Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1896, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1896—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 19 . STRIKING EFFECTS Ono Feature of the Dress Goods for Spring. LENTEN AND PCST LERTLN GoWES Figured Muslins for the Future New Velvet Brocades. ———-_>—_——_ GNS FOR BLOUSES A I BOUT THIS TIME” oO say the om us ords straggling down the page of April in Fashion's Al- manac—“look out for fritis The modes for the e of showers are \) all compact of furbe- 1ows and flitterings. Even the pi badge, ior so long, of is In dan: ‘There are hinis ere is the certainty of figured And there in one n skirt fs Save sleeves miracul: of the rew models shoy worn with a st of det in the sleeves, it is not unlil There is a fichi Last of the Season. below the waist, followed by the lace edging which Is in two hanging ends. cos- tume has b’g sie of the leg-o'-mutton variety. There are ot ameng them the hateful British device of a in f piaitiag, biggest at the elbow, where it is drawn in rely. In many lines of goods for spring, and early suramer are preparing for a large demand for of almost Dolly Varderesque ec- y. (Of course it is terrible to re- the Dolly Varden! None of us real- But we have seen scraps in the jece bag: tever the dealer com- ever it was jowy women to y figures. & ftgure very late nor very early leaves a fair mar- win for fes' vity before the season’s safe to mak: pon the pr fon flute for this lines— ist, big sleeves, up, and it is perf pe | riod pariy go in ski age; or one can yles with frocks . have the the latter course h fantastic nd down the lengths; say ecru ground with flower sprays of pi A Skating Costume. ink muslin fichu and vest with plaited col- larette, Gorgeous cherry velvet puff slevtes, belt, ro: 3 and ribbon straps down the front: and there you are! The cornilower blonde girl. might make us idea In light blue flo’ Another ball or di an arabesque desi Ux, which forms a zouave, with vest front of velvet and chif- fon sleeves. Another uses with a plain skirt siceves and vest of figured C . over which is worn a plum colored t corselet und velvet straps upon the shoulders. In Lent one does net need io wear sack- cloth or st: ashes; it is sufficient to im- prove the d by attending classes or tak- ing legtures—Browning, Delsarte. First a’ to thé Injured, American histo anything will di of knife | brought together to discuss things to them ef greater moment. The proper Lenten gown is a plain tailor made—well, perhaps not exactly plain; a little trimming of dark fur down the lapels will not break the spirit of the law. And its material is appropriately dark—well, perhaps not quite all derk; a lit- ue vest front of light silk or chiffon will do no harm; and, of course, one realiy must have an embroidered stock, cuffs and beit, and those cunning bows at the back of the neck and an appropriate toque with plumes —what could be more sadly appropriate? In New Yerk, Philadelphia and Chicago, pal politics will be a favorite topic of Lenten study in the women's classes. Perhaps this, teo, is prophetic, prophetic of the day when woman takes the business end of the broom as a means of conviction to civic scoundrels. Hardly could I leave the subject of Lent without remarking that it should be chas- {ening to the proud soul to go abroad clad in one of the smart English coats the shape whereof is parallelop!pedonic and their hut- tens huge and their rough rface pestif- wwrous. But not all is ugly that out of Britain comes. A skating gown worn recently by Mrs. Langtry was extremeiy beautiful fer a fancy dress at any time. The pale satin gown with raised designs in velvet golden brown and rich blue formed bod te and skirt open all the way down ard edge 1 with Vest and petticoat of white satin, covered with yellowish lace filled the open- ing. The ends of a blue chiffon sash hung well down at the ieft. From the puff el- bow sleeves hi long angel sleeves of gol- den gauze, and the bodice was tricked out with golden epaulets and hussar straps. A blue velvet cap with two tiny black tips, a great aigrette rising from an emerald clasp was heid in place—who would not be an actre: y three great strings of pearls. ging is the last recommendation of Fur e irt In which one is to walk much. It 5 a tremendous dust and fs to this ex- tent uncleanly and not nice. Yet fur koids material for tion gowns. sht w . Velvet t is perhaps seen in s for children. te combined will mark Seen so commonly asing in nuraber or d velvets, presenting a ance for a mate ly popular. % cloaks 4, go to ve and When It