The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-08-28

number to be served. 1t is not only
more economical to serve only a Suffl-
cheney of food, but more elegant. TWO
eggs, for example, are enough to allow
J for service of boiled eggs to one per-
son; but when scrambled eggs or an
omelet is served one egg to person Is
enough if the eggs are followed by hsh
| or meat. A single chop of ample SIZE
| or two lamb chops, is sufficient for
| service of meat.
Where course of eggs, however, is
| the chief dish Of breakfast, and is not
| followed by meat or fish, the supply
| must be more ample. No one in mod
ern days is supposed to make meal
| from a single course.
Summer is the proper season for the
majority of fresh-water fish. In the in
terest of good digestion and good taste
fish should be used literally in summer,
especially on the breakfast table.
The Spectator: The good women of
our day are too much inclined to toler-
! ance. A great many, while earnestly
fighting evil, are inclined to regard it
very much as doctors regard disease
that is, as something which it is their
from conditions for which the patient
is irresponsible Numbers grow so Eek
perienced" that they treat it as a thing
which must be, like typhoid, and while
concerned to remove it, have ceased to
feel at evil either horror or disgust.
And a few, often very able intellectual
ly, positively doubt their own conclu-
sions, and think, or occasionally say.
hot oh iS oft hnvs vic n
I think horrible, but which are her
views. nevertheless" That is to say
they think evil much less when it
springs from an evil opinion than when
it springs from an evil desire, and for
get that in eight cases out of ten the
desire produced the opinion.
Some genuinely philanthropic women
push this tolerance so far that they be-
come unconSciously fatalists, regarding
all opinions and most acts as things
that happen in obedience to unknown
laws, and to be treated, especially IN
discussion, as one would treat earth
quakes or floods or other disagreeable
natural phenomena. They are facts to
them, not acts. The odd thing is that
such women never draw the logical de-
duction, namely that their own exer-
tons and teachings and self-sacrifces
are in that case all useless, for the laws
will operate whatever they may do, and
are. of course, stronger than they. They
rarely however, feel that form of de-
spair, though We have known women
who repented of their own toll as labor
necessarily wasted and abandoned ben
eficial labor as, by some decision of
| some occult will, always infructuous.
The excessive tolerance of such good
women Is often mistaken by themselves
for Christian charity, but it's effect
when pushed too far is =, destroy the
healthy pressure of the fear of opinion
upon those who are attracted by an
evil design, but not yet guilty of it.
1t is always interesting to watch the
people who live in glass houses" throw
stones. Mrs. Lowe, the new President
of the General Federation of Women's
Clubs, has come in for a little mild
criticism already. The criticism APP
pears in a special letter written from
Denver to the Chicago Inter Ocean"
She (MrS. Lowe, says the writer,
speaking of a conversation with the
new President, talked with almost i'm
polite frankness Of the action of the
federation on various lines" This
charge of impolitic frankness is some
what humorous for the writer who
makes the charge represents one of the
largest and most prominent clubs in
the federation. She writes her criti-
cism of her club superior, knowing that
it is going into a daily paper which
Will circulate it far and wide. and in
an article to which she signs her name,
Louise Dickinson Sherman" and also
her official club position, President
Chicago Woman's Club 1t is just
possible that women are lacking in a
sense of humor.
In the use of the chafing-dish the
abuse of it is a point to be kept in
| mind. To fry and to saute anything
but trifie of seasoning before the
main ingredients are put in, is not to
be recommended. These fume- produc-
ing operations belong to a kitchen
range with its ventilating hood With
our usual zeal to overdo a good thing,
| there has been tendency to exagger-
ate chafing-dish cookery. In its place.
and deftly managed with the proper
materials set out in order beforehand
the utensil is a most useful one; hut
made to do duty for which it was never
intended it brings upon itself oppro-
brum.
The North Carolina Theological en-
pert who made explorations into the
| field of good and bad mushrooms for
many years experimental. after discov-
ering varieties new to him, on his dog
| He had no untoward designs upon the
| dog; ii was not that he loved Caesar
less, but Rome more. He did not wish
! to lose the dog, but he felt that if a
! life was to be sacrificed, it was better
that IT should be the life of the dog
than of the owner However, he was
| exceedingly careful; he gave the ami
| NAL only infinitesimal bits at time of
the mushrooms with which he was en-
| perimenting, and there was never IA
more serious result than a little more
or less unpleasant sickness, and that
gave the status of the mushroom. The
| President of the Brooklyn branch Of
the New York Theological Club. re-
| Gently started, Mrs. George w. Conk-
| lin, has more simple method OF de-
termining edible mushrooms than this.
| She spends her summers in New Jer-
! sey, in a region where many varieties
OF mushrooms are to be found, and also
quantity Of land turtles which are
clever mycophagists. They are ex-
! ceedingly fond of some varieties of
mushroom, and particularly the Rus
sula. There are several varieties of the
! Russula, one Of them, the RussuIa
emetica. which is as unpleasant as the
name implies. 1t was not pleasant to
think of running across it unawares,
so in the early stages of her mycolog-