Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-29
How the Poor Suffer Through the
Economy of the Rich.
RESPONSIBILITIES PARENTS
Suggestions Which Housekeepers
Will Find Helpful.
SOME USEFUL RECIPES
Exclusively for The Evepirg Star.

| autumn season clothe their little bodies
in wool. A wooden unjershirt over a gauze
one. and a flannel skirt, with the legs and
feet kept dry, will probably save you much
anxiety and a gcody sized Doctors bill.
| Until about II o'clock the flannel should be
worn. When you go to dress them for the
afternoon, leave the undershirt on, but you
| can safely remove the other heavy cloth
| ing. Put on the thick clothing when the
| sun gets low, and you will have no malaria
in your family. The same plan would hold
| good with adults.
Cool children are the hardest of all crops
| to raise Reverting to natures laws, 1t will
| be found that here, in the agricultural
| world 1t Is impossible to rear crop of
| anything but weeds on impoverished soil.
| If parents are lacking in mental or moral
| stamina, but through the restrictions of So
! ciety have been able to keep It hidden, you
may be sure that it will crop out in their
| children. There is more truth than poetry
| in the remark that mothers SO often make,
| that 1t seems to them that their children
| were born bad" To have been born SO is
certainly a mi ;fortune but not the fault of
| the child; it is rather that of the parents
or of the more remote ancestors, who were
| noted, perhaps, wild, undisciplined crea-
| lures whose only use for law was to break
| it, If grand juries might sometimes sit In
| judgment upon the fathers of the criminals
| within their jurisdiction they would, nine
| times out of ten, be obliged to bring in
| true bill against the parents as accessory
| before the fact The wise parent will study
| the laws OF heredity, and as far as lies IN
| his power, at least, correct the faults oil
| an ancestry that has defrauded him, seeing
| to 1t that his own offspring has a fairer
| chance SO far as he Is concerned. When
| mothers and fathers begin to realize their
moral responsibility, and their accounta-
| bility for the acts of their children, then the
| wori will grow better, for children will
| come into the world endowed with a greater
| sense of discrimination between right and
| wrong and greater strength to resist temp
| tation.
| AS a rule, it is not the poor who practice
| small economies, but the rich. 1t would be
| wiser if the reverse were true. One reason
| why the stress of hard times falls so crush
| irgly upon the working classes is because
| the rich in attempting to economiZe cut
| down their charities, and consequently cut
| off the enues of their beneficiaries. The
| first cut that an economical rich woman
| makes is to remodel her old clothes, and in
so doing she takes them to a fashionable
| nodiste, thus depriviEg some deserving poor
| women of her former donations, and rede-
priving them when she transfers her pa
| trcnaSe from her needy dress maker to the
| mere fashionable one. When times are
| flush, she keeps sewing woman or two
| busy all the time altering and freshening up
her wardrobe, giving away, without stint
| the gowns and wraps that nave become at
all passe. When the times get close, she
| discharges the sewing woman, buys fewer
| gowns and takes the old ones to artistic
| designer, so that she may present the best
| appearance possible in her made over tot
| lets. Instead of giving away the cast off
| hnery, she hangs 1t away against day of
| pc ssible need, which she knows very well is
| Fever liable to come to her. 1t is only a
small nature that will practice such kind of
| economy.
|
| If the top of your oven insists on being
too hot for your pastry or bread, put a pan
of water on the crate above the bread that
is baking too brown. If the crate has been
| removed to make room take big sheet of
the common brown wrapping paper, fold ii
| and lay over the bread or pes or whatever
4 1t may be. II that Is not at hand use a
newspaper. Fold it to many thicknesses
| as necessary. The thicker it is the more
protection it will afford from the too hot
oven. OF course, 1t will brown and crisp,
but you have only to be careful about Slip
| ping it out when it has answered its pur-
pose.
If you want your pie crust to come out
faky and nice and not take up the juice of
| the fruit or other filling, brush the under
| crust with the partly beaten white of an
egg before putting the filling in
To make the crust of bread crisp and
brown, brush it well with melted butter just
before you put it in the oven to bake. BE
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To clean the pretty plaster casts that are
often as artistic as the costlier cnes, make
| a thick paste of starch-cold, of course
and spread it on the cast with a brush. AZ
| ter it dries remove it by tapping the cast
| slightly, and then rubbing with dry clean
cloth.
| You can clean paint brushes that are dried
| full of paint by putting them in an old tin
| can of coal Gil Let them soak several
hr,- o,,1t haxv h.x, A1A,~
some time it may take day or two. Plenty
| of patiluce and petroleum will accomplish
| it,
Perhaps you are getting ready to put I'D
| your stoves, and are in despair about the
smoky mica in the doors. Slip it out and
put 1t to soak in dish of vinegar for few
| hours then remove ard polish with a soft
dry cloth. You will find it as bright as ever.
Irons are pretty sure to gather rust this
damp weather and cause good deal of bad
temper in the laundry. Heat them hot |
| then run them quite forcibly over a flannel |
| cloth that has liberal sprinkling of salt on |
| it. This will remove every bit of the rust
| be sure and rub the edges also-then run the |
| iron over a creased cloth, or a cloth that |
has a little white wax or beeswax on It, |
then treat 1t to vigorous rubbing on a per- |
| fectly clean white cloth. They will trouble |
you no more till next time.
Change the oil in your lamps quite often IL
you use them fnfreQuently. / don't know
why 1t is, but do know that 1t is a fact
| that when the oil remains a week in a lamp
that has not been used in that time it gets |
to smelling old and rancid, and will scent
the whole house. Constant vigilance is the |
price of a sweet smelling coal Oil lamp 1t |
| is long way ahead of whale oil dips but is |
quite as far removed from the ideal of per-
lection in illumination.
Motives Of economy should lead to the
often shaking of carpets, for the dust and
dirt that gets ground into them wears them
out more than any other agency of de-
struction. Carpets that are a long time
fastened to the floor without shaking. get
to smell musty and moldy, too. They should
be taken up every spring and fall, If not
oftener.
If you are tired, take a cup Of tea and a
cracker about ten minutes before eating a
heartier meal, and 1t will be much less apt
to disagree with you. Make the tea as the
Chinese do. Put teaspoonful of tea in a
hot tea cup and pour boiling water over It.
Set the saucer on top the cup for a mo-
ment, then put in the sugar, and drink by
slipping slowly. Coffee is too heavy for a
tired person. Tea exhilarates, while coffee
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