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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10
Wav to Freshen Berries.

Now that the berry season is not far
ahead. would like to tell you how freshen
red raspberries; any berries may be treat
ed in the same way Look them over and
wash them. put them in glass fruit jar
and screw down top then set the jar next
to the ice for some hours before using and
note the change. I have kept them per-
fectly twenty-four hours.
wish every one having to wear truss
for rupture might know how my husband
was cured. 1 took two rounds of silk a
little larger than the pad on the truss.
sewing them together by stitching small
circle in the center; opening the edges.
laid a roll of cotton between them and over
cast the edges, thus forming ring, and
sewed it fast to the pad. did this because
the hard pad. pressing directly upon the
rupture, chafed it and caused more or less
trouble, and 1 wished to make my John a
little more comfortable.
After wearing it for some time the rup-
ture seemed to be 1eSsening in size and
finally disappeared He began leaving off
the truss by degrees. at first on days when
he could be at home, and at last stopped
wearing it altogether. He has not worn it
Tor over a year now, with no sign of the
trouble reappearing. I hope I have made
this clear as 1 feel sure it win help others
as it has U.S. A NEWCOMER"
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Hon One Bow Repaid.

Suppose dad had taken your view of
things and had looked out for number
one what kind of a fellow would you be7
You want to save money for yourself
and from the tone of your letter would
surmise that you are not far past 20. What
do you figure on doing with your money?
III We" ture the assertion that you either
want to spend it on yourself or that you
are paying attention to some young fluff
fly ruff1es,' who has won your tender young
heart and that you want to make her father
believe you are able to take care of two.
So long as all the children are helping
I doubt if any of them expect you to take
home all your money. but they have right
to expect your assistance in proportion to
what you make.
"IH give you a sketch of how handled
my own funds after leaving home to earn
a living and it did not prove disastrous.
dad and mother sacrificed to keep US
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//N HAVE SIX children, four in school
80 and the two youngest, aged and 2.
at home. Our home is considered
II a happy one and I'm often asked
how I manage to have the children
obey so perfectly and without question, and
why they get along together without fuss
ing, and why 1t is that can have SO much
company and the children never give any
trouble when they are told to wait at meal
times. etc.
81 don't want you to think I am bring
ing up horde of angels, for they are all
healthy, normal children. But I want to
ask you first If YOU think our training
will hold good when they are men and
women and If there Is chance of their
obedience being from fear.
ct must admit that my husband and I
are old fashioned. We believe that If we
spare the rod we spoil the child, and that
a child left to itself will bring its parents
to shame, and lots more In that line am
trusting that IL we train them up in the
way they should go, when they are old they
will not depart from it If my. husband and
I differ about point of discipline we never
let the children know that we differ and
they never appeal from one parent to the
other. VIII you tell me what you think
the outcome will be?
'sI think 1t is great pity that as rule
children are so bad. They seem to do the
controlling instead of the parents. or
course there are still exceptions but I can't
blame all the badness on the children. for
they are largely what their parents make
them. 1t seems a great pity for children
to be allowed to grow up with such shock
ing disrespect for their elders and with bad
manners generally. 1 believe that it is just
as true that a child has right to be well
raised as to be well born, and we hear
SO much of the latter Just now.
MY children and 1 are congenial.
give them good magazines and books and
discuss all their little trials at school and
outside with them Nothing Is too mys-
terious or too sacred for us 10 talk OF to-
sether in reverence and strive never to
break a promise. whether 1t is for confec-
tionery or for punishment. never whip
one of them If am angry or out of humor
myself and there are many times whenII
would rather have 1t put on me than on the
child. X s. H.
I printed a good deal of your letter and
I only wish I had space to put 1t all in
You ought to know, if you have followed
our corner closely. that hold firm ideas
as to the necessity of teaching children
absolute obedience and that believe that
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the dressing moist with the liquor in which
were boiled the giblets-the neck, liver
gizzard, and surplus fat-making it into a
soft dough. Stuff turkey with this and
bake to a good brown a quart of oysters
may be added to the stuffing or a little but
ter If this is needed.
ITO make the cornbread for stuf1ng take
one quart cornmeal. two cups buttermilk.
one scant teaspoon soda, three eggs. half
cup lard, one teaspoon baking powder, salt
to taste. Bake in loaf, like a cake, for
about forty-five minutes
- Biscuit for stuffing takes quart
-four one cup buttermilk, one level tea
spoon soda, lard the size of an egg, one tea
spoon baking powder. salt a. discretion
= l. L. b. OAKMAN"
Although I called a halt a while ago on
recipes for cornmeal stuffing am breaking
my resolution in favor of this direction It
comes from Alabama and is therefore es-
sentially southern; 1t makes no mention of
parboiling the turkey. and in other respects
differs from any other recipe which has ap-
peared for this dressing 1t ought to make
uncommonly good eating. and am glad to
make room for 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

