Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-26

nection with those two columns. There
are plenty and plenty of women know
who read the RECORD UNION and have
hundred good ideas that it would do other
women good to know, and they IN turn
would be delighted to learn of others. l
can assure them they would soon find 1T
pleasure to write what they think to send
q dozen lines or so calculated to be a help
to some one else; to tell little easy ways OF
doing things; to talk about patterns for
children's aprons, and bread-haking, and
fancy-work, and cake, and women's rights,
and Sunday school entertainments and all
such things. Why, l feel as though |
were III constant correspondence with all
who read these letters, though every once
in while feel little fret like thorn,
because | don't write as well as | want to-
Now, should like to have some of the
RECORD UNION readers express themselves,
if they will, on subject which has oc-
CURED to me many times. | want to know
now what some other woman thinks about
it. It's the question of
MONEY IN THE HOUSEHOLD.
By law half is the woman's, and the man
in the marriage ceremony says, With all
my worldly goods thee endow." But then
everybody knows he doesn't do any such
thing. Ny friend, you and L of course
know enough but lots of women don't
know enough to handle money to the best
advantage. Till they are married they
never do any buying or managing, nor have
they any appreciation of the value Of a
dollar, and So. when they are married and
they have money in their hands, they spend
one-half, perhaps not foolishly, but not al
ways wisely The husband sees this, notes
the fact, becomes niggardly with her, and
the habit of keeping all except what is alb
solutely necessary so grows upon him that
he becomes really stingy with his wife. 1
know ever so many women who don't get
their share of the money, and I've wondered
If this, in good many cases, wasn't the
reason, though I've never dared suggest it
before. | say, teach the girls to be house
keepers in every sense of the word. Have
them know all about the cooking, the wash
ing, the sewing, but let them buy vegeta-
bles and meat, and butter and eggs, and
lea. n the value of five-cent piece. | do
really hope somebody else will talk little
bit on this subject, for it is what concerns
AND INTERESTS EVERY WOMAN
OF us. Here are a few things l have
learned lately, which yet may be old to
many of you. A lady who knows fifty
nice ways of doing things, makes an egg
batter, dips mutton-chops IN it and fries
them in hot fat, then lays them in brown
paper to soak out some of the fat, and in
that way serves them on platter. An
other sometimes has this for Sunday din
ner, because she can do most all of it the
day before She takes rock-cod but |
don't see. why any fresh fish wouldn't be
just as good and boils it till it is soft,
then picks out the bones and the tish.into
little bits, puts ON a platter a layer of
fish, layer of drawn butter, then another
of fish, and so on, sometimes squeezing in
lemon-juice, and sets it away. Next day
she sets it in the oven and lets it brown
on top, and then it is ready for dinner.
Another astonished me by cooking the
green and tough outside stalks of celery
just as she would cook any other vegeta-
bic. She says celery is
GOOD FOR LovEsIcKNEsS,
rheumatism and sleeplessness. When she
doesn't know what other kind of meat to
have for dinner she falls back on corned
leg of mutton, and had never heard of
such thing before. A friend who is a
splendid cook fixes eggplant a delicious
way. She cuts it in bits, mixes with it
couple of hard-boiled eggs chopped fine,
butter, salt, pepper and cracker crumbs,
then bakes tive forgotten how long
but good while, and when it comes out
of the oven it is a crispy brown over the
top. She also shreds Goldfish, squeezes it
in her hands hard through two or three
waters, then without soaking puts it on in
milk and a little butter to cook for half an
hour. When she dishes it she stirs in one
or two well-beateu eggs. 1t is very nice,
for have eaten it. l hope some of these
will be as new to some woman as they were
to me when | first heard of them.
KATE HEATH