Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-08-26
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locking ats the young gentlemen; do something
sensible, and stop building air-castles and talk
ing of lovers and honey-moons. 1t makes me
sick it is perfectly antnonial. Love is a farce
-matrimony is hulnbug. Husbands arc do
mestic Napoleons, Neroes Alexandcrs, singhlng
for other hearts to conquer after they are sure
Of yours.
The honeymoon is as short-lived as lucifer
match After that you may wear your we'd
ding dress at breakfast and your night-cap to
meeting, and your husband wouldn't know it.
You may pick up your own pocket handker-
chief, help yourself to chair, and split your
gown across the back in reaching over the table
for piece of butter, while. he is laying in his
breakfast as if it was the last meal he should
eat in this world When he gets through, he
will aid your digestion, while you are slipping
your first cup of Coffee by inquiring what you'll
have for dinner; if the cold lamb was all ate
yesterday if the charcoal is all out, and how
much you gave for the last green tea you
bought. Then he gets up from the table, lights
his cigar with the last evenings paper that you
have not had chance to read; gives two or
three whiffs of smoke, which are sure to give
you head ache for the afternoon, and just as
his coat. tail is vanishing through the door, apo-
ogises for not doing that errand for you yester-
day--thinks it doubtful if he can to-day, so
pressed with business. Hear of him at II O'Clock
taking. an ce-cream with some ladies at the
confectioners, while you are at home new-lining
his coat sleeves. Children by the ears all day;
can't get out to take the air; feel as crazy as q
fly in drum.
Husband comes home at night, mods how
dye do, Fan boxes Charley's ears; stands
little Fanny in the corner sits down in the
easiest chair in the warmest nook; puts his feet
up over the crate, shutting out all the fire, while
the baby's little pug nose grows blue with the
cold reads tue newspaper all to himself, sola-
ceS his innerman with cup of tea, and, just
as YOU are laboring under the ba!lucination that
be will ask you to take a mouthful Of fresh air
with him, he puts on his dressing-gown and
slippers and begins to recken up the family ex-
penses; after which he lies down on the sofa,
and YOU keep time with your needle while he
sleeps till nine o'clock. Next morning, ask him
to leave you q little money; he looks at you
as if to be sure that you are in your right
mind draws u sigh long enough and strong
enough to initiate pair of bellows, and asks
YOU what you want with it, and if half dol
lar won't do. Gracious king! as if all those lit.
tie shoes and stockings, and shirts could be had
for a half dollar
O, girls, set your affections on cats, poodles,
parrots, or lap dogs, but let matrimony alone;
its the hardest way on earth to get living;
you never know when your work is DONE
Think of carrying eight or nine children through
the measles, chicken-poX, rash, mumps, scarlet
fever-some of them twice over. 1t makes my
head ache to think Of it. O, you may scrimp
and save, and turn and twist, and dig and delrc,
and econolnizc and die, and your husband will
marry again, and take what you have saved to
dress his second wife with, and she'll take your
portrait for fire board? But what's the use
Of talkng-I'll warrant every one of you'll try
it the first chance you get, for some how there
is sort of bewitchment about it. wish one
half the world were not fools and the other
half idiots
$Cu1yEsE SUGAR CANE SYRrp.-Wc yesterday
received two bottles OF excellent syrup from Mr.
S. T. Keller OF Efingham. Heplanted a small
patch this spring, which yielded even beyond his
expectations. He has cut and ground the cane,
and made several of fine syrup, and informs us
that the cane has started up again, and bids fair
to mature another crop before frost fit should
do this, it would present the unusual spectacle of
two crops of syrup from the land in q single sea-
son. But even if the cane should not come to
maturity, it would at least furnish an excellent
crop of fodder. This syrup is, we think, the first
vet made in this section of the State. We learn
that many farmers who planted the cane, did so
with the intention of using it for fodder, fearing
that the yield Of syrup would not pay for the cost
of mill to grind the cane. The experience Of
Mr.. Keller proves that large quantity of syrup
may be obtained from small piece of ground,
and there will still remain a second growth of
fodder. At the present high prices of molasses,
this fact is worthy the attention of planters, rs it
now seems to be rendered certain that compara-
lively small piece Of land will produce all the
syrup they NAV need, at an almost nominal cx-
pence.
The sample sent us is very pleasant in flavor:
and, we think. as well adapted to general use rs
the product OF tile sugar cane. OF this, howcv.
cr, we can Judge better after submitting it to the
"home department" and testing its qualities BY
actual experiment.-SArannoa Neps.
CHINESE SUGAR CANE--Richarl II. Smith Esq,
of Scotland Neck, n. C., writes to the Raleigh
Register that he has made an experiment with
the Chinese Sugar Cane, with the following re-
suits: ::
From three unripe joints of the cane, about
one gill of juice was impertectly extracted, and
after having been boiled for half an hour, {: ia.
ble spoonful OF very good molasses was obtained
superior to the common grade Of moasses.
write this to encourage those persons who
have planted the cane, to 60 to work and make
their mills, and give it fair trial.
If they have not cane enough to justify thcex.
pense Of mill with wooden rollers, let them
extract the juice, as have done in this instance,
by using the edge of a piece of thick plank, or
scantling as lever-powcr. Make the expert
ment, ii with a pint Of juice only.
From the great yield of juice and the simple
process required i'll making the lnolasscs, have
no doubt Of its complete success, and that the
day is not distant, when the sugarluill will be as
common with our people as the cider.mill was
years ago--when every family will make their
own molasses-aud the childrcn-white and
black-will eat bread and molasses, and drink
"swtchel'' to their hearts content.
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4 CIGAR JoHE.-Thc Springfield Republican
tells story of q coal dealer and an insurance
officer who were conversing, when the latter sug
gested cigars and jocularly offered to pay if the
coal dealer, Mr.. p, would get them. "Agreed,
was the word, and Mr. p. reccivedtcn cents, went
off and bought couple of cigars. Mr.. f., the
insurance man, sat still in his chair, received
his cigar, and after putting and squeezing and
punching: remarked that ?. had better luck with
the cigar he was pulling freely away upon, than
had fallen to his own lot "I shouldn't wonder"
replied p, for gave eight cents for mine, and
only two for yours!"
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