"A FEW weeks ago printed on this
~ page the letter Of a young man who
~ asked my opinion as to the justice
OF his family's expectation that he
should contribute large proportion
of his wages toward their expenses They
had kept him at school past the legal re-
quirement, and had made sacrifices to do
this. He did not think. however. that their
claim upon him was fair, and stated his
case for the decision of others.
AS you know. it is the invariable practice
Of the Corner to give both sides of a case
. hearing, This is the custom follow
IN printing the letters that have come in
reply to the young mans presentation of
his position. They vary IN their view OF the
matter, and you will be interested, as am,
In learning what there is to be said for and
against the theory that the children should
contribute to the support of their parents.
The writer OF the first letter takes a
nrm stand He says;
A few words to your young man who
asks the Corner if he should be expected to
contribute to the home fund after he is able
to earn his own living.
Being g. young man myself, and the
second child IN a family of six children,
three boys and three girls, would like to
ask the inquirer a few questions which will
enable him to DO little thinking for him.
self.
lis IL any wonder that your parents don't
own anything If they have raised a re-
spectacle family of five children and kept
you in school until you were 10?
Didn't they keep you looking about g.
well as the rest of the kids in your classes?
Didn't your dad have several chances
during your life to better his own financial
condition II it had not been that he would
rather keep the children in schooI7
How many of the fellows in your crowd
we're permitted to stay in school as long as
you did, and If you had been taken out of
school the first time your parents needed
your help in financial way would you be
competent to hold the position you speak
of as paying a great deal more than the
others are getting?
Didn't it make you squirm a little to
admit that your sisters were taking all their
money home?
Did a boy ever do anything for a father
Or mother that was not appreciated?
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THE DUTY OF THE WAGE EARNING CHILD.

kids in school and give us all high school
education, and we all graduated.
When left home at the age of IS,
started out at SO month. Dad was max
ing $500 year, had to keep UP appear
anees to hold his job, and still had to sup
port the remaining seven of the family. He
was 5000 in debt for groceries and clothing
which had gone through the stomachs and
on the backs of six husky kids.
For three months dad sent me So each
pay day to make up my deficit. Next job
paid me $25 and I sent home So of it. The
next job paid $50 and dad received 81 so. The
next was $50 and sent home $50 of it. The
next was $50 and dad got $50 Then
pulled down 500 and managed nicely on
$50 and saved part of it for myself.
AT the age of % had helped the old
folks out to the tune of $4,000 in cash,
had $500 in the bank to get married on.
and had an income of over $3.50 month.
Take my advice and give the folks at
home at least half of what you make over
and above what it costs you to live, until
you are 25, If they need it that long. then
think about a family of your own.
THE satisfaction of knowing that you
have done your part will repay you
thousand fold for the few eopecks which
you have to give up toward the support of
dad and mother. c. D."
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Rich and Wholesome Cookies.

