The Swansea Gazette and Daily Shipping Register

To Mothers. —o— We are sore you would all like to have a nice hot dinner ready for the children when they come tome from school, instead of giving them so much Bread and Butter and Bread and Jam, and tea. You may have heard that children are not growing up as broad and strong as they used to do. borne people think that now they do so many lessons their brains take a great deal of the nourishment which used to go to their bcdies, and they axe wondering T«ry much how we can get the children better fed. We nil know you cannot alford to spend a single penny more ttban you do in providing for your little onea, and that you cannot get them Milk and Meat and Suet Puddingft, which we know grow- ing children ought to have. But if we till job of something which will make them a novriaih- ing and tasty dinner two or three time* a week, without costing you a penny more than it does for bread, and without taking any more fireing than itdoes to boil a kettle, will you try it? Take two loaves lew a week, and spend the money in buying aome lentils; they are l^d., per lb. A pound of lentils, cooked a* we will •how you, will make a good dinner for a family, and would cost lid, while a loaf of bread ooftt at least ajd. Soak the lentils for 20 unnutee, rinse them well, and put them in a saucepan with a little salt, and, if you can get it, some chopped onion. Boil these in just enough water to cover them, until they aire tender and are like minced meat, stir as they thicken. The children wirl enjoy this as it is, but it is nicer ttiil with potatoes, or a little boiled rice put round it sometimes would make a change. Another day try a lentil pudding. This is xike pease pudding, but it is more quickly cooked. Soak and rinse the lentils, tie them up in a cloth with a little salt, and boil well. Nothing makes nicer soup than Gentile. Haif- a-pound of lentils and a few vegetables will make soup for four or five children. Another time you might try a potato pie. Prepare the lentils according to the hrot recipe" cover them with some mashed potato, and make brown. This is especially nice with plenty of onion, and a few scrape of bacon or meat. For Sunday's dinner get a few pieces" from the butcher's, cook some lentils (first; recipe), add them to iÀ8 meat, and bake mtdwr a crust. If you coo manage it, get a pennyworth of curry-powder one day; it will keep a long time if it is well covered. By adding a teaspoonful to half a pound of cooked lentils, a little more onion than usual and a very little sugar, you will have a nice supper dish (with a little rice round it) for yourself and your husband. The children might like a little curry occasionally. Try haricot beans sometimes for a change. They are very cheap, but want more soaking and cooking than lentils; they make nico soup. Peas, ioo, are very nourishing. If you could give the children rolled oats everl day, or every other day, for breakfast instead of bread, it would be much better for them; they do not take so long to cook aa oat- meal does, and are very cheap. It was all this kind of food whieh made Daniel and his companions "fairer aad fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the ntion of the Sing's meat" (Dan. I. 13). In ia and other parts lentils are regarded as the best food on which to take a long journey, and they are much wsed abroad. They con- tain more flesh-forming and fat-form ina pee- perties than beef and mutton. Add to all this that there is no cheaper food to be obtained, and we think you will be glad to have had them brought to your notice, and will never be without some in the bouse. Tell your neigh- bours about them. A few more hints — Do not gave the children cheap jam and cheap piokles with their bread; good margarine and dripping (which you can boy at the butobees) are the right things to get if you cannot afford batter. Skim milk is much better than no milk at all, as even without the cream it has things is it which children require, but whatever milk you use don't forget to boil it. Consumption, scarlet lever and diphtheria are less likely to attack families where the milk is boiled. lb. member that boiled rice alone is not a su& ciently nourishing dinner for children in a cold climate, and that bread and butter and tea is no dinner at all for YOU. Do not take tea more than twice a day, and never alter it fees stood more than five minutes or JO. M.B.

