TO-DAY'S DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 325, 12 October 1908, Page 3

TO-DAY'S DINNER.

PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS BY AN : EXPERT. . [Specially written for The Dominion.] . MONDAY. Kidney , Soup, Cold :Beef, .Spinach, Beetroot. Boiled Apple P.uuding -BOILED, APPLE PUDDING. Half pound flour,-Jib.;suet, 1 teaspoon baking powder, a-pinch of salt, cold water, 21b. apples, cloves;': sugar to taste. Shred and chop the suet. Mix the flour, baking. powder, suet, and salt together, and mix to a stiff paste With cold'water.. Roll it out about a quarter of an inch "thick!" Line "a buttered pudding basin, arid fill with the apples peeled and sliced, the cloves; sugar, 'and'a' little -cold , water. Cover with- the rest of .the crust rolled out thinly. Tie down tightly with a damp pudding cloth, arid boil for two hours. i ' • " FOR TO-MORROW.' Ingredients.—2lb. best end of neck of mutton, 1 apple, .1 onion, chutney,- lemon, } pint stock,' 2 heads of celery, 2 eggs, raspberry jam. WOMEN'S LIFE IN URUGUAY. •Writing- in the "Boston Women's Journal" on. her impressions of women's life in .Uruguay, Miss Jessie Ackerman, who visited that country-'on ' her way homo from New Zealand some months ago, says:—Uruguaywomen: take; no part. in public affairs, and in-no way-interested iri politics. Perhaps it i - because politics are so unsafe. Most' of tho revolutions find their source in personal differences, .and until women arf» ready to cope with pistols at the ballot-box an.d duels, on election days, they must be considered disqualified for full franchise. • As there are few interests for women aside from. home and social life, they naturally find.- theiriselyes ; with considerable time ou their'hands. Much of. this is spent in profound 'meditationupon- personal..adornment, which,becomes tho great problem of human existence to them, ..and; takes; from life.' a large measure! of usefulness and earnestness of; purpose. They a re very • beautiful, .possessing ai). oriental type of chirms. It is a great-pity they are not satisfied .with their style, but that, ■ of course, -is. womanlike. Their idea of beauty is the blonde type, and in. order to effect it they are given to the excessive use of powder, bo evident that it may. be detected py the merest-glance. Their original 'beauty- -is often "spoiled .-by colouring .the. hair. the tints which belong to fair women. There are, of course, many exceptions.where cultured' women of good families would never attempt to -.improve' on nature in that particular; way. But. with. all. theso little weaknesses , the , women are charming, lovable, and -tho very best of mothers and wives..

I was so fortunate as to be a guest for a few days in. a home of real natives of Uruguay, coining on both sides from very old families., They had .tho ' advantage <of large means.; Tho. home life was simply ideal. The family consisted "of a father, mother, two-.girls,-'and! three, boys. I have never known in all my travels (and I' have been a, guest in thousands of homes) more charming , between the members-., of. a family.,-. . -.Their - interests were common, the matter of one of:the boys passing an examination in. school was the concern of all during the trying days, and the delight of each- when it was over. Nothing could better express the ideal state of tins homo .than to say that' for the first time in lhy life I- was miserably .conscious, of'.'what I had missed in this world. Usually T draw a long breath of cpjjgrj.tulation as I- meditate upon all 'I have escapetf; * They , read, I 'studied, and played together;' where one member went, usually the'entire family would'be found. My- ; good host'was; one-of the .leading business men of the Republic, and his clever, gifted wife ; is easily the leading spirit in progress for women. Mrs'. Arteaga has long-been interested in the poaco movement of the world. Her busy pen and-brain' have contributed, much to the cause in the Republic. No wonder in a country where men ar.d boys seem to be regarded as proper prey for guns and bayonets, and where the flower of the youth of. tho land are in' constant danger of being called to'arms at. a moment's notice, and where any mala member of the family may walk away never to return. Every_ motherly and womanly instinct cries out against this. During the last revolution in' her-country this lady "translated into Spanish that modern Uncle Tom's Cabin, "Lay Down Your Arms." Hundreds,of copies .were printed and circulated through the higher-grade schools and, at .the same time, sections of it appeared daily in the local papers.. Hundreds of let: ters.came to Mrs. Arteaga from leading citizens, expressing thanks and appreciation for the ; services sho had thus rendered the country. No doubt this did much to help bring about a general peace sentiment which seems ■ to be growing in the public mind. Things are moving down this-way, it is true. But, in time, woman Will como into her own.. A certain 'heritage will be entered into bj the. oncoming generation.