The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-07-19
THE FAMILY.
By SONORA SARA.

By SONORA SARA.
The mother who permits her young
daughter to sit and read or go or and
play while that tired mother hurriss
round trying to get q meal on the table.
or the dishes washed. or tho house swept
and busted II laying up trouble for her
self, and Is not to be pitied in the least
II the daughter grows up selfish,
thoughtless. careless and an Indifferent
housekeeper. Every woman should
know exactly how to care for . house
and how to cook, no matter what her
position In life or her wealth. Rsvsrses
OF fortune will send the richest to the
foot OF the ladder, and this often adds
q life to the fiotsam and jetsam Of the
lower half world. just because q de-
spa1r1ng woman cannot work, never
having learned. The daughters and the
sons should be taught from the very
nrst to be careful, Industrious neat and
helpful. 1t hurts no boy to learn how
to wash dishes or to sweep and tidy
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 1t to be thoughtful OF the comfort
Of others, and make it self-reliant be-
leave. child taught these little house
wifely duties can take her mothers
place with little assistance from faith
er or brother.
As a matter of fact a young lady will
find 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 theoretically
used to keep all the muscles In the body
in good order. 1t can be helped out
with a mop. and when a busting cloth
Is added you have the whole gymna-
SUM. When you have added to these
exercises the glow that comes from a
heart conscious Of having performed its
whole duty toward its neighbor-or
mother. which Is better-you have the
greatest health-g 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,
cisfng her lungs and training her voice.
Try this salad: Ten hard-boiled eggs
are cut into dice, with three crisp, me-
diminished 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
PAAANo oAu SSiCIS odle.
This potato salad is fine, too. It 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. a half pound of
walnuts 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
dren.
Here is an answer that Charles Dick
ems made to querist once. He received
in hts mail this question:
AFTER having read several Of your
books 1 would like to hear from you
now you would bring up q child"
His answer was:
If can make my horse, my dog and
my cat love me and obey through af-
lection, how much more should be
able to make the child Of my own blood
love and follow me. My dear madam,
rear child through the respect which
Is born OF mutual love-"
Froebel said: 1.-The first graspinx OF
childish hands is a sign Of mental awak-
ening."
To be entirely pleasing pictures
should always hang as nearly as posst-
BILE on level with the human eye: bat
since all human eyes are not on the
same level this rule demands q sliding
scale. Somewhere between five and six
feet Is the proper average, when the
occupants of the rooms are adults. In
child's room, however, the pictures
should hang according to the height of
the young occupant. Yet 1t Is never de-
slrable In any room to have all the pic
lures strung along In straight line. as
II they were exposed for SALE Small
pictures can always be grouped, with
very pleasing results to the eye. Large
pictures should have ample wall SPACE
at each side. or they will present a
crowded, uncomfortable aspect. and
will. therefore. detract rather than add
to the beauty of the room A single
large picture, suitably framed, carries
with 1T an air Of dignity that it loses If
promiscuous assortment Of smaller
pictures be hung in it's near vicinity.
Wherever pictures are Rrouped thew
should be similar In subject and treat
ment. and the frames should at least
harmonic II they do not exactly match.
Remember that death turks in the
unclean ice-bOx, and that 1t can get
fouled in few hours. You should give
yOuI iCc-DoA a weekly OVernduI1ng, and
besides the soap and water scrub scald
1t In every crack and crevice. Then
every morning Of the world that box
should be wiped clean and dry with a
dry towel, every scrap Of meat, butter,
milk or stale vegetables brushed out
and left open. for at least 10 minutes to
air out. II there Is a baby in the house
which takes milk kept In that ice-box,
see that the bottle In which the milk Ia
kept-and 1t should not be put In any,
thing but a well-scalded bottle-see
that the bottle Is corked with a scalded
cork. An atom OF sour milk In the cork
will foul the whole bottle OF milk, IL It
be gallon, and that poor baby may
die OF that little bit Of carelessness, die
OF stomach trouble, Summer complaint
dysentery, cholera infantum; they ali
come from the same Injection, some
thing spoiled in Its food. This sort OF
carelessness kills thousands Of children
every year, and the mothers call II a
visitation of Providence, when 1t is in
spite OF Providence that the babies die
Of filth" diseases. Some mothers who
have to feed their babies leave the bot
ties with milk in them beside the child
while 1t sleeps. and after an hour or so,
when the child wakens. give 1t that
same bottle. II the child does not die
OF the dose 1t Is because its little stom-
ach Is strong enough to reject the pol
son, but this will not always happen.