Middletown transcript., 1895-09-28

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not only in the kind of food but in
the manner of cooking. About meat,
beef is the standby, but it can be
served in different ways. Roast beef
and well broiled steak are acknow-
,ledged the best, but boiled beef served
with appetizing relishes and beef
stews help to variety and to keeping
the appetite for the other kinds they
are also more economical than the
cuts needed for roasts and broils.
A family can have a nice roast for
Sunday dinner, and then bring it on
every meal thereafter until it is van
quished by their persistence. Such a
piece of beef has many possibilities.
If it has been too rare to snit the tastes
of some members of the family, cut
some good thick slices from the rare
part and lay them on the gridiron
over some hot Goals; let them brown
on both sides and serve very quickly
with little butter and salt on each
slice. The more thoroughly cooked
parts can be made into several kinds
of. Ihince, coarse, with brown gravy,
or finely chopped with cold potatoes,
formed into little pats and Drowned
in a little hot lard. Fine mince with
potatoes spread upon a sheet of nice
pastry, then rolled up tight and
baked, or fine mince spread upon but
tered toast and poached egg laid
upon each piece is pretty addition
to a simple dish.
Ham, pork and chicken are suscep-
tible of being presented in countless
appetizing ways, but housekeepers
fall into the habit of always cooking
it after the same recipe, until the long.
suffering family is weary of the very
sight of it. So with vegetables. Po-
tatoes seem an essential part of every
dinner and one can make such a rota.
tion of the ways of serving them al
never to get tired Of any one way.
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SHALL WOMEN PAY THEIR sHAREf
Priscilla" said Nancy, laying
down her book, "stop pruning the
nasturtiums, and come here. I want
to ask you something"
"If it has nothing whatever to dc
with the rights and duties of the Cap
ital W::woman, I'll come" said Pris-
ella. ''Otherwise l WON'T"
"Well, it has, )" answered her friend.
"But that's no matter. Do you think
it horrid for girl to want to pay fol
her share of things2''
mot if have anything to do with
the paying for>the rest, replied Pris-
ella, with emphasis.
"Oh, I don't mean that I mean il
the other ones a man,
"Is this the carfare question ?'' de-
manded Priscilla.
mo, it's the boat-ride and the
straw-ride and the picnic question.
Is it insulting to man for girl who
has gone off on purely friendly sum.
mer 'lark" with him to offer to pay
her share of the expenses7 For in
stance, Ned and started for a walk
the other day. Suddenly we came to
the lake. We decided simultaneously
that we wanted to row. We hired a
boat. and rowed. We came back hun
cry, and had sandwiches and things
at the boatman's. Now, why did I
insult Ned when l told him that
wanted to pay my share9"
Probably because Ned thoaght it
a reflection on his earning powers.
"Oh, nonsense I" said Nancy. "If
you and I had done that we would
have divided up and fought over the
half cent. Why couldn't 1 do the
same thing with Nedf Why am 1
forced, when 1 want to go off some
where where it is lot more comfort
able, to have a man along to keep
from mentioning it just because if /
do I'll be a financial obligation to
some of them? Here are these boys
I've gone to school with. We dis
pense with chaperons up here largely.
I know them well enough to 60 pick
nicking and exploring with them
often. Why don't they let me go on
my own terms of dividing the fun and
expenses both, I tell you, self re
specting woman ,dees'nt like to be
under more than the slightest finan-
cial obligation to any man outside of
her family"
when you're invited, then, to the
theatre" began Priscilla.
when Pm invited anywhere for
mally and accept, it's different. I
have no more right to offer to pay my
expenses than the man whom my
invites to dinner has to offer
to pay for his meal. But / am talk
ing about little informal, outdoor pick
nicking affairs, matters Of suggestion
rather than of invitation. Why can't
treat a man whom know well as
would girl whom know well-sug-
gest the boatride or the sandwich or
the excursion and pay my sharef
Whyi"
II don't know why, my dear,n said
Priscilla, pulling on her garden gloves
again. "But 1 haYe a conviction
that the last rite which women will
wrest from their 'tyrants'-later even
shan the ballot-will be the right of
paying their own way. Meantime,
console yourself by thinking that the
'elfishly generous creatures lose the