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accidents. What our children need is really 
an important part of their education, al¬ 
though this fact is not always realized. 
Want of time is the excuse many mothers 
give for neglecting to pay attention to the 
subject, but something else can better 
afford to be left undone ; a little less fancy 
work, a little less cleaning, a little time 
taken from this thing and that, will give a 
short time for reading each day. It is only 
a few years that the opportunity will be 
yours; your children will soon grow to be 
men and women, and you will have time 
then for these other things. Neglect now 
will show by and by, when suddenly you 
awake to find your child reading books 
of which you do not approve. Perhaps he has 
stumbled upon them, and having no culti¬ 
vated taste in any other direction, has easily 
fallen into a liking for unhealthy reading. 
Think of it, mothers, sisters, aunts and all 
having children in your care ! Can you 
afford to let this opportunity pass by with¬ 
out trying to do something? “It fairly 
makes me out of patience, when there is so 
much work our Master sot for us to do for 
His sake, to see folks refuse to do a mite of 
that work, but tackle jobs they hain’t sot to 
tackle.” CHARLOTTE. 
New York.__ 
THE FEAST AND ITS SERVICE. 
W HILE saying that there are some 
things that are understood by most 
people to be necessary adjuncts of the roast 
turkey, among them being giblet sauce, 
craD berry sauce, celery, and certain kinds 
of vegetables, the Ladies’ Home Journal 
suggests that for a change -ne might have 
mushroom or chestnut sauce and currant 
jelly. The celery might be cut into pieces 
about three inches long and then be cut 
Into narrow strips, placed in iced water for 
two or three hours, and then served on a 
bed of ice. Here are some combinations of 
vegetables that will b3 appropriate to serve 
with roast turkey or chicken : 
Plain boiled potatoes, squash, cauliflower 
with white sauce. 
Potato balls or cubes, with parsley, but¬ 
ter, scalloped tomatoes, spaghetti with 
Bechamel sauce. 
Plain boiled potatoes, scalloped sweet 
potatoes, mashed turnips, French peas. 
Casserole of potatoes, creamed onions, 
Lima beans in white sauce. 
Stewed celery with cream or Bechamel 
sauce, mashed potatoes, squash. 
Scalloped cauliflower, potato timbale, 
vegetables & la jardiniere. 
Plain boiled potatoes, squash, cauliflower 
with white sauce. 
Potatoes, boiled onions in cream sauce, 
glazed sweet potatoes. 
Macedoine of vegetables, potato cro¬ 
quettes, macaroni with brown sauce. 
Celery is now served in long, flat glass 
dishes. It should be put on the table with 
the meat and the other vegetables, and is 
to be removed before the dessert is served. 
Olives are put on broken ice in a rather 
deep glass or fancy dish and some pieces of 
Ice are laid upon them. This dish is placed 
on the table before the guests take their 
seats, and is not removed during the dinner. 
Cranberry sauce or fruit jelly, to be eaten 
with meat, is placed on the table before 
the guests go in, and removed with the 
meat. 
Confectionery, candied cherries, pre¬ 
served ginger and salted almonds are ar¬ 
ranged in little fancy dishes and placed on 
the table when it is set, and are not re¬ 
moved until the guests have left the table. 
Salted almonds prepared at home always 
seem better than those purchased at the 
confectioners, perhaps because they are 
usually fresher. One only needs to blanch 
them, and to each half-pint add one table¬ 
spoonful of melted butter and a teaspoon¬ 
ful of fine salt; stir well, and then spread 
the nuts in a shallow cake-pan, baking in 
a rather cool oven until the almonds be¬ 
come brown (about 20 minutes) ; then take 
from the oven and spread on a platter to 
cool. Surely, when the operation is so 
simple it is wise to prepare one’s almonds 
oneself. 
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If pickles be used they should be placed on 
the table when it is set, and removed with 
the meat and vegetables. 
Vegetable salads, such as lettuce, celery, 
tomatoes, or any cooked or uncooked vege¬ 
tables, make the most suitable course to 
serve before the dessert. The salad may be 
composed of a single vegetable, or several 
may be combined. Use either French or 
mayonai8e dressing. 
Crackers and cheese are sometimes served 
with the salad, but more often they are the 
last thing after the dessert. 
Strong coffee is served in small cups after 
dessert. Sugar and cream are offered with 
it, but seldom used. 
READING WITH MOTHER. 
A S this is the time when most families 
debate and decide as to what they 
shall read for the coming year, I wish to 
add an earnest plea for liberality in this 
direction. 
Should any one’s “ John ” chance to read 
this article, I assure him that I am not 
radically strong-minded, certainly not to 
the extent of seeing only glaring defects in 
his sex, and commendable virtues in my 
own. But I have often noticed husbands 
and fathers with a keen appreciation of 
their own need of a daily newspaper, and 
an agricultural or other journal de¬ 
voted to their especial calling, who failed to 
see a like need of periodicals for the wife 
and children; and I contend that every 
member of a household over 10 years of age 
should be represented. 
