Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-07-26
SUMNER HOUSEKEEPING.
The Good Wife's PerpIexifies-
Diet for the Dog Days.

1t is properly supposed that the ear
ly spring is the season which most tries
the souls of housekeepers: Perhaps it
was 80 in our grandmUthers' days,
when canned fruits anu vegetables
were unknown, and the prudent house
wife was forced iu summer, like the
ant and the bee, to ''lay up stores of
sweetness for use in winter bours;o
stores which. if not large, were likely
to run low before the kitchen garden
came again into bearing. But now,
with the grocer at our hacks, ready
''for compensation" tosupply Us with
every known fruit and vegetable all
the year round, she who has money or
credit may spread her table bOuntifully
in all seasons, with small forethought
of her own, and the dog days are those
in which she Is most prone 70 excisim
weariIy: 81 wish people did not have
to eat I" I. EsEF- HstEetAs
sAppetites are capricious; dinner eat
en- heartily one day will be scarcely
touched the next, and though every
one has feeling OF emptiness, few per-
sons are ACTUALLY hungry. Provisions
cooked one day are kept to the next
day, only by the free use, of ice, and
even then are apt to taste Of the ice-
chest. Thus the company practiced at
King Arthur's court, where ''whdf
they could not eat that day the queen
next morning fried" becomes an i'm
possible virtue, and the anxious house
wife stands preplexed between the
Scylla Of niggardliness and the Cha
rybdis OF waste. Nature, however, is
alwaysa law unto herself, and he who
in warm weather eats much meat is
apt to pay for it by dulled brain and
general feeling of uncomfortable
heaviness. In all warm countries the
llaboring classes eat but sparingly Of
animal food. The East India coolie
snbsists almost wholly on rice; the
West Indian grows fat upon bananas
and oranges, and the hearty Arab ol
lthe-desert conquered a world on adiei
fof tics and barley. = y s'~N = ~
Dio Lewis says that no meats but
chicken and lamb should be eaten iL
hot weather; but then Dio Lewis is 6
| firm advocate of the theory that oat
MEALS, or ought to be, the staff of hu-
man life. Milk and fruits, bread anG
vegetables, are cooling and healthy
diet for the dog days and may be freely
4 indaIged in. And since in hot weather
1.-THE kifchen.is a modified purgatory
land preparing deserts becomes {
penance, we have cause to congratulate
Yourselves on the delicious dessert.
(which nature brings US for the gather
ing. Strawberries, raspberries, black
berries and peaches-all these come tc
the table without smell of fire having
passed upon them, and eaten with
tcream are a "dish to set before king
SO also in the country, where milk and
fruit abound, ice cream, that most de-
tlicious OF desserts, costs almost nothing
l1iven &. a.pailful of ice and, q, ive-minute
freezer, the rich milk, or, still better
cream, has but to be mixed with, the
erused fruit, sweetened and left stC
freeze itself. Covered with an ole
blanket or piece Of carpeting, the pro-
cess OF ofcongealing will go on slowly but
surely, with small aid from you, even
if your freezer he but a tin bucket-only
in this case you must stir the cream
with knife two or three times while
freezing to prevent the formation o.
crystals of ice in the freezer.