Then there is creamed celery, of course, to which I sometimes add a half cup of almonds for variety.  And I use it in salads, too.  Not a bit of celery is wasted around here.  Even the leaves may be dried out in the oven, and crumbled up to flavor soups or other dishes.”

    “That’s fine!  Celery is so high this season, and much of it is not
    quite nice enough for the table, unless cooked.”

A number of new uses for adhesive plaster were suggested by a writer in the New York Tribune, who, in the excerpt below, employs effectively the device of the direct appeal to the reader.

    Aside from surgical “First Aid” and the countless uses to which this
    useful material may be put, there are a great number of household
    uses for adhesive plaster.

If your pumps are too large and slip at the heel, just put a strip across the back and they will stay in place nicely.  When your rubbers begin to break repair them on the inside with plaster cut to fit.  If the children lose their rubbers at school, write their names with black ink on strips of the clinging material and put these strips inside the top of the rubber at the back.

In the same way labels can be made for bottles and cans.  They are easy to put on and to take off.  If the garden hose, the rubber tube of your bath spray, or your hot water bag shows a crack or a small break, mend it with adhesive.

A cracked handle of a broom, carpet sweeper, or umbrella can be repaired with this first aid to the injured.  In the same way the handles of golf sticks, baseball bats, flagstaffs and whips may be given a new lease on life.

    If your sheet music is torn or the window shade needs repairing, or
    there is a cracked pane of glass in the barn or in a rear window,
    apply a strip or patch of suitable size.

In an article in the Philadelphia Ledger on “What Can I Do to Earn Money?” Mary Hamilton Talbot gave several examples of methods of earning money, in one of which she incorporated practical directions, thus: 

A resourceful girl who loved to be out-of-doors found her opportunity in a bed of mint and aromatic herbs.  She sends bunches of the mint neatly prepared to various hotels and cafes several times a week by parcel post, but it is in the over-supply that she works out best her original ideas.  Among the novelties she makes is a candied mint that sells quickly.  Here is her formula:  Cut bits of mint, leaving three or four small leaves on the branch; wash well; dry and lay in rows on a broad, level surface.  Thoroughly dissolve one pound of loaf sugar, boil until it threads and set from the fire.  While it is still at the boiling point plunge in the bits of mint singly with great care.  Remove them from the fondant with a fork and straighten the leaves neatly with a hatpin or like instrument.  If a second