Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1850-04-10
From the Ohio State Journal.
Letters from the Kitchen.


From the ONO state Journal I
Letters from the Kitchen.
NUMBER II.
We have Just finished big washing, and feel
xactIy in the mood for scribbliDg long letter e
ome grabbed, cross grained, churi OF an oid ,
achelor, or a man with scolding wIie-l DO
lot know which, neither DO care-has vented
rs spleen that most useful avocation of ali
he days IN the week-w ashing day. IN a doggrei
h yme, ending every stanza with these senten-
ious lines:
Scrub, scrub, rub, rub. rub. rub array.
There il nc peace about the house al on We
ing day
Now the man that wrote that ought 10 have
been pu nshed by beng compelled TO wear an
INV asIIed, unstarc.Ied aud unroned shirt collar
"Frae November TIL October"
and TO have endured a regular Caudle lecture as
often as once ID week, =, least, through the year,
for his audacIous impeGtncnce-
mo peace about the house." forsooih.-it IS +
the very generator Of the article. True, there 4
- scrub, scrubbing, and rub, rubbing. but then T
does il not all tend TO the general welfare and 4
happiuess Of the whol-2 To be It does. as
much as the under shower purIhes the atmos- !,
pherc and REEVES vegetation.
But, were saying. we have Just iinisheo
a big washing, and Peg lsus, suddenly re-
leased from a somewhat long confinement, IS
champing the bit and sPurning the earth, re-
solved on taking sail some where, If IL Is only
vau.; five bar gates, may be We can clear the
" ash tub. SO here we 60.
love TO raise my drowsy head,
On Monday morning early,
To sweep my house and MAKE my bed,
Before the suns up fairly;
To put the 'tafoes in to bake,
The biscu 10 be making,
70 fry the ham and brcil the steak,
While they are nicely baking
To have Il break fast warm and gooi
= servants haii-C COOKED messing,
When husband comes, and see hIm look
His pleased, though silent blessing.
All. that's bliss the city belle
Has ne'er the JOY Ct knowing:
Tie clever help gets ali the praise
That hdppens 10 bf going.
/ love, when ten o'cIoci. arrives,
/ To have my washing ended,
NJ kitchen scrubb'd, my clean fix on.
All! then don't feel splendid?
To seat me in the big armed chair,
| And sing merry lay.
Or take my pen and write rhyme,
As have done to-day.
There, we within ace I'VE say ace be-
cause others do; we don't know one card from,
another,) Of foundering ourselves into a tub OF
foaming suds; and should have drowned per
chance, but for the timely application of the
whip of pride and the spur of self-love, which
urged us II. Our pony did get in over his fet-
locks, but with tremendous effort extricated
! himself, and being well aware, the Willy rascal.
of our inability take any lofty fl ght, pitched
US off gently into the big chair. where we shall
certainly take a snooze # somebody does not
put in mind of getting cinner
Well. we cid take a nap, aud ''we dreamed "A
dream that was not all IA Gream,' dreamed that
people had learned to live without eating ana
drink ing or rather had learned to eat and drink
.ny what was necessary and proper 10 supply
tn demands Of nature. That the days of chop
ping mincing and stu.iing meats were past; no
more measuring. beating aud weighing, TO mia
gle thos. various COMPOUNDS that now ensross
half our Tine, and give all the children the DIS
pepsia, ana he old folks The night-nare and APP
lpoplrxy. flan wholesome food. and plenty Of
IL. filled each talc. The cost of luxures was
converted into sod comforts. All articles Of
dress were simple, becoming and convenient
And a necessary cC,seoueuce of these alter
atoms in the habits and n4,uners every one liz ed
easy and pleasantly rosy 6,,. and sparkling eyes
were common that no on. thought OF going
crazy about them. for the atlndnnce satl,fed
the demand. And the women our country
having gained so much time by the -eform we re
using II TO eulIghten their minds .ud enlarge
their Understandings. And recI .ation al
were busy making patch work, cutting NJ al
the old garments OF seltisliness ana false pride
and plcceng them into quilt Of charity, in
tending, as there was ample material to make
one large enough to cover all sfea''o" -''-3 -
rest Of the otId besides, beneath ITS ample i"'
and they found themselves SO merry ana fh1e'
full at their work that they were periertly az
tonished that they had never thought 81 y oe
lore; and with one unanimous Vo'e fe'o. nor.
committee Of the whole, that there 1S "r form
real solid conifort ami Happiness ndeavor TO d.
ance of duty and tiesion Of all the ribbons
good. than III .ibwers, that ever adorned milf
ira'hehop window, and that one evening srrn
In social loving intercourse with husbands, faith
ers, brothers or lovers. in "a feast of reason
and a flow of SOUL is better than two oys:e,
suppeTs or three ice credns-and further, thai
they will never voluntarily return to the beg
CARLY elements Of fashion and folly, but vii
strive, with earnest eudrHvors, 10 improve them
selves aud others. until the time shall arrive
that the public safety will admit Of their resign.
ing their seil-mposed care-and then, and moi
I'LL then, they Will "bid their extended col
leagues adeu.'
The men. too, finding themselves relieved
body and soul from all the expense. and annoy.
anc- Of smoking cigars. chewing tobacco, anc
dram drinking, and being burt!ic ned with small
change. have concluded, with accord. Il
adopt the free banking stem, and were max ing
deposites OF fps, dunes. and titIes, and
dollars, now aud then, and the accumulate,
was rapid. that all the vaults ana safes in the
country were Overlooking; and IN order TO
iieve them they had, first, used the surplus ;c
purchase food Tor the hungry. aud clothes for the
naked, aud still finding an excess that oud no
we'll be taken care ot-were educating The iguo
rant, and recldiminC the errng, ana reforming
the vicious. Every man being relieved from TIA,
labor of dlgrstIng an unwho!esome dinner. hat
clear head and true heart. ana having much
money, or more than needed by the exist
ing state Of things. could not be bou rht NJ, Z
Their by popular eciat the SPOTS OF oil, ant
consr queGtiy stood true. TO himself. his country
and has Cos. W ar, pes,iience, ana famine. ila,
become obsolete words; and the beauty and har
mony Of millennium were upon us iu all thei
perfrction- Ia the tcs;ncy OF our delight We
clasped our hands together. and were about Il
exclain-when little J. bounded in from school
ana with impatient voice. CRED out-'moths T
why cont you get oinner' l awoke, ane
found il all dream.
FRANCIS D. GAGE
! Law Reform.
We commend the following 10 the members
Of the New Constitutional Convention, which
the knIcKerbocker SAYS is specimen of the
brief manner in which an issue made up un