Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-04-05
Good Cookery

Good Cookery
DOMESTIC SCIENCE
IN THE HOUSEHOLD.
owe pray thee, O Lord. that these
children may be well trained at home
for If they are not they will act like sar-
pints when they are abroad. "-Parson
Pcnniman twho lived in Bedford Mass,
in the Revolutionary period.
do not as evil children do,
Who. on the slightest grounds,
VIII initiate the kankaroo
with wild. unmeaning bounds:
who take their manners from the ape,
Their habits from the bear.
Indulge tho loud unseemly iape
And never brush their hair"
BREAKFAST.
Grape Fruit.
Cereal.
Creamed Finnan TIaddle
Baked Potatoes.
Corn Bread.
" Coffee.
DINNER.
vegetable Soup.
Radishes. Watercress.
Chicken Fricasscc with
Baking Powder Biscuit.
Mashed Potatoes Stewed Celery.
Escaroe Salad
Poor Mans Rice Pudding
Fruit
Coffee.
SLIPPER.
Chicken Salad.
Cream Potatoes. Olives.
Ginger Pound Cake Sliced Oranges.
Tea.
American children have long been rated
abroad as the type of all that is for
ward. pert, irrcverent, selfish and dis
obedient hut We ourselves have been
slow to recognize, or at least acknow-
edge the fact. Not al children. praise
be! come under this condemnation, but
enough to make the rcproach fall upon
all-the Just as well as the unjust. Where
lies the fault? In a recent symposium of
the Mothers club of New York. Ameri-
can manners in general and those Of
children in particular came up for dis
cussion, during which it was stated that
American children are per cent, more
brutal than foreign children.
This conclusion WAS the result Of in
vetigation through u test question pre-
scented to a large number of children OF
different nationalities. hut all under i
years of age. The question was: "What
would you do with "A child who on being
presented with box of paints went into
he parlor and painted the best chair
,The answers Of IT," American children
alone contained such drastic suggestions
as Thrash him within an inch Of his life,
Feed him on bread and water" and the
Ike. THE responsibility for these ans.
wcrS,' said Mrs. Anna Spencer Garlin
/ who was tho speaker OF the day, "comes
back To the parents. Children are ex-
tremcly responsive to suggestion ant
could only repeat the kind OF disciplu,
with which they were familiar. We arc
trying a social experiment, and our un.
Ccrtuiutics show themselves in the man.
ners of children and undcvclopcd people
1t is the half-dovolopcd idea of soCia
equality thai causes people to ioStle us
on the street cars. while the street cal
conductor vino would he fairly polite II
other countries, admonshos us in no un
certain terms to step lively. This /,
democracy in the making. The true arts
tocrat is simple in his manners bccaus,
he il sure of himself. The democrat vii
he the same when he gets there"
| y clergyman a few weeks ago ad
dressed tho BROOKLYN Board of Trade OF
juvenile depravitN, asserting that tn,
lack of deccncy and modeSty among boy.
on tn" street was appalling, and callct
for some very prompt work among boy.
between the ages of 10 and -. Thes,
children showed not only a shocknl
lack of respect for themselves, but FOL
Others. committing acts that would not
he tolerated in other countries, and these
were lads of strictly American parent
age. Librarians tell the same story
children of foreign birth appreciate thu
advantages of having access to books
and are gentle, and amenablc TO thu
| rules in the reading rooms, while the
American born are restless deStructiV,
and always ON the lookout for somothnl
that can he turned into sport or vulgar
ity. Workers in the tenement districts
aver that the oW-down Americans. tha
is. the poor white trash" are so dirty
shiftless. lazy. and, withal. self-SatisiieC
hat it is almost an imposshilitY to ii,
anything for them that leads to thei1
bctermeut. These are hard accuse
tons: but if true. is it not time tina
each of MS should take the matter t,
| heart and see if our own skirts ar,
clear? TO start at the foundation, are
We honest, sincere. uuScliish, in homo
prefcrring one another? Are we back
hiters, purvcyors of gossip of the patty
pan order. given to innuendo ana thu
use of vulgar SlangY expressions? DC
we ''iiy an to pieces" at one moment
threatening the children with all sort
of dire punishments, that we really dc
mot mean to inhict, and the next condon'
faults that require 10 be dealt with rig
orOusly? DO We allow our boys an'
girls to roam the streets at night unit
nine or ten O'Clock unEuarded and un
questioned as to associates?
What are our own manners? Do w
save our good ones for company alone
or keep them for everyday use? d.
| We say please and thank you Il