The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-02

called IN English yerlacular, "hlgn tea;"
this is really substantial meal, with hot
meats and vegetables, but not joint.
Steaks, chops, croQuettes, poultry, game,
are all suitable for high tea. Anyone OF
these may be selected with couple of
vegetables, hot buttered toast or biscuits,
served with tea coffee or chocolate, fol-
lowed by simple dessert This somewhat
hybrid meal although quite as substantial
and satisfying to hungry appetites,
involves less work than regular
dinner, ard, as young housekeeper
sapiently remarked: What makes good
tea makes poor dinner Moreover. it is
very elastic feast, and young people need
not hesitate to ask their friends informally
to tea, whereas an extra one at dinner al
ways counts" A pretty way in which to
arrange table for such meal is to leave
it bare aud have three cloths, one for the
centre, one for the tea-tray and another be-
fore the house master, for the meat, what
ever it may be. These tea cloths give
great opportunity for display of pretty
needlework. Russian cross-stitch Is much
used in their decoration, and some of The
com binations of red ana blue are ex-
tremely beautiful. White wash silk that
does not turn yellow is eminently adapted
for embroidering on tea cloths; and, after
napery for the table
Surprises in Domestic Economy.
The following notes on domestic econ
omy are selected from the answers given
at a recent examination of girls between
twelve and sixteen years of age
"Cheese is as wholesome as eight and
one-haIf pounds of beef. Beef is a useful
article of food obtained from different ami
mails, such as the cow. sheep, pig. eto.-the
lean of beef belongs to the animal kingdom,
and the fat to the vegetable kingdom.
Butter is good for the brain. Milk is called
model food because it models the form of
the child. Without eating potatoes we
would become very delicate, because pota-
toes are very necessary TO sustain human
life. Slowing is very different from boiling,
when we want 4 nice dinner we stew roast
of beef Pot-d, feu is mashed up meat. Gre
tins are generally served up with green-pea
soup. If man lives without food for q
considerable time, say sixty days, he will
die at the end of month; or if the consti-
tuition ia delicate, he may only live for q
week. or less. The body wastes away by
the continual working of the bones to-
gether, and as this process goes on every
day, the bones get thinner and smaller.
! Carbonaceous foods give the bones the
elasticity of which they consist.
Lawn is soft stuff made from the wool
of the lawn. an animal In South America.
1t is also part of the flesh of the COW or
sheep-the rib part. Shoddy is a drink
made from a mixture of ale and sugar. 1t
Is the leather before 1t goes through
the process of making into boot and
shoes, and for this reason is called slioddy.
1t is the flesh near the foot of any
animal. 1t is a kind Of whisky. Wincey
is the wool off an animal which lives in
America; the lamen is It's name. Calico IS
good heat conductor, because it catches
fire very easily. II print dress is dried
outside, it must be careful not to be left in
the sun. Calendered means turned from
one kind of species into another. 1t is
things which are the shape of q calender,
like our bodies. 1t means preserved with
sugar. 1t means taking the dirt out of
water. IL means Increased or getting
heavier. 1t is medicine or drug. 1t is
boiling anything by means of steam. 1t
means chewing the food well to make it fit
to enter the body 1t means the sum of a
whole Tor certain period of time"