mmimzmmtwmmawmgzs THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 189L THE BEST OF BIRDS Is the Thanksgiving Turkey When It Fills All the Requirements of the Art Culinary. TWO KICE MENUS FOR THE DAT Braised Turkey- TTith Chestnut Stuffing With the Accessories Is Elliot Etrena's Ideal WHAT HES. EMMA P. EWIXG BTCGESTS. Kaborat Directions for ths Production d BkuicrJ Fit for Eoyaltrj Titles. rwErrrKr for the pisfatok. f .-;.. v T is an unfortunate '-TffV'SJ family indeed that will not revel in the delights of a turkey next Thursday. The bird is always the basis upon which the Thanksgiving dinner is built and the first ssentlal to makinjj everybody happy on that day is to cook it well. It is a fine art, and no good housewife neglects to study it In its most minute details. T append a Thanksgiving menu of whioh braised turkey with chestnut stuffing in the center around which the other edibles are arrayed: Thanksgiving Menu. Ovster Poup. Olives. Wafer. Braised Tin key. Chestnut Stuflms. Jellied Cranberries. Trench Peas. Potato Ball's. Parsley Butter. ilared Sweet Potatoes. Ci earned Turnips. Celerv Salad. Mayonnaise Dressing. Mince Pie. 1'umpkin Pie. Telicate Cake. Custard Sauce. Xuts. Grapes. Black Coffee. Chocolate. How to Prepare Them. The hints following will assist the house keeper in getting up her dinner: I begin with oyster soup. Take the number of oysters required have them large and very fresh. Turn them into a colander, and le serve the liouor. Lift out the ovster:.. one by one, to see that there are no bits of shell adhering. Plump them by plunging them into boiling water for an "intrant and then into cold water. Put the liquor, with a little water, into a stew-pan, and skim off the troth as it rises, add some very rich milk and a little cream if you can afford it, cud a large lump of butterl "When the liquor is about to boil, drain the oysters and turn them into the pan, and then draw it to the back part of the range for a moment and then remove. Have in the tureen a little cracker dust, pour Si the oysters, add a dust of cayenne, salt to taste, and a squeeze of lemon juice. Have the soup plates well warmed, and serve the soup without delay, passing the wafers at the same time. The Philosophy and Art of 1 Turkey boil'd is turkey spoil'd. And turkey roat is turkey lost, Uutloi turkey braised the Loi d be praised. Select a good, fat hen turkey, truss it as for boiling, and after seasoning the inside of it furnish it with chestnut dressing. Lay itin a roaster over a bed of rather thick slices of sweet bacon. Surround it with a calf's foot cut up in small pieces, some onions and carrots in slices, thyme, mar joram, parsley, bay leaves, a clove of gar- jic, a ciove or two, a lew pepper corns and alt to taste. ' Moisten it with about a quart of stock, lay a piece of buttered paper on the top, cover the roaster and braise in a moderate oven for four or five hours, according to the size of the iowh Chestnut Staffing. Eemove the outer skin of a number of chestnuts and put them to boil in salted water. When cooked rather underdone, drain them and remove the inner skin. Season well with salt, pepper and spices. Add a half pound of prime butter, cut up Into small pieces, or finely minced suet, well dredged with flour, may be substituted for butter. A suspicion of onion adds very much to the flavor of the stuffing. The best sauce for braised turkey is the gravy freed from excess of fat and then strained. Garnish with croquettes of sausage-meat or watercresses, dripping with French dressing oil, vinegar, pepper and lall- Jellled Cranberries. Take one quart of picked cranberries: wash well, and put in a granite stew pan with a half pint of boiling water. Let boil 10 minutes, press through a sieve, add a pound of white sugar and simmer. Mold and set to cool. Fricassee Chicken. Take a pair of tender chickens, cut them no. waeh and dry them. Put a tablespoon ful of butter into stew pan, and, when it begins to bubble, lay in the chickens, shake them about and turn them. Cover with water and simmer slovUy for an hour. Before serving ttir in a cupful of milk or cream, blpnded w ith a large tablespoonful of floor. Let -nnmer for a few minutes and pour into a dish the bottom or which lias been spread with treshly baked biscuitB, torn apait and buttered. French Peas. Get a can or two of the best French-peas. Turn them into a colander and dash freely with cold water. Puttliem into a vessel ar'd Jet stand (covered with cold water) until ready to use. Drain well and put into a Ftw pan. with a lump or fresh butter, a dash of sugar and a little salt. Toss about until very hot do not touch with spoon or fork, and serve quickly. Potato Balls With Parsley Butter. Scoop out the potatoes with a vegetable cutter and drop the balls into cold water. Drain off the water and drop into a stew pan, and cover with boiling water, sligntlv salted. Mm co some fresh parsley and work It into a lump of butter. When the potatoes are tender, drain off the water, season thera witn salt and pepper and add the butter. When t'mrousrhlv blended with thepotatoes by fchaking thu pan, serve at once. Celery Salad. Cut sweet, crisp celery into small pieces, add to it a little grated onion, and two hard boiled eggs minced line, cover with cream salad diesang made as follows: Take the yelks of loifi fresh eggs, beat well, and 6tir In a half cupful of creaui, a tablespoonful of salt, tin ee Icispoonfuls of powdered sugar, and a level ten-poonful of mustard made smooth in a little water, melt a half cupful of butter in a teacuDful of hot vinegar, add the other ingredients and stir over hot water until it becomes creamy. At serving time w hip the eggs, and old them gradually into the dressing. This is an excclleut cream, and only needs a trial to make it a favorite one. Pumpkin Pie. To one quart of stewed pumpkin take a quArtof hot milk, 1 enps of sugar and a small lump or butter When partly cool add tr j elks of fourcirgs. one-half teaspoonful salt, oe ti-a-pooululglngerand one table spooniulof cinnamon Bake in rich pastrv, without upper crust, 40 minutes. Test witfc knife blade. When it comes out clean the custaidlsdone. Delicate Cake. Co-am together very thoroughly one-half cupful of buttcranda cupful and a half of granulated sugar, 6ifted twice. Add the beaten j ulkh of