The record-union., 1898-09-11

H|EIlTnlR 4 NM.
A salad improvised for a Sunday
night supper recently was pronounced
excellent by those who ate it. Some
cold baked beans were sprinkled with
a little grated onion and a few drops
of tarragon vinegar, before being ar
ranged on a bed of lettuce hearts and
garnished with the two tomatoes the
icebox afforded, cut in slices. Served
with mock sandwiches of brown bread,
olives and a dish of cold boiled and
baked Virginia ham, the menu proved
most popular one.
A comparative study of tables, COM
piled on dietetic subjects, is full of sur
prises to the uninnitiated. 1t is not
generally known, for example, that raw
cabbage requires only an hour and a
half for digestion, while the same vege-
table boiled takes four hours and a half,
and ranks, consequently, as one of the
slowest to digest among food. Raw
sweet apples, soured pigs feet, fresh
trout, boiled rice, venison steak, fresh
salmon, are all desirable foods from a
digestive point of view. Roasted pork
ranks highest on the other side, taking
five hours and quarter for assimila-
ton, and competing with it closely in
the same way are roasted wild duck,
boiled pork, fried beefsteak, fowls, and,
what is surprising, vegetable soup. In
food values, too, statistics dispel many
carefully cherished notions. Oysters
and milk, to illustrate, are credited
with, respectively, only u and 13 per
cent of nutriment, while raw oils lead
the list with 90 per cent. Raw cucum-
bers and melons add little nourishment
to the human frame with their trifiing
percentages of , and 3.
A French batter for frying veg
etables, egg plant, cold boiled sweet po-
tatoes, etc, is made by moistening a
little flour with water, adding good
pinch of salt two teaspoonfuls of olive
oil. and the same of French brandy.
When ready to use beat in the stitily
beaten white of an egg. To fry bananas,
apples and similar fruit, sugar should
be used instead of salt.
The continued increase in the number
of young women who have left various
schools Of domestic science after cours-
es varying in length and thoroughness
is beginning to have an influence upon
the domestic service problem. There
is even well-founded hope in the
minds of many housekeepers that while
waiting for the millennium Of relief to
come with a rush, it hes begun, very
slowly and without blare of trumpets.
to dawn. It is possible and common
now to find young women students at
these schools willing to undertake the
conduct of an average household for
about the wages of a fair cook. Such
student will do all the planning Of
meals, buying of supplies, and the cook
ing. needing only an assistant for the
dish washing and plain work of the
kitchen This assistant in several cases
which have come under the notice of
the writer is boy who, in buttons,
becomes a parlor servant and door
opener, while below stairs, incased in
a rubber apron. he washes dishes,
cleans silver, washes windows, sweeps
the sidewalk, and does all the odd work
of the establishment, under the direc-
ton Of the presiding genius from the
domestic science school. In such cases
the washing OF the family is put out or
done by woman by the day. Some
times a laundress is engaged, who per
forms. besides, the service relegated to
Ruttons The mistress finds that all
the Judgment and domestic wisdom
which she has been exercising through
her housekeeping experience in control
ling Two or three servants, providing
them with heads for the most trivial
emergencies, are no longer in demand.
The capable young person in charge has
expert knowledge for every demand
upon her from tossing an omelet TO
wrestling with the trap of the kitchen
sink. This class of workers does not
come from the Normal students, but
from those of lesser early advantages
of education and surroundings, who hit
themselves sufficiently for the service
at The night classes. The courses they
take are short ones along several lines,
giving them a general working knowl-
edge of their profession, which expert
ence and aptitude develop and improve.
To the tourists outfit this summer it
has been possible to make most val
uable addition. This is a travelling or
pocket filter, attached to the end of
eighteen or twenty inches Of rubber
tubing BY the use of this the bicyclist
or camper is protected against insects
and growths when drinking from the
mountain spring or bubblng wayside
brook.
"'The sight" comments a sanitary lee
turer, common now 10 upper New
York. of rows of houses closely sealed
from light and air, suggests to the pro-
fessional mind autumnal illnesses un-
less the greatest care is used in airing
them before their occupancy by the
families who reside in them. 1t is a
pity that things come before humanity
in the minds of most persons; If house
keepers We're not so careful of their
carpets and furnishings they would
leave the upper half of windows, at
least, unprotected that the sunlight the
best of disinfectants. could penetrate
freely every part of the room. In pre-
pairing a house that has been closed for
occupancy, every pipe in the premises,