But outside of those who are closest there is little interest in what you are doing unless you are a celebrity.
Your Own Affairs.
And if you have done something that is really of interest to the public you do not need to go into a restaurant to tell about it, for the papers and magazines will exploit it. That is their business.
Be very sure that if you do anything that has a wide public appeal it will get to the public. News purveyors are constantly on the lookout for celebrities and the difficulty that a person of real importance has is to keep the public out of his affairs.
Don't make the mistake of advertising your ignorance of accepted standards of the day by going into a public place and talking about yourself or your affairs, or those of your friends in such a way as to attract the attention of others who are in no way interested in you.

Women Who Worked for Liberty Loan
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No 1-Mrs. James F. Curtis. No. 2-Mrs. Francis Burrall Hoffman
Women prominent in philanthropic, social, political, professional and artistic circles have done their bit, and have done it well, for the Liberty Loan. The committee, of which Mrs. John T. Pratt is chairman, was one of the best organized bodies women have formed together for the furtherance of any cause. Nearly all are practical workers, and their team work has caused the men's committee to realize that a good deal of the success of floating both the first and second bond issues has depended not a little on the activities of the members of the Woman's Committee of the Liberty Lon. With [illegible] having the committee representatives of not one class of opinion, but of woman's citizenship, Mrs. Pratt has had interested in the work women of widely different actives. The following list of some of the most prominent and active workers shows the tremendous field the group covered. Mrs. James F. Curtis was an ardent worker in behalf of the Liberty Loan. Her husband, who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, is now the secretary of the Second Federal Reserve Bank. Mrs. Henry P. Davison, wife of the head of the Red Cross, is assisting her husband in that special branch of war work. Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim is the wife of the "copper king" and was one of the most active members of the last Liberty Loan Committee. She raised several hundred thousand dollars last spring at a Liberty Loan meeting held at her home in Great Neck, L. I., and obtained signatures for bonds amounting to $107,000 for the second Liberty Loan. Mrs. Guggenheim is on the board of many Jewish as well as non-sectarian philanthropies. Mrs. Francis Burrall Hoffman is the president of the National Organization of Catholic Women. She was appointed by Cardinal Farley as president of the Woman's Auxiliary of the National Catholic War Council. She is a woman of unusual executive ability and capacity for finance. She raised half a million dollars in the first Liberty Loan campaign.

SOLDIERS' COMFORT BAG
Comfort bags for soldiers are being made by women engaged in war relief work. This is the time to make them in order that they may be ready when needed.
For a comfort bag it is well to use khaki cloth to correspond with the uniform. The most important thing is the equipment. Soldiers do not want a lot of useless articles to remember you by, but there are a number of things they need.
For instance, if you wish to have your soldier write to you, place a pocket in the bag filled with stamped envelopes, not loose stamps, as they stick together and are easily lost. Writing paper could be in the form of a pad, or sheets could be slipped in each envelope, so as to be ready for use when needed.
Of course soldiers need sewing kits, which can be purchased in a 5 and 10-cent store for 10 cents each. The sewing kit may be a folder containing a thimble, needles, many black and white safety pins, buttons and other things of the kind. These folders can be made at home.
Safety matches, tooth brushes, wash cloths, medicated cotton, bandages to be used for small scratches, darning cotton, of grey wool, post cards and lead pencils are good things for the comfort bag.
Naturally individual needs and tastes will be considered.
The bag may only be 13 by 10 inches. The initials of the owner, his State and the number of his regiment may be outlined on the outside.

PANTRY POINTERS
Save the round pasteboard boxes, such as cornmeal and rolled oats come in. The smaller ones are fine to keep sugar in. In getting a ten pound bag, empty at once and there will be less waste than if used from the bag, besides being much neater in the pantry. Also, it is easy to determine how much sugar is being used.
The larger ones may hold potatoes and other small vegetables. One may be kept for twine. They do not take up much room on the floor and are neater than bags.

A SHOE SHINE.
Rub your brown shoes with castor oil. Use it as you would a shoe polish and shine with an old stocking or soft cloth. The stocking is best; it will remove spots and make them spot proof as well as softening them and giving them more durability.