is Oo. When It is Attrne! Not ctator. don really t quality, great ting or even indi tion. The truth i: foveded on g while ere pity. fe nt insight to re. e the gifts that have been displaye: ariaing and radiant a quality as we n find anywhere, while the jealous con- i zi uspicious of the in- adequacy of the world’s admiration is on cf the most unpleasani and displeasing of | characteristics. In other words, the con- eeit which is perfectly joyous, but, of |course, founded in true gifts,” attracts, while the less perfect conceit, which has a [ttle distrust, on one side or other, of the solidity of its own genius, is displeasing, because not serene. ‘The former is as cheering as sunshine, the latter as dis- pleasing as restlessregs. A WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T. | And, as is Userlly the Case, She Didn’: | From the London Daily sew: An iltustra’ case of “the woman who wouldn't” is reported from Kharkoff. A pretty peasant maiden in one of the sub- urbs of that Russian eity was recently co- ercel by her retatives into consenting to marry a smal! proprietor of the neighbor- od for whom she entertained a special The wedding party appeared, a few . before the altar of one of the city The service went on until the priest put the usual question, thou take th's man,” ete. iri to this rej d with all persuasions of her e her resolution. ned to the house of who en- n emphatic unwilling girl was then not only by her pa the friends of the bridegroom. s carried back weeping to church eddng party, and the marriage recommented. Again came the fen to the bride, and once more py girl, with tears and blushes, , exclaimed, “No; a, thousand «ppealed to the protection was readily granted. . Grant Kissed. sgo Pimes-Herald. @ parade of soldiers in M ce on the occasion of the state re- Col. Watrous in C1 There waul union In 1889. Gen. Grant was in a car- rage. halt for the carriage division oc- curred fen the general reached the cor- kee and Juneau avenues. As ched past their old com- mander they cheered, tossed their hats in the air and put cn other young day lops, much ts the pleasure of the gener The boys fell out of t to grasp his hand, saying bray F re you, Gen G “I wa: ee Wilderr is better th rg, several, ur started away a hand- nan, with a pretty bab; 1 asked Gen. Grant to kiss “Certainly, madam.” The $a Vigorous one. Thea the gen. < rmiy at the little one’s “Tam not averse to kiss- ing the mother of so ni The mother was not averse to kissing so dis- tinguished a dier, This qi et Kissing school afforded the jokers another op- portunity to hurrah—this time for general, baby and mother, ——__+e+____ Logie. From Truth. Teacher—“Cleanliness Is next to godli- ness.” Johnnie—“Then say, teacher, why ts it wrong to g0 swimming on Sunday?” WHAT CHILDREN EAT Especially at the Noon Hour at the Public Schools. PAULINE PRY’S DISCOVERIES Reform Suggested on the Lines Adopted in Other Cities. INDIFFERENT PARENTS dee WANT THE EARS of everybody who has children in the public schools. I also Want their under- standing and their sympathy —if they possess these things. I confess I doubt it after not only wit- nessing but experi- encing how their chiliren are fed. I have visited every Higa School in town and several of the graded schocls at lunch hour. What my cycs have not seen of the character of school iuncheons I !ave learn- ed from talking with the teachers and pu- pil: hen I took on the dietary nabits of a school girl for a day myself. For break- fast, I snatched a bite of bread and gulped down part of a cup of coffee. I lunched on a cream puff and a large cucumber pickle, bought in a wretched, dirty hole-in-the- wall, where High cool luncheons are made a specialty. When school was out nthe afternoon, my stomach was so empty I traded a car ticket for three cents’ worth of almond cream candy—a pasty mess, a lar.e bulk of ch I can obtain for my money at another High School res- taurant. When ‘linner was served at 6 I was so near starvation that I the result of the whole ¢: being morn: h to pinch the baby e enough to u 1 ly stupid I line if my life had the depth o: inner srecable and so lorgnette, ha consciousness, Ww: for the time being was locat y OU mach, my outrag Ir h tender par- 1-down children are ready, to & asainst the public school might in many instances upon investiga- Con be found to be not eran, of the brain, but of the stomach, end it oceur- red to ine that the mote in the eye of the public school system may possibly be not so much in need ef publi ntion as the beams in the eyes of par Of Course There Are Exceptions. Oh, but your child always carries a nice luncheon from home, and she always has a proper breakfast in the morning? Yes, madam; I know your child do Thank heaven, woman's clubs, female s frage and organized sociological end to create a new heaven and a nev have uot absorbed he world. But let ve lenrned of o' that evil pt good dietary may in involved ng out to in childeen eat, ndition of in the main nothing but ec horse se: exist. 