TO-DAY'S DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 200, 18 May 1908, Page 5

TO-DAY'S DINNER.

(Specially Written for The Dominion.) PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS BY AN " .. EXPERT. , MONDAY. Vegetable Soup. Curry and Rico. Treacle Tart. . >' , . '.TREACLE TART. Method.—Mako some v.ery good short pastry, and lino a shallow baking tin or a plate (preferably a tin one) with it, seeing that tho crust is thinner over-the centre of the plato than it is roiind the edgos.' This is important,' as over the contro tho treacle, mixture/is to bo spread, and it will therefore have a greaterthickness for the heat to penetrate than the plain crust rbund tho edge. If this is not done', tho edge crust will be cooked too much or thero will be a layer qf underdone dough under the treacle, a common occurence with ■ thoughtless cooks! With the golden. syrup of treacle mix tho grated rind and the juice of a lemon 'and some breadcrumbs, and thon ; spread it on l the', tart'. Strips of" pastry may \bo then placed- across it'. Vinegar' and lemon essence may -be, substituted ■ for the- lemon. Bake * the tart' until.it is brown underneath, then cut lit ' into and Eerve it either ' hot' or cold. . FOR TO-MORROW. ■ Make some- stock, and put some lentils to soak, loin of: mutton,'thyme and parsley,„ parsnips, potatoes, jam,. 1 pint of milk, vanilla essence, one or two eggs. , .- : ,\ THE WOMAN AND THE SECRET. , Can women-,keep, a secret? asks tho New York. " Evening; Po'St," apropos of the argument used in England that' woman's loquaciousness.; would ' imperil the secrecy of tho, ballot'.were .slip allowed a vote. Lady Groyo, 1 ono of tho feminist leaders, has countered with an argument which bangs on secretkeeping as characteristic of her sex! Tho Post " goes, ono better than this, i and shows that it. is ( npt a characteristio-'of the opposite ■ ' :■ - ■ 1 - Not.'oven- the most \zealous of, anti-suffra-' gists,;it says,'.will maintain that .'men-never gossip and/rulers of men never blab. Is the ballot nowadays 'as secret as in theory it ought, to be? ! Tho question need only be asked. Men will. enrol j& maries, ittend. Republican rallies, contribute t<j' Republican, campaign funds, :arguo- for Protection-with penetrating voice on subway and 'elovated, . enter, .'a-' voting booth • after, shaking' hands ; wi|]i the Republican district captain and wearing a Iloosevolt button, ,aiid tfcen comer out again with-a mysterious smilevindiiced by. tho solemn consciousricss ; that Ihe ballot is-secret.- Yet, iin spite of-: all his .precautions,, most people seem to know whim way ho has.voted. His: leader knows: thojloador, on '-the other'- side- knows,, and various -member's'of his cdllege- fraternity,; his ooiin.try club, his bowling-club, together with his, lawyer, : his physician,'' his next-door-Beighl>ourj?:kriow.; Sometimes .even his wife knows 1 ; /though most.-often it-..is .against hei' tVat : -a.v.man •..'yi'ndicates--tho . scorecy of tho billot..'- •' ' '

.'Woman alone fails to kiep. a' secret ; hence the futuYe historian- of '-.the; politics v of our 'simes.-.will be forced to concludp, 'from .the ■record of oonstant indiscretion, . and; exposes which he encounters, that women ,-dominated political life ! in.-, tho first decade ? of,:tho'-twentieth,- century;; it was not' 'a'" naval 1 officer in petticoats who: told : a magazine, writer in petticoats about the'low - armour-belt on our battleships.. : .T\Vho sup-! ~j)lied;iWall' Street, v/ith advanco figures from the' crop - reports? Who; tells '.Wall Street about; tho..coiitent-s of Presidential messages- .. bpfor'p/.tKeyJ aro,.sent., to .-Congress.?.... It;.-was' not 1 the German Empress who ■nToto: a "somewhat indiscreet letter to. Lady .Tweedmouth; and the ; letter was - riot published by tho editress-of the " Woman's Sphere.'' So" the indictment -might be indefinitely continued.... Male. author^; are notoriously more garrulous about themselves than .women authors. ' A woman writer Vill, publish her picture with' .an account'' of how her -book came to be done, what sho meant to put into it,- ■ and, now and then, a littlo about her fondness for flowers or old china. vYonr sue--'cessful, man novelist tells r everything • with, him; nothing is!ton unimportant' for pictorial . illustration—rhimself .in/evening dress, him- , self- in street clothes; himself in shift sleeves, . hii house, his ? firoplac?, his :bicycle, his canoe; down -to tho" t>en' with' which .he wrote the book-that sold a hundred thousand copies; .'He;is far more ruthless!.than woman.in ing his own , secrets and othors'. into cony. Nearly all :the '~ great. - Confessions' of history; from St.-Augustine through Rousseau, have-been .written .by men. Most of our latter-day confessions of. wives, mothers, and old maids, have b'ecn written by men. ■ ■ ' < ; .-Against 'this record' wo can .oppose, the world's; established belief that there is no knowing the mind' of a woman;' and if wo don't; know her/mind, how, can we possibly . know her /--secrets? Secret thou, art—but 'yet a .woman!" Take other accepted truth's concerning. .tho reticence of woman—her disinclination/for precise', statement .in the m.itter of age, her reluctance to impart.tho address of. a clever and "remarkably reasonable dressmaker,; her; persistence in ..denying fatigue, boredom, and •pain-;', and tho' wonder ris<«-why the 'wci-M should seem.bent on forgetting that the Sphiiix was, as the small . boy said, a lady. •

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S HOME. " Having-occasion to spend a few days in the Peak of Derbyshire,'..where I.had been directed by'medical 'advice to obtain .fresli air. and a ;qniet rest','l; came across an old gabled country mansion; , situated .on the summit of a well-wooded hill; overlooking one' 'of- the. most charming valleys to be' found perhaps- apjwljerc/in England. On making inquiries :as to theowner and occupier of: the mansion, ' I was - informed that the occupant ■ was Lea Hurst, and was owned by '.Miss Florence ' Nightingale. Tho charm ' of the situation it would ho impossible ■to describo, but as theillustrious lady has figured so prominently in the public -noticd during tho last few months, I folt sure your readers would be interested.,to know that tho early, homo of ' The Lady of-the) Lamp', was .placed amid such \ unique, picturesque surroundings."— Correspondent, of. the London ." Sportsman." PREPARING FOOD IN ANNAM. ... The -" V/ide' World Magazino " publishes a. -narrativo of " Housekeeping Troubles in Annam," which should:' certainly make -any woman living quietly in" this country with white' servants feel that' she ■is ' indeed' fortunate. ' The ''author of this articlo, • MrsiVassal, makes it clear that one of -tho, worst

drawbacks is ignorance of / the Annamose tongue, for it is impossible for an English- / woman, in consequence to make her ideas clear. In their habits the natives of Annam, like many Orientals, are far from clean, and Mrs. Vassal'gives some gruesome-'instancos of the way in which various dishes wero preEared. Ono of tho mildest 'of those describes ow an . Annamose cook -made his rissoles /round 'by'" rolling , them against his body: Apart from those ways of producing culinary ; effects, they/are clevor and gifted cooks, and provisions are delightfully cheap. This lady paid her cook Ss. a week, and domande'd in return. " at least four courses for lunch and tho same for dinnor." She obtained this elaborate " diet, and believes that • the Annamese cook made a nice profit on tho transaction.