The record-union., 1898-10-09

had given it's members these various
outings. Six at a time usually have
gone, as guests of their hostess from
the very start. In each case the enter
tainer has asked the assistance of her
young friends in the neighborhood in
providing for the pleasure of her guests
and by this easy cooperation the days
have proved most entertaining, and
have generally consisted of drive,
followed by a walk, perhaps, to some
nearby point of interest, and tea on
the lawn, with music or recitatfons or
some similar pleasure. 1t is question
which have been the happier, the
guests or the hostess. Certainly the
benefit has been marked.
Raw cabbage is much more digesti-
ble than when cooked. A cabbage salad
made from q raw, fresh, and crisp head
Of cabbage and served with a French
dressing is much improved if garlic is
rubbed in the bowl from which it is
served.
The School of Housekeeping started
last season in Boston seems to have
been sufficiently successful to warrant
its continuance. The first years ex-
penses have been nearly $4,000, but
the appropriation made by the Wo-
mans Educational and Industrial
Union, under whose auspices it was
established, with some small donations
received, sufficed - establish the plant
and leave small balance on the right
side. The school enters upon it's sec
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has developed that the length fixed for
the course-not less than three months
was too short to give the necessary
instruction in general household work,
which is the aim of the school. An
additional month has now been added.
There were graduated during last year,
in two groups, nine general housework-
erS The school conducts a boarding
house, in which pupils find daily prac-
tice, and the patrons of this establish
ment are exceptionally favored as each
maidl in it's service is constantly super
vised by experts. The promoters of the
enterprise, while realizing that this be-
ginning Isl al very small one, feel that a
right step has BEEN taken, and that the
multiplicationo such schools at Boston
and at as many places as possible would
be valuable agent in the reform for
which all housekeepers long and many
are working.
A. woman's club in one of the smaller
New England cities brings itself quick
ly and practically in touch with the
public schools by Offering a prize to the
pupils of the High School for the best
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first prize competed for last year the
topic was the colonial history of this
particular State, and the interest taken
in the contest proved its popularity.
The same club also has on one after
noon of the season a teachers day,
to- which, all the teachers of the schools
are invited, a special social entertain
ment being provided for them. The
idea is to establish friendliness between
the schools, both among the pupils and
teachers.
The inexperienced housekeeper offers
cantaloupes cut in halves and filled
with ice. They should instead be piled
on shredded ice and only moderately
chilled, not served half frozen, as is
often the case. The ice soaks them
with water and destroys their flavor.
A cold tomato sauce excellent for cold
meats is made from peeled whole to-
matoes from which the seeds are
pressed out. The tomatoes are then
chopped and afterwards strained. the
mixture put in a bowl and seasoned
with salt, little onion juice, lemon
juice, a dash of cayenne, and a little
olive oil.
The secret of washing we'll any WOOL
en- goods lies chiefly in having the diff
ferent waters of equal temperature
with none of them at any time too hot
to put the hand in comfortably. Soap
should not be rubbed on the article, but
used in the form of thin suds. 1t
should be a good. white soap, too. A
little borax is probably the best thing
to soften the water. For washing
blankets or baby flannels it is to be
preferred. Woolens should not be
wrung by the hand, but rinsed or dried
by squeezing. Woolens of any sort
should never be allowed to freeze.
A medical journal advises against
the excessive use of salt It is first
of all a perversion of taste, the condi-
ment destroying the flavor of delicate
dishes If too pronounced. Further
more, ii is asserted that an excessive
use of salt seriously overtaxes the kid
ney to remove it, and that many cases
of arrangement and disease are due to
this excessive use. The salt habit. it
is added, is easily acquired, and per-
sons indulging themselves soon reach a
point where nothing is palatable that
is not strongly impregnated with salt.
The following formula for the old
fashioned soft gingerbread is from the
presiding genius of the delightful luncn-
cons served at the Town and Country
Club. The cake made from one cup
of good molasses. half cup of water,
half cup Of butter, half teaspoonful of
ginger, half teaspoonful OF soda or sal
eratus. two cups of -four, two eggs, and
a pinch of salt. AS it is served at the
club, it is baked in square tins and cut
in squares. the squares opened and pre-
served ginger cut into bits put be-
tween with a white frosting
The fashioned cross-stitch, some
what enlarged and done over a stamped
design rather than on canvas, is very
popular this season. A new floss. too,
that is heavy and silken in appear
ance, but is not so expensive as the silk