The National tribune., 1909-09-23
By SENORA SARA.

readers, and know exactly what they
want without the trouble of making
their desires known by word of mouth.
This attitude is difficult of comprehen-
sion by the open-min6ed, sweet-tem-
pered woman, who makes her wants
known after marriage exactly as she
did before. In the old counting days
her sweetheart was not a mind-reader.
He had to have sly little suggestions
vailed in coQuetry as to the flowers, the
books, the candy wanted by his lady
love. She let him know when she
wanted to go to the theater, to a party,
for ride. OF course, she didn't come
right out and say so in that many
words. but there are ways of letting
things be known, and she did it with
finesse and dispatch. After marriage,
why sit around and look glum and sulk
and put on the airs of a martyr because
husband" does not have time to study
out what it is you want? 1t is an alb
normal attitude, and it makes woman
old and grumpy, unlovely and mighty
poor company. Don't try the martyr
business if you want to retain the love
of your husband. He will probably be
only too glad to give you anything in
reason if you will smile upon him as in
the old love-making days. Now, don't
say that a woman can't always be smil-
ing. OF course, she can't. Neither can
man; but they can both smile at each
other great deal oftener than they do,
and keep their sober faces for the hours
when they are separated This is a
world of give and take" and the same
are pretty evenly divided up between
man and his wife. OF course, l am
speaking of the men and women who
join hands for better and for worse, ex-
pecting to carve out d fortune for them
selves and build little homes and
hearthstones. 1t is true that the wife
has hard knocks. She has to bear the
children and all the burdens of plan
ming for them and for the future, with
small means to go on, and it is often
difficult, all but heart-breaking. But
don't you suppose that it is hard for the
father also? He has to make the
money, and he works all day long, possi-
bly, it is night work, and he frets and
worries that he can't make more. You
should not blame him that the finances
are straitened. You knew how it would
be when you married him. You knew
he was poor, and you accepted all the
conditions when you accepted him. Just
you remember that you are as much to
blame as your husband, for without
your help he would not be struggling to
maintain a family or a home, in all
probability. If, on the other hand, you
play the martyr, you set him to think
ing that perhaps he would have been
happier if he had married some other
girl; girl who was not SO good a
housekeeper, perhaps, but who laughed
and made merry, and seemed never to
have a serious thought. The first thing
you know he will be calling upon the
old fame, or some woman who repre-
sents the same joyous features of life.
and then you can play martyr as a
game of solitaire.
Tomatoes should be skinned before
being used for salad. To do this easily,
place the fruit in a basin and pour
boiling water over. Drain at once, and
the skin will come off without any
trouble. The tomatoes should then be
thoroly chilled before serving as SAL
ad. whole tomato on a leaf of lettuce
or in a nest Of cress with a rich dress
Ing is delicious.
Tomato marmalade is very acceptable
to most school children for a luncheon
dainty. To one quart of ripe tomatoes,
after they have been peeled,
cut up, brought to the boil and
SKINNED thoroly, or to each two-pound
can of tomatoes, take two pounds of
sugar, two oranges and one lemon. Re-
move the pulp from the oranges and
lemon with spoon, boil the rinds un-
til they are tender and cut them in
narrow strips with a pair of scissors.
W,
stirring constantly for about two hours,
or until the marmalade is thick and
the strips of rind and pieces of fruit are
transparent. Seal tightly in small jars.
This manner of cleaning silver is
for by one who ought to know
il is good or not. 1t is so SIM
pie that it is given, and you can try
1t easy like" without much trouble:
Place two quarts of potato peelings
and one quart of water in an iron fry
ing pan or spider, cover and boil 10
minutes. Then drop in as many silver
spoons, knives and forks as the water
Will cover. Continue the boiling, and
In less than 10 minutes they will look
like new. Remove the silver, wash in
usual manner, rubbing well with dry,
soft towel.
This recipe for Chicken and maca-
ronf' makes the mouth fairly water. |
The dish is most appetiZing: Cover a
jointed fowl with boiling water and
boil for five minutes. Then cook until
tender with the water just below the
boiling point. Fry tablespoonful of
bits of salt pork, sprinkle the pieces of
fowl with half teaspoonful of salt,
dust with tablespoonful of flour and
brown in the hot fat. Arrange the
pieces in the center of freproof plat
ter. Put around il one-fourth of a
pound of macarOni which has been
broken into half-inch pieces and cooked
tender in salted water with an onion
and part of a carrot Pour over sauce
made of one-fourth of a cupful each of
flour and butter cooked together and
one pint of chicken liquor. Sift over
with cheese, and set in oven long
enough to melt cheese.
Try canning a little pineapple with
pears. One pineapple TO about seven
or eight pounds of-pears, or more, ac-
cording 10 taste. This makes a nice
preserve, an improvement on the usual
ly fiat pear when canned alone.
A reader of The National Tribune
asks for recipe for making cheese. 1t
is quite easy TO make cheese on a small
scale, tho the operation is thought TO
be somewhat difficult. The following
directions are very simple and complete: |
Place your milk in tin vessel, and |
place this in larger one filed with
water, so that in heating il over a fire
1t cannot burn the milk. The heat re-
quired is only 81 degrees Fair. There
fore, in very hot weather it may be
necessary TO cool the water outside the
vat with ice, so as to cause the milk TO
attain this temperature Then the milk
is exposed TO the action of the so-called
''rennet." Tiiis is the lining of one of
the stomachs of the calf and possesses
strong digestive powers, especially for
milk, which it coagulates very rapidly.
Even an infusion or preparation of THE
membrane possesses the same property
and is often used instead The uIIanfify