Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-04

Is the road very dreary7
Patience yet
Rest viii be sweeter If thou are aweary.
And after the night cometn the morning
CHEEKY.
Then bIde awee. and dinna fret
The clouds have a silver lining,
Don't forget;
and though Hes hidden still the sun is
shining.
Courage. instead Of tears and vain re-
Just bide awee. and dinna fret
with toll and cares unenJipg
Art beset?
BethInk thee. how the storms from
heaven descending
snap the stiff oak. but spare the viii
low bending.
And hide awee. and dinna fret
Grief sharper sting doth borrow
But yesterday is gone. and shall its
Unfit as for the present and the NOR
Nay. oide awee. s.d dinna fret
An over anxious brooding
Doth beget
a host OF fears and fantasies deluding;
Then. brother. lest these torments be
intruding.
Just bide awee. and dinna fret
When my mind turns on the subject
3 or eating and preparing meals for the
family 1 almost invariably think OF a
little woman. a one-time neighbor. whose
cook had 60 go 20 her three times q day
10 End out what was 10 be cooked for
the next meal. such brain straining"
time as it was for her to thing Of what
she wanted. often the cook would say:
But you had that yesterday.
Then would come the reply
Yes, but am AT my wits end; have IL
again
then wondered how my mother had
managed. for 1 had never encountered
that scene in her house 1 found out
later that she always went to the store
room at 10 or a little earlier. ana gave
the bin OF fare for the day. She had
made I'D her mind before she went what
she would have. and there was nothing
but the easy job OF getting the material
In shape Later in my own little home L
have tried to plan a week ahead. thong.
/ was going 20 do the cooking as well
as the planning. and found it easier.
can easily understand how the mind
refuses to work on this problem just aft
er the appetite has been satiated Switch
your thoughts off on some other sub
ject for an hour or so. Then III you
cannot project your imagination far
enough 70 get the next meal fixed TO
suit you get cook book. or some OF the
many bills OF fare that are now given
in the papers and see what can be
adapted to your own family needs This
plan will give you q variety and will
teach your family TO eat what Is set be-
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science sake" Don't forget that COM
mon sense must be mixed with every
meal set before your family. and adapt
the material TO the needs OF the body;
IN other words. do not expect the man
who has to do hard physical work to
relish only the dainties that viii salts
rfy those who are going out.
/ went to a home that had a doctor
there al the time almost. and after that
meal I was not surprised the vegeta-
baes were beans. rice and potatoes, all
three full OF starch. and really to be
USED to pack the coarser foods Fried
ham was the meat and the desert was
tspiOca pudding. Variety is as much
the spice for the table as anywhere
else In life. and In the end is as cheap
IS to confine ones diet TO few .-.1ngs.
do not mean that a table should be
loaded three times a day. as much in
. Temperance can be shown at the cable
as elsewhere. but IL you have potatoes
one meal vary with beans or rice the
next day. It is awful for the mother TO
Fix the leftovers for the very next meal
or course. II must be done il there Is no
refrigerator in which to keep them. and
A. you can help II do not have beef soup
the day that you have roast or steak.
The soup stock viii keep and AZ you have
milk you can easily set up a delicious
cream soup using the leftover potatoes.
peas. celery OF what-not for the flavor
ing Cream soup has so much food
value. however. that you really do not
need a heavy meat with IL, and that is
why so often you see IL suggested for
1uncheons when there seems little else
on The bill OF fare. IL is a pity that
apples are 50 expensive: they are so val
liable as a part OF ones diet I am
glad 70 say that we we're not raised on
pies: some folks held up their hands at
the extravaganza OF fruit rolls and hard
sauce. but there never was a healthier
family than we. and I sometimes think
one reason was because we had little In
the way OF pies and what was fried was
kept clear Of the sodden state that
many fried dishes are in.
Baked or stewed fruit. fruit sauces
and fruit dumplings are cheaper and
more wholesome than pies, and as for
the custards. instead OF the soggy un-
der crust, that so many times We are
afflicted with, why not put them ia
cups and bake them and serve that way
Get the cheap thick cups without han
dies and they will not cost bit more
IN the Ions run than your pie tins.
/ know that there are a lot Of men
~ha read these columns and the most II
tnem think that the page is wasted. |
tell OF these things. but there are hun
dreds Of them who appreciate the good
things that / hope from time to time to
put before the housewives who rea1