1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
631 
Storiettes. 
Mother’s Cooking. 
“Well,” said the middle-aged man, 
“I’ve been down home again on my 
usual Summer visit and had the great¬ 
est time this year ever. In fact, as time 
goes by the old spot seems dearer and 
dearer, and recollections tenderer; and 
little things to which once I never gave 
a second thought, appeal to me more 
and more. 
“On the day I got there, this time, we 
had cup custards for dinner. Beautiful 
they were, too; I have never tasted any 
cup custards such as mother makes; and 
these were the best of her make; rich 
and delightful, as always. 
“But there was something wrong 
about mine, somehow; what, I couldn’t 
at first make out; the custard was sim¬ 
ply delicious, but there was something 
wrong somewhere; and presently I dis¬ 
covered what it was, and I says to 
mother: 
“ ‘Mother.’ 
“ ‘What is it, Melancthon?’ she says, 
and I says: 
“ ‘It’s the most beautiful custard I 
ever tasted, but you’ve given it to me in 
a cup with a handle on it.’ 
“ ‘Well, don’t you want it in a cup 
with a handle on it, Melancthon?’ she 
says. 
“ ‘Why, don’t you remember,’ I says, 
‘that when we used to have cup cus¬ 
tards I always used to get the cup with 
the broken handle?’ 
“ ‘So you did, Melancthon, so you did!’ 
she said, and that was all she said; but 
I am sure you can guess what she did. 
“The next day we had cup custards 
again; and when they came around, lo, 
the cup that mine was in was a cup 
without a handle. The fractured sur¬ 
face of a sharp and jagged remnant of it 
that remained, projecting from the side 
of the cup, was fresh and bright; it 
had not, on this cup, been browned over, 
as the broken handle on the other had 
been, with the heat of many bakings; 
but still it was the old cup come back 
again. And when I had finished the 
custard in it and had grasped the cup 
around with one hand and held it up, 
and turned it up so that I coul'd look 
into it, and had scraped the inside of it 
until I had got the very last speck and 
then had licked the spoon, I felt my 
youth come back again in childhood’s 
happy home.”—New York Sun. 
A Backwoods Evolutionist. 
A small town in the Tennessee moun¬ 
tains was the scene of a great revival 
of religion when a New Orleans drum¬ 
mer chanced to pass that way. He spent 
an evening at the camp-meeting, and re¬ 
ports one incident to the Times-Demo- 
crat. “Just as I arrived,” he says, “an 
itinerant evangelist was administering a 
terrific rebuke to scientific skeptics. 
“ ‘And there’s a feller by the name of 
Darwin,” he shouted, ‘that allows we all 
come down from monkeys, and Adam 
wan’t nothing but a big gorilla! I’d like 
to know if there’s ary person in the 
sound of my voice that’s fool enough to 
believe such stuff as that? If there is, 
let him stand up!’ 
“To my surprise a tall, lantern-jawed 
man on the bench adjoining mine 
promptly rose to his feet. I saw at a 
glance that he was one of those rustic 
walking encyclopaedias who always lead 
off in debates at crossroad stores, and I 
looked to see some fun. 
“He was perfectly self-possessed, and 
was evidently loaded to floor the parson. 
For a moment there was silence; then 
the evangelist leaned forward and 
shaded his eyes with his hand. 
“ ‘Will the brother move a leetle near¬ 
er the light?’ he said, in a gentle voice. 
The evolutionist folded his arms de¬ 
fiantly and stepped under a flaring pine 
torch. 
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“ ‘Thanky,’ said the preacher, blandly. 
‘Now, do I understand y’ to say that you 
reely believe you’re kin to monkeys?’ 
“ ‘I do,’ replied the skeptic. 
“There was another moment of si¬ 
lence. 
“ ‘Well, brethren and sisters,’ said the 
evangelist, slowly, “since I come to size 
the good brother up, I’m kinder inclined 
to believe he is keerect. We will now 
sing hymn number ’leven.’ 
“That settled Mr. Darwin and squelch¬ 
ed his rash disciple. He tried to say 
something, but he was drowned out. 
When I last saw him he was sneaking 
quietly home through the big pines.” 
Chinese and American Children. 
Mr. \vu, the Chinese Minister at 
Washington, is a close observer of 
American customs, and in the Septem¬ 
ber number of Frank Leslie’s Popular 
Monthly he thus contrasts the relations 
of children and parents: 
I have visited American schools with 
great pleasure, and I must praise the 
admirable way in which children are 
taught in this country. The kindergar¬ 
ten ideas seem to me especially fine. It 
cannot help but be of great benefit also 
to have classes in drilling, carpentry, 
and sketching for boys; in cooking and 
sewing for girls. Eyes, ears, hands, and 
mind are all trained. Only one thing is 
lacking; that is, lessons in politeness. 
Indeed, the children seem to me deficient 
from the standpoint of manners. Why 
couldn’t a certain inflexible rule of po¬ 
liteness be imposed upon them, toward 
their superiors at least, just as it is on 
men in the army? 
