The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-04-22
LOYAL WOMAN'S WORK
The Household, Conversation Club,
Puzzles, etc.
The Harry Household.


HAPPY HOUSEHOLD: Here is a recipe for Boston
bak ed beans which / learned from a mucei New
England housekeeper. They should be bake.I in a
bean pot with a lid. though Il common jar closely
covered will answer. Soak night, in soft
water two quarts of small white beans. In the
morning pa.boi them until they are quite plump
and swelled 30 their full size. Have ready two
pounds Of nicely grained salt pork, checked with a
knife across the rind Wash the beans IN three or
four waters before placing them in the bean pot
Then add half teaeupful Of common New orleans
baking molssscs mo other will give the same color
and taste) and a spoonful, rounded, oil soda TUT
the pork on top, cover with water place ia the
oven, and bake from six to eight hours according
to the fire. They need no attention, except 10 see
that they do not get dry, which will not happen II
you follow the recipe. These beans may be kept a
number of days, and may be served cold or hot, as
they are never greasy, as we sometimes see baked
beans. with bits OF lard sticking to them. To serve
hot, set the bean poi in the oven, rs II breaks The
beans and makes them musiiy to warm them on
the stove.-Editor " Loyal Womans Work"
BAKED INDIAN PUDDING.
HAIRY HOUSEHOLD: Take one quart of sweet
milk, place over the fire. and let if come to boil
then stir in one cup of meal Boil slowly 10 min
utos Take four well-bea;en eggs one cup OF sugar
one cup of raisins, one quart cold milk and mix to-
getier; then stir in the cooked meal and flavor 10
taste. Set in no: oven one hour.-Lainnie Van
Deuscn, Iiinokley, o.
A PRETTY TABLE SCARF
HAPPY HOUSEHOLD: will send you attractive
way TO make a table scarf or spread. The spread
should be of crimson velyetcen or felt. Have a
border on two sides only. The borders should be
of blocks of velvet or satin Each block should
have different design. painted or embroidered,
on 1t; or. If you prefer can make the blocks OF
crazy patchwork Put on blocks with crazy stitch
or plain, according to taste.-Meda Plympton, w est
Decatur, Pa.
ORANGE CAKE.
HAPPy HOUSEHOLD: am young girl, only Is,
and keep house for my father. / think THE TRIB-
UHE is splendid. / send recipe:
Orange Cdte.-Two cups sugar, one-ti;ird cup
butter, one cup milk. yolSs of five eggs whites OF
three. three caps -four, three tensnooniuls baking
powder. Bake in layers. Icing-Whites OF two
eggs. one aud half cups sugar, grated rind and
juice OF one orange.-Sylvia Wiley, Ohio, i'll.
Editors Chat.
Certainly, Grace, you are welcome to the G. G.
So is C. f. g., and all loyal boys and girls who de-
sire to improve their opportunities.
IL is understood that members of the @. G. may
address inquiries TO other members either by letter
or through THE TRIBUNE.
Walter A. Kaler writes that he has awarded the
hat-band prize 10 Media Plympton, favorite in the
&C.
Comrade c. G. George, 23d Iowa. Burchard, Neb.,
should try to go around squirrel watching him
from tree trunk. He viii find that the squirrel
will make good time getting around the tree as
he will.
Comrade Hugh Brady, Box 2s0 Yates Center,
Eoodson Co.. Kan, wants the address of Capt John
Gordon, or members of Co. L, I'd Kan. Cav, who
knew anything of John Lindsey same company,
who died at Unontown, Bourbon Co., Kan, May,
IS72 from injuries received in the service. Also,
address OF Capt. J. Wander Hooks company of Vet
eran Reserves. Information to help john Linds-
leys destitute orphan child to secure dues from the
Government.
OUR MAsCoTTE
Mascotte has been reading that the Poet Whittier
in hS 18Th year, has been putting his house
In order" with the prudence befitting that advanced
age, and in doing so has burned several thousand
letters Unfortunately, the accumulated CORE
spondcnce OF half century. His explanation of
this general bonfire is that many of them were con-
Gdcntfai moi or q
assert the mass and preferred that all should per-
ish rather than take responsibility for leaving them
go that nllschance an improper pubicity ever
should be given to any of the number. What he
says this subject should be needed by every
II have always regarded private and confidential
letter sacred, anu its publicity in any shape a
shameful breach of trust unless authorized by its
writer"
Said some one to Mascotte: 81 don't know how
II is, but somehow people don't have large families
nowadays like they used to. Why, my grand
mother had eight brothers and three sisters" No,
Ii certainly Is not common in these modern days
to have many children in u family in olden
times, but occasionally hears of large families
MaScotte remembers hearing OF a farmer, Hiram
Biein, OF montgomery Co., Pa, who is the father of
q daughters and two sons. The daughters all
married and have families of their own. Not long
since the p children and all of the grandchildren
made up a surprise party and paid old Mr.. Blen
who Is 79 years of age, a visit which was a most
The adase, little knowledge is dangerous
thing, is 4 very dangerous adage. If knowledge is
true. do moi believe IT TO be other than valuable
possession. matter how iEtDitesimal in quantity.
Indeed, if little knowledge be dangerous, who is
there safe among us? ''-HuIley.
a. Florence" Box %, Leesburg, n. - writing to
Mascottc on the results of home training, says
they every day, whether good bad,
even in her own quiet little village. " For in
stance" she says. there goes boy who chews to-
bscco, and delights In strutting about the streets
with cigar in his mouth; thinks it is manly; fire.
quents places that respectable person should
enter; and, instead of attending school, sits around
stores etc Are his parents doing their duty by him
In allowing him TO spend his time thus? fetsnow
In ff.s from
ming the streets, flirting, etc, thinking that after
they are sweet 10 they are too old FOR school, and
turI their thoughts to the most important object
IN their me- TO them, VIZ, marriage Where are
the mothers that they do not put restraint on
THEM ana kindly point out the dangers OF SO do
ing7 Parents, make your homes happy, then your
children will have desire 10 spend their evenings
out. Throw all the good influences you can around
them and do all that Is in your power TO make them
such men aud women that the country will be proud
to own them and delight TO honor them"
The poet Wordsworth says
And books we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good
Round these, with tendrils strong flesh and
Our pastimes and our happiness will grow
One OF the first things to be considered in read
Ing Is that we cannot read everything; indeed,
there are thousands and thousands of volumes that
We cat never read " Haste makes waste ~ in read
ing in everything else: the more haste the less
speed. The habit of reckless, rapid reading if &C.
quired, will soon totally unfit you for hard study
Have the patience to labor and wait and you will
fine that the knowledge that comes slowly surely
but systematically Will be the knowledge that will
hast.
a rule which has been laid down TO young STU
dents is TO read only the best Of everything In the
growth OF the human mind the tendency of the
t0ste is always upward from crude, uneducated
natural taste the growing mind has a tendency 10
educated refined and acquired taste If properly
nourfshcd. The love and admiration of our youth
for bloOd-and-thnn stories with yellow covered
backs, wiicse pages spattered with the blood of
Indians midnight assassins, and wild men of the
West-such stories as Merciless Ben, the Hair
LITER" Seven Buckets of Blood; or Life Among
RCcElHS.' literature la
and nngrGmuatical. will soon come to regard
with great indifference and afterward with dixust
As our ideas advance and we attain higher ideals
Conversation Club,