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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-22
High Cost of Liping Hints.

" Yet l am sending In these proofs of what may be done to cut down market bills. and couple with them petition that other like minded women will contribute the re- suits of their experiences:
 "CREAMED EGGS-Boll half a dozep eggs very hard and when they are done drop at once into ice cold water to prevent the yolks from blackening. Leave them there until they are dead cold. Meanwhile make good drawn butter, using milk in- stead of water, and adding little finely minced parsley
 Peel the shell carefully from the eggs and cut them into quarters, Arrange them in deep dish or in nappies, pour the sauce over them, and set them (coyered) in the oven for five minutes to heat the eggs Serve hot.
 "SCALLOPED EGGS-Prepare as above and strew over the surface of the dish or the nappies when filled fine bread crumbs Dot with butter and pepper and salt at discretion.
 SCALLOPS OF EGGS AND FISH Boil the eggs hard and let them cool. Make a nice drawn butter, and when you have chopped the cold eggs quite small, mix with the sauce. Turn into bake dish or nappies, filling these three-quarters full Cover with any colo fish you may have left over Remove all the skin and bones and mince as fine as powder before strew- ing over the egg mixture Bake covered, until the mixture Is hissing hot.
 Serve lemon and heated crackers with
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sour-you may like to have mine. 1t offers variety, at any rate:
 Plump two pounds of layer raisins by pouring boiling water over them, letting them stand in this just five minutes. then draining and laying them out to dry upon a cloth. The cucumbers must be prepared at least six hours before the pickle Is made I do this overnight Pare neatly and cut into rounds an inch in thickness and sprinkle with salt. Set in a cold place.
 "When you are ready to begin the seri- ous business of the hour drain all the brine away that has accumulated about the cu- cumbers.
 Into an enameled or porcelain kettle put two quarts of vinegar for every two pounds of cucumbers and the same of ralsins. Stir into the vinegar two cups of brown sugar (full cups), two tablespoonfuls of mustard seed. one tablespoonful of celery seed. one teaspoonful of whole peppercorns. six blades of mace, and half dozen sticks of cinnamon an inch long.
 ' Boil vinegar, sugar. and spices together fifteen minutes and drop in the drained cucumbers and raisins alternately. When all are in simmer gently for ten minutes Put up hot in pint jars and seal. It will be fit to use in fortnight and will keep
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A SYMPOSIUM ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

