Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-06-27

nY WORCESTERSHIRE.
PUBLIUS.

IasrRuCrION BY HoUSEKEEPERS.
The following is extracted from a VOL
ume Of 424 pages, written by The editor Of
this journll, an just published by George
w. Light ofthis city, entitled The Young
II iusekpeper, or Thoughts on Fool aud
Cookery" Though intended principally
for housekeepers, it is, after all, in It's bear
ing and tend incy, little else than a work
on physical observation-disclosures An
nails Of e location.
We boast of our literary Institutions
or iniInt schools, our common schools,
oar higl schools, our institutes, our COL
leges. our UNIVERSITIES. But what is the
inhasnce oflhess, excellent as Il may be,
compared with that Of the kitchen and par
lora Say what We will, !: Is here--exact-
lyhers-that our characters, even IN a lit
crary point of view, are determined. l
would not say formed; for Of this, | am
not so sure. But have never yet known,
personally-others may have known such
instances-of lover of knowledge or
moral progress, who was not initiated IN,
10 this lore by those who had the control
of his early infancy and his Childhood
On the contrary, / could fiji half this vol
uine with anecdotes Of those IN whom the
seeds of that love Of literatnre and science
which they subsequently, manifested, was
sown in eahy inlan-y by that maternal
teacher whose influence is, after oil, most
awakening, most Impressive, and mos
permanent. E
Were it lefi 10 nv choice to shy which
Of two thipys the world should have-tht
right sort Of household management an
edu,ation, with no school instruction
whatever, or the besl sort of school educa
ton ofevery grade, bur without nythinf
done in the household beyond what is nov
done by nine-tenths if not ninetcen-twen
leths Of mankind-I would not hesitate
moment TO decide on the former Such
the value attach to the domestic insIitu
ton and the family school; and such ar
NV conceptions of the native dignity
housekeeping. :.
lido not mean by all this. that the hous
keeper is 10 have, necessarily, her set hou
and set lessons Of instruction, though
wish her to have time for even these. b
I mean that she should so manage in a
concerns of the household-and these 1t
which, as shall never cease 10 repeat, Z
far to form character. the great object ar
end of education--that the results, aIOn
with the aid Of those who Cooperate vii
her. shall do more forthe children whiC
form part OF. IL. than all else which
done for them, directly or indirectly.
the whole process Of their forming stat
Of prorress. But is not that the true
nobIest literary institution in the world
nav. is il not more than all others-whit
secures all this as It's inevitable results !
Let me not be understood as saying, II
in the present state Of things, every bous
wife who had leisure to do things as s
ought, md to control things as she Dug
would do them Tigh There would
still, as there now is, both good and }
education. But even as the gene
knowledge Of housewives now is, the co
mon belief that the family is more imp
tant, because more influential on char
ter than oil other schools, would be in
vor Of human happiness, provided Il
would adopt, a. speedily as may be, tn
principles, and that rational system
housekeeping. which it is the object Of
work to recommend and inculcate.
would have the young housekee
form and pursue a meditated plan or s
TEN for her own comfort and health,
much more for the sake Of her own pei