thrco eggs, a cupful of sweet milk, i.nd very gradually three level cupfuls of Hour, sifted twice with two rounded tea spoon, ills ccoo. baking pow der. Flourwith orange and lo'd in the beaten whites. Bake abom 45 i.um-.tes, if made in one large cako. TliU . a good lecipe lor layer cake. Chocolates. Melt fonr ounces or grated chocolate In a farina kettle. Add one quart of new milk lightly warmed and two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Cover the boiler, simmer five min utes, then beat with egg-teater until smooth and creamy. Add a few drops of vanilla and serto with whipped cream. Bints for the Cooks. FGCT.TP.T cannot boil too slowly. The easiest and most economical way to cook rice Is to steam it. To be in perfection a salad should be eaten the moment it is dressed. Is roakmjf plain Irosting it should bomaed '"SlS "n-E?r i.v Ipllplf c 0 stiff enough to leave a distinct mark when cut with a knife. Coffee, bright andspnrkllng, Is the proper conclusion orovcry dinner. Slices cut off a leg or mutton, nnd cooked as beefsteaks, are very lino eating. Iw making an omelet the adding of milk to the eggs makes it sort. Take one tablespoon ful to an egg. Pastry in general, no matter how light It may bo made, lies heavier on the itomaoh than any other food. A dish of fruit, made up Into a sort of salad with wine and sugar, is a very accept able addition to all desserts. An. partridges should be stirred as llttla as possible while cooking, and the water should boilhard before adding the meal or flour. The tops or beets should never be cutoff closo to the head, nor should the small roots bo disturbed, since the juice and richness of the vegetable will escape. Sours, sauces, gravies and made dishes brought from the table, and to be reserved for future meals ought to be poured ont of the vessel in which they have been served into clean ones. Elltot Sebctjl. A DINNER FOR CHILDREN. Thanksgiving Day Is Primarily Their Day and Their Stomachs Should Be Be spected Mrs. Ewing, of Chautauqua Famn, Suggests a menu She Guarantees No Aches trill Follow Eitlne It. tWHITTEJT FOB THE DISPATCH.! ilE Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner should be one of which any child who is big enough to be out of the bonds of baby food might eat everything from soup to after-dinner drink without fear of stomach-ache afterward. These are really the children's holidays after all. Be cause deep in their hearts grown people care little enough for these days except as they reflect the happiness of the little ones. Isn't it so? "Why, nothing is so dreary as a Christmas dinner without children, and as for Thanksgiving day, though it seems to deal with Pilgrim Fathers and grown up sentiments, yet it gets its real glow from the children and the children, it must be suspected, get a deal of glow from the ex pectation of a good dinner. Here is a dinner which has been planned with special reference to little ones, of which they may eat every single dish, if prepared after the recipes, with no harm to themselves or to anjbody else except the the dinner: Corn sonp. Boast tnrkey. Giblet gravy. Cranberry sance. Mashed white potato. Browned Sweet potato. Scalloped oysters. Celery. Salted Almonds, Olives. .Tapioca Cream. Angel Cake. Fruit. Hygienic Coffee. Corn Soup. Cook together, in a sauce pan, until well mixed, but not browned, an even table spoonful of bntterand two level tablespoon fuls of flour, then add a pint of cold water and, when it noils, add a can of tender corn; simmer ten minutes, add a pint of rich milk, boiling hot, season to taste with salt and white pepper and serve. Turkey Dressing. Bub to crumbs aloafof stale bread from which the crust has been pared or removed. Season sharply with salt and pepper, and moisten nntil sufficiently rich with melted butter. This will make a light, drv, digest ible stuffing acceptablo to a majority of tastes, but oysters, celery, sage, thvme, basil or other flavoring can fie added "with the salt and pepper, if desired. Giblet Gravy. Remove the crease from the basting mix ture, after the turkey has been taken from the roasting pan, strain It through a wire sieve into a saucepan, thicken to the con sistency desired, with flour nnd butter stirred to a smooth paste, then add the gib- lets after they have been thoroujhly stewed, cut in small pieces or minced, boil a few minutes, season to taste with saltand pepper and send to table in a gravy bowl. Scalloped Oysters. For scalloping oysters use bread crumbs rolled and sifted, as they are much lighter sweeter and more delicate than the cracker crumbs. Season the crumbs with salt and pepper and moisten with melted butter. Scatter a layer of the prepared crumbs on the bottom of a shallow baking dish, place upon thorn a layer of ovsters that have been well drained, coverlightly with thepiepared crnmbs. and so alternate with oysters and crumbs until there lire three layers of ovs teis. Over the top layer scatter crnmbs evenly just enough to hide the oysters and protect them fiom too great heat while cooking. Bake in an oven of about the same temperature as renuird fnr Ti-r.ari for half an hour, or nntil the crumbs on the top are a rich chestnut brown. Salted Almonds. Pour boiling water over a pound of shelled almonds, let stand about a minute, then re move the almonds and slip off the skins. Dry In a towel, put into a bowl and stir in sufficient olive oil or butter to grease each kernel. Brown in a dripping pan in a hot oven and sprinkle well with salt as soon as taken from the oven. Tapioca Cream. Soak overnight one cup of tapioca in three cups of ccld water. In the morning drain apd put to cook in a double boile"- in a quart of rich milk, to which, add half a teacup of granulated sugar and a quarter of a teaspoontul or salt. Let the tapioca cook uutil tender, then add the yelks of six eggs thoroughly beaten. As soon as the eggs thicken remove from the Are and pour into a bowl. Let stand till neaily cold, stir in two teaspoonluls extract or vanilla, pour into the dish in which it is to be sei ved. Beat the whites or two eggs to a stiff froth add four tablespoon ruls granulated sugar,' and pile the mixture on tne top of the cream. Hygienic Coffee. Mir well together in a bowl bv rubbing between the hands four quarts of course wheat bran and one pint Xew Orleans mo lasses, and brown nicely in the oven. Make in the same manner as coffee, using about thrice the quantitv. Settle by pounngina little cold water when it boils. This makes a healthful and delicious beverage that many people prefer to genuine coffee. mu P. Lwibs. TOAST WITH A HOHOGBAIL A Device by Which a Young Woman Pleated and Snrprised Her Family. tWEHTEX FOB THE DISPATCH. 