St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-03

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son who says agreeable things that
leave you with sensation of being
handled with hOney-daubed fingers.
But the person who, through preoccu-
patton or fair feeling, simply omtS to
be Splteful, how comfortable is an hour
OF his society.
There is curious lore between these
pages, lessons in the deeper cares or a
woman's life, "Of Behavior to a Drunk
ard" and Behavior TO a Jealous Hus-
| band, and ITO Husbands Relatives
i the model everywhere being patient
GrlZel, and an effacement of self, which
has made many husband adore his ill
used wife and compelled the affection
OF eontemptuous relations in law and
| sent good many more GriZeldaS
blessed with every virtue fading into a
suppressed grave.
lie Is but one degree removed from the
Japanese Servitude of wife to her huS-
+! band and his family. 1t was, perhaps,
the only practice in day when women
could not call their souls their own. 1t
is very sensible 10 manage a choleric or
! covetous or sulleu man by studying his
| humorS If there Is no escape from them,
| but what misery can there be for free
and open mind to like living with peo-
pie who have TO be managed. cajoled
and studied, whom the least lnattention
; when one is taken up with business
will eStrange or irritate.
One must know the comfort of grow
| ing up with sincere, faithful. SteaGfaSt
| souls to know the supreme contempt
! evoked by natures which require man
aging. Patient GriZel learns 10 manage.
! to sit serene, unhearing, while the guSty
temper blows Off or the egotiSm or
| brutiShneSS rules, and coaXeS the Of
| fender into deceney again, never be-
traying her nausea at its contact, all the
| while she wishes herself at the farther
! side of the moon, and the pitiful soul
| who mars her life dropped over the edge
| OF nothing, where its belongs.
The bad Old Times.
This is bread to the sack. for truth
compelS the fact that the whole duty of
woman comprises one part of morallz-
ing TO three of high class cookery, with
| dash of cosmetics. Food was cheap
and abundant in those days. 1t is not
surprising that the mothers Of families
in old pictures had frames like feather
bags, red faces and pendulOus jaws, or
that blood letting was a principal part
of medicine.
The care Of such rich and varied cook
cry and providing, together with the in
teresting families of ten and thirteen
children habtual, must have destroyed
every vestige of complexion and fig
ure. Poor Mrs. Mitford's letters, recitals
of weekly dinner parties, the monstrous
pines. the ducklingS and salmon, the
turbot and lamb at each, reflect the gen.
tilfty of the day which fell into
apoplexies and govt and wore PUPPY
noses and pimply cheeks as SequeJs of
such feaSts.
No wonder their cosmetic art ran to
cooling medicines and lotions of elder
flower and plantain, house leek and
mallow. These things were comforting
for the innammatory disorders preva-
lent from oyereating, and are just as
good now in cases where generations of
high living without hygiene have
handed down the iDfiammatory dispo-
Sition. A fine old ancestral eruption of
this kind is the hardest thing to cure,
short OF leprOSy or cancer, and yet it is
durable by simple means patiently ap-
piled.
The fruity beverages of old fashion,
doubtless. had beneficial effect in coun-
teracting the gross feeding OF other
days. The juice of fruits fermented to
. tartness, little good as it might do the
present. nervous race, was a saving
stimulus to people who fed upon roast
i. TuDUll
pie, veniSon, scalDopS. and beans with
bacon for single course of July din
ner, as given in this book. Their royal
cider. mead, visney, apricot cider. and
mum served the purpose of our bitters
and tonics, There is hint for orchard
lists in the old recipe for cyderkIn Or
water cider.
HOme-Made Tonics.
~, IoI
core them and boil them in barrel of
water till third part of it is consumed:
strain it and put the liquor into bushel
or more of ground or mashed apples,
| unboiled; let them stand twenty-four
hours, press out the liquor and put into
casks to ferment and keep till fine.
Such cider kept without fermentation.
as it will keep long time by scading
the finally pressed juice, will be found
excellent for clearing the blood and
skin and keeping the health in good
condition over winter. The brilliant
eyes, the sound white flesh of the ap-
ple-eaterS and drinkers is noted where
ever orchards abound.n
White metheglin was potent and po-
etc liquor, 'for which," says the re-
cipe, You must take sweet marioram,
sweet briar buds, strawberry leaves and
violetS. of each two handfulS; of double
viOletS, if they are to be had, broad
thyme, DOrage and agrimony, of each
two handouts; six or eight tops of rose
mary, the seeds of carawayS, coriander
aud fennell. OF each four SpOOnfuiS. and
six blades of mace. Boil these ingredi-
ents III sixteen gallons of water for an
hour, skim and strain it, and having
stood till it is lukewarm. put to it as
much of the best honey as will make it
bear an egg above the water; then boil it
again as long as any scum will rise and
when nearly cold put in pint of new ale
yeast; and when it has worked till the
yeast begins to fall. turn it up and suf-
fer II to work III the cask: till the yeast
has done rising, fill up every day with
some of the same liquor, stopping it
up
This was drink tinctured with de-
lieious garden herbs and fragrances,
less concentrated than the cordialS of
Grand Chartreuse, but owing Its virtue,
like them, to the essences of aromatic
herbs and seeds. Perhaps you did not
know that violetS and wild roses have
been found highly medicinal in various
ways. In cases where porter is ordered
as tonic, metheglin would be very
much better in every way, and no OBJ
lection can Justly be made to it by peo-
PIC wiz uSC hOuily -, uldllcu DTodQ,
and the other fermented meSses fashion
ably prescribed.
! fancy some of our Southern friends
might make metheglin and cordial
waters and bottle them to advantage.
Or the thrifty sisterhoodS of two and
three, or single brave hearts who plan
for something profitable in Northern
country homes, will just have time to
study out the business before spring is
round with the first balnly shoots of
sweetbriar and strawberry. Ii your
calendar is as full as mine. it will seem
just six weeks till the green shoots are
here again. and there will be time TO
draw just three full breaths before then.
30 swift pace time gathers when the
wheel has run for fifty years or so.
Or II you desire some occupation for
winter DAYS Try MAKING nrraat of+ar