Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-05-11

pounds will take care OF themselves
Is either not remembered at all, or, il
it does occur TO the mud, it is allowed
to have but little influence.
BE extremely regularas 10 bills, pay
mants, Sc. You Cannot think how
much trouble may be avoided by regu !
lac weekly pay merits Ii is sometimes
very difficult to ascertain the correct
ness OF a bill when allowed TO lie
over even for month, and the delay
constantly subjects you to imposition
Much, indeed, will attention TO or
der and regularity contribute to the
comfort Of your husband. Men par
ticuIarly love neaiuess, tidincss, and
method: any thing solled or out of
place dlscOmposes them; aud a Uttered
room will often make them peeylsh. -
Meals should always be ready at
stated hour: little decision and firm
ness will soon make your servants
punctual RISE early; give your or
defs carly; breakfast curly; be ready
10 SIT down 10 your work table early
Dong much before twelve O'Clock
gives on u command of the day, anu
gets you through with ease But, adien
10 all this order aud regularity, II you
are lohd OF lying i'll bead Elghi
houI sleep, says our physicians, "are
quite enough" and the woman that
prefers Der pillow to the numerous ad
vaD,ages which early rising produces,
would NOT, | fear, have strength oil
mind TO perform more important du
lies An hour rescued from sleep does
wonders, and your health is much be
neiiited by it. How long wilt thou
sleep, o Siuggard! When wit thou
rise OIL OF my sleep? We, little more
sleep, ltl!e siumber, little folding
oil the hands TO sleep: so shall thy pow
erty come as one that tIavelleth, and
F., thy wants DIS an armed man proc
W Gid
Do not defer till to morrow what
may as well be done to day" says the
old proverb. II you nave a letter TO
write, why not do 1t TO day as we'll as
TO morrom? II you have visit TO pay
why moi do 1t to day as well as TO NOR
row. &c &c "To morrow, believe
me" Say a most useful writer of the
present day, comes loaded with Gu
ties OF its own. And when it does ar
rive, we always feel pleased al not hav
ing It encumoered with the business of
yesterday"
Few things please man more than
seeing his wife notable and clever in
the management OF her household. A
knowledge OF cookery aswell as every
other branch III house keeping, is in
dispensable in a female, and wife
should always endeavour TO support
with equal applause the character OF the
lady aud The housewife Il tell YOU,
my good madam" says humorous
character, when your husband comes
home hungry at five O'Clock, he won't
look very pleasant at being put off
with music, sentiment, and poetry. in
stead oil a comfortable dinner Bless
my stars! L have known some ladies'.
who could play. fine tol lol on the
plana, talk with you all day long about
poetry aud history, and gabble Italian
AMI French like monkey; and vet if
the husband OF one of them ask for
beeislcak for dinner, mercy me! she
doesn't know where it should be roast.
ed or fried, or ii he wished for a yeni
son pastry, the accomplished lady is
equity lgner"nt whether paste be
made with butter or mutton suell I
can't abide such bdlderdast!s
a woman should cndeavor to WELD
her needle, and to manage her scissors
with dexterity and cleverness This
is the peculiar province of female;
great comfort and economy are dcrly
ed from 1t; and a man is always pleas
ed at seeing his wife thus employed.
Solomon IN describing an excellent
woman, makes her particularly expert
al her 6lstaff and spindle. And all
Homer's lovely matrons-
"Deckd with the freshest TINS of 5eauty's
bloom,
Bend o er the distaif, or direct the loom"
"A woman's greatest praise does
certainly consist in the order and
management oil her family and when
much OF her time is spent in visiting
and company, what but anarchy and
CONFUSION at home must be the conse
qucnce' Ii we could hut see the INSIDE
OF some fashionable houses, how much
WOuli sutnrlSa and rau ,ctto, -