Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-11-26


and practicality. He paints love
for labor and lowliness, and puts
such Q halo about the head of
poverty, stepping right into the life
Of the humblest and showing the
kingiy thought within, that the
effect can hardly be told. One feels
freedom from the mists Of con-
ventionality after having read these
stores, that makes the great world
tangle seem easier to uuravel, and
stirs the desire 10 do SO In each
heart.
Read these stories yourself and
then say of your own accord
whether the children should have
BLUE MONDAY.
"Blue Monday V on every calen-
dar, - blue As the owner cares to
have It. The poet must have been
thinking Of waah day when he
wrote:
"I saw her upon nearer view,
A spirit, yet . Woman too!
A creature not too bright or good
For human natures daily food
People who 20 to bed on Sunday
night with something to regret
usually have the bluest Monday of
sll, for It IL . hard enough day
when 1t is met with the best prepar-
alton. To have the whole house
savored with suds and warmed-over
victuals takes the soul Of saint to
overlook. AZ luck will have 1t,
nearly everything that Is disagree
able happens ON this day, and most
generally company cDmes, the chill.
dren are noisy aud late to school,
the house is in tipped-over state
after the Sunday houseful of visiting
relatives, and so one might 60 Oh
and find lots of particular reasons
why Monday is the bugbear Of the
week. 1t takes more Christian
preparation to meet Monday aright
than ever it does to meet Sunday.
And woe to the housewife who has
no week day religion.
When the remains of Sundays
dinner ia slowed away it ought TO be
ready and prepared for Mondays
dinner, if that is intended. The
childreu's 9 school clothes and books
n put in place Sunday night vii
save great confusion, and perhaps
preserve little Of the Sunday
influence far into the next day
Scnsol itself wouldbe more orderi,
on this fated day. Some people vii
look upon the Sunday night prepa
nations 10 breaking the Sabbath
but il Monday can be drawn out o
the depths of the bluepot by Bunda.
labor, who says 1t is not holy work
"Sufficient unto the day Is the evi
thereof but II tO-day's sunshin'
can dispei tomorrow's gloom, W
are net borrowing trouble but pre-
xeB*iae- it by doing tomorrow
duties toiay. The sunbeams lsbo
On the Sabbath.
RECIPE FOR OsiEhET PANCAKE.
To one pint of new milk take thre
large cooking-spooufuis of -four
three OF four eggs and a little sali
Put the milk on the stove;when 1t
4 luke warm stir up the -four will
half the milk. Then when the Re
maind.r of the milk is boiling, mi!
It with the bsttsr. Do not put II
the eggs until the milk and ftou
are we'll mixed. Break them int
the batter without stirring or beat
ing, and gently break them with
spoon 20 they are partly mixed only
Your dish 10 spoiled II the egg is to
much stirred. Put q tablespoonful
Of lard into a spider, and when yer
hot pour in enongh batter for cak
the size of . tea plate. Turn to
, delicate brown and serve hot, sprint
led with sugar.
, The womanly woman is born M
, not made; the quality is an essent
. of human nature. The most masc,
line women are those who never 9
! out of their hsuse to do or say an,
, thing In connection with women
> movements. COarspess' or masc'
: Unity can be found in stay-athom
woman the same as eliminate maj
, ners sometimes belong IN q man wh
! shuns the opposite sex. It's oil We
enough for Mrs. Beecher tnsay tbs
! women should bring up their chi
dren TO be housewives and mother
Suppose they haven't children an
8 II they. have iu the majority of cas'
| girls must become money-earners
: support themselves or others dspent
; ent upon them. The America
neither of today is just a. faithf,
, To her family as she ever wa
, This talk about women not wantin
, to bring up families is not true.
} know, not frsm hearsay but fror
actual experience, that instead
! the material instinct dying out 1t
, q much q vital part of woman
, nature as In Beecher's bridal day
There In q distinctive superiorit
/, about American mothers M CON