The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-07
Rules Of Health for Married Ladies.

kules OF Health tor Married Ladies.
Here is some advice which married ladies
can bet high on:
Get up at four o'clock in the morning,
clean out the stoves, takeup the ashes, sweep
the front sidwalk and scrub the front steps,
nurse the baby, put things to warm, see the
shirts aired, boil the mackerel, settle the cof
fee, set the table, rouse the house, carry up
some hot water for shaving to that brute of a
lazy husband, and dry the morning paper
BY this time you will have an appetite for
breakfast. Hold the baby during the meal
AS you like your breakfast cold. After break
fast, wash the dishes, nurse the baby, dus,
everything, wash the windows, wash and
dress the baby Uhat pantry wants cleaning
out and scrubbing) nurse the baby, draw
the baby in his wagon five or six miles for
the benefit of his health; nurse him when
YOU return; put on the potatoes and the cab.
bage, (nurss the baby and the cornel beef,
nips, and (uurse the baby sweep everything;
take up the dinner, set the table, 6Il the cas-,
tors, change the table cloth, Qhere, that ba.
by wants nurseing.) Eat your dinner cole
again, and-nurse the baby. After dinner,
wash the dishes, gather up all the dirty
clothes and put them to soak, nurse tho ba.
10y every half hour; receive dozen calls, in
terspersed with nursing the baby; drag the
baby mile or two; hurry home; make bis
cult, pick up some Goldfish, cut some dried
beef. Calnip tea for baby's internal dsar
rangements; hold the baby an hour to que
him; put some alcohol in the metre; baby
| .f al H.,
take yours cold as usual After tea, vast
up the dishes; put some fish to soak; chor
some hash; send for some more sugar, (gra-
cions how the sugar does go-and twenty
cents pounl,) get down the stockings and
darn them; (keep on nursing the baby)
wait up till :welve o'clock nursing the baby;
till husband comes home with double shufi
tle on the front steps, a decided difficulty in
finding the stairway, aud determination to
sleep in the back yard. Drag him up stairs
to bed; then nurse baby and go to sleep -
Women in delicate health will fnd that the
above practice will either kill or cure them,
LETTERS ERoM THE LATE SENATOR DoUa
LASS. S. Hayes, of Chicago, delivered a
speech in the Hall of Representation at
Ip'i"Suc'i oi 1ie IClu u't, Oh WHICH oCCHi
sion the following letter from the late Suna-
tor Douglas was read for the first time:
WAsn1NGroN, Dec, 20, 1860.
"My Dear Sir. You will have re
ceived my proposed amendment to the Con-
s,ituion before you receive this. The
South would take my proposition if the Re-
publcans would agree to it, But the ex-
tremes, North and South, hold off, and are
precip'a'ng the country into revolution and
civil war.
awhile | can do no act which recognizes
or countenances the doctrine Of secession.
my policy is peace, aud will not consider
the question of war until every effort has
been made for peace, and all hope shall here
vanish. When that time comes, if unfor.
tunately it shall come, will then do what
il becomes an American Senator to do on
the state of facts. Many of the Republicun
leaders desire a dissolution Of the Union,
and urge war as means of accomplish ing
disunion; while others are Union men in
good faith. We have now reached the point
where compromise on the basis of mutual
conc ession, or disunion and war, are inevita
bic, prefer fair and just compromise,
shall make a speech in few days.
"lours truly, S. A. DOUGLAS"
IS. S. HAYES, Esq"