The Brussels Post, 1908-1-23, Page 2iT may still bo a mooted point
for whom a woreau dresses
herself becomingly. Some say,
for men.
Twice as Many,a large propor-
tion of the witnesses being ungrate-
ful observers of the sterner sex,
will have it that she arraye herself
with an eye to the effect she will
make upon "the other woman."
A small majority oontend feebly
that she conscientiously believes
she owes it to herself to look her
best; that she values what share of
beauty has fallen to her lot as a
talent she should improve.
Thia, apart from the simple
pleasure she derives from the come-
ly picture given back by the mirror
before which she does the afore-
mentioned "improving."
Nobody gainsays the statement
that no woman cooks for herself.
Nor, as a rule, for the adult sis-
ters who, with her, compose the
family.
She tosses up pancakes and
makes cookies to tickle the palates
of her children; compounds broths
and cooks meats to strengthen and
to make them grow.
Her preparation for her own
and for her sisters' diet has been
aptly, if coarsely, summed up in a
paragraph written by a physician,
which I have quoted before in the
pourse oT 'these familiar talks:
"TOAST AND TEA,"
`Women who live in a home
where there is no man live on toast
and tea the year round. If anoth-
er woman chance to drop in at
mealtime, they kill theinselves to
boil all egg.
"What wonder that they are
scrawny, tallow -faced and neu-
rotic I"
eli-rotic!"
Since I first read this opinion of
one who should speak advisedly up-
on the subject, I have speculated
much upon the hypothesis indi-
cated in the last clause.
Is there any other reason why
the typical "old. maid" who keeps
her own house or flat should have
the physical characteristics our
critic describes bluntly?
May we not got light here upon
the mysterious "delicate health" of
-the girl who rents two or more
rooms and does her own cooking,
earning a living, meanwhile, as
dressmaker's apprentice, stenog-
rapher or clerk?
They are almost sure to be neat
rooms; they are almost as certainly
tasteful and comfortable, and fitted
up with the various prettinesses be-
longing to toilet table and furni-
ture that richer girls have taught
her to consider the decencies rather
than the luxuries of life.
"FUSSING. WITH OOONIN4"
Her regard for these accessories
to the comfort of daily living bol-
sters up her distaste to "fussing
with cooking." Roasting and fry-
ing and broiling leave the smell of
stale cookery in her curtains and
upholstered furniture.
The rooms get hot and stuffy, and
she gets heated and jaded.
And after all, what is the use of
going through so muck to get so
little?
Thus runs her argument if she
;troubles herself to argue soberly on
such a trifle.
The wise eat to live. Gluttons
live to eat. Hunger is satisfied as
quickly and surely with bread and
butter and the nervous system
braced as soon by a cup of good,
strong tea as by a regular meal of
soup, meat and vegetables. Not to
speak of the saving in. money, time
and strength.
Iier appetite is slender at the
hest, she will tell you, not without
e. touch of pride. The average mid-
dle-class woman has not quite out-
lived the Laura Matildaism of hor
inother's day and generation, when
to confess hunger was unladylike
and to satisfy it by partaking
heartily and zestfully of substantial.
food was vulgar.
Who is t0 eonvhiee her {flat ap-
petite grows 'bywhat it feeds upon?
That to be hungry when the
stomach is empty is a normal and
right condition, and leek of relish
for wholcsomo food is disease?
'net complexion depends upon
health, and health upon food conve-
nient for her?
That is, in a "
audieiclis rotation
of nutritious articles of diet, well
selected and well cooked.. Broad
;Ind butter, toast and tea, are well
enough in their way and place and
time., Healthy -humanflesh was
Sutter made uy entirely by thein,
and it novor will be.
When this is the daily fare of
Our spinster or widow or young
girl, title very blood undergoes a
obeli ital ehtinge•
over, at times, me being out all deer,
you see,"
I did see, and I told hi'r I believ-
ed I omelet show her a way out of
the ten(;le.
I expected hor to be incredulous
when I brought out the fireless
cooker and 'explained how it work-
ed. Her stare of amazement and
her attempt to be respectfully
grateful were funny enough to my
cook and myself, who had tested the
new labor -saver, and satisfactorily,
Mrs. Johnson accepted tho "ma-
chine" and promised to follow di- •
rection obediently.
