Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-29
Household.

"Kome is the sacred refuge u nfe." le
is rare to find sentence more replete
with truth or beauty, and yet side 6y side
with i. stands this other truth that home
is what the inmates Of the house make
II, comfortable haven, hslLowed spot
around which in after years shall cluster
sacred memories, or prison house
where women must stay and from whence
men go to seek diversion and endeavor IN
club life to ohtsin that relaxation they
fail to find 81 home.
1t is much the fashion to lay upon the
wife the blame OF any uninVlllngness
home life may possess, but while she has
an important place, not on her alone de-
wolves the responsibility Of making i. at
tractive. Il is only In united household
where thoughts impulses and desires are
thoroughly entwined that it is reasonable
to expect to find the joys that inspired
s poets song. 4 light remark OF gsy
girl SIS she passed in busy chat with q
congenial Comrsde elected this bit CT
moralizing and a mental picture resulted
;herefrom: "I know nothing Of house
work, snd don't mean TO learn, weil
board" And yet the passing listener
knew that not long hence this
Young girl would stand at the ;al:ar and
pledge herself to devote her life
to home making. Where lay the fault of
this shameless ignorance? Much Of it as
| the door Of the patient, enduring mother,
who in mistaken love for her daughter,
delighting in her freshness, her youth and
her beauty, had become her willing drudge
| until this home education had developed
selfish, exacting young woman, whose
husband must endure the penalty OF hef
Ignorance, and whose utter tncapacity for
ma king his home 'fs sacred refuge" would
| hnnliy drive him from this mocSery or
home 20 places aud scenes the very men,
ZION Of which must wiring FROM the eyes
of wife tears & bitterness.
Mother stays in the kitchen and daugh-
ter in TIE parl0r. Toe latter paints little,
drunos few meaningless times, feSas
| fewer books and lives OC ike paraSttet
utterly ignorant OF every detail OF NOME
duty, snd cherishing growing naGred.Sf
all kind OF useful lsbor. let, ilsssSoe
Young woman, each expects to be&wlle
and mistress Of home, and little seck-
ons sne Of the sore modification that
awsits her, or Of the sad consequences
that will inevitably follow when the tired
wase~esrGer comes home 20 disofoerly
house aud j1edible mes!s.
their burdens with the boys end girls OF
the family, assuming their proper place
cs directors ratnez thsn workers, the
foeeI home would Re more attainsble,
and both toys and girls 5stter ftted for
the home building by and by.
Bread making ought not 70 interfere
with ladY-like accomplishments, and
there are hopeful signs that the DAY is
dswnirg = her girls Will be as much
sshsmed OF ignorance OF domestic affairs
as they would be OF want OF the Iudi-
mentsry branches in school life.
! If mothers would teach their girls Ano
train their boys, SO thst together they
uould know how 10 co work and how to
nrsysnt unnecessary doing, husbands sud
wipss a dtcsde hence would furnish
realization Of the poets uttersnce quoted
At the beginning Of this srtic!e. and the
universal testimony Of men snd women
would be. "There's no plsce like home
RECIPES.
D.,nty dessert--Grste fresh cocoanut
Boat the whites Of five eggs to stu
tro:h. Add one pint Of thicK sWee
cream and sweeten 70 tsste. Beat alI 10
eether till VERY light. Serve with cake
: and berries.
ClCSaNQS C6rAT1GlS-1hhSs wv pOo-e'
@, sugar, two teacuPs of grated cocoanut
hslf = pint Of milk, and two teaspoons o.
extract OF lemon, boil until satf, pour on
hu,tersd tins ana mark In squares.
6;inger cake--Oae and one-half cups
lroI.sses. one-half cup brown sugar
sau,e of butter and lsTeet mix, one Tea
spoopful each Of soda. ginger, ahsplc'
ana cinpsnen, three cups sifred four-
Cookies-Two kesping cups OF sugar
one hslf cup CT layG, one cup OF butter
milk. dissolve ope tesspoonfui OF sod'
and two of baking powder in the ouster
milk. f.sor with lemon. houF enough y
roll easy.
CeresNne Cakes--Fske three cups 0
cere.line and wet with two cups OF MIX
add ose beaten egg, teaspoonfui o
baking powder and pinch OF eaiti m,'
tboroughIy. Bake brown on grloai'
creased wfsh butter. Serrs with none!
|, or syrus.
i Rroi,ed Reefsteek-Flatten with
wneden spoon, and broil upon outseret
pridirou over clear fi-e; Icy upon no
dish snt; season with pepper. salt m
, thntter. Cover with hot dish nve minuse
lpefore it is carved. ..,.
!, Bsnans Jelly--Soak hall Dcx g ee. s'
tine il 81 Is pint Of cold M:seri -
q hall pin lcf'hciiinE water, Dan wy :