The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-05-17
THE NEW WOMAN.

new 1oTkerS are using cooked ban.
anas more and more. One of the ia
fous specialties of the Manhattan Club
is fried bananas; they fry them there
as doughnuts are fried, by dropping
them into vessel of boiling fat. They
are excellent, treated in this way, but
the method is troublesome and expen.
sive. Baked bananas are much easier
obtained, and are really better than
any other form of the cooked fadt
Just the wrong way to bake them IS
frequently followed; that is. they arc
taken out of the skins; then it is neces,
sary to put wine or lemon and sugar
on them 10 give them flavor, but II
they are baked in their jackets they
have a delightful acid of their own, and
eaten with cream and sugar are a de.
Dcious dish and are very nourlshing,
The fruit should be well ripened and
the oven fairly hot. Ten or twelve
minutes will usually suffice to cook
them. They should be softened all
through when done.
Mrs. Joseph Harper, wife of one of
the firm of publishers, has received a
letter from Mrs. Robert Minturn, pro.
testing against the publication Of
"Trilby." Mrs. Minturn's reason for
writing to Mrs. Harper was that she
felt the Subject to be too indelicate for
discussion with Mr.. Harper. Mrs. Min.
turn is prominent woman of society
in New York, old enough to be thor.
oughly Of the old school.
Mrs Beardsley, the mother of the
famous and peculiar artist Aubrey
Beardsley, Is a gentle, old-fashloned
English lady, who lives entirely for her
clever son and his beautiful young sis.
ter.They keep house together in South
Kensington, London, and his mother
entertains his set with great hospital,
ity She is sure her son is the greatest
genius of the age, but people who know
him say he does not take himself so
seriously. and that he is very nice
boy.
Mrs. Ruth McEneTy Stuart is as good
a story teller in talk as she is on paper.
A woman said the other day in speak,
ing of her: II ate my dinner at the
same table with her every day for a
year at one time since she has been in
New York, and the way she told funny
stories continually, and never once re-
peated herself, was simply one of the
most marvellous things l ever knew of.
Her stories were always good, too She
has a sense of humor that is joy for
ever"
New York fashionable women don't
follow any strict fashion about their
underclothes and their negligee cos
TUNES. That is of all others the field in
which it is the thing to exercise an in
dividual taste. The rich women have
gowns and toilette jackets and petit
coats, the like of which are not to be
found in any shop or pictured in any
journal of fashion. The only chance
the public has to see such things is in
the windows of the fashionable clean
ers. There you can see lovely things
and also lots of women, who do not be-
long to the Four Hundred studying
them, getting points for their own
wardrobes.
There is no better sofa pillow than
can be made by rolling up an elder
down quilt and tying 1t round with a
ribbon. 1t is a most useful addition to
the usual supply; it is more adjustable
than the regular thing. and IL your
quilt is pretty, as 1t should be. 1t makes
q most ornamental pillow.
Mrs Mary t. Lease has declined the
nomination for Mayor OF Wichita, Kan.
II she had accepted the nomination she
would have been compelled to resign
her place at the head of the State
Board of Charities, the income OF which
is three or four times ~ much as the
Mayors salary.