The Portland daily press., 1892-11-23
THE Ho nj e.
NOTES ABOUT WOMEN.

The Ladies' Humane Society of st.
Louis proposes to prosecute all persons
guilty of docking their horses tails.
Emperor Williams infant daguhter is
not only the first girl in a family of seven
children, but the first princess born to
reigning sovereign of Prussia Jor nearly
| 100 years.
| Lady Henry Somerset says that women
in America are better posted on current
| topics than men.
Miss Florence Nightingale who found
| ed the first training school for hospital
nurses, after her return from the battle
field of the Crimea, is still living in Lon
don. Although an invalid she still di-
| reefs the chief training school for nurses.
There are So women medical mission
| aries in China.
There are 10000 trained nurses in Eng
land, Ireland, and Scotland.
| According to Mrs. Hannah Whitehall
Smith there are now 1000 American girls
| studying art in Paris.
| There are Is women organists in New
York: the most of them train their
choirs: many give organ recitals and
compose music.
1t is reporred that several women edi-
| tors in the United States receive salaries
| of $5O00
| One reason why women do not succeed
as well as men in many lines where equal
| chances are given is due, no doubt, to
! the fact that women are not willing to
serve the necessary apprenticeship, or to
| go through the necessary training to
make them proficient.
| Among the women who have been
particularly successful in stock farming
| is Virginia G. Meredith of Cambridge
| City, Ind, who is the owner and manager
| of one of the most extensive stock farms
| in her State. Mrs. Meredith has been
authorized to prepare a monograph on
| live stock for the World fair. She is the
| only woman in list of ten experts Sc
| lected to write on special topics.
Miss Chaplain, the well known sculp-
| tor, has been commissioned to model the
| two Spanish bullocks Queen Victoria
| keeps in the park at Osborne. They have
enormous horns, and are considered
remarkably beautiful creatures.
Twenty-one young native women, edu-
Gated for missions connected with the
North India Methodist Episcopal Confer
enee, are now studying medicine in the
Agra College.
| The county council of Oxfordshire,
England, has voted $4,000 for cooking
| schools IN the villages near Oxford. 1t is
| intended that the instruction shall be of
a character useful to the working people.
The first woman in Norway to serve an
apprenticeship as book-binder, and to
enter upon that trade, has just celebrated
the thirtieth anniversary of her taking
up the business. She is now manager of
one of the largest bookbinding establish
ments in Christiana.
A unique institution is about to be
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ing rest for gentlewomen." The scheme
as outlined is to rent house and rent
the rooms to lonely gentlewomen," ell
derby women who now live alone. The
rent charged will be enough to cover ex-
penses,- as it is not in contemplation to
make the Crest in any sense a charita-
BILE institution, but simply to establish it
as home where otherwise lonely and
solitary lives may find companionship
and freedom from the uncertainties and
anxieties inseparable from residence in
boardinghouses or furnished apartments.
STEAMED APPLE PUDDING.
Anna Barrows gives the following ex-
cellent rule: For the dough use the famil-
lar proportions-one pint pastry flour,
two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one
half teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful
shortening. three-fourth cup milk or wa
ter, or enough to make soft dough.
Roll this out one-half inch thick, and
spread with a pint of sliced ar chopped
apples: sprinkle with little sugar and
cinnamon, if desired, Roll this like ely
cake, put on plate and steamsfrom 40
to60 minutes. Meanwhile, cover the cores
and skins of the apples with water and
let them simmer. When the pudding is
nearly done make the sauce thus:
With one cupful of sugar, mix two ta-
blespoonfuls of -four OF one of corn starch
to this sid gradually the water from the
apple skins and enough more to make
one pint in all. Cook five minutes, or
until it thickens, stirring often then put
in one tablespoonful of butter, a CRATE
of nutmeg, and if the apples are not suffi- a..
GENTLY acid, teaspoonful of lemon-juice
or vinegar may be added. This sauce
made from Baldwin apples, will have
delicate pink ting.
Apple dumplings, apple slump, etc.,
are but variations of this combination of
dough and apples. No rule can be given
for the time of cooking that will apply
to all apples, usually a half hour is
enough.
BOSTON BROWN BREAD.
MIX DOS0GuGI Olo cup Ouou VI SIduu-
lated Indian meal. rye, and graham
meal. Sift them all and leave out the
bran; add one teaspoonful each of soda
and salt Add one pint of sour milk
and three-fourths of a cup of molasses
mixed together. Beat the mixture well
and then turn into buttered mould and
steam for three hours.
Put the soda into the dry materials in
stead of the milk because when fermen-
tation starts it works fast and by putting
the soda into the sour milk or molasses
it begins at once to work on the acid
and some of the fermentation or raising
qualities are lost before the -four is add
ed
Do not let the brown bread mixture
stand open after mixing but put directly
into the mould and set this into the
steamer.
If sweet milk is used instead of sour
scant the soda a little but the molasses
furnishes nearly enough acid for it to
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