Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-05
BRINGING UP ARIEL.
Gail Hamilton in the Role of Miranda,
Enthuses Over a Baby and
GIVES A LESSON In PURE LOGIC.
American Mothers Can Obviate the Need Of
Laws and Jails.
SOME TOorHsoME HAWAIIAN DISHES
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WRITTEN FOR THE DrsPArcH.l
There is nothing like Sumner Isles Of
Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea for
one who does not know how to cook. because
there are so many things here that states
man or woman is not expected to know, that
individual ignorance is mercifully merged
In continental ignorance-so can enjoy the
strange new dishes without pang. Ban
anas are of course delicious as we know
them at home, but here more so, and when
cooked more so again. One day All Chang
fries them; another, we have them sliced
with milk and sugar; for desert, baked with
nutmeg sauee-ano. er day boiled. Then
the taro is excelleE Gng. 1t grows under
water, shaped like hrge turnip, and when
cooked is of lavender color. We have
taro regularly for breakfast and dinner, as
one would have potato. For dinner ir is
boiled, and if must do without either 1
would let the potato go and take taro. For
breakfast we have the leftover taro fried in
slices or we pound the boiled taro to paste
and then fry, and do not believe there is a
waiter in the Great Republic who can cook
rice as we do-in great quantity of water,
never stirring it, as that makes it less light,
and when fully done pour off the water and
let it dry.
For breakfast this morning we had it
with milk and sugar, in place of mush; also
steak. with fried sweet potato, two (de-
licious) fried bananas, alligator pear, and
cakes and syrup. The alligator pear is q
most delicate thing with bread and butter.
Pepper and salt are all put on, but many
make regular salad of it. 1t looks queer,
o light green color, soft and oily and very
rich. 1t is not always liked at first taste,
but I fell to at once, and the liking grows
into rapture.
ARIEL'S LITTLE AIRS
Ariel has mellensfeed. 1 believe this is
a Micronesean dish, not native Hawaiian.
AT any rate, she is growing fat on it, and
her mouth and chin are my hourly admira-
ton. And oh to see her creeping She
sits down, rests on hands and doubles her
right leg under, dragging the left yfter
her. In this one-sided fashion she scuttles
across the floor. Her delight is to get be-
tween two rocking chairs and rock, first one
and then the other, getting quite absorbed
In the work. She can pull herself by the aid
Of chair, so as to balance for minute on
her knees. And she chatters to the
birds! While sitting playing yesterday she
heard the canary on the veranda, and look
ing through the door she cried: Zach?
Ach?" answering ever time the bird sang.
She is as hearty as possible, eating loaves Of
bread at each meall just asked her if she
would send her love to Native Land, and
she smilingly answers "Dabblerabble,"
which of course every intelligent American
understands. She persists in creeping to
the wall and rubbing her hands over the
paper, the colors of which rub off badly. I
have had to slap her hand quite hard, but
she is tough as knot, for she won't cry,
but she will yell at me and struggle hard to
get to the paper. To-day she was playing
and suddenly remembered the paper. She
looked at me, grunted defantly and scram-
bled for the wall. tried to divert her from
her purpose, but in vain; so there was the
usual scene-de6ance, yells and maternal
tirmness Mademoiselle gave in quite easily
this time, however, and can see that she
begins to reason little and to understand
"Nol nol's ~
She is veritable -o'-the-wisp-now
here, now there; but her grandfather Ferd
wisely writes, "better be so than one of
those quiet, fabby, sleepy, soft, easy,
mouth wide open, tongue-out babies"
which is very nice of him. She stuffs
everything she can lay hold of into her
mouth, and when protest back go the defiant
little hands behind her and she shakes her
head, "Achl achP' Tonight Ferdinand
brought home a roll of dollar coins in a
paper, which he gave to Ariel. She sue
ceeded in pulling off the wrapper and then
had gay time with the money. At last
papa coaxed her to put one piece in his
hand, and after that she took up each coin,
slowly turning round to drop it into bis
hand when he said "Give it to papa" until
she had deposited 16 dollars Then she
was sick of it and you could not hire her to
pick up another.
REMARKABLE CHILD.
She doesn't seem like a baby any more.
She looks grown up. And it is true, she
isn't baby and her ways are not babyish. |
She has long spells of thoughtfulness,
actual wisdom and she doesn't care for play. |
things much, but only to work hard climb |
ing up by the help of the low steamer trunk |
or tugging to open a bureau drawer. No mat |
ter how hard she bumps her head she only |
stops long enongh to look around at me and |
then back again to business. This morning |
as was putting in her pin, she clutched it |
before it was clasped, making q scratch |
across one finger. She held it up and |
gravely inspected it, then put it up to my |
mouth. I kissed it and she seemed quite
satisfied. She fell over to-day and made a
bump on her forehead, but merely winked
hard and resumed her climb up the piano
stool. Oil there is no doubt about it, she is
one must write about politics and society
! nH turo nd hot riolx xuill he a hor
Dur Ariel borel To whom, should like
% know? Show me the man who dares say
hat of my sweet angel, who is raviDg
beauty and SO fascinating to-day when she
was playing with the strip of sunlighs on
he floor, that I put away my book to enjoy
her. Politics, indeed! It is I that am
have been bored all my life
With mans miserable pig iron and three
nile line inshore fisheries and the balance
,f trade, and duty on silks-dead, dumb
hings, that are Of no good to anybody, and
Keep one from nice clothes. Real politics
s human beings. Ariel is political entity.
Little, fresh soul, starting out as pure as
heaven and as transparent as the sunlight.
She is sunlight, showing in every look and
lisp how souls grow. And this human soul
5 the end for which houses are built and
constitutions written and laws enforced.
LESSONS IN LOGIC.
Is it any less important, pray, to watch
md train little soul right, when it is be-
inning, than it is to trounce it and chain it
nd warp it and bribe it and whack away
t it in the pulpit and in the courtrooms
nd in the newspapers when it has become
III hard and dingy and deceitful, and can
lot move easily and cannot see clearly?
No. 1t the Senators and judges and edi-
ors and merchants would take little Of
he time which they spend in reading their
onsense columns about stocks and what the
hances are for some one 10 be elected, when,
they would wait few days till the
lection is over, they would know for GER
ain; and If, instead, they would all sit
own on the ground and watch Ariel under
he algeroba trees on the little blue and
ink crib blanket which carry about
verywhere because she looks so pretty
nth it for on underground, and just
'atch and listen as she sits with
fistful of grass talking to it
nd her new sunbonnet fops over her face