TO-DAY'S DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 100, 21 January 1908, Page 3

TO-DAY'S DINNER.

PRACTICAL suggestions-bt an- ,. EXPERT. ' : (Specially Written for The ; Dominion.) ~.' . . TUESDAY. ; . '■ , Pea-Soup.- ■ ''.i Eohst Beef, Horse Koidiah, Vegetable . ' , Marrou-, Potatoes. ; French Jtico Pudding. .'French llioo Pudding. > , Method.—Cook-3oz.'of . rice'in a'pint,of milk until the milk is absorbed; chop Jib. raisins, Joz. suet, and slice.;3oz." of peel; mix-all these ingredients and 3oz.' of sugar into' tho 'rice. Beat -tyro eggs and add them. Steam this mixtare for about 1} hours. ■ ■ -For ..To-morrow. •" ' Ingredients—Salad: Tomatoes, Cucumbcr, onionß, turnips, apples, one lemon. A MOSS ROSE. . If the rose of all flowers be the rarest ■ That heaven may. adore from above, And the fervent moss-rose be the fairest That sweetens the summer with love. Can it be that a fairer than any Should blossom afar from the tree? : Yet one, and a symbol of many, Shone sudden for eyes that could see. In the grime and the gloom of November Tho bliss and the bloom of July Bade autumn reioico,and remember The balm of the blossoms gone by. Would you know what moss-rose/now it maybe • . .. That puts all the rest to the blush, , Tho flower was the face of a baby, The moss was a bonnet of plush. : —A. 6. SWINBURNE. .' "BLACK BEAUTY." ' "Black" Beauty," the famous story by the /ate Miss Scwell,;which has sold to the extent of '3,ooo,ooo''copies in book form, has been dramatised as the result of a'£2oo prize offered by tho Boston S.P.C.A., and tho play/ was produced recently for the first, timo in Salem, Mass. . As. in the book, the. horse is the.hero, and the management.found a horse that like the real Black Beauty, had one white' foot and ,a white star on'his'forehead. The play is a completo successs, and the Korse goes through'his part intelligently. The performance has been drawing packed houses, and the audiences arc said to be sympathetic to the verge of .tears. .It is to be/hoped that tho piece will.-jind its, way. to Wellington/ for, Black Beauty" lias his'friends'here. : » FOR WOMEN MUST, COOK." It has frcquotly .pointed out that .nuch of tho' misery''and discomfort which prevails in the HoAies of the poor is due to the deplorable.lack of any training of girls of the lower classes to fit them for tho position of mothers pf "families. Owing to this they are I'unablo. to make' the best of .the money' which 'their-husbands/give them for the.,management and. ca're of their, households! In this' respect -English jirls compare disadvaritageb'u'?ly withTtheir French sisters, who commonly aro taught how to cook and to be come, in other respects"careful housewives. The. result is; that there is. far rhbre comfort in the French .homes of the poor than in the oci responding class in England. This lias at length been recognised by the Legislature, and tho education law now makes provision for the compulsory attendance of children at housewifery courses at the various domestic economy centres.. What is said to be the first case of its kind in England ltase just bfeen decided / by tho Wimbledon magistrates. Two persons wero summoned for failing to send their daughters to the housewifery course at the Queen's .-Road School. In imposing a fine oil each of the defendants the chairman of, the bench said that the education authority liad acted-within their right, and were also carrying out their duty as laid down by Act of Parliament. Tho cbmmitteee> could compel the children to attend this centre as well as the eleroetary schools,, and the only alternative parents had was to ■ satisfy tho committee or the bench that there was some reasonable cause why the children should not attend. Although tho case had been adjourned for this they had. not offered to satisfy either party, and therefore each defendant would ho fined. It is to- be hoped that this decision will attract the publicity it deserves, »nd that it will prove a useful reminder to parents of their new obligations with" regard to the training of their children in other matters besides mere book learning.