She came to see me a week later,
fairly radiant with delight "The
children and my husband can't say
of the duality of your food.
Your stomach is an intelligent
organ -not a dumping ground.
Prelung I,Iso meal, which should al-
ways be taken leisurely, by propping
jolly book sip before You and
rending es you Masticate.
It is the boat substitute yea can
hav0 for cheerful society.
Matto of your breakfast, lunch-
eon or dinner a graoicus eerenteeee
11, is this grace and this eeremoe
vial which distinguish the Tenets of
humankind from the feeding time
of the brute creation.
BABY DON'TS
-ON'T lift baby by the arms. A:
child's bones and musolen are '>
00 delicate that lifelong Injury
may bo done by this moans,
'Remember, too when taking a small
child for a walk, to suit your speed.
to his, and not vino versa. What may
seem quite a moderate pace to you may
be a terrtftic strain on tiny legs.
Don't forgot that tight woolen un-
dergarments are Just as uncom•
fortablo for little folk as they are
for 'glown-ups,,'
Don't forget that children's clothing
should be warm, but at the salve time
light.
Our plainspoken doctor did not
stay to choose polite phrases in
foreseeing the result upon skin,
muscles and nerves. But he told
the truth, and he might have gone
further in the same direction and
still kept within bounds.
Especially if he had added that
our tea and toast devotee is almost
invariably addicted to sweets.
When her monotonous fare leaves
a craving in the ill-treated stomach,
she opens the candy box and "fills
up" with chocolates, marshmallows
and gumdrops. If aching succeed
the gnawing, a handful of cream
peppermints sets all right.
In writing thus, I do not lose
sight of the truth that the prepara-
tion of broths, meats and vegeta-
bles is not "nice" work.
RESOLUTION REQUIRED
Or that the woman who comes
home at night, tired in mind and
body by long hours of toil in offices
or in salesrooms, would rather go
to bed fasting than 000k the sim-
plest of "regular meals." I com-
prehend as well as if I had once
sewed for a living, and suffer here
the protest against the mere suppo-
sition. as well, I say, as if I had
ever stabbed myaelf with the needle
from 8 A. M. until 6 1?. M., that no
small degree of resolution is re-
quired for the seamstress to warn
a cupful of broth, broil a bit of
steak or a chop, boil a potato and
dress the salad that is to add the
needed freshness to a winter's
meal.
Dem' "Yak,'
a Foe z`a
I-�ealr�
.Set,�J/�',
;Oer"vr'e cit¢ Out:"
77ie rreJess Cooker es .Fle,pfl.el' -417lnt4.9671 eve
Yet I insist that she should
nourish digestive forces instead of
stimulating the nerves to simulate
vigor by 'stewed tea" and saw-
dust, bread,
( A. VERITABLE GODSEND
To this class of solitaries the.
recently introduced fireless stove is
a veritable godsend.
I gave one last year to a woman
who goes out for day's worlc of
whatsoever kind is offered her. In
England she would be a charwoman.
I take it that the root of "char"
and of "chore" is one and the same.
My worker is sober and industrious.
So is her husband, but the earnings
of the two barely support a family
that comprises four children, all
under 14.
The children take their ltmeheon
to school with them.
"Gold victuals, of course," said
the mother. "If I give them a cold
supper, they get no substantial
food all. day.
"And somehow, it don't seem just
eight for growing boys and girls
not to eat one hearty, hot meal for
six days in the week.
"I believe in good, strong soup
and stews of fresh meat -not much
meat -and plenty of vegetables.
"I get awfully worried thinking if
enough of what they think and
feel," she said.
"First -off, not one of them had
any faith in it. They made no and
of fun of it, But they changed
their tune when they tasted the
first stew I made in it.
"I fixed it before going out in the
morning, and it wasn't touched un-
tiI I opened the cooker at 6 that
evening. It was hot and tender and
so good!
"I've cooked corned beef in it,
and boiled cabbage and baked rice
pudding in it all at the same time;
there are three stories, you know.
"Another time I had a fine pot
roast. I never tasted a bettor. And
it makes beautiful soups."
