Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-24

You may build fine house and put people
in il of the same name to live in 1T. but II
love don't board with them they'd be as
well off with a stump and umbrella
Samantha Allen.
MENU, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER %.
BREAKFAST.
Grapes. Cereal.
Fried Green Tomatoes and Apples with
Crisped Pork.
Graham Gems. Coffee.
DINNER.
Split Pea Soup. Croutons.
Celery Pickles.
Roast Beef. Drowned Potatoes.
Sweet Corn. Stuffed Tomatoes.
Cabbage Salad. Crackers. Cheese.
Peach Ice Cream
Coffee.
Stuffed Baked Potatoes.
Cold Roast Beef. Tomato Salad.
French Bread and Butter
Sliced Bartlett Pears, with Cream.
Lady Fingers.
Tea.
Suggestions for the appropriate selec-
ton of wife, and then how to be happy
though married to her" have ever been
favorite and fertile themes for writer's both
ancient and modern. Not much is said
about the man, the impression evidently
prevailing that hes all right" If only
made comfortable. Great stress is invari-
ably laid upon well-kept house, economy
and a good and varied table 1t seems
surprising that from Juvenal down the in
tellectual matron has been in bad odor.
there being great unanimity in the belief
that domesticity is endangered by an over
plus of brain. Juvenal declares:
oh never may the partner of nv bed
With subtleties Of logic stun her head
Nor whirl her rapid sylogisms round,
Nor with imperfect enthyInemes confound
Enough for me IL common things she knows
And boast the little learning schools bestow
hate the female pedagogue, who pores
Over her grammar hourly, who explores
All modes of speech, regardless of the sense,
But tremblingiy alive to mood and tense;
Corrects her country friends, and cannot hear
Her husband solecise without a sneer.
Thackeray, too, inveighs against wives
who drive their husbands to find solace In
the club, the fault being yours forsooth
who are too intellectual to go into the
kitchen and too delicate TO think about your
husbands victuals.'
"Ill-cooked joints and ill-boiled potatoes =
according to Smiles, "often put asunder
those whom God has joined in matrimony,
while 1.-The misery of a whole life, nay, Of O
whole series of little and big lives, and
subsequent ruin and suicide arose." &C
cording to another wise man, "out Of an
obstinate practice of seeing leg OF mutton
three days running in small respectable
family" A single note In the other direc-
ton is happily sounded by Jerome, who
who invented the mischievous falsehood
that the way to a mans heart was through
his stomach? How many silly woman
taking 1t for truth, has let love slip out OF
tine parlor while she was busy In the
kitchen?"
Does not the truth lie in happy me-
dunn between these two extremes-a house
neat and well managed in every respect,
and yet all the wheels so well creased that
they 'go round without calling the atten-
ton OF the world to all the secrets of their
revolution?
II like to visit at Jim's house." said an
old bachelor lately; everything is so
mighty comfortable there. and yet Mrs Jim
don't seem to be always shaving either
She's a manager. she is"
That is just the secret, Headworki Or,
as our grandmothers used to say making
the head save the heels" That takes
brains.
Just now the woman who uses that most
essential organ Is taking advantage of full
markets and low prices to put up an abund-