| Show sphere aby byan ora orho of th sox w I 1 he food we eat the near approach of conference suggests to me that some directions for cooking and preparing food which will not dot keep a woman home all day to wait upon visitor be of inestimable value let us here suggest that our country friends might help to bear this heavy load put upon the good sisters of salt lake city if they would try and bring some prepared food with them now for instance cannot the sister from the country easily put a pound or two of butter a roasted chicken some pressed beef pickles cheese cake if she cares for sweets into a basket and in fact bring enough to supply her own and famil fam ilys Is wants with the exception of breaY bread which is always to be obtained at the bakeries I 1 think it is a duty the country sisters owe to those who entertain them twice a year to feed themselves as much ds as possible so that the woman of the house is not kept away from the meetings to cook and wait upon the many visitors which come codeso so often to her house I 1 know country visitors who have come into the house while the hostess was without a girl and in delicate health they staid a week and the girl who was one of the party never offered to wash a dish or V sweep a room in fact some of the visitors do not even offer to make their own beds these of course are exceptions but while the sisters in the city want to do the very they can the strangers within their gates it is too much of a burden to feed and wait upon from two to a dozen extra people unless some of those visitors offer and even insist upon helping to bear those burdens about the food which the city woman can have prepared for her visitors if she wishes to make an effort to entert entertain her visitors while she still attends the meetings herself pressed beef will keep for a week or two apil until the meat slips from the bone either a shank or a brisket of beef and after removing the at fat and gristle chop it like mince meat keep the pot liquor to use in the after preparation of the meat when it is well chopped season with pepper salta salt a little allspice if you like spiced meat and after heating the pot liquor put the meat in it press it down in a bowl and leave it over night it can be cut in slices with a sharp knife and you can use some ot ol it for hasty stews or of gravies if you wish make also a big of 1 hash and set that away bake a generous C supply of f beans dont flavor them with pork though they are just as good and twice as healthful cooked with a bit of fat beef or of even with butter alone then cold roast beef and boiled mutton and indeed any kind of cold meets can be prepared days before the visitors come nes boiled puddings cake pickles cheese canned fruits and vegetables can all be laid in the pantry then the woman of the house can go to meeting and when she gets home if the potatoes have been left cleaned in cold water it is only a matter of half an hour 0 jo o boil them while your daughter or one i of your visitors sets the table and ain pis oat is soon ready cover the table and when you get back from the afternoon meeting just pleasantly invite your visitors td help you wash up and get things ready for morning many people from the country feel shy and bate to seem too free by offering their services and they would gladly help if asked to do so dont make the mistake of cooking meat and potatoes for breakfast mush bread butter and fruit are ample for any breakfast the same is true of sup per at dinner have your meats and vegetables the clothes we wear while all this crinoline talk is is going on in the scores of leading fashion papers there is one thing said which gives a sensible woman a hope for the future one and all of the fashion writers say women must wear hoops if the heavy gored and full skirts are to become fashionable why we ask because the weight weigh twill will be unendurable on our hips unless something is devised to remove that weight is answered this remark always inspires me with the hope that even the fashion writers and fashion wearers bearers are becoming awakened to the terrible custom civilized women have of suspending pounds of weight upon the most easily injured portion of the body the waist nobody would think it strange or unbecoming for christian women to enter into some organized plan to teach the chinese women the cruelty they practise upon their children in the way of cn crippling i p ling the feet but every physician ana and indeed every one who has given the matter study will tell vou that the mere deformity of the feet is Is as naught compared with the horrible deformity of the waist seen daily the daughters of enlightened christian lands are the people of this territory exempt from th this is practice not by any means on the contrary I 1 sometimes fancy that as in other things wego we go to the extreme in this mattero matter whatever we do in this community co we do with our whole hearts and this wearing of corsets and of heavy clothing around the waist is one of the wicked things which we carry to a most harmful extreme I 1 I 1 heard the other day that a certain large firm in this city were selling oft 08 their whole line of corsets for a mere trifle I 1 was delighted to mark the dawning of a better sentiment for this is certainly indicative dica tive