8 Discoveries wanted! What little things are you doing to save yourself time or money or worry, or to add to the beauty or utility of anything about your house? We'll pay at least one dollar for every available Discovery. For Fireless Cookers A fireless cooker will last much longer if an asbestos mat is placed in the bottom of the cooker before the soapstone is put in; while a soapstone will heat much more quickly if an asbestos mat is placed on top of it while heating. M. S. L., Ohio. Hot Compresses for Invalids Here is a method of preparing hot compresses for the sick when moist heat is required which it would be well for all housewives to know about. Take a double-cooker, partially fill lower part with water, and place over fire. Wring out pieces of wet flannel until as dry as possible, and place in upper half of cooker. Place upper part in lower, and when the water boils, the flannels are ready to apply. No wringing is necessary. Mrs. F. L. W., Ohio. Washing Table-Linen You can keep your table-linen looking like new by a simple Discovery I learned from an ironer in a French laundry. Dip one-half of your tablecloth, which has been thoroughly dried after washing, into a pan of scalding-hot water. Lay into a towel the half that is wet, and wring as dry as possible by wringing the ends of the towel. Shake out; fold dry side over wet side immediately, and roll into a tight roll. Allow to lie overnight, or several hours at least. While very damp, iron with very hot irons. (This is not good for cotton or mixed table-cloths.) Napkins are handled in the same way, dipping half the number of napkins, and then alternating the wet with the dry ones when folding down. C. D., Alaska. Unless every thread of damask is thoroughly dampened, it is difficult if not impossible to press out all the wrinkles and to bring out the pattern in satiny clearness. Some even iron damask when "wringing wet," but the same beautiful results can be obtained by this method, and at a great saving of time and often fuel. THE EDITORS. Window Protection We live in the "Windy City" where frequently to keep your bedroom window open would mean the entrance of a great deal of dirt-besides the blowing about of curtains and other small objects in the room. So we devised a We pay two dollars for extra-good ones. Address (enclosing postage where return of unavailable material is desired) Discovery Editor, care of Good Housekeeping Magazine, 119 West 40th Street, New York City frame just fitting the lower sash of the window, very similar to the frame of a screen. This we covered on both the outer and inner sides with coarse brown burlap. It has proved a wonderful convenience, whatever dirt sifts through the first layer of cloth being stopped by the second. Also we can have our window open in the coldest weather without any direct draft. Its greatest value to me, however, has been in my little baby's room-and it ought to be a boon to all young mothers-for when the child takes its nap in the daytime, the shade can be pulled down to the top of this frame, making the room dark, but still allowing plenty of fresh air. Such a frame, of course, can be taken out easily, the only thing which keeps it in place being the close fit between it and the window-frame. They take but a few moments to make and are invaluable. R. K. M., Illinois. "Had to" Account In keeping my family accounts I have often been puzzled about the heading under which to put certain items, for I like to have my accounts represent the truth. I don't like to make the "Miscellaneous" column cover too wide a field, and I can't in honesty put things under "Charity" when I gave simply because I wasn't brave enough to refuse. I'm sure all of us have given subscriptions to charities, bought tickets for benefits, taken some acquaintance to luncheon, entertained some friends of our friends, and afterward have said to ourselves, "We had to." So in a spirit of fun I began a "Had to" account, and I've since discovered that it's a most satisfactory method of disposing of certain items, besides being an interesting account. P. E. G., California. Oil-Stove Breakfast I use a blue-flame coal-oil stove for getting breakfast, and I find when I use the oven (which requires two burners) and cook a cereal and use my percolator that I am "shy" one burner. I solved this problem by lighting all three burners at once, placing the "boss" oven over two, and putting my water for the cereal inside to begin to heat. Then I place an "eye" (the heavy kind that comes with percolators for gas stoves, not the thin sheet-iron one you get with the oilstove) on the third burner, and put my percolator on Lamp-candlesticks with mahogany bases are among recent attractive innovations for the home. Rooms can now be furnished entirely in mahogany The explosion of a double-boiler was new to me, though I have been a housekeeper for twenty-five years. Recently, however, I put the contents of a can of beans in the inner vessel of the double-boiler and, putting the latter into the outer kettle with the usual amount of hot water, placed it directly over the gasflame. In a very short time-I do not know how long, as I was busy - the inner vessel flew toward the ceiling, as if fired from a gun. The boiling water from the outer kettle was driven three or four feet from the gas-range. Fortunately, no one was standing near. Examination showed that there was one place in which the two vessels fitted together so that they were almost air-tight. The boiler was a comparatively new one, too. The moral is not to dispense with the invaluable double-boiler, but when purchasing one to see to it that the two parts fit together loosely. Baby's Bed A guarantee of purer milk! This new invention of Mrs. Julia Stevenson's, of which a sectional view is shown, sets the milk-can in an air-tight compartment which is filled with ice, so that there is no chance for bacteria to develop while the milk is in transit or standing about on station platforms Darning-baskets, made in the shape W. M. C., New York. It was made from a soap-box, 30 x 18 inches and 10 inches deep. A blacksmith charged twenty cents for