Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-06-11

kind, gIuWs irritable, but he does not
etagger. Personally believe the
brain is as much affected by too much
eating as too much drinking, and III
timo this will be proven. What | am
commanding to drink with your dinner
is the juice of tho California grape, not
Of the Kentucky corn, or the Tonnes
see rye.
Gradually, the good housewife ia
finding out, especially in the warm
weather, the value Of cold meats for
breakfast; and 30 she offers in the
morning, either dish of grape fruit,
Strawberries, cherries, or of raapber-
ries, aud bit Of toast, cup OF good
coffee, and, if you wish it, slice OF
cold meat. Equally, whom the fruit and
tho toast and the coffee have boon
eaten, you, properly enough, have no
longing for the meat. At luncheon,
when all the gentlemen nre downtown,
there is a little stow made from the
last OF the roast lamb, there is . salad
of cucumbers or tomatoes and, the
woman's standby, cup of good tea.
The clever housewife knows how to
utilize what is left from dinner for
the other meals, for the dinner is the
festive time. Then, everything must
DO fresh, everything must be attrac-
tive, and everybody must be cheerful.
1t is the hour OF the day whom people
can rest. and to linger over dinner,
chatting merrily, enjoying daintily
and being generous with words of ap.
probation means having an all-around
good time, | cannot understand those
women who do not find pleasure in
nice silver, in dainty china, in fine
napery. indeed, in all the pretty things
that go to make table look attrac
tive. 1t would seem as if the more
cultured woman's mind was the more
she would comprehend the exquisite
beauty of Widespread board. and
the fact that this beauty emanated
| from her taste and her knowledge of
what is right. There must be touch
OF vulgarity in tho woman who can eat
| her dinner off a soiled cloth, out of
thick, chippe plates. and find pleas
| ure during the warm days in such food
as corned beef and cabbage, or beef
| steak aud onions.
| To mo there is something fine in
being tho lady of the house. The one
who understands the appetites of the
family and caters to them mentally and
physically. and whether they are in ill
or in good health.
To know how to cook ia womanly
art; to know how to teach u servant to
| cook il more than AN art, it is bless
| ing direct from heaven. We hire
Maria, whose knowledge of food is lin
| ited, just as she lands. We offer her
| suitable wages, AMI We expect her to
have the wit of Prime Minister. She,
whose daily diet has been limited to
bread and tea, with meat once week,
is shown a fine piece of meat, such as
she never saw before, and expected to
| cook ii. 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 acquired little knowledge, and
accumulates the dust Of some other
threshold where she will be paid moro
money. Sometimes she is grateful, and
then you have for your trouble good
servant, which means that life is salts
factory. But whether you do OF
whether you don't got what you desire,
Just remember that Maria is not very
strong of brain, and that TO DO patient,
and to be patient all the time, il the only
way to achieve that for which you are
working.
Sometimes what you count as stu
pidity in Maria is absolute shyness
She dropped one of your beautiful cut
glass finger bowls tho other night when
her master spoke to her. You scolded
her and sho wept bitterly. But you
weren't enough of a woman to think ii
all out Maria seldom secs her master
1t was tho 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 won't up ana the finger bowl
went down, Still, / wonder if you
were Maria and Maria were 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 bit afraid of you, and
wondering a bit as to whether, in your
prettieHt gown, you are a fairy, or
creature of flesh and blood. Sho is in
strange. country, she is homesick,
and there ia nobody anxious to listen
to her story of woe. You behave ae if
you wanted to get as much out of her
as possible Can you wonder, then, il
she should try to do az little and get
as much in return? Have little re-
gard for Maria don't gossip with her,
but direct her in gentle way. BE
absolutely honest with her. Alas
that l should have to even hint that
there are women lacking in honesty
Maria has hoart and something of
brain not the brain Of Prime Minis.
ter, elss she wouldn't be working for
81 a week in your Kitchen. But if
you speak to the brain and think of
tho heart as you word your DESIRE
Maria may become as faithful as were
those slaves OF olden days, whose
greatest interest was in the family
This hasn't been chatter, not in the
usual sense of tho word it is only
bit of a suggestion to the housewife,
suggestion that is tho result of ex-
perienco, and which, summed up, means
serve every day dinner that is
simple poem. Treat your ignorant ser
want in such way that living with
you will be ballad that she can un-
derstand, and she will grow as eager as
you arc to make what seems the most
material of all things, dinner, poem
in 365 verses, with an added one for
leap year and chorus of praise for
holidays. This isn't addressed to Mr..
Jack. 1t is bit Of babble to M istress
Dorothy. from Bab.
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