8 not req nce to ate the of lunching alt a p ner mu: int value in a Hish ‘Those Monstro: I went up to the just as the pupils were 8 Picktes. tral High School ouring out on the et at lunch hour, sled with the crowd I was f: ricken at the number of girls who passed me chew ing on these monstrous pickles, I counted fifteen at a wink, and then I gave up count I found them—the pickles and the consuming each her in th Ti ‘Sof the school building, and m impression then became that High School luncheons were all pickles. But I foi a mob of girls and boy cross the street to a confectionery store, and learned—on: thing I learned I must tell right away and that is the marked superiority of the sense the boys displayed in the matter of ting. In no instance, in no school, did I find a boy eating pickles, and in all the schools I found that, while the girls buy and devour quantities of unmistakable trash, the boys make the most of any op- portunity tc get a reasonable meal. At this confectioner’s across from the Central High School a large number of boys, but not any girls, were drinking hot coffee and eating a sandwich. I spent the time of the noon recess in there, and every girl who entered bought candy, save a few, who bought chocolate eclaire, buns, small Pies and large chunks of some kind of dough that kad slices of apples on top. Parents Are Responsible. I afterward talked with Dr. Lane and Miss Reynolds, the assistant pyAcipal, who, as well as the other teachers, and Superin- tendent Powell, with whom I taiked, ex- pressed such deep interest in the matter of the children’s luncheons that I want every- body to perfectly understand that for all dietary abuses I have discovered indifferent parents are entirely responsible. The mis- sionary efforts that teachers make to in- ure the edu nm of the children in the matter of eating are overcome and ren- dered useless by the unaccountable neglect and unwarrantable ignorance of parents. We realize periectiy,” said Dr. Lane, e imporiance of school children being well fed, and we do ali that lies in our power to fortify them on this int. At the be. ginning of the school year we issue a print- ed card of regulations, on which we direct ihe Idren to eat a substantial lunch at recess. The teachers personally suggest that the lunch be brought from home, yet what can we do: but talk, and it is danger- cus to even talk upon the subject, as many parents are jealous of the public schools pre- suming to exercise any authority over chil- dren except in the matter of recitations. We know positively that the children’s work in school is seriously conditioned by what they eat, and I think thet in every instance where a charge of over-study is lrought an investigation of dietary habits would clear up the case without the reform of the public sehool system which js invari- ably suggested as a remedy. We frequently are able to trace this relation cleariy. Not leng ago I recall a boy fainted away during drill, I investigated the case and learned that he had come away from home in th: mort without any breakfast, he had noc heen home after school, 2nd at 6 o'clock in the evening all ke had taken Into his stom- ach during the day was a banana and a glass of water. Serving Luncheons at School. “Coraing away from home with little or no breakfast is a common habit of school children, and the best Incheon they can Lring is not all the bedy needs. I would be glad to see Washington adopt the system that prevails in Boston, Philadelphia, Chi- cago and Denver, of serving hot luncheons to school children. We tried at one time having this done by the janitor of the build- ing, but the plan did not succeed. To pro- vide such food as will attract the children, and at the same time come within the Iim- its of the small sum they have to spend, is a problem difficult to work out; yet I hope some one tually will solve it.” Miss Reynolds, who has very intimate personal relations with the girls, found that the luncheons brought from home 4sually consist of a sandwich and a piece of cake, oceasionally fruit added, ard that many ing. bringing such a luncheon are also given money, which they invest in the deadly pickles and pastry