Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1848-11-08
other cooking duties, it proves her lazy

other cooking duties, it proves her lazy
and not ignorant. @ y
Now laziress is as much worse than
ignorance as lie coarsest corn-cake is
10 the best poundcake. Yet many of
aur girls are dreadful lazy. What is
This owing to? Itresul's from wrong
system Of education, in part, but in most
cases a wrong system Of domestic train
ing. This error in training is in many.
cases attributable 10 the silly kindness
and misdirected affection of mothers,
but in more cases TO their unfortunate
lazy habits. All young ladies lha, make
up their minds 10 get married must re.
member that marriage is working in
sliu,ion, and to live happy herself and
con,ribatc TO the happyincss,of others,
she must stir her stumps. Consider for
moment the duties of a wife. She
must first gel up, and that early, how.
ev"r cold tie morning. dress, comb and
wash, make a fire, boil The coffee, toast
the bread SET the table, &c. Let il not
be said or thought by any ofour delud-
ed young damsels that they arc to escape
all this, because they have servants. ioi
in nine cases out Of Ten those who have
most servants find additional duties de.
volving on them in proportion to the
number. After the breakfast is made
ready, the husband must he called 10
eat, and get ready for his business. And
just, here arrives another very important
poin, in weman's duty. If she con>
suits her own happiness and ,|la, Of her
family she meets her lord with a smile,
and rs he takes l,islsca, at one end Of the
table she takes hers at the other. Not
grim looks, but an assumed content,
even though it does not exist. She need
no, kiss him before he goes ont but il
will do no harm TO follow him 10 the
door. look after him, and pretend at
least t, admire lis good looks. Then
follows other important small matters,
Wash up, clean round, sweep and make
the beds, or look after your servants.
and see that all things are properly
done. Then may be found "a little time
to dust and fix up your husbands, or
childrens clothing, or your own, as the
case may be. In the meantime it may
become necessary for you TO run out to
visit a sick or poor neighber. as charity
is one of the duties of ffemale life that
can in no wise be dispensed with. 1t
may become your duty likewise to 90
out occasionally on visits 10 your neigh
bors, for kind, social intercourse is
essential tc good manners as well as per.
sonalhappiness. And the future happi-
ness as we'll as position of your Children
depend much on, the society you selec,
for them in early life, In making visits,
however, they should never be long, for
two reasons. Your duties at home must
not be long neglected, and if you remain
over giventime in company with your
neighbors, you are apt to run into
little sneering at or siandering of some
body. This is: a bad habit, but strange
10 shy often good, kind feelings. on the
part Of ladies. When in paying those
little neighborly visits necessarily re-
sulting from the rules ofsociety they
find the ordinary routine Of chat exhaus-
ted, they resort 10 the FIST idea ,ha,
comes up to entertain thier visitor, and
in return the visi,rr pays back in similar
com, with little establishment, until
mere impression slightly entertained at
first becomes magniGed into base SLAM
der. This may destroy the happiness
and position in society of Whole family.
Much of this will be avoided by paying
shor, visits. And we imagine few ladies
who discharge their duties at home find
time to make long ones. But we are
runing this yarn little TOO long, still we
could no, help if, as we are after wo
mans street yarn, and every body knows
they are not easily taken up when the
ball has once started 10 role. Our oh
jccl, however, in the beginning, was to
shewthat no lazy gill ought ever to think
Of Ceiling married. For one might as
well look for happy family with drum.
ken husband as lazy wife. Now. did
any body ever see or heer ofsuch
thing?
DOMESTICUS.