Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society. Auxiliary Society

“ It rises to the greatest height, it sinks to the lowest depths, it forgives the most injuries. It is perennial of life and grows in every climate. Neither coldness nor neglect, harshness nor cruelty, can extinguish it. A woman’s love is the perfume of the heart. ”

“ Nature sets us an example for “all things new.” She never wears the castaway leaves of past seasons. There is no remade foliage on the trees, no flaunting of spring colors in November. The late skies are veiled in tints the summer never saw and the earth in her old age is as changeful as a merry maid in her teens. ”

“ This is the real love that subdues the earth; the love that has wrought all miracles of art; that gives us music all the way from [124] the cradle song to the grand closing symphony that bears the soul away on wings of fire. A love that is greater than power, sweeter than life, and stronger than death.—Robert G. Ingersoll. ”

“ Moth has garden parties in every corner of the carpet and funereal pictures hang from the wall, and when you open the door you are struck deaf, dumb, blind, and senseless with the frightful mustiness that finally chases you out in the free air? ”

“ She is the wise mother who, in addition to her deeper anxieties and solicitude, draws and holds with her own largeness of spirit the expanding natures of her laughing girl and rollicking boy. To do this she must be as quick to laugh as to cry with them, recognizing the drollery of their wit and giving it welcome. ”

“ There is an old-fashioned but safe method of whitening the hands. Take some horse chestnuts, peel, dry, and then pound them in a mortar until they become a fine powder. A pinch of this flour thrown into a pint of water and stirred will make it white and milky, a delicious substitute for soap on a cold day, when the skin is apt to chap unless great care be given to drying the hands.
Milk is also marvelous for bleaching, but it is a luxury not suited to all purses. Lemon juice may be used to remove stains from the hands. Tomatoes will produce the same effect. ”

“ As the tender bud requires the sunshine, air, and water for its development, so the child, to unfold all its powers and inborn faculties, requires the sunshine of kindness and sympathy, an atmosphere of love and a rich spiritual and physical nourishment. ”

“ There, mesdames, you have the beauty régime of a woman who always pleases her public and who possesses the love and admiration of countless friends. She is no longer in her girlhood, yet gives not the faintest indication of maturity. ”

“ It is curious that the most honest, frank, and truthful women will often hesitate or even fib when asking for domestic expenses, and the most generous and loyal fellow in the world, who lives to spend his dollars like the farmer sows his wheat, looks “concerned,” to be mild in our expression, when the woman whom he loves and trusts looks to him for the weekly stipend. ”

“ Milk will also extinguish burning oil.
Sand or earth or common salt are useful aids to fire-fighting. The contents of an ordinary flower-pot will stop the spread of the flames of oil.
WOMAN
It takes a hundred men to make an encampment, but one woman can make a home. I not only admire woman as the most beautiful creature that was ever created, but I reverence her as the redeeming glory of humanity, the sanctuary of all the virtues, the pledge of all perfect qualities of heart and head. It is not just nor right to lay the sins of men at the feet of woman. ”

“ Mashed potatoes left over may be utilized in a variety of ways. To make potato pompon take the potato up by spoonfuls and make into balls. Roll in beaten egg, then in bread or cracker crumbs and fry like doughnuts in hot fat. A little minced onion, parsley, or nutmeg may be mixed with the potato if desired; or make a potato omelet by adding to a cupful of mashed potatoes one cup of sweet milk, three eggs well beaten, a tablespoonful of flour, and a little salt. Mix until smooth, turn into a heated frying-pan, with a tablespoonful melted butter, and fry both sides, turning when brown. ”

“ She may have, all buried in the depths of her heart, more trouble to the square inch than you have ever heard about. It doesn’t pay to be grumpy. Not a bit of it. It doesn’t pay to be a member of the Tearful Society, either. The only thing that counts is a brave heart filled to the roof with simple, honest charity. ”

“ Drop the cherries a few at a time in a boiling syrup made of one pint of water and one-half pound of sugar. When they have boiled three to five minutes, lift out and lay on plates; allow to cool and dry as they cool. They should be perfect in form. Make a second syrup twice as sweet as the first; use a pound of sugar to a pint of water. When syrup boils clear, set aside to cool. Carefully pack the cherries in glass jars. To the cool second syrup add the same amount of the best brandy. Pour the mixed syrup and brandy over the cherries in the jars, seal, set in cool fruit-closet. ”