I had seen so generally manifest at luach hour. A few of the girls go without any luncheon at all. One such girl, affected, no doubt, by the mysticism of the times, gaye as her opinion that “the less one eats the less one needs.” “Yes,” spoke.up a practical pickle eater, “but how do you know that going without eating is not the cause of all the dreadful headaches you have?” The embryo mystic was cornered, and had to admit that she didn't know. Many girls expressed the opinion that the dull minds and, listless bodies which they commonly experience during the afternoon session is due to their not having had enough, or else: not the right sort to eat, and they sald both they and their mothers wished they might be able to get a hot, ncurishing luncheon at neon. At the Colored High School. I arrived at the Colored High School from one direction, and simultaneously from the other direction came a fried-cake man, and @ push-cart man, with a variety of eat- ables. “Six for five cents! Won't you try some?” the fried-cake man said to me, while he worked making up bags of six fried cakes, sprinkling them literally with sugar. ie push-cart man had raisin cakes of a Siamese-twins form, the two-in-one combi- ration selling for a penny cach, There were also great, sweet rolls to be had for a penny, and hot bologna sausage, sand- wiches sold two for five cents. Both these venders were sold out in a trice when the school children were on the street. A large number dashed across the str2et to a very smail, dingy place, the front of which was almost entirely covered by an immense white sign board: “High School Lunches.” is place Was speedily jammed by young- sters, who got a load of greasy fish balls and fried potatoes, or a glass of cocoa and a sandwich for five cents. I saw both Mr. Cardoza and Miss Barney, p¥incipal and assistant principal of the school, who explained the absence of the girls from the street, telling me they a: Kept in the building or in the yard in the rear during recess. I went with Miss Barney down into the basement, where the girls were lunching. With very few exceptions the colored girls bring lunches from home—a sandwich, or a sandwich and cake, like the other High School girls. Miss Barney said she has Leen fighting fried cakes ever since she has nin the school, and has the girls prety ated, but the quantity of aw- , Breasy, doug: stuff consumed by the boys is a source of perpetual worry to her, and both she and Mr. Cardoza sald they know the work of the school would be im- proved if an improvement in luncheons could be brought about. At the Eastern and Western. Mr. Sites, the principal of the Mastern High Schoc}, assured me I touched a sym- pathetic chord when I spoke to him of the children’s luncheons, About four-fifths of the pupils of the Eastern school bring their luncheons from home. Here, as at the Cen- tral, however, this does not prevent a very large percentage of the children patroniz- ing two dismal places across the street, one of which in addition to deadly pastry and candy selis tobacco, cigars and cigar- cttes and “‘soft drink: To discourage ‘his practice, Mr. Sites, a year ago, wrote to the school board petitioning that the scnool trusiees do something in establishing some means by which attractive, nutritious and inexpensive luncheons might be served the children in the school building. Frequent- ly, Mr Sites says, he able to trace fai ure in studies or inability to drill to the lack of proper food. Some ef the girls prite themselves on being able to go wi luncheon, and here, as in the other s: is the constantly reeurring se of chi come off in the morning without akfast, and go till dinner time with thing to but a few cents’ worth of 0} the ve been zed in a twisted, d, sweet sos- which an er and popular Hoi en 32 Pot hus ¢ tened 1 1 bun, nt in this name, and I 5) Kot enough mis- and we had fence meet- snool. ‘The girls Ereat quantities of Imost to a girl, ag luncheon from Ing rece 2 of brir tee Some of the h, where they nnd a pie. misdemeanor lunch f hot soup done i, ‘ol bittlding. know, and it is such a sen of supplying the hot Hauld on craves, and at the same time sup- hat does not tax the The Business High School Plan. In the matter of investizating and seek- ing to improve the dietary habits of the chil I found Mr. Davis, principal of the Busincss High School, was very much before me. A year ago Mr, Davis requ in his school to furnish him with answers to the following list of questions, bearing on dietary evils that had come under his ob- servation: What do you usually eat before coming to school? At