of a happy change in the lash ash ions and cus customs t orns of our women may the flood roll oni on gathering vigor and strength as it rol rolls s all utah is emancipated from this wicked thralldom and if corsets are bad skirts and bands without corsets upon the unprotected waist line are almost as bad and in some cases where the weight is a good deal worse the fact is women do not need petticoats half so much as they think they do if you need warmth get it by garments which are in one piece from the neck to the heel and wear two or three of them if you are bartic particularly aral cold blooded if you must have a petticoat for looks be sure and have it either buttoned upon u on a waist a loose waist not a bonet boned corset waist or else have a half tight coming down to the hips and upon this sew your skirt I 1 have a friend who makes all her summer skirts in the following fashion she takes a white chemise and skirt without one pound of weight upon the waist if you wear dresses cut in basque and skirt form insist upon your dressmaker putting the skirt upon a thin and you will thank me me for the suggestion and her for the consequent com comfort firt Under wares in in fact every article of clothing should be suspended from the shoulders in in some way or another T the he empire style of dress is very healthful and it is almost impossible to do the mischief to the body with that style that is possible with other fashions but unfortunately it is not becoming to many women tall women always look well in the long empire gowns while short and especially stout women look anything but pretty our children hildrea hil dreu sometimes through a lack of nurse or through death of the mother it is necessary to bring up a child by hand there are many ways of accomplishing this and each one thinks her own way is the best we mormons cormons are all such a conscientious lot that we sin rather through portical par knowledge than through any desire to break laws and override rules but there are certain facts which constant recurrence prove to be facts and when any one has taken the trouble to study and observe the various results bringing some feasible and ana reasonable conclusions as to causes it behooves you and me as wise and progressive gres sive women to listen to those teachings and obey in so far as in us lies the experiment of bringing up children by hand is most largely in hospitals where hundreds of infants are deposited and here it is that the most significant results are noticed I 1 might quote to you reports of various institutions giving figures and names but the papers are to be written in an entirely unprofessional fess ional way and therefore I 1 shall merely repeat the sum and substance of such reports and give meanwhile some hints as to the home treatment of such cases as I 1 am talking about in a certain hospital in philadelphia where there are hundreds of infants ranging in in age from a day to two years old the attendant physician decided to try an experiment he knew it was perfectly sate and for obvious reasons namely no child dies from under feeding unless that process is kept up for some time A few days of insufficient feeding never hurt child nor adult it is indeed in many cases a godsend so this doctor told the m matron tron to feed the children three times a day dav in a week he returned to find out the result a of his advice the nurses one and all reported that so great had been the improvement in the health spirits and looks of the babies that he was delighted but further inquiry proved that the matron had understood the doctor to mican mean three times in twenty four hours while he ie merit ment only three times in twelve hours but so great had been the improvement all along the line of babies that the doctor resolved to limit the feeding times imes to four times in the twenty tour four hours the instructions which accompanied this advice are significant to you who are mothers feed them three times a day and once at night but be sure each child has all it wants at the time ime of feeding here is the point it is of some moment what kind of food you give the baby but it is far more that hat it shall be fed at long intervals and with the regularity of a clock and it must have all it wants at the time it is fed ed these are most important things to remember 1 saw a beautiful twins some months ago fat as butter utter and fairly stupid with excess ot of food and the richness of the same and one of them when I 1 went into the room was dursin nursing the mother and the other lay in a c crib anif sucking a sugar rag you all know what that is a lot of sugar tied up in a rag and moistened for the baby to suck I 1 could have snatched the deadly thing from the childs mouth but it was not my business and the mother was one of the kind who do not take kindly to suggestions in three months both of the twins were dead died with only a lew few hours warning of stomach troubles they called it the dispensations of god I 1 wondered how much the sugar rag had assisted providence in the deadly work our conr ailments I 1 SORE EYES as this complaint is termed in medical parlance is not so common k in the northern counties as itis it is in the south of this territory but it sometimes afflicts even our cold valley dwellers and I 1 have seen it so