The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-04-06
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the observance of a fast. Putting aside
for a moment all religious aspects of the
question, it must be admitted that, from
hygienic standpoint alone, it is the
best season of the year for notifying
the appetite, or ut least changing the or
der of supplies. The sanitary aspect of
a change Of diet is worthy of serious
consideration.
AS people. Americans eat too much
mcat-morc. if statistics may be trusted,
imam any other nation in the world.
Without taking. up any discussion on this
matter as to whether this diet is a bene-
TIT or an injury, it Is quite safe to assert
does one great good, in the first eneryat-
ing days of earl spring. to make less of
Il STRAIN upon the gastric powers, and to
give the system the advantage of a
change to lighter diet. The very fact.
That fish is less stimulating in it's effects
than meat and that eggs nourish the sys-
TEN without creating animal heat, are
nlsh recommendations just at this sea-
son.
There is no excuse for mOnotony, even
in fish diet. With a little attention the
housekeeper can give her family so good
a variety, even of fish diet, that they
VIII be slow to weary of it. 1t would be
manitestly unwise to serve too frequently
fat or highly favored fish. like salmon
or blue6sh, but there are others that
are quite as acceptabl to most palates
Shad, fresh mackerel, cod halibut tloun-
dcrs, smelts-the list might be stretched
indefinitely. And the ways of cooking
are as varied as are the fish. They may
be broiled, sauted, baked. fried, creamed,
made into souft1e, Or served au gratin.
You see, one needn't complain of nlonot-
Ony of diet if only one will stop hit
to think out variety. And when one
considers the smoked and sailed Nyarie-
ties, which are so relishing. surely there
is another feature added to Lenten fare
to rob it of it's monotony
AS to eggs, they are on a par with fish
III Importance during Lent and are Of q
superior value in nutrition, since eggs
like milk. 2::2 perfect food, containing
all the lngr23lents demanded for the sun
port Of life and the development of the
organization.
There seems to be practically no limit
to the. ways in which eggs are cooked
and the housekeeper who knows them
Wer:s for n Living,
have heard number of employers
say that women are 50 much n,orf
steady, honest and quick to understand
than men that they prefer to employ
them: remember hearing the head of
the dead letter office at Washington
speak at some length on this subject. saw
ing, among other things, that When ii tHc
change was first made it was thought It
would take two women to fill the place of
one man.but experience showed one woman
could do almost as much as two men. and
DO it better. This, of course, was before
the recent demand that these positions be
kept to pay political workers. To cover
winch every excuse, except the true one,
being brought to bear to put and keep
women out: This demand has also been
made i'll Chicago for the positions of
teachers that get good salaries, | SIM
pose they can find someone there to say
1T is unnatural for women to teach the
young.
1t is very easy for men to say it is
unnatural for women to engage ri onv
work for which living wage is paid !:
but what are the women to do? Nature
does not provide them with food and
clothes or support their children when
they are widows. The mandate that
women must confine themselves to the
things men do not choose to do, if it is
looked into, will be found not to be a
barrie time when might was right and
women were the slaves of men, 1t seems
to me the most unnatural part of the
whole question is that American men.
who ought to understand the value Of
personal and political freedom, can be
found willing to help forge the chains
or the slavery of the marriage without
there is no slavery more degrading to a
true woman than to sell herself for sup
port, and III women going into business
L plainly see the coming day when women
will be SO financially independent that
the holy bond of matrimony will not be
desecrated by price. Then the courts
for divorce can go out of business, and
unwelcome and neglected children will
be unknown. God speed the coming.
Served Them Fifty Ye,rs,
FIFTY years of continuous service in one
family as waitress in these DAYS whom
the servant girl problem haunts The h "men
of thousands of New Workers.. is on;te
beyond the belief of those who change
servants with the change of seasons. hnt
SUCH is the record of one of the house,.
hold staff Of wealthy family living in
the most aristocratic part of Brooilvn
heights. In honor of the semi-centen-
maj anniversary Of her advent into the
thousehold reception was held in her
honor by the members of the family IN
the evening of March 5 last. p, - -
into service as waitress on March <.
1901, entered Rosa Gibbons, at that time
a buxom young woman Of about 20. Now
bent with the weight Of years, she take,
pride in her half century of service in
the one family. .1szzzs j - - =.
AS the anniversary approached her mis- :
tresses busted themselves in the prenara-
ton of charming surprise for their
aged servant. It. came in the form a.
a family reception. There were present
those who in infancy she had carried :.
and some who greeted her were those.