The National tribune., 1908-08-27

grow into unlovabie citizens with no re-
gard for their parents, irreligious, and
lawless- Half the crimes of the day
would never be committed IL boarding
house life had not eaten like leprous
sore into the home lives of the Ameri-
can people. Children of this genera
ton know nothing about "home" life.
4 What kind of homes can children
j reared in flats have? Three months
in the Ardmore flats, six weeks in the
4 Youkno fats, six months in the Getout
hats, a year in the Livemore flats. and
so on When the child is grown, will it
look back with pleasure upon the
| pretty home in which 1t was born and
i reared? VIII it recall the happy even
4 ings on the vine envolved porch with
mother to tell stories and father to
read from wonderful books? Or the
| little sitting room and the bright lights
and the glowing fires, with father and
| mother in happy mood and the chill
dren sitting up as a great favor to hear
some new story?
| What earthly romance can there be
in three months stunts in fireless flats
with whistling steam pipes, elevator
\ bells. quarreling neighbors. and all the
other ills attendant upon living like
bees in a hive, each trying to dispos-
sess the other, and stinging right and
| left in pure wantoness?
These are the things that kill home
| life and destroy all the romance OF
living. 1t will in time eat into the
| National life and as surely destroy
| it as did the selfishness and extrav-
| agance and sensuality of the Romans
| destroy the old Roman civilization.
The women are not all to blame, though
| they are most to blame, for they could
put an end to, the boarding and fiat
| living if the would. The men of the
household help along this extravagant
| spirit, this indisposition to work, to
think, to act, that seems to have so many
of our women in its grip. Men like to
have the women of their household Just
as free from work and worry and care
cred household, and they strain
a point, several points, to have
! it come about that way. because
their women are only too glad to
accept that kind of life. Soon men be-
gin to live beyond their incomes, then
run more mad more in debt, become
involved break down, steal money
that belongs to their employers, and
if suicide does not follow, a deserted
wife, home and children usually do.
Then comes divorce. and several hurt
lives. One follows the other as night
does the day, and the inevitable con-
sequences cannot be Stunned. Broken
homes and broken lives with an eter-
nal stain. The worst of it is that so
many innocent people suffer along With
the INDECENT and vicious.
The remedy? 1t is in the hands Of
every mother. She can begin right
now to interest herself in her children.
in her home, i'll her husband. 1t may
be that your girls have got beyond You,
that your boys have no respect for
you or your opinions. 1t viii be a sad
condition of affairs if this is true, but
you can at least make the attempt to
win them back. You will by SO much
begin the reform that must come be-
fore many years if we do not want
disaster to overtake our boasted
''home" Institutions. 1t is said that
France has no word which means
home" We have the word, but we
are sadly lacking in the homes. France
does have the home. and in it the
children are subservient and obedient
to the two heads of the family. The
children reverence their parents, and
there is no loafing about the streets. no
going about alone, and as for children =
debating what they shall eat and wear,
where they shall go, whether they shall
attend this school or that the French
parent would expect the sun to fall
rather than a child of his should do
such an unheard of thing. The same
is true of China, also it is true of the
japanese. In those two strange Orien-
tai countries the children are reveren-
tial. obedient, courteous to strangers,
seen, not heard. We can learn much
from the Orientals of the duty and re-
spect children should pay to their elders.
A good recipe for cheese cake where
it is made from the curdled milk is
thiS Take thrpa nIrar Of mill NJ
add to it rennet according to directions
on the package. As soon as curdled
drain in a strainer to get rid of the
whey. Then beat the curd in mortar
with three-fourths of pound of but
ter and one-half pound almonds
blanched and pounded to cream with
rosewater. Mix with them the yolks of
ten eggs. one pint dried currants. one
grated nutmeg and three-fourths pound
of sugar. When the puff paste is ready
mix the various ingredients together,
turn into the patty tins or pie plate
and bake in a quick oven. watching
carefully that they do not burn. Serve
cold.
While the Bulgarians have produced
no specially noted Gordon bleus, they
are a people of faculty and know
how to make the most of their some
what meager food supplies. In the
cooking of beans, fresh dried, they
can even give points to Bostonian.
They have a unique way of putting up
snap beans for the winters use, easy
and excellent as to results. The beans
are picked when just the tender, snap
py" age, are washed clean, strung and
broken into inch pieces as though
ready for cooking. Now the housewife
threads a coarse needle with strong
thread. and in a jiffy strings the pieces
of broken beans on the thread. AS
soon as a generous loop is made 1t is
hung~fn the sunshine to dry.
When perfectly dry it is laid away
from the dust until ready for use. Then
take as many as desired. soak in luke
warm water several hours, and coof
the same as fresh beans.
This is tea punch:
Infuse one tablespoonful green tea in
one quart freshly boiled water. Steep
three minutes, then pour off into the
juice of three lemons and the juice and
grated yellow rinf of one orange. Add
a cup of sugar. and cool in the ice box
for several hours. When ready to serve
add a cupful of any fruit sirup desired,
fill glasses partly full and finish out with
charged water
This is what the English call 'Iemon
squash:
Scrub half dozen lemons, rub all the
"zest" from the peel over six Jumps