what hour do you eat? What did you eat this morning? If nothing, why? Do you usually bring lunch to school? Of what does it consist? Dd you eat lunch yesterday? Where did you get it? Enumerate the articles you ate. What hour do you have dinner? Does your mother know what you eat for lunch? Are you troubled with nervousness, head- ache or indigestion? Mr. Davis said he had meant to put his pupils through this examination this year, and suggested that, by way of a beginning, he would go with me and inspect what the girls in the burlding were eating. The first room we entered a large jar of jam was the first shock our dietary princi- ples received. The girl who owned the jam was making her luncheon of this, spread thick on bread. The majority of the girls were lunching on bread and cake. They all confessed to pickles, and it was here a girl stunned me with the declaration that when they bought Tuncheons they usually buy ed every pupil cream putts and pickles. One girl who had bought her luncheon was calmly disposin of two sy t buns, a chunk of the apple- adorned dough I have before described, and two cakes covered with chocolate frosting sprinkled with cocoanut. In a class room where were girls In their second year, we caught a girl in the iniquity of pickle eating, but she was such an un- commonly plump and pretty girl a sther upset one’s pickle theories, part! rly as she announced, between bites, that she ate pickles every noon. All the other girls in this room demoxstrated the good effects of Mr. Davis’ reform movement of the year previous. They: were educated beyond pickles, and were eating the best luncheons possible to he obtained at school under ths existing order. Girls and Pie. In two small supply stores adjacent to the school building I found a number of girls buying their luncheons. “For some Treason thes¢’ gitls seemed to run less to candy and morg to ple than the other School girls, possibly because an interesting young man ‘sells the pie here. Cigarettes znd tobacco in all forms were sold in these pla The Business High School boys, like the other ,boys, largely patronize a counter © .pensing hot coffee and sand- wiches. Other boys ate home luncheons on the street. There is no piace provided in the Business High School for the boys and irls to eat thelr lumcheons, The gh » a stuffy thing to ne in building, lunch in the class rooni do, and, fer lack of sp: the boys are driven on the streets to eat. ‘The graded schools h: an hour's inter- mission at noon, whereas the high schoo only thirty-five minutes. Thus the is of the former have a distinct advan- tase over pupiis of the fatter. Yet, talking with various teachers in the graded s I learned much of how here parental indif- ference takes no advantage of pubtic school provisions for the well-being of children. ne teacher told me she has some small boys and giris in her room who come to school day after day so habitually under- fed thut they were unal udy, and that in front of their hun: *s she has no power ia her to try to maKe them study. In Schoo!s in the poor districts a free lun- cheon furnished the children at the short recess would be a godsend to many a smaii gnawing stomach. In a room of one of these schools, where the children range from six to nine years, the teacher asked how many had come away without any breakfast, Three had done so. More than half a dozen had breakfasted on bread and coffee or bread and tea—one on bread alone, because, he said, his mother woudn't get up to get. him any breakfast. The extent to which these small children drink tea and coffee is awful. Fully three-fourths of all those queried have one or the other of ‘these stimulants for breakfast. Some Careless Mothers, A number of chiidren bring luncheon and stay during the noon hour in the graded Schools, because their mothers are too busy to get luncheon at home, or cise are away from home at the noon hour. Teachers Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Report Ro AN VALAIS Baking Powder told me, moreover, that they learn that a great many children, who go home at noon, return without having had a meal. Their mother didn’t have it ready, or else their parents board, and the mother not being on hand to look after them, servafits would not bother with them. Similar conditions pre- vail at breakfast time, and I learned from teachers that it is not an uncommon oc- currence for a mother to appear at a school room door between 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning with a tiny package, containing 1 some bread and butter, and a slab of cold meat, and ask to have