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Show I m ABOUT ALIMENTARY HAPPINESS. The Ladies of St. mark's Publish Their Ideas A Suggestion About the Need of the Period. You may live without poetry, music and art, You may live without love and live without heart, You may live without friends and live without with-out books; - But where is the man that can live without cooks? You may live without books, what is knowledge knowl-edge but grieving! You may live without friends, what is hope but deceiving! You may live without love, what is passion but pining! But where is the man that can live without dining? Owen Meredith. The ladies of St. Mark's Guild evidently evi-dently had the above lines in their minds when they conceived the notion of compiling com-piling the splendid little cook book just issued. It is one of the simplest and must common sense works ever published pub-lished in that line. The lady who cannot now prepare a first-class dinner will have herself only to blame. The good result of this little work will be greater than we can for the present foretell. Man's happiness, after all, does mainly center in his Rtomanh and the ladies of St. Mark's Guild seems to have solved the secret of happiness. .We trust to see this valuable little volume vol-ume in every household, and hope that the ladies will continue their efforts in that line. Could not some of them write a treatise on the important subject of "The Servant Girls of To-day, and How They Should le Trained ?" There is certainly good room for improvement on these important questions. ques-tions. I . 1 |