Litchfield enquirer., 1840-11-05

l should there not be? A young lady brought up in the lap of luxury may marry a bad husband or she may marry very good husband, and yet he may be unfortunate, 1 and he, together with his family, may Be, obliged, like St Paul, to 'labor with his own hands,
 What a situation then is wife in, who knows nothing of domestic affairs. Pro-. vide for contingencies. It won't hurt the hands nor the health of the richest of the people, to take peep into the kitcken and learn something of the culinary department, (no allusion to the kitchen cabinet.) It is no disgrace to know how to make a pud- ding, or to roast joint of meat and that Knowledge once acquired aaay be of great use at some time or other. Exercise is. good for the health, and securing knife or washing dish never yet, as far as we know, injured the health of any one.-- are excellent exercise, much better than ali the Calesthenic schools that were ever got up; and the articles of food prepared by the hands of beautiful young ladies, have a much better relish than those got up by the domestics It gives vigor and activity to the system. It renders their joints supple Dr. Kitchener says truly, though rather coarsefy, that nothing improves pastry so much as plenty of 'elbow grease,' and a small quantity of that imparted to pie, or a loaf of bread will never injure the fairest lady.
 All these little items in the management of family. should be learned by the rich as well as the poor. The mother who brings up her daughters to lie in bed till nme or ten o'clock in the morning, and then when they do get up, to sit idly in the parlor, or perhaps to hammer a few tunes on the piano; without teaching them the art and trade of housekeeping, and of su- perintending every part of house, from the garret to the cellar, does not do her du- ty properly as parent.
 How painful it is to see daughters prom. enading the streets all the forenoon, spend- ing money at this place and that place, for ilnery and trumpery, and sweetmeats, and geWgaws which are of no manner of use at the same time escorted by a parcel of idle brainless fops, smiling and simpering, and whimpering, and turning their heads by soft language and flattering their vanity by fair words Poor Richard says 'faiY words butter no parsnips,' and many a young and beautiful damsel has found it out to her sorrow.
 This bringing up daughters to think of nothing but dress. and finery, and balls,. and parties, and beaux, is not discharging the duties of q mother who wishes the well fare of her children. Send them into the kitchen. Teach them to wash, and to cook, and to SCOUT. It won't hurt them; it will do them good both mentally and physically. Such duties need not interfere with their lessons in the polite accomplishments of fashionable life, but will make them more, active, more healthy, more blooming, more beautiful than ever, apart from the intrin- sic value of the qualifications as head of a family in after life. Playing upon piano. dancing, painting, and all the fine arts and accomplishments are very we'll in their. | place and at a proper time; but there are, higher and more important concerns which, every mother should inculcate in the minds of hsr daughters. She should teach thenp to work, to superintend household affairs. whether their station in life requires it or not. The mother who neglects this, is cuI- pablo in 0 moral point of view She has, duties to discharge towards her children, and one, and by no means an unimportant one, is to teach her children to be industri- Ous, and to know how to work. She should not deprive them of the enjoyments of life /; let them have such at the proper times, but : to every thing there is season. saith the preacher. Life is not given us to idle away in vain frivolities. There are duties for all to perform, and not the least important for a mother of family is, to teach her daugh- terS to understand and know how to do eve- y mestic life, and not suffer them to be con- stantly spinning street yarn surrounded by tellO0s. .-BOstOn TrGnscript.
 Norel Rat Trap.-A correspondent has sent us the following account of newly in. vented Rat Trap, which has already been used with success. Take a barrel and stretch a skin of parchment over it with a string; cut it ncross and athwart, nearly to the outside. Take some dripping, mix it with meal, and smear it on the middle ofthe parchment. The rats will smell it, and treading on the parchment it will give way, and they will fall into the water in the bar- rel. Put plank for them to creep up to the barrel's brink, outside, and strew some oat meal on it. You must not let the water be too deep, but set a brick end ways in it, and the first rat that is caught will make noise which will cntice more, so that they will fight for possession of the brick, and the noise will draw others. Thus in one night the house may be cleared of rats, be there ever 70 many. Mice and other yermin may be caught in similar manner.-Rev.
 HINTS TO YOUNG LADIES.
 fyoung women waste their time in trivial amusement. the prime season for improve mcnt, which is between the ages of sixteen and twenty, they will thereafter regret bitter ly the loss, when they come to feel them. selves inferior in knowledge to almost every one they converse with and, above all, if they should be mothers, when they feel their inability to direct and assist the pursuits of their children, they will then find ignorance a severe modification and real evil Let .l.: sk.,sm A.