Johnnie or Tommy excused long enough to eat this, his break- fast; she, the mother, had slept late, and So the little boy had come off without any- thing to eat. ‘hen Johnnie or Tommy would be let go into the dressing room to chew down his dry fodder, moistened per- haps by a cup of cold water, and as dear mamma toddled off she would announce that, as she would not be home at luncheon, he'd better eat the rest of the bread at noon and stay around the school. I don’t wonder such youngsters take to smoking cigarettes to keep their courage up, do you? It has beea scientifically demonstrated that “the actual weight of food which a A i the ‘child is in the grammar school, begins a rapidly increasing demand for all the nutritive elements of food, until a child from twelve to fifteen years old reauires as much food in actual weight as a person in| y the prime of life, and only a little less than a hardworking man. Ins at th ages causes mor quences than at a later period.’ Parents interested in informing them- selves on this matter will find two valuable papers on the growth of school children by Dr. Henry P. Bowditch, one in the eighth annual report (1877, page 275), the other in the twenty-second annual report (189, page 479) of the state board of health of Massachusetts. Luncheons Provided at School. school houses and teachers. ‘Phe play room is utilized ag a dining room and a luncheon of a bowl of soup and a plate of meat and Vegetables is served at a price of 3 cr 4 ents, the children supplementing this with bread and milk or fruit brought from who cannot afford to buy tickets given to them. wife or a re the meal. In Vienna is a general organization, sus tained in part by the city and in part by cit- izens, which provides a ncon meal for school is a meal. ‘The sock distributes tickets a , ladies taking the duty by he meal is served by the people's kit er, if there is no klicken near the s Jar appointed er donated. Thre ea large plate of v. or cabbage, with the standard of living is xperience a y in the most gener hool Tune a able successes have been aecomnlis in Boston and Philadelphia, though Ch making the © nd Brooklyn 9 to do so, In Pe applied the Latin mn of the What ix Done in Bo ." sald 3 the ad age cf the as a firmly estat to begin operations. rds we had a pli i W. V. ele erosity enabled u: ha philanthren'c to ma person is dow! ary to st shington one mi he patro! m connection with the should think that in be amply rnment emy tom it would attract fi . I know it has rendered me perfectly dependent of the erratic | © Mary Ann. Does she give me notice in the morning, I take my market basket down to the central kitchen, fill it up, and go home, and, with some slight assistance from the chafing dish end a tea kettle, I live like a prince, in calm indifference to the coming of another Mary Ann. t “It is not practicable to cook soups and bake in each schocl house. With the best of appliances, the edors of cookin will | penetrate the building, and after a time a stale smell will permeate the » tive housekeep! tity of food shoul s : “In our school buildings we have had a| ¢ very simple apparatus put into certain basem t spaces, providing merely for the proper washing of dishes and the service ctly appointed kitchens will scon uded in’ every school house, which will not be half so startling an innovation as building kitch- ers in the basements of chu: eS. How the Plan Was Carried Ont. “Our expense for dishes was about $22 per hundred pupils. This bought a good quality of cups and saucers, while .ot of the heaviest grade, and a good quality of plated spoons. We purchased dishes erough to supply the ayerage number of patrons; a few can be washed a second time. Our outfit of large dishpains, patis, towels, brooms, ete., cost about ow) per school. Utensils for conveying the food were supplied by the kitche which also provided fer the delivery of the food in the lunch room. “Organizing the service We finally setil worker, responsible for th: plan, who kept the record was a difficult 1 upon one head success of the @ orderod the supply; one cleaner and dishwasher, end one or more ass’siants to aid in the 7 = ration and serving of t! In some schouls one of the older . Selectad by the headmaste-, cells the Uckets, and timiés serves fifteen minutes in payment for his lunckon. ‘During the hour praviows to recess, everything, ion of the cocoa and soup, is arranged on tables ready for serving, and the hot liquid is poured into cups either just before or just as the chil- dren come down, There 1s merely an change of a ticket for a cup or plate, and all is