About twenty years ago a Jewish worn-
an gave me recipe for what she called
confinement cookies which have since
then lost I would like much to make some
now but cannot remember all of the in
gradients The cookies are rich and whole
some and are good for any one that is an
or convalescent. All can remember about
making them is that hard boiled eggs.
grated. and glass of good brandy are used
in the making. and since these are unusual
cookies write to you hoping some reader
may know what 1 mean and be SO kind "a
TO enngnten me. MRS E. k
These cookies are entirely unknown to
me. and l shall await the answer to Mrs.
E KS query with much interest ana
curiosity. The information she wishes a.
pretty sure to come, for we have manv
Hebrews among our readers and some one
Of them is likely to see this request ana
reply to it
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be made. At the church party where the
first 1 shared took place each basket was
packed for two, and they contained a va
riety of dainty dishes-chicken salad, lob
ster salad salmon salad, tomato, and cell
cry salad. jellied chicken or meat, tiny
chicken pies, sandwiches, baked custards.
jellies, blanc manages, cakes of all sorts,
candies, and other delicacies which could
be made in advance and did not have to
be kept hot.
Under the cover of each basket was
knot of ribbon, and the mate to this was
worn by the girl who packed the basket
The man who bought it sought her out,
and the two ate their supper together. If
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Drop No. I for a Time.

This is q letter which rather restores be-
lief in the possibility of flial devotion and
loyalty. Here is another by one who
looks at the matter from similar view
point:
by the young mans own admission
he had been kept in school until 10 years
old and that in itself represents great
cost in actual money, not to mention years
of toll and self denial endured bv his pa
rents that he might obtain an education
IF Young Man will drop number ones
interest and Importance for the time being
and cheerfury contribute practically all his
earnings to the family purse. become un-
selfish-as he prescr1bes for the girls-and
feel proud of the fact that he is able to
help pay off the family debts, he will, in
a measure. have repaid his parents for
earlier hardship and earned a place among
self-respecting citizens, whether his course
will be appreciated by other members of
his family or not. This has no bearing on
his moral obligation. T. s."
A couple of other writer's take'the same
line:
{" Yes, Young Man. If you would help at
home, mother and father would appreciate
your kindness. Parents always do. espe-
cially if they are in debt and don't own
anything and if they kept you at school
until 10 they certainly made some sacri-
fees. Now that you are in a position that
they helped you gain you should feel CRATE
full enough to aid them to pull out of debt
I don't think it is to your credit to have
bills hanging over them that possibly were
incurred to help keep you in school. To
my mind children should help parents if
they need it; If not, they should pay board.
M H"
Great sacrifices should be made to give
children a good education and part of the
educate should be that they are to recon-
pense their parents when through school.
The case you gave of the small boy was
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when you train up a child in the way he
should go, he is practically sure not to de-
part from it when he is older.
My theory is that children recognize and
appreciate justice in a punishment and
that if you are as strict in keeping your
promise in benefits as you are in penalties
they will have a respect and love for you
that will last their lives through.
AS 1 heard a mother say once, d" am
strict in enforcing obedience with my chill
dren, 1 punish them severely when they
deserve it, but all the time just love them
to death and they know it, " Mingle ten
derness with your justice and they will be-
lieve in you
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soul has lived and will live on forever, I
think that perhaps they were happier far in
spheres ethereal, but chose to bring them
into this vale of tears consequently 1t is
my duty to give them all in my power, to
slave for them and to make their lives as
pleasant and happy as possible.
They owe me nothing, absolutely moth
ing. Not even the adopted child owes its
parents anything. People, a rule, do not
adopt children because of largeness of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

ing sadly needed by the modern youth. I
have thought as I do on the subject for a
long time and feel 1t afresh every time I
hear mother say to an erring child,
That's the thanks I get for shaving for
you! Personally 1 love boys so much
that would lie and steal and commit three
fold murder for them to save one hair on
their heads. and If knew today they would
turn out ungrateful I would go on as
have before and work and pray and love
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about the best way to love her children.
1 do not say this because of her attitude
towards the subject under discussion-the
question to whether or not a child should
contribute to the support of his parents
but because the mother who makes e. slave
of herself to her sons and daughters is rob-
bling them of q part of their development
which consists in self-sacrifice and self
denial.
The woman who says she would lie. or
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Southern Stufing.