By an especial adaptation of nature and 
an almost universal custom, the mother of 
a family decides what food and clothing 
are essential to the comfort and growth of 
the children. Often she, too, is the best 
judge of the kind and quantity of mental 
pabulum required to sustain and develop 
their intellectual and spiritual natures; 
but it is a matter in which fathers should be 
far more interested than they are; indeed it 
is a parental duty which they have no right 
to shirk. Many a conscientious, well-mean¬ 
ing father deplores when it is too late, his 
young son’s lack of confidence in him, and 
right here is one sure way in which sym¬ 
pathy can be maintained between them. 
In reply to the question as to when a 
child’s education should commence, a noted 
scientist once replied : “Twenty years be¬ 
fore its birth.” Very true; we are not 
emphasizing or discussing the power of 
prenatal Influence, but certain it is that 
from the time a child can answer smile 
with smile and im patience with impatience, 
Its little life is greatly determined oy its 
surroundings, by the habitual expression 
of the father’s and mother’s faces, their 
voices and the order of the household. 
Intelligent parents are fast learning to 
appreciate the value of the kindergarten 
system of teaching, but even before we at¬ 
tempt any method of Instruction a remark¬ 
able power of discernment and observation 
can be developed in a child by the aid of 
illustrated periodicals, especially if such 
journals are his or her “ very own” (for 
the love of possession is inherent in every 
child.) 
I have watched with much interest the 
course of an intimate young friend, the 
mother of four children. A woman of 
strong intellect and delicate physical or¬ 
ganization, she has devoted herself to the 
happiness and well-being of her husband 
and children with a degree of success 
that may encourage others. Sometimes 
they have been In affluent circumstances, 
and at others harassed by debt and com¬ 
pelled to economize rigidly, yet never 
in the darkest day was there a lack of 
abundant reading matter of the best quality 
for each member of the family. 
The older son was naturally studious, 
but the younger, a highly sensitive, nervous 
boy, was for years content to bring in the 
evening paper and insist on some one’s read¬ 
ing aloud the important events of the day, 
that he might retail them at the kitchen 
and stable. Pictures were his delight, but 
mother or n rse must read a description of 
them even in his own “ Nursery.” I have 
heard the father remonstrate at what he 
termed his wife’s folly in “ attempting to 
make a reader of that boy,” when the time 
came to renew their subscriptions, and he 
thought the “Nursery” and “Harper’s 
Young People” might be striken from the 
list. I once heard her tell him that when 
he was willing to go without desserts at 
dinner or to eat two meals a day she was, 
but until then they would not commence 
economizing on brain food. I have seen her 
shift around until the time for subscribing 
to some journal came every month in the 
year, and scarcely any two at the same 
time, that the expense might be less 
keenly felt, but every year has seen the 
sum aggregate a greater instead of a less 
amount. 
These are no goody-goody children, but 
wide-awake, mischievous, self-willed ones. 
And I have seen this mother left alone to 
guide them at the most impressionable 
period of their lives, and in a large town 
with alluring temptations on every side, 
and each child has developed into an intel¬ 
ligent young man and womanhood with a 
love for reading and study and home that 
I have never seen excelled. 
When a friend recently asked this mother 
how she had managed to keep her boys at 
home evenings, and with their energies de 
voted to study and business, with no hus¬ 
band to help and advise her, she replied : 
“ It must have been in great part owing 
to their own natural inclinations, for I have 
only loved them and given them enoagh to 
read.” What this mother has done other 
mothers can do, by exercising the same 
good judgment and untiring perseverance, 
for this is no fancy sketch. 
The child who seemed to have the least 
natural love of reading and study has for 
10 years been an Indefatigable scholar and 
is now a promising young architect. 
One cause of her success was that she 
not only furnished excellent reading, but 
she read with and to them and they to her; 
what they were interested in interested 
her, and they were always in sympathy 
with one another. She also read periodi¬ 
cals devoted to the interests of mothers and 
home, and profited by the example of others; 
and she always found time to read the 
daily paper and keep up her knowledge of 
current events. 
By this means she was not only able 
to converse intelligently with her children, 
but her example stimulated them to read 
and made them feel that it was a disgrace 
not to do so. 
Now, dear, over worked, half-discouraged 
mother, do not throw.down the paper In dis¬ 
gust at the thought of the abundant leisure 
Mrs. E. must have enjoyed; few lives are 
crowded with more cares and duties than 
have always been hers. But reading is to 
her one of the essentials of life, and every 
odd moment that came into it was devoted 
to this purpose. There is comparatively, 
little “ fancy work ” to be seen in her home, 
and neither her own nor her daughters’ 
garments are ornamented with yards upon 
yards of knit lace, and this matter of 
having time to read is very greatly a 
question of what one considers the non- 
essentials. 
Never before was there such a magnlfl 
cent array of periodicals devoted to the 
different interests of men, women and chil¬ 
dren, and that, too, at prices within the 
reach of every one who, like my friend, puts 
this need ahead of fine clothing, dainty 
viands, and elegant home furnishings. 
I wish every wife and mother who reads 
this helpful department were Imbued with 
a noble belief in the elevating power of good 
literature. kathhrine b. Johnson. 
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