Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-07

there are
ONLY -FOUR COURSES,
the clans counting as the first. Then
comes the roast lamb. carefully cooked,
and with the kidney attached to it. In
front of the hostess is a dish of peas
and one or two potatoes, the potatoes
being boiled in their skins and wrapped
carefully III napkin. When this course
is removed there appears the aspara-
gus. cold, and to be eaten either with
French dressing or a mayonnaise.
The cook as waitress brushes every
crumb off the table, and there is
brought on a dish of beautiful straw
berries, either with or without their
caps, as you fancy. With these are. as
a contrast for use, snow white sugar
and whipped cream, so that he who
likes may dip Strawberries in the sugar
and eat them from their green bonnets,
or she who likes may press them down,
sweeten them and put whipped cream
over them, making a sort Of strawberry
souiiie. One is offered tiny. thin cakes
on pretty platter, and there is another
OF odd Chinese nuts, while upon
square plate rests a box of either
prunes or dates.
After the maid has arranged dessert,
she draws up at one side of the hostess
small table on which is the tea kettle,
a French coffee pot and all the cups and
saucers, and the housewife, as she
makes the coffee, has an opportunity
OF showing her white hands, her beau
tlful rings and her ability in making
that most delicious of drinks, a good
cup OF coffee. And this dinner is en-
Joyed by everybody. Everything is
dainty, and it does not cost one penny
more TO serve a dinner adapted to the
tastes of gentlefolk than it does to
serve one adapted only to greedy, i'll
bred people. You think this impossi-
s. BILE? / know that it is not. Then, too,
on this appetizing table there is a jug
of good California claret which is much
better than ice water for any one to
drink with his dinner. No vim ordin-
aire, but a good brand of California
vine, which can be gotten at reason
able price, and by which we may teach
our children to be temperate. Drunk
ards, my friend come from households
where wine is never seen, and where it
is spoken of as an attractive, but for
hidden fruit. Adam did not die, as it
was said, when he was nine hundred
and eighty-seven years old, but he lives
to-day in the heart of every young man,
and as with the old Adam, so with the
new Adam.
THE FORBIDDEN IS THE AT
TRACTIVE FRUIT.
The juice of the grape was meant to
enjoy, and the drunkard is no worse
than the glutton. Unfortunately, the
effect of too much drink is more easily
seen than the effect of too much eating.
The man who eats too much grows
cross, grows unjust, grows unkind,
grows irritable, but he does not stag
ger. Personally, I believe the brain
is as much affected by too much eating
as by too much drinking, and in time
it will be proven. What I am COM
mending to drink with your dinner is
the juice of the California grape, not of
the Kentucky corn of the Tennessee
rye.
To me there Is something fine in
being the lady of the house The one
who understands the appettes of the
family and caters to them mentally
and physically. and whether they are
i'll or in good health.
TO KNOW HOW TO COOK.
is womanly art; to know how to teach
a servant to cook is more than an art,
It is a blessing direct from heaven.
We hire Maria. whose knowledge of food
t. oh, 70
her suitable wages. and we expect her
to have the wit Of a Prime Minister.
She. whose daily diet has been limited
to bread and tea, with meat once a
week, is shown a piece of fine meat,
such as she never saw before, and eX-
pected to cook it. OF course she fails.
What else have you right TO look for
but failure? You should take Maria
by the hand and, with great gentleness
and much patience, teach her what you
wish her to know Sometimes she is
ungrateful, and shakes the dust of your
threshold off her feet when she has ac-
CURED little knowledge. and accumu-
lates the dust Of some either threshold
where she will be paid more money.
Sometimes she is grateful, and then you
have for your trouble a good servant,
which means that life is satisfactory.
But whether you do, or whether you
don't get what you desire, just remem
Der that Maria is not very strong of
brain. and that to be patient. and to be
patient, and to be patient all the time
is the only way to achieve that for
which you are working.
Sometimes what you count as stupid
ity in Maria is absolute shyness. She
dropped one of your beautiful cut glass
finger bowls the other night when her
master spoke TO her. You scOlded her
ard she wept bitterly. But you weren't
enough of woman to think it all out.
Maria seldom sees her master. 1t was
the first time she had ever placed the
bowls on the table, and she was looking
at you to be sure that she was doing
right. The sudden speech, addressed TO
her. startled her, and her hands went
ND and the finger bowl went own. Still,
| wonder il you we're Maria and Maria
we're you. If you would do any better?
Everything is strange to her; your mode
of living, your food, possibly your
speech. and when you find her stupid,
you ought to remember how marvellous
you are to her. She is a bit afraid of
YOU, and wondering bit as to whether
In YOUR prettiest gown, you are fairy,
OF. a creature of flesh and blood. She
is in a strange country, she is homesick,
and there is nobody anxious to listen to
her tale of woe. You behave as il you
wanted to get as much out Of her as
possible. Can you wonder, then, if she
Should try TO do as little and get as