“ The proper cooking of fish is not a simple matter; if it is underdone it is uneatable, while overdone fish is tough and tasteless. The cooking of a fish depends upon the size, kind, the nature of the water from which it was taken, its character and the character of the water in which it is cooked. ”

“ Stew a quart of tomatoes. When they are cooked put through a sieve; you will then have a thick sauce. Have your sweetbreads prepared according to foregoing directions. Lay them in the tomato sauce, add salt, pepper, and nutmeg to taste, and set over fire. As the sauce heats add half a cup of butter into which you have stirred a tablespoon of flour. Let the sweetbreads cook in a gentle simmer in the tomatoes about forty minutes. ”

“ CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE
Beat together the yolks of four eggs with two cups of powdered sugar. Then take one-fourth pound of grated chocolate and one cup of milk; boil this together. When cool mix with the egg and sugar, add one cup of sifted flour, one teaspoon baking powder, flavor with vanilla. Beat the four whites and mix all together. This makes two layers. Filling: One cup of chopped walnuts, one whole egg, one cup of milk, one tablespoon of granulated sugar; boil together until thick, when cool spread between layers. ”

“ Very often the soul speaks through the hand when a halting tongue refuses speech. Conceal natural instincts as you will, the hands ofttimes betray them. Hide them, transform them, the hand, still true to nature, defies your efforts. ”

“ One quart best alcohol, equal amount fruit and sugar; that is, one pineapple cut in small pieces, four large oranges, four lemons (both peeled) . These cut into slices or small pieces; weigh, and the same amount of sugar, add alcohol. Uncooked other fruits, such as strawberries, cherries (pitted) , plums, apricots, peaches, may be added; always use as much fruit as sugar. Put in a large stone jar. Mix as different fruits are added. By Christmas it will be fine. This is fine added to grape-fruit during the winter, and as a rich dessert served over ice-cream. ”

“ Up pops somebody in this twentieth century to denounce that theory and to declare that the merry folk are far oftener afflicted than the sorrowful and that laughter more frequently furrows the face than tears. ”

“ Peel potatoes of uniform size, cover with boiling water, and cook until tender, salting the water in which they are cooked when the potatoes are about half done. Drain off the water, then with a fork or wire potato-masher beat to a fluff in the same saucepan in which they have been cooked. When entirely free from lumps add for every pint of potatoes about one-third of a cup of hot milk, a tablespoonful of butter, and salt and pepper to season. Whip until as light as a feather. Heap in a hot dish, but do not smooth the top ”

“ Remove one side of peel from each banana and lay lengthwise in an earthen dish, the exposed side up. Stick fruit with a fork; squeeze over each banana a little lemon juice, and on each place one teaspoon of sugar, a lump of butter, and a little grated nutmeg. Add a little water in the bottom of pan to keep from burning, add one teaspoon sherry to each banana. Bake half an hour in a moderate oven. ”

“ Knotty fingers, when not the result of gout, indicate originality; the smooth taper finger means love of art and a predominance of sentiment over reason. Square fingers denote method, and the spatulate show ability, tact, and action. Very rare is the psychic hand with its slim tapering fingers, its snowy texture and wonderful softness. Well for the world that it is uncommon, lacking as it does usefulness and industry. ”

“ One can tomatoes, one teaspoon celery salt, one teaspoon salt, sprig of parsley, one pint hot water, one onion, one-fourth cup butter, one and one-half tablespoon flour, one teaspoon sugar, cup milk. Boil tomatoes with onion and water twenty minutes; heat butter and flour together; add milk while hot; strain tomatoes into hot milk and flour ”

“ Suddenly you will find you are having a garden party there; you will find yourself entertaining beautiful thoughts, and you will wonder how you ever lived under the old régime when you displayed so little hospitality. It is a fine thing to know how to welcome the big feelings of life. Don’t forget that laughter is a good tonic and a near-panacea for many ills. ”

“ Scrubbing, like lawn tennis, is rather violent and not to be attempted unless one is sure of the heart. In the beginning it will be as severe on the knees as is paddling a canoe, but so soon as one becomes familiar with the work it affords a subtle satisfaction all its own. ”

