The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-03
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Suggestions for the Household.

The same desire to revive old GUS
toms to pose as novelties of the mo-
ment which leads college girls to wear
the hot, uncomfortable sunbonnets of
their grandmothers, works in culinary
way in the restoration as relish of
the old-fashioned "cracklings" left from
trying out lard. These are made hot
in the chafng-dsh and spread between
thin slices of brown bread or unsweet-
ed biscuit. The so-called dainty cam
not be said to be an especially happy
thought on the part of any one.
There is a noticeable improvement
in some of the newest sleeping cars in
the matter of the women's dressing
rooms. Women travellers have long
been indignant that the designers of
these vehicles have paid so little atten-
ton to their comfort. For the use of
the men, spacious and convenient
| dressing-rooms are provided, with
plenty of wash-bowls and room really
to swing the traditional cat in. The
women, on the contrary, have been
confined to tiny closet where it is al
most an impossibility in some cases to
raise ones arms for the proper brush
ing OF ones hair, and where only one
woman can be accommodated at time.
Some of the newest cars indicate that a
woman has been at the elbow of the
builder. The dressing-rooms partake
almost of commodious character.
There are two or three toilet stands,
and other evidences of desire to min
lister to the comfort of women travel
ers. There is still, however, room for
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does not some woman with the neces-
sary mechanical talent send in sleep
ing-car design to the manufacturers?
The placing of maids on sleeping-cars
| for long trips is most useful step, and
to the invalid or mother travelling with
children opens vista of comfort that
is hardly to be overestimated. 1t only
needs further development in the dress
ing-room reform to make all women
travellers equally comfortable.
A simple and delicious dessert that is
possible with the first green apples is
made from half-a-dozen large ones.
These are cored and quartered and put
into saucepan with barely water
enough to cover them. They should
be cooked slowly, and when tender
pressed while hot through sieve and
sweetened to taste. The yOlks of three
eggs we'll beaten are ready at this mo.
ment and are beaten into the hot PURGE,
which is returned for an instant to the
range afterward. The mixture is then
put into lemonade glasses and is serv-
ed, when cold, with whipped cream and
sandied cherry heaped on the top Of
each. 1t may be pressed into porce-
lain egg-cups, the beaten white of the
eggs put on top, and the cups set in the
oven for a moment to brown. 1t is
then eaten hot or cold, and with or
without plain cream.
Now that New York has taken to
itself such greatly increased area, and
people living anywhere within a radius
of five to eight miles of the city hall
expect to be neighborly with each
other, directions for their easy getting
about are necessity. Invitations to
club breakfasts almost invariably con-
tain slip of route explanation, and
cards TO private affairs not infrequently
also include similar engraved guide
posts. A woman who had the temer-
ity to move from New York we'll out
in Brooklyn, had slip of directions
how to reach her home printed, and
one of these she enclosed to each of
her New York friends with her visiting
card. The story recently told of maps
of the locality being sent with invita-
tions to wedding reception is the
same line. The distances about Great
er New York are becoming more and
more memorable, Notwithstanding the
additional facilities for transit. Such
seem only to open greater stretches Of
space. Valuable time and energy are
often expended through ignorance of
how to proceed. A Brooklyn dinner
was delayed twenty minutes one night
last spring by the non-arrival of the
guest of honor from New York. The
company finally sat down, and ten
minutes later, with many apologies,
the delayed New Yorker appeared. She
had entered the city by one of the fer
ries in ample time to reach the house