Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
Household.

Household.
All those who learned to read in the
days when McGuffeys series of readers
were accepted text books, remember the
wise lesson deduced from the axiom,
acknowledge is Power That 1t is
power, the wisdom which these latter
day solons possess will not refute, and if
power to women.
That gray matter, about which one
hears so much in the schools, is the same
substance whether pulsating thought
vibrates there under hat or bonnet.
No physician, however minute his eX-
animation, and with such helps as
science brings to aid him, can discern in
this brain when dislOdged from the dome
of the soul s temple any trace of gender.
Nature makes no distin ctiOn, and time
Will show that women's work can be
made alike seXless, as thorough and far
reaching as that of men.
Some critic, wise in his own conceit,
asserted that women could not handle
logarithm. The president of WELLESLEY
college replied most vigorously to the
SANDER, by giving a statement of the
their own election, were pursuing adj
vanced mathematics with a thoroughness
and reach that few college men obtain.
No thoughtful person, looking over the
record of the past quarter of century,
can fail to be impressed with the won
derfui advance that women have made.
| They have demonstrated that thorough
education is possibility, that their work
in literature and art as women of
genius is good work, and bears
no evidence of feebleness. 1t
is farther shown that women
have administrative capacity and bust
ness insight. This fact has forced itself
upon the world. for, indeed, there are
many Turks outside Turkey. That
women possessing these qualities are not
more common is the fault of the past
and of the lingerings of a belief that to
know, to reason and to act on her own
convictions is not womanly. In the
present period she has demanded, OBJ
tanned and held avenues of work that
have broadened and multiplied as she
has entered armored to hold them. Bet
ter than this, because no amount of
knowledge must take from her highest
privilege, woman educated in hyg1ene,
knowing chemical action, learned
in the needs of the body, has
also learned that reverent care for
the body which makes her a good
wife and mother. All around are to be
seen well educated women thorough in
the domestic kingdom. They have lost
none of the finer qualities because
they have learned the fundamental
principles which regulate the cooking
stove as well as larger machines. Such
a woman brings into indoor life the
In Of ND
let that power rust by idleness.
The times have changed and women
must change with them. The pretty
rapi4 creature that was mans toy is
coming to be displaced by women who
know, plan, study and think. How
ever men may cry out against the eX-
periments woman is making, for her
work as yet is largely experimental,
every serious minded man knows that
the mother for his children must be one
whose mental growth is not dwarfed,
but continues to keep mentally
abreast with himself. Such women and
such only can hope to continue queens
and TO fear no rivals.
The trouble now is that there still lin
gers disposition to treat woman as a
separate entity, whereas men and women
make the whole, and when equally de-
long been considered mans prerogarive,
she would well reap the benign effects of
such a course. 1t is the mothers that
enstamp the generation, and this fact
should not be lost sight of by those who
would relegate the sex TO seclusion and
debar them from such privileges as
strengthen mind and body for the sphere
they are designed to occupy.
RECIPES.
Boston brown bread-Two cupfuIs
corn meal, one cupful rye, two cupfuls
sour milk, one-half cupful molasses,
one teaspoonful soda and one OF salt;
steam three hours and bake one hour.
Meat loaf-Take any cold meat and
chop 1t fne-lean and fat together.
Add finely chopped onion, two slices
of bread which have been soaked in
milk, salt and pepper and one beaten
egg. Mix well. Press it into g but
tered mold and bake.
To keep pie crusts from orumDling-
When your pies with upper orusts are
ready to put in the oven to bake take
| little sweet milk in CUP and with a bit
of clean cloth wet the upper crust and
rim. When baked it will present
shiny surface and viii not flake off.
Tomato Soup.-To one pint canned
| tomatoes or four large raw ones cut up
| fine, add one quart boiling water and let
them boil awhile, then add one teaspoonful
of soda, when they viii foam. Immedl-
| ately add one pint sweet milk with salt,
| pepper and plenty of butter. When this
boils add eight small or two large crack
| ers rolled fine and serve.
Lemon Tea Cakes.-Rub one ounce OF
| butter into one pound of fine -four; add
| two ounces of caster sugar. one teaspoon