The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-20
HOW | MANAGED MY CHILDREN
FROM
INFANCY TO MARRIAGE.
MRS. WARREN,
AUTHOR OF
"HOw l MANAGED MY HOUSE ON TWO HUN
DRED POUNDS A YEAR." "COMFOBT
FOR SMALL INCOMES ETC.
CONTINUED FROM WEDNESDAYS EVENING rELpeRAFu.l
CHAPTER TX.

CHAPTER TX
A Business Occupation Necessary for Girls
Marrying for Home Not Happy Proceed
ing-The Duty of Parents to Give Their Daugh-
ters an Opportunity of Marrying-The Story of
an Old Maid-The Selhshnoss of Parents-How
to Increase a Circle of Acquaintance
Alice was now eighteen, and Mary year
younger. l was desirous that both should be
made economical and industrious, but not fussy,
housekeepers. Alice was useful, quiet, and OBJ
servant; but home duties did not suffice for
May. In the conversations with my husband
about our girls was very anxious to give them
some employment by which in the future they
might, il needed, maintain themselves. Alice
was an adept at her needle. 1t was she who
helped the dressmaker, who we always hnd
each spring and fall of the year. Miss Roberts
was the daughter of respectable parents, and
had learned her business thoroughly; so made
an agreement with her that for stipulated sum
she should show my daughters how to cut out and
fit a dress. Mary had a mathematical turn of
mind and very soon reduced the desultory in
structions for cutting out into something like
rule; tor every turn and twist OF the pattern she
could give reason, but she hated the needle.
She was always sketching on every bit of paper
or white wood, and even on her nail If no better
material offered. There was no thought of
making her an artist, but certainly pondered
very much over ner future. One day Mr.. Hen
don of established fame as copper-plate en-
graver, paid us visit on his way into Devon.
shire and during his stay came across several
of her SIX ketches.
What capital engraver you would make,
Miss Mary !" he said.
These words were like firing train of gun
powder. Immediately asked:-
DO you think she would ever make living
by ~"
needed it," he replied, looking up IN some sur
prise.
"Well." said, returning his look calmly,
''Mr. Norton and both think it better that girls
should have something to interest them-some-
thing to render them independent of marriage,
ii suitable union cannot be attained.n
"You are right he exclaimed. "The number
OF marriages which take place without spark
of true affection in them is something fearful
| just because man offers a home, or because
girls of middle class have no resource in them
selves against either penury or eonuS. Every
| girl should be able to face iil-fortune; she is
| none the less fitted to adorn all the good that
may befall her."
| without entering more fully into the details
OF this business, 1t was decided, with MarYs
earnest desire, that she should become wood
| engraver, If after months trial she liked the
occupation. For this it was necessary to be IN
or near London; bat how was it TO be accom-.
plishedG Ultimately, we fixed that in the spring
| of the succeeding year and Mary aid go to
London for six weeks, and try the experiment Of
| finding some one with whom she could reside
| while learning the art that was to bring her a
competence, # not tame. The latter word was
| me, for the memory of my beloved Dot had not
| faded in the least.
Through the winter we employed ourselves in
household matters, kept up our readings, music,
| and drawing. We even discharged our cook
and took good general servant; this not being
done so much from motive of economy but in
order to make my girls, good housekeepers. ]
| fully knew the value of this requirement, and
was determined that my earnest efforts should
be directed In this channel. l sought in vain in
all the cookery books for some simple but GER
tain rules for cooking. Recipes there were IN
plenty-capital mediums for waste, with doubt
| iu results; but whether hot, boiling, cold
| water was to be used for cooking particular
things, We were generally LETT to our own sur
| mises. 1t seemed as if the books were intended
for those who knew the first principles of the
| art OF cookery, and not for the ignorant.
Weared with truitless expense, we began to
make recipes OF our own, which, If successful,
were written down even to every minute parti-
| cular to the smallest trihe tor we generally
found that these seeming trivialities were just
the things which made the difference between
| good and bad cooking. We called our book of
| recipes the 'Epicuren because the word signi-
| fed all that was excellent but not luxurious or
extravagant. This employment continued
throughout the winter much 70 the amusement
| grateful for our consideration for him-so he
termed our cooking mania.
s'Eyery day in the week / have some fresh
dish for breakfast; and for dinner what delicious
puddings, to say nothing of the variety of soups
and meat get But how about the expense ?n
Mary hastened to reply:-
"Papa, you have all the good things you talk
| about at much less expense than when cook was
| here. i am sure there is not scrap wasted
not even bone, for when we have boiled ali
| the goodness out we throw the bones on the root
| of the vine. Alice one day took up printed
| paper that came wrapped about some cheese
1t was about the culture of the vine, and it said
if the roots were laid nearly bare, aud bones
thrown upon them, and then the earth lightly
laid on that the vine, If hitherto ever so unpro.
| ductive, was sure 10 bear grapes. So we've tried
it, and don't laugh papa, at our experiment.
don't think we've told mamma this"
'And how do you make such delicious soups,
and vary them each day ~ he asked. H..
''Oh papa, that would be long story to tell,
| but we don't have any more meat for them than
| what you see come TO the table. And know
you thought that that potted beef which you
| had Yesterday for luncheon came from Burts,
| the pastry.cook and it didn't, you know, for
made it out of that cold scrap OF boiled beetthat
| was left the other day. And it's true, papa.
| thoueh YOU look as if you could not believe It,"
''My child, cannot disbelieve you; but II you
| can transmute bit of meat as dry as chlp INTO
| that delicious dish of potted beef, all can say
thrown away. You had better become a cook"
he said, as he folded her in his arms and kissed
The tears rose up in her eyes, which she
| turned upon me- as / came to her rescue.
| ''Mary means first to become wood engraver,
in which art she hopes TO excel, and then she
| will be a cook when she has home of her own,
4 and is the presiding genius. And then, Mary,
l darling, you will be loved more for the comfort
( your knowledge of cooking brings with II than
| YOU will for all the fame the world can give
| you-and that is not little. And should you
1 never have house OF your own, and never need
| to employ your time In wood engraving You
will be blessing to all around you, for you win
be enabled TO teach those to whom otherwise
II RanhE EnnWlad0p and