upon the children" I think 1t must also be written somewhere that the virtues of the mother will, likewise be visited upon them. Whoever said 1t was on the track of Gods truth. When that angel heard my story she took me in her arms and cried over me as if her heart were breaking. As soon as she could speak she begged me to recollect that my father had done what he thought. was rightlln Yes! mean every one of the exclamation marksi tell you that of such loyal. loving. suffering souls Is the kingdom or heaven If I didn't believe that l shouldn't want to go to heaven
 Did my father-one of the best men who ever liveo, and an elder in the church. ask my pardon next day, or ever, for the wrong he had done meY
 If you have any such idea you never knew men of that type who governed families in righteousness fifty years ago. He only growled when I came down. pale with excitement and loss of sleep, 'Johni you should have told me at supper that your music lesson was last night. Never go out again without permission. am sur prised your teacher told you to come to him at such an hour. I shall speak to him about 1t and see 1t does not happen again. I can't have you running the streets at all hours of the night!' That was all
 tell you, parentS-fathers at least- did not love their children in that day a we of this generation love ours! They left all that sort of thing to the women kind. There is one text I learned at my mothers knee that have never been able to appreciate as ministers and saints would have us take it-' Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. l am not strong upon literal quotations, but that's the gist of 1t. Heay- en help us if the father of sinners and saints has no more compassion for us poor mortals than the fathers of our flesh had upon the tender, shrinking flesh akin to theirs. yet cruelty beaten by their many stripes!
 Forgive this tirade! It rushed up like water from an unsealed spring when read the defense of fogging, indiscriminately administered. I have four children of my own. They are dear, obedient. and. in my sight, altogether lovely Their moth CT has punished them when they needed it, as they do sometimes-being human. Heaven helping me, I will never lay the weight of my finger upon them! It is my firm conviction that father should never strike his child. His head Is too hot; his temper Is too nasty; his hand is too heavy. Let the women do the disciplining for the family They are built that way" and never carry 1t too far
 Forgive this long letter. Burn 1t, if you like, but let the experience of this one of your masculine members have some in- fiuence in deciding how, when, and by whom the rod shall be yielded when a little child Is at the other end of it.
 JOHN r. P, New York City,
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I agree with the writer so far as to trained from the start, it yet may need a 'strapping now and then should it's tenn per rise above normal, or the flow of angry words Cor as the writer says. lying ) exceed speed limit. I do not approve of corporal punishment at school and am really glad it Is done away with. It is often administered too severely. thus com ing under the head of savagery.' I say this while admitting that the two or three little switchings had the honor @ of re- ceiving in the schoolroom surely made me more obedient, thus accomplishing the de- sired end without fatality to mind or body. That is quite a different matter from fam fly discipline.
 There are children so constituted that a reasonable talking to will work all that could be wished for m the way of reformation. I say reasonable for some children will not listen to reasoning and must be dealt with more peremptorily. Nothing tries my patience more than to hear a parent continually arguing or beg ging in managing refractory child.
 !" Yes, I believe that a good switching laid on in the proper manner Is the best possible medicine for some children. Take the children in my immediate neighbor- hood There are precious few who respect and love their parents as they should-and love and respect go hand in hand, you know.
 God pity the parents who have not the stamina to say. My children must obey me so long as they live under my roof and are part of my family, with no ifs" and ands " about it Of course, if words will enforce obedience. so much the better. But there are souls at stake, and if you are obliged for the good of these to resort to stringent measures, they will thank you some day for doing your duty.
 " It makes my heart ache to think how few at the present day enter into the right sense of the solemn relations existing be- tween parent and child.
 What did the writer mean in saying that one ought not to whip a child after he Is P or 15 years old? Has 1t reached the age of perfection and where no more cor rection is needed? To my way of thinking the formative period is not then over. The children are entering upon the critical period when they make or mar their characters. Their minds are more reten- tive, if not more receptive. than in infancy. However. it is not always advisable to use the rod then. If boy or girl has the idea that it may be used the moral effect is wholesome Never let them know that the switch is definitely out of commits sion
 We have boy between the ages named who has, as yet, caused us very little trou- ble. but never has the father told him IoF Ho hoe Iofl or4A ,1 he ever do iti We are loving and tender with him-perhaps too indulgent. But when he does wrong we show him his faults. Then, if he fails to correct them. We show him the way in style he can not mistake and always with success. When the Bible says Spare the rod and ruin the child it means something;
 '' ANOTHER MOTHER, Atlanta, Ga."
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well until it is all eaten. No more popular pickle comes to my table.
 ANNE s. D., Buffalo N. Y" l can easily believe it. The combination Is harmonious and it must be palatabe.
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 Dresser for Home Lover.
 If Home Lover will send me her ad- dress l will supply her with the dresser she wishes to get for her cozy lodgings. I am likewise much interested in Su- san B.'s tea garden project. If she should establish it. as hope she will, will send her a recipe for English currant cakes that are delicious with afternoon tea or tea at any time. And may I not hope to take tea in that garden at some future time?
 KATE I. l.. [Chicago1" As Susan B." lives a thousand miles from Chicago, cannot engage that you can !" take tea in the arbor ' under her vine and fig tree this season. But let us have the recipes for the delicious English cur rant cakes. She will have a copy of them without fall, and the rest of us who dearly love our cup of afternoon tea will bless you for the gift
 You have already read In the cor ner the letter of thanks from Home Lover" to the donor of the coveted dresser?
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Remove from the fire, being careful not to stir or shake it up, and set aside until it is perfectly cold Beat-and beat-and BEAT until you have a creamy compound smooth and frm-and then drop from teaspoon upon buttered or waxed paper.
 |" have tried this recipe and pronounce it delicious. nope the person who asked for it will agree with mel A. R."
 Your formula has the earmarks of sue ingredients, and easy to make. Further more, it is entirely reasonable. We are your debtors.
 Would you kindly inform me, through your helpful Corner what prevents my waffes from being success? make them as follows: One cup flour, little salt two eggs beaten separately, little sirup to brown them, large kitchen spoonful of melted butter, sweet milk enough to make a thin batter, and lastly, two round ing teaspoonfuls of baking powder. have greased the waffle iron with butter, peanut oil and lard on different occasions, but no matter what do, moment after the wafTies get to the table they turn soft
 
 ons their product is always crisp, and one can take them home in that condition, but mine get soft and fiabby almost as soon as I take them out of the irons. l am considered a good cook and have never failed in anything else and as my family is fond of wafiies, it annoys me to think I cannot get them right. Do kindly let me know wherein I err.
 " Could you also print recipe for pump kin bread? I don't find it in any of the modern cook books. Also, are buckwheat cakes made with sour milk or buttermilk and bicarbonate soda as good as if raised over night with yeast? My home is too cold at night in winter to adopt the latter process, and my husband clamors aloud for buckwheat cakes. I thank you in ad- vance for all the trouble am causing you and hope some day I may be of use to your . Corner A CONSTANT READER"
 Allow w,me to ask you a question have had occasion to put to other inquiring housewives: Why do you wish to have crisp waffies, when the soft are so much nicer in the opinion of connoisseurs? Of course you may harden them by adding more flour to the batter. This will stiffen them and incline them when baked to crisp ness. But it will toughen them as well. So long as your batter is thin and your allowance of shortening liberal the waffies will be soft-and digestible.
 have never made or eaten pumpkin bread TO be frank, I never heard of it until I read your letter. Some clever Yan- kee house mother will instruct us in the art and introduce a new bread into our list of available recipes.
 As to buckwheats made without yeast. have eaten them. They are raised by the agency of baking powders and mixed with one-third as much graham flour as you have of buclSwheat.
 Is not the kitchen warm enough in winter for the safety of batter raised with yeast? If not how do your water pipes escape bursting? Set the batter in a covered bread bowl and envelop it iE an old blan- ket and it will rise comfortably with the thermometer mercury down near the zero level.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-22
V '. "Mu' Apple Cahe.