THE USES OF TURPENTINE
Turpentine and soap will remove ink stains from muslin.
A few drops added to the water in which clothes are boiled will whiten them.
It will exterminate cockroaches if sprinkled in their haunts.
Moths will leave if it is sprinkled about, as they dislike it.
A few drops of turpentine on a woollen cloth will clean tan shoes very nicely.
Clean gilt frames with a sponge moistened with turpentine.
When blackening the stove add a few drops of turpentine.
Pitch wheel grease and tar stains can be quickly removed if the spot is first covered with lard and then soaked with turpentine. Scrape off all the loose dirt, sponge clean with turpentine and rub gently till dry.
Varnish and paint stains in coarse fabric can be removed by first saturating with turpentine and then washing.
Ivory knife handles that have become yellow can be restored to their former whiteness by rubbing with turpentine.
Carpets can be cleaned and the collars restored by going over occasionally with a broom dipped into warm water to which has been added a little turpentine.
An equal mixture of turpentine and linseed oil will remove white marks on furniture caused by water.

Don't Lose Faith in Your Friends
Persons who have lost all faith in humanity may feel that they are justified in taking such a stand. These people will argue that there is nothing like sincerity in humankind, but to judge all by the indifferent attitude of a few is neither fair nor reasonable.
One's tried and trusted friends do indeed often prove faithless. They go their way caring nothing about the trials or difficulties that may come to us, but granting all this we should not become embittered-should not steel our hearts against others around us.
FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT
The woman who loses faith in her relatives or friends even though she may feel she has good grounds for so doing, can hardly be expected to see any redeeming features in the persons whom she meets in a social or business way. Such a woman may declare her attitude is justified, but the person who becomes wary of people in general-who is, as it were, suspicious of them-makes a grave mistake always.
There is a wise middle course that the over-sensitive or over-impulsive woman should follow. We all know that familiarity breeds contempt. On the other hand, if we "love many, trust few and always paddle our own canoe." as an old adage advises, we shall, without doubt, continue in the good graces of all around us.
But if we wear our hearts upon our sleeves, tell them the ins and outs of our hopes or disappointments, thus infringing upon their time, we will soon have the fact brought home to us that these tried and trusted friends are not what we fondly believed them to be.
Girls and women who hope to retain the esteem and respect of their relatives or friends must learn to keep at a "safe distance" from those persons. One can be agreeable without overdoing it, and if we have any common sense at all we should not harass these good souls with our woes, real or other.
No matter how close friendship's ties may be, it is a mistake to become over-confiding or over-believing. Humanity in general is busied with its own affairs, and even though we feel we should receive extra consideration from this relative or that friend, if we hope to save ourselves a worthwhile shock, we will not look for any such concession.
Keeping at a "safe distance" from persons in general is a pretty sure sign that we shall get along all right with them. The tactful woman knows this, and as a result she does not lose faith in humanity.
The too familiar girl or woman quickly wears out her welcome. As a rule she receives scant ceremony from even her closest friends. Then she goes her way underrating people in general, and declaring all the world selfish and insincere.
It is useless to expect perfection from anyone. We all must learn to give and take. If this relative or that friend suddenly assumes a disinterested air we should not immediately draw our own conclusions. It may be that he or she is ill or experiencing some business difficulty which accounts for his or her perhaps ungracious attitude.
Life is more or less a battle for us all, but if we hope to stand our ground, or make anything like a passage showing we must take people as we find them. We should draw on our common sense and not expect too much of anyone. If we do we shall certainly be disappointed.
LEARN TO GIVE AND TAKE
Very often one's efforts and good intentions are not appreciated, but even so we should not lose faith in those around us. The human heart craves company, and a few good friends are golden treasures, especially to the woman alone, or getting along in years, but she must respect their rights and privileges. She should not make herself obtrusive or over-familiar for even those nearest and dearest to us soon demonstrate the irritation they feel if we infringe upon their interests or good nature.
Keep at a safe distance the woman who does not see lots of redeeming features in others. Over-familiar persons bore their closest friends, and these tactless people are the very ones who declare that all humankind is heartless.

