Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-03-10

how much help we get from your Chats
on menus and recipes. IL has encour-
aged me TO ask you to please give US
enc or two menus for March. What /
can't set fresh l will have in cans. so
just fix up the sort that a family in
moderate circumstances may have for
a change
Veal and ham pie.
Baked sweet potatoes Fried parsnips.
Salad OF canned asparagus.
Cheese fritters.
Caramel pudding with Meringue.
Coffee.
II.
Spinach SOUP.
Baked beef
Mashed potatoes. Buttered psrsnips.
Red cabbage salad.
Birds nest pudding.
Coffee.
Ill
Clam bisque.
Goldfish balls
Scalloped tomatoes
Celery and nut salad
or
Shrimp salad.
Hubbard tarts.
Coffee
These three suggestions may be
varied and served on several occasions.
II they contain suggestions that YOU
arc not sure about, / will be pleased
to give the recipes. .-...-
And right here let me thank the "si-
lent members who so often write to
me about this page. But for your per-
sonsl letters VIC, VINO are doing our
best TO make The Atlanta Journal q
medium TO afford pleasure to all of
you, would never know what appeals TO
Nrs1Hn n~-I -fa-s
see your faces nor hear your comment,
hence mnst have your letters In FAM
lilies, especially when they arc as large
as Our Household, there are many
tastes to cater to-the chicken cranks.
Hover lovers, culinary artists. and the
general average-so a letter often gives
me suggestion that affords pleasure
TO more than the one asking for a lit
tie light on a special subject. So please
do not hesitate to write. And while we
are on this subject l will ask the house
Keepers to send me the recipe for chill
dren's favOrite dish, or the one that
tempts the head of the house, for these
spring days make all of US put on our
thinking caps.
But enough of this subject for this
time. When / am writing recipes for
these columns 1 often think of the pro-
test that came from a certain man i'm
certain Georgia town. He said, Miss
Thomas, l always feel like I've been
cheated out OF something had set my
heart on when / turn to your Chat and
it's all about cooking
! had TO laugh for the next letter was
from woman who said, Miss Thomas
whenever you have a recipe in your
Chat my guide mon reads il aloud with
great gusto and spares no pains TO get
me the ingredients to duplicate the
DISH So there ii goes and I try to
vary the subjects so that all may find
what they desire. ..-- . o..
And it's a good thing occasionally to
read, as we'll as to think about the
things that viii please others. We can
fpamper, ourselves until We really think
that nobody else has right to an opin-
lon We can be 'humored or sulk until
the rest of the family 'huf1or US in self
defense until there is no pleasure IN
life unless things go our way. And let
me say a word to mothers, and some
wives, the quality that the world often
calls patience is not always the genuine
article. 1t is really mental inertia, or
in plain English laziness. Many a time
il is easier to give in, to say do as you
please than 1t is to combat a preju-
dice or carry a point that would arouse
opposition. Look into your own hearts
and see if there are not times when you
should have stood out against the will
Of another. And you are doing that other
one an injustice by yielding. Spoiled
children make selfish, cruel grown-ups
/ know that the love of money has been
called "the root of all evil" but selfish
ness is the soil in which il is planted.
1t is so easy to fool ourselves, and we
persuade ourselves that II is love for
another that causes us to become opin-
ionless, but IL is not Too often it is sim
ply because We do not exert our minds
Johnnie. come in the house and keep
the baby while I see about the chick
ems"
oh. mama, YOU always want me 70
90 something when 1 am reading
That's sample of daily conversations,
with variations OF course. The patient
Cd mother picks up the baby and does
arms, or leaves it to fate rather than
have it cut with Johnnie Later he re-
fuses to bring i'm stovewood or perhaps
& bucket of water. I heard the mother
of four say that since her health has
failed she sees the mistake she made in
humoring her children. That she had
always thought that as soon as they
we're large enough she could rest lit
tie Blu. that she now sees that she
should have given the toddlers lessons IN
helping her.
I did not say a word, but in my heart
i fully endorsed the words of another
mother: IF l couldn't get in this family
and put those children TO work. while
they are even yet under twelve I'd send
them to reform school. I'd call myself
a lazay woman if / could not make those
children set up and do the work of this
place. No, you just haven't got the grit
to have it out with them. They know
il and are little animals enough TO run
over you.
Patience suffereth long and is kind.
But there is no kindness in spelling a
.ife oy letting the will be unframed. The
parents that quarrel and threaten and
Jump orr their children and wear them
OUT occasionally are not the homes that
make men and women OF character. no
more than the ones with abnormal pa
thence
II takes line upon line and precept up
on precept. as well as daily examples
To live for common ends is to be
common.
The highest faith makes still the high
est man:
For we grow like the things our souls
believe.
and rise or sink as we aim high Or
Low"
So. lets aim high and do our best
every nav n oyercome the mental iner-