'' saw in the exchange some time ago a recipe for apple cake. It was not bad.' but I fatter myself that I inclose a bet ter. Let readers judge for themselves by printing mine-won't you?
 MY APPLE CAKE: One cup of tart apple sauce; one cup of granulated sugar; half a cup of butter; cup of seeded raisins; {; two cups of flour; teaspoonfu of soda. and the same of ground cinnamon and of cloves; one egg. Stir the soda into the apple sauce, then proceed in the usual order with the rest of the ingredients.
 While am boasting of my cookery. I may as well slip in a recipe for what I have truthfully named:
 NEVER FAIL CAKE: No creaming of butter and sugar is required in mixing this cakel.
 "One and three-quarters of cup of flour; two level teaspoonfuls of baking powder; one cup of granulated sugar.
 Sift together into a mixing bowl the dry ingredients. Break two eggs into
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7 s I foretold, our Familiar Talk upon A Family Government has drawn T forth numerous letters from readers and correspondents. It would be
 idle and blind to overlook the truth that the subject has gone home to hundreds of hearts and consciences. It is not prac- ticable to publish all these letters, written by those who yet have right to be heard. Today I surrender the space usually oc- cupied by my Chats with the Constituency 10 selections from the mass of communica- tions that heap my desk.
 No. 1 is from Milwaukee correspondent:
 'I read your article on Corporal Punish ment and I believe the discussion of the subject is opportune and should do a great deal of good. One of the most striking faults of the present age, in the United States especially, Is the lack of respect and even contempt for duly constituted author ity in the home, in civic life, in religion, etc. and in almost all relations of men and women. I dare say that nine-tenths Of the crime and misery in the world is directly traceable to improper bringing up, to the lack of obedience of children to their par ents, and their consequent contempt or all authority when they grow up.
 Parents have grave responsibility when they bring children into the world, and 1t is their duty to guide and control their children so that when the children grow up they will be right minded men and women. an honor to themselves and to their parents.
 ''As to the discipline parents should main tain, there should be respectful obedience to their wishes and requests, and if the children are guilty of any derelictions they should be punished in such measure as the gravity of the offense warrants. Where a child from early youth Is taught to look upon the parents wishes as the law to be followed and knows that the parents are absolutely fair and desirous only of the welfare of the child, corporal punishment probably will be necessary only on rare occasions. and perhaps never after the age of about F years. But as every one knows. there are children who. with the best of loving parents, are headstrong, inclined to deceit and other faults, and for such a sound whipping is frequently the only remedy Even with well trained children after the age of 12 there are frequently occasions when strap applied to the right place will deter them from acquiring bad habits.
 The ages of 13 to 20 are always looked upon as the dangerous period in the lives of boys and girls, when their characters are forming and they are moldlng themselves into the men and women they will be later. It is Just during this period that they need judicious mind and strong hand to guide and control them.
 'Take boy of 15 or Jeff he knew that a severe whipping would follow the discovery of his frequenting places he should not, it is likely that he could not be persuaded to go the first time When he grows older and becomes of age, if he has lived good life before, it is not likely that he will go astray.
 ''Tske the girl mentioned in your article --the switching she received probably will dieter her from staying away from home overnight in the future. She is now a good
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oe now is for dishes that may serve
 as substitutes for meat. The ris- '~ ing prices of flesh foods have
 alarmed all classes of society. If they are annoying to the rich, they are a serious inconvenience to persons in mod crate circumstances. and hardship to the poor.
 "It is folly to attempt to mitigate the evil by boycotting the unfortunate pro- vision merchants, who are less to blame than the trusts that boom prices by making corners in the necessaries of life while they add field to field and million to million.
 Don't take alarm at what you may think is incendiary growl! l am no Socialist nor yet a reformer in the common acceptation of the word, but practical, everyday sort of housemother who has done some hard thinking upon the meat question. That is, to my way of feeling and reasoning. the toughest problem now before the public. (No pun intended and no play upon the quality of meat most of us have to put up with nowadaysO
 As the mother of three lusty boys, aged from F to 20, who must be filled from the head downward three times per day, have no disposition to joke upon the matter And since grumbling only makes those who have to listen to me uncomfortable and does no earthly good to me, I set my wits to work to devise tolerable substitutes for flesh foods in our daily fare. l am taking the liberty to send you a few which John and the boys approve by word and by deed. We are not vegetarians. I gish some- times that we were at this crisis in domestic politics. Nothing would so surely bring the cruel prices down on the run as the combination of housekeepers throughout q single state. such New York or Penn E syl~an nia to serve no meat to their fam flies for even one week. A month would bring the beef trust sinners to their knees.
 "Readers of the daily papers don't need to be told how miserably all attempts to I bind housekeepers into a union for pro- Mection of themselves and their sister suf- eerers from imposition have failed. l an Deadly sometimes to declare that there is no such thing as loyalty among us in this respect
 = It is so much easier to smash dozen windows of shopmen who are perhaps as innocent as the rioters, and to drench the ]. meat displayed upon the stall of fourth rate butcher with kerosene than to concern trate ones energies upon the task of go- ing without meat, yet providing decently for ones household. that have little hope
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Sweet Green Corn Pudding.