3 A certain young woman who, her family say, sits up nights to think up clever things, thought up a specially clever one a. month ago. The family knew it one morning when they came in to breakfast For at each place was a small plate of hot bnttered toast, and on every slice appeared the monogram of some one member of the family, in creamy yellow against a golden brown back-ground. And when everybody had ex claimed and wondered enough to satisfy the vanity even of this ex acting young woman, she was induced to go down into the kitchen and display the con trivance by which she had brought it all about. This is a picture of one of the things. It was made like an ordinarv toaster only that the center was composed of a monogram which was held in the frame by a single wire attached to each side. When the bread was put in and held over the fire the metal of the monogram kept its outline from browning and when the rest of the sur face was crisp and brown the letter device was just touched with creamy yellow. The letters were of tin. "The beauty of this toaster," explained the dever young woman, "is that they could be made in silver and used for dinner favors." But her father shook his head ruefully and said, "I don't see the beautv of, that" Thomas J. Mukeey. 4m ML TiTj ! r r H THE THE, TIE B THE BUSY WOMAN'S GOWNS. A Winter's Wardrobe Independent of the DressmaKer Five Becoming Costumes They Do Not Cost Much Art or making Over Old Dresses Hints as to the Trimming and Fitting. rWKtTTEN FOB THIS DISPATCH.! NCE women got the credit of spending all their time on their clothes. Perhaps they deserved it. But they don't nowadays, and there is no surer sign of the change than the fact that the funny pa pers have ceased to oc cupy themselves with the subject. There are things more inter esting in Ufa than gores and biases. Gores and biases ara necessary, all the same, and the question is how to dispose of them satisfactorily in the smallest possible compass of time and strength. The woman of riches fortunately can leave carte blanche with the measure at the gownmaker's. The woman with an absorbing pursuit and a limited purse cannot settle the matter so easilv. The dress problem that confronts the pro fessional woman the teacher, writer, phy sician is a vexing one. Some busy women whom I know have compressed their dress making satisfactorily into two brief seasons a year. At these times they overhaul the old wardrobi, remodel everything that can be remodeled, add two or three new gar ments and pnt the whole in complete order. What a Busy Woman Must Have. Such a woman getting up her winter ward robe wants, we will sav, a gown for the office, one for church, a dinner and evening gown. She has some old things to fix over, and a new one, or two, to add, and she wants them all to be smart; but with a very moder ate outlay of money. She is advised that a model for a business gown given out by an exclusive modiste is as shown in this column. The material is English serge. The plain skirt just escapes the ground, and it is bnt slightly different from the skirts of last sea son. In the front are two pockets, set in through horizontal or slightly diagonal slits, about 10 inches below the waist. The waist extends 7 inches below the waist-line, and is of uniform length, all round. It is double breasted. Two small pockets are set into it, like a man's vest pockets. It opens a little Her Working Gown. at top, to show a four in hand cravat, and the edge of a trans parement of a contrast ing color seen along the opening. The collar is turned down and the cuffs are turned up. A trans parement is a piece of silk shaped like the front of a gentleman's vest, which it is the lashion in Paris to wear inside waists that have revers to fill the opening. This it severe. There are other models that have more beauty and are quite as much in harmony with the working environment. Also, that will give more opportunity to remodel a last year's garment For ex ample, the whole effect ot an old gown may be changed by passing the waist under the skirt en princesse. Remodeling a Plain Serge. The Miss Helyett dress design, with the belt, is after the "Miss Helyett' order, popular just now in Paris. A bag is worn with this dress. A good way to remodel a plain serge is to add a Turkish sleeveless jacket of plain color, and make Bishop or bell sleeves of bias plaid over a close The Miss HelyeU. Dress. under sleeve of plain. The first is loose and slides up and down over the close sleeve; the bell top should reach below the elbow. There is a fancy for bordering edges with waved lines. This is given character by being turned up on the out side as a facing, leaving the edge like a hem. It should be bound with a heavy cord of velvet, as thick as a finger, and a parallel cord may be sewed on an inch or so from the first one. Such a trimming would well edge the sleeveless jacket except the armholes and the skirt The proper gown for churcb,v"calling, or theater is of plain cloth. It requires from five to eight yards to make one, and the price ranges from 51 50 to ?3 a yard. These cloth dresses are an especial feature this year, and no wardrobe is complete without one. It must be made with a bell skirt, very scant about the hips and full at the tkfli ill SWCM ( v I'fAZjEl''. ill wi nil OUDOIK, HOME bottom; a round waist, which passes under the skirt, or else ends a little below the waist line in a slight point; the sleeve may be mutton leg, coat, or full to below the elbow, with a close cuff from thence down. In the ultra gown of this sort there is not a particle of trimming, but its beauty is made to consist in its easy and graceful fitting. And its ideal is not the mannish, but the demure and Quakerish. See that your dress maker does not make the skirt draw in front The Chwc Gown. about the feet. It should round at the top and have ample spring at the feet, like the bell from which it is named. A skirt that hoops round the