The National tribune., 1883-05-24
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY

help the unfortunate. She may fill the after
noon with dozen errands of mercy and charity,
yet be sitting quietly with her work basket
when the children come from school and her
husband returns home to his tea. She is here,
there, everywhere, yet all goes smoothly, hap
ply contentedly. The servants stay year out
and year in, and are part and parcel of the
family Yes blessed, indeed, is the happy
woman in the happy home!
SKILLED LABOR.
The sum and substance of all the foregoing
is that skilled labor is the secret of woman's
success in the home or out of it. And, with
this point kept well in view, THE TRIBUNE
will seek, from week to week, to afford such
practical suggestions, hints, and recipes as may
lead to the recognition of higher standard in
every department of woman's work. All re-
form must begin at home. The formation of
character tastes, and habits begins in the
mothers lap. Little by little, day in and day
out, year in aud year out, should the daughters
of the house be trained into useful self-reliant,
capable women. Alas, for the husband who
receives a child wife" from the arms of an
over-fond mother.
Now, suppose my pet" said the doting
David Copperfield to the little helpless butter
| fly, Dora, now suppose that we were married,
and you were going to buy shoulder of mutton
for dinner, would you know how to buy it?'
my pretty little Dora's face would fall, and
| she would make her mouth into bud again,
as if she would very much prefer to shut mine
with kiss. Would you know how to buy it,
darling?'
Dora would think little, and then reply,
perhaps, with great triumph:
"'Why, the butcher would know how to sell
it, and what need l know? Oh, you silly
boy ="
Now, if any man will take the pains to read
| Charles Dickens David Copperfield," and find
out the sort of dinners the adorable Dora pre-
| sided over after she and David were married,
| it will probably set him to thinking what kind
of dinners his Dora will serve when he is mar
ried. Our own opinion is that if Charles Dick
ems had been writing for American society," he
would have made Dora add: "And the cook
will know how to cook it, so why should l
| know" In another communication we may
| have occasion to enforce domestic moral by
! giving picture of one of Dora's dinners.
WOMEN AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Douglas, the Edinburg publisher, is to re-
produce Mrs. Towards pretty tale of Zone
Summer" high honor to an American wo-
man.
Walter G. Smith, Scotch poet, gives utter
| ance to the following truism: +" Men may be
bad; but still they like pious wife, who lives
| for Heaven"
| Mrs. General Custer is in Paris Before her
| departure for the other side she sent some
valuable personal relics of her husband to Gus
| ter Post, of Michigan
The Empress of Austria is tired of horseman-
ship and hunting, and has taken to writing
poetry. She has bought printing press, and
| is learning to set type, that she may print her
own poems. Even royalty is happy in work
well done.
Mrs. Wendell Phillips is great invalid, and
has been for over thirty years. 'Ne one but
you can know what it has been to care for her, u
some one recently remarked to her devoted
husband. "Ah! No one but me knows how
good she is" was the great orators reply.
Mrs. Cynthia Mcpherson, mother of General
| Mcpherson, died at Clyde, Ohio, May 9Th, at
the age of seventy-nine. She was early left a
/ widow with family to support, and her cir
cumstances being very Strengthened, her son
Jamie, afterwards the general, was obliged to
leave home when small boy and enter service
with a gentleman at the adjoining town OF
Green Springs. The little fellow was so nobly
taught by his excellent mother that he won
his way at once into the hearts of his employer
and family and was brought up like their own
son, and later sent LOWEST Point His early
start in life and his future distinction he al
ways attributed to the influence of a good and
| devoted mother.
SPRING RELIsHEs AND RECIPES.
There are many appatizing dishes which the
thrifty househeeper can prepare for the spring
| table, which are simple and inexpensive and
which give variety to the dinner, luncheon, or
tea, and are, at the same time, little trouble
to prepare. Chief among these are salads,
| which may be made from potatoes, beans, as
paragus, lettuce, &c. and are excellent with or
without meats.
The beauty of potato salad is, that it is al
ways procurable, and it may be made in va
riety of ways. One day it may be seasoned
with chopped pickles; another, a little onion,
or capers, parsley, or whatever the taste may
IT, Alt Id IL,
serve the following directions:
Boil the potatoes in their skins until yon can
run fork through them, not too soft. Pour
off the water and dry off, and while warm
(they do not take the seasoning as well when
cold cut them into pieces twice the thickness
of twenty-five cent piece and half the size
Put in a bowl and add salt, a sprinkle of cay
enne pepper, a little vinegar and oil, or melted
butter. A spoonful of chopped onion capers,
olives or anchovies may be added, as they both
flavor and garnish the dish.
Asparagus or bean salad may be made as fol-
lows: Boil until quite tender Cut into pieces
two or three inches long and lay in your salad
bowl. Pour over dressing which may be
made as follows: Take the yolks of two eggs
and slowly stir, with fork, enough olive oil
or melted butter, drop by drop, into the egg to
make smooth creamy sauce. Then add lit
tie vinegar slowly, a dust of cayenne pepper
and suggestion of mustard. Do not add but
ter or oil by the quantity, as you will have g
greasy mixture, which is neither slightly mol
palatable.
HOW COLDS ARE TAKEN.
The London Lancet which is excellent au-
thority, contains the following, worth the
knowing: But when the health flags little
and liberties are taken with the stomach, or
the nervous system, a chill is easily taken, and
according to the weak spot of the individual, as
sumes the form of a cold or pneumonia, or, ii
may be, jaundice. OF all causes of cold prob
ably fatigue is one of the most efficient. A
jaded man coming home at night from q long
days work. a growing youth losing two hours
sleep over evening parties two or three times q
week, or young lady heavily doing the sea-
son. young children over-fed and with short
allowance of Sleep are common instances OF
the victims of cold Luxury is favorable to
chill-taking; very hot rooms soft chairs, feather
beds, create q sensitivenesS that leads to Ca
tarrhs. 1t is not, after ALL the cold that is SO
much to be feared as the antecedent conditions
that give the attack chance of doing harm
Some of the worst colds happen to those who
do not leave their house or even their bed, and
those who are most invulnerabe are often those
who are most exposed to changes of tempera-
ture, and who, by good sleep, cold bathing and
regular habits, preserve the tone of their nerv-
Gus system and circulation. Probably many
chills are contracted at night or at the flag end
OF the day, when tired people get the equilib-
rum of their circulation disturbed by either
overheated sitting rooms or underheated bed
rooms and beds. This is specially the case with
| old to-