The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
WOMAN'S COLUMN
A Department Devoted Especially to the
Interests of Ladies and the Home.
Edited by PRUDE NcE PRUDE
Edited by PRUDE ScE PRUDE

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nothing of h, pocrisy about you, Il AN
if you could repeat Omar KLsyyam
backward. And it's true.
And l would suggest to ev't' man
or woman who would be intellect
ually and morally cultured to extract
at east one topic from the, assort-
ment of small talk and digest that
subject unit he or she can talk about
1t intelligently and correctly. Marcus
Ordeyne might have married his rel
alive Dora if she hadn't Jared on his
nerves so repeatedly by quoting vari-
Gus bits of wisdom and crediting
them to the wrong sources. Nothing
is more unjust to the poet himself,
nothing more grating upon the nerves
of the literary man or woman who
knows whereof he speaks, than to
hear some surface skinner attempt
to analyze or criticize a passage
which he nsinterprets through ignor-
ance of the subject. And if one con-
verses with poet or an author Or
musician or an artist or a scientist
of achievement, it would be the part
of wisdom not to seek to display
ones own knowledge of the sub
! iect but to listen, intelligently. Good
| listeners are at premium. If you
cannot draw your acquaintance out,
talk about something of which you
are sure. The kind of culture that
won't bear sounding isn't culture at
all. It's hypocrisy. And that is what
the common person whom the falsely
cultured term "a creature" or "a per-
son" cast upon society. 1t is shallow
he says, hollow mockery, vain pre-
tense. 1t judges man by his rainment
instead of his attainment. You can't
corner it and make it talk your fill OF
things worth while. 1t chatters like
a monkey or parrot and wisdom is
frowned upon or serious subjects
which confront every man and wo-
man for solution, are glanced at and
waved aside. There is injustice in
that argument but there is also
mountains of truth.
Surface culture is decayed at the
core, but true, honest culture may be
found, oftimes, as the thinkers of all
times have pointed out, in overalls
and jumpers or in kitchen dresses, in
~ ;,11 a.,
ling in the words of the ungrammat-
ical as often as in the speech of the
professor, it is, moreover, true that
culture is not only of books and
music and art and knowledge, but Of
kindness of heart, and virtue, and
sympathy.
that Coppee utterance which Monsi-
eur Provost tells about.
do you speak English, Monsi-
eur?
Mon, Madame, | am still learning
French"
An exchange says:
young and inexperienced house.
keeper so much as to know what tC
do with the remnants There will
often be left on the table a bit OF
meat that doesn't seem large enough
for any practical purpose, and yet il
is so nice that her conscience won't
or shouldn't-let her throw it away.
What can be done with it2
) Well, there are ways in plenty.
certain young housekeeper one day
evolved a particularly nice Dish ou
OF her ingenuity and some remnants
At luncheon her husband praised
it and asked what it was made from.
Chiefly from my brains" was thu
laughing reply.
"Well,' said the appreciative fel
low, Il always knew you had brain.
in plenty, but / never before realized
how delicately Favored they were.
"Picked-up dinners" as they ar,
) called in blunt English, are Dy n.
means an unimportant feature in tn,
economies of housekeeping. If 20,
want to call them by more attrac
tive name, you can speak of them o.
rechauffes, and while practically tn,
same thing, it doesn't sound quite S,
makeshifty
> | said practically" the same thing
but in reality there is a difference
And the difference is between goini
along on the same dull level of doin,
things, or living up to an ideal whicl
demands conscientious care an
thought, with the desire aways to d.
fore. Say what you will, there !
a bit better than you did the time be
something in name" and you viii
accept with better grace a "rechauff
{ of beef" than beef warmed in it
gravy"
- The tendency of the average Amer
lean to waste, especially in the mat
. ter of food, has been a great dea
: commented upon, and there is enoug
= truth in it to carry the crticisr
l. along, instead of letting it be de
: Gently buried.
;. One reason for this waste Is tina
until quite recently, sufficient after
ton has not been paid to cookery a
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