Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-02-29
From the Berkshire Star.
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So much having been said on the MINI
t5G OF iiisbaDdry, winch abstraclediy con
sidcred would seem beneath notice. but
which are in truth III the utmost inpor-
tance, that ought perhaps to be SILENT
But the notorious inatIenlion Of some OF
our farmers TO these srlfles is sufficient
excuse for the NEEDING OF any one. 10
10 manner have toond so much real "a.
tistaction as 10 ranging the fields of agri-
culture, where the Cocks and herds and
Iripening corn, promised the Industrious
husbsndman rich reward for all his toll.
And nothing can be more pleasant than 10
/ visit the house OF the neal, careful farmer.
where health aud plenty are the reward OF
indusiry-Bhere neatuess aud regularity
attest the character Of the iababilants.
Being frequent visitor al uncle Zacba-
riah's, where every Thing is kept in the
INCEST order-the febces substantial; The
barn in good repair III nh COW houses, hog
styes, and wood houses with not single
or nail gone; a cheese house. neat as the
temple Of Diana; in aword, where nothing
is found to stamp my uncle with he name
oil sloven, or his wife with as dishonorahIe
a pame--then TO visitsome few of cur far
mers is altogether disgusting. When |
| pass {, farm aud SEE pieces of boards, bro.
ken rails, streNed abou, the yard; dislo.
Gated gates a leaning bar.post, a screak
ling cart, fences poor, And hogs and cows in
he corn or meadow, 1 generally ncte thai
man as poor farmer. Aud when enter
a house with rags inthe window, and iind
the floor strewed with chips, old brooms
uo-bottomed chairs, dirty faced, ragged
iohiidreu-aud see the cider girls iieetins
INTO another room TO avoid exposing tat
tered apron, or greasy gown, I imagin,
this house belongs to flat farm
s A penny saved IS penny earned. =
Then how much is wantonIy thrown ava,
lby inattentioH TO things mere trifIes il
themselves, and the attention to which
could claim bat moments time. wa
the other day passing house, and hearing
a crashiog, looked round and saw a FIJI,
OK entering the corn crib, by enlarging al
lopening which had been there, probably
time out Of mind. called to the window
and directly out came a woman with on
hand covered with dough and in the othe
snuff box, followed by strapping cir
whose elbows and heels we're fully appa
trent, and whose hair stood 10 every posi-
bile direction; while some half dozel
heads OF the same stamp were popped on
the windows. | told the good woman III,
reason of my calling who was very mucl
Obliged TO me, that her husband had gon,
TO attend an auction, and Sam had gone
fishing; she went TO drive the beast from
the corn. and rode OH.
This having taken place in one of thos,
full and bright days OF May, which ar,
the delight of ruddy faced labor, | wa
shocked that any Of that happy class IL
society, who live on the bounlies of nature
should thus wantonly spurn at her bles
sings, and devote the SGfsnnaEa OF tn,
year to Incidence and trifling. Such per
sons not only waste their tinle, but by neg
lecting to improve the season, they pre-
pare for barren harvest; and by theil
i0atteution to their fences and buildings
suffer less upon loss till at length nothins
bu mesgre poverty will be theirs.
1t lis singular that after so many losse:
they do not become sensible that they are
far more easily avoided than remedied.-
The setting of one post--the replacing Of
board or shingIe-the driving Of sin
gle nail, may, on many occasions, be the
means OF saving ten times the labor of doing
either. And an inattention TO sowing,
planting or reaping when the ground or
the grain is duly prepared, may give the
hands of industry double the reward Of
slolh and iudolence.
And were | to think of entering into the
unknown mysteries of wedIock, and bid a
long and last adieu TO my dearly cherished
old bachelorism, would prefer greater
scold than the wife of Socrates or Petru-
chic, to one of those easy, lazy. good ma
tured danes, whose ambition is a pinch Of
snuff, or, mayhap. secret cordial A lew
OF this description Of wives are found, aud
as nv stomach is something delicate, |
shall be cautious from whose dairy my
table is supplied; and when marry soon
er than we'd the daughter of a sIattern, |
will seek rib among the Antipodes---a-
mong the squalid bellies Of the Arctic re-
gion, or, 10 word, any where, if she be a
stranger TO the falling / nov deprecate.