over in ten or fifteen mi “To serve quarts 1,100 of soup, x ypour.d-'oa pounds of butter, et or twenty-two -lozen co: twenty-two sheets of ginger brea “Our five-cent lunches are the most pop- ular, many children being allowed no more than five cents to spend. For this we sell a bowl of soup and 8, having a food vaiue of 187 calorics, or bread and butter and two cookies, having a food value of 500 calories, or fish chowder with crackers, or other dishes of sim‘iar character. We pro- vide one swest every day, also fruit, and © best quality from a farm of In a school where 250 the lunch counter, it wil , 28 We Manage it in Bosto: periment has been luncheons fur made of providing school children. This,experiment is in progress under the spices of the Mary Street College Settlement, Miss Katharine B. Davis, a Vassar grad- uate, is head worker, and in which Miss Susan_G. Walker of this city is interested, Miss Walker being president of the Col- lege Settlements Association. The Solution in 1} iladelphia. I recently visited the St. Mary Street College Settlement, and Miss Davis told me how the penny luncheons were started. ‘their home In one of the most destitute and depraved districts of Philadelphi: will create around it its own enlarging at- mosphere of helpfulness and brightness. school children of our neighborhood were | was given them for a luncheon for small bags of hard, dry cakes or snowbalis, and even sometimes for fancy gilt toys. In many instances the same sent to school without anything to eat. iIn other cases. they had breakfasted on cake or bread and tea or coffee. ‘This led to some exptriments, was with bread and jam sandwiches. We Bave two siices of wholesome, home-made The sandwich weighed about two ounces, and was very attractive as well as pal- atable. Then we tried gin found that we could furnish eack weighing two and a quarter ounces, for acent. This is very popular. We have also y experimented with home-made currant child two to four years old reeds is already | cake, currant buns and tusks. For four about one-fourth that of the active working | months the work was done in our own age. At the age of nine or ten, just when) Kitchen. Then we secured a couple of rooms near and introduced miix into the school luncheons, giving o1 acent. This milk is the ‘partly skimmed’ from a reputable dairy richer in other food principle: tried meat slow cooking in the Ataddfh oven; then it was chopped and seasoned, and two slices have our public kitchen in operation, and bh: These luncheons are not up io the stand- ard prescribed by Prof. Atwater for school children. Still, what poor The large schools in England have for] tity. that te roeand in dewty and quan- many years provided a npon meal for school | Moreover, it is a great triumph to win the children. In Paris the city fur poor to any nt to our habits of food school children with luncheons for and feeding. T form of sume reason that it supplies them with | © am » Washington is rot 2 the matter of school le that it is not because ae a the wisdom of such 4 mevem heartily welcome any s plan for furnishing school children, High School children in pa loca the society hires and equips a kitche no reason why a child in one of teacher ‘es out the tickets, and schools shoul] not go home to hy know: ether the most i av or ht erally not more than the habit of tradi and private houses. This cen z eB which is known in Boston as the of tetomnets land kitchen, and the plan of wht S| Powell, as Ws to the world’s fair became familiar with as | St soo! Ir Lan 2 the Rumford kitchen, is, I think, a pr: all the high ered chil- tical realization of the dream of co-ope dren, re in school luncheon: parents by From Le Fanfare. and deeper into the sand, and T owe my preservation sole gradually higher until it reached my chest | in short, there was still nothing to be elevation, as round as un egg; (hat ¥ skull. Wotever is th’ , ABSOLUTELY PURE The college settlement, you should know, is a colony of college women who make believ- Ing that “a good life lived in a dark place “We learned,” said Miss Davis, “that the In the habit of spending the penny which children were the first of which bread, spread with apple jam, for a cent. bread, and iwo piece haif pint for and while not so rich in fat as the whole milk, yet it is Later, we d to long, ad with the paste. Now we increased th of luncheons, popularity. they are so children are the t of pe of our home-made gin: What Mr. Powell Says. asked Superintendent Powell wi of the times in cheons, and he said not perceive | ent. “I would systema’ T ticular, with a noon