“ After a fatiguing day a woman can do nothing which will more quickly restore tone to throbbing nerves, rob strained, tense muscles of their aching weariness, and refit her for the duties of housekeeper and hostess, than to take some kind of aromatic bath or to follow the ordinary warm bath by spraying the whole body with eau de cologne. ”

“ There is no objection to mixing the rottenstone and oil in a dish before the work begins.
To clean furniture that may have come from the second-hand store or store-room, where it has been badly soiled, make a mixture of beeswax and kitchen soap—an ounce of the wax to a quarter of a pound of the soap. Dissolve the two together over the fire and then stir in half an ounce of sal-soda. Stir the mixture until it is cold and then mix with it an equal part of turpentine. A little of this on a soft cloth will work wonders with old furniture. ”

“ Plenty of persons have troubles, but they don’t shake them out and beat the dust out of them and hang them up in the air all the time and display them for the entertainment of their acquaintances. There is no such thing as being without troubles, and when you [134] run across a woman who gives you a smile and a bright little word don’t tell yourself that it is easy for her, that she hasn’t anything to worry about. ”

“ Meats for soups should be put to cook in cold water, boiled gently, and the required quantity of salt added at first, to extract the juices of the meat and cause the scum to rise. Allow one quart of water, one teaspoon salt for each pound of meat. Remove all scum carefully before vegetables are added. All grease should be removed before the vegetables are added. It is well to cook meat the day before the soup is wanted, that the grease may be cooled and removed easily. Grease may be easily removed from hot soup by adding a little cold water. ”

“ Take one-quarter pint of alcohol—the recipe can be doubled or tripled if desired—one ounce each of spirits of camphor and ammonia, two and a half ounces of sea salt and one pint of boiling water; mix thoroughly and always shake before using. If a woman comes in tired from a day’s shopping, a long walk, or any other wearying exertion, apply the tonic to the face and arms, and it will magically remove all of that “tired” feeling and put one in fine condition for the evening. ”

“ Make a sponge of two eggs, one-half cup of sugar, one-half cup of flour, one-half teaspoon baking powder, one of vanilla; bake in a spring form. Filling: the juice of three lemons, one cup sugar. Let boil to a syrup, separate eight eggs; mix yolks well with two tablespoonfuls of cold water. Beat whites stiff; now stir yolks into the [85] boiling syrup, stirring until it thickens. Remove from the fire and add the syrup to the beaten whites; pour over the cake and put in a hot oven until a light brown. ”

“ When a husband admires the stylish appearance of his bride’s traveling gown she is apt to be tempted by the irresponsible imp of mischief to answer, “It cost but a trifle.” In fact, she may burst out with the fiction that she “never spends money on gowns.” ”

“ RICE CREAM
Boil ten ounces of rice for ten minutes, pour off the water, add one quart and a half of fresh milk; cook slowly until rice is tender. Reduce the rice to a pulp by beating or pass through a press. Dissolve an ounce of gelatine in a little water, add to the rice; stir all together. Place on fire, sweeten carefully. When mixed set to cool. Then stir the beaten whites of two eggs, flavor with vanilla, sherry or brandy; pour in a mould and chill for eating. ”

“ A beautiful woman, who combines in her person a greater number of charms than do most fascinating women, gives her formula for keeping young and handsome in spite of a life of constant study, hard work, and comparatively no play: “Vigilance and determination and perhaps a little self-sacrifice are the price I pay for being considered a good-looking woman,” she says. ”

“ The influence of dress is greater than we will acknowledge. We feel better, act better and bring more honor to those who love us when we are properly gowned. An ill-dressed woman may possess the wisdom of a sage, or the beauty of a goddess ”

“ In an earthen dish put four tablespoons of fresh grated horseradish, four tablespoons of finely powdered cracker crumbs, add half a cup of cream, a teaspoon each of sugar and salt, two dashes of pepper, two teaspoons of vinegar, and one teaspoon of made mustard. Set over a kettle of boiling water when you have stirred all together. Heat and serve hot with plain boiled beef. ”

“ Among those frequently noticed and used are cream cheese and crisp lettuce leaves, cream cheese and sliced tomatoes, cheese and chopped dates or figs, cheese and chopped spinach, seasoned with lemon juice and mayonnaise, cheese and the yolks of hard-boiled eggs rubbed through a sieve, cheese and sliced cucumber, cheese and minced preserved pineapple, cheese and preserved ginger. ”