Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-29


.-.-...r-rfr- is now but memory of
,.... faces. merry jests and Kindly looks
....-..-3 around the generously pro-
-.r.st ar-feast, with its complement of
.,... ..r-rs. cranberry sauce, plum pud-
..,a r-.a.a kin pic and the long list of other
..,,. a-.umuaniments to i good old ortho-
.,.I -.ar. ,cpared according to the cul-
...-.s....r. handed down to the present
...a.-..a rom tha busy housewives that
. .-a.~. centuries ago at plymouth
r.. r. -na Southern staoes it is not SO
-.-a... bsarved J. in the East and North,
..- IS look / upon rs the feast day
.....r'. Dedicated to family reunion,
r,....lra.u- and hospitality. But it is
.rr.,- F.. favor in the South, not only OIL
....r-ufrne scmi-religious character of
-.sg.. .r because It is a nationally pro-
,a.. tualay but because Southerners
aaru.-A-artel people, who love social
..,..-. ..a5 arc read to avail themselves
foyer. .rnI +an presented Cor the dispen-
.-a4. -pitaliry. The theory on which
LIP fr.s hers instituted and set apart
THANKSGIVING day, originated in that
-. Puritan feryor which prompted the
.m Fathers t, tuank the Creator for
afr.s, corporeal us well as spiritual
u..r. tl. time chosen for tbs manifesto
On. uI gratitude was during that period of
,t.rrar ,gHru the yeIIcw grain had been
a.r.n.t into the barns. when the fatted
Hanl.d beru slain, the obese swine and
aeruI.et5 Of orchard and garden had
hem rendered iuto appctizing pickles and
-l-.uI- ,re#a rveS for consumption during
.a. ggiu'"; weather. Not unto everyone on
lis. THANKSGIVING day have al these goods
ol-lr.a been given. but unto many to whom
,a., base been given have come counter
IT, IN the shape of bad he;j It'll, imperfect
DIGESTION Or appetites that nothing
tempted nothing delighted.
sill f the feast just past has been en-
loyeI by those TO whom the year has
brought abundance. To render meet thanks
.rtae bounty they have received, prisons
u -a.'...tr viii have assembled like per-
..led incense to wreathe IN diaphanous
clouds about the great white throne from
r4olsar IS Of happy hearts and homes
throughout the land. If those to whom the
DAY has come with sufferings on its wings
r''lu thanks because the burdens they
b,rarn uo heavier, and if those who have
received naIght at all, whether OF good or
ID. acknowledge themselves grateful be-
als. permitted 10 remain alive and to
Single TO arrive ut an lher Thanksgiving
j.5 Ac-.'ay aud full-hauGed. ever yone will
have .4rritd out and some will have tran
s..Igd Tile intention on which the institu-
N1aof Thanksgiving has been founded and
lfaElreH -.
lio,arr'y solicitude to fit their daughters
The household duties which marriage
@e entails by equippng them with
knowledge of the details
Of how housework ought TO be DONE
a-- a'w. when necessary, to do it, will be
greatly re-, ,ed by the perusal of paper
Contributed to the December number of
Peessau's Magazine by Annie Curd, emit
'e! VIVA. aud How to Teach Our Daugh-
'">' The writer declares, among other
'aE,. ial, what to teacl our daughters
'a. h.' ro DO it have received less atten-
Aa than The subject demands. Too many
&ai1.rS, she insists, wait until indolent
L'-> have bee, ne fixed on their children
rorr alraiug them the simplest things.
q. begin in 4 small way while the little
'..' are ia the grammar, or even the pre-
lara. -y school IS better. Then there are
'' u-.a lessons to be studied out of school,
]" SHORTY prot ems to be solved, no look
'---na materials in the public library for
.' t.E+ days essay, as 5 the case with
'7 average high school girl, but
~E leave the school room with all
of the next days les
behind them. They are full of
-e4-.. strength, and animal spirits, and
''N' young enough to do and enjoy doing
-s' -H" little tasks that the mother may
j. ." arlSc on them. We often, how
H.. I'LL. .ldren with an Unborn dislike
ell. work, and, after many unsuccessful |
.- 10 interest them, the painstakiug |
1'..-"Ett parent is heard to say: If |
.-- Malt d thing well done, do it yourself |
is .saau1iy doubtless much easier for |
Eel. .er 10 do the work herself, without |
@-. s..uce, than to be constantly urg- |
s -.N ling children TO 4 fulfllment of |
'~. -,y but is this right! Decidedly |
....e Z right and wrong way, hard |
Gle. @- esy Wy, of doing everything, and
certainly ought to feel the respon-
-- 'eaching their children the best
-.-S hey themselves know, no matter
" a.-.4 trouble it involves or how many
-.-.....aes II occasions.
we ., The first and easiest things to
VS. gr. is the care of hsr own room.
-e. he entire charge of it, except,
.--.N lie weekly sweeping, which is
lone by q servant. The bed-mak-
deserves the first consideration, and, to
d sweet clean bed her room must first
roughly aired by opening doors and
--,as, citing in flood of sunshine and
.--1 air. While the ventilation is ia pro-
s'7SS lei her shake or brush any articles of
4E apparel that may not have been
~ being careful to close the closet
"aEdFooe doors to prevent the ingress of
'-st or lint.
'o"' 10 make the bed: The mattress,
VI a., must fit the springs. The first
ri Is 10 put on the puff or pad, which
:, gu be large enough to tuck under well,
Tue sheets, observing Miss Ophelia's