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Peaches and Cream (Harder kinds of peaches should)

The harder kinds of peaches should be chopped to the size of strawberries and mixed with sugar 2 or 3 hours before the meal. Allow about 4 ounces of sugar to a quart. Soft peaches, after peeling, are best only quartered or sliced. If admissible serve them in large glass bowls ornamented with quarters of red or yellow peaches placed in order and a pitcher of cream with each bowl separately. If served individually in saucers pour the cream over only as they are dished up.

Once we read in the Atlantic Monthly a series of articles in which all such questions as the preceding were asked with the intent of advising a system of cooperative housekeeping under which the fifteen household martyrs, one for each of the said fifteen families, instead of all suffering at once should take turn and turn about doing the work of each department for the entire co-operating community. It is a good many years ago, but we remember thinking then that the only practicable form of co-operative housekeeping is the American hotel system, modified perhaps in the matters of wider separation of rooms and of individual freedom.