Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-11-02

hunted up Kitchen knife and fork, for ever,
available instrument had been carried away
and the silver was eli locked up in somebody
safe Thus nothing was left for burglars, an
nothing for me. In hissrcund of investigation
| gained an acquaintance with my own house
which forty years of common life would no
bestow- l found out all atot1t the si1e-Soard
its spoon drawer, IFS napkin drawer, its closet
and that secret drawer on each side, so Gun
ningly arranged that no thief would ever sus
peet its presence, until he found it out TheI
the china closet vas a perfect novelty
and held us in long investigation. We climb
ed to the top shelves of the store closet, saw
fragments of dishes, various old acquaintance.
that disappeared long time ago. We search
the hall closet, and the kitchen closet, tht
closets between the two rooms, full of draw
ers, we got down on our knees to LOOK into
lower closets, tucked in under suites of draw
ers. and we mounted upon barrels to peer into
high hooks and shelves, and, in one case the
barrel playing mean trick, we came down
/ both sooner and faster than we had intended
But how shall we describe our experiences
when all these preparations resulted in an ac-
! tual meal +? A long flexible tnbe was brought
from the central gas fixture, and connected
with the pet stove. To boil the water for
tea or coffee was easy. We had often done
that But we had forgotten just how much
Tea shoud be put in for drawing. And the
quantity was certainly enough. We diluted
aid diluted, and were prodigal of milk and
sugar, without being able to cover the prodi-
giotts bitterness of the draught We eoted
the two principal faults of iea-making were
too much tea and too longsteepng. 1t took
as yet longer TO drink it, and vet to get over
it, and into sleep.
Hut this was &ll Commonplace, compared
with our meat history. The hfoil was very
much like two iron pot lids sphiered together,
with hollow handle attashed. The gas
came through The hsndle into the space be
tweeE, and the lower section being perforated
with multitude of gas holes, when the gas
was let on the lower surface was covered with
blue jets. The meat being placed on a tin
dish, the blazing cover was ri;seetI on proper
supports just over it, and shot its heat down
wards. It is a capital contrivance The
juice, the odor. and the fragment fuares at
tempting to escape, were driven back into the
meat, and III my own case, such was the force
of repression, that they were driven out of
the plate end over on to the 6isRg room car
pet (for all my exploits took place therr.)-
Just as the meat began to sizze and sputter.
and while was tleli.-htedlE gazing, ar the pro-
cess the tube slipped off the handle. the flames /
went o1rt ferf suddenly over the meat, but not
till the escaping gas from the liberated tube
had caught fire and shot u flame across nv /
hands, that caused ME to drop bfoiIer. knife |
and everything else, with astonishing cclprity /
! had no idea before hoy spry euuld be
The evil FFtts soon rcpa ired, but only to play /
of again the same trick, till l LI,.ld the tube
on to the broier with one hand and manipu-
lated the meat with the other | salted ii. / |
it. turned it twice, the first time on |
the ffoor, the next time on TO the dish. butt
with the same side up. The fork was a T
four pronger. | could not get hold or inst so
far as was needfHl to effect deception aud +
disaster. At length | put out the gas. un-
covered the meat, took both hands. aud tri-
unphantly reversed the obdurate meat
1t was with some pleasure, but ,s5t much
pride, that sat do&r, at length, TO the re-
past. The bread was bakers. OF cour~e il
was dry, tough and tasteless- The tea have
spoken Of The meat was the grand depend
ence. 1t was serviceable. l could hardly cut
if, and could not chew it. The tomatoes were
good. The melons were not But the whole
dinner agreed with my theory of moderation
in appetite and the satisfaction which lacked
In eatipg | sought to gain by profitable med
itations.
Facilis descensus est averni sed revocare
gradum, &c--''It is easy to get dinner, but
10 wash up the things, this is the burden and
toll y Virgil never spoke a trser word.
The water was hot. I found ii out the mo-
ment ! put my hand in the dish. 1t was the
same hand that the gas had famed on. | re-
iected on the difference between dry heat and
hl3oist kotness
I could find no dish cloth, The grease
would not come off the plates. There was no
soap. rubbed with my hand, which only
gave the grease a circular form on the plates
At length l got newspaper, and by vigor
1us rubbing got tie ware iuto presentabIc
The tea cups we're better served.
found napkin on the bottom Of the spoon
drawer. 1t was mercy!
There was no swill bucket and nowhere to
throw the slcps, @r4s robody that came for
hese super1uities In sun2ner. The melon
rints, the tonlatoe fragments, the incxorable
meat scraps, and the unrftentionable sundrieS
Of mans cooking were heaped into the dish
pan. There they stood. Another newspaper
served to rub down the table. 1t our
last solit&fy meal. n week afterwards the
fragments were found standing on the table
where we had left them the lamb chops we
had left and forgotten in the cupboard, and
they had a way of making their presence and
exigencies known. Indeed, wifole proce-
dure in this case met with the disapprobation
Of the powers that be, nor can we say that
they exactly suited US.
But, we have now, profound sense of
mans dependence on woman for domestic com
so7t. Iustead of thinking that housekeeping
in easy-a mere nothing, we admire and re-
we're the genius that conducts so intricate a
as must be every single days house
keeping,
Planting Trees in the Fall.
We find that transplanting fruit trees in the