feet has no beauty. How to Put on Trimming. "When the cloth gown has trimming, the waist receives it nearly all. The shirt may have a border and the bell sleeve may have its cuff covered with parallel bands. Fur, feathers and velvet and passementaries ara all used as trimmings. Perhaps the last are most favored. They are used in black, col ors, gold and silver, and also jewelled, and are in bands of all widths. Gold and silver ribbons, strewn with riveted nail-heads, are effective on dark cloths. There are also gold and silver nets to be cut into yokes and made into gilets. It is 27 inches wide The Dinner Gown. f30 avard, and there seems to be no cheaper substitute. It is very dressy, and one might auuu u uib ui ib 10 luruisn up an oiu aress. I have seen it used on a plaid dress to fill the space above a plain corsage. A velvet sash, yoke and cuffs may also trim a cloth go xd. Close fitted jackets of the same cloth may be added to these 'gowns. They are without hip-seams and reach to the knee. Ablacc silk dinner gown should have the skirt cut bias, and be ten inches longer behind than in front A good choice of silk isKoyale. Bengaline is popular, also. Yon may pnt any quantitity of jet on the skirt, long pieces depending'f rom the belt and put also round the bottom. The waist should be short, and many have a gilet of light moire antique embroidered with jewels. You can buy these jewels by the string, or dozen, for a small outlay and sew them on yourself. The waistc is high, but there is no collar, but a piece of colored chiffon is laid inside and pulled up in a knot in front, and fastened. The sleeves are of the mut- JXer Plaid Remade. ton-leg order, long and ending at the, wrist without any trimming. This gown should have a sash'belt of black velvet, fastened behind with a velvet rosette. Rejuvenating an Old Silk. To furbish up an old silk that is insuffi cient in quantity, the skirt may be divided into panels with narrow strips of black lace, having a color set under. Gilet of lace over the color. 'JLhe mutton-leg sleeve cannot with taste be trimmed, and is better left plain. If you have an old brocade to make over for an evening, you are in luck, as this is a fashionable material for women who are past 23. Chiffon is only for young girls. Drape the bottom of the skirt, which is the same length a3 the black silk, with crepe de chine headed with jeweled trimming. Crepe de chine may be had in all colors at 90 cents a yard. Make the waist of the full crepe de chine, with a corselet over it of the brocade. Attach to the corselet a plain skirt ten inches long of the brocade, edged with jeweled trimming. Make the neck round and quite low, and set on it a deep ruffle of the crepe. Make the sleeve very short, and gather it and the ruffle up together and fasten on the shoulder with flowers or feathers. Ada Bache-Coitb. SHOPPING AS A BUSINESa Clever Women in New York Slake Two Hundred Dollars a Week at It Shopping has risen from a pastime to a profession. It is said there are several thou sand women in New York City who live on the percentage allowed 'them by the big shops in which they spend other people's money. In-the rushing season about holi day time, and just before the summer exodus J -imfw illf ffl begins some of them make as high as $200 a week. These luckjr ones though, usually have money of their own. They watch bargain sales carefully and manage generally to se cure the cream of them. Then when an order comes they are often able to fill it from their private stock and pocket the comfortable difference betwixt the regular and the bargain price. QTEEB BBITISH CTTSTOXS. lira. Caster's Discoveries as to Southdowns and the Queen's Boot. rWBITTEJf FOB THE DISPATCH.1 HILEIwas in England it became a question with me how the English man aged to get such deco rative results out of their sheep, so persistently did I find the Southdown "effect" in the landscape. "Wherever I went to pay a visit in the country, there, in full view of the drawing room windows, were the everlasting Southdowns the lambs without a frisk, the sub dued mothers helping to complete the soft, sooth ing tone of the perfectly finished landscape. I grew sometimes almost to long for some thing half finished that one might watch, as we do at home, the progress of the world. The finished look of everything wearied me occasionally. The hills, so "smooth and polished, the pomaded and well-combed lawns, awoke in me a wish to see a babv cyclone of our territories hustling through the air on its progress toward some of the most glossy andwell-groomed grass plats, and where generations had pruned and clipped and mowed. I longed for the wand of the magician to transfer one of the wild exultant dalles of the Columbia or a sec tion of the bad lands of Dakota that out-Dore Dore in their weird uncanny shapes. But while these revolutionary sentiments lay under a conventional exterior, the peaceful sheep browsed on in much the same place; either remaining there from preconcerted action on the part of the tim orous creatures who were willing to con tribute themselves to the scene, or because of invisible tethering. If we Americans seem to be lacking In the bump of veneration,it is only in speech, not in deed. I visited a charming house hold in Kensington one day, where the young people were wishing to do us honor. They lived in London and enjoyed it, but they still spoke the language of the United States and had not lost the national capacity for enthusiasm. The house they rented was full of heirlooms and the book-shelves and -cupboards and closets stuffed with books, old and choice and many of them presentation copies. On the fly leaf was often the auto graph of some distinguished person that would fetch guineas at a sale. There seemed to have been no effort on the part of the house-owner who, it goes witnout 6aymg, was a person ol distinction to preserve or even put away these price less volumes. Over the tea table the viva cious American girl gave us a little running account of some of these treasures. "What do yon think we have unearthed now," she said, "from away back in a closet that seemed given over to rubbish? Noth ing less than the Queen's book, and on the fly-leaf written, 'Albert wished if" There was not a trace of awe in her tone, only a girl's happy laughter; "and you