Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-06
Household,

| The coqueteries of spring and winter seem
| fairly at an end, and softness has won, as ever
| when wind and sun enter the field of contest.
| April brings with it to the housemothel
thoughts Of general overhauling of house and
wardrobe-an overhauling that is dismaying in
| tendency. The summer dress of Fanny, scarce
! " worn last summer, is too small. and Johns
! growing legs extend far beyond the limits OF
| his last years Sunday suit. An ac-
| emulation of dirt in the most
| inaccessible places inclines to make the heart
| sick and the whole nature faint, and this is a
| most admirable time to bring out the house
| motto, recommended some time since, 'Don' t
| Worry
| care. Fanny viii not suffer If her new dress is
| not zone at Easter, and as to John, why boys,
my dear, are all the better for growing, and the
matter OF clothes is the least possible anxiety;
give him his alleys (this is marble time) and his
old clothes and he viii be the happiest lad in
! dirt, take it easy. Do not upset the
whole house, your husbands temper, and
your own nerves for so small matter as dirt.
Begin at the top of the house, room at
tlme and do not wash all the windows in the
house in one day, and all the paint the next,
nnlsh each room and have resting place for all
Ihe doves OF the cote, when they come in from
waste of desolation bearing olive branches and
seeking rest. And do not you think it would be
wise TO told away the heavy curtains, leave up
the dust catching carpets, and lay away many of
the ribbons, scarfs and bits OF fancy work that
you so love (and they are pretty, and safely
slice OF worry would thus be disposed 'of, and
the summer breeze would be all the more re-
iIreshlng because you cast no anxious look on
delicate draperies.
If the pretty fancies of Bellamy's s'Looking
BACKWARD were anything but Utopian dreams
there might be hope that the many causes
of woriment would be removed But as
the world IS, and is likely to re-
main, every housekeeper must pre-
pare herself to be general factotum, and she
should see to it that she does not allow herself
10 create unnecessary burdens. and thus entail
upon herSelf an aggregation OF worries that no
amount OF aesthetlcism can atone for. Have
yourself your house and your children as neat
as Is commensurate with keeping the lines out of
your lace and the gray out of youI hair. Learn
to lay a share of the inevitable burden bearing
on Fanny and John, and as they grow in years
thus make your own cares less, so that your
mental sign does not abata and your husband
and mother for his Children he has
Should ourDeU %f him ne over naq e @
pestuous sea To rise superior to the
petty vexations occasioned by careless, incom-
petent servants, to find the easy way to work,
to learn to shift responsibility on young shout.
ders, are good lessons for Easter Sunday, and
once learned, the good to the house mother as
OFTEN burdened beyond the need, as beyond her
strength, viii be lessons of worldly wisdom if
not OF gospel lore.
RECIPES.
To stone raisins easily. pour boiling water
over them and drain Immediately.
Lemon Juice and salt will take spots of iron
rust from linen, which should be left in the sun
to bleach.
French cook tells us that a piece of dry |
bread, tied IN bag and placed in the water |
while cabbage is boiling, viii prevent the un- |
pleasant odor which usually arises.
Breakfast cakes-One and half cups OF Indian |
meal, one and half cups of -four, half a cup OF 1
sugar. butter, teaspoonful OF soda. milk, one /
egg; stir cream OF tartar il the -four and dissolve
me soda IN little cold water; mix all this quite
soit with milk; bake in shallow pans. To be |
eaten hot with butter.
Dumplings-One pint of -four, half tea
spoonful OF salt one teaspoonful of cream of /
tartar and q half teaspoonful of soda Cor two /