New-York tribune., 1897-08-29
SOME WAYS OF THE WORLD
CULINARY ART WOULD LANGCISH IF
WOMEN WERE ALONE CONCERNED.

WOMEN WERE ALONE CONCERNED.
MANY WIVES WILL NOT TROUBLE TO ORDER
DINNER WHEN HUSBANDS ARE ABSENT
GUESTS AND SERVANTS.
. What women would cat, II It were not Tor the
mon. is an interesting question. Undoubtedly the
culinary art would suffer II the more material being
were eliminated $685.,
.Nr A. will not be at home for dinner, Mary"
saws the house mistress TO the COOK. so you need
NO, have dnne-. Just cook me chop and make
mo , cup of tea That will be enough. And the
table is careessly set and the service is poor, all
hocause the incentive to please the master is want
Ing
TO make man happy you must feeo the brute
I. the not over-complimentary but very true COM
nentary on the exactng appetite of the lords OF
creation In this case. however, this material at
tribute is really an elevating one, as the influence
~ the table ia certainly refining element in the
household. Certainly dinner as q daily ceremony
a feast as 1t were upon the altars Of the Lares
and Penates would fall into desuetude if women
S,opping at a friends house about luncheon time
long ago hungry visitor 50Ina the and %ner
THE rest of the family We're out she ,XpiahenI nm,Ic
for the servants TO prepare and serve Iuncheoh
Ike fashion makeshft would have been
dreamed Of and the household machinery would
There is hardly a woman who. when alone. does
not shrink rpm the formaty Of course dime:
that the daily menu would run somewhat in this
fashion Coffee boiled egg and toast i IN dna the ,ne
and bread and butter and jam at nisht or some
thing equally simple, .,,. ,., ..o..
grumble over the bills that If their wives alone
the wGnG ser Ie own crSv
ing for plentiful and well-kept table that the plan
OF living has become so conventonally complex
LET GUESTS ENTERTAIN THEMSELVES.
Except for dinner on the 18th and luncheon
on :he sth at home at which functions, II conven-
lent 10 you. we should like YOU to be present your
time Will be your own" is clause in recent in
vitation TO young woman 10 stop at one of the
smart houses in Newport. This, read between the
lines really means to imply that nerfect independ-
ence will be the order of things on the part Of both
hostess and guest. arrangement which is emf
nenty typical of the way we live now, and of the
changes in the methods Of entertaining in the last
decade
1t used 10 be (however fond one might be of the
individual more or less Of bore 10 have gues
involving certain amount OF self-sacrnce on the
part Of the entertainer and not little exortlon 70
see that the visitor had her time filed up WIZ VIZ
have been little conscious of. so this latter-day
fashion is boon TO both parties; ana !, is TO- De
fashicnable set. but become the general under
standing all summer resorts.
THE CRITIC EYES OF SERVANTS.
Among tha many awkwardnesses attendant upon
impecuniosity (and their name is legion which
weltodo people cannot realize is the enforced con-
hdence which visitors Of Strengthened means are
forced give to the valet maid who unpaHk
their modest belongings when they visit at sma~t
houses and whose critical eye gauges at once the
circumstances of guests by their clothes.
Makcshfts which TO the world at large would ne
quite unnoiicoable tell the tale a. once to these
lynX-eycd detectives of society; and from the to-
let accessories 20 the smallest garment which be-
trays its peb ian origin everything is passed under
. scrutiny which is none the less searching be-
cause outwardly impassve and courteous.
Il can hold my OWN with MIR. and Mrs. b and
preserve self-rospcct without any trouble" said
of the unforjunates whose worldly goods Were
Of the smailost. but to James Yclowplush. who
,aleis me; feel that am an Inferior being!
ii is all very well mamma, TO say that such
complained in Ike fashion an impoverished but
Mell-horn maiden but ! cannot take any comfort
unpacks my box and know she notices every
III is not rich peisons that ! hate" exclaimed
fey little Anarchist. but their darned tptop ser
bombshell is under the servants haii,'
There is.no contempt 50 calling and 50 altogether
sciousnoss of caring about what such people think
mor'ifyins in itself. while there are really
the unexpressod but suspected disparagement Of
the ptmpered menias of uppertendom
GOLF COSTUMES IN CHURCH
What would or Puritan ancestors have said at
tho motley gathering which this summer on
Sunday IS wont assemble little Episcopal
enape near wcil-known golfng neighborhood on
the New-England coast? There the lads and the
iassfs arrive on their bicycles and the golfers de-
posii their ca idy bags fdll Of clubs outside the
church. and attend service in knickorhockers and
siockinGs. so 20 be ready for round" directly
ae'crwar1
II is hard fo~ the formal., to believe that knick-
crtockers md stockings shirt y aist and sailor
ts.'. r9n lo truly religious a black coat
rest sunday clothes. Such apparel at church
VICE n" considers. If not actually sin. at least as
WIS disr,-ncrt TO the church. In a Scottish
kiin. wncrc dancing held TO he sin 10y the
rr' i't t'iF. one of the younger members OF the
'r,ercgaton was brought before the pastor by an
INDIGNANT oldor who had found the maid dancing at
n fer And what for did ye do H. Maggie que
'.'l she minister Of the wceping young girl In
d..j sir. and ] thouchi harm answered the
r''or tearfully Then ae dance lassie. ae dance
'od Ire kind old man. who was wiser than his
h rest matters but little"
THEN AND NOW
When ] e!rl." said Mrs Vieuxtemps,
respectively. we stayed in town until about the
middle Of july, and then started off on a six weeks
round Of gayety at the various watering places.
win huery packed into huge trunks called
Ssfa;osas which big q house and pro-