Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-04
Home Tories.
Faith Rochester, in american Agricuituristl
NEW NEIGHBORS

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from his days work. The tea-tray, with his
supper OF baked apples, and bread and butter.
Lad been brought into the sitting room, and
his cocoa was keeping warm in a little pail on
the Sitting-room stove. The little ones and
their mamma find it more wholesome to have
their light bread and milk supper carrier in
The day. would not have liked to receive
fashionable call just then, or a regular call OF
ceremony from strangers. But when answer
ing the knock, We found gentleman and
lady who lived near us, but whom We had
never met, dressed in their everyday cl9thes
the lady with a light shawl over her head,
and her knitting in her hand-I was unaffect-
edly glad to see them, though an unfinished
mattress was spread upon the floor. We all
sat down at ease, and PaterfamiliaS ate his
little frugal" and We proceeded to get &C
quainted in very happy our folksy fashion. l
telt that they had accepted US at once as
anxiety about the proper tim time. ~ or form Of
their call. This is the right way to treat new
height Ors, 1 thought. aud was sure l should
run in" often to see the new neighbOr,
following her example and taking my work
with me.
GETTING AWAY FROM HOME
just twice in three months have entered
the next house to see the good neighbor L like
SO much. Just twice in the same time have l
crossed the street to sit down in the house of
another friendly neighbOr, whose children
Lest l have done anywhere in the way of
nCighboriy sociability in the meantime. l
don't like it. did not mean to do SO. L never
supp OScu SIOu1u come 10 tnlS. One might
almost as we'll be living back in the woods out
Q. sight and hearing OF neighbOrS. Whenever
l . o get out from home l hear other people
apoiogizing and explaining why they have not
keepers find their time fully occupied, and a
habit OF keeping close at home is easily form
ed. 1t is unSocial. 1t is unwholesOme for the
woman who keeps SO close at home, and for
her family. Contact with the world does us
good. To brighten our wits and warm our
1t arts, is the effect of good, honest sociabil
We get tired of the daily routine of house
hold labor. Sometimes it becomes weary
tleadmil, where We are driven almost be-
You'd our ability to keep up with the demand.
How good, then, is little rest, a little change
OF scene. All work and no play makes Jack
a dull boy" This morning l heard a little
girl say" shall stay in aI,receSS today and
s s1Gdy my for is sT Sn
school hours, but run out at recess and have
good play spell, and You can study enough
better after such breathing spell, to more
than make up for the extra study at recess. ="
find the truth of this when | take little
outing" myself. | love my family better
aid l like my work better after having left
them for little while.
But l am not at all satisfied with the con-
diiOnS OF domestic life, which make it SO eX-
TIT mely difficult for neighborS to be neighbor-
ly. Ii / did not believe in the possibility as
well as the deSirability of other conditions,
would say nothing about it. Personal COM
plants about hard times are foolish while the
whole creation groaneth and travaileth in
pain, and no one is exempt. But the grand
principle OF compensation runs through all, SO
that human conditions are more equal,
thoroughly considered, than it seems to the
mere surface observer.
SOMEWHERE TO GO.
Last summer, in small country village, [
was talking with a young farmer about the
Sunday evening Temperance Meetings. He
said he should be very sorry to have them
dropped, because he wanted somewhere to
60" l knew what he meant, for | felt the
same want myself though perhaps not just as
he did. wanted to get out among my neigh
bOrS, but l had not time for social visiting
These Temperance Meetings were the nearest
approach to social gatherings, open to all.
which the little town afforded. No village or
hamlet should live in such social poverty. A
good lyceum, somewhat social in its character,
is an excellent safety valve as well as educa-
tor, among. the people of a neighborhOod
For lack OF this men and boys loaf about
stores and saloons, and women and girls gos-
sip in neighbOring houses, or resort to tea
fights, "a name L have heard given to tea
parties. These are not necessarily sinful or
of real sOciability. They are quite out of the
line Of experience and observation for some
years past, but hear of tea parties, not a
thousand miles from here, where fourteen
videS only seven kinds of nice expensive cake
considers herself quite moderate and ecOnom-
ical. SOciables and clubs in neighborhoodS
and church societies, have become quite COM
mon, and often prove very sensible and profit
able in their entertainments. These, with
lectures and concerts, fill the week for some
tual pleasure, that they most feel the lack of
quiet evenings at home. The problem is-hSw
to mingle socially with our neighbOrs with
out encrOaching upon peaceful family life?
WHAT TO EAT WITH OUR BREAD.
A good deal was said, last SINNER, about
dread and water as food for the laboring
man: could not help thinking how few peo-
ho% fei and
ourselves with pure water. The bread that
most people eat, can not alone furnish such
nutriment as the body land mind) require to
our bread contains all the elements of the
grain needed for our nOurishment, it can
not alone satisfy the demands of healthy APP
ford variety, and to give that contented con-
ditiOn to the stomach so necessary for per
feet nutrition. Setting aside meat and butter
ese s Peop aEe w s SUPPLY rs with
simple inexpensive dishes which may make
our good bread 60 down more easily, and set
more comfortably than it would alone. l have
had this to consider good deal in working for
myself and the children. in their fathers alb
sence, where no warm drinks were used, and
where meat was seldom at hand.
abstract" do not believe in "fifteen-eent
dinners for the labOring man, " and his fam
lily, nor in pinched supplies that taste of the
coppers they cost for any body. l wish that
are hungry, to table bOuntifully supplied
with a great variety of nutritious and de-
liciOuS kinds of food, perfectly prepared and
beautifully arranged. And you should take
bunch OF grapes and l a cracker, or l cup
of milk, and you sandwich, or you a bit of
beef steak and | plate of soup, just as We felt
inclined. But for most of US this is simply i'm
possible. Mary, who wrote to me for advice
about cheap living, is trying to economic in
every reasonab BILE way in order that she and her
John may ere long have home of their own.
Some of the rest of us live under the shadow
OF unpaid taxes, or interest on mortgages
most difficult to raise For all of us, economy
is good thing, but those of US who are poor,
are often driven to pinch ourselves. So we
will not now say word about canned fruit,
or supply OF the most tempting articles of
food to lie found in the market. just here we
will only consider what inexpensive dishes we
can eat with our bread to make good meal,
besides meat or butter, or milk or tea, or
coffee. Among vegetables, first comes the
potato. But if simply boiled or baked, it be-
comes itself only part of the back ground $50
to speak, OF the meal and it also needs some
When warmed over, and seasoned with but
ter or cream, and salt, it will do for kind of
sauce; also, when mashed, and well seasoned,
or when made into potato pudding. Indeed,
the potato seems almost Indispensable as a
part of a warm dinner, for all of the other
vegetables relish rather better when little
simple potato goes with them. Sometimes
this every day vegetable must be omitted.
Mashed turnipS or squash cabbage chopped
and cooked with milk, onions boiled an hour
Tor thereabOuts) with milk or cream gravy
or onions sliced and cooked for half an hour
in cOyprad fryiDp fol