Green corn will soon be among departed joys, although some canning companies supply us the year round with an excellent substitute. So it may not be amiss-i e, unseasonable-for me to send In my recipe for what we think Is the very best dish than can be made of green corn.
 SWEET GREEN CORN PUDDING: It is eaten as vegetable accompaniment to meats.
 Crate and scrape closely six ears of sweet corn of good size. Beat into the grated mass the yolk of one egg, two tea spoonfuls of sugar and the same of four and scant teaspoonful of salt Mix and beat for a minute and add a pint of milk the whipped and stiffened white of the egg. and a tablespoonful of melted butter. Turn into q buttered pudding 6ish and bake to n golden brown. Send to table in the dish in which it was baked and eat hot as it soon falls
 GREEN CORN FRITTERS: Mix as above, but doubling the quantity of flour. and drop by the great spoonful into boil ing fat. Fry quickly; drain free of fat. and serve upon hot dish lined with soft white paper. Mrs. c. R. E. IToledo o, 1T
 Your appetizing dish may be called corn soutite." since it depends for iightness upon the stiffened whites and falls soon in cool ing, It is delightful and if a little more sugar goes into the blending, is almost as good when made of the right brand of canned corn as when the season is at the height.
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the blows. I carried the bruises for weeks. As have said, shall carry the scar and the burning smart to my grave. When he went downstairs I lost not minute in packing all the clothes could get into a trunk l dragged from the attic. I had a little pocket money-a couple of dollars which would take me to the nearest sea- port. I meant to run away to sea and never come back Then I sat down and wrote out the story, in brief. for my mother. The let ter was sealed and laid upon my bureau.
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Sees Both Sides of Question.

No is an Indiana matron who can see both sides of a question.
 " honestly believe that most of us think the Englishwoman of your Talk has right on her side when she tells of the discipline in her early home. The trouble with us is we haven't the courage of our convictions. We lack nerve.
 Figuratively speaking, our moral verte- brae are like those of the jellyflsh We have let our hearts run away with our heads. The thinking man or woman who watches for awhile the antics and unlady- like behavior of some of our present day 15 year old misses cannot help longing for
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father. who had forbidden us boys to TUT with the machine, as We liked to do, went up to my room and found that was miss ing. My sister had gone out to party, and nobody else knew where l was. At half past 9 l came in, and ran upstairs to put away my violin. Recollecting that my
 mother had complained of a headache at supper time and meant to go to bed early, I went up on tiptoe. (That wasn't bad for a 14 year old who generally rushed up three steps at time and wbistled nigger melo-
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cup and fill to the brim with sweet milk Pour upon the flour, etc, in the bowl, and beat in three tablespoonfuls of melted but ter. Do not stir until all the ingredients are in the bowl. Then beat hard and long.
 This will make two layer cake.
 "MRs. M. E. C., Walker. Ariz."
 You lay before us an odd formula so far as the order and manner of mixing are concerned. Since you have christened it confidently as never failing and we know you to be an intelligent member in good and regular standing. we offer no dis sent. Our housemother who is adventur- ous in the realm of novel culinary experi- ments will test it for herself and we trust to her qualification
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

DECAUSE of thc enormous number of ~ letters sent to he departnentI ! must ask contributors 10 limit their communications 10 100 pords. erecpt in cases of formulas or recipes which require srcater space. / loant ell my correspondents to haze showins in the Corner. and # my request in his respect is complied uith h piH be possible 10 print many more letters.
 Attention is called to he faet that Marion Hasland cannot 5eeeioe money tor patterns, Gs she has no connection wih any department hat sells hen. 3 Marion Hnland.