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Show THE haps, like i is ) int HEE MRS T. B. LEWIS, A - MODERN Associate Editor ROMANCE. She had studied all of the ‘‘ologies,” Knew all about Latin and Greek, Italian and Spanish could read and write, And French and German speak; a large majority WESTERN of young mothers, you ‘know very little about the care and management of children, but don’t be discouraged, it is not impossible for you to learn how to develop.the good, and control the undisirable traits of your child. Mothers often fear spoiling the temper of their little one by not gratifying all its fickle fancies and in order to keep humor, suffer it to tyrannize over them to its heart’s content. No greater mistake; a child may soon be taught that it cannot get everything by crying for it, and it is easier satisfied after gaining that necessary pipee OL, im= formation. Regularity in eating a peep) ing are important throughout one’s whole lifetime and imperatively so during infancy and childhood. Absolute confidence should be established as early as possible between parent and child. That a child may feel that whatever restrictions are placed upon him are necessary for his good, are. the Could sing like a seraph or nightingale, sheltering safeguards for his imWas pretty well up in art; |mature judgment. She graduated from the Havard Annex, No definite formula can be given And then—she lost her heart. for the training of any child, but There were moonlight walks, a sail or two, A drive when the day was done; ~ Ribbons, laces, a wedding march, And then—they twain were one.- we hope a few general suggestions may be mothers, of interest to young and they can modify them to suit individual cases. It A run to Europe, then home again, is rare to find two children of the Receptions and balls, a score; same parents alike in disposition, Then they settled down to life’s routine, therefore an attempt.to educgte a And the honeymoon was o’er. + child by rule would undoubted:y Alas! for their life’s ship tossing now result in failure. Dispositions ’Mong the breakers of “Something to must be studied and guided separEat;” For this reason it is vastly Alas! that the love of a man should de- ately. pend. better that a mother should take On a bit of bread and meat. care of her children herself rather But a dinner of herbs though seasoned than entrust their care to a nurse. with love, A child may be taught ata very On the palate at last will pall, early age to dress himself, brush And he longed for the flesh pots of Hgypt, his teeth and hair and. clean his And the fatted ox in the stall. nails, and hang up his coat and hat, The cook crew“uppish”and “put on airs,” keep his playthings in order, and When she didn’t know salmon from cod, perform many little services for And she found, too late, she had married his mother. By learning self reaman: liance he will also learn self respect, Instead of a demi-god. and he will be happy if his Romance and poetry slipped away, And Love—the gay littte sinner— Pouted, then out of the window attentions are rewarded; by flew When she couldn’t cook the dinner. What did she do? Had she been a man I presume she’d have “taken to drink,” But, being a woman, she just sat down, On the state of affairs to think. The thing was done; it was no use now To say she had been “a fool;” So she quietly donned her wraps and went At once to a cooking school. Poetry never came back again And Romance was lost, or dead, But Love came shyly flitting back As soon as she learned to make bread. may and kindly, i CHOICE Study as much as you,please, but be sure fi vo marry you know how to cook. Good Housekeeping. MOTHER CHILD. and thoughtfully innocent eyes of your into baby boy? Possibly you have been reading or thinking of the many examples of men eminently dis- tinguished for goodness and greatness who, when the zenith of acknowledged they their with had reached ambition, filial pride, that their success was largely due to the wise instruction, and care- ful guidance of their mothers, and , you would like to be a model mother to your precious boy. <i-n—>—~4<> + THANKSGIVING Game game breast Fond, proud mother, of what are you thinking as you gaze so earnestly possible, DAY DISHES. Pre.— Use as as get, notably part- you can many kinds ridges, quail, and grouse, and if game be plentiful, use only the fillets from the ——__—_—_—_ the if Per- and served in small quantities. soup is most delicious if you can it,as you can if you have a chickens and one turkey to A giblet manage pair of prepare. Take the feet, necks and heads of all and throw them in boiling water for five minutes, when the skin will come. off. Then put them in a saucepan with an onion, a few sprigs of parsley, and a couple of stalks of celery. If you have any bones and trimmings and want more and the second joints, relegating the remainder of the carcasses to the soup pot. Put such joints and pieces as you intend to use for the pie in a saucepan, and cover with cold water; bring to a boil, and simmer for half an hour. Line a large pudding dish with paste and lay in the pieces of birds in alternate layers with thin slices of salt pork, spreading each layer with a forcemeat of bread crumbs, sweet marjoram, thyme, and minced parsley, seasoning with salt and pepper. When the dish is nearly full, strain in the broth in which they were cooked to nearly cover; put on the upper crust, cut a hole in the top and. bake slowly three hours. Cover with white paper if it browns too fast. GisLet Soup.