The record-union., 1896-06-28


tween absolute neglect on the part of a
hostess and fussy carefulness. Perpet-
ual entertainment is a bore, and the
guest who is not permitted to have an
hours Solfcitude upon occasion is a
suffering being. But there is such
thing as well-bred hospitality which
without seeming effort provides botn
solitude and amusement-and that Is
the ideal hospitality.
Manners are queer in many ways To-
day, and it is to be feared that the lady
and gentleman Of 1.-The old schooP' would
be pr'odigiously shocked at some current
fashions One of the queerest illustra-
tions of the change of things was noteu
in famous cafe on the Riviera not long
ago, when a still beautiful Empress, I'M
ishing her luncheon with her husband,
prepared to depart. She called for a
glass of water, and while the Emperor
paid the bin and complimented the pro-
prietor and the other customers gaped,
she took a toothbrush from her impe-
rial pocket and calmly brushed her
pearly imperial teeth
"A delicious sauce for apple dunplings
or a plain cornstrach pudding is made
from maple sugar. Cut enough or the
sugar to make a half-cupful very fine,
add to it a half-cupful of water and
dissolve. After the sugar reaches the
boiling point cook five or six minutes.
Take from the stove. Have ready the
beaten whites of two eggs and pour
them over the syrup bit at time,
beating continually with an egg beater
until all is added Add tablespoonful
of lemon juice and just before using
rx-b in in, hi j1~a n a
sweet cream.
'"The newly made parent" said Mrs.
A., will appreciate this anecdote OF
the young father, whose eSthetic sense
. : had been rudely shocked at the sight
of sundry sugared rags, supposed to
soothe the windy little stomach of his
first born. Forced by circumstances
into playing nurse one night he met his
wife in the morning with Make them
of laudanum tonight, Mary-anything
TO stop its yelling! / pitied the KID
when / began. I despised it at mid
night, and, by Jove, hated the little
beggar this morning. Poor baby! VIC
tim to the gross ignorance of couple
of young people who know more about
tennis and baseball than they do about
the physical characteristics Of their
own offspring!
TT seems a pity" she continued,
s'that all girls cannot have the expert
ence of one clever young woman in
society, who partly from inclination,
partly as a whim, spent six months of
active service as a nurse in a high-class
hospital for children. There, under the
direction of the best physicians in the
city, working with trained, experienced
nurses, she acquired a knowledge or
children, their ailments, their physi-
cal care, which has, as she AYERS, been
priceless to her since in bringing up
her own children. After bathing and
dressing babies by the dozen, cooking
their food, nursing them through colo,
teething and all manner Of childish dis
orders she could become mother her
self without experiencing a terrible
heart sinking at the departure Of the
monthly nurse or suffering agonles or
apprehension at an infantile yaWn or
that peculiar turn-itself-inslde-ou
character which suggests convulsions
or sudden death-anything direful and
mysterious.
Many persons who complain that
r1ayonaise and other salad dressings
are too rich and indigestible for their
stomachs use a dressing compounded
of cream, melted butter, large quant1-
ty of vinegar mustard enough to make
a small plaster, and an abundance OF
aed pepper The former, when properly
made, with a pure fresh olive oil, eggs,
a small quantity of lemon juice or
vinegar, salt and an exceedingly smaii
quantity of cayenne pepper or paprika,
is a mixture both healing and digesti-
BILE. The latter is both irritating and
indigestible. If oil Is what 1t should
be and nothing is said to a family that
has a prejudice against 1T about Its
presence In a salad dressing, 1t Is often
eaten with relish. Sometimes whipped
sweet cream is used to disguise the
flavor of the oil.
Indiscriminate reading is one OF the
evils of the day among young people.
Girls especially used to be kept under
4he strictest surveillance. An old-fash-
toned maiden would never dream of
commencing any book without first
asking her mothers permission We
have changed all that. however, now
adays. and up-to-date young women
read everything, see everything and
know everything, while the austere in
nocence which used to be SO greatly
rrized is now voted In society as slow
and uninteresting. This state OF affairs
is not easy to remedy. Although the
bloom is necessarily brushed off the
peach by modern laxness ins openly
commenting upon the strange views OF
Efe. religion and morals taught by the
literature of the period and by the pub
licity given to the mysteries and trag-
edies of the great city, it is a wonder
that the younger generation are so 1T
tle affected as a whole by thus eating
rf the fruit of the tree of knowledge OF
GOOD and evil. In some cases 1t may,
Of course, do untold harm, but as to
the pure all things are pure. even SO
-he majority of our girls, thank God.
4o,,ch the CRIME and soil of life, and
are not defiled. 1t is the insidious in
f,pence that does the most harm. the
ba1of,,l novels. that are admired for
4beir brillfancy, while they instill the
,,otson of unbelief and a lax morality,
4be temper who, "by virtue of being a
meet. passes unquestioned into many a
home. carrying pollution into minds that
ora cleanly and simple" that are re-
snonsible for so much that is evil
Tact In these latter days must be SUBJ
~+itufed for old-time authority In the
household. The coming generation will
not he coerced, but 1t may be influenced
and persuaded. Let parents. without