The weekly union record. [volume] (Oroville, Calif.) 1864-1866, 1865-11-25
ShlftleSs Tricks

edge Of appetite Is gone, and then dam
tily pick the the choice parts; the
residue, being coarse and refuse, they
will not afterwards touch.
To sell half stack of hay and leave
the lower half open to rain and snow.
In feeding out, 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 shiftless trick to lie about
stores and groceries, arguing with men
that you have no time, in new coun-
try, for nice farming-for making good
fence for smooth meadows without a
stump for draining wet patches 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 gnaw-
ed down, to save your money, by try
ing 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 put young whips in the vacant
spots.
1t is a dirty trick to make bread
without washing ones's hands after
cleaning fish or chickens; to use an
apron for a handkerchief; to use vet
eran handkerchief just from the wars
for an apron; to use milk-pans alter
nately for washbowls 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 it was before We were married!
A lady of our acquaintance at a
boarding house, excited some fears
among her friends, by foaming at the
mouth, of madness. In eating a hash
made, doubtless, of every scrap from
the table net consumed the day before).
she found herself blessed with a mouth
full of hard soap, which only lathered
the more, the more she washed at it.
1t is 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,
boxes, baskets, with sundry other uten-
sis, under the bed where you keep the
cake for company; We have seen dex-
ferrous housewife whip the bedspread
aside, and bring forth, not what We
feared, but loaf-cake!
1t is dirty trick to wash children's
eyes in the pudding dish; not that the
sore eyes, but subsequent puddings, will
not be benefited to wipe dishes and
spoons on handtowel 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, practice of which
we have had experimental knowledge,
once at least in our lives.
The standing plea of all slatterns and
slovens is, that Everybody must eat a
peck of dirt before they die" A peck !
that would be a mere mouthful, in COM
parison of cooked cart-loads of dirt
which is to be eaten in steamboats,,
canal boats, tavernS, mansions, huts and
novels.
It's shiftless trick to snuff a can
die with your fingers, or your wlfe's
best scissors, to throw the snuff on the
carpet, or on the polished 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 charcoal bin, and finally to return
it danbed on every leaf with nose-blood
spots, tobacco spatter, and dirty finger
marks-this is vile trick
1t is not altogether eleanly to use
ones's knife TO scrape boots, to cut har-
ness, to skin cats, to cut tobacco, and
then to cut apples which other people
are to eat.
1t is an unthrifty trick to bring in
COOS from the harm in ones coat DOcket.