—The soup isn’t ;much of an object on Thanksgiving day, but it should be tasteful, light, appetizing, who thinks of the things of a life only asthey afford to him some momentary actly as | said. Robust health is the first requisite to robust souls. More misery is in the world tod .y from unhealthy motherhood than from all other sourcescombined. Nervous disorders, diseases of the brain, unwise pleasure. ambitions, ual story to tell of how it sprang into existence, can be of no moment to one But there are those who are differently constituted, who can find real pleasure in the history of almost anything that has an individual story to tell, if with it there isa mingling of intelligence and life. Here is the story of one of the than a quart of soup, add them also. simplest of all things,in which humanCover with water according to the ity is concerned, a stocking. It has its quantity of soup desired, and a cup of story and this is the way Bessy Albert Mexican brown beans, two ounces of salt tells it in the Agriculturist: pork, and the giblets, that is the livers The Romans wore a kind of stockings and gizzards. Take out these latter as feet coverings, but they were not when tender, and simmer the rest for used even by the people who lived in three hours after it begins to%oil. Strain the soup through a sieve, mashing the beans through also with the back of a cold countries until the twelfth century. wet with cold water. Add the giblets minced very fine, finish the seasoning They were made of skins and cloth cut in one piece until the art of knitting was invented by the Spanish, or by ,the Scotch as claimed by some. As far back as 1559 we read of Henry II, of France, wearing silk stockings when he attended with taste; the marriage : of Savoy, and it is said they weve the first ever seen in France. Queen Elizabeth hada woman in waiting who knit a wooden spoon; return to the fire, season to taste, and stir in a spoonful! of flour cayenne and lemon juice to give one boil, and serve. Braised Goosk.—Many people prefer goose at Thanksgiving, but this. historieal bird must not be chosen like your bric-a-brac, for its antiquity. An old goose is as nearly worthless as it is pos- sible for anything to be without being absolutely so. See to it then that it be a young or green goose. Clean and wash silk pair of his for sister to Her Majesty the Duke Tapes havedSie Fiat 1564 an apprentice on London Bridge saw a pair of worsted knit hose at the house of an Italian merchant, and made a pair similar which he presented to William, Harl of Pembroke, these two last water. Eor the dressing, chop fine two large onions, parboil, drain, cool,and press water out; put in a basin with a seasoning of salt, pepper, sage, nutmeg pairs being the first knitted and made in England. In the reign of Queen, Elizabeth the stocking frame was invented by William Lee, in 1589, since which, time woven stockings have taken the place, and thyme; more with a spoonful of baking soda in the four ounces of bread, four of or less, of the knitted ones, for common use. But isa present fashion minced parsley. Mix the whole inti- to value greatly all hand-made hose, and double the price of mately, and tie both ends of the bird.to they command When made of silk, they keep the dressing in; truss neatly, and woven ones. A modern maplace the breast up in a stew-pan with a are particularly prized. sausage meat, two of butter and little butter, a bunch of soup herbs, an onion with two coves stuck in feeble fraines tosustain ambitious purpose, come from prenatal starvation. Oxygen 1s the mother of wisdom. Mothers need more field life. They cannot grow good children when they cannot grow good roses. When I find ina boy a clean, healthy organization—that is, ruddy cheeks and an eye looking out from a skull full of brains—I expect to hear a good deal about ‘‘mother.” Mother is a marvelous. work. It means maker, creator, molder -maker of souls and bodies. ‘The mother in her chiid is reproducing herself, her moods, her passions, powers, her honor, or ber shame. But I said, also, gentle fathers. her I do not know what should lead us to call Philip Sydney the ideal gentleman if our husbands are ashamed to be Lke him. The word gentleman was weil born, and there is no need for A man ' a better. should be gentle; gentler than men are, as they average in best society. Women should be stouter and firmer than they average as mothers. Of course, if eesthc tics of either sex, on a backward march toward the monkey, assume to be typical ladies and gentlemen, they do affe-t