One of the primary and most important "home helps" is a smile. A spontaneous and sincere smile if possible; if a grouch has got you-try a mechanical grin; if you can't grin, a silly simper will soon have you laughing at your own ridiculousness. A little of this "Polly-Anne" propanganda, discreetly practiced, will prove a "home help" wortlh cultivating. Try it once!

Kitchen

Pare onions under water and they will not irritate the eyes.

Remove pin feathers from a fowl with a strawberry huller.

To prevent burning saucepan when boiling milk, sprinkle bottom of the pan with granulated sugar. let it get hot, then pour in the milk. It also keeps milk from boiling over.

To remove odors, such as onions, fish, etc., from the hands, wash hands and before drying them rub on about a teaspoon of dry mustard.

A pinch of soda added to any boiled syrup will keep it from crystallizing.

A few cloves added to vegetable soup will give it a delicious flavor.

Heat lemons well before squeezing and there will be double the quantity of j uice.

A few grains of rice placed in the bottom of a salt celler will keep salt from sticking in damp weather.

Add 1/4 teaspoon soda to cranberries while cooking and they will not require much sugar.

To keep juice from running out of fruit pies, insert a small cornucopia of white paper into the center of the pie so that it is about twice the height of the pie.

When separating eggs, if you drop a portion of egg yolk into the whites, moisten a cloth with cold water, touch to yolk and it will adhere to it.

In making fancy shaped sandwiches, cut bread lengthwise instead of across the loaf and there is less waste.

After freezing ice cream, empty cracked ice into sack. Ice will melt, leaving salt which can be used again.

In placing dishes on ice, place rubber ring from fruit jar under dishes. Ring will adhere to both ice and dish.

Don't stick your fork, when baking a roast, again and again into the meat, and so let out the juices and flavor.

When a custard pie shrinks from the crust, it has been baked in too hot an oven. The oven should be hot for the first eight or ten minutes in order to bake the pastry so that it will not become soaked with liquid. Then reduce the heat or the custard will boil.

If an egg is strictly fresh it will, when placed in a pan of water, lie on its side at the bottom of pan. If stale, it will stand on end, and if very old, it will rise to the surface.

If a chicken is rubbed inside and out with a cut of lemon before it is cooked, it wil1 make the meat white, juicy and tender.

When cooking such vegetables as carrots, spinach, turnips and cauliflower, cook twice the amount needed for one meal. Half may be served plain the first day and the other half creamed the second day.

Salt meats, such as ham, tongue and beef, which are to be boiled, should be put in cold water and allowed to heat slowly.

When using canned asaparagus be sure to open the can at the bottom so that the stalks may be removed without injuring the tips.

Season mashed potatoes and place in well-buttered muffin pans. Sprinkle a little grated cheese over the top and bake in the oven until brown. Remove carefully with a spatula and surround a broiled steak or fish with them.

When separating egg yolks from the whites, break them over a funnel and the whites will pass through, leaving the yolks in the funnel.

A pinch of powdered sugar and another of cornstarch beaten in with the yolks of eggs will keep an omlet from collapsing.

Unsifted flour is "packed". Always sift it before measuring or you will spoil a careful recipe by using too much.

Remove bread and biscuits from the baking pan as soon as they are taken from the oven or "sweating" will spoil the crispness of the bottom crust.

Remember to handle baking powder dough as little as possible. Sour milk and soda products are improved by adding a little baking powder.

Sour pickles, cut in bits, adds to potato salad.

Carrots put through the food chopper and cut up celery make a good raw vegetable salad.

Half a cup of ground nuts added to custards forms a crust that when baked is delicious.

Prunes cooked in a sweet pickle syrup are tasty and quite different.

One qt. of vinegar can make two by adding an equal amount of boiling water. Bottle and let stand for a few days.

A fish dinner or luncheon should be followed with a salad, French dressing, wafers, cheese and coffee. Sweets should never be served with fish.

Beef kidney with round steak, onions, carrots and potatoes make a delicious soup or stew.

To cut marshmallows, dip scissors in cold water and they will not stick.

CARE OF THE REFRIGERATOR

Health demands a spotless refrigerator. Food keeps better and longer when cleanliness is assured.

Clean ice chamber and drainage as well as the food chamber.

Place all foods in porcelain or glass.

Vegetables and fruits should be washed before placing in refrigerator.

The most perishable food should be placed nearest the ice chamber.