Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1841-12-30

or commodity, called a hot roll, which,
il given to a beggar he might well com.
plain. 81 asked you for bread, and you
gave me a stone !" Has my husband a
relish for Q nice fresh egg or a fat broil-
ed chicken at breakfast, then he take
care to have a warm, tigh, poultry house,
with a good lock on it, and a woman to
attend to the fowls, with abundance of
food, ana water convenient ; and so with
every other comfort or luxury, the good
husband will see that all arrangements
are made which depend OF him-He must
see that an ample stock of good things is
laid in in good time /; for bacon he must
have his hogs of suitable age and size,
and we'll fattened on corn, and this re-
quires some forecast and good manage
ment and when killed, they should be
well cleaned and cut up, and salted a.
way" under his management.
You will see the good husband looking
after his meat tubs before hand, tina, they
may be thoroughly secured and tight to
hold the brine-the meat house will be ell
secure and of the proper construction,
and the hickory wood, if to be had, ready
for smoking it. Then his garden will be
to him an object Of particular attention,
without going, unless he can well afford
it, to an extraordinary expense for green
houses and hot beds, he will yet see that
1t is not unprovided with at least half q
dozen kinds of palatable. wholesome and
easily raised vegetables, as cabbages,
potatoes, bee,s, peas, beans and onions,
not forgetting tomatoes and ochra, the
most useful and convenient OF all the
vegetable family-besides berries
and rasp-berries, and he is not to be ac-
counted a good husband who lives in the
country and yet fails in enabling his wife
to place on his table a few choice fruits
such at least as apples and pears and
grapes, for the entertainment and grati6-
cation Of family and friends. And again,
what to my own knowledge is too often
overlooked, a good husband will be a.
shamed to leave his wife without a good,
respectable and safe conveyance for going
abroad, either for occasional interchange
of visits, with genteel, well-informed and
hospitabie (not envious, prying and
scandal bearing) neighbors-also FOR Wis.,
its of charity to the poor, and for going
to her own church.
In too many cases is the wife left, not
only without a plain decent carriage, but
even the necessary brides and saddles
are wanting, or never in repair, for inn
mediate use. Ten to one that the sad
die wants a girIh, a crupper or a %slirrup
leather while the bride, though it have
neither throat latch nor curb, would dc
well enough except that it Inns no reins-
and all because this sort Of late rising
husband, without system or forecast, has
appropriated no particular place or per.
son to keep or take care OF such things
Thus have | pointed out a few OF the
easy, obvious, every day signs and du-
ties of a good husband, such as I" he who
runs may read )" but let the gentleman
not suppose that have lone with him
yet. From this sketch OF his common
place obligations, let us turn to the moral
of the picture!
Let no man embark on the voyage OIL
matrinony under the idea that the sea is
to be forever calm-the sky always Sc
rene. Let poets write or lovers swear
what they may, We have not found wo.
men, more than men, in the shape Of an
gels TO rule over us, but if the husband be
not a man of overweening selfshness aud
logged ill-temper, he will look on the faults
and imperiections Of a good wife, as acci-
dental blemishes, that sometimes appear
on the surface of the most beauteous state.
ly tree, which time will obliterate or soft
appliances remove, without ecourse to
knife or cautery and, sir, to a man OF
generous heart and enlarged views OF hu-
manity, where, let me ask, can he find a
field for the exercise of that moral power,
which is the fruit Of superior knowledge,
so grateful to his own feeliags, and so flat
tering to a just and honorable pride, as
when he sees the mind and character Of
her who is the object Of his sworn affec.
tions, growing stronger and more perfect
under his own care and watchfulness !
until from being always beloved she grows
at last to be an idol of his own creation,
so perfect that it were scarcely a SIN to
worship it.
Having now, Mr.. Editor, adverted to
some OF the plain obligations belonging to,
and out door arrangements necessary to
be made by the master of the house, in
every good system of indoors economy,
and having recommended in all his de-
pertinent that spirit OF be~neyolence and
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