Columbia gazette., 1854-10-28
TEE FRENCH woMAu At HOME
She helps to cook the dinner she hi

| She helps to cook the. dinner she has
bought-for servants are wasteful with
charcoal, and size knows to an inch how
little she an use. In that marvellou.
place, French kitchen where two or
three little holes in a stove cook such
delicate dishes and perform such culin-
larry fcasts as our great roaring giants of
coal fires have no conception of-she
fits about like a fairy, creating mag
ical messes out of raw material of the
most ordinary description. She mixes
up tie milk aaa eggs that make the
foundation of the sompe rosciie, if it be
meagrc day. This sorrel soupi great
, fayorite in economical households, and
is Wanted as being highly rafraichissant
for the blood---indoed, one of the most
refreshing things you can take next to a
tisane Of lime flowers. She mixes the
salad-oil, salt and pepper are all she
puts into it ;she fries the potatoe chips,
or peeps int, the pot of haricots or sees
that the spinach is clean and the aspar-
agus properly boiled. And then she
turns to the plat suere, or spect dish, if
she have one for dinner-the rig an
rirm, or the sufs ia neige, or the
creme q la raniue- all simple enough
and cheap, and not unwittingiy rejected
if properly made. In fact, our friend
does the work Of head cook, the SER
want doing the dirty work.
Yes, though a lady born and bred,
refined, elegant, and agreeable in socie-
", a belle in her way, yet she does not
think it beneath her dignity to tighten
the household expenses by practical
economy and activity. The dinner Of
4 French family is cheap and simple
There is always soup, the meat of the
stew sometimes, if not strict in
expenditure, another plate of meat
generally two vegetables dressed and
eaten separately: and sometimes, not
always sweet dish il not that, a little
fruit, such as may be cheapest, and in
the ripest season But there is very
little Of each thing, and it is rather in
arrangement than in material that they
appear rich. The idea that the French
are gourmands in private life is incorrect.
They spen.! little on eating, and they
eat inferior things, though their cookery
is rather a science than mere accident
of civilization. At home the great aim
Of the French is to save and any self
sacrifice that viii lead to this result is
cheerfully undertaken, more especially
in eating and i'll the luxury of mere
idleness, No Frenchwoman will spend
a shilling to save herself trouble. She
would rather work like q, dray-horse to
buy an extra yard Of ribbon or new
pair Of gloves, than lie on the softcst
sofa in the world in placid ne-ladyism
with crumpled gauzc or bare hands.
| VOld Mr.. Puddle fell down in a
puddle, just as arunaway horse and a shay
came slashins and splashing and tearing
that way. In helpless plight, he reared
with fright the horse came quick--all
gallop and kick-when the old man
raised his great oak stick. The horse
then SHE'D little aside, for sticks were
no fiiends to his well fed hide. Within
a foot Of Fuddle's toes, within an inch
| of his ruby nose, the wheel came whiz-
zing and on it goes. Up rises Puddle
from out Of the puddle, and stands on
the road with a staggering stride /; then
wheeling away from the scene of the fray
he fourished his stick with hero's
fpride. a
7 E@Thc unfortunate youth who was
drowned few days ago, in "food o.
tender recollections,'' was slowly racov-
ering, but yesterday be fell from tht
sublime to the ridicalous, AMI was fatal
liz Injured.