TO-DAY'S DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 253, 18 July 1908, Page 11

TO-DAY'S DINNER.

, (Specially Written, for Thx Dominion.) i PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS BY AN . EXPERT. •.v.' SATURDAY. ; Mutton Broth, Fricrfsseed Calf's' Head. Vegetable .-Marrow and Potatoes . Prunes'and . i..-. Rico. ... • ■ SUNDAY. '' ; Dinner.' ■ Roast Chicken and' Bread Sauce, Potatoes, Cauliflower, Plum,' Pudding, and Banana ' \ . ' Custard. : M' ' Supper. ' V ■ Scotch Eggs, and Salad, Cheese Tartlets, and . .. Pinoapple'Cake; .. FRICASSEED.CALF'S HEAD. V Ingredients.—Boiled calf's head, 2 or 3 cups of stock, 1 onion,, seasoning of. herbs, etc., small piece of butter,-yolks.of 1 or 2 eggs. Method;—Jtemove -the bones and cut "the meat small. Put the stock .or liquor in which it was boiled,'with the onion chopped, a' blade of mace; herbs,' pepper, salt, etc. Simmer threequarters of an hoar. Strain and'put back with , the l meat. Thicken with'a little'flour rolled in bitter.. Just before dishing add the 5 egg yolks beaten and the lemon juicC. Take care that it is-not boiling, 6r :the.eggs will ctrrdle. Garnish with.' forcemeat halls and . serve with broiled bacon.; A slice. or two of bacon added to the stock is an improvement.- , ...' ' y SCOTCH.EGGS. Ingredients;— Four or.- 5 eggs, } lb. pork sausago meat,. a grating of nutmeg, one teaspoon , grated lemon-rind,. Jib. breadcrumbs, i toa- . spoon salt, i teaspoon pepper. Method.—Boil 3 or 4 eggs for ten minutes till Jiard. Ccol in cold water. Hake a forcemeat of the breadcrumbs, sausage-meat, seasoning, and 'lemon rind, and bind with 1 beaten (raw) egg. ' Take the shells from the hard-boiled oggs, cover with the forcemeat, roll in flour or brush with egg and ! roll in breadcrumbs; Fry in'boiliug fat. Cut the eggs neatly, in 1 halves, and stand in a hot. dish. Serve with a good thickened brown' ; gravy poured round. CLEVER WOMEN AND CLEVER ...' . MEN. , . An American paper has beon inviting answers to the question whether clever men need clever wives, and tho question is answered by, such authorities as Katherino Thurston and Mary -Wilkins Freeman, who discuss it' seriously, while Gilbert Chesterton's; contribution-'is very characteristic.. It is> hd-say3; open to discussion whether every clever,man .needs a clsyer wife. ;• But it;/ is" quite . certain ' that he gets a clever there are no-,, wives who are not clever. : There are, perhaps, women who are not clever. You can find a dull woman; you can find. a dull married woman; but you' cannot find a dull, wife. ; Wives when acting as'wives ..are'all ; mentally 1 active, and hqrribly--.Clear-headed.- ; /Thpre 'is- no clever' man-who.does not find his wife! cleverer thali he. .. If the , question means j "Is. it a' good thing that a man should rely oil the'mental qualities of his wife?" the answer is "Yes; a.good.thing, and. an,inevitable thing, anyhow." ' .If it means, "Is it: a <good ;thing' that iher mental ,qualities - should 'be. of tie same, sort as "his?" the answer .is -"No; ; a very bad thing." If you : say that. Shakespeare -thought (and thought rightly) that Anno'Hathaway was cleverer than he was, then;l.agree.. If you_sUy -that Shakespeare would have been' happier if he' had married MaryjQueen of Scots,..becauso she was' cultured, and wrote sonnets, then r flatly contradict, you. Probably Anno Hathaway : was cleverer than Shakespeare: for in-the only ways !that sho cared to bo clever he was probably stupids The average of intelligence''among women is . much higher than among'men; ..'the'Shakespeares' are, I think, fewer." . But .. even ! the -stupidest ; woman is stronger , than'the . cleverest man in a, certain kind of argument—the kind of argument with which. Xahtippe overwhelmed Socrates. Peo- . pie - talk' of tyrannically oppressed ;'women; I but tho only old human tradition is that of women oppressing men. ••I think the real quarrel; if there is one, i -;yues ■ back to the meaning of the word ti. ! '-j|ovcr." It is a'modern word and' thererc !