The National tribune., 1908-01-16
By SENIOR SARA.

| There Heeu De lew II any TuCtloHS
in house the mistress of which has
| common sense, an even temper and a
certain amount of foresight. However,
she should be capable of managing small
details for herself, and should not un
duly bother her husband about things
which she should carry thru alone, be-
cause to do that is one of the reasons
why she exists at all. I am not one bit
astonished at the ridiculous manner in
which some people talk about marriage
and the fearful thraldOm and misery
| thereof, when / have seen the idiotic
way in which some women behave. and
1.-THE manner in which they take every
little detail of their lives to their un-
| fortunate spouseS to legislate for, from
i the evil doings of the cook and washer
woman to the real or supposed social
Sights they have met with. A man de-
tests these puerile matters, and she is
wise who can manage her own domestic
details and who never sees any sights.
1t is only very small person who can
be snubbed. and to acknowledge a snub-
bling acknowledges ones own smaIlness
in singularly frank and open manner.
But If a woman feverishly dwells on
| these things it maddens man alto
| gether, and L therefore advise the wo-
man who is not emancipa ted, and who
doesn't think about marriage in the
imbecile way all too many people fancy
they do nowadays, to arrange her home
and her life so as to have as little fric-'
ton as possible, and to avoid all the
small carelessness and forgetfulness
from which SO many silly little disagree
ables all too often spring, resulting
sooner or later in the grave quarrels
which may undermine a household and
bring the whole ESTATE of matrimony"
into deserved contempt. Men are i'm
patient creatures, and must be recog-
niZpl Suph thav al
much more resentful of small discom-
forts than women are.
1t will pay the woman who has a
little money to spend ON white goods
and hosiery to go round-not round
the bargain counters, but thru the reg
ular departments 1t will also be to her
advantage to learn the science of stuffs,
so as to be able to tell cotton from linen
and Isle thread. Manufacturers are
clever. They understand the art of fin
ishing so as to make cotton look like
linen and thread like silk. The manu-
facturers' laundress is a genius. She
has brains in her fiatiron, and she can
do up little square of batiste so cley-
erly that the average shopper will pass
1t and buy it for linen lawn. Then, too
the kntters will design a lisle-thread
garment, touch the top stitch with silk,
and along will come woman with S1.99
and snatch it up under the delusion
that she is getting pure silk. And that's
the way the money goes.
A Scotchman in search of a Scotch
stew appeals for directions that will
give him the dish dear to his boyhood.
1t is Scotch woman who gives the rule,
and American eaters testify to its good
ness. Two pounds of neck of mutton.
Cut the meat from the bones, dredge
thickly with flour. and fry it brown in
a spoonful of good drippings or butter.
Put the bones in saucepan and just
cover them with cold water, letting it
come to boiling point, and then SIM
rner-ng it not less than one hour. When
the meat is brown barely cover II Nth
boiling water and let it simmer an hour
Strain over it the water from the bones.
and add a heaped teaspoonful of SAT-
and a pinch of cayenne. Now put in +;
sieve two cupfuls of pastry flour, add a
rounded teaspoonful of cream of tartar,
and half a one of soda and salt, and .sift.
Add a teaspoonful of sugar and scant
cupful of milk and beat all smoothly
together. The meat should be in a
broad, shallow stew-pan. Drop in the
dough by tablespoonfuls; cover close. |
and boil for Is minutes. At the end of
this time arrange the dumplings in a |
circle round hot platter and pour the
stew in the center.
For many years the English looked
with deep suspicion at American canned
goods, believing them to be a purely
Yankee notion born of an insane long |
ing to eat things out of season; long
ing pardonable enough in the Million
aire who had lighthouses. but dark error |
on the part OF his poorer neighbor. They |
did not know, nor indeed is 1t generally |
known, that canning really began 2,005
years and more ago, but is none the less
a Yankee discovery or rediScovery: for
it was party of Cincinnatians who. Wis |
fting Pompeii when the excavations
were just beginning many years ago, |
found in the pantry of a house just un
covered many jars of preserved figs. |
One was opened. and they were found |
to be perfectly fresh and good. Careful
examination showed that the figs hal
been put into jars while hot an aperture |
left for the steam to escape, and the !
hole sealed with wax. A wise man took |
the hint, and the next year canning was
introduced into the United States. and
has grown into the enormous industry |
it now represents.
One of the most delicious forms of |
jelly is the somewhat new combination
which follows: Take a dozen Newtewn |
pippins, or, failing them, an apple as
nearly like them as possible. and cut
them in small bits. using skins and cores
without the seeds. Stew slowly i'll
pint of water till soft. Turn into a jelly
bag or hair sieve and let them drain
gradually. Add to this juice that of one
dozen tangerine oranges, and boil this
liquid slowly for half an hour. having
first added one pint of granulated sugar
to each pint of juice. Fer each half
pint jelly glass cut three thin slices of
oranges, soak them in brandy, and lay |
them in the bottom of each glass. To
seal them, lay over thi:z tis','c II per,
and then a round of cotton batting
pastng a paper over all. The batting
insures against molding.
Vellum, used by itself or in conjunc-
tion with suede leather, may be success
fully applied to book covers and photo
graph frames; either material adapts
itself TO embroidery without difficulty
in gold thread and colored silks. with
fancy stitches in conventional designs.
Oriental art is often a good guide TO the
worker in this and other cases. espe-
cially when in the Japanese style, from
which endless useful hints may be
CLEANED; but English embroidery a la
Japonaise, if indifferently carried out,
is apt to degenerate into Il caricature.
Some active women, who pride them
selves in housekeeping, seem to forget
that the object of keeping house is that
human beings may be accommodated in
it Their sole idea seems to be this