FINE ARTS OF A COUNTRY HOME 251 



oratory, and cooking is as high an art in chemistry 

 as the experimentations of a college laboratory. 

 Really the woman's corner of a daily newspaper 

 records more inventions than can be found anywhere 

 else in daily life. The combinations which bring 

 forth nourishment from weeds as well as vegetables 

 and fruits, are becoming numberless. Shall we ever 

 have a cook book that will include simply the science 

 of the matter and that teaches us how to eat in order 

 to live and be strong? 



There is a simple index of country life to be seen 

 in the way the table is set. A careless mind dis- 

 covers itself in confusion, in the placing of food upon 

 the table without order, but the table of another 

 woman reveals the esthetic sense cultivated just 

 trifles to be sure, but they spell out a good deal, just 

 as the alphabet does. These little things cost not 

 much in the way of labor, but they go into character. 

 The refined use of flowers throughout the house will 

 do much to make life cheerful and cooperation more 

 easy. 



The tin can deserves a whole article to itself. 

 Seventy-five years ago it had not been invented. In 

 those days we had wonderful jars of pickles and 

 pots of preserves, but the art of keeping the whole 

 pear and the uncooked berries through the entire 

 year, or even many years, no one had yet dreamed. 

 It would give me real pleasure to place here, in 

 capital letters, the name of the first woman who ever 

 put up a can of strawberries or cherries. It was one 