>e unintelh'gent. It ignores tho distincbeing accomplished in, some ,1 >'"<N'icular thing-and being sagacious and of vlii.'-,) pd judgment in general things;'. .If,you whether, a clever, .astronomer: needs .'er astronomical wife, or a clever liter/I'i j'-an needs a clever literary wife, or if a c.r rat-catcher, needs a clover rat-catching win, then the answer to all tho questions is, "No',',; emphatically, "No." Such sympathy, as that,is .more likely to lead to suicide thain,.to success!. jißut,if it means .that the ordinary author,' 'astronomer, .or rat-catcher' requires an eternal 1 torrent of, female'.'cleverness ,to 'keep him .in 'reasonable' health and' dccency, that is, quite true. ; . ' WOMEN AND WAR. Few women have seon so much of the horrors of war as Mrs. Ann Milne, of Nottingham, who. was .with' her soldier husband in the-Crimea, and who has. just- been, laid to rest jwith full military honours.' The same honour has been awarded to others of her sex who have.eamed it by their valour, as she did tby . her' devotion as wife and nurse'.' .. . . ■'/, , , Christian Caven'agh, who was buried with' full military honours as long.'ago- as 1739, fought as a private soldier, side by- side with her husband. She was twice severely wounded, at tho battles, of Landon and Ramillies, was taken prisoner by the French, and fought a duel'before she returned ; to England to enjoy her i pension and to turn pie-maker.' :' ... ' Anne' Ch'amberlayne, who lies buried in Chelsea Church, fought gallantly against the French; Phoebe Hessel,' as'her epitaph at Brighton records, : served for many years as a soldier, and was wounded at Fontenoy.. Mary Ann Taylor accompanied her lover, an infantry officer, to the wars;, and afterwards fought as a sailor—the famous "Billee."—"Westminster Gazette." PRAISE FROM NEW BRUNSWICK. \At-a deputation, which Waited upon tho Government of .New Brunswick, to ask that 'women might have a provincial vote/ Recorder -Skinner /said New Zealand was tho only country enjoying woman franchiso of which, he knew tho conditions. Thoro tho general improvement in all social affairs.was marked. Tho women were particularly interested in social conditions, and as the prevention of poverty was the greatest question for a,country, he felt that the influenco of women in politics would do much good. In .spite of this, it is reported, that the Premier of New Brunswick raised Itio old objections to women's suffrage, -v . THE 'FOURTH SHIP. A pretty little allegory is inscribed on the fly-leaf of a novel, "The Fourth Ship," by Miss Ethel Mayne:— ■ "Thore are three:ships that'wo all ,watch for —the golden-sailed' Love; the ship! witli white sails called Tho Littlo Child; tho Succcss, with' rosy sails. For some of us all come .home; for some, one or tho other; 1 for some again, none of theso three comes ' home. - But there is a fourth ship that comes j for all us, and it has black sails. . . The story is. pathetic, as may be surmised, but extremely well handled. Some disgust has been fired at the Boston man whose wife objected to being fed on, rats. - But the- county which provides'some' of tho best pork pies has been nurtured 011 rat pies. • In Nottinghamshire, : too, rat pies ; were .formerly very popular, and one inn near the country town made a speciality of rat suppers. The rat is—unlike tho, oyster ai}d tne pheasant—always in? season, -and apparently too plentiful, eating us. out'of house and home. It jequires only a iittle industry 1 , cooking, and' courago - t-o turn' the tables on him. '