can't imagine what a state we are in to decide what he wished." It was the Queen's presentation copy to their landlord. "My brother and I feel so injured because she is so brief," she went on. "We dispute whether Albert wished her to write the book, or to give it to this especial mend, or what There was not a shade of difference in her tone in speaking of the Queen from that she would have used in speaking of any other woman. I thought with glee of my charm ing landladies, those three loyal, high-bred English women, whose tones sank to a sub dued hush when Victoria's name was ut ter d. Oh, if they only could have heard this clever, unconscious, animated girl refer to their sovereign as if she was made of jest such clay as we are! Elizabeth B. Custeb. V THB WOMEN OF THE SOUTH, They Show a Better Instinct Than Their Sisters East and West rWSITTXN OB THE DISPATCH.1 NYONE who has met the Southern woman in the North knows she is an example to Northern women in her conduct of busi ness matters. There are in New York prob ably as cosmopolitan a set of working women to-day as can be found in any quar ter of the globe drawing breath and salaries. You will find a Western woman often work ing for less than she is worth. Sometimes it is because she really doesn't know what site's worth, aud sometimes because she doesn't care what she's worth. Not so with the Eastern girL To set tle a business matter with her is quite an other thing. She seems to regard'the money part of it as an incident, an afterthought She insists in treating it with a fine con tempt, and speaks of it as "compensation," until a man feels that he has been guilty of indelicacy in me tioning it And it isn't affectation so much as a kind of inbred non sense that business life hasn't taken out of her yet But the Southern woman, bless you 1 there isn't a bit of nonsense about her. She's the farthest-seeing, the shrewdest, the best matched to man in business matters of any woman you can find. With the offer off her services, comes the statement of the sum ot money she expects for it. While the employer haws and hedces as he is sure to do she hums "Dixie" and looks out of the window She knows he'll take her terms and she means to give him full return for what she gets. Then when all this is ar ranged, she insists on having a good stout contract made. Then she goes to work, with a calm heart It is by no means to be inferred from this that the Southern woman is a grasping creature. Not in the least; she's generous to a fault in the use of hermoney. " The strangest part of it all is, that thi3 unusual business in stinct should be found embedded in such sentiment as vou find in the Southern wo man. The Western woman isn't senti mental at all; the Eastern woman is only contemplative and reflective, the Southern woman with all her experience and shrewd ness inmoney matters hasn't lost a bit of the deliriously romantic charm that charac terized her before , the war. She works rovally, but she never for an instant relin quishes her belief that no woman ought to work. She still looks up to a man as a god like and superior creature and she never ac cepts the fact that a woman should ride in anything but her own carriage, go out after dark without an escort, or open the door for herself. And it's a good belief. It' isn't comforta ble for her alwavs, because she finds things so at variance with it, but its good for men to feel that somebodv still insists upon and expects from them all things that are gen tle and unselfish. Heles Wattebsoit. Treating Glowlamp Bolus. A compound has been invented for ap plication to the outside of incandescent lamps. This compound is luminous after the current of the lamp has been switched off, so that the lamp can be seen without any trouble. It alto acts in the ordinary tray as a ray diffuser. fV'H I N A WOMAN'S HARD FIGHT. leaves From the Idfe of Sin. Trollope Mother of Anthony Trollope With Her Fen She Supported a Family Dying With Consumption Good Accomplished by Her Book on America. WJtlXTEN FOR THE DISPATCH.1 No one family, it is said, has ever written more books than that of the Trollopes. Mrs. Trollope made her name famous over sixty years ago by her first book entitled, "The Domestic Manners of the Americans," founded mainly upon her experiences and observations in the city of Cincinnati. This book was written when she was 60 years old, and by the time she had reached 76, she had produced 114 volumes. Her son, Anthony Trollope, made the claim that his literary performances were more in amount' than the works of any other English author. To swell the number of books written by the family the eldest son, T. Adolphus Trollope, wrote a con siderable number, and a sister had shown symptons of taking to her pen by one story shortly before an early death. Perhaps no English writer upon Ameri can manners has ever received more abuse than Mrs. Trollope. In her time the peo ple of this country were much more sensi tive to criticism than at present Mrs. Trollope had strong powers of "satire, and was somewhat given to exaggeration, but her criticisms had facts for' a basis, and they struck home. The Cause of Her Bitterness. Theill success of her American enter prise in behalf of her son, and the family misfortunes generally, had doubtless em bittered her and given sharpness to her pen in her description of American social and domestic life as bIip saw it in her two or three years' stav in this country. In England she had lived among cultivated literary people. Among her friends were Miss Mitford, the distinguished author; Miss Landon and Dean Milman, the author of the tragedy of Fazio, the notes on Gibbons' "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," and other notable works. She was the daughter of a clergyman and married a chancery barrister who had great expecta tions that were never realized. By those who knew him he was esteemed an able and consicentious lawyer, but possessed of such a bad temper and disagreeable manners as to drive business away from him. He had a fortune of his own, and was to have been the heir of a rich old uncle. Upon these hopes he leased a farm and built a fine coun try house, but as his son Anthony, the nov elist, says, everything he did went wrong. He was not born under lucky stars, and the family affairs went continually