National Republican., 1877-10-10
Second Thoughts.

Second Thoughts.
Farewell, sweetheart! Since summers ended
Our hopes fall lifcless as the leaves,
And all the Toys by US commended
=. Fit with the swallows from the caves,
When Loye was BY our heartA defended
We both forgot that all depended
Upon few well-gsrnorcd sheaves.
The birds fy South this autumn weather.
And falntly trill sad good bye;
We, too. by summer flung together,
& Ki.s one @ more % time & and dare not cry
We madly choose TO part or dic
II would be death 10 bide together
When bread Is dear and rents are high.
In other days we both delighted
To talk Of ties that should endure;
The radiant hours to this invited.
Each cunning birds nest hid lure.
But now, when every rose Is bllghted.
We are not af our nests 30 sure;
For m3asrn sweethcarts pause afffighted
When they discover both are poor.
Sing Something, Miss sylvia.
Our readers will recognize the voice Of tho
average American girl after superficial term
or two at so.called Conservatory" 10 the
following extracts from Mr.. Boycsen's story,
"Swart Among the Buckeyes" 10 the mid
summer Holiday Scribner:" The young lady
in question, slight, little body, with pale,
yellow hair. dark blue eyes full Of hidden
pathos, and a sweet, tender and clear-cut face,
opened one Of those popular green. covered
music books, containing rsgout to suit the
Mater" TO Yankee Doodle" and the latest
Strauss waltz. She sat down at tho piano,
preluded with few softly timorous chords
and began 10 sing n well.known saorcdly SEN
timental song. In the accepted sliding and
tumbling down style, which may be sppro-
priatcly illustrated In something like the fol-
lowing manner
Fle-e-s own
tain,
p ofd-,
oT who art wra--
| Thou-u- ETC.
1t was not to be denied that, as regards exc
| cution, II was about as bad as II could boa
protracted leqdto climbing, interrupted by sud.
den adccdto descents and little tremulous in
terludes, which really belonged nowhere
| And for all that, when the young lady rose
from the piano and modcstly blushed In re-
sponse to the enthusiastic applause Of her au.
dience, the doctor exclaimed, with an ardor
which quite startled his fair intcrlocutor, "By
Jove, that girl has voice which a prima
donna might envy her! Who would have
supposed that such stores Of melody could find
room in that narrow little chest Of hers2'
"Do you really think 1t was good, Doctor p
inquired Mrs. Norman, in anazement.
Good? No. In one respect 1t hardly could
have been worse The style was, Of course
| nOneltsSly Ddu anu hentltututAl. nut tne
voice-why that voice has pathos and power
enough In IL to make the fame of ten singers
| should like to know that young lady. | must
help her. She needs teaching more than any
one | ever met and I think sho would prove
an admirable pupil II could only get the sen.
timentalty out of her.
In Yesterdays Comments
upon the "Woman's Congress-" now In session
at Cleveland, printer unaccustomed to oui
Lat. ,h,, Nkn e "a.
originator-Mrs. NJ. +. Peirce-into something
which, according to the first commandment
would he no sin to worship-it being not "iu
the likeness of anything that is in heaven
above or the Garth beneath"
viii "the enemy" rush into print to criticss
the error, as kindly ~ and generously (2j as |,
did the alleged literary, Ja"r pas of thu
poem called First LoveT
"Oh, that mine enemy would write bookr'
Household Hints.
Miss Juliet Corson. who for three years ha
been head and front Of the New York cooking
school, has recently written an able letter OF
the impending crisis between capital ani
labor. In II she offers to furnish pam phle
containing directions how to buy and cook tn,
cheapest and most nourishing kinds Of food
so as to produce hearty meals for families o
six persons at an average cost of fifteen cent
per meal All the remuneration she require
Is that the pamphlet be distributed gratui
tously to all working people who apply fo
them whose wages do not exceed 81 so pc
day. This generous proposal should receiv,
immediate attention in every city of tn,
Union. for II she can point the poor to method,
by which six persons can be we'll fed fo
fifteen cents the sooner the public find on
how the better.
Miss CorsOn'ss efforts to introduce q NOR,
h ealthful and nourishing style of cooking il
this country have been persistent, and by
hard work and thorough knowledge of he
business bid fair to be ultimately crowned
with success. Yet many of the
ECONOMICAL RECIPES
that arc going tho rounds arc the sheerest o
humbugs. Male editors read them, and
knowing nothing of the subject save rs
seems to touch the precious pocket book, the,
print and reprint them, and quote them &
their wives at home. We have seen some o
these same would-bo economizers treated /
dishes compounded from recipes they ha
thus recommended, and II WAS funny to not
tho effect In the upward turn Of the nasal or
gan and the engagement" pdter foR,ilias sud
denly recollected, which, however, was seci
to terminate at the restaurant around the cor
nor.
One writer snys she makes excellent soup
ont of the hits of fried meat and the leaving
of becisteak gravy" Then she picks the bit
out, and serves them again In the form o
hask Tor DrcnEiaSt.' Heaven preserve us iron
boarding therc But we arc willing to wage
something that that woman never made
dish of soup or hash in her life but cooks
simply ou paper and in theory, and, for tn
sake of the rising generation, we sincercl,
hope so. What shade of nourishment cal
there be In meat that has once hecn fried. an,
then what little essence remained In IL boile,
out in soup? Commend us to q five cent shin
bone instead for soup, and the "fricd bits"-i
II, sat must I've fried-tnnsferred second rat
instead of third to the hash.
Nourishiny things to eat can only be oh
tanned from decent materials, and WHOLESOME
diet is great Cvilizer, as well as preventiv
against nervousness, irritability and crime
Mrs. Bladen, woll-known Philadelph
writer says: ~ made series Of observation
this summer on all tho babies met in street
cars inquiring Of their mothers what the,
cat | found that all the fat aud healthy
looking ones were allowed, in the words of on
woman: TO paddle away In the wittles.'"
Since there arr thousands Of adults in th
city-to say nothing Of the army of schot
, chidren-whose monday meal Is carried I
the scene of their labors In the form of q
LUNCH,
|; suppose we give that subject a little attentio,
IL Al.Z