The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-15

putcher's order delivered
southern ladies treat their servants
much more confidentially and familiar
~ than the northern, and yet there are
few breaches of proper respect or disci-
phhe' The natural race barriers and
usage prevent that, while at the north
the constant encroachment of the labor
Ing people and the Unborn feeling that
one white person is as good as another
make it necessary for the employing
class to hedge themselves about with
somewhat exaggerated stiffness and re-
serve On the other hand, some of the
negroes in the south, the new growth"
who are very impudent and worthless,
make persistent efforts to bring about
some measure of social equality. They
speak OF their fellow servants as Mr..
and Mrs. - whenever it is allowed |
and often report "a lady at the door to
see you" when it is bedraggled negro |
woman as black as the ace of spades and |
as Ignorant and as far removed from
lady as naked Zulu. On one occasion
that came to my notice negro laun-
dress was heard TO ask, "Whars dat
white woman dat Ibis some'ers rcun
here dat wants lady to do her washin?''
There are many customs and dishes
peculiar TO southern housewives. Hog
killing time is an important season of
the year on the plantations and farms.
The mistress personally superintends
the preparation of sugar cured hams,
salted jowls, smoked sausages, lard for
| keeping, and souse, hogs head cheese,
| Jellied feet, brains, haslets, spareribs,
back bones and chitterlings for imme-
date use. Then in the fruit season
there are many days devoted to the
making of rich preserves and marina
| ladies'.
There is one dish that is never seen
| properly cooked on a northern table.
That is rice. 1t would seem very sim
| pie thing to boil rice in an acceptable
fashion, but it is not so. Many south
ern cooks fail at it, and all northern.
| A good, reliable southern recipe for rice
is as follows:
Pick over the rice and wash it in cold
water To pint of rice put 3 quarts
of boiling water and half teaspoon
full of salt. Boil it II minutes from the
time it begins to boil. Then turn off all
the water and set it over moderate
fire with the lid off to steam 10 min
utes. This makes it light and dry, and,
as has been expressed, leach grain as
independent as the little state (South
Carolina) from which it came.
Ladies in the south who are not able
to keep servants, and these are very
small minority, do not attempt to en-
terrain company. 1t is not so north,
and it is frequent there that lady OF
limited means who does all her own
housework receives guests at dinner or
tea and even has company staying IN
the house. This, while being generous
excess of hospitality, often has its draw
backs. | was once invited in company
with two other ladies to take tea at d
neat cottage in small village in New
York state. We were met at the door
by our hostess, who, as soon as she saw
our wraps removed, ushered us into the
parlor with the injunction that we were
to entertain each other. She soon reap
peared and invited us in to tea. The TIA
BILE was pretty and dainty. There was
variety of nice breads, cold meats
cakes, preserves, everything that ont
could desire. There was no one to wal
Oh the table, and as we helped eacl
other we also proffered the tempting
, dishes to our hostess. She decline'
right and left. At last, being presse'
past her nervous endurance, she ex
claimed: "Oh, please don't hand m
. ANYTHING. I've made and cooked ever
blessed thing on this table, and I'm TO
, tired to eat" Imagine our feelings
; being the recipients Of such costly ho'
, pitaiity! 1t was like the young husban
, who said the first dish in his housekeel
ing experience was "baked wife. "
Once in large manufacturing tow
I'm New England was the guest at Il
home of one of the mill owners, ma
= worth over 800, 900. His wife an
l daughter did all of the Homework.
was much mortified the morning att
NV arrival to find the frail lady OF Il
. house making up my bed When O.
pressed my regret she SAID: On
: doesn't matter; it might as well be ye
. as ANYBODY. Mr.. Walton is forever an
= eternally bringing company here'
And my invitation had been sent ov
4 1000 miles.
y Isoon learned that the pretty daught
= was engaged to be married to wealth
- Young fellow, son of congressma
One morning saw her in earnest co
!. verse at the side gate with the your
70 man who was measuring out mil
When she came in, blushing, l sal
- "Why, Hannah, what did that mil
20 man say to make you blush?'
y "Milkman Why, that's Geor
:. ~ And | found it was true
" young man of family, ample fortune
= college graduate, spent severai nou
p every day driving cart and dell'eri
milk from his fathers dairy farm.
- One SIMMER ] loarded at iafl
~ bouse at the rorth where the mn
!. girl was the daughter OF the I'cn'
~ farmer in Inc place Gad my lanaiSu.
u husband was the rirl'a fa'her's''hli