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WHAT'a iN A ;A.\Œr "Friend, what's your name?" queried VA farmer's wife of the tramp who had asked for a meft- De name I wuz christened, lady, or do name I now have?" "Good lands! have you more than on.- name!" "I hev had so many, ;(iy, siri(,e me adven- turesome career began dat I can't remember dern all. Let's see, now. I wuz christened George Reddingham Smith, an' den dey called tne Georgie.' When I wux about ten I got de nickname uv 'Smithy.' Dm one day some guy got fresh an' called me Fatty,' an' it huijg ter me until I could fight a bit. At de are uv twenty-one I wuz addressed as 'Mr. Smith' by some, as 'George' by ethers, an' as 'Fathead by a few choice frien's dat wuz bigger'n me.' And what are you called now?" asked Mm snnous farmer's wife. "I'm jest comin' ter dat, lady. t»nen 1 reached de tender age uv thirty-one me erne' an' unnatural parents sent me out inter de cold world alone ter earn me own livin', aT" dat'* how I drifted inter di3 bizriess. I got so th;y\ a<- first workin' at me trade dat me name wur 'Skinney,' but after a few years f'at wuz changed ter Weary Willie.' Now de boys rail me Darnel.' "Camel? What do they call you that for?' "I guess, lady. dat it's because I kin go so long widout water." And then she whistled for the dog, and "Camel" had to get a hump on himself.

PRODIGALITY. Pa Smith threw down his newspaper m dio. just. It's sham-full" h., exclaimed. the Wit, these 'ere colleges waft- money on furniture i Here's an account of somebody giving Harvard I00,000dol. for a new chaii I"

ITEMS OF NEEDED LEGISLATION. There ought to be a law forbidding the use <51 the doggerel known as "baby" talk, or "goo- goo" talk, to infants, on the ground that it re- tards the progress of young Americans in the mastery of real English. .It ought to be declared a felony for anyone al the theatre to tell his companion "what's com. ing next." A lbow should declare it perfectly proper for clergyman to say something besides" Fudge" when he hits at a golf ball and ploughs up a top of earth. It should be illegal for a preacher to reiterate his text more than fifty times in the course of one sermon, or to go higher than the" thir, tiethly" in his enumeration of points to be made. It should be against the law for any group of women to discuss the servant problem more thatl one hour at a time without a change of subject, unless they first obtain a written permission of the President of the United States.—LavitnilU Caurier-J ournal.

A GENTLE HINT. "Yea," smiled the sweet young thing, whe« i marry I will lead my husband a dog's life." Whereupon she took her poodle in: her «rmi and squeezed him almost to death. How could the young man help taking the hint and proposing right on the spot?

A SQUELCHER. "I gave that odions Mrs. Dougltpurse some- thing to think of this afternoon, says Mrs Bankfull to her husband, who was amusing him self bv tossing 20doL gold pieces into the artr ficial lake in the drawing-room for the pleasure of hearing the gold pieces plunk as they sunk. Whajja say to her?" asked Mr. Bankfull, rolling himself a cigarette in a lOOdol. bill. "She was boasting about the solid-gold radi. ators they are having put into their new house, and I told her we thought steam heat was so old-fashioned that we were going to Vieat ain house with radium hereafter.

THE EVIDENCE WAS ALL ONE WAT. Gentlemen of the jury," began -the lawyer for the defence, go he arae to present his side in the assault-and battery case, it's not going to take me over thirty minutes to convince you that my client is as innocent of thie charge as I am. "First, gentlemen, I want him to £ stand up where you can get a good view ef him. Ther» ■now, size him up carefully, please, ae this very important tearing on the case. He doesn't look very much like a superin- tendent, does he, gentlemen? No; he's got 'sport' written all over him, and that's just what he is—a sporting man—a man about town, and as good a fellow as you would carevto meet. And now, gentlemen, to prove to you the innocence of my client. What is the date of this alleged assault? It is January 20th. Where is it alleged to have taken place? In BIankTtU*, New Jersey. What was going on in New York City on the night of January 20th? The'French ball was given. Gentlemen of the jury, think this over for a moment. Does my client look like a man who would be in Blankville, New Jersey, on the night the French ball is given in Now York City? Caet your eyes hia whence more* gentlemen, and ask yourself .U qussttoa That is all, your honour" Unanimous »er<f»t oi