The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-19

We housekeepers are too apt to
:. think of our vocation as embodying
!. much that is simple. trivial. petty;
J. daily round of ''pottering," mo ac-
count" duties that has nothing to
show for 1t at set nf sun.
+ II have worked SO hard all day.
: sighs one tired woman. land it seems
!. to me l haven't accomplished single
:, thing" "A galley slave life," groans
:, another. ''rising up and sitting down.
!, doing the same things over and over
I. again, with no prospect of ever get
!. ting through"
Courage, sisters! Tedious itera-
+ ton there may be. The same dishes
+ to wash three times day. The same
+ tangled curls to brush and dirty little
!. faces and hands to bathc and kiss
;. each night and morning. The same
:. lamps to fill, vegetables to prepare.
!. floors to sweep, rooms to dust. insects
= to circumvent, table to set, cooky-jar
: to fill, day in and day out. The same
: linen to make sweet and clean. and
+ comfortable every week. The same
+ stockings to mend, tears to darn, lit
! tie garments to make and keep In or
|. der, month after month. But these
I are not trivial tasks. Upon their
i faithful, loving performance rests that
j most beautiful superstructure, the
+ happy. well-ordercd home. which
Beecher says should be an ovation TO
+ the memory singing to all our after
!. life melodies and harmonies of old re-
. membered joys. Let us then magnify
i. our office, realizing that with this end
in view, what might otherwise be
1 drudgery. becomes but part of the
: divine plan.
There is il growing understanding of
+ the fact that to some arrangement
4 hn lfnn ttxrn hn
!. half the maladies that flesh Is heir to.
=. If the stomach attends strictly to its
I. own duties. there Is hope for a weak
/ heart, n torpid liver laboring lung,
! diseased kidney. IT the stomach
fails, the whole body collapses Up
, to-date physicians are now making a
+ special study of that important organ.
!. and preparing dietaries to suit lndi-
=. vidual cases An eminent specialist in
I. Washington, who has been signally
!. successful with his patients, gave this
j menu lately to IA man whose trouble
+ came from a lack Of gastric juice.
His directions wcre For poor di-
+ gestion, eat little and often.'
, At 8 n. ma cup of cocoa. to which
:, pinch of powdered white oak bark
! dissolved in little water was added,
:. a saccharine tablet to sweeten, toast
and butter; one and one-half ounces
Scraped beef broiled, lean flSh or cold
meat. No salted ham.
? 1890 a. m,-One cup rice, oatmeal or
, barley water. or buckwheat cooked in
; broth. No salt
i ! p. m,-Farina, rice, thick pea or
I huckberry soup; two to three ounces
. of lean, tender meat. OF the same
|. amount of fish; butter gravies per-
!. mitted. cream or seasoned gravies
forbidden; two to three ounces of
+ mashed potatoes without milk; other
vegetables mashed or put through u
puree sieve; custard or blanc mango
made with yolk of egg. Only fruit al
) lowed-huckleberry or cranberry jelly.
. Beverages, huclaleberry wine, Bur.
. gundy or Bordeaux.
p. m.-Tea with milk, sweetened
with saccharine or cocoa with "A pinch
of white oak bark; toast and butter
or zweiback.
z D. m.-Oat meal, rice or tapioca
} soup made with beef broth or strained
, barley water; two ounces cold or
. warm meat, toast and butter; glass
of huckleberry wine or claret.
9p. m.-Glass of hot tea with claret
or huckleberry lemonade made OF
huckleberry jelly and hot water.
Things strictly forbidden were: Sugar
cake. candy. salt or beer. organic
acids. sweet. white or sparkling
} wines. milk, ice water, fruit ice CIR
. iced drinks.
. The huckleberry of which the good
doctor makes so much, grows wild in