Keep Out of a 'Rut' When You Work
Are you one of the persons who cannot work in a crowd? If you are, you are a most unfortunate person, for it is a fact that in this busy age most of us have to learn to do our work wherever we may happen to be. It is seldom that we find it possible to work in seclusion, shut away from the noise and rush of business.
Most large business concerns are beehives of activity. Unless one can find it possible to concentrate on the work in hand, even in the midst of confusion, it is plain to see that much time will be let and much energy wasted in this rushing world, where each one faces many duties in many lines of activity
POWER OF CONCENTRATION
Edna Ferber, one of the most successful writers of the day, wrote her first successful novel, "The Man Who Came Back," while her family was in the throes of house moving. Louisa M. Alcott, one of the most beloved of American authors, wrote many of her books at the bedside of her invalid mother.
Most of the successful women of both America and England have had many other duties added to those of breadwinning.
Now that woman has had to enter the business world and to give her every effort to various avenues of commerce, unless she has the power of concentration on whatever work is before her she will find herself sadly at a loss.
All business is carried on along certain well defined lines, just as every household is conducted according to certain rules and regulations, but there comes a time in every business when the usual order is disturbed, and unless each part of the concern is adjusted in such a way as to connect with the other part it is true that things will be always in a state of more or less confusion.
Most women do their work either in a haphazard way, which is destructive of any kind of settled routine, or else they get into such a rut that it is impossible to pull them out to face any emergency which may arise. Everything goes very well as long as the usual procedure is not disturbed, but let the lease thing, unexpected, happen and at once the whole world seems to be turned upside down. Now that women are entering the avenues of business which were once entirely given over to men, it behooves them to acquire poise and to learn to concentrate upon whatever is non hand if they are to make any very real success.
There is not reason in the world why one should not be able to do the daily task [set?] before one in the company of other people if the other personalities are not allowed to obtrude themselves upon one's attention. But, on the other hand, it is the easiest thing in the world to fritter away one's time with those around one if you will allow it. A moment here and a moment there and the next thing one knows the work of the day is way behind and the work of the morrow piled on to that of to-day.
Men have a way of concentrating on the work before them which to a woman of inexperience is quite wonderful. When they play they play, and when they work they work. That is their secret
It is very seldom you see two men together during business hours that they are not transacting business in one way or another. They may be talking over their lunch, or smoking together, or walking downtown together, but if it is in business hours you may feel very sure that when they are engaged in conversation it has to do with some work they have in hand.
But maybe in the afternoon on the golf links or in the evening at the theatre they will apparently have forgotten that there is such a thing as business and will be all the better for that forgetting.
It may seem to you that it is hardly fair to compare you in any way with the man or woman of large affairs when perhaps you have just started out in business. But this is not true, for every cog in a machine is of vast importance, else it would not be given a place in the machinery.
Never forget, if you are a part of the business world, that it makes no difference what your duties may be-they are of the utmost importance. But do not make the mistake of thinking that you yourself are of any great importance taken separately from the organization you represent.
FATAL SELF-INTEREST.
That is one mistake that so many women just entering the business world make-they forget their work in their interest in themselves. The fact of the matter is that in the business world you are of no importance whatever except in connection with the work that if is your duty to accomplish each day. There is only one way you can do this work properly, and that is by concentrating upon it every minute of your working time.
Try to cultivate concentration and single mindedness of purpose and see what you can accomplish in your line of work.

Banish the Unessentials
One of the restful things about visiting is that one takes with one only the things that one needs in the way of clothes and personal appointments. At home our own room is generally filled with things that we do not need at the moment.
"We open our bureau drawers and are confronted by a mass of things from which we have to select those we want. It is the same way with the home closet. Most of us live at home surrounded by the unessential for present use. Our rooms tire us. This should not be so," said the woman who likes to find ways to make living easier.
"Personal rooms should be restful places. They can be made so by banishing from them all superfluous articles in ornament, furnishings and apparel.
"Bureau drawers and closets should hold only clothes that will surely be worn in the present season. Bits of ribbon and laces, the collar that doesn't go with anything we are at a moment wearing, other season clothes, should all be exiled into boxes trunks far from our living room. Not a single article of wardrobe should be permitted to stay there that is not in present use.
Comfort of Uncluttered Rooms.

"I can think of a few things that work for greater restfulness and comfort than strict adherence to this rule. It is not an easy rule to follow. Bureaus and closets seem to have an impish zeal all their own for accumulation of the unnecessary.
"Once every week I have a clearing-out hour in my room, for with all my resolves never to let my room get littered I find a fixed tie for regulating the matter imperative. They will get filled in spite of all I can do.
"I have made a rule to keep something that I 'may use' in evidence in bureau or closet - only what I know I shall use. What I may use I lay away under cover, if possible, out of my room. It is easier to get these things when they are needed, even if it takes a little effort to do so, than to weary myself with the care and the clutter of them through the weeks, perhaps the months, that I shall not use them. Then, too, they do not have the needless wear that they are subject to hanging or lying about in my bureau and closet.
"A bedroom should be a most restful place. It cannot be this if it gives the impression of being choked with things. A bureau top should not be a catch-all. Its effect is spoiled by many cluttering objects. It is intended to hold a toilet set and a few pretty ornaments, and nothing more.
"When one's eyes open in the morning they should meet calm, refreshing order - no clutter.
"The fact that most bedrooms are half sitting rooms makes it difficult to [guard?] a restful simplicity of atmosphere in them. But it can be done by a little well directed energy, and it pays in giving to one's own room the calming quality that a friend's guest room gives to one on a visit."