two strong iron hooks that were fastened securely on one side. Two coats of white enamel paint greatly improved its appearance, and made it match the bed over the foot of which it hung. It could have been trimmed with ruffles of net, lace, and ribbon, had we so desired, but we used simply a little mattress and pillow made to fit it. When in position, it made it possible for mother to give baby his night nursing without getting out of bed herself, which was a great blessing during the winter months. It did not interfere at all with bed-making, as it was so easily lifted off. Later, when baby sat up, it was a safe place for him to play in, and convenient, too, since it could so readily be carried into any room. Mrs. H. H. H., Massachusetts. Name-Guessing Game A game that is entertaining as well as instructive is called "Name Guessing." One person gives two or three words, each designed to begin with the corresponding initials of some famous man or woman, the words used being such as will express the character of A grapefruit-knife which will really separate the fruit from the pulp. These useful little contrivances the person. For instance, if whoever was "it" said, "Great Warrior," the answer would be George Washington. Likewise, if "United States General" was said, the correct answer would be U.S. Grant. And in this way, traversing the realms of art, history, and literature, the game can be played. Every person in the gathering gives "Name Guessing" in turn, and the others do the guessing in order, till the correct solution is given. I find that this game is especially a adapted for children, for it gives them an incentive for knowledge of great men and their works. In fact, it Two new varieties of the familiar stork scissors are being made for the table. One of these is for cutting the grape-stems, while other, with its saw-teeth. will cut loaf-sugar into any size desired Favors that proved a novelty to me were used at a party lately at which I was a guest. They were in the shape of butterflies, made of rather stiff paper, the wings brightly colored, and bent back to look as if they had just alighted. On the back of the body of each was glued a small burdock, so they would stick to anything with which they happened to come in contact. The men used them as boutonnières and the women decorated their hair and blouses with them. Anyone who is at all apt with a brush can paint really beautiful ones, and the cost is almost nothing. The veining can be done with gold paint. Luncheon-Set Gift. B. M. D., Connecticut. A group of intimate friends gave a birthday surprise to one member of the group. We sent her the following articles: (1) A table-cloth (luncheon size) made of the blue and white Japanese toweling, which can be bought for one dollar a bolt of ten yards. It is very narrow, and requires the ten yards carefully matched for a cloth 212 yards long, exclusive of the wide, rather coarse, but attractive and appropriate hemstitching. (2) Six doilies of the same material, 12 inches square. (3) Six cheap but pretty blue and white luncheon plates. (4) Six salad plates, also blue and white. (5) Six bread and butter plates, same color. (6) Six blue and white cups and saucers. (7) A little blue and white teapot. (8) A little blue and white sugar-bowl. (9) A little blue and white cream-jug. The whole cost only five dollars, and when the table was spread and the beneficiary invited to inspect it, it certainly proved a very attractive everyday luncheon-set. Each person contributed only fifty cents. And there never was a more delightful gift, carrying no money obligation for the recipient to be burdened with, no matter how sensitive she might be. The family became greatly interested, and already different members have added a chopplate, two vegetable dishes, dessert plates, some bouillon cups, all in the familiar bamboo design. E. W., California. Asbestos TableMats Our home-made asbestos table-mat cost us less than seventy-five cents, and protects our table fully as well as an expensive one. "Woman's sphere"-is it the house or the home? What a just settlement of this problem will do for women and for the race. Are Your Nerves in Tune? If they aren't, something else is wrong. Read this article and learn what is really affected and where the cure lies. Dealing in Babies. A poet's traffic in future promise and present joy. The Case of Jack the Dullard The backward school-child, and the remedy which will give the schools a chance. The King A Poem. Inside Stories about "Guaranteeing" Behind the scenes of the "Moneyback Advertisements." The Charm of the Antique Accessories the "little things that count" in house decoration-the pleasure of seeking them, the joy of acquiring them, the romance with which time endows them. Azalee's Valentine Really there were three valentines: but Azalee didn't know that at first. The Woman I Failed to Be Judd Mortimer Lewis Jesse Lynch Williams 181 Dr. Henry Smith Williams 186 194 Fiction in this Number Corra Harris 159 Illustrated by Gayle Hoskins 199 Illustrated by Lajaren A. Hiller 209 It reads like fiction, but it's fact fact repeating itself in the lives of hundreds of women. Saturday's Child The little office-girl's love affair with the scion of society reaches a surprising climax in this instalment of the best novel yet written by the author of "Mother." The Girl in Gray. A May Iverson Story The girl from the convent who is trying newspaper work finds the girl at the opposite social pole-and holds out to her a helping hand. Hashimura Togo in Bachelor's Hall The Japanese boy assists at a trial divorce, but misses the reunion. Mirandy on Fathers' Day Kathleen Norris Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller Elizabeth Jordan 233 Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg Cover design. Coles Phillips; Editor's Say, 6-8. Advertising Section; The Fear of Being Great. Bouck White. 149; Mother Goose Drawing, Jessie Willcox Smith, 206; Fashions, 269; New Things for the Housekeeper, 287; Discoveries, 290; Index to Advertisements. 12-14, Advertising Section. 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