Middletown transcript., 1896-07-11
Our Woman s
80. Column

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- these days look
out for heavy squalls y For the season
is upon as when the autocrat of the
American home, be her name Bridget
or Dinah or Wilhelmina, makes up her
mind as to whether she prefers sum
mer in the country TO one in the city,
and If SO, whether the mountains or the
seashore would be the more agreeable
place. If the members of the family
happen to differ with her conclusions
on this subject, she at once seeks more
congenial Surroundings, and the un-
fortunate victims of sieir own temerity
are left in that wretched condition de-
scribed as without girl.o
Yes, we expect to go to the country
in few days." said woman recently,
in response to friends questions She
paused for a moment, and then added /:
"Why don't yea ask me if tits a lonely
place, how far is it from the city, and
whether we have stationary washtu bs?,'
The friend, man, gazed at her in
amazed silence, until she relieved his
curiosity by explaining:
Iou don't know anything ABOUT it,
of course, because you never have to
hire servants, but I've heard those
words SO often in the last few days that
l dream of them. Those are only the
special Inquiries for this time of year,
too. There's the regular list, besides,
about how many there are in the family
and how many days out you give in a
week.
If the ideas of The intelligence, office
servants as TO the special summer
COLONY they care 10 join only varied in
to their wages. the problem
would not be so difficult of solution.
When $50 or $50 cook insists upon
going to Newport, or at the very least
to Lenox or Bar Harbor, there is a
slight excuse for her aristocratic pre-
ferences, and she is more likely to
carry them out To- her own satisfaction.
But. when the maid-of-all work, who
has no specially whatever, unless it be
The universal one of destroying the fine
china of the household, and who does
not expect to ieceive more than $12 OF
b15 monthly, complains of the un-
Fashionableness of the place 10 which
she is asked to go, the would-be mis-
,ress feels that fate is unkind. $50
7ou think, then, that the society in our
,owD would not be quite good enough
% meet your ideas," ironically obser-
red one such to critical candidate for
ler employ. The sarcasm was wholly
ost. "Well, don't think it would,
ally, ma 'am," was the deprecating
'eply. "Ye see, I've been used to
ivin' with The first families, and L
lon't believe I'D be anyways contented
n little thrippenny bitof a place."
Thus is the ever-unsettled servant
question yet more unsettled in these
pleasant summer days.
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Mrs. Rorer, the lecturer, does not
pproye of pie, but nevertheless she
ellis us how 10 make some good ones. |
n recent lecture she said: "What
eople want with pies can't UNDER
tand. America is the only country
ghere pies are made. The Germans
ven have no word for pie, and no other
alton except The American could eat
lie and live.
However, we will make a regular
'nglish meat pie, with no bottom
rust. Cut one joint of cold meat into
ne-inch blocks and two large potatoes
ito dice. Have measured table,
poonful of chopped parsley, tea
,oonful of salt, a quarter teaspoonful
pepper, the same Of celery seed, and
teaspoonfnl of onion juice. Put a
yer of meat into rather deep pie
n,then one of potatoes, ,and distribute
'me of the parsley, peppers. salt and
'lery seed through the layers. Build
le pie up in this way until all the
gredients are used. II
Put teaspoonful of butter over
le top; add a half pint of stock-water
a poor substitute-and put ON your
p crust, which must be rolled out II
ther thin and have an opening in the
p SO that The steam can escape.
laze this with egg, to which a tea
oonful of warm water has been add II
|. and it will give your pie that rich {
own color which all meat pies should
we. This is a delicious dish for !
nche0n."
m
The women spend these hot after J
'ons on their porches, dressed in c
other Hubbards, with fan and q
Lcher of ice water close by. and wish : .
ey were meni The men have on q
Dre clothes than it is modest to tell 4
out. and swelter in stuffy offices or p
,rk in the harvest field. Talk about 9
,men's rightsl We wish we had = =
me of them. :
Mrs. Mckinley, who bids fair to be- :,
me the mistress of the White House, =
$ Miss Ida Saxton, whose grand !
her founded the Canton Repository