severe as to cause the most exquisite pain I 1 cannot think that this disease would reach this highly inflammatory sta geif the person who had bad the trouble understood the primary cause of its infliction and would take some simple means to re move the cause thereof to put the matter ma ater briefly inflamed eyes or eyelids indicate a condition of the blood best described as being too rich it is too rich in carbon and some of the acids needed in the system are not supplied people who have sore eyes eat either too much sugar too much meat too much white bread and butter or too much grease or sweet in some form when the eyes begin to be sore just be sensible and cutoff cut off the sugar and meat supply at least for the time being and eat something something light acid and easily digested co coffee ee drinkers should leave off the favorite beverage while all kinds of fermented drinks are so much poison to diseased eyes for the local treatment of the eye bathing the eye in warm water and milk and if you have it a douche of hot water for the nose will be of infinite service in reducing the inglam aaion hot water will absorb inglam aaion and drive away serious colds of all sorts bath the eyes frequently and let me beg of you donot do not use patent a t en medicines of any sort or indeed indea any an y medicine to put in or on the eye there is no need of it and there are other and far less dart dangerous berous methods of overcoming the disease drink hot lemonade without any sugar in it keep as quiet as possible and let the overtaxed stomach and system rest remember your stomach will not rest if you call upon it to do the same work it has been doin doing 9 while you were up and at work rest means rest not simply lying down and eating like a stall fed calt call some people have a great partiality to taking medicine cine an and such folks always fancy that they are getting well it they are only taking something for such people I 1 would recommend some of the old fashioned blood purifiers such as cream of tartar and salts or sulphur and cream of tartar it is good for those who eat much meat through the winter months to take lake some spring medicine you can fix up some simple herb and roots into a decoction if you 0 wish it is not bad to drink sassa sass alra frass s s tea for a few mornings sarsaparilla is another well known blood purifier fix up your medicines yourself if you must have them they are cheaper and will give you far far more satisfaction than the patent medicines I 1 must confess to a feeling of reverence for the advice given us in the doctrine and covenants and I 1 cannot see why it does not apply in this case as well as in others if any among you are sick and have not faith to be healed but believe they shall be nourished with all tenderness with herbs and with mild food and that not by the hand of an enemy that advice is just as pressing upon this people now as it was when it was written physical culture SOME DOMESTIC EXERCISES TO THE LUNGS in recognizing the necessity of enlarging the lung capacity wl we must give g ive i some attention to that which will do this with greatest ease and speed I 1 have given you some exercises which will serve for those who do not do ordinary housework but there are certain parts of housework which are specially adapted to the development of the chest especially if they are performed in an intelligent manner now while I 1 recommend these labors as of great importance I 1 do not for one moment wish to imply that they will take the place of regular and suitable exercise graded and arranged to call into activity not only certain muscles but each and every muscle of the body to begin with our domestic exercises there is nothing better than going up and down stairs what a chorus of of and as follows that statement it is true nevertheless but there are proper and improper modes of climbing stairs and to this our attention must be directed what happens when you go up stairs does not your heart beat at an accelerated pace do not your lungs expand to their extreme limit are not the muscles of your legs increased in size and strength yes to all ot of this this exercise does not especially de delope the muscles of the trunk and abdomen an important necessity which we will consider at another time but the lungs heart stomach and legs are all benefited but now I 1 want you to watch the next woman you see going up stairs how does she proceed her body is bent into a bow perhaps double if she is old or weak or lazy and her head rests upon her breast her legs press upward upon the abdomen and if she can cling to a bannister she is pulling one arm almost out of the socket t trying ring to help her legs drag the weight 0 of her body up this sort of thing is decidedly unhealthy and if long continued it will injure th whole frame what is the proper position first and most important keep your mouth closed and breathe through the nose hold your head up up I 1 say and straighten out your back until there is not the suspicion of a curve now draw in I 1 the he breath and inflate the lungs and then raise the leg ahead of the body in a true square lift the body up with the lungs and chest and never let its weight drop on the legs watch a man go up the steps if he is sound and straight he will wiil be an exact pattern for |
