| 1. | Name seven principal components of the human body. |
| 2. | Name some of the principal foods used to supply these elements. |
| 3. | At what time in the day is the most nutritious food required? |
| 4. | What is the object in cooking food? |
| 5. | Name three of the most healthful and economical modes of cooking meat. |
| 6. | Why are fried meats not healthful? |
| 7. | What should be remembered in boiling or roasting meat? |
| 8. | Give general principles for making soup. |
| 9. | What is essential in making good light bread? |
| 10. | How may bread be made “light” without the use of yeast or soda? |
| 11. | Give general principles for mixing cake. |
| 12. | Give receipt for making gruel. |
| 13. | How should potatoes be boiled? |
| 14. | Give rule for washing dishes and putting the kitchen in order. |
The work among the refugees in Kansas by the different agencies has been carried forward with energy and success. According to the best estimates there are upwards of 50,000 colored people in that State, and the number is steadily increasing. The reports from our missionaries are favorable, and indicate that much is to be done and that the refugees are eager for the needed assistance. The interest taken in behalf of the exodites by the English people is worthy of the imitation of American philanthropists. During the last few months, friends in Great Britain have sent to Mrs. Comstock for the Freedmen’s Relief Association, $25,000 worth of supplies, consisting of wearing apparel, household goods and kitchen utensils. There has also been received from England during the last fifteen months $13,000 in money, making a total amount of $80,000 for the treasury of the Relief Association; two-thirds of this is said to have been given by the English people. Our appeal, published some months since, for $2,500 to provide for the work we have recently inaugurated in Kansas, has not yet met with such response as we hoped to receive. When so much is being done by friends abroad for this needy class of colored people, we believe the patrons of the American Missionary Association would not have us do less for the Kansas field than we have already undertaken. Will they not contribute so liberally for this special object that we shall be able to do a great deal more?
We clip from the New York Tribune a paragraph relating to the work of the American Missionary Association in the South. It comes from the pen of a special correspondent, who, as the editorial in the Tribune says, “has already written with great intelligence and fairness of the South and the Southern people.”
SUCCESS OF COLORED TEACHERS.
“The educational work in the South of the American Missionary Association is of the highest character, and deserves all possible recognition and assistance. The leading Southern people everywhere speak of it gratefully and enthusiastically. At the Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va., at Talladega College, in Alabama, Tougaloo University, Mississippi, Tillotson Normal School, Austin, Texas, and in several other colleges and normal schools which I have visited, though the money endowment of the schools is scanty compared with the amounts which are needed, the endowments in personal qualities and character, as represented by the teachers, are of a remarkably high order. This is indispensable indeed, for the peculiar nature of the work of educating the colored people of the South requires the best teachers that can be obtained. In many of these institutions the boys learn something of various trades or mechanical occupations, and of farming; and the girls are taught sewing, cooking and the care of a house. I have visited a great number of the negro common and high schools, which are taught by graduates and students of the colleges and normal schools which I have named, and I think it very wonderful that so many of these negro teachers are successful. They generally have to struggle against many disadvantages, but nearly all whom I have seen have the confidence and respect of the leading white citizens where they are at work. I have found a few fools among them, of course, but a great majority appear to be sensible, earnest young men and women.”