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little well ill the center, drop in the yolk (whole), place the bowl in the sauce- 

 pan, cover the pan closely. Remove all from the fire and let stand five min- 

 utes. Remove the egg from the water and serve immediately with salt and 

 butter. 



Soft-cooked Ef/gs. — Place one or two eggs in a small saucepan, pour over 

 them a pint of hoillng water. Cover closely and let them stand off the fire 

 for from S to ]0 minutes (according to the size of the eggs). Remove eggs 

 from the water and serve in a heated cup with a few grains of salt and a little 

 butter. 



MILK. 



Milk is a food, not a beverage, and therefore should be taken slowly. In 

 many cases it is also advisable that it be taken slightly warmed, as the 

 stomach will not then be subjected to shock. Vary the monotony in pro- 

 longed feedings of milk (when allowed by the physician) by changing the 

 flavor and taste, serving a plain junket or x'ennet, milk jelly, etc. Milk is 

 easily contaminated, and may be the means of transmitting many diseases, 

 unless the utmost cleanliness is observed in its handling froui the time it is 

 taken from the cow until it is used l)y the individual. It is also extremely 

 necessary that it be kept in scrupulously clean vessels, and should always be 

 kept air-tight, especially that which has been pasteurized or sterilized, as 

 it is then just as easily decomposed as before. 



HOME SEWING. 



By Miss Minnie W. Hopper. 



At present a girl's education is scarcely considered complete luiless it in- 

 cludes some knowledge of sewing. And to my mind this part of a girl's educa- 

 tion should be acquired largely at home. If she wishes to become a profes- 

 sional artist along this line, she should add to this home training a good 

 course in sewing in some technical school. But alas I how often this home 

 training is neglected. 



It seems to me the only way to account for a mother's neglect of this train- 

 ing is to attribute it to the fact that most mothers do not appreciate the 

 educative value of the study of sewing and the effect it has upon the devel- 

 opment of character. Most of us are agreed that there are many subjects 

 taught in our schools that are of no practical value and that have little 

 relation to the after-life of the pupil. Since we are not to blame for this state 

 of affairs, and since it has long been the custom of our fathers to pursue 

 these studies, we condone the fact and allow a child to waste many precious 

 hours studying something that is of no practical value, by saying it is cul- 

 tural. True, they give culture, but are these the only culture studies? One 

 dictionary gives as a definition of the word culture, "refined by mental train- 

 ing." This is the generally accepted meaning of the woi-d. It does not say 

 trained by study of dead languages, liigher mathematics, or remote sciences. 

 It says "mental training," without designating the method or means of that 

 training. It is easily proven that a liberal course in sewing, properly taught, 

 and judiciously correlated with other subjects, gives more mental training, 

 and thereby more culture, than a course in Latin. A course in sewing must 

 train at least three mental faculties, and if properly correlated it may train 

 them all. We cannot be skilled in the use of the needle without considerable 

 cultivation of our perception, imagination and memory. The average course 

 in Latin is acquired by the cultivation of memory almost exclusively. This 

 leads us to believe that the study of sewing, well taught, has a higher culture 

 value than Latin. Then if we may acquire culture by pursuing a practical 

 subject, let us do so by all means. Outside of the practical value to be found 

 in the use of the needle, the mental training through the hand and eye has 



