The Southern journal., 1846-03-21

you VIII give up music. oanclng, pain
ting on velvet, and all other fashiona.
BILE mantraps. After husband is,
caught. it is Il great deal easier to
keep him Gagged by having good fires
and good catables for his benefit, than
by dancing gracefully or singing soft
love songs to him. They do very
well before hand, but he don't care
about living on them long. He is
very apt to want something more sub
stantial, as he trudges down the hill
Of life. ! would again advise you to
acquire knowledge of business;
working with your own hands some.
times, even if it should tarnish their
whteness little. a soft white hand
may be admired, but after il is given
to a gentleman for life, he does not
consider its beauty very strong re-
commentator, when he finds it has
been kept for chow and not for use.
| think a young lady should be able to
scour kettle and grace diamond.
Some years since knew a number OF
girls in Kentucky, who dressed them.
selves by making jeans, domestic, nice
stockings, with other such articles,
and exchanged for store goods. On
Sundays when they shone out in the
meeting house and singing school, in
their bright yellow shoes, blue stock
ings and scarlet dresses, why, there
was no telling how fine they did feel
and how the young country beaux
would wonder and admire, thinking
all the time what good hepmates they
would make on their little farms.
These girls had some reason to be
proud of their habiliments, when they
considered them the work Of their own
hands, their own honest industry, and
not wrung from the earnings Of their
hard working fathers and brothers. !
have in the last few years seen ladies
robed in velvet, whose husbands had
robbed the fatherless and widow of
bread, had broken up whole families
of honest, industrious people, and
made them homeless and houseless
wanderers. AS looked on these
richly dressed ladies, l thought Of the
pure and simple happiness of the
bright girls of Kentucky, and could
not but contrast the difference be.
tween them. But to return.
Among other things let me tell you
10 learn how to make soap. do not
know that l should have thought OF
naming this, ifmy ignorance Of soap
making had not troubled me exceed
ing!y. At first l did not know, and
depended on the old woman who lived
with me to make it. ] went to her
when the soap keg was almost empty,
and told her we must have some as
soon as possible. "Who, Lor, Miss,
now don't you see it amt the right
time of the moon?' tried to per-
suade her that soap making and the
moon were but very slightly connec-
ted, ifthe other part Of the business
were we'll conducted. Itwas howev.
er to no purpose. ! had to wait till
the "right time" came round before
bould gel my soap. After this, when
| had the superintendent Of large
family, l was obliged to buy it by the
barrel, because l did not we'll under
stand the manufacture of the article,
and l was really ashamed that such an
extra expense was caused by my igno-
rance. Sometimes there was too
much lime in the ashes, then not
enough; sometimes it was too greasy,
and sometimes any thing but what it
ought to be. tell you my expert,
ence in the matter, so you may learn
from your mothers nozp and not have
the trouble ofleorning when you ought
to be making it. As | have given
you so long talk on the subject, |
will add a recipe ! found short time
since in the Cultivator, Vol. 5, page
l24. 1t may be OF use to mothers next