Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-06-26
Aeritnltmral anS Domestic.
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
ssDOes she Know what Good Brcad


From the Cincinnati Gazette.
ssDoes She Know yhas Good Bread Hsl''
"Well, Charles" said uncle James, look.
ing up from the newspaper he had been
pretending to read, "Tve heard all your
praises of the lady in question, and the
long list Of accomplishments you ascribe tc
her ought to satisfy any reasonable young
man, but as am an old man--you may
say an old fogy, if you please-let me ask
you plain question, Docs she know what
good bread isr"
"Good breadr' repeated the lover, with
puzzled expression.
"Why, uncle, of course she must, from
the table they keep at her father'sr r said the
sympathetic Emma, TO whom Charles loved
10 speak Of his engaged one, "of course she
knows good bread from poor"
Excuse me, my dear, but there is mo of
course in the matter, and if amid all her
French and German, and piano and guitar
lessons, she has not been expressly taught
to distinguish good, wholesome bread from
that which is indigestible, and hence injuri-
Gus, she cannot truly be called an educated
woman, and all her accomplishments are not
worth fig, in comparison with that most
important information. In my young days
the first question would have been "Can she
make good bread?" and no young lady
would have been considered fit candidate
for matrimony whose hands had not been
taught to mould the loaves of light, whole
some bread. But times have changed since
then; many very nice families buy all their
bread, and it is now deemed almost indis-
pensable to have that work done by servants
which il was formerly the pride and pleas
ure Of the wives and daughters to perform
Hence we dare no longer deem it absolutely
necessary for lady to know how to perform
certain homely duties herself, but are fain
70 content ourselves with the assurance that
she does know when they are properly done
by others. Without this assurance we
prophesy lily for the peace and health of
any family. So, my dear nephew, to suit
my question to these days of modern i'm
provement ] ask Does your Lady Love
certainly know when bread is good % AS
love you, so sincerely warn you, do not
marry a woman who is destitute of this in
formation, for if you expect the peace and
comfort of home with such an one, most
bitterly will be your disappointment
IL have seen good deal Of the world"
continued uncle James, "and / have come to
the conclusion that, while we loudly
deplore the evils of intemperance, and point
to this and that lovely family whose peace
has been blighted by the indulgence Of an
appetite for strong drink, We have another
curse in our midst-the more dangerous
because its presence is nsuspected-which
is just as surely destroying the peace of the
home circle. Under its blighted influence
the bodies of husband vito and children,
become gradually but incurably diseased,
their temper irritable and perverse, and their
minds, gloomy and desponding, are utterly
incapable of that vigorous expansion and
luxuriant growth for which their Creator in
tended them. If that servant of old was
held guilty for burying his talent, what
fearful account will some wives and moth.
ers have TO render, who have dwarfed the
bodies and minds of husband and children
by the bad food which day after day has
been eaten at their tablesl'
"But uncle James, Marian has always
been accustomed to such a nice table at
home, she will be 50 anxious to have every
thing 50 for her husband, said Emma.
$50 you said a while since, my dear, and
your remark reminded me of sad fact to
the contrary. A young friend Of niue mar
ried,a girl, whose mother had ALWAYS made
thor table comforts her especial study, and
fromathe choice variety of well cooked food
which il displayed, had obtained tho name
Of o pattern housewife Well tho daught-
or was pretty and accomplished, and every
one thought she would make most excel
lent vito. Ny friend was madly in love
with her, and commenced housekeeping
with the brightest visions of domestic ioy
floating through his pure heart did not
see him for two or three years, and then his
changed appearance shocked me---he look
cd 50 old, 40 completely broke down. why
Stanley, what's the matterf' exclaimed, as
/ graspcd his emaciated hand, expecting
10 hear that he bad dimmcd his eye and
bent his form over the early grave Of his
wife; but no such thing, There's nothing
the matter with me, he said, only sort Of
general debilisy that makes me too lazy to
think, or 10 do anything useful
"Atter that met him often, and he
looked worse each time Man alive 1 said
one day, 4 expect You work too hard. Come
confess now, Amt you killing yourself with
head work31 Toheknow if fhe brain is nm
dsly exercised, is kept in a state Of tension
Zoo long
He smiled on me sictly smile, as he