the real thought bodied in those words, lady and gentleman. In modern life, more and more, the man and woman must. interchange work. It is not that woman ought to have a right to be a physician or a speaker, but it is that society needs her assuch,. ‘ian also is claiming certain rights or confessing certain duties in the other direction. He is more of a homebuilder than in oiden times. Woman _ becomes stronger and more self reliant, men more gentle and true to the amenities of home life. It is only in the middle passage between barbarism and civilization, where woman is throwing down the blankets and traps of her master, that she has to contend for the privilege of doing something intellectually to her taste. At the same time man slowly leaves his drunken brawls to sit beside his wife when the angels are born.—Mary E. Spencer in Globe-Democrat. ° some it, and stalks of celery. Cover with a pint of broth; set on the outside of the range until it simmers, and then place in a chine, to knit in imitation of hand-work, has come into use, which is a source of much profit kinds of woolen articles are » made upon to women workers, as all Dressed in Ten Minutes. Between the brisk young woman who can dawn upon tho breakfast table neatly and completely drossed in ten minutes after her evclids haye opened to the light of a new Cay, and the leisurely damsel who requires forty-five minutes or en hour for the same operation, thero is.a whole gamut of fem- inine variations.. The close observer of these varying types of fair dressers finds each posit, but the stocking- frames make much sessed of interest. There is the honest, candid finer woolen work and are alone used for girl, who confesses that it takes an hour to moderate oven, where allow it tosimmer assume the raiment of the day and to do full for an hour and ahalf. Turn the goose the fine qualities of lisle or thread hose. justice to tho .mysteries of the dressing The invention of this frame is conbureau and tuo bath. She takes her hour, occasionally. Dish: it; free the gravy’ from fat; thicken with browned flour, nected with a little romance with “a ‘and no one expects better things. There is this girls opposite—yet counterpart—in the and garnish the bird with a border of woman in the case.” William Lee, M. equally tr uthful young woman who says she small boiled turnips, alternated with A.,of St. John’s College, Cambridge, was can make ready for br reakfast or the walk in small boiled onions and sprigs of cauli- expelled from the university for marry- ten minutes, and who does so in nine cases ous of ten. flower. Serve with cranberry or apple ing as best pleased himself, instead of Then comes the host of erratic ones. The according to the rulas of the college. sauce, girl who will bo ‘‘ready in a minute,” only to He knew no other means of making a keep up expectancy on the part of the waitliving; and was therefore reduced to the ing ones for twenty timesone minute, There Limitation of the Senses. necessity of allowing his wife to earn is the fair one whose voice cheerily rings out <i <> Until we take the trouble to look into the matter, we have no conception of how limited the range of our senses is. For example, we can see only down to a certain size, even by most powerful microscope. the yond the side, there exquisite forms no Be- range of our vision on the in- finitesimal have when the eye is aided exist myriads of in nature, of which conception; so likewise, we the form of objects can be distinguished only at limited distances, even by the aid of the most powerful telescope. Fixed stars, though some of them are infinitely larger than the world’on which we live, seem mere points of light, even when viewed retina of the by the telescope. The eye fails to recognize rays of light beyond the violet; while the camera of the photographer records the invisible ray as readily as the most brilliant blaze of sunlight. Myriads of insects chirp their songs in a key so high ‘that they are unheard by human ears, while the monsters of the deep com- of AND and, privately administered, as a boy may be made both stubborn and rebellious by having others witness his humiliation. read if you will but look,— <> re being permited to accompany mamma to market and rendering his valuable aid in purchasing family supplies, or better still by having her join in his games. Rebukes and pul nen are sometimes unavoidable, when such isthe case, they should be quietly The moral of this is so plain, I’m sure You gallant WEEKLY. municate with one another in tones of perhaps prodigious energy, but too low in pitch ear. The for recognition air is by redolent the human with odors which our obtuse olfactory sense cannot money by knitting stockings. fully watched her fingers in needle, and thus formed in his the model of the frame which down to the present day as an advantage to manufacturers. He careusing the own mind has come important Mr. Lee derived little or no pecuniary benefit from his great invention, which is the case with nearly all inventors, but his