Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-15
Good Recipes for Spelling a Wife and
Also a Husband.
A SALAD DRESSING WITHOUT OIL
A Method Of Washing FanneIs
Without Shrinking Them.
TABLE MANNERS
Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.

Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.
Send your children into the open air just
as much as Lossible. Open air exercise is
one Of the most important conditions for
the preservation and obtaining of health,
and, though exercise for the young infant
must be passive, for the child who can run
and play it should be very active indeed
Children, instead of being commanded to
walk, lest they stumble and soil their
clothes, should be encouraged to play as
much as possible. Boys should have sets
of harness so that they can play horse with
their mates. Girls should have jumping
ropes and doll carriages, and both should
have tops and balls and hoops and every
other kind of outdoor toy that will lead
them to exercise. Ball is a developer for
girls as well as boys. 1t is the oldest Of all
games, and the one most in favor with the
Greeks, the nation of all others the most
remarkable for the muscular symmetry Of
its men.
To spoil a Wife snub her in company To
spoil husband, henpeck him. Now there
are two good recipes for stirring up a first
class divorce suit:
There are lemon squeezers and lemon
sQueezers. but wouldn't use one Of them.
The acid metal makes the Juice taste
metallic, and the wooden ones are apt to
leave bad taste. Beside that, II you use a
lemon sQueezer, you are sure to get a lot
Of the essential oil out of the rind Of the
lemon, and that Is rank poison to the
stomach. The best way TO get the juice
from a lemon is to roll it till it is soft. then
cut off the end and insert a silver knife
and scrape the pulp out into the dish. That
way you get all the good of the lemon and
none of the bad. Roll them under your
hand on hard table or put the lemon
down on the floor and roll 1t lightly under
your foot. Then wipe it off before sQueez-
ing. Never leave the seeds of a lemon in
the pulp that you take out. The seeds will
make the juice very bitter. ana in half an
hour after taken from the lemon.
An excellent salad dressing without oil Is
made follows: Pound the hard boiled
yoiks OF two eggs until perfectly smooth.
then add teaspoonfuI of mixed mustard, "a
saltspoonful of salt, good pinch of pepper
the same of cayenne. a teaspoonful of lemon
Juice and teaspoonful of sugar Mix these
Ingredients wen together then add d sufii-
Gent quantity of cream and vinegar-equal
parts-to make the preparation the con-
s.stency of a good thick cream. The dress
ing may be either poured over the salad or
set on the table in n pretty glass cruet or
bottle, so that each one may use 1t as de-
sired.
Men of the wrong style are sure to flock
about young girl who dresses fashiIy, and
who behaves as she dresses They amuse
themselves by experimenting on her vanity
and seeing how far they can CO." She
would not enjoy hearing the remarks they
make about her aftcrward, however. No
girl gains anything by lowering the stand
ard Of decorum. Men may firt with her,
fictter her and fool her; but she does not
win the esteem of the kind of men whose
love follows respect, but never precedes it.
When you are about to buy q silk dress
and fear that it may be adulterated with
other iibers good way to test it is as fol-
lnNn~= ct ala of
hydro-cnloric acid; the acid will eat out all
the silk, and leave all the wool and cotton
unaffected, for the time, as it takes much
longer time to eat them out. Another
method is to drop a little of the acid Upon
the sample, when, If pure silk, lole will
be made in the silk almost Immediately II
the fabric is impure the threads left will in
dicate the nature and extent of the adulter-
alton.
A good old Scotch housewife says that her
fannels never shrink, and ii is because she
washes them in cold water. Size puts them
in clean cold soap suds and washes them d.
rectiy, then she puts them through a second
suds, and rinses them in cold water and
hangs them out to dry without wringing
them at ALL She never washes fannels on
a rainy or cloudy day, but always waits for
sunshine.
The great secret of keeping flowers fresh
is to keep them moist and cool. The heads
Of understanding flowers should not be
sprinkled, as that causes them to lose their
perfume. Those who wish to carry flowers
any distance should wrap them in wet pa
per and pack them in a box. The heads of
carnation pinks and delicate white flowers
should be covered with oiled paper. Flor
lists send flowers thousands of miles by
observing these precautions.
The high pitched nasal tone, heard so
often in America, is the result only of lack
of cultivation. We teach our children to
turn out their toes, because rot to do so is
productive of very ugly appearing car
riage. Why not teach them to turn cut
their voices good and round for quite as
good a reason-that thin, through-,he-
nose tone is simply abominable. a lnother
who permits her children to talk through
their noses Is laying up for them an ele-
ment Of torture and future discomfort Es-
peciaiiy is this SO If she has a daughter.
The time will come when the daughter will
feel like reading her moth er piece of her
mind for neglecting so important a part of
her early education. 1t is almost impossible
to correct the fault after one has grown I'D.
boy may desire to 3ecome an orator, but
owing to his mothers negligence le Is
barred. The daughter may desire to sinG
The mothers Indifference will, however,
have shut her out from so pleasant a d.
version and charming accomp shneDt
Business men say that one Of the requisites
of a good business man is good voice A
Frenchman, who had been entertained for
half an hour or more by sweet-voiced
young lady. who was relating various IN
cidents to him, finally said Il fear mon
sieur thinks l am in love with my own
voice" And he CALAMITY responded, L
am sure niadamoisele Is fond of music; all
ladies are; and l know that am Such a
compliment is worth the effort 70 win. Any
young girl can acquire clear, sweet, even
voice by little care, thought and practice,
but it must be commercial in Childhood If
you would have it perfect.
One of the first things to teach a little
child who has arrived at the dignity of
seat at the table, and a plate and spoon, is
that he must not take upon his plate more
than he can eat. Most children will de-
rand IL little of everything on the table
Dent comply unless you are sure that 1t
will all be eaten. When child gets its
plate filled its first impulse Is to ''muss."
And when It begins to do that it is time
to put it down from the table. 1t is not
a wise policy to have upon the table any
article of food that the children may not
eat. But If you are so unwise as to pre-
cipitate family row by so doing, be firm
in refusing to let the children indulge; wise
parents however. spare themselves and