The Swansea Gazette and Daily Shipping Register

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^To Mothers. —o— We are sure you would all like to have a nice hot dinner ready for the children when they come b'.)me from seiiool, 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. oome people think that now they do so many lessons their brains take a great deal of the nourishment which used to go to their bodies, and they are wondering very much how we can get the children better fed. We all know you cannot afford to spend a single penny more than you do in providing for your little ones, and that you cannot get them Milk and Meat and Suet Puddings, which we know grow- ing children ought to have. But if we tell you of something which will make them a nourish- ing and tasty dinner two or three times a week, without costing you a penny more than it does for bread, and without taking any more hreing than it does to boil a kettle, will you try it? Take two loaves less a week, and spend the money in buying some lentils; they are l^d. per lb. A pound at lentils, cooked as we will show you, will make a good dinner for a family, and would cost lid while a loaf of bread coato at least 2Jd. Soak the lentils for 20 minutes, rinse them well, and put them in a saucepan with a little aaJt, and, if you can get it, some chopped onion. Boil these in just enough water to cover them, until they are tender and are like minced meat, stir as they thicken. The children wirl enjoy this as it is, but it is nicer still with potatoes, or a little boiled rice put round it sometimes would make a change. Another day try a lentil pudding. This is like 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 lentils. 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 first recipe, cover them with some mashed potato, and make brown. This is especially nice with plenty of onion, and a few scraps of bacon or meat. For Sunday's dinner get a. few "pieces" from the butcher's, cook some lentils (first recipe), add them to the meat, and bake under a crust. If you can 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 nioo soup. Peas, too, are very nourishing. If you could give the children rolled oats every 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 as oat- meal does, and are very cheap. It was all this kind of food which made Daniel and his companions "fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the King's meat" (Dan. I. 15). in India and other parts lentils are regarded as the best food on which to take a long journey, and they are much used abroad. They con- tain more flesh-forming and fat-forming pro- 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 hinta — Do not give the children cheap jam and cheap pickles with their bread; good margarine and dripping (which you can buy at the butcher's) are the right things to get if you cannot afford butter. Skim milk is much better than no milk at ail, as even without the cream it has things io it which children require, but whatever milk you use don't forget to boil it. Consumption, scarlet fever and diphtheria are less likely to attack families where the milk is boiled. HP member that boiled rice alone is not a suflt 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 after it has stood more than five miniates or so. M.B

Wr-RDS OF WISDOM. Vorgrre thyself nothing, but otherø modi. As the touohstone tries gold. so goId trie* mea Be slow in undertaking, but resolute W teecuting. Time is precious, uuv. truth is more preeioul than time. No guilty man is ever acquitted, he lives sell ttWMtMnned. There is far more satisfaction in doing than is receiving good. We can always find some excase for delaying food resolutions. Sublimity of character must coine from sukli (tatty of motive. No man is a froo man who hf a vice for ha aMte. .SOCR, TES. In the family, as in ofie State, ilie best sourot St wealth is economy. One lie must be thatched with another, or ta Will soon run through. He surely is in 'lnt of another's patience wh* AM none of has own.—LAVATER Great thoughts. like diamonds, often co:t. low to find thar they do to polish. It is fiiore honourable to acknowledge out Vults than to boast of our merits. Every man is most tenacious of Hint to whiefc owes his distinction from Nobody wants ornaments in tliis world, bai #»erybr>dy wa-ts integrity. — -RTTSOV. Money is handmaiden iffon .iiiow how k Ise it-a mistress if you do not.—HORACE. Most men so employ their t-arly years n fee tfiake cheir later years miseruU!«>. —BRUYERX. The term of man's life is ha/ wasted befois L he has done with his mistake and begun tc profit by his lessons. Where the pursuit of troth has been the bate toal study of any man's life, the love of tru'< will be his ruling passion. To see the direction in which humanity travelling ought to be the purpose of evei., ttrong and healthy intellect. A man falls in love—why, he does not know He goes on lor because, having begun, )r has not the cour -Ie to leave off. History teems with instances o\ truth pus iown by persecution; if not suppressed for nOI IT may be thrown back for centuries.- -J 3 MILX, If one has a right to be proud of anything, a is of a good action, done as it ought to be without AI" base interest lurking at the fot torn of it. Love bC\S much the same <sffect on ',ns n" men IS strong drink has on others; warned that is time it will kill them, they prefer aeath W abstinence. The man who is determined to do aomethir,* for his fellows must make up his mind not to De discouraged by being called "selfish" M "eohemer." Opportunity knocks at every man's door, ha* a lot of men are so busy doing a little knoct fag" themselves that they fail to he* Opportunity. AN transitions are dangerous; and the nice dangerous is the transition from the restraint & the family circle to the non-restrai it of tll, World.—HMBtRT SPBNCER. To see olearly that the '<M -> of the good arwi the true is ultimately identical, is given only U those who 'ove both sincerely, and »s:-h\»'>t an' foreign e L :COLERIDGE. Some things, which we are V iook cpon as unaccountable misfortunes, »>-e sent ato our Eves simply to clear the wav for Vitt-v> things than we Itave ever known be'ore. Ours the shame to understand That the world prefers the lie'— That with medicine ir her hand, She will sink and choost to dif.: -LORD HOUOHTOM We need more of nature in the so 1, that 1 reverting to its first principles, a c^/slopmoiv of primitive instincts, and some increased con idenoe that there still lives a God to hear am teach us.—NEWMAN. Health depends upon harmony-nay, is har eony. Worry, anxiety, jealousy, malice, hatred, hot temper, selfishness, dishonesty, perversion of gooral integrity—in short, every discordant oj abnormal thought, emotion, or expression—tends lo destroy that perfect equilibrium of the facul llss and functions which we call health.

PKRSUASION. We Aaust persuade men that they are bettei fjhsn they are if we wish to draw from them all the good of which they are capable. In the Armv you must assure cowards that they are heroes if you wish to make them so. One must act at though men already possessed the virtuee with vUeub one -.rialwP to insp;~e th«m—NAPOUOV 8;

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