Middletown transcript., 1895-03-30
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Z ny it can look at the
magazines on your table, but that it
must promise not to tear them, and
must carefully pile them up just as it
found them. That will be good
first lesson, because every child likes
to look at magazines. Work make
child feel important, just as it lifts
man out of the vagabond ranks to
give him employment. A very little
child will save you many steps if you
have but the patience to teach 1t
properly, and thus SOW the seeds OF
future usefulness. do not mean
that children should be deprived OF
their play, or that they should be set
to do tasks that are difficult, but in
their play they disarrange carefully
kept rooms, or scatter their play
things, and most mothers will fret
and worry and storm at the awful
havoc they make, and yet trail around
after them and pick up and replace
the things, when the child that scat
tered them could be taught to do
that as we'll as to take them down in
the first place. Give it to understand
that it is doing you favor, instead
of ''ordering'' it to replace its toys,
and very soon you will find that it
will put them up as matter of habit.
Praise it when it has tried to do well,
no matter what the mistaken result
may be, and if you censure, do it in
kindness of spirit, and, above all
things, avoid hurting the self respect
of your child.
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Mrs. Margaret Deland, author of
"John Ward, Preacher is great
favorite in Boston, says a contempo-
rary. She is the owner of one of the
largest mastiffs in the city, who ac-
companies his fond mistress in all her
walks and rambles. He is noted for
his politeness to smaller and inferior
dogs, frequently giving up some choice
morsel to mongrel ours. Mrs. Deland's
home is a cozy house in one of the
oldest but most pleasant streets in
the city, where glimpse of the blue
waters of the Charles River may be
obtained from a bay-window over the
front door. She devotes the entire
morning to writing. Whether vol
ume of poems or new novel is to be
announced is not whispered in literary
circles.
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Queen Victoria is something of a
hypochondriac. 1t is not generally
known, but it is fact, that she has a
fondness for trying patent medicines
for her rheumatism and other bodily
inflictions. She uses a good deal oi
secrecy in thus dosing herself, in
order not to give ofense to her court
physicians and to furnish no free
advertisement to the medicine with
which she is experimenting.
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1t is the boast of a young woman in
Chicago that her dress, which was de-
scribed in an opera write-up the first
night, was made in twelve hours by
herself and two friends. Her modiste
had disappointed her, and hence the
effort.
In some localities the coming woman
has already come. Twenty-Five OF
her are editing newspapers in Kansas,
Nv
: TWO SIDES OF THE NEW WOMAN.
zone of the best things to be said of
the new woman is that she doesn't
name her baby Grover Cleveland."-
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
One of the worst things to be said OF
the new woman is that she has very
few occasions for naming new babies.
Washington Post.
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The athletic woman has superseded
the refined gentlewoman. Our wo-
men now are continuously engaged in
violent exercise. Hunting, golf, lawn
tennis, bicycling and skating should
make them healthy and strong. But
do they2 There has been in Paris a
rage for bicycling, and it appears that
the doctors are now advising their fair
patients to discontinue the sport.
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FOR THE CUISINE.
A Simple Dessert.-Baked bananas
with orange or lemon sauce make a
good dessert that is easily prepared.
Peel the skin from one side of tho
bananas and loosen it all around, but
do not remove, and lay the fruit on a
long baking-dish. Dust each one with
sugar and bake twenty minutes at a
moderate heat. To make the sauce
mix teaspoonful of corn starch with
fourth of a cupful of sugar. Heat
the juice of three good sized tart
oranges, add the sugar and corn starch
and cook until it thickens slightly.
Pour over the bananas when ready to
serve.
Fried Bananas.-Having peeled the
bananas, cut them in two lengthwise.
Have ready hot butter in the frying
pan. Lay in the bananas. Sift with
powdered sugar. Fry brown on one
side and then turn, sift again with
sugar, and when the second side is
Drowned, dish neatly and serve hot.
Crumb Pudding.-Seed and chop
one cup of raisins, mix with one pint of