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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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