The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-16

How the sympathetic heart goes out
to the people one sees on the trains
nowadays going away for extended kin
| visitsl II people must visit thew should
visit IN the winter time but the majority
choose the hottest season of the wear
for this formidable undertaking. See a
! tired mother with her one, two, three
or more babies starting off on boiling
July day for a rest Think of the
trip, alone-the worry and fuss of TAX
ing care of the children in a stuffy,
crowded Pullman car! In order to
keep them half way presentable or even
a short trip the mother must take i
quantity of luggage and in spite of all
her fussing they arrive at their desti-
nation with soiled clothes, sticky fing-
ers and unkempt hair. And the moth
ers troubles are only begun. The
change in climate, water, diet and hab-
its unsettIes the children physically and
morally. Children are always i'll when
they are visiting and they get SO much
petting and so much attention from in
dulgent kin that they return home SO
spoiled that it takes six months of
home discipline to restore them to their
natural condition of sweetness and
good nature. No woman visiting kin
is allowed to feed her children what
she wants them to have, their maps
are interrupted and their whole routine
of systematic living which keeps them
we'll and happy at home is disturbed.
As for the mother, herself, who went
away for rest and recreation, little does
she get of it. What with taking care
of sick babies, trying to keep them al
ways dressed immaulate and herseI
presentable and running around to the
heavy Elaborate indigestible leafs"
which are inevitable incidents of kin
visit her vacation Is a nightmare. When
she has time to think at all she thinks
with regret of the weeks spent in hur-
ried, worried preparation, of the money
spent on the trip, of the flowers wither-
ing in the window boxes and garden at
home the house collecting dust and
moths, the cat left to the Indifferent
ministrations of the nefghbor and the
husband eating down town" ana
spending his evenings at his club. She
says to herself that if she gets home
this time with all the children alive
she will never leave again but by the
next summer she has forgotten the
miserable experience and is off again
some boiling July day with two suit
cases and a bag, an alcohol lamp and
collection of bottles for baby's milk.
and a bunch of sweet, clean. healthy
and happy children to crowd into one
drawing room for a long railway jour-
ney-and for what? Just in order to
live UP to the middle class tradition II
a summer vacation for every member
of the family but the husband and .
father.
Mrs. Frank Squires will entertain
Wednesday evening for Miss Martha
Parker, who is the guest of her aunt, |
Conway of Cottonwood Falls who is
visiting Mrs. E: w: Ellis.
The Owls will give a picnic tomorrow |
afternoon at Cedarcrest for Miss Ethel |
Stone of Emporia, who is the guest Of
Miss Una Lytle.
Here is Mrs. John J. Ingalls, cele- |
brated recipe for blackberry jam: |
Look over gallon of blackberries, |
wash and. drain. Pour in a preserving !
kettle, pour in pint of water and cook i
until soft, stirring and MASKING with a
wooden spoon to break up the fruit. |
Take care that it does not scorch. Take
from the fire and press through a wire
sieve into a stone jar. Do not use tin.
Stir this pulp thoroughly. Take Il
quart of the pulp and put in a kettle |
with a quart of sugar measured right,
and previously heated in the oven.
20 minutes, until 1T jellies when drop
ped in cold saucer. Pour into small
Jars and when cold seal Repeat the
cooking with another quart of the pulp
until all has been used. The jam Is
easier and better prepared a quart at a
time. 1t is a good plan in hot weather
to prepare the berries one day, set
away in the cellar and make the jam
in the cool of the next morning.
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Mrs. L. H. Greenwood will enter
tain Informally this evening for Miss
Irene De Wore of OskaIoosa, Iowa
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A college boy living in a Kansas
village finding the routine of a dull
and idle vacation and the henpecking