Middletown transcript., 1894-09-01

crime. Especially
is this true of those in modest circum-
stancs, who cannot employ efficient cooks.
Burnt fingers sour bread, scorched roasts,
leatherery steaks, wishy-washy coffee and
disordered stomachs are not conductive to
the happiness that one imagines the honey
moon should be filled with. There are so
many reasons, logical and philosophical
why cooking should be included in the ac-
compIishments of young girls that it is
useless to enumerate them. Good cooking
is the basis of happiness, health and sue
cess in the home life. One may thoroughly
understand art, music, architecture, science
and philosophy. be familiar with astronomy
mythology, the mysteries of evolution,
politics and literature, yet if the chemistry
of loaf of bread has been neglected the
education is sadly incomplete. so far as the
"house mother" is concerned.
"The best thing in life for woman is a
home," says the Song. independence,
missions, the profession and all the other
things are well enough provided they do
not separate her from the hearth-stone. If
they do then success must be great, indeed,
to compensate for the domestic losses"
what could you do if you lacked your
splendid gifts?"
"a lot of things. can sew and cook;
wouldn't be a typewriter and 1 not clerk.
A sedentary life think horrible. 1t uses
up body, saps the life out of nerve and
tissue. If l lost my voice, if couldn't
teach or if there was no market for the
ideas have in decorative work, l would
become surgical nurse. The world is full
of suffering, and people are hungering for
sympathy. I think could nurse"
What is woman's greatest blessing?"
Healthy ancestry. The novelict says
virtuous and healthy ancestry. but virtue
is lagely geographical condition. l do
hate to see the publicity given so-called
beauty books, and the money and faith
women waste on receipts for taking off
wrinkles, freckles and tan. That sort of
beautifying is all bosh. Women should
IL.
beautiful is laudable but so many girls
take the wrong road. The essentials for ad-
miration are intelligence, health and re-
finement, or to be brief. intelligence, for
without it Inherited health cannot be pre-
served, or refinement secured Men care
very little for mere beauty, and children
care absolutely nothing; they want COM
panions and companionship depends upon
intelligence, personal refinement and we'll
being. Good health. good form and good
clothes are good looks enough.
She sat on the piazza and made all the
other women madly envious by saying that
she had jewel of a girl; that she
had had her for four years and that she ex-
pected to have her forever. The other wo-
men asked her how she accomplished it
and she told them:
81 pay her WE'LL" she announced in the
beginning. II also pay her regularly. If
she wants 10 send her money home she can
do it at given date. She is in no more
uncertainty about her salary than my hus-
band is. Her room is pleasant. 1t isn't
elaborate, but it is as comfortable and
homelike as / could make 1t. tell her ex-S
actly what want done and let her do it
then in her own way. The children are not
q lowed to give here orders and they are
obliged TO treat her respectfully. I myself
am as polite as L know how to be to her.
1 never reprimand her in public. don't
mind letting her see that l like her, and
even telling her SO. Ipraise her when she
deserves praise. She has company cou-
pie of times week and she never abuses
her privileges in that respect. try to
give her as much freedom as if she were
employed in some other capacity. I think
my success with her is an advertisement for
my method"
Maybe" said one of the other women,
"but she must have been an angel to start
with"
And all the others agreed with her.
Mrs. W. I. Agnew, Olympia, killed a
bear the other day with single rife shot
If she lived in the effete East her talents
would not be recognized but in the glorious
West she is entitled to run for constable ON
the strength of her exploit.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beeeher has passed
her SD year, and does not now subject her.
self to great mental strain, but she is still
able to write for the magazines.
EscALLoPfD ToMAToEs.-These make a
nice break fast or tea dish at this season of
the year. Take six nice tomatoes and
scald to remove the skin. Chop them in
inch square cubes and season them with a