The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-05-08
GOSSIP ,,FORTHE LADIES
1t is Best.

Mothers, l see you with your nutsery light,
Leading your babies All In white,
Christ, the Good Shepherd, carrles mine to-
And that Is best!
| cannot help tears whei see them, Irvine
.cufls shine
On your warm breast
But the Saviors is purcr than yours or
mine;
He can love best!
You trembie each hour because your arms
And sore oppressed;
My darlings are safe out Of reach Of harms;
And that Is best.
You know over yours may hang even now
Pain and disease, whose fulfilling slow
Nought can arrest;
Mine In Gods gardens run to and fro
And that is best.
You know that of yours the feeblest one
And dearest may live long years alone,
CnlOved, unblest;
Mine are cherished Of saints around Gods
throne,
And that is best.
You must dread for years the crime that
Dark guilt unwashed by repentant tears,
And uncOnfessed;
Mine entered spotless on eternal years,
On, how much the best.
But grief Is selfish, and cannot see
Always why should so stricken be-
More than the rest;
But know that, as well as for them, for
God did the best, Helen Hunt
What the Children May Eat,
Catering for the children's eating is
one of the most trying; us it is one of
the most important parts Of the modern
mothers household duties. The word
modern is; used advisedly, for il is only
RECENTLY that mothers nave realized that
what their .chilaren eat is powerful
physical and l!19ral agent In their dcvel-
opmeht: Health; temper and to Ger
ton, and digestion upon wholesome liy-
derstahls this. ''Send ihe some Who'll,
wheat Bread writes IL college athlete
to his mother, e 81 CANT train on this
bolted Hour stuff. He was used to the
other. and missed it's iiourishnient
How to- give the children the food they
need: and yet satisfy the childish crav-
the problem that confronts the painstak-
ing chatelaine every morning, when
she goes to the kitchen for a talk with
the priestess of that domain. A few sim
pie facts will help her. One is that
cooked-0ver meat is most indigestible.
1t may be heated through in a hot gravy,
or minced fine and rolled in ball of
mashed potato, but for youthful stom-
achs it should not be twice brought 70
the cooking point. Meat pies are most
wholesome when made of fresh meat,
and with biscuit rather than pastry
crust. A vegetable pie is a dish children
generally like. To, make it a deep dish
should be filed with sliced potatoes, on
ions, chopped carrots and turhips, Il few
BITS OF butter put on top, seasoning of
salt and very little white pepper. and
the dish nearly filled with gravy or
stock. Cook the vegetables until near
ly tender before putting on biscuit
crust. Tomatoes sliced and alternated
with carrots, onions and macaroni; or
mushrooms and potatoes, with Il very
little onion; or potato pie with onions
and apples to flavor it are all variations
of this dish. a pound of juicy, fresh
steak, minced fine and alternating with
sliced potatoes, the whole covered with
crumbs. put OH only long enough to
brown before being taken from the oven,
is another nourishing and very appetiz-
ing pie. Green salads with French dress
ing should be MUCH oftener found in the
children s menu than they are, and fruit,
raw early in the day but cooked when
served at night. AS to cake, rich prl-
dings and pies, instead Of the sweeping
never" of SOME mothers. the more mod
crate scheme of one recently met seems
wisest.
II give the children,' said she, "cake
and sweets just often enough to prevent
their feeling aggrieved. 1 got the hint
from my oldest boy some years ago,
plant, 'Why don we ever have cake or OF:
pies? Other fellows do; | hear them
say So. As to candy, not infrequent
dessert with us is a dish of good candy.
home-taade;, # possible, but pure at ali