Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19

printed pages are still clearly legible and con-
tain great number and variety of quaint
recipes to guide the young housewife In the
art of fine cookery. The inside title page
bears the motto, Method is the Soul of Man
agement." Mary Randolph must have been
an intelligent, energetic and ambitious woman,
one well versed in the management Of large
household. In the preface" of her book she
admonishes her readers that;
The government of q family bears
Lilliputian resemblance to the govern
ment of nation. The contents Of the
Treasury must be known, and great care
taken to keep the expenditures from be-
ing equal to the receipts. regular
system must be introduced into each
department, which may be modified until
matured. and should then pass into an
inviolable law.
THE Introduction" of her famous cook
book gives us more than mere insight to
her character. and serves to disclose many
things which she regarded as essential to be
scrupulously observed in every well regulated
home. Agreeing with many famous persons
before and since her time she advocated an
early breakfast:
She must begin the day with an early
breakfast, requiring each person to be
in readiness to take their seats when the
mufnLS, DuCkWneaC CAKES, &C, are placed
on the table. This looks social and COM
Portable. When the family breakfast by
attachments, the table remains tedi-
Gus time; the servants are kept from
their mornings meal and a complete
arrangement takes place in the whole
business of the day. No work can be
done till breakfast is finished. The Vir-
ginia ladies, who are proverbially good
managers, employ themselves, while
their servants are eating, in washing the
cups, glasses, &c; arranging the cruets.
the mustard salt-sellers, pickle vases.
and all the apparatus for the dinner
table.
When the kitchen breakfast is over,
and the cook has put all things in their
proper places, the mistress should go in
to give her orders. Let all the articles
intended for dinner, pass in review be-
fore her; have the butter, sugar, -four,
meal, lard, given out in proper quanti-
ties; the catsup, spice. wine whatever
may be wanted for each DISH measured
to the cook. The mistress must tax her
own memory with all this: we have no
right to expect slaves or hired servants
to be more attentive to our interests than
we ourselves are.
The prosperity and happiness Of a
family depend greatly on the order and
regularity established In it. The hus-
band. who can ask q friend to partake
of his dinner In full confidence Of hnd-
ing his wife unrufied by the petty vexa-
tions attendant on the neglect Of house
hold duties-who can usher his guest
into the dining-room assured Of seeing
that methodical nicely which is the es-
sence Of true elegance-will feel pride
and exultation IN the possession Of
companion, who gives to his home
charms that crafty every wish Of his
SOUL and render the haunts Of dissipa-
ton hateful to him.
Some of the titles in the index to recipes I'm
the book are quaint indeed. and many Of them
very likely unheard of In this day and gem
Grafton: ITO Barbecue Shote," "Soused Feet
in Ragout" ITO Pickle Oysters "To Make
Curry of Catfish" "To Dress a Gods Head
and Shoulders" ITO Hitchcock Eels" Fish
Sauce to Keep . Year." "Doughnuts-A YAM
kee Cake" observations on Ice Creams
Oyster Ice Cream" "To Make a Hens Nest,
ITO Make Stufiing for Forty Melons," ITO
Continued ON T'tpeuty- third Pare.