Identifier: bostoncookingsch19hill_12 (find matches)
Title: The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, Janet McKenzie, 1852-1933, ed Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Home economics Cooking
Publisher: Boston : Boston Cooking-School Magazine
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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d soak the materialin warm water for from ten to fifteenminutes. If that is not obtainable,cold water will do, but it takes a longertime. The reed must be soaked untilit is pHable and naturally the larger the IN OCTOBER 191 weave, the longer time it takes to makeit flexible. After the basket is finished, a Httlesand paper removes any roughness; acoat of equal parts of turpentine andlight oil finish may be used, or possiblygum shellac, previously dissolved inalcohol. Good paste or wax may beused also, but must be applied with asoft cloth and afterwards pohshed witha stiff brush. Originality of design is of great valueas well as manual dexterity. At first,of course, it is well to copy good models,but half the benefit and pleasure is lostif one does not attempt originality.Experiment should be undertaken, atfirst along the well-known lines andwith materials that have been tested.When one has had experience, however,one can do much with almost any kindof a reed, rattan, willow, or j^rass.
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IX HOMELY FASHION In October The frost has touched the trees with gold,With crimson, and with brown; And, loosened from their summer hold,Ripe fruits come tumbling down. In sweeping flight, toward southern strand The birds of passage go;And soon must stretch, on either hand, Wide wastes of ice and snow. But oh, these still, fair autumn days, The blue hills of the noon,Far fields that lie in smoky haze, At night the hunters moon! All, all of these my soul will store To make my heart beat warmWhen loud at window and at door Knocks the wild winter storm. Cora A. Matsox Dob son. Essentials of Happy Homemaking By Eleanor Robbins Wilson To he happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition; the end to which every enterprise andlabour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.—Johnson, WHO ever saw a newly-marriedpair and did not feel that theyhad securely corralled Cupidby the surest and strongest measuresextant? It is only the pioneer settlersof matrimony who know how

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