Mix in a cup or saucer the dry powder and liquid medium which comes with each outfit, to the consistency of thick paste. Use a knife or flat tool in mixing, to crush any lumps that may be in the powder. Unscrew the tube from the bulb—holding the bulb in a vertical position—placing over the opening the funnel, compress the bulb, and while compressed fill the funnel to any desired extent with the paste, then allow the bulb gradually to expand to its natural shape until the paste is drawn in. Remove the funnel and replace the tube and the air-pencil is ready for use. To insure good work, the pencil should not be allowed to touch the article to be decorated.
After using the instrument the tube should be unscrewed and thoroughly cleaned. The bulb should be cleaned by placing it in a basin of water and allowing it to soak until the compound is dissolved. The tube can be cleaned with a small wire.
PLAN No. 394. MONEY IN CEREAL COFFEE
Through making a cereal coffee from pure ingredients, which proved an excellent substitute for ordinary coffee, and was free from the injurious alkaloid of the coffee of commerce, a young married woman in St. Louis built up a modest yet ample business for herself, and earned the praise of thousands of customers besides. The cereal coffee she made was prepared as follows:
Rye, 12 pounds; horse beans, 1 pound. Roast in a big oven pan over a quick fire, greasing the pan with a little butter. When roasted as you would ordinary coffee, grind in a coffee mill together with 1⁄4 pound cassia buds. Mix 1 pound ground chicory with the ground cereals, and it is ready for use in the same manner as ordinary coffee.
She introduced this at first by asking her friends and acquaintances to try it, and they were so well pleased with both its taste and its effects that they recommended it to others, so that orders began to come in rapidly. Many dealers began to receive inquiries for it, and to supply these she went among the retail stores of the city and took orders for it in large quantities. The product soon had a large sale and she established a small factory where she could turn it out as rapidly as occasion required.
PLAN No. 395. GIRL EARNED A COLLEGE EDUCATION
How a young lady entered Oberlin College with $60, and came out at the end of three years with a good education and $50 besides.
She earned her board, tuition and incidental expenses by canvassing, working in a dining-room, clerking in a store, assisting at class receptions, doing housework, tutoring, and working in the college library.