The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-06-16

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lemonade and eat a biscuit or a dish OF
berries or other fruit. which will not leave
you with that empty feeling. nor ye;
destroy your appetite for breakfast. II
you have not done your marketing the
night before OF course II should be done
as soon as possible after you get up, so
that you can arrange for the days meals.
II you are n real sensible woman you will
have learned what is the best kind OF
warm weather food. for there is vast
difference In the heat-producing proper
ties as well as the health-glving ones OF
the various articles OF diet.
If the man of the fsmiy has 10 per-
form manual labor he will need meat
twice a day For yourself once a day
is quite enough. unless you want to in
crease your discomfort, for meat is heat
ing. If II is a roast or a boiling piece
that you intend TO have for dinner. cook
ii rarely done IN the morning and set
IL away I'm the fee box, or at least where
II viii keep cool Save the broth that
has formed about It,. and If you want
soup you can make II from that broth
in five minutes time. when you are get
ting dinner If you prefer the meat hot
Tor dinner cut neat slices OF the rarely
done roast, place them in a pie tin and
pour over them some of the juices you
have saved, and set them on the gas stove
or IN the oven TO heat through, then slip
on the hot platter and serve.
COOKING MADE EASY.
Make your potato salad. or the chicken
or veal salad while you are about IT. and
the pie or bread pudding or custard or
Selatine dessert. II 1t is sliced cucum-
bers save all chance of Indigestion by
shcing them into sailed ice water and set
them In the ice box. rinse before putting
on the table. With these things prepared.
vegetable or two for dinner can easily
be cooked over a one-burner gas stove in
double boiler. and the matter of getting
the dinner confined TO half an hour. and
another half 10 getting the dishes done
II you have any regard for your diges-
ton eschew hot bread. oatmeal, cracked
wheat and griddle cakes in hot weather
Ihey are all heat producers, and fat pro-
ducers as well. Fruit fresh fruit, and
plenty of it, should be found on the table
at every meal. both summer and winter
II possible. but in the summer especially.
Day-old bread. thinly Sliced and toasted
a golden brown and eaten dry, is the very
hest kind of bread for one who suffers
greatly from the heat. Perhaps you are
zoo much welded TO coffee to give 1t up
h,, drink less OF H. and more lemohaue'
nursing baby the collie
II Won will carefully note when your
babv Is the crossest you VIII geherais
find that it's crying spells follow closels
ON n fit of anger. lll-temper, overhea'''s
or overeating on your part Inc suiiiin'I
annette is usually quite dainty III '"c
morning so never have anything hedN9
for breakfast. The first course shoulu
he fruit. always. After that the tas'e'
~ the amiv must be considered but whd1-
over Won have cook It nicely, serve oalil nv
lv and do not have so much OF il on inc
table as 20 disgust the light eater. 10y
little managing you can save Houi1-
a great deal Of work over a not s'o'c
rioht in the heated part Of the day.
Whatever sewing you feel that you
must do rush through In the morning.
II YOU were wise you would have nhisheu
M most OF your sewing while II wa
cool. saw in March and April. Let the
children play their hardest all morning
and about moor bring them in ana strlp
them. Give each one rubbing Gown
with towel dipped in salt water put their
night dresses on them and SEND theh 10
their rooms 10 go 10 sleep Ihey VIII
nrobablv object, but let them know that
II has to be done. and It will not be long
before they will come OF their own ac-
cord for nature Is very methodical, ana
a sleep at a certain hour one day Is sure
10 induce one at the same hour the next
day.
AGRATFFuL REST.
Then. darken your house from top
TO bottom. and find the coolest place IN
II and take a nap yourself An hour Is
long enough. and will amply repay you
for what YOU stole from your morning
to
tanned through heat and nervousness the
night before Your children will probaD-
" sleep for two or three hours they can
scarcely get too much, and when they get
I'D. can have on their clean clothes, and
will be good-humored for the remainder
OF the day, which WILL Of course add to
your Oyn comfort
one of the greatest blessings in hot
weather is an amply supply OF clean cloth
es. Sticky, soled. ill-smelling clothing
would sour the temper Of a seraphim, so
I'm your spring sewing include a change
from the skin out for each day. 1t Is
easier to wash two pieces OF linen that
are slightly soiled than one that has 10
be washed into holes to get the dirt out.
Make all the everyday" clothing simply
ard without frills of any description. II
will save time and strength. which you
need for nobler duties. and will greatly
lessen your laundry bills. For your own
house dresses, you should make plain un-
lined prints which are so easily Hundred
and kept clean. and have no weight 10
tire you in getting about. A woman who
elects TO wear out her cast-off fnery al
home Is always an object Of pity, | think
and always gives the impression of Think
ing less Of her own than she does OF
strangers. since she reserves for the home
circle things that she is ashamed to have
anybody outside of 1t see.
Don't fret The woman who wants TO
keep cool must smile when the coffee is
muddy. and take katie's torn frock as a
great joke. She must not 'stew." be-
cause her bangs won't stay in curl, or
storm at the hot weather. About the very
best body heater. aside from fit of tenn
per is TO walk around with fan in
one hand and a handkerchief in the other
and ask if anybody ever saw hotter
weather. Take the heat philosophically.
1t is here. and Il has 10 be endured You
only increase your own and everybody
else's discomfort by talking of the hot
weather. for while one cannot "wallOw
naked in December snow by thinking on
fantastic summers heat" one certainly
can increase ones temperature apprecia-
bly, by dwelling Unexpectedly on the tor
rid weather.
BY all means avoid ice water and filling
up on iced drinks and frozen fruits and
custards. A light appetite is a good thing