The National tribune., 1909-06-10
By sENoRA SARA.

noise and dirt of the street, the g1ind
and crouch of everyday life.
In making lobster claridge for the
chafing dish, according to the Waldorf
Astoria grill room chef, one must cook
lobster in butter with a little crushed
garlic, add one glass of brandy, little
curry, one-quarter pint cream. three
spoonfuls of gooseberries; cook 10 min
utes.
A girl said to me that she felt like
committing suicide because she had
such a dreadful complexion. 1t was
inst after we had taken lunch together
L had corn mullins and butter, black
coffee and a dish of strawberries with
out cream. She had just finished up a
half-pound box of cream candies pur-
chased two hours before and devoured
by herself alone. She ordered rich
cream soup, and ate it with rolls and
butter. She had two sotf-shel crabs,
chicken salad with rich mayonnaise
dressing, asparagus in cream, glace
pancake, strawberries with whipped
cream vanilla ice cream and a cup of
hot chocolate, which she cooled with an
extra portion of ice cream. She ate it
ALL and said she had notion to order
a.slice of lemon pie, but she didn't. Her
breakfasts, as l happen to know, con-
sist of broiled steaks, fried potatoes,
eggs in some shape, hot rolls or biscuit,
mullins and cakes, coffee and fruit and
cereal with cream on both. Her din
ners-oh, but what is the use? She is
able to afford dinners that correspond
with the breakfast and lunch, and she
eats 'em, too. She has Indigestion fear
fully. Is unhappy about five hours out
of the day because of it. What is the
remedy? Well, common sense might
help a little, but woman who will
surround that much food three times
day is either a glutton or a--fool would
be harsh, perhaps, but certainly no
woman of sweet characteristics and
sound sense would make pig of her
self just because she could. The real
remedy would be brown toast and black
coffee twice a day with a plain third
meal, but this girl won't take such ad-
vice. She will go on eating and getting
pimpled and greasy and blowsy, and in
middle age will have a waist like an
alderman and step like an elephant
and a temper like Hecate.
1 know a very nice woman, brainy
one, with a sweet face, bright eyes and
beautiful hair, who was predisposed to
put on flesh When she reached 200
and should have weighed about half
that. according to her hight, she got
heart trouble, just fatty degeneration,
you know. Then she went to the doc
tor, and ne said she could do one of
two things-diet or die. She dieted.
She did not starve herself at all--only
ate simple foods, lacking all grease,
lean meats, no sweets and two meals
day. She is prettier than ever, has no
heart trouble, and weighs 125 pounds.
When she goes above that she eats a
little less for awhile. Her health is
superb. Find the lesson for yourself.
To skim grease from soup in a hurry,
use square sheets of clean tissue paper
on the surface of the soup. Lay them
on one at a time, lift off lightly and
every bit of fat comes off. Another way
is to dash some cold water in the kettle
or chunk of ice which brings the
grease to the top in a hurry, and you
can then pour it off by turning the ket-
tie to one side very gently.
Apples cored for baking are delicious
filled with orange marmalade and lit
tie butter and sugar.
When beating eggs observe that there
is no grease on the whisk, as II will
prevent the eggs from frothinE.
A slice Of onion in a dish OF water If
left in the room will. kill the odor of
paint. Sliced onions are an excellent
disinfectant also. Put the slices on a
dish and set in the rooms. Put fresh
onions in the rooms each day. When
the onions turn black in a little while
you may be sure that disinfection is
needed. If the patient has fever or any
contagious disease, burn the onions.
When making flour paste to arply
to wall paper always add some dissolved
alum. The alum not only makes the
starch hold better, but it will kill any
insects in the walls. A wash of alum
water before the paper is put on is a
good thing to disinfect, as well as to
kill.
Mary = Wood W a oo,,,o5 I..,