The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10

1n@Woman'SW World.


when quite tender, putting on a crust of
pastry and baking until done. Juicy steak
should be used for this, but a pound
will be sufficient for quite a large pie.
For the nursery table a gravy pudding
should be a staple and frequent dish. To
make it, fill a small pudding mould three
parts full with bread crumbs, pour over
! enough gravy or beef tea to cover the
bread, and steam it like any other pud-
: ding; an hour will be sufficient. Let it
stand a moment, then turn out and serve
at once.
Salads are not very frequently seen on
schoolrooom tables, but they are nowhere
more appreciated or more desirable. The
oil which they onvey into the system is
very necessary to health, and is as bene-
fetal as the green food is. Fresh lettuces
and water crosses make a most digestible
salad; cold vegetables also are very good,
but they are not so much to be recon-
mended for young folks.
Fruit can hardly be given too freely,
but it is better cook tina raw. A simple
custard, a mould of boiled rice, a rice
pudding (whole or ground), sage or tap
ioca ditto, or the plain light pudding
known as Cassel or biscuit, all are more
wholesome than pastry for serving with
ruit. In summer time curds are whole
iome, and with fruit and cream are the
lelfght of all children.
Pancakes and ~fritters should often come
. the schoolroom table; they are light,
iourishing and wholesome, and do not re-
iuire as many eggs to make them as is
lsually supposed. Clean freshly fallen
now will in winter make delicious nam
axes II lightly stirred in when the bat
er is made. and two g e will then be
nipple for quite a large quantity.
Plain luncheon cake made with dripping
instead OF butter, and raisins and treaele
instead OF currants and sugar, is whole
some and economical for luncheon, and,
Tor a change, a little bakers dough may
De used, adding fruit, shortening and sug-
ar to it. These cost really less than
bread and butter when the number to feed
IS large, and, of course, are more highly
thought of, as also is good wholesome
| gingerbread.
1t will surprise every girl who has not
already grown to a realization of her
shortcomings in this direction to hear
how little of the authors thought she
brings out when she reads aloud, writes
Katharine E. Junkermann giving in
structions on 1.-THE Cultivation of the
Speaking Voice" in the June ,"Woman,s
Home Companion 1.-The monotony of
her voice will surprise her, too. and her
throat will grow tired. She will stumble
or hesitate at unfamiliar words even
though she knows their meaning thor
oughly, just as one who reads music
readily will misplay it from lack of prac.
tiee. OF course, you think you under
stand about what you are reading, but
when you read aloud you must not only
do this; you must make it clear to the
listeners. The eye can travel more rap
idly h the voice, so that it is easy
| to read a few words ahead and get the
meaning before the voice needs to take
up the words. BY doing this, continuity
of expression is insured, consequently
continuity of thought on the part of the
reader is possible.
1T is a very rare thing to hear a good
co-nversationalist who does not read well,
and they are the first to acknowledge the
help their reading has afforded them. In
reading aloud new words are brought to
us, and we familiarize ourselves with
them, and also with the mechanism of
4 ~ Z oO Il1al atiiS L loh III
using them when we talk is small. In
reading graces of expression and new
arrangements of words come to our no.
tice, and we can acquire them; depth
and versatility of thought grow to be
ours by assimilating the thoughts of 9TH
ers, and that most desirable thing of all,
a large vocabulary, also becomes ours.
| What girl has not tumble and blunder-
ed vocally seeking an apt word to ex-
press her thought? And who among us
has not listened to the extravagant How
! perfectly lovelyi!' applied to all sorts of
/, things, from the newest in shirt waists
to a snow-capped peak of the Rockies?
If girls read aloud more they would ac-
| quire a better idea of the value of words,
and use them more appropriately"
so
Our country has been helped on its up
ward and onward path Un~speakably by
| it's possession of a wealth that has no
| superior in the making of states, and that
belongs to it in greater PROPORTION than
to any other country-and that is its
average women, says 'Harper's Bazaar"
There was no work of which these
| women were ashamed, or which, being
| necessary to others. they regarded as too
mental for themselves; if there were a
| service to be done, the only question was
how best to do it. They made great
sacrifices in order that their sons should
have the highest education o~btainable;
they had a pride and concern in their
| neighbors' sons. they watched the pro-
| gress of events with as keen attention as
| they did the affairs of the village. Their
hands might be rough with toll. their
faces scanned with care. their dress I'M
| acquainted with fashion, but, neverthe-
| less. if it had been necessary for them to
| stand in the presence of royalty, they
would have done so unabashed and per-
| fectly at home, and have given the on
lockers a notion of the inherent royalty
| of worth and honor. Whatever the short
| coming of these women may have been,
| they were all eclipsed by the largeness of
their virtues.
There is no other country that has this
proud distinction. For in other lands the
| woman who 'does her own work." who
is improwned and bent by toll and wears
the holden gray, is very rarely a thinker
or a reader, has nj avenues of learning,
and has no sense open on the side of af-
fairs or of the wide events of the larger
life. Had these women of ours been born
in the middle of civilization, and received
the training and association of the envir-
onment there. they would often have be-