Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1850-03-06
from Meals Saturday Gazeile.1
HOUSEHOLD COUNSEL.
by MRS. J. C. NEAL.

We have long had fancy for extend
ing few themes which we have selected
as topics for chit chat with our readers,
into sketches Illustrative of domestic
management or economy, and giving
them from week 10 week under the above
title. They will be more particularly
suited to the ladies of tic family, and
therefore we reserve them for this COL
umn Of our journal.
No one can dislike more shan we do
the idea of dominion usurpcd by woman,
be it in the household OF on the throne,
but no one pretends to deny, that what
ever be our right 10 rule on the battle
fed or in the council hall, every female
excrts vas, influence, for goad or evil,
in the world of the affections All
true attachments centre in the home cir
Gle. The wife, the mother and the
sister, rarely dream how much Of the
prosperity which they bless Heaven for,
or the discord which they lament, can be
traced to their own influence on the hus-
band or the brother. Does it not follow
that the aim olevery woman should be
TO study those graces, and cultivate those
habits and those virtues, which are 10
make home happy-whiclI will enable
her TO soothe and support those on whom
the heaviest burden falls when disap-
pointment or i'll fortune ariscs--tllat
cheerful courage that can look undaunt
ed into the darkest future, and that true
heroiSm of soul that can meet actual dc
privation, even WANT, without muir
mur! All this Involves self.denial, and
self-sacri6ce, it is true: and if we like,
we can bring ourselves up with senti.
mental, mock-hercic strength, derived
from the lessons Of poets, who will tell
you that 'woman's lol' is TO suffer, that
hers are 'silenttears TO weep that il is
what we must expect to do if we gene
rously yield our lives and fortunes TO
those monsters, MEN, those rnleeIing,
those hard-hcarted husbands and fathers
we read of in romances, or see ranting
upon the stage. Many women can easily
work upon their imaginatons and their
morbid sensibility until no sacrifice
seems too great, while they are regarded
by the world as heroines in real life.
Jrving's 'Wire' has done a great deal
for these ladies, and they already see
themselves arrayed in pure white, after
setting out supper Of strawberries and
cream, and touching the harp gently
while they await their husbands return,
with the preltiest stage effect imaginable.
Not that we would ridiculo or underrate
that exquisite little sketch, the wife Of
bankrupt merchant Of our day, if he
honestly satisfies his creditors, soon finds
that white dresses and sprac,ice hours,
are luxures TOO expensive for ever day
wear.
Real self denial springs from deeper
sentiment than this. 1t is a sincere con-
yic,ion Of The duties of daily life and
careful training of every faculty TO the
end that they may be we'll performed;
moreover, there is consideration which
some ladies overlook entirely, al least
their acts would seem to say so. Did it
ever occur 10 you, pretty one, as you
looked into your husbands counting
room 10 see if he was ready 10 60 up 10
dinner, ort to get tha, pretty crotchet purse
re.flled, did it ever cross your mind
that he might consider it disagrecable
place as we'll as yourself7 You step
danlily over the straw or the shavinCs,
and thread your way through the lum-
bering boxes Of the packing room to the
little cold den-somc,imc without fire,