The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-21

Iieil DUH remained at nome, earning the
money necessary to send their wives and
daughters abroad for the education which
foreign travel gives. IF that be so,'' she
replied, 'they will study art and Ian
guages hard, so as to return quickly to
those who work for them. They will not
buy costly clothes nor push their way
into every court i'll Europe"
How Entrees Should be Served and Wait
ing Done.
l am often asked show entrees are
served and also to give a few hints about
waiting and setting the table, l suppose
that these queries apply to the giving of
a dinner party.
Entrees are served on ordinary silver
entrree dishes and are handed round by the
parlor maid. Dinner tables now look
very pretty and dainty The cloth should
De of fine white damask, relieved with
ored plush bordered with fringe The
light should be very subdued, and many of
my trends have no gas in the dining
room, only large lamp in the center of
the table, and candles in silver candle
sticks, the shades to match the color of
the flowers used for ornamentation.
The Howers should be loosely arranged
IN the squat glasses that look so artistic
and are vet so exceedingly inexpensive
Flowers should also be arranged at each
corner of the table, always providing that
the table is sufficiently large; for nothing
is in worse form than to oyercrowd it.
Dishes of sweetmeats and dried fruits can
be on the table. By each plate should be
placed the requisite number of knives
and forks, a tumbler, wine, claret and
should be neatly folded, with q piece Se0 Of
bread placed in the folds Cruets are
not used now, but small saltcellars, mus
tard pots and pepper casters are placed at
| each corner. Of course, table can be
made to look very elaborate, and the few
hints | am now giving only refer to a
small dinner.
AS regards the waiting, the maid should
hand all meats, vegetables, sauces, etc., at
the left side of the diner. Wine, however,
should be always served at the right-hand
side of the guest without removing the
glasses from the table, except in the case
left hand. The reason for this is simple:
Beer requires to be frothed into the glass,
consequently the servant should present
a tray to the guest on his left to receive
the glass, into which the beer should be
poured at the distance Of step behind
the guest; Directly a person lays both
side of the plate, the servant in attend
ance should Immediately change the plate.
Before setting dessert on the table all
crumbs should be brushed from the cloth:
directly dessert is put on. the servant re-
tires from the room.-Philadelphia Times.
Foolish Woman.
A clever country doctor once surprised
me by saying: "There is no creature so
systematically abused as woman, from
the cradle to the grave" writes Shirley
Dare in the New York Journal. He
went on to particularize women's neglect
of needful clothing. In his wide practice
in. a wealthy old town, he said, two
thirds of the women and girls went about
in winter weather with limbs so thinly
| clad as to bring on direct neuralgia dis
orders. The young woman of today
walks about in warm tailor-made gowns,
and punctiliously remembers to put on
her rubbers, but the most sensitive parts
OF her frame are, perhaps, never as warm
as they ought to be. In summer the air
sweeping over her perspiring skin chills
it, in winter she shivers and puts furs
over her backbone, when she should draw
on silk stockings and flannel knicker--
bockers, or responsiveness, or the still
more modish trouser of black china silk
with lace frilling. Divided skirt non
sense won't do. A petticoat for each leg
which is all the divided skirt amounts
to-inf1ates with the wind and invites
sclatica, lumbago and most of old-fash-
Toned, unlovely aches which take the
spirit and the bloom from life. The eva
motto complexion, CHASTITY" white. with
blue lips and eyelids. or the flushed face.
purpling in the wind, tell of disordered
circulation which will some day make an
early death desirable in comparison with
the miseries of existence.
Mistakes of the Woman of Small Means.
"Sometimes a wife settles down into n
dreary, domestic routine, honestly believ-
ing that until her husbands finances i'm
prove there is no other course for her to
pursue writes Helen Jay in the Ladies'
Home Journal. ''In this matter, as in
many others concerning home life, the
false standard of money obtains rather
The very fact that many people can af-
ford elaborate entertainments does not
IMPLY that they cannot enjoy simple ones.
Novelty is the charm of life, as variety
IS its spice: and very often the guests
who come from luxurious homes are the
keepers are generally the most generous
i'll their estimate Of the efforts Of others.
and the young housekeeper who through
fear of criticism refuses to invite her
richer or more experienced friend to her
home is simply cheating herself of much
pleasure pleas, In fact, the real breaks Of
come from self-depreciation on the part
Of the woman with the small income as
from. any feeling of superiority on the
part OF her more wealthy friends -S=1 !.
L. Type in East River.
: There's enough type in the bottom az
East river, around the Brooklyn bridge
and Fulton ferry" said an old printer The
other day. ITO run a big newspaper. Il /
is type of the most useful kind, too--noll.
pareil, BREWER, minion and agate. In the