Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-03

"Home is the sacred refuge Of life" Il
is rare to find sentence more replete
with truth or beauty, ana yet side by side
with it stands this other truth that home
is what the inmates of the house make
| 1t, & comfortable haven, q halloWed 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 erdeSvor in
club life to obtain that relaxation they
fail to find at home.
1t is much the fashion to lay upon the
wife the blame of any uninvitingness
home life may possess, but while she hss
an important place, not on her alone de-
wolves the responsibility Of making Il at,
trsctiVe. 1t 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
poets song. A light remark Of gay
girl as she passed in busy chat with a
congenial comrsde elected this bit OF
morsliZing and mental picture resulted
therefrom: "I know nothing of house
work, and don't mean TO learn, we'll
board" And yet the passing listener
knew thst not long hence this
young girl would stand ct the IsItGr and
pledge herself to devote her life
to home making. Where lay the fault of
this shameless ignorance? Much of it at
the door of the patient, enduring mothe r,
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 her
ignorance, and whose utter incapacity for
making bis home "a sacred refuge" would
finally drive him from this mockery of a
home 10 places and scenes the very men
ton of which must wiring from the eyes
Of q wife tears CT bitterness.
Mother stays il the kitchen and daugh-
ter in the parlor. The latter paints little,
drums q few meaningless tunes, reads
fewer books and lives on like parasite,
utterly ignorant of every detail Of home
duty, and cherishing growing hatred Of
all kind of useful labor. Yet, like the
young woman, each expects to be wife
and mistress of home, and little reck-
ons she of the sore modification that
awaits her, or of the cad consequences
that will inevitably follow when the tired
wage Garner comes home TO disorderly
house and inedible meals.
II mothers could be induced to share
their burdens with the boys and girls Of
the family, assuming their proper place
es directors rather than workers, the
ideal home would be more attainable,
and both boys and girls better fitted for
the home building by and by.
Bread making ought not to interfere
La
there are hopeful signs that the day is
dawning when girls will be IS much
ashamed Of ignorance of domestic affairs
as they would be Of want Of the rudi-
mentary branches in school life.
If mothers would teach their girls and
train their boys, so that together they
would know how to do work and how to
prevent unnecessary doing, husbands and
wives decade hence would furnish 9
realization Of the poets utterance quoted
at the beginning of this srtIcle, and the
universal testimony Of men and women
would be, "There's no place like home"
RECIPES.
Dainty desseTt-Grate fresh cocoanut.
Best the whites of five eggs to stiff
froth. Add one pint Of thick sweet
cream and sweeten to taste. Beat all to-
gether till very light. Serve with cake
and berries.
Cocoanut carsmels-Take two pounds
Of sugar, two teacups of grated cocosnut,
half pint of milk, and two teaspoons of
extract Of lemon, boil until stiff, pour on
buttered tins and mark in squares.
Ginger cake-One and one-halt cups
molasses, one-half cup brown sugar,
same of butter and Sweet milk, one tea
spoonful each of soda, ginger, allspice
and cinnamon, three cups sifted -four.
-Cookies-Two hesping cups of sugar,
ohe half cup Of lard, one cup of butter
milk; dissolve one tesspoonful of soda
and two Of baking powder in the butter
milk, flavor with lemon, -four enough 70
roll easy.
Cerealine Cakes-Take three cups Of
ceresline and wet with two cups of milk;
add one beaten egg, s teSspoonful Of
baking powder and pinch of salt; mix
thoroughly. Bake brown on q griddle
creased with butter. Serve with honey
or syrup.
Broiled Reefsteak-Fletten with g
wooden spoon, and broil upon buttered
gridiron over q clear fire; Isy upon hot
dish and season with pepper, salt and
butter. Cover with hot dish five minutes
before it is carved.
Banana Jelly-Sosk half box Of gels
tine in hsis pint of cold water; add
half pint Of boiling water half cup OF