My Lady's Satchel.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 5423, 19 July 1901, Page 3

My Lady's Satchel.

By T*K.

«I cannot say when I shall got back, not for a long tlma I think. Aunb is not well, we are all depressed suffering a recovery from our iate festivities. Ibe usual reaction . has set in, or perhaps the frost has get into } our thoughts. Things do not look so bright j •a they did a few months ago, besides X | daresay, I may as well acknowledge it 11 was a Uttle extravagant at the time of the Ducal visit—used up savings and that kind of folly—but my dear boy, I did not Oorrow. Some siliy folks are feeling very sulky at the prospect of pay day. Of course if you will spend all you have you must * clem ' as Xorkabtre people say. That is it, we are «clemming, now, and we don't like it much. * The worhi has been too much with us early 1 and soon, getting and spending, we've laid waete'our powers 5' Doea'nt your favourite poet warn us of the penally we must pay if we will seek pleasure in the madding crowd? Then 1 think our Troopers home coming has not been so cheerful as we •xpeoted. If you had kaowa the poor fellow, who breathed his last just as he came to his native land, you would feel saddened as we are doing, A large proportion ol shem are very ill, another proportion will neveriottle again to thete old occupations, some will never have the same strength. They have served their country to the best of their ability, and their country is proud ©f than, will pat them on the back, and give them drinks, and cheer ihem languidly, butt will they ever bo Again m serviceable as before they went to South Af nea ? By the way how it it that the * Colonial' cannot cheer* I aever noticed It before, but wherever we went during the late celebrations in Ohristoburoh, whioh used to be full of, Englishmen, we remarked the feebleness of the cheering. Are Englishmen getting out of the habit of giving «three hearty British cheers' on suitable occasions! Wo noticed numbs?" of men with their hats on, pipes in j their months, and hands in their pockets, if not, exactly in the august presence of Royalty, in very close vioinity, under its very nose, so oo apeak. It has been truly i_id that no one knows the value of a smile, and I am sure no one can estimate the value of thab shout that we call a uheer» What an impetus it has given, wnen valour and endurance flagged, or nerve flinched I ahould begin to believe all the gloomy fore outings, that talkative folks are giving us, if I thought there were half a dozen true born haglishmen, who did nst ktmv how te You has/c a great many schoolmasters, among your friends Couldn't yon persuade fcbem to teach their scholars to oheef. Once a week say, upon saluting fche flag. Would not that help to bring back this fine old English custom 1 Apropos of having to economise* Her© Is an inexpensive breakfast or supper dish. Take neat slices from a small ronnd loaf (remove the crust,) fry these a delicate brown, in nicely clarified dripping. Spread with salted herrings or anchovy paste or any fragment of fish, lefb from proceeding day, nicely pounded together and well heated before spreading ©n tha hot toast This Is another, for those who relish the vulgar bnb extremely wholesome Have ready some nicely boiled onions (onions should be boiled for half an hour In water with a little salt, this water strained of, and more added to finish the cooking properly) butter a pie dish, line with bread-crumbs, lay in onions pepper and salt, to taste, cover with bread crumbs and little pellats of butter moisten -with good gravy, bake in a hot oven Serve hot