The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-14
REALM OF FAIR WOMEN.
Minee Pies as Made BY Mrs. Glad
stone for Many. Very
Many Years.
The Editress Of Harper's Bazaar
Crossing on the Brooklyn
Ferry Boat.
Money offered by Men--A Women's Hotel
Olive Harper's BOy-Anent Well.
known People.

TSpecial Correspondence of THE INDEPENDENT. !
New YORK, Dec. IA lady once asked
DR., Parr on what day it was proper to begin
eating mince pie. "Begin on o Sarientia, >"
replied the worthy doctor, whereby, WHITING
ly or otherwise he conveyed double mean
inc, for few invocations could be more ap-
propriate than the summoning of wisdom
and discretion to ones aid in the consump-
ton of such highly complex dainty. But
DR.. Parr had too much Rallantry to bid a
lady look to her digestion; he was simply
reminding her that mince pie was Christ
mas pie and that one should taste it first
on Dec. l6, the ecclesiastical beginning
of the Christmas holiday. day which
takes its name from hymn sung during
Advent Logically, one should abjure
the compound after Twelfth Night, but
mince made according to an old rule given
to me in England this summer is wa rranted
to keep until spring. The rule, by the by.
if the personal mention lends interest, is
Mrs, Gladstone's, used in her family for
generations and prepared in her kitchen
every Christmas. 1t came to me through a
Newnhsm girl, for Miss Helen Gladstone,
who is president of Sedgwick hall and who
inherits her fathers digestion, whether
with or without his habit of chewing every
mouthful thirtytwo times, has introduced
her mothers pie at the women's college,
and here it is as eaten by Miss Philippa
Fawcett and other lights of Cambridge
diversity, whose mental brillianoy seems
t to have been clouded by its soporifc
iuences.
'.Boil a meats tongue two hours, then
skin it and chop it as small as possible;
chop three pounds of fresh beef suet very
fine, three pounds of good baking apples,
four pounds of currants, washed clean.
picked and we'll dried, and one pound Of
raisins. stoned and cleaned; mix all these !
we'll together. with one pound of powdered
sugar, half an ounce of mace, half an ounce
of nutmeg grated, a quarter of an oance
each Of cloves and cinnamon, and one pint |
French brandy. Make rich puff paste. |
nd as you fill the pie put in little candied
citron and orange cut in small pieces; what |
you have to spare cover up in an earthen |
jar and add no citron or orange until you |
use it,"
The Editor of Harper's Bazaar. |
Very often see on one of the ferry boats
crossing from Brooklyn tall finely formed |
woman with pink cheeks and snow white |
hair. She seldom fingers in the hot and |
badly ventilated ladies' cabin" but passes
through to the forward deck, where she |
stands in the wind drinking in, however |
cold the day, the salt air and the inviQorat
ing prospect of sweeping gulls and laugh
ing waves. The birds seem to perform their |
best evolutions for her especial benefit, and |
one day last week one of them caught fish |
close to the boat and on her side. Now and |
then there comes a day when the gulls sulk |
and the water is gray. Then she may but |
ton her sealskin more closely about her and |
stand her ground. or she may resign her
place before the New York side is reached
and. fresh and glowing. sit down for
minute in the cabin. In such case
you have chance to look at her.
You think her face one of the most
reposeful you lave ever seen. 1t bears no
mark OF the nervous fret and hurry and
worr2 that seam and line the countenances
OF so many of the women of our generation.
II 10 not impassive but. on the contrary full
of expression, especially about the mouth
and eyes. The eyes are the most beautiful
feature, large, poetic aed very kindly; but it
Is the face as whole that you note, quiet
face with smooth coils of hair; the face, you
think, of an exceptionally well-balanced
woman. She doesn't carry rolls of manu-
script or in any way betray her vocation, but
for all that she sits on one of the most i'm
portant editorial tripods ever occupied by
woman editor for she is Mrs. Margaret e.
Sangster of the Bazaar. and she says the ferry
trip is one of the chiefest of the pleasures Of
her day. She puts herself heart and soul
nto her work and is thoroughly interested
n every. department., 'even that of the
ashiors."
Money for Woman's Hotel
Every now and then the project crops up
nd as inevitably falls through. This time
looks as if it had little more vitality
nd staying power, for to begin with, there
money. Some capitalists have taken it
Ito their heads that there is profit to be
lade in building and running big hotel
hich shall receive women as guests on til
sme matter-of-fact, sensible basis as that
= which the ordinary establishment now
eceives men. They have been comforting
18th Mrs. Emily V. Battey. the we'll known
ewspaper woman who for SO many years
as been connected with the Sun. with a
lew to her cooperation, and, think,
of the scheme. They are pre-
AIRED to put funds into her hands if. on
I'LL consideration, the plan develops itself ,
8 feasible. Several other women of prom
hence are interested and very probably a |
aove will be made shortly on quite differ
MT lines from the old Stewart plan.
few days ago in the course of recep- /
Ion at the Park avenue Jenny june {
jfoly was moved to "Reminiscences. 81 was
lere two days." she said, lat the beginning
Il that failure, and wasn't glad to get
way. Rows of solemn, white-shirted j
Walters in the diningroom and not enough
Inner for an invalided chicken! Rules,
ules, nothing but rulesn'
II woman's hotel should again be
opened it may be asserted with confidence
hat 1t will be conspicuous for its lack of
uies. Women are somewhat weary of be-
ng dealt with more stringently than pris-
oners at the bar whose innocence is as
sumed until proof is brought to the con-
trary. Not many weeks ago one of the best
known women writers in New York went to
The Astor House and was proceeding to
register. Excuse me. madam said the
CLERK, politely, but firmly, I'VE require
reference from ladies before we assign
Them to rooms The writer was fortunate
enough to have brother in New York who
couid testify to her good character, but it
IS little incidents Of this sort, relics Of
which keep certain amount
OF Hie In the project of woman's hotel
Wnlcn snaii recognize the right to life, lib
erty ana the pursuit of happiness even of
tne 1orlorn woman who is not youched for
~ some some SORT; b not always respectable sort.
q man. we'll take them,'' says Mrs.
Mrs. Battey. "Ihey are probably honest
traveller and put them out if thew don be-
have" NoA. 70