said he. “The ed schools throughout the city that the do go how the! se men’s w hovl chi pd in every way i ¥ of who se jdren rvive their ¢ c is ahead; if th . there a i You see, in 4 practi- cal tn other ci sted to | In the Snhara. rrated his lates. exilolts in ‘artarin 3 * * T was sinxing deeper he deser to the fact of my being apletely bald.” prematurely and ¢ “You are jesting. “Not at all The sun was shining fierge- yy, a strong wind was blowing at the time; he sand drifted about my feet and rose n of me above the sand but a slight An ostrich hap: closely pursued by hunters, ca y e and head. It was bexinning to | its pursuers came to my I'm biowed ane—'"" ‘He took up the 4. “It quite makes my 2" St —== HOUSEHOLD HINTS “At this season of the year prepare for colds” ougat to be written on every calen- dar and in every almanac. When the days are warm and bright, fires are oppressive and part of the clothing is thrown aside, and the first thing anybody knows a bad cold is well on the way. Don't jet the fires go down, but keep them burning and throw open the doors and windows, if necessary. Furthermore, don't permit the children tc put off arm wraps for light ones whey they start out for an hour's play or for school. The weather changes suddenly, and good crops of pneumonia are sown by ivst such indiscreet actions. Cold chicken and cold turkey simply haunt a housekeeper when the remnants &et down to the stringy ary m and ene Goes tire of “hash,” no matier how dalntily Prepared. This is appetizing, and comes ‘ta, Well for lunch when nothing Mince the chick shreds, but if it and heat in a wh: Place on a hot plat and pepper daintily, and set where keep warm. Strain the soup sto. €n with a spoonful of flour rub’ butter, add a beaten egg, a d per and salt, and set to ook. potnd of chestnuts roasting while prepar- ing the chicken, remove the skins and put them to stewing in a little soup stock, ¢ let them cook with a bouquet of tN they will crush easily, run them through the colunder, season with salt and red pepper and turn into the of Over all pour the thickened else offer it is soup stock. . ina nes chicken, gravy. palatable than nostrun you get up in the qualmish stom ge or a ta nking a glas c Which has not stood over night. In mos’ instances this will correct ail vilious te: of morn- t, but here Is one that most anne ueeze futo a tin t . add an equal quanti h of powe F r it will tek boll up ence. Half a teaspoon ful every few moments, or when you hi cf coughing, will nearly a he-cause of the tickling is n of the palate, w nd causes coughing. non and alum ac An up-to-date girl, her gowns for pocke jem of how to get in her dress, piece of cac armonizing =! ov who } them— it is 2} to mak now. Only a woman who wt 1 The her gown whe contrary, ine to thi: oarding hou: An appetizing and healthy Junch for the children may be scraps of nice clean 0) and thin, in a baking pan in the oven, where they will brown ¢ and lightly clear through. When a light-brown and crisp to the center, roll on a clean th with the rolling pin till ft ‘ottle and keep dry. A two in good, rich milk palatable and digestible od night" de of the Put the bits, makes a light, supper for anybod: Maybe you wonder why plants do not thrive, even in your sun south window If you will shut off the you fl discover will solve the tor Human b m ere that health of pls pecially if the ga are unhealthy for p! Navy blue ed in bran and v Lut with a cup of Soft water is or hard wa’ tle borax o “lis are not so Wke- e put on in to a ty 's best Pn frien y gown . After th mag- i spots, or two ts will be Care taken ecret of dressing TO SAVE. A He Why From Wom: IT stu sekeeper Mer Reasons he Studies Advertisements, ves advertisements, and I know where and when and how to purchase th household supplies. My husband usea@ ¢ t me for reading advertisements sc and he has long since iearned that I save many dollar: mth, 3 ¥ of no better way to pr: ynomy, now that it is a wonder how rn to detect the real from the most? I do not think 8 something about e ones that repels me. You hear a “al nowadays about the “practical of magazines and new: pers, but tical pages are those con- taining the usiness announce ents of reputable houses. ‘The housekeeper who cs advantage of the practical hints in pares shows a great deal more com- nse than does the one who tries to 1 a Seven-room cotiage with a lot of p boxes coverad with denim worked in end to feed her growing fam- never-ending reminiscences of t that went before. To the economi ceeper the advertisements are thi rtant part of any publication, page for me the