The Portland daily press., 1896-02-22
THE HOME.
woa.an,s Plae. in the world.

human character:
1t is a pleasing theory that woman
should stand sholld to shoulder with
and in public life, and have equal rights
and privileges; that our daughters should
make names for themselves among the
noblest of the land. But it may be we'll
to stop and consider what is to become
of our sons in the meanwhile. 1t may
be we'll to consider what are woman's
highest rights; whether she may not be,
In this wild rush for recognition and dis
tinction, losing her highest and sweetest
privileges. am not yet ready to say
that woman shall or shall not have the
ballot. am not ready to say WHISTLER
our daughters shall have the same edu .
cation as our sons. Let us consider but
this one side, the danger to the home.
Amid the whirl and rush Of Ameri-
can progress the old fashioned home is
going out OF date. Wives are no longer
content to be queens o: their own house
holds. Our daughters are being rushed
through schools and colleges each with
this thought ever uppermost to prove her
self equal in every respect to any Of the
sterner sex. They are receiving no
preparation whatever for the sacred
duties which will in all probability
await them.
What is the result of all thisp Our
daughters are not without ambition !;
they strain svery nerve to the utmost to
do and be what ia expected Of them.
They work hard. complete their course,
graduate with honor-what then9 A
large majority OF them enter homes and
take upon themselves duties which they
are in no way fitted to discharge.
sit is a lamentable fact that our
women are being taught, that in order
to sustain their part in pubic life, :they
must not be tied at home with children.
So our homes are without children, or
else the children are left to the care of
hirellnRs while their mothers are purify
ing and enrolling the public arena with
their presence. Does it ever occur 10
them that il the mothers of the land
would perform faithfully the duties of
their own households, the world would
have no need of reformers? You are
training not only your children, but your
children's children down through indefl-
mite ages. See to 1t then that you teach
them lessons of truth and purity, that
will remain with them through all the
trials and vic1ssitudes of life. Make the
lessons SO impressive and SO lasting that
no other influence, however powerful,
can overthrow them.''
Mrs. Rorer on Diet.
ITO eat pickles is to show a lack of
education" said Mrs. Rorer, in the
course of lecture. PLENTY OF phospho-
rus throws light upon the brain. Cooked
apples are more easily digested than raw,
but are not SO valuable from health
standpoint. The sugar of nature is in
fruit; mans sugar will create more de-
struction than mad dog. Oatmeal is
valuable food II cooked for three hours
and we'll mastioated. All starchy foods
must be cooked for hours. Buokwheat
cakes are an abomination unto the Lord.
Cabbage and onions If rightly cooked
have no odor. When there is odor they
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put them into water that is boiling hot.
then keep 1t almost to the boiling point.
Will cook in less time in water at 2G0 do
grees than at 240 degrees.
Mr.. Atkinson said the ladies sitting
about him claimed that she (Mrs. Rorer)
was largely responsible for the indigesti-
BILE things they put on their tables, as
they all kept house by her cook book.
yes" answered Mrs. Rorer ~
know it; but wouldn't eat things in
that book for all ths money there is in
the country" Asked what she did eat
abe said tor breakfast she had wheat
grits and cream, broiled chop, shredded
wheat biscuit, and coffee without milk
or sugar. For lunch Welsh rarebit and
fruit For dinner light soup, meat and
two vegetables, one to be green and
served with little oil and lemon juice,
wafer aud cheese. She did all her own
cooking, never gave over an hour to pre-
pairing a meal, and never in her family
made any special preparation for any one
Injurious Effects of too Much Haste.
In prescribing for patient the other
day physician, who is a spec ialist in
nervous difficulties, declared that a young
woman under his charge was literally
killing herself by too rapid movements.
"She is not satisfied" he said, with
going about and doing things in a quiet,
ordinary way, hut actually rushss
through with her work and continually
overtaxes hersslf She cannot be con-
WINGED that little more deliberntion
might accomplish just as much and cave
her strength. So firmly 10 this habit of
haste fixed upon her that she Will run up
and down stairs when there is no need
for hurry and indeed, when there is no
possible pretext for doing It,"
The DOCTORS prescription was: A good
deal more elaboration. large amount
Of rest and pleasant occupation. The
world il full Of pscple who are rushing
themselves to ruin of health as fast as
they can 60. They not only rush, Tut
worry, and between these two, subjeot