Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-02

wanted chowder for dinner today, but
there is not a single fish in the market,
and so we have to have mutton. cold stor-
age. from Australia or New Zealand.
Just now alligator-pears are in, and
we have them for luncheon and dinner
every day. They are neither vegetable
nor a fruit, but the very best thing you
ever tasted. i can make them into about
20 different kinds of salad and we never
tire of them. Sometimes I serve them
with oyster cocktail sauce and sometimes
cut them in cubes, and we eat them in
our soup. They combine best with toma-
toes and peppers. but they are never
never cooked.
Several years ago we had TO go to
Honolulu to live for ten months. We
lived at the Young Hotel. and the stew
ard was forever talking of What to Eat,
and so, when 1 came home, had to have
it, too. Shortly after I began to receive
it, there was a large party of congress-
men down to look over the island. Ny
husband was chairman of the entertain
ment committee. We entertained Mr.
Frederick Stevens and his wife He saw
one of my copies of What to Eat and as
he had been chairman Of the Pure Food
commissions, we all were much interested
In Pure Food, and this magazine"
i kept memorandum of one days
work just to show what my domestic
life is. We have breakfast at Z I have
four servants, but many personal duties
looked after the birds, three rooms To
brush up, the bath room to 'sapolio,' and
the ironing to do (handkerchiefs, tray
cloths and doileys. for the real wash goes
to town to the Chinaman). There were
three dozen napkins and as many hand
kerchiefs, so the ironing took about two
q 1hor
the electric had a vacation. brushed
two suits Of clothes for my husband and
spent two hours packing up my mothers
china. We have to wire everything Ia
the wall on account of earthquakes.
had two hens hatch and had to see the
boy get them moved into clean quarters
and see that the babies were all right
Unless it is raining extra hard 60
| Through the chicken coops at least once
day to see that there are no sick ones
I like to get the eggs myself so that ]
may know which hens lay
! Il clean house on Saturday and in addi-
. ton to cleaning baked an English seed
cake in the morning, mended IA pairs OF
stockings and socks. superintendent clean
ing out the caves (this has to be done
once a week for mosquitoes) and saw
that the BOY oiled them, did the ordinary
Bedroom work, had all the dogs washed
and my horse. This horse has a shoe
gall and have had to look AFTER him for
three or four weeks, to see that the boy
runs cold water over the gall for half an
hour twice a day.
Il had a guest for lunch, so fixed the
! tea things and connected up the electric
chahng dish. I forgot watering the
| plants, about 200 of them, and lookinE
after the chickens. Also, I forgot the
shirtwaist 1 made and looking after the
| Chinese washing.
Il am much interested in your work in
! the Associated clubs.
Hawaii has excellent sanitation. We
| have sewers. city water everywhere, and
electric lights The board of health IL
under the territory, and most of the
money used in this work is raised by g
| self-imposed tax on the merchandise land
cd here by the merchants themselves
| They do the same in Honolulu. I think
| the tax here is 10 cents on every ton
A man from the board of health is II
every house at least once a month. The
rules are very stringent. Every two weeks
every cesspool is oiled by the board Of
! health.
Anyone finding a dead rat must reporI
! to the board at once. They take it to the