Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-13

Ike changing the leopard's spots, Jude has
got to get out of the old rut and back in
to the new-old one that was prevalent in
my childhood, and is still practiced among
high church people. that of making Sun
day an absolute day of rest for all concern
ed in the household duties. 1t is practical
and it is sensible.
In the stern old Puritan days all the
food for the Sabbath was prepared on Sat
urday. There was no fire built in the house
on the Sabbath except to keep the inma ties
warm. Not single unnecessary duty was
performed from shutdown Saturday night to
shutdown Sunday night They lived well,
too. In the first years of trial the larder
was SHINY filled, but when the days Of pri-
walton were over their tables were supplied
with all the Ixuries that the new world
afforded, and they were many. It must be
conceded that the men and women who
We're reared under those conditions were
sufficiently well nurtured, mentally as well
as physically, to make a good big patch
in history. to which their posterity point
with pride" whenever occasion offers.
In q city with market in every section,
as Washington has, it is easy enough to
arrange for cold victual" dinner for Sun
day, and 1t ought not to be hardship for
the members of the family to eat one day
in seven the viands which they put away
with such avidity on all fresco occasions
and vote the most delicious meal in a
year."
At this season of the year hot meats are
not very palatable, no matter how daintily
cooked, and the odor of steaming vege-
tables and hot drinks, when the mercury
Is away up in the nineties, and still climb
ing, Is almost unbearabie. It is much more
appetizing to sit down to table garnish-
ed with pretty ice-cold salads, daintily
sliced chicken, or beef that is Juicy and
tender, though cold, cottage cheese deyiled
crabs, lobster. if you like. pressed chicken,
veal loaf, cold meat pie-so English, YOU
know-with pickles, olives, deviled eggs,
and for dessert anything almost in the pie
and pudding line, but giving the preference
always to fruit in its season, and if thought
better cooked thar au natural, made into
tarts, pies and shortcakes to be eaten with
cream. For drinks, iced tea and coffee,
lemonade, iced milk, root beer-which is in
no sense of the word alcoholic-or fruit
beverages, such as most good housewives
know so we'll how to prepare.
AppetizinE, but Cold.
All the meat dishes can be prepared
while the Saturdays work is being done
tip. They can then be put in the ice box.
The Salads materials for which are pur-
chased Saturday evening, can be got ready
while waiting for the lazy family to rise
Sunday morning, and the cheese, eggs and
other appetizers prepared at the same time
OF course the dessert, if pie or pudding, is
made on Saturday; if short cake on Sum
day morning. If lemon tarts or pie, or
fruit pie. that will soak up the Juice and
get soft. the shells may be baked on Satur-
day, along with the other baking and the
filling added Sunday morning OF course
the question Of hot bread is serious one
in families raised" on it. but they will
enjoy it all the more if they have to get
along without 1t for Sunday.
Picnic biscuits make an excellent substi-
tute beaten biscuits are great then there
is the whole range of Cracked" cereal
breads, which are decidedly healthier than
white bread, and ''pone' of sweet, yell
low corn bread. with a glass of rich cold
schooner
simply delicious hot day. Oddly
enough, this Is a favorite luncheon comoi-
nation with great many statesmen, and
when Mrs. Carlisle is called upon to fur
nish provisions for an entertainment for
the physical man she generally subsoribes
corn bread and milk and buttermilk''
Aside from the cor venience of cold din
ners on Sunday, when the house mother
wants rest as we'll as anybody else, or
the servant wants to have her afternoon
off, there is the health aspect of 1t, which
is, of course, the last view of it that any
body will take. One may eat very hearth
ly of a cold dinner and not suffer from in
digestion in the least, when the same
quantity of food taken hot from the stove,
with the mercury at 90 in the shade, Will
send the temperature of the body bounding
up at fearful pace, and one will come
from the table with the blood at the boil
ing point with ''fuilness'' in the head, and
a sense of construction about the heart
ard a general uncomfortable feeling.
This serious phase of Indigestion does not
indicate that you have actually eaten too
much. but that it was not the proper kind
of food to eat. or not in the proper condi-
ton to eat. The same viands that you can
eat with impunity in the colder climate
or winter season will be quite sure to treat
you badly during the warm weather. In
fact We need absolute change of food
and the way of preparing it in the summer
from that pursued in the winter. Meas
sweets, richer salads and desserts, soups
and highly spiced foods belong to cold
climates. Fruits, coarsely ground cereals
vegetables, green salads and acid drinks
should constitute the menu for healthy
summer diet, with milk and eggs, and a
little fresh meat and a good deal of sea
food.
OF course there will be a lot of you who
will think with Jude that quality" can't
eat anything that has not cost a heap OF
money and hours of heated labor in prepa-
ration, but in that case 1 will have to say
to you as did to her, you do not know it
ALL" SONORA SARA.