I commend, then, the fireless,
self -conker -by whatever naive it
is known -to our lonely woman.
ESSENTIALS TO HEALTH
If you can get no other, make a
hay stove. of an old trunk and a
discarded comfortable.
But cook your food, choosing
what you like and what is nourish-
ing and hot! Gold victuals aro no
better for the digestion of grown-
ups in cold weather than for chil-
dren.
A parting injunction!
Bat slowly, and with enjoyment
THE HOUSEMOTHERS' EXCHANGE
T IS with profound gratification that
I note the growing interest man!,
tented in our exchange by house-
wives all over the country. My only re-
gret in this connection is the scarcity
of space allotted to what I regard as
themostimportant part of my work for
and with the constituency.
I make room today for a Iively letter
from a now correspondent, but an ex-
perienced honsekeeper.
Iter "briefs" are pithy and practical:
I am a tyro in authorship, so do what you
think best with these trailer briefs. If You
choose to print them, I will rend more Some
tithe.
I. Bake pies In tittle granite pane, In-
stead of the old-fashioned, clumsy pie
plates. Take them out o4 the Oven with a
cake turner.
Chicken phos aro particularly nice balled
f, Sprinkle coal ell on the top of range er
stet" before you begin, t0 Olean out the spot
and ashes,
3..Ala your broom In coal ell and shake It
before uo e1,Ing a very dusty meal.
•1 , `,loan sinks and bathtubs with gasoline,
rubbing with a cloth, being tory t0ro1ut not
to Have Aro er artieeial light around W11110
doing It.
Cools cereals In a bowl ora granite pan
sal Ina saucepan of b,aihlg water, fitter
adding salt and boning water to It, It boots
the Cut e, bullar,
t a nice steak Into a dosori or more
Mateo, and try to a light brown in a tabie-
tpeynt<ul of butter (more or lees). when
they aro browned, take out the -moat and
fry in the same fat e, Neve of kerne, ahead,
NNext, put in halt a nupful of mushrooms
thathave olmmere:1 tender on the stove.
main them True of Water before that' 5o
into tits frYiig-pan, New add hair a canortoinaf0es and stew down to half the orlg-
Inai bunt, making a rich
The tomato10 should be well seasoned with
salt and nelnnr. Meanwhile, break n hound.
of macaroni Into tacit lengths and cools ten-
et' to two quarto of boiling water Slice
hair a pound of elms* very thin; or grate
ilratn the macaroni 1n a colander, end put
a layer In the bottom of'a bakedlslr; then a
1aYer of gratytnext, one of cheset.
mit the dish In this way, Put Into tile
Wen 111111 heated through,
Serve 5: the bettalisp,
This. With good breed and butter, 0101.1es.
and a Woe 01,11,0 0015110005 bar dlhbor °Very
Other wlnday, .The meat may bo added lo
t5s gravy or be served separately,
7, rf liquor,
nor, /l In ata lander of 1 0114
dive of I(quor.. Mall ,thorn In 0orr15nea1 End
tr0 IQraLgpofuryesl and Irish potatoes Ware.
boking then,.
I sent ft pelt-addresbnd entelope to you for
tho
address s or the ]0d
0 oa'e
lady who est
roe ock-
le g -feet pattern, but T made rho aa4i 5kq of
5000 they tt ro a rival paper, ands Isup-
Peso they destroyed
0 tt.
M, O. T. (Memphis, . Tenn.).
1 am continually receiving Ietters ad-
dressed to the care of papers for which
I d0 not write.
It would have been an easy matter
for "tho rival' to forward yours.
The donor Of the stocking -foot pattern
is overrun by applications.
A Word of Gratitude
eresintfr'ppeltboaibforoakngohelp, let mobrng
L
ao d n
f gratitude itudo for t%a
never -falling
7501' for 111 repeated broad given UY rev a
,year 1000 anefthec lntry,
In my Dart of the bread,
an few had
al-
ways a have made and. It had al -
5004 seemed a 5, 11 seemed r m me, -whoa X
read your t 1 d It Inedt too nand to
eu true, but I determined to try and to
white . IE has rho 00, savor of say
white bread I ot•Or oto. My enthusiasm
abates T sOOgost One ov my favorite ways
or coolting lamb's Inver?
