The National tribune., 1906-07-19
THE FAMILY.
By SENORA SARA.

Il
daughter to sit and read or go of ant
play while that tired mother hurrie
round trying to get meal on the table
or the dishes washed, or the house swep
and busted is laying up trouble for her
self, and is not to be pitied in the leas
If the daughter grows up selfish
thoughtless. careless and an Indifferent
housekeeper. Every woman shoulC
Know exactly how to care for a house
and how to cook, no matter what heI
position in life or her wealth. Reverses
or fortune will send the richest to the
FOOT or the ladder. and this often adds
life to the fiotsam and jetsam of the
lower half world. just because a de-
spatring woman cannot work, never
having learned. The daughters and the
sons should be taught from the very
1irst to be careful, Industrious, neat and
helpful. 1t hurts no boy to learn how
TO wash dishes or to sweep and tidy a
room. 1t Is certainly the duty of a girl
to learn to do this. Little duties of this
character. which do not tire the child,
teach ii to be thoughtful of the comfort
or others, and make it self-reliant be-
side. II the mother is i'll and servants
leave, child taught these little house
Wlfeiy duties can take her mothers
place with little assistance from faith
er or brother
AS matter of fact young lady will
ind in the simple athletic housewifely
duties all the exercise and all the graces
that she seeks in the gymnasium There
Is nothing like a broom energetically
used to keep all the muscles in the body
in good order. 1t can be helped out
with mop, and when a dusting cloth
Is added You have the whole gymna-
SUM. When you have added to these
exercises the glow that comes from
heart conscious of having performed its
whole duty toward its neighbor-or
mother. which is better-you have the
greatest health-giving exercise in the
world. While your daughter is practic
ing and getting the muscles of her body
in good healthy condition in these
homely exercises, she can run scales,
and practice her last song, thus exer-
cising her lungs and training her voice.
Try this salad: Ten hard-boiled eggs
are cut into dice. with three crisp. me-
dium-sized cucumbers, SIX cold, boiled
potatoes, head of celery and one tiny
green onion, the onion to be cut in
rings. This salad is favored with pa
prika and celery salt.
This potato salad is fine, too. 1t is
made from boiled new potatoes. care
fully chilled and cut into dice, six tiny
green onions cut in thin slices. one crisp
cucumber, also sliced, half pound of
wainuts chopped moderately fine, a
dozen stuffed olives. A teaspoonful of
celery seed is added to the dressing.
Parents are very prone to forget that
not their prayers. but their lives, are
reproduced in the lives of their chill
1ren.
Here is an answer that Charles Dick
ms made to a querist once. He received
IN his mafl this question:
After having read several of your
BOOKS 1 would like to hear from you
now you would bring up a child"
His answer was:
IF l can make my horse, my dog and
my cat love me and obey through af- |
lection, how much more should I be
ible to make the child of my own blood
owe and follow me. My dear madam, |
ear child through the respect which |
s born of mutual love"
Froebei said: 'The first grasping OF |
childish hands is a sign of mental awak.
,ning."
To be entirely pleasing pictures
mould always hang as nearly as possi- |
Die on level with the human eve. but
'ince all human eyes are not on the
ame level this rule demands a sliding /
'cale. Somewhere between five and six
eet Is the proper average. when the
occupants of the rooms are adults In a 1
'hild's room, however, the pictures
mould hang according to the height of
he young occupant. Yet 1t Is never de-
lrabie IN any room to have all the pic
OF t,,
I they were exposed for sale Small
pictures can always be grouped, with
'ery pleasing results to the eye Large
pictures should have ample wall space /
II each side, or they will present a |
uncomfortable aspect. and
viii, therefore, detract rather than add
o the beauty of the room A single
arge picture, suitably framed, carries
With 1t an air of dignity that ii loses If
promiscuous assortment of smaller
pictures be hung in it's near vicinity.
Wherever pictures are grouped thew
mould be similar in subject and treat
nent, and the frames should at least
larmonize if they do not exactly match.
Remember that death turks in the
mclean ice-box, and that 1t can eet
ouled in a few hours. You should give
our ice-box a weekly overhauling. and
'esides the soap and water scrub scald
In every crack and crevice Then
very morning of the world that bog
Mould be wiped clean and dry with a
Try towel, every scrap of meat butter.
MIX or stale vegetables brushed out
nd left open for at least 10 minutes to
ir out. If there Is baby in the house
which takes milk kept in that ice-box.
ee that the bottle In which the milk Is
.ept-and 1t should not be put in any,
hing but well-scalded bottIe-seeI
nat the bottle Is corked with scalded
ork. An atom of sour milk in the cork
viii foul the whole bottle of milk. If n
e gallon, and that poor baby may
lie of that little bit of carelessness. die
f stomach trouble, Summer complaint
ysentery, cholera infantum; they ali
ONE from the same Infection. some
hing spoiled in It's food. This sort of
kills thousands of children
very year, and the mothers call il a
isitation OF Providence, when it is in
pite of Providence that the babies die
4 filth" diseases. Some mothers who
ave to feed their babies leave the bot
les with milk in them beside the child ,
While 1t sleeps. and after an hour or so,
Vhen the child wakens. give 1t that
anne bottle. If the child does not die
4 the dose 1t Is because its little stom-
Oh Is strong enough to reject the pol
on, but this will not always happen.
f you want to know how foul such milk
an become just leave 1t by the heat of
he child's body for an hour, and then
emove the nipple and smell the con-
ents of the bottle. The horrible odor
VIII almost floor you. Milk that has
'een left uncovered 10 minutes Is not
1t food for baby. and should be boiled
efore fed-brought just to the boiling