Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-09-19
With the Magazines
This is a Good Recipe.

| AAo 40 q OOOu ASNNAPSs
"Green Tomato Mince Meat-Chop
four quarts of green tomatoes, drain
off juice, cover with cold water, and
bring to boil, scalding for 80 min
utes, then drain. Repeat till parboiled
brown sugar, one-haf pound of chop
ped citron, one pound of seedless raj
sins, one-half cup Of chopped suet,
one tablespoonful of salt, one-haf
cupful of vinegar, mix, and cook I'M
til thick. When cold, add one tea
spoonful each of ground cinnamon
and cloves, and one tablespoonful of
nutmeg. Mix well and keep in cool
place" -Farm and Fireside.
How Much Money Do You Need to be
Happy?
The American Magazine asked this
question a few months ago. The best
answers are published in the October
issue. One of them is:
GLOW much money do I need to be
happy? That's easy, American Mag
azine. I can answer that without even
taking time to stare into the fire or
bat an eyelash-$2, year. That
is enough to live comfortably, save
some, and do our share in the social
and religious life of which we are a
part. Friends, friends are the gift of
God and can neither be bought nor
sold, so money cannot enter into this
phase of the question, for whether |
were a lineup peddlar, bloated
bondholder, or just fair to middling
everyday person, true friends are still
friends. Now, why the specific
amount, $1,000 a year? Why not
$4,000 or $4,000? For the simple
reason that $1,000 is the exact amount
that my Peter makes, and because
with love enough the amount of mon
ey to make one happy is just what
ones got"
Stop Crying about the War!
Many mothers are making matters
much worse by weeping day in and
day out about their sons. War is bad
enough without adding any extra sor-
row before anything has happened.
Anna Steese Richardson quotes in the
| October Woman's Home Companion
| from a letter written to her. The
writer of the letter says:
Like most mothers who have Civ
en- sons to their country, [ go out
when I can to divert my thoughts.
And what do l hear? A friend in
quires whether [ have heard from my
boy and adds, We'll, I never expected
to see the time when | would be glad
my three. children are girls, but [ am
now. My next hostess comments on
the sadness of our finest young men
being sacrificed!
cat prayer meeting last night the
leader, in the voice usually reserved
for funerals, spoke Of our boys at the
front, and was followed by another
speaker who solemnly announced the
| boys are taking their collins with
them to France! Next a woman re-
lated with narrowing details how her
father went to the Civil war, never to
return, often stopping to regain her
self-control And the meeting closed
with the most melancholy hymn in
the book. I feel as if I never want
to go to prayer meeting again.
Shall We Cut Out Slang?
Eminent and learned gray boards
throw up their hands in horror at the
| thought of a universal use of slang.
Then along comes Brander Matthews,
professor of English and other things,
saying that one day slang will be in
corporated in the dictionary along
with such high-priced, dignified words
as dodecahedron and cephalgia. For
our part we will stick to slang rather
than endanger our jaw-bones with
Efve-cylindered chatter like the fore
going.
But we've got to hand it to George
AIDE for being the first literanteur
| Whatever that means) to give slang
it's real innings in the English Ian
guage. He was the first writer of
note to recognize in slang an oppor-
tunity to show up our little weakness
es and we have been strong for him
ever since.
George AIDES Fables in Slang ap-
pear exclusively in Cosmopolitan. In
the October number he has five brand
new fables that will give you enough
material for embellishing your con-
versation to last you several months.
And if anyone objects to your use
of slang, refer them to Brander Mat
thews and George AIDE.
The Discipline of Children.
Shall we use fear in disciplining a
child? To answer the question you
need to understand exactly what you
accomplish when you make a child
afraid Of you.
Fear instantly affects the stomach
and heart and the muscles. 1t pro-
duces a temporary paralysis Of
thought and action. To scare a child
is to cause him to become less, rather
than more, capable or 1ntelllgenC &C
tivity. Even supposing thereby you
put motive into his head you surely
neutralize the effect when you take
energy out of his body. And though
you may secure docility you take all
! the sweetness out of obedience.
Reiterated terrors have one of two
results. In the stolid child they make
callouses. In the sensitive child they
produce obsessions, fixed and perma-
nent terrors of the nature of deeply
rooted mental disorder.-Wm. Byron
Forbush, Phi. D., in Kurn Hattin
Homes Bulletin.
Implements have been dug up in
southern California which indicate con-
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