Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-12

can easily overcome a lack of exact
knowledge, but deficient in both the case
is well nigh hopeless.
Perhaps there can be no safer guide
for neophyte in the service of hospI-
tality than to remember the title of a
once popular novel, "Put Yourself in
His Place, and if one's instincts
are not essentially coarse they will serve
for safe guide Take for example a
case where you are expecting friends
from distance, you have invited them
to partake of your hospitality, expecting
them, you baked brewed and stewed,
the broom has invaded every corner, no
intrusive speck of dust annoys your sense
of niceness; as the hour draws nigh for
the coming the children and yourself are
dressed with unusual care. Now comes
that putting in another IS place, picture
yourself dusty, warm, tired and
tumbled, would the contrast that one in
such plight must make be pleasing to
your inner sense of fitness? First a cor
dial greeting, then a conduct to Q room
well aired, or warmed If in winter, an
abundance of everything needful to re-
move all trace of travel, and all this
offered in quiet unobtrusive way; re-
freshed and renovated the guest enters
the drawing room with q feeling of CRATE
full satisfaction that fixes you in the mind
as q model host
It is well to bear in mind that such
provision is appreciated by gentlemen as
well as ladies, and is essential for them
In party preparation and when they are
received as honored guests in the house
OF course, men deny any penohant for
looking in mirror, but every gentleman
feels better when entering the presence
of ladies to know that his tie is properly
adjusted. that the hyperion curl is not
wandering, and that his coat collar shows
no want of a brush.
Fact and knowledge are both requi-
sites in guiding conversation, avoiding
unfortunate topics and steering clear Of
all personalities, and it is in these things
that the genuine host instinct is mani
tested. To regale a friend with a
ragOut made up of servants inefficien-
cies, and q detailed account of daily eX-
penditure, is to make ones guest COM
Dute the expense and annoyance
they may occasion, while a recital
of nursery wisdom as it crops out
in the sayings of mothers darling is at
times nauseating if not insulting to ma
ture intelligence.
So much has been said of q recital of
physical ills that there ought to be little
danger that they be made a topic of talk
II is neither restful nor entertaining to
hear Of anOther's worries, it Is not i'm
proving or elevating to dwell upon the
faults Of others and it is never kind to
pursue q subject until 1t becomes wearl-
some; life is full of drudgery, is full of
sorrow, every back and heart, too, aches
at times, but the object of social inter
course is for the time TO put these in the
background and find sweetness and light
someness by association with friends and
associates.
To obtain this pleasure is worth an effort
and better than all books on etiquette is
the inward promptings of loving heart,
that rarely, if ever, fail on state or
simpler occasions to direct a course that
tends to mutual pleasure. Tritles are
not unimportant; little speck of dust
chokes important machinery and the
want of presence or things quite so small
may mar the pleasure of an deliberately
prepared entertainment, or blight the
promised pleasure of the long anticipated
visit of 81 friend.
RECIPES.
Stuffed eggs-PeeI hard-boiled eggs,
remove the yolks and mix to n paste with
melted butter, little salt and pepper.
l.
Arrange in a dish upon a fringed DOYLE,
and garnish with parsley or lettuce
leaves.
Tomato jelly-Take ripe tomatoes,
peel, and squeeze out the juice. To
every pint add half a pound of sugar.
Season with white ginger. Boil until
stiff.
Nut cake-One cup of sugar, one-half
cup butter, one and one-half cup -four
one-half cup cold water, two eggs,
two and a half teaspoons of baking pow
der, two cups of hickory or walnut
meats.
Jumbles-One cup sugar, half cup
butter, two eggs, one cup of sour milk,
half teaspoonful of soda, one tablespoon
full of caraway seeds, -four enough to
roll; form small round cakes and bake
light brown.
Lemon cheese cake cone pound of
sugar, one-half pound Of butter, juice
of three lemons, grated rinds of two,
yelks of SIX eggs, whites of four; beat
thoroughly, put IN jar and place in a
pan of water and boil till thick; turn in
q mold; serve cold.
Tea biseuit-FoT each teacup of -four
take a teaspoonful of baking powder
and same of butter; rub the baking
powder and butter into the flour with a
little salt and a teaspoonful of sugar,
wet with milk; roll thin and bake in
very hot oven.
Tomato catsup-To nine pounds of
skinned tomatoes add two pounds of
sugar, two ounces cloves, one ounce of
cinnamon, salt to taste and three pints
of vinegar. Cook the tomatoes soft in
their own juice, strain and then cook
again in the vinegar with the spices until
it is rich and somewhat thick.
Fried liyer-Cut in thin slices and
place in pan, pour over a cup of boil
ing water, and drain off; have boiling
hot lard in a skillet, dredge the liver
with grated cracker, season with pepper
and salt: put i'll the skillet, cover and fry
slowly until both sides are brown. Serve
with tomato sauce.
Beef mince-Cut all the cold roast beef
off the bone and put on the bone to
stew with little water, pepper, salt and
celery seed. Chop the cold meat very
fine. STRAIN the gravy, thioken it with
a very little -four. Put the minced meat
Ill just before you serve, and heat it
thoroughly, but 90 not cook it. Veal,
mutton or chicken can be minced in the
same way.
Compete of peaches-Cut the fruit in