The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-07-10
FOR THE SCRAP BOOK.


FOR The SCRAP BOOK.
| RULES FOR LIVING WELL.
The Caterer. In an article on Good LiviT e. ="
| considered from culinary rather than n 'Tal
point Of view. sums up the matter in the follow
ing sensible vay:
| II living veil consists IN iivirg neither lu1a-
rtously nor excessively. IN what. then. lies the So
oret' And hos may the nan q moderate means
take advantage q il The question Is not a ar
eul, one 70 answer, and ne viH Fut that question
! IN the shape Of few short Fglss
/ Buy with judgment
> Buy the bes,. for the best Is always the cheap
est.
| : Let your economy regulate tire quantity. rot
| the quality
| 4 Let your cook Be- cook and one ts.t knoss
Row to uSiIire What Is nov thrown 20 the dogs or
otherwise wasted
| s study simplicity in TIE number Of dishes sai
variety In the character OF the meals.
s. Let the housewife be watchfui enough 10 trace
the leaks tia; liable TO spring IN every larder
| !. Let the mistress Dc indeed the head Of her
| own household. and o. her Kitchen,
| Happy is that man and blsst
| Who sits IN his cvn home AZ rest,
Who simply sits at his nrssids
For tranquil peace vhats'er betids.
-Bismsrk.
''Vigor IS contagious. and whatever makes Us
either thirS or feet strongly adds 70 our power
and enlarses cur Geld Of action. Waiter
| Put that into your pipe and smoke t. Digest
! that II you can An expression used b. one who
has given an adversary severe rebuke The al
fusion IS TO the pipes q peace sHd war smoked BY
/ the American Indians
! Round men in the square holes snd square men
/ in the round holes. The wrong men in the wrong
I place. especially applied 20 governments, ofcIals
| The expression was FIRST used in 1855. BY Mr. Lay
ard. speaking Of the Administration Reform Asso-
| citation. The ausion is TO such games as crib
hase, German tactics sc.
! Natives o, New England say guess: natives OF
New York and Middle States say expect: natives OF
/ Southern States say reckon; natives Of Western
| States say calculate.
| Bioomerism-A female costume, 20 called from
Mrs. Amelia BIoomer. Of New York, who tried in
ls49 TO Introduce the fashion.
The DEVILS tattoo-Drummins with ones finger
on the furniture. or with ones toe on the ground
a monotonous sound, which gives the listener the
blue devils
All habits gather by unseen degrees.
As BROOKS make rivers. rivers make seas
John Dryden. lSgl-l7Oi.
That best portion Of a good msn's lie
| His little. nameIess. unnumbered acts
OF kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth. I77O-Is1
Soon or late. to all that SOW
The time OF harvest shall be given.
The flower shall bloom. the frui, shall grow,
II not on earth. at last In heaven
Whittier
Ioad-ester-At the final overthrow Of the Noors
the Casttlians made them their servants and their
active habits and OfciOus manners greatly nIessed
! the proud and lazy Spanisris who called them mi
tod"a 'my fsototum). Hence cringing oricious
dependent who will do all sorts Of dirty work ,o-
you Is called todta or toad-eater DR. OgiIvie
In the imperial Dictionary saws the word 80,
from sycophant who praised everything on ar
oer TO fooi him TO the top Of his bent a dish q,
toadS was set before him, which he ate with relish
ana Praised This seems a very unlikely expispa
ton of the origin of the phrase.
MI that is human must retrograde ~ - 5o No,
advance--Edward Glbbon, i737-f7s,
Whatever is worth doing at all Is worth doing
Weil.-Earl Of Chesterfield. I6si-I77s.
fsnkee-A corruption OF English .. The vo-1
got into general thus: In I7i3 one Ton,,ran
hastings farmer at Cambridge in New York
uSeu the word as putting epithet meaning GEM
me- Ameflean-made' what cannot be surpassed ke
as Yankee horse" Yankee cider ana % -,
me students OF the college. catching UP the term
'aiieu Hastings Yankee jonathan - II anon
spread ana became the iOCose pet name of the New
Engan1er Since then the term has been s.,snd.s
of he
corruption Of Anglais or English. thus. Ysngsss
fenghis. Yanghis. YankeesD
Apple-pie order Paim and precise order. ,-oh-
AoP corruption Of cap-s-pie. said Of a knigb.
when armed from head to foot in perfsct o,5.-
Some think it refers to the method Of putting ami.
into pe-dish in layers, but this derivation is s,
less satisfactory. '''
What an ornament and safeguard Is brno,,
Far better than wit for a poet and writer n,
genius in itself, and so defends from the ips,nl-
tiss.-whittier.
Bard OF Avon-Shakespesre who was born and
buried at Stratford-upon-Avon n5slIgI0.
b"Td OF Ayrshire-Robert Burns, a native Of AYR
shire 0759-I7ss)
Bard OF Hope-Thomas Campbell, author Of '-rhs
Pleasures Of Hope" nT77-isiG
bard OF the imagination-Mark AkensIde. author
oi Pleasures Of the Imagination" n72l-i77O.
bafd OF hemory-Rogers. author Of THE Pleas
ures Of Memory 07s2-fs55l.
Bard Of Olney-Cowper. vho resided al OInev -
BUCKS. for many years n721-Is00)
me BARD OF Prose-''He OF the Hundred Tales n,
Love- T. e.. BoccsccIo.-"Childe Harold, tv.ss
The Bard of Rydal MouBt-WilIlam Worfsvo-,b
so called because RydaI Mount was his mountain
nome also called the Poet Of the Excursion"
from his principal poem n77O-Is50
bard OF observation-disclosures Pope, who re-