New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-26

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SIN: We received your issue a. Nov. - and Rad
among ether things YOU aItic. the " At ot Living "
and Il thai some bpdy Ass b.en rlsin,og ~ the
COUNTRY and has made some meet horrible discoveries
that the people not clean, and that the " greasy
mob is q term too true Ii my memory ia good
bath ing s subject upon which doctors differ (u,~
clsim 10 scientific knowledge of the matter, am SIM
ply plain hard-woIkiss house sife, and hsve just
6uished nv mornings work, and shall have barely
tine To write that with before shall be oh igec 10
20 8; IL again bu remember reading 80 article som
three or four Year. sgo taken from medical Jouraa.
en,iied A Damper 10 B>thng IN shieh it wss
ststed that too much bsthing was injurious-ssy -,
instance every Gay in the Wip,erbecsuse it washei
away deposit II know nothing OF medical ternsl on
tie surface that Increased the seton Of tbs lungs, and
Dded 10 anything rather than health. Al hat tns
every Der of my family took sponge bath every
day, which car BE- done pretty ef.ctaAly wits b.
sin ard ever" q rpoDge and q coarse tosel 10 the
Winter, however, cannot think II advisable, 20 Tar a.
my obeerv aiion upon ny own children can determine.
TO wash TIE exuenires Ia well enough but the whole
b dy daily is too bad. Take mothers place IN the
care Of hsr children and If exPers nee Is NO, better
than theory. speak what do knos when say that
they viii be peevsb 10 their dispositions, paler per
sbiiy ,Idure the changes of temperature to which
We IN the Fall and Winter are subjected. l am the
moth,r OF four children The olde. not nine years old
and 10y cuty 10 them consider paramount duty bat
musI san thai in your view my standard of clean.
illness 4 s~fally low" Another thing that Gisgusts
you lie the cokDg OF the vast majority of country
houses, which You characterize 81 "casotic
mass OF indgestsble, rePulsive, crudlties vul
par abundance on the table fills you with
borror You say moreover, tina, Mass Leslie
"says there are three reasons why women will
mot learn to coDk" II plain that Miss Leslie was
never a country houseseep any more thal yourself
olt
is unbecomiug IN newspaper writers, but am writing
TO ga ana not to The psPer. My husband Is man
worth say ten thousand, with eonsiderab . OK farm
and any quantity Of biz ed men, while am liable at
any tine 10 be left without help a. hir d girls here
have the card in their hands and Ike submit
to terms, CT they quit" and my cooking, depend
upon i is " sheer gness-work.' do not, in bak,ng
be aJ cooking mes boiling or baking po,ate-, or
preparipg coffee either weights measuies Their
nom.ter and LEI those who tell nov easy, &c it Is,
try II when they Overrun with work til momeot
leisure is godseDd, and cannot zee Why It Is any
mole guess work than ten thousand other things which
e1peience has determined IN making eskes and pies,
spd puddipgs ard p,stry Of ,onrse they are neces-
sary and 1 will yentnre 10 say In general use. A
break of baked potatoes, or beeisieak, or cold,
boiled or bToed ham with gh. bread aud c"hos slas,
slcpsl cannot imagine to b. very III be Atty ny The
way Won say nothing easier than TO make good Cot
fee-did you ever try il Although FIR general him.,
cone. may be good there are times sben Tor no fore
seen reason il will be simply slops; and permit me
TO cay il IL altogether matter oi ,as'e nov person
hes It prepesed. drink mine entirely without milk
husband tskes very little, although We alw ,Ys have
an abupG ance it making the obildrons drink a. the
table. Bot # you oil enlarge little ON toe SUBJ G.,
hope TO BE- come decent GOd-iearns caterer Of bis
laI gible mfrcies," &c.
Your srisures upon building are fearfu)ly true, al.
though in some things cannot but think you srsh sn
YOU have the lever OF The press IN your own hand ana
II YOU ptrevere you will be able 20 ASSIST In lifting
rtm the country the &C aumulated force OF bAbars,
and giving us the benefit Of the light Of science upon
The sbenuse art OF living. You must have been VISIT
inc amoIg coun " friends who, in tboking they
.cpg The hospitable part, induced TO p1e the
table with the matter which YOU have ransaeked h'
dictionary TO md stjectves to describe w, o
course 4 YOU cobcescepd to Do ice THE sba be IN
ribna,ss which in b. mn"h Of fsat for my per
son, like -, il dninntive. D. ~ Dim.
CaI,.o De, 1876