The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-03
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1897


ance of every girl and woman knowing or
learning how to cook. If a woman seeks
to be of some real use in life, If she ex-
poets to be of use i'm the household, she
must first learn to cook well. The old say
ing that a mans heart is first reached
| through his stomach is true. Without
well-cooked food, who could enjoy the lux
| uries of life? Certainly no one; for
though it may sound vulgar, we must con-
TESS that even in the enjoyment of balls,
parties and picnics. the expectation OF
| having something good to eat to reinforce
our spirits is an important part of the
programme.
We cannot be expected to enjoy raw
tood materials, as well as the cooked arti-
cies, For instance, suppose that raw
chlckeh, meat, ham, vegetables, and flour,
salt, eggs, and milk were set before US, in
stead of the well-cooked meat and vege-
tables and fine cakes, how would we re-
celVe these things? / think with no
pleasure. So If women neglects and
leaves cooking in the new mans hands, all
the Ilch and good food made by women
WIZ De forgotten, and their cooking may
Just come to the boiling of all edible foods.
instead OF making epicurean dalnties, and
TINS VIII discourage the improvement and
progress of woman
There is no excuse for a woman IL she
cannot cook; there are so many chances
WhlIe at home to learn to cook well But
l 90 think that unless one can cook well,
petter not do it at all. OF all the knowl-
cage woman needs, no matter what her
station, cooking will always be of practi-
cal use.
Cooking helps to utilize all the eatable
lhlngs that nature has so abundantly pro-
Vlden' IL also encourages potters to make
pretty dishes and pottery in which to hold
the good and dainty food; the prettier and
nicer the dishes and food surroundings,
md 4 gAr
Cooking luxurious food was not known
centuries ago, though pottery in fine pat
terms was then in use"
1t is said that women of the present
time, especially the new woman" who
ever she is, try to do mems work, and so
neglect the art of good cooking What
Will become of their husbands stomachs
if they marry and if they leave cooking in
their husbands hands? Those men will
have TO meet many trials before they can
cook well.
Some interesting details, says the Phila-
delphia Ledger, concerning the lives Of
some dozen eminent French widows have
come to light. 1t appears that Nine Mac
Mahon, the wife of the marshal and presi-
dent of that name, declined to accept a
state pension when offered to her She is,
however, well provided for, and during the
winter is to be found in her mansion, stu
the summer months she retires to her
chateau in the Loiret. The royalist cir
Giles in which she moves are of a very Sc
lect and exclusive nature. Mime. Carnot
lives an extremely retired life. but still re-
| ceives the visits of princes and other dis
tinguished people who come to condole
with her. In her house she has a little
chapel, which she has arranged herself
and filled with souvenirs of her late hus-
| band. She also, like Nine. MacMahon
| has declined a state pension
The wife of the Grand Francois" M.
de Lesseps, spends the greater part of the
year at La Chesnage, where her husband
| died. She receives a pension of 12O, 900
! francs year from the Suez Canal Com
pany. NJ. Pasteurs widow has taken up
her residence at the institute bearing her
husbands name, and is in receipt of a pen
sion of $4,000 francs year. One of the
the most active of these ladies' Is the
wife of tho historian Michelet, who lives
quit alone and occupies her time in
bringing out new editions of her late hus-
bands works and editing the MSS. he left
behind, including his memoirs. Nine AL
eXandre Dumas, too, is busily engaged, but
in different way, with her husband s
MSS, for her object is to prevent any of
the numerous works or fragments of
works he left behind from being published.
The wife of the illustrious composer of
"Faust'-Mme Gounod-goes a step fur
Their than this and refuses to allow the
performance of some of Gounod's earlier
compositions ON the ground that the repu-
tation of the deceased musician might
I.suffer from the criticisms passed upon
them.
Fashions change" said Mr.. Graytop.
when l was boy it was a common thing
for children to wear their hair in ringlets
and curls, and many young women and
older ladies'. too. wear their hair in the
same fashion. If the hair curled natural
ly little needed to be done to it but to curl
it around something and brush it. and
then it would stay curled; for this purpose
a curling stick was commonly used.
THE curling stick was perhaps a foot in
length. having a handle, and tapering
slightly at the other end, so that it might
the more easily be withdrawn from the
curl. If the curling stick was lost or mis-
laid a hoop stick would do; and many a
loving heart, has twined her children s
! curls around a finger, and brushed them
smooth upon it, and then having carefully
withdrawn the finger, pulled the curl out
| to the desired length.
and sometimes the curl was made bv
| setting the teeth of a comb in the hair and
| then turning the comb around and around
! and down and out at the end of the curl
| But curls are seldom seen nowadays, and
the curling stick is practically thing OF
| the past"
There is a mode of preserving peaches
without cooking which is said to give an
| excellent flavor and taste to the fruit. 1t
! involves so little labor that it is worthy
of a trial Select large, perfect peaches
wipe them to remove the down and put
them into crock or deep earthen bowl
! Pour enough boiling water over them TO
cover the fruit well. Cover the vessel
with thick folds of cloth. and let it stand
until the water is almost cold. Take out
| the fruit and rub off the skin. Put a
| LAYER of peaches in jar and cover them
thickly with the best refined sugar pound
ed and sifted, then add another layer of
peaches. alternating them with sugar un-
! iii the jar is filled having the sugar for
! the last layer. Close and seal the jar i'm
mediately and keep in a cool and dry But
! dark place.
Another manner of preserving peaches
which has been tested successfully, is
this: Peel ripe perfect peaches and pack
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