The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., October 29, 1910, Page 739, Image 7

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One of the most charming bite of
literature of the past season is a little
book called ‘‘Box Furniture,” an in
teresting account of the successful
efforts of a young girl to furnish a
suite of rooms with furniture made
from goods boxes. A tool chest of
selected, appropriate tools, should
early find 1U wajr lato the homes
where there are growing boys and
girls whether In town or country,
and both hoys and girls should be en
couraged to develop the ability to
make things. While having tea In a
country home not long since, my at
tention was attracted to the very
handsome dining table which the man
of the house had made. The mate
rial of the table was of the best qual
ity of oak. beautifully and artistical
ly put together, finished with a good
oil finish, a table which could not be
furnished at a factory for less than
$30 or $40, but which cost this fam
ily about $«. the work being done on
rainy days and In the less busy sea
•An
With a paint bruah and a can of
paint every woman should be upon
easy speaking terms. A neighbor of
mine wished to renew the old, shab
by wood work of her dining room.
She called in several painters, get
ting ail klada of estimates. The
lowest, however, was quite beyond
her purse, costing about |7. So with
true American Independence she
bought a can of good stain, and with
the aid of a brush and step-ladder,
she did the room In a single morning
at a cost of 80 cents.
Cleanliness or Shabby Finery?
Modern sanitary house keeping de
mands that we select materials and
fit our homes In such a way as to
make absolute cleanliness possible.
Fancy picture frnmes. ornate, deeply
carved furniture, heavy draperies,
useless bric-a-brac, not only cause
work, but are unsanitary. In select
ing furniture select with reference to
"dust lines." I once spent several
days In a home where dust and dis
order held sway. My own room was
untidy nnd uninviting, and yet upon
the bureau was an elaborate (but
soiled) drawn-work dreeser scarf.
We had hemstitched napkins for the
table service, the housewife la her
kitchen, wore not a soiled but sn ab
solutely filthy dress. This home was
in this condition neither because of
sickness or povorty, for upon another
occasion I met this housewife at a
neighborhood gathering where she
wns resplendent In silks and Jewelry.
At another time I spent the day
with a little farm housewife who sat
with ino the greater part of the day
Industriously hemstitching a frock
Tor the baby. The room we occu
pied was hideous with tawdry finery,
reeking with tho dust and cobwebs of
days or weeks. As I see it, the one
great need In this problem of house
furnishing and decoration Is to put
the emphasis always upon the essen
tials. There can bo no charm In
furnishings where cleanliness does
not prevail. “Every human being
Is responsible for making his own
part of the world as beautiful as
passible <o cause a flower to bloom
where none had bloomed before, to
rid o door way of unsightly weeds,
to paint a weather-beaten surface, to
hang a picture that will mean some
thing In the life of the observer."
THE SCHOOL LUNCH BASKET.
In a preceding paper I suggested
the necessary partB of a well-planned
school lunch. These parts consist of
a correct proportion of the starchy,
the meaty, the sweet, the savory, the
fatty, tho flbery, and liquid fsods.
Usually theso parts must he put up
In as compact farm ns possible, thus
avoiding tho burden of an unwieldy
lunch basket.
flood llghtbread Is the first re
the essential immorality of waste.
WE'CTurlitV-abani ?f ° P»™h™d or obtained to
do notallow ourselves t^th^i tn.f^ort to ihe producer we
to the Dathptin rr, *° think. And our equal insensibility
Vh»work cf ,L l S.0f. the WOrk °f ,he P™'’ “"<* I'nat o/
oar civtlizoHr, , J?t!,Sent' l‘!rg‘,y exP,ains lh« vast, fulness of
lahnr j re°t<tf‘ss consumption by Irxury of the
,t ,SyZ2 m/he f'P"f"rC «/ <”* >>oar,-the inhumanity of
y/JlfZ ,ht/LThlnking/Uh' tach ofrehom dtssiplles
pric/of a hunri aUJlCaiion°f totally unnecessary wants the
areunLn^in*, ™ cannibals of civilization
e unconsciously more cruel than those of savagery, and re
emoLnI'N0™ ^ The *~P" humanity, L cosmic
arv nnrl ^ um“n‘/3'» *s essentially the enemy of useless lux
ZaceTt e*Se”H°l y 0PP°s<d to any form of society which
places no restraints upon the gratifications of sense or the
pleasures of egotism.
.. Ln thf,FJ,r^as!t on ihe other hand' the moral duty of sim
P IC y °f »/e has been taught from very ancient times because
ancestor-worship had developed and cultivated this cosmic
emonon of humanity which we lack, but which we shall cer
tainly be obliged to acquire at a later day simply to save our
se ves from extermination. Two sayings of Iyeyasu examplify
the Oriental sentiment. When virtually master of the Enpire
this greatest of Japanese soldiers and statesmen was seen one
day cleaning and smoothing with his own hands an old dusty
pair of silk kakama. or trousers. “What you see me do," he
said to a retainer, “I am not doing because I think of the worth
of the garment in itself, but because I think of what it needed
to produce it. It is the result of the toil of a poor woman, and
that is why I value it. If we do not think while using things
of the time and effort required to make them, then our want
of consideration puts us on a level with the beasts." Again
one day when remonstrating with his wife in opposition to need
less purchases of costly new clothing for himself, he said:
When I think of the multitudes around me, and the genera
tions to come after me, I feel it my duty to be very sparing for
th*ir sake, of the goods in my possession."— From Lafcadio
Hearn's “Kokoro."
meat, chopped fine. A good salad
dressing is an inviting addition to
the chopped meat, and adds another
required element to the luncheon—
the savory feature. Chopped nuts—
peanuts, walnuts, pecans—put
through a food chopper with the ad
dition of a little salt, make a de
lightful filling for a sandwich.
Cheese also, cream cheese, or the
home-made cottage cheese, again,
may be used wuth the bread and but
ter in the form of a sandwich.
Chopped, hard-boiled egg mixed with
salad dressing forms a palatable
sandwich. All of these fillings fur
nish the meaty, or tissue-forming
part of the luncheon. The fibery
requirement is found in the raw
fruit, the raw or baked apple, the
apple sauce, stewed prunes or apri
cots, oranges, radishes. The sweet
may be had in the form of a frosted
tea cake, cup custard, doughnuts,
or in a sweet sandwich, as with Jelly
or preserve filling for the bread and
butter.
One of the nicest cakes for school
lunches is the hot-water sponge cake
baked in muffin form, and frosted.
These keep well for a number of
days and are delightfully wholesome
and inviting. To make use:
2 scant cups of sugar; yolks of 6
eggs and whites of 3; 2% cups of
flour; 1 teaspoonful of baking pow
der; 1 cup of boiling water. Mix
sugar with the well-beaten yolks of
the eggs. Add alternately, hot water
and flour into which the baking pow
der has been sifted, and fold in the
beaten whites of the eggs last. Use
remaining three whites of eggs for
icing.
qulslte of a healthful school lunch.
This bread may be made into sand
wiches with a meat filling of minced
ham or other well-baked or broiled
If you choose, you are free.—
Epictetus.
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