The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-08
THE HOME.
NEWS OF WOMEN WORKERS.

Miss l.. NJ. johnson, M. D., Baltimore,
has just been admitted as student to
the Maryland College of Pharmacy. She
is the first woman to be admitted since
the establishment of the college in 1S4l.
Miss Grace Martin of Atchison,
daughter of the late Governor, John A.
Martin. is educating herself as pro1es-
sional nurse at the Armour Institute,
Chicago.
Miss Kate Adams of Topeka, and Miss
Constance Ingalls,, daughter of John j.
Ingalls,, are deaconessess at the Episcopal
training school in Philadelphia.
The Mayor of ST. Louis has refused the
request of the Woman Suffrage CLUB OF
tha5 city that woman be appointed
street inspector, saying that woman S
place is at home.
Caroline W, Rommey is the editor of
an Alaskan paper, now published IN Chi
oago, but which is to be transferred to the
Klendike next spring.
Miss Mary e. Byrd has charge OF the
astronomical observatory at Smith Col
leee. and Miss Celeste Hollis of Topeka
has won a scholar ship in the royal school
of music at Berlin.
Miss Alice Marie Clark of Washington
has been elected professor Of German IN
the Centenary Collegiate Institute at
Hackettstown, N. j. She was gradu-
ased at the Woman's College in Balti-
more in 1896, and went abroad for travel
and study.
The town of Burlington, Wis, has two
women bank presidents, besides other
women bank officials.
FRUITS FOR THE TABLE IN WIN
TER.
Fruits are more appetizing, and per-
haps more easily digested, if taken in the
early part of the day-whether or not be-
fore the breakfast must be determined by
the eater.
Grapes oranges and shaddocks may be
served before the cereal. Baked apples,
peaches. baked bananas, figs, dates, prunes
or stewed fruits should be served at the
close of the breakfast.
Raisins, sultanas, dried figs and prunes
should be soaked thoroughly, SO that they
may take up the same amount OF water
with which they have parted in the pro-
cess of driving, and should then be heated
lust enough to soften the SKINS.
The subacid fruits, such as apples, ngs,
dates peaches, persimmons. pears, prunes
and april cots, are perhaps the best OF the
winter fruits, and may be used TO good
~5veptaoa with animal foods.
Acid fruits must at all times be used
moss sparingly. especially by persons in
cIined to rheumatic troubles. The con-
tinued use of an orange or shaddock be-
fore breakfast will diminish the power
of stomach digestion, for which reason
they should be served with cereals, OF
such foods as require only intestinal di-
gestion.
The papaw and pineapple belong to q
GLASS alone. They contain vegetable
pepsin which assists III the digestion OF the
heterogeneous principles. These fruits
then may lie served with meats, and Will
aid in their digestion; when served with
bread and butter they dc not form SO
good diet They are more digestible raw
than cooked, as the heat destroys the &C.
tivity of the ferments.
Apples as a rule are more easily digesteo
cooked than raw, although raw apples
are more palatable to many.
The fashion of adding sugar to fruits
should be avoided, as they have already
been endowed with a sufficient amount
of sugar, and as the starch and cereals
are converted into sugar any further
amount would be STORED in the system.
TO it's detriment. If our bilious friends
would throw aside their liver pills, and
with them sugar, they might be free from
much discomfort.-Mrs. s. L. Rorer in
January Ladies. Home Journal.
BIRDS FOR DECORATION.
For long time: since large hats have
been done away with at the theatre, the
girls have been wearing black vevlet
bows, OF punches of ribbon with flowers,
In their hair in lieu of bonnets. Now
the "craze" for wearing birds and feath-
ers has driven these pretty headoresses
entirely out. The latest "fad'' is black
birds. At distance one can scarcely