The Shasta courier., 1865-11-25
Shiftless Tricks.

10 let tne cattle fodder themselves ct the
stack; they pull out and trample more than
they eat. They eat till the edge of appetite
is gone. and then daintily pick the choice
parts; the residue, being coarse and refuse,
they will not afterwards touch
10 sell half a stack of hay, and leave the
lower half open to rain aud snow In feed
ing out. a hay knife should be used on the
stack IN selling, either dispose of the whole.
or remove that which is left TO shed or
| barn.
1t is a shiftless trick to be about stores and
groceries, guing with men that you have
no time, In a new country. for nice farming
for maxi e good fences: for smooth mea-
dows without stump; for draining wet
catches which disfgure fine fields.
To raise your own frogs in your own yard;
to permit, year after year, dirty, sinking,
mantled puddle to stand before your fence in
| the street.
To plant orchards, and allow your cattle
to eat the trees up. When gnawed down,
to save your money, by trying to nurse the
stubs into good trees. instead of getting fresh
ones from the nursery
To allow an orchard to have blank spaces
where trees have died, and when the living
trees begin to bear, to wake up and nut
young whips in the vacant spots.
1t is a dirty trick to make bread without
washing ones hands after cleaning fish or
chickens; to use an apron for a handkerchief:
to use a veteran handkerchief Just from the
wars for an apron to use milk pans alter
nately for wash bowls and milk. To wash
dishes and baby linen in the same tub. either
alternately or altogether ; to chew snuff while
You are cooking, for sometimes food will
chance to be too highly spiced. We have a
distinct but unutterable remembrance of a
cud of tobacco in a dish of hashed pork-
but 1t was before we were married
A lady of our acquaintance at boarding
house. excited some fears among her friends
by fomng at the mouth. of madness. In
eating hash (made, doubtless, of every scrap
from the table, not consumed the day before)
she found herself blessed with IL muuthful of
hard soap, which only lathered the more, the
more she washed at it. 1t is a filthy thing to
comb ones hair in small kitchen in the
intervals of cooking the breakfast; to use the
bread trough for cradle--a thing which we
have undoubtedly seen; to put trunks, bas
kets, boxes, with Sundry other utensils, under
the bed where yu keep the cake for compa-
ny; we have seen a dezterous housewife
whip the bed-spread aside, and bring forth,
not what we feared, but loaf cake
1t is dirty trick to wash children eyes
in the pudding dish; ; not that the sure eyes,
but subsequent puddings, will not be bene-
fitted to wipe dishes and spoons in hand
towel; to wrap warm bread in a dirty table
cloth to make and mold bread on a table
innocent of washing for weeks to use dirty
table cloths for sheets, a practice of which we
have had experimental knowledge once, at
least, in cur lives.
The standing plea Of all slatterns and
slovens is, that g everybody must eat a peck
of dirt before they die" A peck that would
be mercy a mere mouthiu, in comparison
of cooked cartloads of dirt which is to be
eaten il steamboats,, canal boats, tayerns.
mansions, huts and novels.
1t is shiftless trick to SNUFF candle with
your fingers, your wife's best scissors, to
throw the snuff on the carpet, or on the pol
ished floor, and then to extinguish it by
treading on it!
To borrow a choice book to read it with
unwashed hands, that have been in the char
coal bin, and finally to return it daubed on
every leaf with noseblood spots, tobacco
spatter, and dirty finger marks-this is a
vile trick
1t is not altogether cleanly to use ones
knife to scrape boots, to cut harness, to skin
cats, 10 cut tobacco, and then to cut apples
whN4h other people are to eat
1t is an unthrifty trick to bring in eggs
from the barn in ones coat pocket and then
to sit down on them
1t is a filthy trick to borrow or to lend for
others use. tooth brush or Il tooth pick
to pick ones teeth at table with fork, or
jack-knife to put your hat upon the dinner
table among the dishes; to spit generously
into the fire, or at it. while the hearth is
covered with food set to warm for some
times man hits what he don't aim at.
1t is an unmannery trick to neglect the
scraper outside the door, but to he scrupulous
in cleaning Your fee. after you get inside. on
the carpet, rug, or andirons to bring your
drenched umbrella into the entry. where
black puddle may leave to the housewife
melanch .ly evidence that you have been
there.
1t is soul trying for neat dairywoman to
see ber "man" watering the horse out of her
milk bucket; or fitering horse medicine
through her strainer or feeding his hogs
with her water pail or after arm work, TO
set the well bucket outside the curb and wash
his hands out of it.-Henyy Yard Beecher.