Evening star., 1897-02-13

parents are largely responsible for the
wretched health that their children have af-
ter they are grown up. 1t is so much easier
to let a teasing child have its will than
to struggle with it in denial, but many
anxious hours are given when such in
dulgerce leads to Illness. Then the effects
of the Indulgence are nearly always felt
In after life. Gods best blessing to man
Is good health, yet the chief end of man
seems to be to break and set at defiance
all the ratural laws that govern that
health Nature has her revenge, in time,
and she always gets 1t sooner or later.
Tfis is an excellent and cheap cream
cardy for the little people. One pound of
white sugar, one wine glass of good cider
vlregar-the manufactured article will not
do-Cne glass of water. and flavoring to
taste. Boil half an hour and do not stir
once. When nearly cold pull till it is
smooth. and it will melt in your mouth
like cream when perfectly cold. The older
it gets the creamier.
Rice bread is much esteemed by those of
capricious palates. Boil one tea cup of
rice till 1t Is perfectly tender, shake, but
never stir rice when cooking. While hot.
add butter the size of an egg, pint and
half of milk. half pint Of bolted corr
meal. two tablespoonsful OF flour. two eggs
and salt to taste. Pour in we'll buttered
pans, having it not over two inches thick,
and bake just one hour in a moderate oven.
Eaten lot with nice sweet butter, or good
sirup, 1t is at its best.
Sick people should not be forced to eat
if the palate refuses to be tickled by what
Is set before the patient. But there are
ways of making sick people hungry. A
dainty napkin-covered waiter. with small
delicate china service, and shining silver
spoon. knife and fork, pleases the eye of
the fastidious sick one. Then serve, steam
ing hot, the tiniest morsel of broiled steak.
that will melt between the teeth, small
smooth skinned baked potato, done to a
turn. with the bursted skin showing a bit
of butter melting inside, a very small cup
of rich pure drip coffee, and a dash of
cream, a small slice Of well-browned toast,
and the pulp of an orange, freed from the
white stringy veins, and see If your patient
will lot eat and declare 1t good.
1t is care that kills. One who deliberate
ly cultivates disposition to throw care tc
the winds soon becomes an INDISPENSABLE
person to his friends. Care is worry, pure
and simple. The burden that causes US to
worry Is heavy enough to bear, in all proba-
hility, without adding to it that of alien
crossing care, which never let's the mind
rest for an instant. Suppose you do have
troubles Of your own" Can you cure them
by worrying? Ones best effort to over
come the trials and tribulations of this life
Is all that Is demanded. If that effort sur
mounts the difficulties. well and good. If
1t fails. the fret that wears wrinkles in
ones soul, the worry that makes US hated
by our friends. the care that wears deep
burrows on the brow do not help one out
of the slough Of despond, but rather bury
us the deeper. The world gets very tired
of men and women who placard their woes
on their faces and moan it in their voices
| IN hourly conversation. But the world
dearly loves those people who are merry
and companionable. even when grief is
gnawing deep. We owe something to So
ciety. to the world of people about us, and
have no right to make ourselves public
| nuisances because the clouds obscure our
sun.
If you want to have a pretty window Or
nament and something for the children to
enjoy get a long, wide-necked bottle and
insert good healthy sweet potato then
i I'LL the bottle with water and hang by a
string in a sunny window. The potato will
| soon send out its pretty green vines, and in
short time will become a thing of beauty.
Il never can keep a servant some way"
| sighed a woman the other day ''They get
| so impertinent and talk back, till 1 can't
| endure 1t, and SO just ship them" Not
much wonder they get impertinent! No
| servant who has the slightest atom of self
| respect Is going to stand being lecturetl
before a tableful of people. And the
mistress who will do that isn't lady. no
matter what she claims to be- A mistress
should remember that servants are, after
| all, human and are dominated by much the
same spirit as their employers, though tn
| different degree, perhaps. Whatever in
| jures their ideas of self-respect hurts their
self-esteem. and trouble Is bound to come.
Lecture your servants, II you will but do
| 1t behind closed doors. The public is not
interested In your domestic troubles!