from bad to worse nntil as a final crusher to all his high hopes the rich old uncle married and had a family of his own. Poverty stared him in the face, and the shadows of the bailiff and sheriff grew more tangible every day. The well educated lawyer was finally compelled to give up practice, since clients had deserted him. The family gave up London to live on a farm the farm described in the novel of "Orley Farm," written by Anthony years afterward. With little capital and no knowledge of the business, this farming enterprise ended in financial ruin. High Hopes for America. With the hope of bettering their circum stances Mrs. Trollope, with three of her children, started for America, partly, as her son relates, because she had been im bued with the democratic views of the famous Fanny Wright, the first woman lecturer that ever appeared in America, and partly to conceal from the world the ruin of the family fortunes. To establish a business for her son Henry in the rich,, and flourishing Queen city of the West was her most ardent desire. r Here she built a bazar and invested all of the capital she could command. After struggling along for tour years with some little success and much of nope me verge oi Bankruptcy was reacnea. Disheartened, they returned to England to get a fresh start Mrs. Trollope having reached the conclusion that America was a glorious country for Americans, but a very so-so one for the English. While in Cin cinnati the health of her son was miserable. She, herself, had a narrow escape from death by the fever thenpfevalent, and these added to the failure and disappointment that attended their venture in business and the disagreeabilities of what was then back woods life, all tended to make her dislike America. In a letter to Miss Mitford, however, she says that "there is much to like and admire on this side of the Alle gheny mountains, many very estimable and well informed people, and an almost endless variety of objects and circum stances in the highest degree interesting, yet I would not pass the remnant of my days here, even if I could have all my fam ily around me. Nothing shall keep me here after my eldest girl is 16, as I th.nk I owe it to her to let her see young ladies' daylight in a civilized country." Ohio Was Frontier rand. In reading Mrs. Trollope's letters to Miss Mitford, it is to be remembered that Ohio at the time of her visit was considered al most the frontier of civilization. The canal from the Hudson river to Lake Erie, or DeWitt Clinton's "big ditch," as it was called, had just been completed. George Stephenson was studying the steam engine which led him to the invention of the loco motive, and Morse was juggling his brains on the telegraph. At the time of Mrs. Trollope's visit the great struggle between the Jacksonlan Democrats and the old Republicans under Adams was going on, and it was as bitter a fight as has ever occurred in the country. The Ingalls sentiment, that "the worst Re publican that ever lived is better than the best Democrat, was put in other words by a supporter of Jackson named Johnson. "I don't care," said he, "for, by the eter nal, if the Adams administration act as pure as the angels that stand at the right hand of the throne of God, we'll put them down." The debates in Congress were violent and vindictive. Clay was denounced as a gam bler and charged "with bargain and corrup tion. When Jackson was inaugurated and held his first leyee the White House be came the scene of a social event without, perhaps, a precedent The halls and rooms were jammed with people struggling for the refreshments. China and glass were broken without regard to cost Tubs and barrels of punch were set in the garden to draw off the crowd from the house, but in the wild rush and confusion thev were un set Men with muddy boots stood on the satin-covered chairs ami sofas and displayed the rudest manners. Gave airs. Trollope a Text With such proceedings in "high society" Mrs. Trollope had considerable of a text for her criticism of the manners of the Ameri cans. Such was the contempt of the people for anything approaching elegance that the "gorgeously furnished East Boom" of the White House was made out to be one of President Adams' political sins. In the political speeches of the day it was held that he. lived in a style too princely for "democratic simplicity." It must have been exceedingly gorgeous, when it con tained, as says one writer, three marble topped tables, a couple of mirrors, and was lighted in the evening by candles in tin sconces hung on nails driven into the walls. It is hard for the people of to-day to un derstand why her book should have roused such a storm of indignation in this country, and why she should have been so vilified and abused. Anthony Trollope says "her convictions and politics were affairs of the heart Of reasoning from causes she knew nothing. . But her desire to do good to all around her was so thorough, and her power of self-sacrifice so complete, that she gen erally got herself right in spite of her want of logic; bnt it must be acknowledged that she was emotional and apt to judge, as most I Accustomed to more in the moat eaW wu.bu , ..UUA uu u 0.t.UWW..lfc tured society of England she could find lit tle excuse for men putting their feet npon the tables, smoking everywhere, spitting continually, and dressing something after the style of the cowboys of to-day. What she really said can only be seen in her book. The Meet of the Criticism. Her book had great effect in reforming the "minor morals" and in modifying the usages of society. Dickens "American Notes" excited a similar storm of indigna tion, and had a like effect in toning down Yankee boasting and pretensions. It is a pity that cri.icism, ridicule and satire have had so little effect npon smokers, tobacco spitters. and others who show their ill breeding in public conveyances and public places. Mrs. Trollope, with her powers of satire and ridicule, could hardly have been too severe on the selfishness of such men as defile palatial railroad cars, beautiful halls, andeven the precincts of the magnificent capitol to say nothing of churches and schools, with their abominable nastiness. But,after all,as described by Bev. Timothy Flint, a clergyman in Cincinnati, during Mrs. Trollope's residence in that city, she