The attitude of American parents and 
children toward each other always sur¬ 
prises a Chinaman, and impresses him 
unfavorably. His whole nature is im¬ 
bued with filial ideas so radically differ¬ 
ent from those current here that it is 
almost impossible for him to appreciate 
the American point of view. The Chi¬ 
nese parent expects implicit obedience 
on the part of his child, and he is not 
disappointed in his expectations. Amer¬ 
ican children are sometimes obedient, 
but not always. The Chinese parent 
governs by authority, the American by 
affection. The Chinese parent says sol¬ 
emnly to his child: “It is your duty to 
obey me. All the authority of law and 
custom demand it. You must!” The 
American parent says: “I shall be dis¬ 
pleased if you don’t obey me, and you 
shan’t have any more sugar plums.” 
Both systems have their advantages and 
disadvantages. The American way al¬ 
lows more personal freedom, and is con¬ 
sistent with the spirit of the American 
Constitution; but I sincerely believe 
that the Chinese method makes children 
more obedient and respectful. Respect 
to elders is one of the cardinal virtues 
inculcated by our great sage Confucius. 
In our eyes, it is a sin to disobey one’s 
parents; a breach of duty not to support 
them in old age. Why, indeed, do par¬ 
ents rear children, if not with the ex¬ 
pectation of being supported by them 
when the day of their own infirmity 
shall come? So sacred is the claim of 
parents upon a son that not even for his 
wife may he leave them. That is the 
reason we attach more importance to 
the birth of a boy than a girl. He is to 
be the support and pillar of the house. 
A daughter, when she marries, becomes 
a member of another family, and no 
matter how much the mother may be at¬ 
tached to her, she cannot keep her 
daughter with her. A son, on the other 
hand, will stay with the parents always, 
and consider it his moral and legal duty 
to provide for them as long as they live. 
If there are several sons, and it is not 
convenient for all to live together in 
patriarchal fashion, some of them may 
go away to separate homes, but all will 
share in tne honor of contributing to the 
parents’ support. 
There is no happiness in having and 
getting, but only in giving; half the 
world is on the wrong scent in the pur¬ 
suit of happiness.—Henry Drummond. 
Rural Recipes. 
The man who wields me gun and hoe 
Has got up quite a stir; 
But the woman o’er the jam pots—oh, 
Whoever thinks of her! 
—Indianapolis Journal. 
Dutch peach cake is a seasonable des¬ 
sert. Sift together two cupfuls flour, 
half a teaspoonful of salt and two tea¬ 
spoonfuls of baking powder. Work in 
lightly one-fourth cupful of butter; stir 
in one cupful milk which has had one 
beaten egg added to it; turn into a but¬ 
tered pie tin and press into the top of 
the dough four peeled, stoned and quar¬ 
tered peaches. Sift three tablespoonfuls 
of sugar and one of cinnamon, mixed, 
over the top. Bake and serve with but¬ 
ter. 
Steamed blueberry puffs are made as 
follows: Beat two eggs until light and 
thick, without separating; add half a 
cupful of sugar and half a cupful of 
milk; sift together three level teaspoon¬ 
fuls of baking powder, half a teaspoon¬ 
ful of salt and two cupfuls of flour, stir 
into the liquid ingredients; then stir in 
one cup of blueberries. Turn into but¬ 
tered cups and steam half an hour. The 
batter should drop easily from the end 
of the spoon. Serve hot with cream and 
sugar. 
Cream of wheat is one of our favorite 
breakfast cereals, and if any is left over, 
it may be made into very nice muffins. 
Add to two cupfuls of cooked cream of 
wheat, a cupful of milk and work it 
smooth, then two eggs well beaten and 
a tablespoonful of sugar; to a pint of 
flour add two small teaspoonfuls of bak¬ 
ing powder, and a half teaspoonful of 
salt, rub into the flour a tablespoonful 
lard or butter; add to these ingredients 
the wheat that has been mixed with the 
milk and eggs. Butter muffin pans, fill 
them two-thirds full, and bake in a hot 
oven 20 minutes. 
Rice toast is a breakfast dish, which 
should be served and eaten very hot 
Chop finely an onion and fry in a little 
butter. Add half a pound or one cupful 
of boiled rice and two ounces of shred¬ 
ded ham. Season with salt and pepper. 
Fry all together till hot, then stir and 
serve piled on fried bread. 
Brown bread may be made as follows 
with but little trouble: One large' cupful 
bread sponge, one large cupful sweet 
milk, one large cupful New Orleans mo¬ 
lasses, a little salt and one small, scant 
teaspoonful soda perfectly dissolved in a 
little warm water. Mix and stir in 
enough graham flour to make a stiff bat¬ 
ter (two cupfuls or a little more). Put 
into a buttered two-quart pail and stand 
in warm place. When light steam three 
hours, then put into the oven long 
enough to brown. 
The crisp and rich old-fashioned cakes 
known as hermits are made as follows: 
Two cupfuls brown sugar, one cupful 
butter, one cupful chopped raisins. One 
teaspoonful each of the following ingre¬ 
dients: Ginger, cloves, cinnamon and 
cold water. One-half teaspoonful of 
soda, flour enough to roll out. Cut into 
little cakes with a biscuit cutter. 
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