The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1901, Page 2

RS. DENNISTON {s a compara- tively recent recruit to active club service, but she has de- voted herself so steadfastly to the work for the past few years that she has earned for herself a place be- side many who have made a business of clubs since clubs began. She has already reached the position of president of the Forum Club. That is do- ing a good deal in a short time. The Forum Club is a very busy one and its office of president means much work. And that in turn means that Mrs. Dennis- ton is a busy woman. She says that she has no time for so- ciety in the giddy and gadding sense of the word. Moreover, she adds, club life takes the place of society. And here is a point that club women everywhere are dwelling upon, “Club meetings take the place of calling and are an improvement,’”” she says. *“Women see each other, are brightened and freshened by contact, and to far more advantage than by the system of a round of calls, stand-up receptions and after- noon teas. A social and literary club such as the Forum is gives women not only the pleasure of social intercourse, but the benefit of instruction. Not instruc- tion in a laborious sense; but the kind that does not overtax busy women who have many duties &t home.” Mrs. Denniston’s many duties are not only at home but abroad as well. She is not satisfied with being president of the Forum, but is an active member of the Corona Club. Besides that, she keeps up ‘with church work, for she is devotedly re- ligious. “Religion comes first,”” she says. ‘“The ideal woman must be true to her belief, to her church. This is one side of her, it is one great factor in her complete- mness. ;i ‘“‘After being religious, she must be do- mestic. She must be a home-maker, both for the sake of the home and of herself. T'he nation needs homes, it needs homes where its young voters may be trained. That suggests my ideas on voting which I . am going to pass by at present. “‘Besides the fact that the homes need women with hearts to watch over each one of them, the women need the homes. ‘We cannot be complete unless we have that influence. If a woman is not naturally domestic she should cultivate the trait. She is unfeminine without it and her char- acter lacks one of its most important foundation stones. I love my friends and I believe strongly in social intercourse, but the kind of society that keeps women away from their homes most of their wak- ing hours is ruinous to domesticity. A life that is made up of hurrying from one party to another, from reception to dinner and from dinner to dance, is a life that cannot lead to any great and deep happi- ness, “To go on with the ideal woman. She must have a brain, and love to cultivate 3 GCGOOD MINCE FPIES. C HRISTMAS is not Christmas with- nishes a recipe for mince meat, which should be prepared some time Thus it becomes much superior to that made and used immediately. The recipe Two pounds of finely chopped beef suet, four pounds of lean round of beef, boiled cold; twice as much by measure of coarse- ly chopped tart apples as there is of meat; of raisins, seeded and coarsely chopped; three pounds of cleaned currants; half a molasses; a tablespoonful each of cinna- mon and mace; one and a half tablespoon- spoonful each of cloves, black pepper and salt; half a tablespoonful of allspice and be ground. Mix all the ingredients, adding enoug® cooked to moisten thoroughly. Heat and cook very slowly for three hours and put out mince pies. Table Talk fur- before wanted and set away to ‘‘mellow.”” requires: and chopped fine, after becoming properly three pounds of brown sugar, four pounds pound of finely chopped citron; a pint of fuls of grated nutmeg; a scant table- three quarts of cider. All the spice should of the liguor in which the meat was up in glass jars. THE Bone el RS -D- HesnisrTor Paocrvo B SUNDAY CALL, ——————— Y VAauUsHAAN XEIT M : 0 “The Best Enown Club Women on the Pacific Coast?’” Do you know who they are? Or, in knowing who they are, have you ever studied their personalities to know why they should be considered the “best known”? This sketch of Mrs. E. G. Denniston is the sev- enth in an interesting series on just those lines. . f— it. It must be a beautiful garden in which she plants and weeds and trains. After she has passed the age of school or col- lege life, we have the woman'’s club which helps her to do this. All sorts of instruc- tion is to be had at the many kinds of o clubs that exist nowadays and are being increased and varied all the time. If a woman has an especial talent for one line of study she can find a chance to develop it in some of our many clubs. There are those who devote themselves to literature, o — SOME UP-TO-DATE SALAD HINTS, GOOD sized bowl is the first essential of salad making. crisp and dry, without blemish and perfectly the mixing presents but little difficulty. be poured first upon the salad lea these lightly tossed until they are coated with oil. ooled, the salad leaves fresh, clean, a plain salad. The oil should With this well Very little oil is required for )8, anl The other ingredients being added and the salad again lightly tossed, the product will be a dish evenly gseasoried, with no undressed leaves on top while the others are soaking in a strong dressing below. T"or salad sandwiches pepper grass and water cress should be dipped in French dressing or salted vinegar before using, slices of bread and butter. 