The record-union., 1896-06-28

AoNAO 10 q ufokPPy 1ilCdii, iio NO0Oe'
tween absolute neglect on the part OF
hostess and fussy carefulness. Perpet-
ual entertainment is a bore, and the
guest who is not permitted to have an
hours solicitude upon occasion is
suffering being. But there Is Sucn q
thing as well-bred hospitality which
without seeming effort provides poth
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 school, would
be odigiously shocked at some current
fashions. One of the queerest illustra-
tions of the change of things was noted
in a famous cafe on the Riviera not long
ago. when still beautiful Empress, fin
ishing her luncheon with her HUSBAND,
prepared to depart. She called for a
glass of water, and while the Emperor
paid the bill and complimented the pro-
prietor and the other customers gaped,
she took a toothbrush from her fmpe-
rial pocket and calmly brushed her
pearly imperial teeth.
A delicious sauce for apple dumplings
OF a plain cornstrach pudding is made
from maple sugar Cut enough of 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 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 a tablespoonful
of lemon juice and just before using
whip in one-third Of a cupful of thin.
sweet cream.
1.-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 10
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-anyt thing
to stop It's yelling! I pitied the kid
when I began. 1 despised it at mid
night, and, by Jove, 1 hated the little |
beggar this morning. Poor baby! VIC
tim to the gross ignorance of a couple |
of young people who know more about |
tennis and baseball than they do about |
the physical characteristics Of their
own offspring!
1T 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 whim, spent six months OF |
active service as a nurse in high-class
hospital for children. There, under the |
direction of the best physicians In the |
City. working with trained, experienced |
nurses, she acquired knowledge or
children, their ailments, their physi- |
,x,bi icb has she been l
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
oIders-si1e could become mother her
self without experiencing a terrible
heart sinking at the departure of the
monthly nurse or suffering agonies of
apprehension at an infantile yawn or
that peculiar turn-itself-inside-out
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 quanu-
ty of vinegar, mustard enough to make
a small plaster, and an abundance or
ned 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 small
quantity of cayenne pepper or paprlka,
is mixture both healing and digesti-
BILE. The latter is both irritating and
indigestible If oil is what it should
be and nothing is said to a family that
has a prejudice against it about its
presence in a salad dressing, it 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
the 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
prized 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 Inc openly
commenting upon the strange views of
life. 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, 1t is wonder
that the younger generation are so lit
tie affected as whole by thus eating
of the fruit of the tree of knowledge Of
good and evil In some cases it may,
of course, do untold harm, but as TO
the pure all things are pure, even so
rhe majority of our girls, thank Cod
touch the CRIME and soil of life, and
are not defiled. 1t is the insidious in
fuence that does the most harm, the
baleful novels, that are admired for
their brilliancy, while they instill the
noison of unbelief and lax morality,
4he temper who, "by virtue of being a
noet passes unquestioned into many
home carrying pollution into minds that
orc cleanly and simple" that are re-
snonsible for so much that is evil
Tact in these latter days must be SUBJ
~t;tuted for time authority in the
household. The coming generation will
not be coerced, but it may be influenced
and persuaded. Let parents. without