Sligothe liver11 rather thin add. nt
eal1
Slices, Pour boiling water Over it. Lou
it stand tlee for a tow minutes. Then
dry, and roll In meal Which has boon
salted and veneered, 1105 a few slices of
bacon until all Mo fat is triad out.
nomovo the bacon from the skillet and
fry the liver in the hot fat until done.
Place the liver on a dish where ft will
100 hot; drain all the fat out of the
skillet and make a cream gravy, as for
(oo.ual1od) Maryland fried' chicken.
S. Another ,4 a 1 mely hint; If yo11
molOten a clothslightly With al o!1 d
rub your p0reelain bathtub with It, those
obstinate streaks which refuso to yield
do soap and water will coma olr as ter
magic,
X shall bo glad to seni
a recipe for
braised tongue at some of er time.
Now, can you tell me why Illy lemon
custards tall with such unrolling mitt.
fartty7 I make thorn by my mOthor'a
ammo, and hers wore the best 1 ever
ata
Mine rise beautifully, and as soon 00
they o51no out or tho oven, down they
cutadsgo it i
FAMILY MEALS FOR A WEEK
SUNDAY
1314,I0Al2PAST.
Grapefruit, Cream .of wheat and cream,
11011 calces, cornmeal' minas. toast, tea
and 10000, LITNCUIDON,
Cold mutton (a left-over),fried Hominy,
brown broad .(Warmed) baked beans, let
taco salad, croakers aria chees0, apple piano
mango with whipped eroatn,. lea,
DINNDM.
0tasgow broth, based upon liquor is
which the mutton was belled yeata5leS1
roast ch1Cka00, nrn,0015 nproUto, salalfy
fritters, lom0n pie, black coffee,
ECONDAY
PPISANPAST,
bacon ed ped,ain007 iterrldg0 and cream,
eggs, roils, toast, tea and etecie,
curried mutton (a left -over), balled Nee
and banhna4 with the curry, baked sweet
potatoes, flake rind canned fruit Out up at
home), 410004.
D/NN'Ehl.
Yesterday's' broth (bettered by second
cooking), thfcltan and oyster plc a 1055-
aver , seello5011 a mussels eprbw` t0 a 1655-
Overmashed n shad Atat00
r n, lnaistr0nl pudding
5,1051
Wlni hard cause, black cerise,
TUESDAY
nrtlil,,ltk.d5T,
S.* mush pad 0504:11, batted Ogg), 1,01104
bacon, Preach roils, toast, tea and coffee,;
LUN0221CON.
7.5.315'0 liver and bacon, potato Pt107 (0
left -0150r),. cold slaw ,with boiled dressing,
rice and raisin pudding, tea,
DINNISM,
Cream of calors` soup, beefsteak moth.
orad in onions, spinach, baked .sweet pota-
toes, apple dumplings (baked) and liquid
sauce, black 00000,
'W RDNEISEAY
mementoes
Print 50r0a1 and 000anl, 011,100 of liver
(a oil -over), rloo munlos, toast, tea
and cotteo. LUNCt{E10N,
SaV0ry stow of beef (a loft -over), soar- .
1011 of sweet notaf:o04 (a left -over),. 5401,-
ea tomatoes, 110E gingerbread and
o1ees0. 0n111t, toe.
DTNNE/t.
Clear 0005 a. lit M50310 N. b„ With
1)oached ei;5's added et the last), calf a
)mail a la vine`s olte, s1rH,gb0ana,
baked res mere±, miner:pie, Week cot,
TSI'/`SD/1.•
BM US:V'AST.
Oranges,
Main dad riadkduwowanandm
toast, tea and totted. ,
X,utcltgos ,
Cal's bra(nq, fried (a left -aver): 511[00,0
Of
Yesterday's calf's- head, served knit
ba aknaiaed 00d 0,1slard, telettun,ce; stewed petat000,
DINNDIi.
Mock turtle Hole (based on liquor in
which .Ma Head was belled), lamb 031000
00 01000rol0, with mushroeins; ah0stnut
oronit0(1as, green peas. cottage pudding.
