Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-10

consideration of self, will find marriage
a farce and home making a dismal fail
ure. Home making depends largely
although not entirely, on the wife. 1t
is to her the family looks for daily
supply of happiness which is so largely
dependent on creature comforts, and if
she is true woman the daily draught
viii not exhaust, but stimulate to larger
provision.
1t has been charged that literary
women are not domestic women If
ever this was true it is not so now How
ever limited one ; field of observation
there will be abundant evidence that it is
from the home that women have emerged
to give lessons on the eaTnestness of life,
and whose writings have compelled re-
spect. Look over the list of complainers,
are they women of bright brain, or of in
dolent body? Incidence, indulgence,
iDdisposition to take mp life as Il respon-
sible being, lies at the root of much that
is heard of the hardship that condemns a
woman to housekeeping. A nation :
strength is in its homes, not in its board
ing houses where idIeness, extravaganza,
all that mars the highest development of
true womanhood may be said TO abide
The lily may not toll or spin. but that
woman who willingly becomes a wife
should not expect or desire the life of a
flower. Housekeeping brings its cares,
its veXationS, moments OF failure and
hours of dependency bnt these are
overbalanced by the joys that have no
parallel. To exchange the seclusion of
home for the publicity of hotel or board
ng-house life, to be exposed to the sur
VIGILANCE of heartless criticism to subject
ones husband and children TO the re-
strictions such life imposes, is poor
compensation for home life purchased ,
though it may be at cost by the
dear woman who stands at the helm
Boarding may become a necessity. but
the circumstances that render it so are to
be deplored. Better, far better, submit
to the annoyance of inferior service, the
plain mode that proper economy makes
Imperative; better take the two rooms of
home than two in other conditions, and
in the sheltered seclusiveuess of one s
own home work out the problem of life
so that marriage, housekeeping, parental
duty, all that distinguishes man from the
lower animal creation, be not failures,
but crowned successes. Then to the
woman, however humble her sphere, VIII
come that blessed benediction, never yet
given to man, She hath done what she
could. -
RECIPES
French Puff Paste-Take equal guam
titles of flour and butter, say one pound
of each, half saltspoonful of salt, the
white of one egg, and rather more than
one-fourth of pint of water. Weigh the
-four, ascertain that it is perfectly dry !,
and sift it; squeeze all the water from the
butter, and wiring 1t in clean cloth till
there is no moisture remaining. Put the
flour into a large bowl, and work lightly
into it one-quarter of the butter; into
this put the white of the egg, well beaten ),
the salt and about one-fourth of pint of
ice cold water the quantity of water
must be regulated by the cook, as it is
Impossible TO give the exact proportion of
it,, kuead up the paste quickly and
lightly, and, when smooth, roll it
ont square to the thickness of
about half an inch. Presuming
that the butter Is perfectly
free from moisture and as cool as possible
roll il into ball and place this bail on
the center of the paste; fold the paste
over the butter all around, and secure it
by wrapping it well all over. Flatten
the paste by rolling it lightly with the
rolling pin until it is quite thin, but not
thin enough to allow the butter to break
through. and keep the board and paste