The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-26
The Return of the Girl Feminine
The Girl Athletic Is No Longer the Entire Atacion-This
New Girl Feminine Is Exceedingly Dainty
by ANNA S. RICHARDSON.
Specialist on Woman's Topics.

The girl feminine has come into hel
own again. The girl athletic no Longer
lnonopolizes the center of the stage. Il
is the fad of the hour to possess al
least one dainty feminine, household
accomplishment, from butter-making tc
embroidery.
The new girl feminine is like fig
ure stepping from an old-time picture
Of domesticity and adjusting herself
to modern conditions. She is a de-
licious combination of the old-fash-
Toned girl and the new. She is just
about right; and happy is that family
Of which she is a member.
This is the season of the year when
the girl feminine who has a taste for
cookery executes her annual trumphs
in the preserving line. She is not
yet the most staid member of the
fond of sport, but she will break an
engagement to play tennis any morn
ing when she reads that berries have
dropped cents per box.
Ma 'mselle Dainty's great-grand-
mother preserved over a huge cook
stove, fed with cobs and wood. 1t
was one chld's duty to feed the stove
and another's to swish back and forth
the ladle, not unlike perforated hoe,
which kept the jam" from burning.
'Three-quarterS of a pound of sugar
to one of fruit, and boil slowly until
it jes like thick mush." And to the
children, called from play, 1t seemed
an interminable task to bring the
fruity mixture down to the thick
mush stage
But behold Ma'mselle Dainty in spot
less percale and cambria, adjusting the
fame of her gas stove, secure in the
thought that the temperature beneath
the preserving kettle cannot vary save
at her touch. She further protects her
handwork by a thick asbestos mat re-
inforced by a square of sheet iron.
eat-grandmother's preserving ket-
tie was of iron. big and heavy as a
small wash tub, and blackened on the
outside with coal and wood SCOT. Man,
selle Dainty uses Austrian enamel,
speckled blue without and pure white
within, four-ply thick, yet light enough
for her to lift with ease. To match this
kettle she has measuring cups, colan-
der and ladies' in Austrian ware, cherry
pitters and apple parers and fruit
knives with china handles. No patent
has ever improved on the old-fashioned
screw-top and rubber band glass jar,
but there is a pretty novelty in jelly
glasses, a small cone-shaped glass to
hold a portion of jelly for the invalid.
The term preserving in the average
household includes the making of jel-
lies, jams, preserves, sweet pickles, rel
ishes and butter and the canning of
fruits, but it is upon her canning that
Ma'mselle Dainty particularly prides
how &c fInn oct hnn h a n n
natural way to preserve fruit.
To be a successful Gamer. she must
be as clearly as a surgeon, for canning
is merely sterilizing fruit by heat. TO
can small fruits she picks them over
carefully and washes them. Then she
packs them in absolutely clean jars,
and fills the Jars to the very top with
cold water after which she adjusts the
rubber bands and lays over each jar its
screw top, Immediately clean within
and without.
She has ready a large, new wash
boiler, fitted in the bottom with wood
en- rack or tray. not unlike that used in
the ice compartment of a refrigerator.
She sets the filled jars on this rack,
pours cold water into the boiler until
it rises to half the hight of the jars, and
lights the gas flame beneath the boiler.
She claps on the boiler lid. allows the
water to boil brlSkly Tor hVe minutes,
uncovers the boiler. lifts each jar sep
arately, being very careful not to let
its lid slip off, and directly she sets the
jar down, she screws the lid tight. Her
fruit is sterilized and canned.
If she wants her canned fruit sweet
ened, she sprinkles sugar over the fruit
as she packed it in the jars. Large
fruits must be peeled and boiled in "a
sugar syrup, allowing a quarter pound
of sugar to each pound of fruit. When
tender, the fruit is SKINNED and pack
ed into the jars, the syrup is poured
over it and the canning process is COM
pleted as described.
Jellies, Ma mselle Dainty regards as
especially desirable in case of illness,
and in her preference runs to crab
apple, ounce. grape, blackberry, cur
rant and a mixture of raspberry and
currant.
She selects fruit that is barely ripe
rather than over-ripe to secure firm,
clear jelly. In the cool of the even
ing, she cooks her fruit for the first
time, allowing one quart of water to
each pound of fruit, and twenty min