The Portland daily press., 1889-05-01
the HOME.
MRS. LoGAE's SCHEME.

from the middle ages, when the boys were
sent to the great families TO be trained as
pages, and girls learned to spin, sew, en-
broider, brew and bake under the supervis-
lon Of the chateline of castle. This custom
tits modern form is to send girls, after they
have finished school, to live a year in the
household Of some noted housewife, who
teaches them ali the accomplishments which
1t Is held fitting ahdus-natter should acquire.
Many women in Germany who are left wild
owed who are in need of money keep their
homes in this way. They take as inmates
young ladies, who are given year of train
Ing in housekeeping. They are taught all
the mysteries Of washing paint so that it will
not peel, of sweeping carpets so that the nap
Is not taken away with. the dust They
learn how floors should be waxed to look
like, glass. and old mahogany polished to re-
semble mirror; how silver should be clean
ed, and china and glass properly washed;
what will soonest cleanse and brighten mir
rors and windows; how lamps are kept in
order, order, ana what Is the secret Of the satin
learn how to market, to choose the best
meat, fish and vegetables, and how they
should be cooked to be tender and we'll fla
yored. Their pastry falls into flakes at
touch their bread and rolls are light and
sweet They know how to can. preserve
and bottle all sorts of fruit and vegetables,
and just how tables should be set, dinners
served and winescooled. They know the
art of bed making, busting, packing, arrang-
Ing closets, and regulating servants work.
and they are taught all the important rudi-
ments Of needle-work.
At the end of the year they are fitted TO
run house economically, literally, and with
oiled wheels, warranted not to squeak. This
is the system Mrs. Logan is making a study
Of and her idea is 10 found just such home in
this country, where girls can take a post
graduate course of year, learning all these
very important accomplishments, which
would g0to negatiying in many homes the
suggestion that marriage is a failure. She
thinks, 1t Is said, of founding the home in
Chicago, and has already some twenty young
women promised her to begin with. She does.
notpropOse to make the year all work and on
play. The home is to be big, handsome
house, fitted with every comfort, supplied
with books and music, and the girls are to
find that part of the curriculum Is in learning
through practical experiments how to enter
tain in every fashion.
er DE KIND TO THE LIVING.
1t is an odd thing that no sooner has death
claimed our friends for his own than we be-
gin to say and do multitude of things of
little use at all then in comparison to that
which they might have been had they come
10 advance of death. Then out of hand we
flock to the house with offers of assistance
and proffers of friendship; we rob our gardens
and hothouses and send cut flowers in pro-
fusion, and funeral wreathes and crosses and
pillows and anchors and stars to encum-
brance and do all we can, though late to hide
and disguise and sweeten fate. But if we
had hocked to the house while the dead
could have been aware of 1t how much
pleasure and excitement and relief from mon
otonous or lonesome hours our sick friends
might have enjoyed when all was tireSome
round of day and night and medicine and
solitude, when bunch of flowers brought in
would have brought a light to the dull eyes
OF Joy both over che gift and giver, joy which
no broken columns of tuberoses and iyies
costing small fortunes can bring to the eyes
Of the dead! Even could we not have been
admitted TO the sick room itself, we could
have brought here the murmur OF the outside
world by the mere knowledge given to the
patient that we were within the gates, some
good.
Then. too, how profuse we are with our
good words after our ears are stopped with
dust, We do not hesitate then to say all
praise OF the departed. 1t is as If we had
suddenly discovered in the sand jewel fit
Tor kings to wear; we make an Outcry and
hold II up to the light and turn it this way
and that, and exclafm and marvel and ad-
mire and call on others to do likewise.
There is nothing to say about this person
now that the place once filled Is vacant. But
II we had said tenth part of it when it
might have been heard by the living person,
Of how much more worth it had beeni What
Joy and satisfaction it might have giyeni
The subject of 1t all might have felt as if sat
isfed to leave life with such appreciation.
But it was not spoken, and life went on
without 1t; and now we regret 1t, and do the
same thing over with the next friend.-[Harp-
ers Weekly.
GIVE THE CHILDREN A CHANCE.
In planning and laying out flower and vege-
table gardens this spring do not forget the
boys and girls.
Remember that all children love flowers
and like to dig in the dirt, and many of them
may have an undeveloped taste for horticul-
ture. t
you can possibly do so. Let it be in good
situation, exposed to the sunlight and the
soil good Do not think shaded or stray
spot where nothing will grow good enough
for them, for If you do they win become dis
couraged.
Allow them to exercise their own Judgment
little and examine catalogues and select a
few well known varieties for themselves, and
DO not snub them when they ask questions.
Teach them the use of fertilizers and show
them how to plant the seed. If they find
insects injurious to vegetation help them to
search for the picture and description in some
good work on the subject or in S )me good
agricultural paper
In this way they will become h ppy and
interested and you will be surprise at their
aptitude and enthusiasm. 1t will require
perhaps some patience and extra exertion
But how great will be the return-for if you
do not desire them to follow it as a yoca-
tion 1t will give them love of nature and
out of door life that will make better men
and women OF them. Many people sigh be-
nc fhnxr IL .x.;n
not stay on the home form. but they do not
make them love 1t when young.-[Detroit
Free Press.
scoTcH EGGS. M
Cook one-half cup stale bread crumbs in
one-half cup milk to a smooth paste. Add
one cup lean cooked ham, chopped fine, one
teaspoonful mixed mustard, one-half salt
spoonful cayenne and one raw egg. Mix
well. Remove the she'll from six hard boiled
eggs, and cover with the ham mixture. Fry
In hot fat. Boiled ham should be used
There is too much fat in fried ham. Care
must be exercised not to have the ham too
thick or the eggs too cold, as it won't stick.
These may be made In the morning and are
very nice for picnics.
RICE FRITTERs.
Beat two eggs well, add one cup milk and
one-half cup boiled rice and one saltspoonful
baking powder with one pint flour and stir
into the above mixture. Drop by spoonfuls
into hot fat To test fat fry piece of bread
2, 29rown, while counting sixty moderately fast
MS Is not enough for raw mixtures. The
preaq should brown while counting forty In
ias' where cooked mixtures are to be fried
oauuce-one cup sugar, one and one-half
cups not water, one stick cinnamon Roll
uutll signtly thick, Adding a LITTLE lemon
Juice improves this. ~ oA
~ APPLE COMporr
Boil one cup sugar and two cups of water
five minutes: cook cored and pared annleo
very slowly in this syrup until tender: drain :.
sprinkle with sugar and bake In a hot oven
until brown; boil the syrup down to three
quarters cup and pour around the annlee
serve with custard. Use one dozen apples or
more. III the apples are fiat and tasteless. as
they often are at this season, it is well co add
a little lemon juice to give it a flavor. The
juice of half lemon may be added. Sprinkle
the apples with granulated sugar before
baking. Serve in a deep dish SO that the
syrup will cover some of them. Serve with
thick cream, plain cream or custard.-fB Boston
Cooking School.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
When dress silk becomes wet pat 1t be-
tween the hands to dry quickly.
Queen Victoria sleeps with her windows
wide open even in the dead of winter and