The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-06-07

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is the American sophy, the type we reverence
and honor.
A DORA OR soPHY.
The great question which confronts every
mother of daughter is: Which shall she be,
Dora or a Sophy? Mothers of America, it
ought not TO be hard to decide 1t ought not
to be hard for the woman who is herself obliged
to toll and sacrifice. And yet it is just such a
mother as this who often makes the most
grieyous mistake. She too often is willing to
toll and drudge that her lovely young daughter
may show pair of hands as lily white as those
OF the girl who rides in her carriage and has
servants to obey each behest. All the long,
weary day and Tate into the long, weary night
she bends above her work, growing thin and
haggard and nervous and irritable, and all for
the qualification of foolish pride in a daugh-
ter, who, nine times out of ten, is ashamed of
the mother who has given all there is in life
worth living for in order to indulge her in
idleness and folly.
How much better to teach the child little by
little, how to be useful and helpful and indie
pendent; to share the family burdens, which
when divided become very light and small.
How much better to keep the child's confidence
and respect and companionship; to keep in
line with her thought and feeling; to lay aside
even pressing work now and then for walk
arm in arm and confidential chat! How
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mother a guide and friend and confdant, in
stead of beholding her a detected, servile
drudge, too over-Worn for true maternal SYM
pathy and vital comprehension of her daugh-
ter's real needs and wants. Where there is
this common sympathy and oneness of thought
and pursuit and purpose between the mother
and daughter there alone is growing up the
American Sophy, who, when the time comes,
shall take an honorable place among the wives
and mothers of the land
WEALTH NOT EVERYTHING.
Wealth in itself is goodly endowment, but
when riches keeps the daughter of the house
from acquiring habits of industry and useful
ness it becomes bane instead of blessing
And yet it does not follow that the rich mother
is the over-indulgent foolish mother. 1t is a
popular mistake that riches brings an exemp-
ton from toll and the discharge Of natural
duties; for / claim that household skill is the
natural duty of every woman. In the ma
jority of eases riches may, and certainly does,
bring an exemption from actual drudgery; but
it so multiplics the demand upon woman's
time, especially when the duties of hospitality
are remembered, that it allows but few idle
hands in home. And so it is not infrequently
the case that the daughter of wealth adds to
the manifold accomplishments she has been
enabled to secure, a skill in housekeeping and
a wise and economic management OF the hoInely
affairs OF her everyday life that is simply sur
prising. The point 10 be urged is that it is
not the fault of the child but of the mother, no
matter whether she be rich or poor when an
untaught, idle, needless girl is imposed upon
some unthinklng young man as future wife
and mother. Mothers, teach your daughters to
be useful, not in a fitful fretful, jerky, ILL
timed fit of reform, but gently, patiently, per-
sistently, beginning with baby feet and baby
fingers. God bless such mothers and such
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world blesses them. too.
But some one will say it is not well for a girl
to take upon herself too much work and care.
her time Will come soon enough, and it is try
ing upon both her health and spirits to have
too much imposed upon her. Education should
be the first thought,-househoid skill is easily
acquired when one is obliged to exercise it.
here, indeed, is q maximum OF truth, but not
enough to cover up the error underlying it all.
1t IS true that a girl should be brought up
gently and sweetly; that her mind should be
allowed to unfold and expand to the best edu-
cational influence within her reach; that she
must not be discouraged with oyer-work and
denied the opportunities she may have for the
cultivation of all that is best within her. No
one can place too high value upon education,
and If mother is ever excused for making of
herself a common druge it is when she does it
for the sake of daughters education. Her
only mistake is in surprising that book educa-
ton viii do away with the education of the
hands and heart and head Again let me
insist upon household activity, the acquire
ment of knowledge that comes slowly, almost
insensibiy, by loving service and ohedient ac-
quieseence in q guiding WILL The child that is
taught to put away its playthings carefully
when she wearies of their amusement, who
folds her dolls clothes and dusts her tiny fur
niture, very soon learns to make her own room
tidy and brush the dust from the parlor table.
wELL-TRIED RECIPES.
The writer of the following makes a
good point in her first paragraph. A boiled
tongue should be skinned while warm, as the
skin then slips off easily. Boiled ham, on the
contrary, should be allowed to cool in the water
in which it is boiled to prevent shrinking,
when the skin may bepeeled of and the smoked
edges carefully trimmed
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
In your recipe for praised tongue, of May Sd, I
think one point was overlooked, 4. e., skin the
tongue after boiling.
would like to know how to make fried potatoes,
sliced thin, puff open in cooking; also, how to
make so-cslled German pancakes The princi-
pal ingredients, think, are eggs, butter and -four.
Che dish is served hot with sEup or honey. b.
SANTA ANA, CAL, May is, 1888
Topuff potatoes French style: Cut the pota-
toes as fancy dictates. Drop them into cold
water, wipe very dry and then drop into hotlard
To make them SWELL take them from the pan
when fried and put them into q colander for a
half minute, then drop them into the fat and
stir one minute, put again into the eolander,
salt and serve hot.
To make German pancakes: Beat six or eight
eggs well together, leaving out half the whites,
and stir them into quart Of milk Mix your
-four first with little of the milk and add
the rest by degrees. Add little salt Put a
piece ofbutter into your pan, melt, and pour in
a ladle of batter, which should be thin so as to
spread over the pan. Shake the pan; when
you think one side is done enough turn it, and
when both sides are done lay ii in dish and
strew a little sugar over it. Fill up your plate
and serve hot with cream.
Cream pancakes German: Mix the yolks of
two eggs with half pint of cream, two ounces
of sugar, and little beaten cinnamon, nut
meg and mace, or spices to taste. Fry as thin
as possible, and serve hot with cream or sirup
Caution: The principal things to be observed
in order that the pancakes may be light and
delicate, are that the eggs be thoroughly beaten
since nothing else is used to raise them; that
the batter be thin that your pan be thoroughly
clean, and that only sweet butter or lard be
used for frying. Sweet lard is better than but
ter, if little be used, as it will not brown the
cakes too much.
Recipes called for: Should any of the TRIB-
UNE readers know of better recipes than the
above, or if they can recommend those they
have tried in any other branch of cookery, let
the TRIBUNE have the benefit of their ex-
perience.
W0man's Auxiliary Work.
EDUCATING THE CHILDREN