Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-11-24
BUTTER AND OTHER THINGS.
REPORT, BY s. D. LITTLE, OF MERRIAAcK q. ~ AG


RIcBLTURAL SOCIETY. q, esf III.
The beneficence of the Creator is manifested in
50 disposng tastes and adapting these to the
varieties with which we are surrounded as Co make
life q scene of enjoyment instead Of burden. II
might have been that necessary food would have
been noisome, as it is sometimes to the diseased
stomach had not have pleased the Creator to have
ordered it otherwise. Bread is the staff of life, but
butter is given to make it slip down easier and with
q better relish. But it depends something on who
makes the butter whether it answers this purpose.
Butter made in Joe Bunkers house needs be eaten
in the dark then to make it pass well one or two
other senses should be laid aside while that made
by his brother Jonathan may be eaten in the full
blaze of noon you would wish that your neck was
as long again, that you might have the pleasurable
sensation of swallowing prolonged Perhaps bit
of the history of their better halves will explain the
whole matter
sly she would not half wash the milk pail, but
sly it away and let it sour She was sly at school
and did not half get her lessons but would have her
boots in sight when reciting but she grew older
she learned that to get well married she must appear
well, and she bent all her cunning to get super
fcal education in every thing from roasting potatoes
to playing the piano. Poor Joe fell in love with her,
and " love has eyes !" SO he married her. But
sight came and he saw his fix, that it was for
better or for worse, and he thought it all for
worse.-Like a true philosopher he concluded to
endure what he could not avoid or cure, and got
ter, for his mother real butter maker. Every
time he saw, tasted of Sallys butter he felt the
horrors. Her manner OF making butter is somewhat
follows She thinks it of no consequence whether
the milk pail is sweet sour; sets the milk in
warm room because it is easier than to go into the
cellar; and if some dirt should blow into the pans
she thinks every man must " eat peck of dirt"
and in place will it slip down easier than in but
ter she lets the cream pots be open, and when she
churns forgets the poke; leaves the at blood
heat that it may come quick when she takes it out
of the churn she picks out the bodies of all flies
and spiders-the legs and wings so small they
can be swalowed she works out half the buttermilk
and sets it away in warm place for use. Poor Joe
has seen much of this kind that he declares but
ter does not agree with health, and will taste it.
Yet his wife wonders why he does not try it, and
marVels that he does not keep dairy and make butt
ter for market.
Jonathan was younger brother to Joe, and he
haa occasion 20 eat at his brothers enough to know
why he did not eat butter and he declared he would
never marry without knowing what his butter would
be worth. Following the bent of his fancy, he made
several attempts at matrlmony, and julia Jumper
almost caught him, for there always good butter
on the table for tea but he determined to know
who made it. On inquiry she says; "L La me! moth
er makes the butter | take Lessons the piano."
" Well" says Jonathan, g want wife that takes
Lessons on the churn shall look further
After several unsuccessful attempts, and just
ready despair he started in pursuit of stray cat
tie before breakfast and wandered through the forest
into the next town, and, weary and hungry, called
at decentlooking house and asked for refresh
mens, which most cordially granted, for the
family were what called Scotch riSh-in reli-
gion Presbyterian, and in hospitality boundless.
Here he found the butter exactly right though the
weather hot the butter kept its shape as we'll as
beeswax. He catechised the old lady about her
housewifery, for the bread right as the but
ter. The old lady said her health was feeble, she
could do but little and Jenny had the whole manage
ment. He made some roundabout inquiries concern
no, md hPaF 1 hat tho haar hlank
eyed lass of about two and twenty had never seen
piano or attended ball. but knew the Assembly's
,atechisn and could sing Old Hundred to charm
spin flax, and darn stockings and was then gone to
own with butter. He fingered but she delayed, |
Ind when his excuses for staying exhausted he
started. He could not get the good butter out of
lis mind, and how it happened knew not he soon |
ound his way there again, and the result of his ad
'enture was, he made wife of Jane McKearn. And |
low, one lump of his butter is worth more than
Ioe's wife would make in a month There is no trou-
lie going to market; the keepers of gentee board
ng- houses in the neighborning villages send and
axe it at the highest market price.
Now, the main difference between these two wo-
nen arises from the manner of training, though
here is no difference in natural disposition. Old
iadam Sally never looked on to see that Sally did
p her work right, but suffered her to shy off her
FORK as she chose, and, though good house keeper
erself, was altogether too indulgent, and like
ther mothers, thought more of getting Sally we'll
1arrIed than of making her fit for wife; while old
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for any mans wife, whether she got married or
OF.
Perhaps there is certain criterion by
hich to judge woman's general character for neat
ess and good housekeeping than by the quality of
er butter. Find on the farmers table, good solid,
roperly sailed and well-worked slice of butter and
on need not fear to eat the cake or hash but see
'lash OF halfworked butter salt in Jumps, and
'rinkling of hair and flies legs, you may be sure
lat if you board there very long death will not be
oliged to wait much for you to finish your peck of
rt. Ny advice is to young farmers to make it
ne qua non in wife that she makes prime butter;
I'd the young ladies who aspire to be farmers wives
I'd much better be imperfect in illagree and music
AN be deficient in that most important art of ma
ng butter which smooths not only the sharp cor
IFS of crust and crackers but will smooth asperites
the husbands temper.
RALEIGH FEMALE SEMINARY-By reference to our
vertsing columns it will be seen that this new In.
tuition, under the management of Rev. VIM. H.
tristan, A. NJ, as President, will go into operation
the 9th of January next. Our high appreciation
the qualifications of Mr.. Christian both as a