was not so worthy of virulent abuse as has been made ont by those who resented her criticisms so strongly as to give token that the cap fit. Her picture, as drawn by Mr. Flint, presents her "as a person of short, plump figure, with a round, ruddy Saxon face and showing the British woman's usual inability to dress tastefully. She was ro bust and masculine in her habits, as evi denced by the fact that she had no fear of the elements and by her recklesslv expos ing herself in long walks to the fierce meridian sun or the pouring shower. She had traveled in France and Italy, and knew the language of both these countries, and moreover was acquainted with the most distinguished men and women of genius in England. She was perfectly well posted as to anything that concerned the atricals, plav-going and play-writing peo ple, and as sne had seen everybody and knew everybody in Europe known to fame her conversation was remarkably interesting. She was exemplary in observance of the higherdutie, amiable in the highest de gree with the people about her in Cincin nati, bountiful to the poor, and an angel of mercy to the sick." This picture of Mr. Flint's isvery different from that painted by her critics. They represent her as a loud-mouthed, vulgar, audacious woman bitter, unscrupulous and unfeminine. Her Income Ws Assured. Until she wrote this book in her 0th year she had never earned a shilling. She was brought up to luxury, and with expec tations of great wealth She had never ex pected to become the breadwinner of the family. However unpopular her book was in America, it made a hit in England aud saved her family from ruin. She was paid $4,000 for it, and from that moment she re ceived a goodlv income from the product of her brains. None of her books are heard of now save that on America, and only rare copies of that are to be found, but they served her purpose of supporting her fam ily. Mr. Trollope, the father, was always in debt He knew as little about farming as about educating his children. His son, in his autobiography, tells that he was addicted to no vices, was carried off by no pleasures. But he had no faculty for getting on in the world. "The touch of his hand seemed to create failure." While Mrs. Trollope was in America with part of the family he bad charge ot tne education of Anthony, wnose novels were atterward to delight the such pood help, very Handsome stuns are, English reading people. In school Anthony or course, sometimes worked over by dres wa a dunep and owinir to the fnmili- J makers outslde.but It is the exception, noS was a ounce, ana owing to tne iamiiy i .. , T ..,!. n,,h ,. .ii.r poverty his clothes subjected him to ridicule and contempt He became a pariah, and owing to the cruelty of his school fellows he suffered agonies. He was big, awkward, ill-dressed and dirty. In telling of hia sufferings at Harrow, when a schoolboy, he seems to take pleasure in the thought that Dr.. Butler, who thought the school dis graced by such a dirty, disreputable boy as he, only rose to the dignity of Dean of Peterborough, while Dr. Longley, who never said an ill-natured word, became Archbishopof Canterbury. But with all his schooling, Trollope confesses that when 26 years old he did not know the multiplica tion table and could not do a sum in long division. She Was a Herole Mother. In reading the story of his life by the author of so many popular novels, no one can fail to be struck with the heroism of the mother, as compared with the incapacity of the father. When by stress of debts the lat ter was compelled to live in Belgium to keep out of the bailiff's hands, his w;fe and chil dren followed, and her labor supported the family. Hardly has anyone written books to amuse and interest the public under such direful distress. With a sick husband and two beloved children doomed to the linger ing death of consumption to take care of, she yet had the family living to earn. Her son relates that she was up at 4 in the morning writing a novel, and finished her day's work with her pen before the world was fairly awake. With this story in mind it hardly re- auires the testimony of her son to show that she was unselfish, affectionate, ener getic and industrious. If her many books did not come up to a high measure of ex cellence, as say the critics, it is certain they were" popular at the time, and that they should be written at all under such adverse circumstances nnd stress of sorrow. is indeed remarkable. The heroic virtues of many hitherto held in contempt are coming into view. Tom Paine's patriotism and aid to American in dependence are now more dwelt upon than his infidelity, and yet children used to be taught that Paine was near akin to the devil, his name is not found in text books of history and his services in the Revolu tion have received but little recognition. As time weakens religious persecution and the spirit of the age inspires men more and more with the charity that thinketh no evil, there will be much less of misjudgment and mud-throwing. Mrs. Trollope's case is an example. Bessie Bbamble. A light Without a Hatch. It Is quite easy to secure a light without a match and without danger, and any man can make the apparatus himself. It is only necessary to put some heated olive oil into a small bottle, drop in a piece of phos phorus, cork it up securely and put it in a safe place. Any time the cork is removed for a few seconds and then replaced, a powerful light will be given out by the bot tle, which will last several minutes, and be again renewed at any moment by pulling out the cork. A HM and The manufacturer who will put up injurious fla voring extracts and label them of perfect purity and extra fine quality, is a thief and a scoundrel. To be safe confine yourself to the use of such flavors as your experience and judgment tell you are of the purest quality. Dr. Price's Delicious Flavoring Extracts, Vanilla, Lemon, Orange, etc., are just what they are represented to be. If not the cheapest they are the best, and no puddings, cakes, creams" or other table delicacies are spoiled by their use. HISTOKY- OF GOWflS. Wliat-Becomes of the Costly Cast-Off Finery of the Four Hundred. A SHENT PAKISIENNF3' SECRET. In Her Elop the Eieletona of ITeirTork Societj ire Cared For. THE POOE PEOFIT BY HTEATlGAirCl jcoitazsroOTiscx or nn disfatch.i