The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24

across an ocean Wlue,
My bride.
Time, cannot, distance cannot, break our
Here or hereafter thou art only mine;
II here we part we meet beyond.
Do not despond;
Our love In worlds divine
Shall shine.
Nathaniel Haskell Dole In The Haw-
thorne Tree.
Ignorance In the Kitchen.
Circumstances l could not control have
made it necessary for me to pay some ut.
tention to cookery. and like Elihu In Job,
Il will also show mine opinion" Born
with q delicate constitution, l have for
years been under the necessity of paying
strict attention to diet, The average
American is not as particular and as
well informed Oh this subject us circum>
STANCES dcmand-quite apt to eat what is
set before him, and task no questions
for conscience sake He spends the
best, part of his life in efforts to get rich
ut the cost of health, and then is obliged
TO spend his fortune in efforts to regain
what ne lost--trying to make one hand
wash the other.
The SCIENCE of cookery should BIZ wei,
Understood by every woman and mother
having the charge Of a home Better,
not to know how to dress elegantly than
not to know how to cook healthily.
Much is said lately about the new WON
an. The time has come for reform in
the Kitchen. The most absurd custom
IN cookery is often found in. well-to-do
anu anu; l l'ntesli ii familiss HoHse well
the best Of cooking. everything provided
in good shape to cook. Wife no time to
look, after it or may not know how if
she had the time: or. possibly does not
care. Daughters at school or educated
in everything else. Husband attending
to his business furnishing the staff Of
life; All moving in the best Of circles,
with no knowledge Of the rules Or laws
Of chemistry, and could hardly tell the
difference in the eff ect between a spoon
full of saleratus and a spoonful of salts
in making and baking a pan of biscuit
II cducation and knowledge Of the laws
of life and health are necessary any
where it is in the kitchen. for the ,kitc H.
stomach makes the man, and woman,
too; With such cook much is spoiled
and lost. That which should have been
cooked last is cooked first. and set OH the
stove or range fol. all that is nutritious
in it to dry: out. What is true in fanii-
lies is true in eating-houses and hotels.
l have eaten a meal in log cabin in
the beech woods Of PENNSYLVANIA that
would tempt the appetite of a king. and
performed the same duty in families and
hotels, where the food was neither in
viting,, nutritious. nor digestible, and only
wished l he'd the opportunity to cook
what | needed myself:
70 the ladies'. allow me to say that if
the old adage is true, 1.-THE way to a
mans heart is by way of his stomach
you better, begin in the kitchen to get
there. The occupation is. not hunlili-
ating. Everything that helps humanity
is ennohling. Joseph. in Bible history,
began his eventful life in Phara oh s
Kitchen i't en-, He was an honest; trusty serS-
found it out, and Joseph was promoted
and eventually reached the highest posi-
ton of honor and distinction in the King
dom next to the King. Try it.-W. ii.
Nelson i'll Philadelphia Times.
The Flower Garden.
OF course you intend to have flower
garden. Why not have good one while
you are about it? BY midwinter the
upon lis. No better way can be found Of
spending dull winters day THAN in
their compa nionship, studying, choosing;
weighing, sitting, until you know just
what you want. Don't 'go it blind in
making your selections; without thought
of your soil, climate, or premises extent.
Don't pick moon-fowers for Manitoba;
settle on tea roses for a deeply shaded
bed, nor mimulus in a sunny one. Choose
special flowers for each bed; and bulbs
and general mixed stock enough to fill
UP any. gaps in the general border. with
vines for porticocs, and shrubs if YOU
need them. Then there will be nothing
overlooked or left bare:
Now cnov This lSt mo tlv o,rI eo,;i IL
away in good time. True. only seed or
ders are filled in the dead of winter, bit
orders are filed as received and filled in
order of filing. They who order early
have the advantage of getting exactly
what they want. and that out of the
choicest of the stock Late orders al
ways find the florist short on some things
disa opointing. Besides, in the season S
rush, mistakes are much more liable to
occur.
Good seed or plant material is third,
beds we'll prepared another third. and
good culture the final share of completes
we'll planted; and well tended. than d
dozen hall: mana$ed ones. When one of
those spring days comics seductive
enough, almost; to WOO a marble statue
from it's pedestal, or an American woman
out of her kitchen; when the earth is just
wet enough AND dry enough, that hand
full of it can be compressed by the fin
of the hoe, then is the proper time to
prepare the beds. Don't peck at the
surface of the ground with a hoe The
earth does not need scratching; it needs
digging up and turning over.
Spade your beds. If you are a stout
woman, do it yourself if no better way
offers. If your back is weak. coax the
fol Il r. I,
feast them to the verge of dyspepsia to
do so. If neither of these plans will
work. hire q, stout boy for half day,
and stay with him until he gets it done.
All plants grow luxuriouslv in spaded
bed. Their roots find deep anchorage
there, take up more plant food and suffer
less from extremes of rain or .drouth..
in good condition, keeping looser and
more mellow the season through than
allow stirred beds.
But .spading is not ALL Plants must he
fed. The farmer gives manure by the
shoyeliul to his corn and potatoes to
insure a good crop. Highly-bred plants,
as are nearly all ornamental pla ants, have
ton. Stable, barnyard. hen or chip ma
nure are any Of them good fertilizers.
See that the manure is 80 thoroughly
rotted that it will crumbe at the slight
est touch. Put layer 5 inches deep
or more all over the beG, then mix it
through and through the soil. until not q
lump of it can be fottnd anywhere. Now
rake the surface smooth, and you have
beds worth something. beds that will
grow plants strong and stocky, with rank
foliage, and quantities OF big, handsome
flowers. Choice plants in frst-class
bed are on the high road to Il grand dis
play. They lack but one thing-good
culture; see that they have 1.-THE
Housekeeper.
Bicycling Costumes.
The proper length for the skirt is now
conceded to be about to the top of the |
boots; no shorter, aud for hall riding even
longer The fulness is all in the back,
but there is SO much goring over the
hips and width below that the outlines
Of the figure are becomingly hidden.
On the correct cut of the skirt depends
the beatty of the costume. which may
be made Of a cheap material if only it
hang WELL
There are two ways this season of ar.