The National tribune., 1884-04-03
LOYAL W0MAN'S WORK
Our Girls Experience Meeting
Relief Corps.
conducted By Kate B. sl4ertoooa.l

The young lady Of the period is very sweet
ana lovely young creature, intelligent, accom-
plIshed, and with head and heart that we are
ready TO match against the world. Noone will
ever hear us deplore the good old days when.
according to the eroaker, the girls We're all
thrifty, frugal and industrious" so unlike the
idle creatures of the Nineteenth century" as
they tell US with prolonged wall.
It is simply fabrication of a benighted in
tellect. The girls were never more fair and
promising than in this year of our Lord 1884.
Only sometimes the dear things are kept SO
steadily at their books that they have no OPP
portnnity of learning in girlhood what they
must acquire in their mature womanhood
through a much harder experience, since
mother is not at their side to help them over
the hard places
Trust an American girl, who becomes an
American wife, to keep house as well as her
neighborsi o, cur girls are proud, and they will
get even with the best cooks in the community
If they have to cry their bright eyes red and
burn their plump, dimply arms and hands from
elbow to fingeT-tip in dong it. I'VE know they
WILL fer haven't we tried it ourselves
But dear mothers, why not begin TO teach
your daughters the homely little things very
carly. Pies and cakes, pGddings and salads,
which they usually learn so soon, are the merest
refnements of cookery. Begin with the bread
and The meat and the vegetables woman
who can make fine, sweet, white loaf can
very Soon acquire the art oil Nne caKe-AaklnS;
angels food " though il be.
III we were to fix the order, we shonld say
that, next TO breaa-making, tand every woman
should know fhis-why, even Queen Victoria
had her daughters learn this and bakers bread,
IL you live in town, is SO a1fully tiresome,l
every girl should have a knowledge of meat
We do not mean that she should simply know
the art Of frying, or boiling. or roasting She
should learn TO define the different kinds Of
meat, as that when she goes out TO buy din
neT, or when the contents of the market-basket
are placed before her, she should say: Here
is sirloin roast; this must be roasted quickly
4 without water basted in its own juices, and
must not be in the oven too long, or it gets dry
and hard.''
! Or she should say: This is leg of NUT
ton. VIII put it on TO boil when we are get
ting breakfast Boil until eleven o'clock, then
sprinkle it with -four, season it thoroughly,
roast ii two hours in the liquor in which IL was
boiled and serve it with some of my nice
currant jelly" If spring lamb she should
I be able say: 90 this is far nicer than young
chicken and / must be sure to have some
mint, that the sauce will be just right" Then
she viii take the delicate lamb put it in
dripping pan. with a sprinkle of pepper, salt
and -four, put pint of water in the pan,
and dip the gravy over often, covering 1t with
a pan between times. so that 1t will not get
I hard In the meantime she wifi pick over
4 lSf liHAs CnUe IL Il HAIL u1GF Dc4DEe sSlNius,
add vinegar and little brown sugar. Then,
4 with a nice dish Of green peas and some new
/ potatoes dressed in cream, she viii have din
ner fit for king.
DO, girls. learn these things; then you will
not serve dry, tough mutton, hurried up in the
4 oven when ii ought 10 have been boiled three
i or four hours before baking or serve your
( roast goose raw. as we knew one poor young
/ housekeeper TO do whose husband sent her
home 10 her mother before the honeymoon was
over.
By the way. did any of you ever see Nellie
4 G. Cones inimitable little travesty on the
poor young girl whose mother had never taught
4 her the different varieties OF poultry2 Read it.
and consider the lesson:
Miss Palias Eunora Won Blurl.y
She didn't know chicken from turkey;
! High Spanish and Gree& she could fuently speak,
But her knowledge of poultry was murly.
She could tell the great-uncle Of Moses,
And the dates Of the Wars Of She Roses,
And the reasons Of things.-sshy the Indians wore
In tlaeir red. aboriginal nosesi
Why Shakespeare was wrong in his grammar,
Aud tie nisailinl Of Emerson's Brahma."
And she went chipping rocks with a little black
box
And small geological hammerl
She had views upon co-education
Aud the principal needs OF the Nation.
or The stars in each high constellation.
And she wrote in n handwriting clerky,
and sle talked with an emphasis jerisy,
And she painted files in the sweetest Of Styles
But -he didn't know chicken from turkey
WOman's Exchange.
Ny father l. C. Hari1ert Prospect Valley W
Va, who served IN company q, i2ta Virginia, lost
picture in Pennsylvania in July. 1853. his way
home from parole camp. 1t taken with q
revolver drawn across the breast. and was in
! large case lie woad Ike the address OF anyone
who may have found such q picture.-Bertha A.
Harbert.
Can anyone send the words Of " The Girl LEFT
Behind Mea2 Can anyone tell Of my uncle, JOSEPH
Alien. who WIS Ia the WARP j am little gir
cse- years. and my papa was ~ the war, silC
Iafnma had two uncles III the service, one of whom
. lost eg.-Daisy Alien. Fresh Water Cal
VIII some one send through THE TRIBUSE tht
song entitled The Southern Tree2 beginning
When our boys corne bone in triumph,
With the laarels they have gained.
Papa was disabled IN the army, but gets no pen
sinll- lie beionged "a company K, l4th Wisconsin
and hss taken THE InIBUNE nearly five years.
tsgelve, and brother Cyriilo Is ten Willie seven
2 and Charlie four. We are 30 glad when papa read
! 10 u. as he thinks much of THE TRIBUNE vi
never get il nngil lie is thTough.-Etatiie Bel
Tiffany. Sutherland, Iowa.
! Can some reader of The TRIBUNE tell Gcorg,
". Jewet. Of New London, n. H. the name of tht
lady nurse Of ward 2 section B. ID army corpg il
! the hospital Of City Point, Va. April. 1862
win some osae send me through TIE TRrgus1
D the words Of " Marching Through Georgian" NJ,
father served more than three years in the 25tl
: New York caTairy.-Atce leeE, Sugar LOAF
; Orange county, n. Y.
e Having seen ia THE TRIBUNE an account OF Il,
2 / brigade composed OF the 5th Kentucky 9Th Indi
( ana and SD Ohio would like to correspond wit
some young lady whose faiher ia that brigade
; my father served IN company @, 9Th Kentuck :
\, ! known a. The " Louisville Legion lie Is Junio
q Nice-Commander of our fourishing Post. / hav
kKtD fheF@ 2 n qia
4 / when iHE TRIBUNE comes.-Neyia Byers Owens
! boro', Ky.
! w. g. d. W: Give your true address in thes
columns and you viii receive a reply in respons
10 your request for "A correspondent There is, q
least young lady who does not care to write 1
i an unknown person.-Soldier's Daughter.
y The following request comes from Conrad
/ i. f. French, company /, 10Th Wisconsin in
fantry, clerk of district and circuit court
Humboldt Iowa.
viii some reader OF TIRE TRIBUNE furnish III
s, words Of the song entitled " The Soldiers Dreai
Of tle Girls at Home - of which the first lines al
l., something like the following:
/, When the daylight fades on the tented field,
4 And the campfire chcerfnlly burns
- Then soldiers thoughts, like carrier-doye
To his own loved home returns.
,e Comrade John II. Thurston, Senior Vic,
Commander Of Candy Post. Farmingtoi
,, Mimi, reports the successful formation Of drul
re- and fife corps composed of boys, Comrade Nixa
drilling the drnmmers and Conlrade Thursto
y the Gfcrs, for whom a novel system has bee
lp devised for the use Of those who cannot rea
d notes. He says the coming National EncamI