The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02


| salad. From q fricassee of chicken for
| dinner the giblets may be saved for giblet
| stew for the next days luncheon. You
| wifi thereby gain a dish without extra
cost. Potted fish. with cucumber sauce,
may be served as a first course in place
| of soup, but if the latter Is preferred. a
quick soup may be made by stirring beef
| extract into boiling water. and seasoning
it with celery seed and a bay leaf. Where
light meats are to be served some of the
cream soups are not out of place, as they
| contain nourishment easily digested.
Cream of potato, cream of pea, tomato,
| celery, asparagus, rice, squash, cucumber
| and lima bean soups are all very accept
able in hot weather.
During the heated term the roast joint
might be served cold. nicely garnished
with edible greens. With it hot vege-
tables might be served. The hot meat
dishes should be light and quickly cooked.
| Do away with the large joints, the pot
roasts and the heavy boils, and substi-
| tute chops, smothered beef, rolled steak,
broiled steak, Hamburger steak or Turk
| ish meat balls. Stuffed vegetables may
be served occasionally in the place Of
| meat-eggplant stuffed with meat and
bread crumbs, and tomatoes and squash
| prepared in the same way. Slow cook
| ing makes these vegetables palatable and
wholesome
The Home Doctor says that few people
know the medicinal value of vegetables
Asparagus, for instance, forms part or
the cure for rheumatic patients at such
health resorts as Aix-les-Bains. Sorrel
| is cooling to the mind as we'll as the
| blood, and forms the staple OF that
| soup aux herbes'' which a French wom-
| an will order for herself after a long
| and firing journey. Carrots, as they con-
tain a quantity of sugar, are fattening,
and are avoided by some people as in
| digestible. 1t is the yellow core of the
| carrot, however, that is indigestible, for
the outer red layer is tender enough.
In many parts of France the peasants
| have recourse to an infusion of carrots
as a specific for ~jaundice.
The large sweet onion is rich in those
| alkaline elements which counterfeit the
| poison of rheumatic govt. If slowly stew
ed in weak broth and eaten with a little
| cayenne pepper, it is said to be an ad-
mirable article of diet for people OF stu
dious and ~sedentary habits.
The talks of cauliflower ave a similar
value, only too often they are so ill-boil-
ed and unpalatable that they are not in
wiling. But when well cooked and served
with proper dressing, there is nothing
more enticing. Lettuce has a slight mar
cote action, and for soothing the nerves
there is no stalk which grows that equals
celery.
A business woman, till recently an an
omaly among the Anglo-Saxon race, has
always been a familiar figure among the
French. In France every woman seems
to have inherited a more or less devel-
oped talent for business, tending to make
her self-reliant, helping her to meet ex-
treme requirements, often ever enabling
her to create for herself an independent
fortune. French women are brought up
to have a trade, whether artistic or prac-
teal, are made thoroughly acquainted
with business routine, and are taught to
manage affairs and understand the value
of money. Business capacity is an ac-
complishment.
Economy is the first requisite of a true
business woman-economy of strength, of
time, and of resources; not meanness nor
| closeness, but well understood economy.
A writer lets out a secret regarding
the way in which young women read
novels. 1t was in the car, and two girls
were talking of what they read. "Oh,
1 choose a novel easy enough one said.
Il go to the circulating library and look
at the last chapters. If / find the rain
softly and sadly dropping over one or two
lonely graves, I don't have it, but if the
1onrpfno cI1n ic ofinnnarinp M hrida1
robes of white satin, l know it's all
to eat while / read
80
Girdles made of two shades of the same
color are very becoming, and as the
darker shade is always used at the small
er part of the waist the sle~nderness of
the belt circle is emphasized, while the
lighter shade makes the round of the
torso seem the more sudden and there
fore the more as fashionable women now
want it. The sudden hip and bust and
the pinched waist are now deemed de-
sirable whether nature made them so or
not.
Although sleeves are small now, the
wide collar or fussy epaulettes give width
dAu pIedutH, anu are luHuItely more De-
coming h huge, unwieldy puffs or
sleeves distended by haircloth.
-.
Shot taffeta rejecting the pigeon-breast
colors has a yoke, vest and epaulettes
OF grass lawn edged with cream lace and
headed with a tiny putting of black NOUS
seine.
sound Of The French Voice.
Very curious at times, writes Critic Aus
tin, is the sound of the French voice in
the ~insular ear. Chacot used to hypno-
tie a woman, press a coin against her
cheek. tell her she was burned in that
place, and 10! the scar of the burn shone
red. Sarah Bernhardt hypnotizes my
throat, SO that. after some of her intona-
tions, it is almost sore! How her. larynx
survives the grating of her angry ac-
cents is a marvel, but the next moment
she is gurgling like a nightingale, and,
/ the moment after that, chanting like a
choir. Every French actress seems to
drop into a chant. as Mr.. Wegg dropped
into poetry. You are listening to the de-