TO-DAY'S DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 823, 23 May 1910, Page 3

TO-DAY'S DINNER.

(Specially written for The Dominion.) MONDAY. Brown- soup? Boiled corned silver rib of beef. Turnips- Carrots. Potatoes. Cupful pudding. Stewed fruit. CUPFUL PUDDING. Ona cup flour, i teaspoon salt, 1 cup Suet, I teaspoon baking powder, 1 cup breadcrumbs, gooseberry jam, milk to jnis. Butter and mould. Cover thickly with jam. Mix remaining ingredients into a stiff dough, place in; tie a cloth Over, and steam 2 hours. . FOE TO-HORROW. Oysters. Rabbit. Cauliflower. Potatoes; Peaches. Sago. GOOD BOOKS FOR QIRLS. Writing in the "Ladies' Home Journal," on. the subject of good and bad taste in. girls' books, the superintendent of a Boston children's library says tho ibabit of reading mediocre books is like associating with "commou" people. I .use that term not as the snob uses it. I believe in the aristocracy of acter. The empty-headed gossips described above are oommon in the grain, not common •' because of a lack of birth, or even of education. Close contact with such people in youth and association with common btwks will alike dull the finer perceptions ' and lower the character. Why should we behave as if we thought it enough for girls to be pretty and' sweet, while boys must have strength and breadth and mental power ? These girls aro going to be mothers of sons one day, and how can a liartow, uncultivated, weak mother influence • iher children to their best develop- " dent? Let a mother plan to read for the next few months every book that her daughter brings into the house. Suppose one asks: "How am I to. judgo whether-a story is worth while or noti"' I will name certain desirable and objectionable features for which to watch in a-story.

In the first place I should look for a presentation of a simple, happy home, with a father of whom any girl might be proud, a mother who' is a wise, • strong, loving companion to her boys and girls, and the centre around whom the home Tevolves, tho children not separated from their parents in daily life and interests. Avoid stories in which money figures prominently—the possession or the lack of it. In "Little Women" the heroines ore poor and Laurie is ; rich, but how unimportant these facts are as compared . with the main purpose of tho story. ; We see- work made dignified, poverty the incentive to clever resourcefulness, self-reliance, a cheerful making the best of things. ..We see the girls full, of fun, . very much alive, having plenty of human faults, yet growing up into - fine, strong, lovable womanhood. Character, not wealth, is the keynote ' of the story.

Look out for the book in which tho heroine is sorry for herself. Little girls love to sympathise. It is a natural tendency of girls in their teens

to grow introspective and they are > prone to think themselves misunder- . stood, unfeelingly ~ dealt, with by harsh adults. Teach girls to look out and not in) to set- about helping others to be happy, and to stop thinking.of themselves, whether they aro happy or miserable.

Of course a sensible mother will not tolerate stories of school boy and girl flirtations. Mind, lam not saying keep love stories away from girls. 1 should not seek to prevent.a little girl of ten or eleven from reading, if she cared to do so, a romance of truo love, high, pure, and ennobling. But that is quite another thing from. representing love affairs of school children in children's books.