The National tribune., 1908-08-27
By SENORA SARA.


i To the example set by Mrs Bryce
/ wife of the British ambassador, ma,
/ be due the general introduction of al
| interesting fashion from the British din
| ner table in this country. This is tn
compounding of salad dressing by tn
| hostess, the trick always being turne,
without conversation being permitted t,
lag for moment. So interested hav
| become many women in Washington so
ciety in Mrs. Bryce's hardness with tn,
salad dressing bowl and the superio
! flavor of her mixing. that they hav,
| learned all the secrets of the perform
ance from Mrs. Bryce herself.
| However. here is hint for the l1ostes
content to learn at secondhand. A small
bowl is placed at Mrs. Bryce's righ
| hand, in which bit OF garlic and sew
eral herbs are crushed. A piece o.
| square ice is brought on a crystal plat
ter. and this is slipped into the small
bowl. Mrs. Bryce then slowly pou-:
about four tablespoonfuls of oil on the
ice, permitting 1t to trickIe down on thu
garlic and herbs. When the oil has al
trickled off the ice Is lifted out, and
Mrs. Bryce adds dry mustard, SALT pep
per and vinegar, and gently stirs the
whole for three minutes.
How many times have you wound the
clock in year and how many times
have you committed the indiscretion OF
winding it to the full extent?
In winding the clock don't turn the
key until the springs are so frightened
you must stop. This overtaxes the
strength of the spring. and the fina
destruction of it is inevitable.
Like all other machinery, and like
the muscular power of a human, the
spring of clock. should never be taxed
to its full strength.
When it is noticed that we arc near
ing the full amount of winding it i.
time to stop
And did you ever think that the wind
ing of the spring that controls the gong
can well be eliminated when there is q
nervous person or an invalid in a home
Only in very few places is it necessary
to keep tabs on time as regularly as
the striking of the clock.
A preacher in Washington last Sum
day declared that Americans are be-
coming nation of Boarders. He de-
clares we are losing sight of family
ties.
There is too little of the home life; (;
we lose sight of our families; we are
not in close touch with our parents -
said Rev. Mr.. Bailey. can orator has
said there is no man who Will, not
answer the call to arms in defense
of his home. But who will shoulder
a musket to defend his, boarding
house? There is something indescrib-
ably beautiful about the word home,
with all the associations which it
calls to mind.
THE French have no word for home,
unless it is the word house. and it
would be of interest to know how
much of the restless spirit of France.
the political upheavals, and social
faults, can be traced to this imperfect
understanding of the home"
Now the mournfui thing about this
statement of the Rev. Mr.. Bailey is
that 1t is too sadly true. Maybe it is
true of the civilized world. but this
writer can only speak for the parts of
the country called ''The United States. -
1t is certainly true here. Take any
one of the great cities of this country
and rooms and board stare at you
from swell houses to the slums
Rooms and board" advertisements
fill pages and pages and pages of all
the great dailies. and "Wanted-Rooms
and board fill other pages and pages
and pages.
Why?
The answer is not far to find by one
who wants to tell the truth. And the
truth can come with greater force
from one who knows the why and
wherefore. The Rev. Mr.. Bailey ought
to have gone further, even if he did
fare worse, and read the women of
his congregation some serious reffec-
tions on the way they live. 1t is safe
to say that four-ffths of those who sat
in the cool park listening to his board
ing sermon, were boardcrs. Why?
Because Washington is city of board
ing houses. Taking boarders for COM
pany," as it were. There are not fewer
than $4,000 boarding houses in this
town. There are not fewer than
100000 of them in New York city.
Philadelphia and Boston have not so
many proportionately, but most of the
larger Eastern cities have quite as
many.
Why?
Poor housekeepers and worse SER
wants. That is the why. Poor, foolish
school girls take upon themselves the
cares of married life before they
know how to make a cup of
coffee or boil an egg. Their
mothers before them were foolish
or the girls would be better pre-
pared for married life. Lack of
money and no knowledge of housekeep-
ing sends the young couple into
boarding house. And, oh. the horror
of them, WaShington's suddenly
active inspectors have been revealing
wealth of cock reaches, flies, filth
and foulness such as no one dreamed
of, and many boarding houses have
been closed up here. If girls were
reared to understand that half the
making of a home rested upon their
shoulders, and were taught as Queen
AleXandra's daughters have been
taught, to sew and bake, and cook,
sweep, iron and mend, and then when
they make new fires on new hearth
stones, those fires would burn to the
end of the long, happy married lives,
into which bad servants could not pen
citrate and inharmony would never find
its way. The American girl, who
"loathes" the thought of queens and
crowns. sets herself a peg higher than
the daughters of royalty, however, and
says that she does not like work, she
does not intend to learn to work, and
she does not work. r She wants to
wear purple and fine> linen at the eX-
pense of some good man; to keep her
lily hands from soil. and devote her
time to pleasures of the palate or the
senses. She gets grossly fat in time,
her husband becomes a mere machine