With brandy sauce; black co0oc,
reelLAY
lertnetiPnset
Granger", cereal and croon), salt mack-
erel,:0,0amo41 Quick biscuits, toast,' tea
and aortoe. LUNOIIIt0N,
Panned oysters, baked tomato toast,
000 05 4 01,10 salad (loft-oVer strn:al:cans.
and green mos, with Iottueo), trine po-
tatno0, Opals 510 a104 ohcoso, 0oo050
5IN1V'D n.
Y0nteseeses soup. baked halibut, with
sauna i11g11ant01 mashed potatoes, tomato
s0a11op1 500on of Pa 01 black ooffee.
SATURDAY
nitnAnS'AS"r,
naked
ap0loa.and cream, baconand
growl 501)50M, SallY')u n
teas
eorc0o, t, tea a and
LUNONFIGN,
Creamed tt
ea a halibut releft-avec, botato
50004 (aol0it•OVOr), gra110.m gores, a tipsy
5arsdn, toe,
PI`1NMIt,
155105' and bar10Y 001I0,' 1,011055 earned
beef, mashed 11±10455, 1(fd11075 beans a fa
lYOnnalso, 'squash plc% black co:Yea,'
baking that Is at fault.
Please give me a really good reolpe
for cooking kidney beans.
Pardon my too -long letter. You don't
know how much morn I wont to say.
Mrs. .7. O..(Naehvlfle, num).
Say it another time.
You have paid your entrance fee and.
all 1uture..dues by your "nice". letter.
Moro Is a roclpo for cooking kidney
Inane, Solnobody else ntay send you a
better, and toll you what is the matter
withathat
nllstards,
cy ha you hake then) too fast.
OeVer them Until they are "set," then
brown,
Kidney Beans a la Lyonnaise.
Soak over night and put a tiny bit of
soda. 111 the Water. Iu t11e. morning cover
with. hoping water. and lot thorn get bike-
Wernl in this.. It real take off the raw,
rank Mate many dislike,
Throw away this water and cover deep
with belling, slightly oohed. Boll fender,
but not to breaking,,' Drain In a. colander,
sell, if needed, and oat ht the colander
within an open oven to dry, Molt in a fry-
III pan a roblha1100nfttl 05 drlpide Or of
hurter, and wbcn 15 Hisses, cook yin it a.
teaspoonful 0t minced onion aha os mtteb
chopped parsley,
Halt and popper to Mee, and put. In the
beans.' Shako over the 11x0 until tho : banns
aro 'coated lath the hissing 1nix10W1 and
Vestal through, Do not lot thele Grows,
Servo very 11ot.
Teo is th0 boot way of cooking Immo
of whleh 5 have any knowledge. I hopo
You will bo as 5000110f111 es you Wert) with
the broad and like ' It as Well,
Handkerchief T rillts
II0v0 '010, of our Members Moor tried
nres0in5'W01 handkerchiefs on a Window
or a. warrenwhen ironing la lmposslble7
When they arc dry, fold, They look as
well as tvllon '1,000,, Ribbons may be
washedandpressed do 1111.e manner,
L. M. (Chicago),
The same tale has been told to us by,
other housewives. Are the handlcor•
chiefs land ribbons really smooth?
Or have they a suspicion of rough
dltynens about them?
hen Baby y
. W C1)okes
Dn mallets 11,1011 that when baby chokes
en 001;51, m• ether matter, )odlr*d inLhd
windpipe, if the little otlo'k' arms are raised
end 115014 Midi above 11)0 head, the 000d1051
0
1
1 1iave 0hoard c
o
ma =annwhio wowChoking
with a .piece of moat, 5. y0ung men rushed
up to him and raised 1,1e arms high, hold-
ing than` forcibly to that position,and he
was mitered Instantly.
Y have upon often benented by your rile-
. change and hope t4 be of some use to it
00m0 day,
S. IT. (North Attleboro, Mass,).
You hove been of nee to ft.
And when your say was said, you
stopped and left room tor the noxi
speaker. That is a rare accomplishment
In writer or in speaker: -
Another, and a more violent method
of curing choking Is to grasp tho stran-,
gling child by the heels and hold him
bead downward.
