Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20

lnen Sne SnOuIC give nerS IN return.
Strict etiquette requires that a lady does
not rise to receive the adieux of gentlemen,
assuming that to the sex Difference is due.
Among friends less formaiity is expected,
and there seems To be more cordially in
the act of rising to receive the partings than
TO remain seated.
The third question may be answered by
asking another: SIS it ever proper for a
lady to make herself needlessly conspic-
uous3" Always decline to do so at fairs,
expositions, ETC."
Ib-sen; Del-sar-te
After some very complimentary phrases
relating to this department, a correspond
ent who wishes to be nameless writes:
"All intelligent persons are aware that the
homes and hearts of our people need look
ing after as surely as the agricultural and
political interests of our state. If the
homes are right the affairs of state are
easily adjusted for the good of the people.
If the future generations of Texans will
rise up and call you blessed; if through
your kind influence many mothers are led
TO see the injury to their families in the use
of hot bread, and the practice Of snuff
taking; IN some localities this terrible habit
is almost universal. A great many women
fail to see the matter in the right light, be-
cause their mothers set the example, but
the light is dawning gradually.
[ shall be glad for two reasons; first, for
their own and their children's sake: Sec
ondly, want some neighbors who do not
indulge in the pernicious habit of snuff
dipping"
Opinions differ as to the wholesomeness
of hot bread. If by this is meant bread
made light by fermentation, there is no
doubt that lis digestibility is much en-
HANGED by the ''ripening,'' which requires
twelve hours to perfect. The point in all
bread, of whatever kind is TO have it thor
oughly cooked. No bread is wholesome that
is 'doughy": it must be completely dried
in the oven.
As to hot biscuits, there is an unreason-
able prejudice against their use. Physl-
clans say that there is no more nutritious
bread than bUttermill5 biscuit well baked.
and the Southern beat biscuit is prescribed
for dyspeptics TO be eaten either not or
cold. 1t is the universal testimony of
physicians who know, that the percentage
of dyspepsia in the South where hot bis
cults are on query table, is much less than
in the North, where fermented bread is
eaten cold. II is not said that these are
causes, but this is a statement of fact.
However, by biscuits is not meant the soda
colored, greasy, half-baked abomination
that is too often seen on farmers tables,
but those made by the following formula:
One quart of flour, a tablespoonful of lard
mixed thoroughly with. and light tea
spoonful of salt and of powdered soda sifted
into the -four, and as much thick acid but
termilk as is needed to make i soft dough,
usually a coffeecupful, the mass to be lightly
kneaded until smooth. The baking to be
done in a modera oven, until the crust,
top and bottom, is light brown. The time
needed is rarely less than twenty minutes.
If this work is properly done one may split
them open piping hot mot cut with a cold
knife) and, Southern fashion, put in a lump
of butter to melt through the delicious
whiteness and laugh while he cas- at the
bugabeo, Indigestion.
As to the habit which is Justly styled
''terrible,'' nothing too severe can be said
it is terrible because of its effects upon the
woman and secondarily upon her offspring.
Il undermines the constitution, deadens
sensibility and wrecks the nervous system.
1t is the tobacco habit in its very worst
form, and all that has been said against its
use by men can be said with redoubled sig
niticance of the snuff habit in women.
There is no form in which tobacco is pre-
pared that is SO filthy as snuff To know
of what it is made ought to be enough to
deter any decent woman from putting it in
her mouth. The mode of using it is dis
gushing in the extreme. Those habituated
to the use grow careless and the brown
saliva is often seen en- the chin or stains
the corners of the mouth that are sure to
droop and betray the use of the dipping
stick While no apology is offered for
vicious habits because of sex, their indul-
gence seems much less pardonable in wo-
men than in men. BY law of nature
women enstamp their children with their
own characteristics, and a mother who has
not strength of mind sufficient TO restrain
ltl lloul tbo ihuulSSii,O u oSLicu'hI uCollto
is most likely to have SONS that Will be her
shame in after years.
The complexion Of 4 clipper" is as IN
mistakable as the red nose OF topper. The
habit cannot be hid, however cunningly at
tempted, and the young girl who thinks
differently is mistaken; the signs are too
evident. The world associates purity of
life with cleanliness of person and the world
expects genuine women to set aneXample of
decency. This the snuff-dipper cannot do
and she is therefore failure. IF the words
of this department, always written with
view to aid in the development of all that is
noble in women, have any weight it is urged
that these that have been said deploring
this ''terrible" habit may be carefully con-
sidered, and if THE GAZETTE has any
readers addicted to it that they will at once
begin the work of reform by quitting them
selves and then begin crusade against
vice that must work harm to all those who
indulge in it.