New Yoek, Not. 2L ilij otber day an in. quisitive person asked a leader of the FourHun dred with the reputa tion of never wearing; a gown above three times, "How do you manage not to ba swamped in a sea of garments? Your gloves cost more than all my wardrobe, yet I find my closet disagreeably full at least once a year." The lady smiled inscrutably.sayine: "The poor we have always with us. I see you look incredulous, but it is an absolute fact that my Worth gowns help to warm many a poor creature every winter. Not, of course, in their first estate. Madame Is the magician that makes them available. When I have told you my part of the story I will send you to her for tha rest. Ton see. If one goes out a great deal, heaps of clothe3 are a necesslty.and the mora unique and striking a gown is, the shorte its season of usefulness. For people remem ber it and do not fail to remark Its appear ance if at all frequent. A clever maid, witn knack in her finger-tips, can transform a simple gown with new draperies and trim mings, but give her an embroidered Frenca creation, radiant with the individuality of Worth or Pingat, and she bungles terribly so terribly. In f.ict, that the last 3ta?e of tha garment is more notable than the first tha most servicsble gown in the world is a silk or velvet, very handsome and well-cut, bus severely plain, upon which all sorts of trim mings mav oe supermpoaeu 10 givw ww oi feet of different costumes. By so clothing yomelf you will escape reproach. On tha otlier hand, your s:y!o will never be re marked; and what woman conld bear tnatT They Gladden I"oor Kelstlons. "Hearly all prominent society women hava sisters, cousins, aunts, nieces, friends or proteges so situated as to make the gift of their scarcely worn garments more than, acceptable. That is what becomes of a deal of society's fnlls. Their new owners mako them over, or wear them intact in fresh, fields and conquests new. One Fifth avenue matron within my Knowledge Is a sort of special providence to many people of whom, she knows hardly more than their name. The surplus ot her tv ardrobe goes into tha hands of a noblv generous creature who de lights to distribute among other gentle women who are secure enough of their gen tility not to take oflTense at the gift. "That sort of thing goes on largely abroad, where the ranks of poor gentlewomen ara so pitifully crowded. There is more of l here, too, than yon wonld imagine. I could name von more than one Dene ana Deausy whrwnwiTrfirwnnld ba ImrjoSSlble but for the rule. In London, though, ou alwavs count on getting a new evening gown out of your court train, after you have been presented. It Is four to five yards long, and heaven knows how many breadths wide so it is as easv to drat with as new stun"; be sides there'is the lining fora new undergo wn. Historic brocades, too, nre kept and mada over. Indeed, as a rule, each one of us cher ishes very rich silk of any peculiar sort, real lace of all sorts, Lyons velvet and sable. In each of these we buv snch quantities as deserve to become heir looms, and for tha most part we keep them very welt 3Iaids In JllstreisrV Gown. "Onr maids, of course, come in for many things, even such as is manifestly impos sible for them to wear. Bnt generosity toward one's personal attendant is more and more taking other forms. Disagreeable con tretemps have more than once arisen from the maid's appearing in tho garb or the or naments ot the mistress; sometimes, too, such gifts are purposely misused for re venge sometimes, or in aid of questionabla associates. "So madameis more than ever a blessing and a necessity, she is the dearest, neat, small French n oman, with a trim shop iu an ont-of-the-way nook. Sh has been in busi ness years and years. We all have berad dress, and when gowns and wrap9 begin to clntter everything, she is sent for, comes in a cab, trips about pulling over and peeping at things, then says: "I give the lady so manv dollars." counts out the money It is usually in gold and then goes away. Kexl day a trunk or two leaves the noise, but in charge of someone who knows where to take it. At about the same time, maybe, tba charity organizations receive a sum of money, eittier anonymously or accompanied by a well-known name and, oddly enongh, it is exactly theamount thatmadameleft be hind her. Not a great sura either. "Has madame other customers? Heaps of them.thougli madamo never tattles it would ruin her bnsmess. Though why we should be ashamed of dealing with her, passes my comprehension.. It Is for a laudable purpose, the money all goes in charity, and does good where the old clothes could only do harm." A Blot of Bare Finery. A card toot the inquisitive person to this mysterious madame, and proved an open sesame to the wonders of her shop. Tba halt had not been told of it Wortn gowns overflowed tbe closets, the presses, the big trunks That lined the wall, all with tha maker's stamp, and many with hardly a traco of wear. Felix, Pingat, Redfern and 20 more famous names were on the various garments, heaped and huddled about tha queer small place. It was a riot of silk, of embroidery, of Jeweled beadingandepbeme ral lace. Madame fingered the gowns lov ingly. This garment came from next door to a Vanderbilt; that one had figured at an Ator ball; another's sole appearance was as a Kewport dinner. Us wearer being forced to put on mourning within the next week; Hero were gowns from Murray Hill; thera were ten meant for a belle in upper Fifth avenue, also suddenly bereaved. Indeed all about were waves and billows of social his tory, made manifest in color and sheen. In silk and gold nnd silver and pearl. Madame, of course, buys to sell again. Hercustomors are first of all actresses, par ticularly those on tours. A list or tbosa whoso proportion she bears in mind would be a revelation. That she has done much to elevate the stage must be apparent to all who read that she makes ic possible to play in Worth gowns at a cot or $25 to $30 each. After them comes an army of womankind who. care more for excellence of cut than for absolute freshness In their garments. Altogether she and her shop are a little bit of Paris set down in If e w York's heart Estells Brooks. a Scoundrel. , A l&EW&&&&U3rV.SJ naaMSSJWeWTaHaalBaBSBflfLWt&'Vll
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