Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-01-20

Class
Wednesday, p. M, Lecture, THE
Knights Templars and Their Story"
Miss Elizabeth Carpenter.
Thursday-lll5 a. M, Fencing Glass;
2.3O p. M, Physical Culture Glass.
saturday-ll a. M, Advanced French
Glass.
Those who have enjoyed in previous
seasons listening to Miss Carpenter will
be pleased TO note the two lectures TO be
given by her this month, beginning with
next Wednesday. Her appreciation Of
the romantic and chivalrous in history
and literature is so great that her hearers
are infected by her enthusiasm.
Encouraging reports were made by the
leaders of the various reading sections at
the Round Table ON Monday. Those who
are engaged on Social Questions" find
ing they could get more enjoyment and
profit by discussing them in company
with others, meet on Wednesday morn
ings at II o'clock, at the home Of Mrs.
Alfred ID. Warner, where they would be
glad TO have others who are interested
to Join them. An interesting paper on
Schiller, the Dramatist," was contribut-
ed by Mrs. William G. Speakman, who
reviewed the various dramas of Schiller,
and showed by them his growth in power
from his earliest work, "Die Rauher," 70
his crowning achievement of "Wiliam
Tell" The Germany Of Schiller's time
was very unlike the Germany of today.
The twenty-five sovereign States, four
kingdoms and the grand duchies and free
towns which now are united, were then
rival States with no national feeling, no
love of country, no noble aspirations for
the common fatheTland. All of these,
although Schiller did not live tn realize
them, he saw with the prophetic eye of
the poet and taught 20 his countrymen
through the medium Of his dramas, and
in them may be traced not only his in
tellectual growth but his increasing love
for freedom, purity, light and truth. In
Germany the stage has always been a
powerful means of educating the masses,
and the products Of Schiller's philosophy,
of his chivalrous mind, lofty aspirations
and rare and generous love of freedom
and Of humanity paved the way for the
great German alton of today His friend
ship with Goethe was one of the most
beautiful in history. Mrs. Spealman de-
scribed the delightful atmosphere of the
German Athens" the little court of Karl
August of SAKE Weimer, where these two
poets, with Wieland and Herder, lived an
idyllic life. The people Of Weimer still
hold in reverence the memory of these
men, who once found there so congenial
home, and the modern tendency has
beeen to set Schiller even above Goethe
in the niche of fame. Reference was made
TO recent article in the Atlantic Month
y on the tendency of literature in Ger
many, by Kuno Francke, as farther il
Eliminating this subject.
Although the weather was unpropiti-
Gus, there was large attendance at the
Current Events Class attracted probably
by the promise Of a paper from Fan hon
ored charter member as the chairman
! called her Mrs. Clement B. Smyth, on
Housekeeping Fifty Years Ago" which
she said was much less complicated than
that Of today, especially as regards table
service. There was not then recognition
Of individual needs { or fancied ones) as
the family made common cause with
table supplies. Neither was there tho
thousand and one appointments to make
up a table service. IL was not then con
sidered needful that each one should be
supplied with individual salt and pepper,
instead a family tablo was furnished with
two generous glass dishes of salt and an
ample pepper glass, which were consid-
cred sufficient for condiments. Then. too.
in that day we were saved the embarass-
1 ment Of riches Of silver implements for
each course; saved also the decision as
to which end Of the array it was best to
/ comence on; whether TO eat out from
your plate or ini saved also the predica.
ment Of guest who, by beginning wrong.
had only an oyster fork left for his ice
| cream. SO, too, with the innumerable
/ plates Of present-day service; formerly
| If family was supplied with a change
OF plates for dessert il was considered
ample, and sometimes a piece of bread
used TO remove the evidences of the first
part Of the meal was not considered in.
bred.
But if the table service was less elab.
crate then than now the preparation of
food then was greater, for supplies were
not ready for use, but claimed the skill
of the housekeeper Cured meats corLl
not be bought, so she secured a round OF
beef in the market and We'd with other
housekeepers as 20 who should have the
best in color. quality and tenderness
Then her calves feet Jelly, if troubIe.
some 10 make was exquisite in.clearnes.
and flavor, and the pronouncement of II
"a perfect success" paid for days Of labor
Those We're the days when successes ,vers
generously y shared and a sick neiehboi
was liable to receive a jelly birds nest
With blanc mango eggs 10 tempt the an.
| pellte. But the crucial test Of skill was
m preparing fruits for winter use. when
Jars with glass tops and dainty rubbers
70 exclude the air were not 10 be had. but
the housekeeper had TO make her own ce.
ment TO use with stone jars. The odors
sum nnger IN memory when glue was
meited and thickened with powdered
nrick dust while 70 prevent any taste of
lhls leaking through the corks. plaster of
farls was hrst put over them. Then came
the crucial moment, when the cement
was heated and thickened and the iar
was TO be inserted in the LIQUID mass n
was thought most ehectuai 10 turn The
mouth Of the jar into it TO insure smooth.
ness and safety, but sometimes the skin
was not equal to the demand and cork
plaster and fluid broke bounds and empty
ing INTO the cement was TO be CONSIGNED
10 waste Of time, temper and material.
lhere IS however, no change in domes.
tio me more apparent than service. both
IN what we expect and what we nav for
It. Then SIPS a week was considered
good wages, only 50 being paid for a
housekeeper. But it was not only in the
compensation, but the demand on time
ana service, for now 10 is incumbent on