-" In reply to the request for cornmeal
stuffing for roast turkey 1 send mine, which
is considered fine by those who have used
it. The secret of success lies in measuring
the soda just to suit the acid in the milk.
I never put sage in turkey dressing, for
think 1t spoils the flavor of the turkey.
81 Crumble up fine equal quantities of
light cornbread and light rich biscuit; add
one cup chopped onion and one of chopped
celery, black pepper. and salt to taste. Mix
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Your account of the congeniahty exist
ing between your children and yourself Is
a pretty sure evidence that you are fol-
lowing wise course with them. If more
parents did the same there would be less
trouble with unruly and disobedient young
SterS.
y
Nice Things for Lunch BASKET.
L wish you would suggest some nice
things to pack into a basket for lunch. 1t
is for a basket lunch party, where the
baskets are to be auctioned off.
NINE. X"
have taken part in such basket lunches
as these and know how attractive they can
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10
MARION HARLAND'S HELPING HAND.

Thank You very much for the suggestion
as to the berries and FOR the account of
how to make the pad. You have certainly
won your place in the Corner, even as a
newcomer, and shall hope to hear from
you again soon and often. You undoubt-
eddy possess the helpful spirit which marks
our Cornerites
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For Three months D9dSe1z Three doZzays payda

dren should do their snare towards aiding
their parents when the working life begins
for the young people. Quite as vigorous
on the other side Is the letter give next:
Here is my answer to Young Man:
The opinion of childless people does not
count. am the mother of two boys, who
are here because of me. Believing that the
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heart for suffering humanity. but because
their lives are lonely and they think that
a child will brighten their homes.
However, when my boys earn g. compe-
tence they will have to pay board, not be-
cause they owe me for past plum buildings
and apple dumplings. but to teach them the
value of a five dollar btlI-a branch of learn
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He Sulks All the Time.


girls had ever talked like this and felt
heartsick. I could see that the other
girls In the office where this talk took place
who are using some of their money for
themselves are happier and more indie
pendent than those who felt they had been
undustly treated and could never hope to
get back any of the money they had paid
out.
$50 explained to my brother that night
that If he expected to 80 to college he would
have to plan some way to help himself.
although I would help him through bust-
ness college. He couldn't believe IL at
first and when he had to understand he was
furious. He said I would spoil his hfe.
Then when fall came and the athletic
season opened he was just crazy, for he
wanted to get to college in time for foot
ball But I couldn't see why he couldn't
go to work as well as myself and held
out.
He sulks all the time and says have
ruined his life and we can hardly live
with him. 1 wanted him to work his way
through college, but he scorned 1t and
said you can't do justice to your studies
and to athletics and II he couldn't go right
he wouldn't go at ALL
so there Is where we are. I am made
to feel guilty and selfish, but the girl In
the office says she is worse off than ever
before, as she has nothing for her work,
is growing older, and. worst of all. is dis
iliusioned. e. A B."
Is the matter settled to the satisfaction
Of the Cornerites? There is enough va
riety of opinion to give fair choice as to
which is the right and wise course TO
follow.
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pitiable, for his mother was illiterate and
did not see the necessity of an education
for her son. Children should be made
to understand if their help is needed. and
If so, it should be willingly conceded. They
should have an allowance to spur them on
and they should pay their board. L. H"
= X
4 Mothers Viep.
These are the most striking of the letters
have received taking the stand that chill
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steal. or murder to save one hair on the
heads of her boys cannot bring them to look
at life in the right way, and is likely to send
them out in the world with false sense of
their own importance, a lack of perception
of morals or justice, and great selfishness.
Another letter from which have not
space to quote at full length presents still
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any of our readers have further sugges-
tions to make for such baskets would be
glad to get them.
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err Bous TO Be Selfish.

