The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-28
NEWS HND COMMENT

In its Washington's Birthday number
the outlook quoted from the first mes
sage Of President Washington to congress
in which he urged "thc proper establish
mcnt Of the troops" showing that 1t
would "be of importance to conciliatc
the comfortable support of the officers
and soldiers with a due regard to econ
omy" ana hen added: "What Washing
ton would regard as the proper establish
ment of the troops, and the proper ad-
justment of the army with reference TO
the comfort of the officers and the men,
is indicated by his own arrangement of
the commissarat department when he
took command of the colonial forces at
the siege Of Boston. We quote from Tire
Neylau's History of the American Revo-
luton: The Massachusetts soldier re-
ceivcd every day a pound of bread, hale
a pound of beef, and half a pound of PORK,
together with pint Of milk, quart of
good spruce or malt beer and n gill Of
peas or beans. A pound and quarter of
salt fish was substituted for the meat on
cne day in the seven. Every week there
were served out half dozen ounces OF but
ter and half a pint Of vinegar IF vinegar
was to be haD to each of the men, and
one pound of good common soap among
six of them This" adds the outlook,
was three months after the battle Of
Lexington, and only one month after
cannot but wonder what he would have
said to the excuse offered for the bad
food, unsanitary camps, and unit cloth
ing given to the soldiers in the name of
a country so rich in all material resources
and so full of resourceful energy as Amer
lea in 1S9S-the excuse that we were not
prepared for war and had not time to
feed, clothe and shelter properly our sud-
denly assembled volunteers"
A new feature of phlanthropic effort is
indicated in the following interesting
item taken from the New York Sun:
Mrs. George S. Studwell, OF 10S West
Fifty-cighth street, gave an entertainment
at her homo last night, her guests being
about 200 girls who work in factories and
i'm the large department stores. Mrs.
Studwell is a member of the Chi Kappa
club, whose object is to improve the con-
dition of working girls by entertaining
them and bringing them into contact with
refined surroundings. Her husband is a
Wall street broker. The entertainment
did not differ in any respect from those
held for Mrs. Studwoll's society friends.
The parlors were decorated with roses
and ferns. and the girls took off their
wraps In dressing rooms, where they re-
ceived every attention from maids in
waiting. Mrs. StudwelL received as she
would have at regular social function.
a musical and literary entertainment
consumed most of the evening. Among
those who took part in this was Tom
Karl, Lucille Saunders, Matte Ferguson
and Mrs. Asa Alling. Recitations, songs
and monologues were given by profess
sionals and amateurs. Supper was served
at the end of the entertainment. The
girls were all unattended by escorts, the
entertainment being only for the girls
themselves The Chi Kappa club OF
which Mrs. Studwell is a member, has
given number Of such entertainments
during the last six years, but that under
taken by Mrs. Studwell was on larger
scale than the previous ones. The girls
who were the guests We're selected by diff
| ferent members of the club. Mrs. Stud
well said last night that her idea was tc
| train the girls and accustom them to re-
| fined associations, and that the results
! had been most gratifying
The culinary life of the best people OF
! Havana, writes a Chicago Record CORE,
| spondent, is much like that OF Europe
| Coffee and rolls, the former black and
! strong enough to speak for itself, the lat.
ter tough but nutritious, are served at
or 7 o'clock, according to the wish of tho
| partaker; breakfast, about like our break.
fast, following at r. table d'hote din
ner being served at the close of the day
| More fruit is eaten here than with us anC
less meat. The latter is not demanded ir
this climate, it's price is too high and II
is not as wholesome as our meats are. II
is a wise acceptance which precludes its
free use in so warm climate. With the
coffee and rolls oranges are commonly
| eaten. And the manner of eating them is
| peculiar. They are served without theil
| jackets and eaten from a fork. The en-
tire fruit is pressed TO the lips and The
| juice only partaken Of, the pulp being dis
| carded en- masse. Oranges are eater
| greedilY, several being partaken of at
meal. The Cuban orange is swcoter, ever
inspidly so, than the California navel
not as firm nor as highly favored. 1t I.
full of pits and equally full Of juice. or
| angcs are to be bought on the streets 6
the rate Of three or four for q nickel
The Cuban vendor pares the oranges muci
I as our grandmOthers pared the apple
without breaking the rlnd until the entrt
! fruit Is barred OF its pceling. The latter il
sold probably for maImalade or to drug
gists and others for fiavoring and othe
purposes.
Spelling refcrmers have not yct Civei
Up. Last week at the round table of cit,
school superintondents which met Il
Columbus o., r.. *. Buehrle of Lancaster
Pa, presented the report Of the commit
tee on SpelllnE reform, WhlCh recommend
that in all the published proceedings q
this department the recommendations o
the American and the British pathological
associations be adopted at once so far a
said recommendations refer to the dro
ping Of the final "e" In words in which !
does not serve to lcngthen the preceding
vowel but rather tends to mislead tn
learner; thus spell hav, Civ, ar, ba
Werb) deiinit, dcrivativ amiabl, ETC., an
ha g11 11,gfi mel DF Fnr Ns,,l,
"gh" and those digrafs representing III
sound Of "f," thus spell: Geografy. fan
tasm, and enuf. and TO the, dropping q
. ! "gh" in all words in which this digraf /