The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-25
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asdut IrockS are paraded especially
On the occasion of the christening of a
hrst child or an heir to estates. The
rte OF baptism, and feasting a-fterward
occupy at least half a day, and the b
IS brought forward with undue promi-
nence.
only very recently in London. when
the S-week-old son Of a wealthy couple
waste be received into the church. quite
4SW was spent on the baptismal robe
alone, SO heavily were the long white
satln skirts brocaded in gold. AT inter
Vais Of a half hour. while his parents re-
ceived. the little man was brought into
the drawing room ON a gorgeous satin
pillow and handed about for inspection
by his Welsh nurse.
With gold pieces clasped in his tiny
nsts he was passed solemnly through the
entrance doorway. carried once about
the house, with a gold spoon on his lips,
ana kissed in turn by all his godparents.
hhe following day the poor little char
came down with hard commissions. and
the family doctor traced the cause to the
christening celebrations.
So
English physicians have ~emphatically
pronounced anything but the very sim
plest and quietest of baptisms most in
furious to their infant patients. while an
eIaDorate ceremonial. as above described,
is considered but little short of a severe
shock to the baby system. The most
sensible christening. insist these incon-
troyertible authorities, is to have the
paby baptized at home or in the clergy
mans drawing room, celebrate the rite
IN the presence of very few persons and
return the newly-made Christian prompt
~ to his or her nursery.
All manner of excitement must be
esehewed, fragrant lowers dispensed
with. and above all things a nurse should
not be permitted to stand with the child
IN a cold, d~raughty church lobby wait
ing for a congregation to dispense or god
parents to gather.
The flowers are tabooed. for their
heavy odor is likely to the
sensitive organs of a young child, and
the very careful doctors. now insists that
slightly warmed water shall be poured
into the font. and absolutely no music
allowed
These may seem absurd precautions to
the average grown person, but they all
contribute to the well-being of the per-
IN N11OoC dCllCdlC
limbs are weighed down by the rich
robes now made for small baptismal
candidates, and who often screams him
or herself into exhaustion from the
strange sights and sounds, strange faces
and heavy odors that are part and par
Gel Of the up-to-date christening.
So very important, indeed, is it con-
sidered even by royal mothers to avoid
much excitement for the baby princeling
when their first religious duty must be
performed that for both the German
Empress and the Duchess of York a
physician presides at all royal baptisms.
The little prince who is to undergo the
transformation from a child of sin to
one of light is carefully fed and wrapped
before the requisite officials arrive to
witness the
Both the clergyman and godparents,
several days in advance, are gently in
troduced to the youngster and made to
hold him in their arms a bit, in order
that the baby will not experience any
great shock or surprise at finding himself
in the care of strangers.
All this is rather more reasonable and
&- q Al9A1 JIG WOQlu
expect to find in courts where appar-
emily maternal vanity and love of os-
tentation is not SO freely INDUCED in as
we find even in republican America.
49,
Some time ago I was making some
custard pies and found at the last moment
I had no favoring in the house-neither
lemons, oranges, cocoanut or anything
else available. I had boiled the custard,
and what should I add to give it taste?
There was a half cupful of fine white
cherries, canned ones, in the cupboard, so
I hurriedly stirred them in, put on my
meringue, Drowned it nicely, and was
charmed with the result . So I thought If
cherries would do, why not other fruita
For the custard for two pies take one
pint of sweet milk, boil it, have beaten to-
gether the yolks of three eggs, one-half
cupful of sugar., two tablespoonful of
cornstarch or flour; stir into the boiling
milk. It should be quite stiff If it is to
be thinned by any fruit. For the pie
crust use four cupfuls of flour, one cup
full of lard, salt. as little water as possible,
handle lightly, and roll out, fill the pie
pans, prick well, and bake. If carefully
made this is almost equal to puff paste.
Add one-half cupful of sugar to three
beaten whites of eggs for a meringue for
two pies.
Peach custard-Make the plain custard,
add one-half cupful of mashed and sweet
ened peaches to each pie. Cover with a
meringue and brown in the oven.
Strawberry custard-To the plain GUS
tard add a half cupful of fresh or canned
Strawberries for each pie. Cover with a
meringue.
A plain strawberry tart is made by
MASKING thoroughly a cupful of straw
berries, sweeten and put into a pastry
shell, beat the white of one egg, add one
fourth cupful of sugar, spread over the
Strawberries and brown. This is delicious
and so simple.
Lemon c-ustard-Grate off the yellow
rind, then cut the lemon in two, and ex-
tract the juice. Add the grated rind and
Juice Of one lemon. sweetened, to the Gus
ard for two pies. Never add fruit juices
until the custard is taken off the stove.
Add the m%eringue and brown. Orange
tarts are made in the same way.
Banana custard-Slice one hi
through the custard for one pie; add a
drop OF lemon juice if convenient.
Caramel c~ustard-This is another dis
S3yery of my own, and I think a very
toothsome one. The proportions for the
custard are the same. In a skillet brown
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