edchng Her BOYS TO Be SELFISH.
am sorry for the woman who wrote that
letter. She has something yet to learn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-10

Baked eggs.
Toast
Tea.
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Clam fritters.
Stewed potatoes.
Whole wheat biscuit.
Cookies.
Preserves.
Tea.
DINNER.
Chicken soup with rice Ia left overl.
Baked hahbut-
Caulif1ower.
Whipped potatoes
Tipsy trif1e.
Coffee.
X 4
SATURDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges.
Oatmeal and cream
Fried scrapple,
Rolls.
Toast
Tea.
Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Fish soufHe "a left overl.
Baked potatoes.
Toasted rolls Ia left overl.
Cake.
Lemon jelly.
Tea
DINNER
Cream of carrot soup
Chicken pie Ia left overl
Sugared sweet potatoes.
Stewed onions.
Caramel custard-
Coffee.
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SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Grapefruit.
Oatmeal and cream
Broiled kidneys.
Popovers.
Toast
Tea.
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Liver pate.
Saratoga chips.
Tomato jelly with celery dice jelHed in it.
Boston brown bread
Crackers.
Cheese
Cake
Tea.
DINNER.
Cream of potato soup.
Roast lamb.
Mint sauce
Canned peas
Whipped potato.
Steamed raisin puffs.
Coffee.
= Il
MONDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges
Cornflakes and cream.
Bacon
Poached eggs
Toast
Coffee
Tea.
LUNCHEON.
Liver soufae left overI.
Fried celery Ia left oyerI
Toasted brown bread Ia left over
Baked potatoes.
Jam.
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another phase of the topic We are consider
ing. This time it is not from parent but
from a sister.
81 am a working girl in q poor family
where each one must contribute to keep up
the home. Last spring my younger brother
graduated from the high school and was
determined to go away to college, as many
of the other boys were planning to ID in the
fall AS it was principally my wages which
had kept him at the high school. ne looked
to me. as a matter of course, to 50 right on
and see him through college.
81 was anxious to give him his chance,
yet thought it was a good deal for young
woman to continue to sacrifice a good time
and nice clothes and all the things belong
ing to youth when he had already had a
much better education than could ever
hope to have. Still I was expecting to go
ahead and help him, when one day mem
toned my intention before a large group Of
girls One of them said. after a pause;
Don't do that. would like to keep every
one from doing as did,
She then told me how, by constant daily
sacrifice. she had helped give her brother
a liberal education, because she loved him
and wanted him to have his chance, and by
the time he was through college he was
he had no particular obligation to his fam
lily. That was several years ago, and now
he has a good salary and doesn't 90 any
thing for his people. The girl spoke with
great bitterness, and when she had finished
three other girls said they had had similar
experiences.
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~ HAVE six children. four in school
80 and the two youngest, aged 4 and 2.
at home. Our home is considered
III a happy one and I'm often asked
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Cookies.
Tea.
Cream OF pea soup la left overl.
Cold lamb.
Sliced potato puff Ia left ove<l.
Young carrots, creamed-
Cornstareh hasty pudding
Coffee.
= X
TUESDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Stewed prunes.
Brewis and cream.
Salt maekerel.
Baked potatoes
Toast
Cofree.
LUNCHEON.
Minced lamb.
Corn mullins
ea1ned potatoes Ia left over from breakfast
Canned peaches.
Crackers.
Tea
DINNER
Beef soup with vegetables
Veal outlets. tomato sauce
Fried bananas.
Tapioca pudding.
Coffee.
- 4:
WEDNESDAY,.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges.
Cracked wheat and cream.
Fried apples and bacon
Rolls.
Toast
Tea
Coffee.