Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-09-27
Learn 10 Cook Well,


We again propose this advice to those
OF our young female friends who may
chance to look into this journal. There
need be no scruple on the ground that the
aim proposed is not sufficiently high for a
generous and cultivated mind. To do
well, whatever it becomes our duty to all,
is an ambition sufficiently elevated, for
the highest and most gifted spirit. The
care Of the family will be the duty of
woman till we get translated to a higher
sphere Of existance-and family care Will
always, as now, be made up Of details,
small in themselves, It's true, but in the
aggregate, and in their connections, vastly
important. We say then learn to cook
well.
The health of the family depends upon
it. We know there are those who assoc
ciate luxury, effeminacy, and all depen-
dant ills with every attempt Of the kind
recommended. But we do not believe
that health is promoted by eating raw
carrots and doughty bread--or that to Sc
cure long life it is necessary to turn
cannibal. Nor were men made to Craze
like cattle, or eat their food like dogs.
Nor is it necessary in order to shun the
errors of which we speak, to rush into the
extreme. Good cookery does not consist
in producing the highest seasoned dishes !;
such foster morbid appetite, but in
preparing every dish we'll, however SIM
pie or common it may be. There are for
instance, families who never eat any good
bread from one century TO another, and
have no idea in what it consists. Nor are
meats cooked any better within their pre-
cincts. Those little simple, and heatlhful
delicacies which good housekeeper
knows intuitively how to produce, are new
er seen here. Even dish Of potatoes
cannot get themselves we'll boiled. A
member of the family might as well fall
sick among the Ho,tentots as far as any
proper nursing is concerned. These
things ought not TO be, nor is there any
need Of their existence, if the wife has any
just notions Of her obligations to herself
and those about her.
The science of bread making, Of meat
boiling, stewing, roasting and boiling of
vegetable cooking, and preparing the null
hilarious small dishes Of all sorts, which
go TO make pleasant the table, and all about
are hers-hers to understand and practice.
They are sciences too quite as exalted in
nature as are those that lie at the founda-
ton Of litigation, cloth selling, implement
making or wheat growing. The woman
who can cook well is an Empress to whom
all that wait at her table will do nnbought
homage. Learn 10 cook we'll, fair friends.
Precautions against Poison.-It is said
that in Germany, 10 prevent poison being
used for evil purposes, none is allowed to
be sold, without a written order or pre-
scripiion from physician. To prevent
rat poison being made bad use of, or
taken by mistake, the arsenic is mixed
with tailow and lanpblack, which makes
a compound that no human being could
partake Of. None is allowed to be sold in
a pure state.
I'll take two children, ifI can haye'em
cheap said tall Yankee on entering an
oyster cellar in Canal street, the other
day. Two children ?-what two chill
dren?' 'Why, ! han't got any myself
and your sign reads, families supplied
don't it? 1want.you to supply me with
one.'-Noah's Messenger.
FOLLOWING OUT FIRST PRINCIPLE
An American vender Of universal medi.
cine declares that if his prescription he
followed literally, cure is certain. "This
medicine is to be taken IN-ternally, Ex.
ternally and externally"