3 Soft, mild cheese tizing accompaniment to a green salad. gether with one part of butter, the tard and a herb vinegar, shaken is used in making a Welsh sandwich, dry, and placed between thin which is an appe- Two parts of the cheese are rubbed to- former first having been flavored with mus- The mixture is spread between thin slices of bread. Green peas mashed very soft are excellent to give color and consistency to a fish dressing. shade of green to & mayonnalse. The juice of spinach or other salad herbs will give a delicate The smooth with a little oil and added to a mayonnaise will give a pounded mixed color coral of lobster good red the to a fish dressing, and cooked beet juice or deeply colored fruit juices will color an ordinary mayonnaise. Chopped herbs of any kind of which the flavor is desired make their juice, Chepped onions or the mayon- chopped olives, chives, cucumber naise tartare. pickles and capers added to a plain dressing transforms 1. into the tartare For the camper—and some pceople like the salad for the table—there is a salad dressing prepared with bacon fat. It is convenient as well as appetizing for the man or woman living under primitive of ham fat are tried out, bined with one-third vinegar salads. and is Sour cream makes an excellent drecs cream would never recognize it if not let into the s conditions. strained and two-thirds of the ased in ing Thin slices of bacon or even fat thus obtained is com- the proper proportion with green and the most fastidious objector to wcret. The eream must not be toe* old. The ijuice of half a lemon, poonsful of vinegar, a good pinch of cayenne pepper, a teaspoonful ¢ a teaspoonful of sugar are added to a cupful of thick, sour cream apd together thoroughly. It i3 an excellent dressing for tomatoes and ¢uid vegciables, and can be used with & celery and apple salad, LU \ Q% 0] J\E e e e e BN others to art, still others to music. may study languages through them. Few women have time to make a deep study of any of these things, but the club work is not heavy. The com- plete woman could seldom go wvery far into any scientific or artistic study, for the has children to One or social science complete woman usually rear, and it is only after these are grown up and have left her protection that her opportunity comes for profound applica- tion to study. ““The health, ing assertions, have good too sweep- ideal woman should It is not safe to make but there is a temptation to say that a woman cannot fulfill her usefulness in life without it. Of course this is not absolutely true. We all know of women who have fought a life battle against sickness and at the same time have accomplished as much as or more than other women of fine physique. But this is only by way of excention; it mere- ly proves the rule. The rule is that a sound mind likes best to dwell in a sound body. “I like the who takes plenty of good out-of-door exercise, She is the more ready after it to come indoors and apply herself to mental work. 1 like the beauty that comes as a result of breath- ing good air and plenty of it; of walk- ing in the sunshine; of riding, of playing golf. We have not all time for a great deal of this sort of thing, but no matter how busy our lives are we should find time for some of it. The club woman's busy life keeps her going a great deal, and if she would often walk instead of yielding to the temptation that a street car offers she would go home to write her woman club paper with clearer thoughts, or go to her club to read it with more spirit and enthusiasm.” Mrs. Denniston is not a suffragist. Nor Is she exactly an “anti” She rather ghrinks from the issue which she feels i{s sure to come. “If women come to vote,” she says, ‘I suppose I shall take my place among them and try to vote intelligently and honestly; but 1 doubt if we as women or the nation as a whole will be any better off for suffrage. I don’t see why we can’t do enough for the country by educating our boys.” This is what you would expect of her, for she does not look like a suffragist, although few of them do for that matter. She is entirely womanly in the strong sense of the word. She is large, of as fine physique as that abstract woman whom she admires, but there is nothing but femininity in her strength. Her hair is dark, her eyes are big and gray and frank, her figure is San Franciscan. She is fond of the good things of this life, es- pecially driving and music, and she finds her happy part of the year during the opera season. She says that she is a musician in the sense that she enjoys music with her whole soul, although she does not execute, There is a broad enough you, don't you think so? woman for () e S — ™ ABOUT THE HOUSE. RICH, nutty flavor peculiar to win- A ter squash is lost when the vegeta- ble is boiled. Wash and wipe the squash, and without removing the shell, cut into three-inch squares. Remove the seeds, brush each piece with butter, bake in a moderately hot oven and send to table still on the shell, after dusting with salt and buttering. To cook prunes so that they are really soak them all night in cold wa- they will heat very delicious, where ter, then place gradually, indeed, just to the Dboiling point, but not actually beil. Let stand at this temperature for half an hour. Take out the prunes, add sugar to the juice and a little lemon peel, boil rapidly for fifteen over the fruit and serve minutesg, pour cold. If you draggle a white petticoat in mud- don't let the on it. immediately, and Mud on woolen goods dry, then be brushed off, removed with scap and hot water fabric will bear it dy weather mud dry Rinse it out thoroughly. rinse it should stains if the and the