name the and genius are still present honored until day in. his native country. In the stocking weavers’ and framework knitters’ hall there is a portrait of Mr. Lee pointing his finger to one of his frames, and apparently discoursing with a woman who is knitting with needles in the usual way. following odd This picture bears the inscription: “In the year 1589 the ingenius William Lee, A. M., of St. John’s College, Cambridge, derived this profitable art for stockings (but being despised went to France), yet of iron to himself, but to us and to others of gold, in memory of whom this is here painted.” <i. ea al WOMEN AND HOME. ———___—- A good home has unity of purpose. A bad cominunity is in it when children do not find their joys in company with taeir parents. { lind this, that children are often sent to school to get rid of them. They are ordered to bed to get rid of them. They, in turn, like nothing so little as the company of their [t is an error to believe that naturparents. Se ally the young dislike all company not of STORY OF A STOCKING. their own age. Friendship of the tinest fervor exists between the young and the old. © Yet we should never be seclusive, hoping to keep Those people whose minds are entirely our children as a kind of’ private pr operty. taken up, as is too commonly the case, You and [ begin our education over again when the babes begin to come. We thought with the problem of “what among the we knew something, but now there is aneatables, the drinkables, the wearables, other whole world open before us. Our new and the infinity of other “enjoyables, of. lessons areself government and self restraint —only not too much of it. Parents do not which this world is possessed, do I like always let loose enough rein to themselves, best?” are not likely to read this article They grow reserved, formal, prim, old, and with interest or even to read it at all. the young donot fall in with them. One The fact that every morsel of diet they who thinks herself immortal should be very swallow, and every bit of clothing they boyish at 80. A good home needs stouter mothers and wear, and I might say every word that gentler fathers. No, Ido not mean gentler comes out of their mouth has an individ- mothers and stouter fathers: but I mean ex- recognize, although to the nose of dogs and other lower animals, whose sense of smell is many times as acute as ours, they must be readily perceptible. Good Housekeeping. <i> a statement that she has only her bonnet to put on, cr a bow to pin, who apparently devotes more time to that simple operation than to the varied operations of appareling. The ert of getting into one’s daily habiliments with ranidity, and yet with neatness, is possessed by the minority of Kve’s daughters only. Yet this trait of rapidity in dressing should be of bLonest acquisition, and throuzh heredity, for of a surety Eve wes not given to spending mueh time at her toilet, and yet her fair descendants do not inherit their remote ancestor” 's traits.—Pittsburg Bulletin. A great deal of profanity attcnding the putting up of stovep’pe in the fall might have been prevented if the joints had been marked with chalk when the pipe was taken down in tle sprinc. The Morals of Children. The ‘thoodlum” element is a menace to the safety of society. It has been allowed toe grow until it has become a prolific source of crime, and it is not easy to control it, Various remedies have been mentioned and they are good. One man says that thers is ‘top much charity and mercy oe the present moral administration of society.” Lf he mean, as he doubtless does, that parents and all others who have the care of children, too often ex hibit the spirit of easy good nature, rather than a wholesome firmness, he is right. Children need to be made to realize what duty is and that it must be done, more than many are now made. Another declares that our public schools ought to teach fewer useless branches and pay more heed to inculcating good manners and morals, and many will agree heartily with him. Another urges that the prevalent evil is due largely to the fact that children are allowed to ramble freely after dark, and he certainly is right in saying, ‘‘Keep them at home.” But back of all, and more important than all such specific remedies, there must be a genuine arousing of public sentiment. At present many of the very people whose children belong to the ungovernable class do not themselves. think the matter oné* of serious importance. Perhaps they used to have the run of thestreets when they were young, and escaped. harm, or do not yet understand how much harm they received. Perhaps they would rather that their children behaved better, but know that their own slackness long ago caused them to lose all control over their boys and girls. The number of parents is sadly large whe have learned what it is to be openly and impudently defied by their own offspring. In any case, we all need to wake up to the fact that such parents and all parents must be toned upto do their duty.—Congregationalist. » . |