Evening star., 1901-05-18

honored guest. Just how this is to be
effected she does not state. Possibly like
the oft-quoted suggestion for the disposal
of boys of the hobbledehoy period-that
they be put in hogshead and fed through
the bunghole" Needless to say that a
guest whose presence should entail such a
wholesale taking off of the innocents Is
not fitted to be a guest. If one does not
like children, let him withhold his foot
from his neighbor's house who does.
On the other hand. 1t must be conceded
that children badly governed, ill-mannered
and st1cky-nngered, often turn otherwise
paradisaical conditions into purgatory. Who
has not groaned in spirit even with a set
smile upon her lips, as she beheid her bu-
reau drawers raided, her photographs
smeared with grimy finger marks, her pet
camera pulled apart, her best hat tried on
and her fresh gown creased and spoiled by
the ruthless feet of some spoiled darling?
Who has not been at tables when the con-
versation was entirely monopolized by shrill-
voiced banditti, or by the circumstantial
accounts of infantile ailments or prodgieS
performed with copious annotations by the
infants themselves?
Beware of entrance to such a home, for
even the strongest bonds of affection can
not always stand the strain imposed by
compulsory infantology.
The Dutch treats and Dutch parties
which proved SO popular last summer are
already redivNus. The feeling of inde
pendence where each one pays the piper
attractive to the majority of people who do
not care to be under obligations Boating
parties, tally-ho rides, picnics and excur-
slons OF all sorts lend themselves most ad
m1rably to this scheme. which entails no
greater financial burden upon one than
upon another. In a colony of "stay-in-
towns last summer a frequent form of
invitation was as follows: "A Dutch party
is proposed for Wednesday evening. Din
ner at $50 at So-and-Sos, roof garden
vaudeville, and supper later wherever the
majority decides. VIII you join us?''
In preparing for the mountain tramp, the
long bicycle trip or any camping expedi-
ton that involves extraordinary fatigue
sugar should form conspicuous part in
the provisions provided. If a concentrated
solid form is required chocolate will be
found the best medium Recent expert
ments with soldiers of the German army
when number of the men were given ten
Jumps of sugar daily and were then COM
pared in various ways with men perform
ing the same amount of work in march,
ing and drilling, but whose food contained
little or no sugar, demonstrated the fact
that the sugar eaters had the muscular
advantage in every way The sugar was
relished during the whole thirty-eight
days of the autumn maneuvers. On long
marches 1t appeased hunger and mitgated
thirst, and none of the men allowed sugar
were at any time overcome by exhaustion.
Both their pulse rate and breathing were
less affected by eXerton than was the
case with the non-Sugar consumers. AS
result of these investigations the sugar
rations were largely increased Another
instance of the value of sugar as a food
for muscular work is evidenced by the
splendid muscular development of the lum-
bermen of Canada. These men eat great
deal of sugar in the form of moasses, even
adding 1t to their milkless tea, and to their
1rled salt pork, which is about the only
meat they get. The effect of sugar, ac-
cording to Italian scientists who have
made practical Investigations of it's value
as stimulant, although felt ne-half hour
after eating, is at it's height in two hours
The use of sugar by the Swiss mountain
climbers is well known, loaf sugar and
sweetened chocolate being considered an
indispensable part of their outfit.
1t is said that the French and English
fashion of holding informal days at home
in the open are to be special feature of
this summers social life.
There is more effective background for
pretty women. smart millinery and the
dainty tea tables and equipage than that
afforded by old-fashioned gardens. velvety
lawns and the Pickering shadows from
breeze-blown trees The French never eat
in the house when they are able to eat out
of-doors-the alfresco entertainment being
considered much the more desirable.
Oddities in sandwiches for the : o'clock
tea. or the picnic basket, are iced tomat oes
and mayOnnaise between thin slices of fresh
bread, graham crackers and cottage cheese
leberwurst sandwiches-a German delicacy
made of rye bread spread with leberwurst
sausage of goose's liver and truffles-and
pepper sandwiches, made by frying sweet
peppers in butter, cooling, chopping fine,
seasoning with anchovy catsup and spread
ing with ribbOned lettuce between thin
slices of white bread. Among new sweet
sandwich filings are candied ginger hard
pudding sauce of butter and sugar, creamed
and favored with little jelly. sherry or nut
meg and candied orange peel minced and
sprinkled on Neufchatel cheese, which has
been mostened with little melted butter
or rich cream.
The Japanese Theater.