New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-01

Be ir time,
Youth must daily toll and strive:
For the work they have to do.
Keep this motto still in view
BE in time. -ErcAangs.
THE ARITHMETIC OF GINGER.
BREAD.
"R-U-D-I-M-E-N-T- rudiments,"
spelled Katy. "B'lieve I'll find out
what that means this very minute; it's
better n these h0rrid fractions and
she started to look for the word in the
worn old Webster's .Unabridged''
that papa had banished from his hand
some shelves to the chill fen' room up
stairs.
Poor Katy!-she had been ironing
YEARLY through the rules for multiple
cation and division. of fractions all the
long afternoon study-hour. ltwas just
the dreariest part of the whole book.
Cease First-To multiply fraction
by whole number. Case Second-To
multiply whole number by frac-
ton" These were the very worst,
scarcely exceeded by the correspond
ing rules for division, and Katy had
just about worn out her brown. eyes
crying over the cases in which you
multiplied by the numerator and di.
vided by the denominator, or multi
piled by the denomination and divided
by the numerator.
cit is just the hatefulest old study
in school, mamma said Katy to her
mother, who passed through the room
and looked askance at Katy's red eyes
-"the very hardest one to see anv use
in. don't suppose I'll ever in all my
life have to multiply or divide whole
number by fraction; hope not, any
way. Idespise halves and quarters of
things so awfully."
Mamma didn't reilly, but YEARLY
threw herself down on the little bed
that was kept in the nursery. with very
dark circles about her eyes, and pale,
tired face.
"Do you believe, Katy, you could 90
down and stir up some ginSer-cakes
for tea? Christine is hurrying with
her ironing, and Mary must take baby
while 60 and sleep of, if possible,
this miserable headache" said Mrs.
Richards, only half-opening her weary
eyelids.
''Oh, yes, mamma, anything is bet
ter than these hateful rudiments.
looked that up just now in Webster.
First beginnings it says; only think
it's hard enough to be the last end
ings;;" but seeing. no frightening in
her mothers eye, she fastened to help
her down into her own room. Then
with gentle hand she settled the pill
lows comfortably, saturated q hand
kerchief with camphor, closed the
shutters, and ran softly down still an.
other flight of steps into the basement
kitchen.
"Christine, I'm to make ginger-cakes
for tea, all my own self. Mamma said
80, and she's gone to lie down and
sleep Oft her headache, and mustn't be
disturbed,'' said Katy, half-afraid that
Christine might hunt up confirmation
OF the gingerbread business. 1t was
something new, certainly, to turn this
harum-scarum little creature loose in
the pantry to rummage the spice boxes
and break up the cream in the cellar in
her search Tor sour milk, but, with
arge families, there are times whep
the work crowds faarfully, and the only
way is to press more hands into the
service, not minding always II they are
unskilled ones.
"Vell, Mees Katy, please keep the
muss ober dare in te sink so moOch as
you cam" said Christine, evidently not
iubilant at the prospect Of cleaning up
after little girls baking; "an' don't
leaf te wet spoon in te soda, nor drip
te sour. milk roun' te clean cellar. It's
dare in te big jar unter de Window
Katy got down the gem-irons for the
first thing, creased them with Mary's
patent griddle greaser "a pine stick
plentifully supplied with cotton rags at
one emily; then climbed up to the
shelf where the book of recipes was
kept.
SIS Meeses Vite's soft ginger-cake' is
vat you wants, Mees Katy, an we takes
double of the receipt :" said Christine,
quoting an expression familiar to Yam
kee cooks.
"That's just two of everything. I
k,aow," and Katy tossed her curls with
an air of conscious greatness.
1.-TWO times one cup of molasses-
here goes that. Two times two spoon
fuls Of soda-that's four spoons. NY!
but doesn't it foam up beautifully!
Two spoons ginger in two-thirds of a
cup of hot water-no-oh, dear! It is
the soda that ought to go in the hot
water, and-oh, horrors! it's tao times
tvo-thirds of a cup of hot water. Well.
now! II those hateful fractions aren't
right here in this gingerbread! Chris
tine, 0 Christine!" cried Katy, in de-
spair. "Come and tell me how much
is two times two-thirds of a cupv' But
Christine, alas! had already gone up-
stairs, with her basket of white, fresh
ly-ironed clothes poised on her head.
Two times two-thirds of cup
Why, it must be more N one cup, and
yet it says 'of cup If It wasn't
for that, I ID go and get two cups and
fill them each two-thirds full; but it
cant be only two times two-thifds OF
q cup-that s. one cup.',, And the
poor little girl found herself in worse
!" deeps,'' even, than ever she had
fathomed in the :" Rudiments.''
Ned came into the kitchen at that
moment, his books flung over his
shoulder, and Katy's face lighted up.
She could appeal to him. But when
she asked him how much two times
two-thirds Of cup could be, Ned,
with al boys wisdom, gave answer
like this:
Two times two thirds? Case Of
multiplying . fraction by whole
number. Rule: Multiply the numer-
ator Of the fraction by the whole num-
ber and r.-. the result over the de-
lnOminator.
Two times two thirds are four
/ thirds. Improper fraction. Reduce
il "a q whole or mixed numDer. Rule:
Divide the numerator by the denomi-
nator. Three is in four once and one
/ . cup. =
But II says q soup Ned. Who