T have seen it tried again and again
and never saw it fail to rellevo the
sufferer.
Cooking BarleyDD
Z'Budleythnuntans 115500 bracing
lin-produ
elements than any other grain. It to
habits. 1e a strengthenoa `hof brain and
koo s
Rha tyu bwaa...11.0-.0v
how to cook
It in different ways)
S. 0. P. L. (Nashville, Tenn.).
Barley meal is largely used for bread
in northern Europe. In this country it
is almost impossible to procure it.
When the outer husk is removed the
grain is made into broth ee the addi-
tion of stock, or It is boiled first in
water, then in milk, and eaten with
cream as a cereal,
It. is also cooked long' and slowly, to
extract all the strength, and left to
cool in water In wlt1o11 it was boiled.
This liquid., When strained oft,is sweet-
ened and drunk by invalids or fed to
infants ae "barley water."
It is, as your authority says, highly
nutritious, 1 wish I had not to add.
that the chief use or barley in England
and America is to malts malt for fer-
mented liquors.
Economical Recipes
In. your section I see .you ask for morn
economical recipes. X matzo a good friend .
out West by replying toour requests. X
have lust bent her some bilk scraps for au
invalid. I am m "torn 0001," as you cal; and
(0750 to use left -overs srtl,Clcelly. I 1101004
a m0rl•led Friend, Who -baton rooking, 0 when
Oho had' no 05010. to prepare a 1tauor for
a gtrao ggnrbt, 1 5101,11 in 1101 neatly two
001'10 .011ntntllc, two 0500, a Mosel o5 salad,
0110. Pound et 01,0t)10e4 steak, o salmotn; '
onions carrot, a cup)' one can 04 salmon, •
a bit
oread, one cup of stewed tomam00, •
a bit of dry ; Cheese, a emelt neem Meow,
urate 0013 cold' one cop of cannedNeedle sots sand
et)
.!tree 0010 holhid. Penn t0, a scraps to say,
011q husband's
di ter, I d thus arsl]s am her
husband o tanner, I dropped tn, to and hor
in (0100 over a *end to announcing 'bring-
ing Homo a. Mend 10 drones" I not 10.
l 05111 the dinner woo - tion, and I enjoyed
using the a a nice0)0 to the beat advantage.
I made 11(00. soup with nn noio,, 011,1d
earr01, gat small, with herbs) a bit 04 cal-
ory Ilse chapped 1000h and 01)0 and' one-half
Minta of water, with ono -111114 can 04 rice
and Isaldry.' -It was geed, slag hettll.
I oiled o moms pound. of spaghetti, Loma-
I. boned malting a anion 5nd the toma-
toes, spl saved 111111. anion Ind servo, and
crated the alloai 75013' Ono, t0 servo with
It Then 3 Maimed f i a
i p d D salmon, with two
well;
of brood, crumbed;1one egg; Unites
won• anandup orpi mak, ono smelt onion,
,0 do and 0 1
T r Y d a pinch o4 nutmeg. Those,
beaten lightly, worn p end 0010'a hot,
with
baked one-half hour; than served hok' Wittt
s 5100tt1' afior e°e Noun.
Then t, `0th smna echo er011,) 7 to
Sarva hot, 0 with tho cream 00 35. arid 1 Jar
Of 'rho
rani Which 040 was to the closet. ,
�'11n salad dressing 51 , 1 was batted -w111( ( a
oth01' 0up 04 mink. 0t5 atl10 055, a litho
n11(5hi rd gnd a La and
5epper. O' Rutter
poured
viH051)1 nett and 0 t,nt. 1`1118 110
neared to 1110 peas 0115 the oil, cut In
41,05„ .don't
arranged 0 5 1ettink that
koala
0/00pretty.
Ilnw, 40000 van till ]C tltat he o,, gotta
for an iii h r) 1 Mal o 110 home. but
and vel 1 11 had, for in the Alai est ItI00
and hospitality, all oven of `10 plainest Iain
Old
attire
all sorts nt dbvt00ab ler using
otd -,tp' }nn eurltlna, 10 11- table es any
talent etc' I have x mann.--('�Oere lies 5111
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