The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-03-01
19ritnltnal ano arattital,
LEAVES PROM MY souRNAL.

How many questionings and anxietits about
the future. But when shall learn that
truest happiness is found in the right i'm
provement Of the present. "ID the morning
SOW thy seed, and in the evening withhold
not thy hand"
| Hannah has gone home for a few weeks
She needs some time for fitting up her ward
robe, as well as change from the unceasing
treadmill Of housework. | can spare her
better now than at any other time. but must
be busy TO accomplish all have in hand.
have become so interested in making lit
tie frames for pictures. | make them of
pasteboard. Of any shape fancy, and cover
| them with cones, acorns, seeds aud shells
putting them on with glue, and finishing
| with coat of varDish. Sumo choices ngrav-
ing or photograph can in this way be pro-
| vided with pretty frame at trifiiug expense.
Ny husband said to a young friend to-day,
that had got SD taken up with 6t,,cy cork,
he supposed should want to DO nothing
else now. knew he didn't mean il. by the
roguish twinkle Of his eye. Besides he is
Just as much interested as /, giving me a
hint here and there about the frames, and
insisting upon vanishing them, though
really wanted to d1 it myself | intend
next to make some lamp brackets like one
described so pleasantly in the August, igri-
| cult,yist last year. | know | should like
them, for hav nj so often had tn run up
stairs and bold the lamp for Nellie, while
she dressed her hair?
] bad pOs,r bread to-day. have no pa
tieuce with myself when that happens. The
| provoking part of it is, that j can always tell
| erdctLy what was the trouble, when TOO late
TO remedy it. To-day let it rise too long.
A neighbOr came in for a little while. Be-
ing without help, l should have asked her to
sit few minutes in the kitchen, while |
nodded il; but foolishly waited until she
vent away. If bread rises until it passes
| from the sacchariDe to the vinous fermenta-
tion, it is past hep. II has lost is whole
some and nutritious quality. No ant can
restore it. Bread must not he neglected or
forgotten 1t must have chief place in The
mind until safely out of the oven. Two
things are absolutely essential 10 geod bread
flour No, and light. sweet yeast. With
these no housekeeFer should be satisfied
with bread of only medium quality. 1t is
far better. after testing rule and finding il
new recipes. Here, literally, practice
makes perfect" This is my recipe: Boil
twelve peeled potatoes, and mash them well.
Add quart Of the water they were boi.ed
in, while hot, and cup of sugar. When
cool, add quart of cold water, and hall
pint Of fresh yeast. Let it stand in a warm
place twelve hours, after that shut it up tight
ly, and keep it in cool place. Il will rise
quickly and make delightful bread. s.
/ called round upon my young friend Liz
zie Mason to-day. Her mother was dear
mate of mine in our girlhood days should
lora r. fol- h,r L., I,,s I
her for her own as well. It more then re-
pays me for any Ii tie advice or encourage
ment may give her, TO enjoy the freshness
and hcartiness of her first year al house.
keeping, and to have good laugh over some
Of her failures and mishaps. They carry
me back to days of ~auld lang syne." No
medicine 10 SO good for care worn house
keeper as merry laugh. But to-day Liz
Eie wore troubled brow. Baby was fretful,
and such piles of work stared her in the face,
while really she could do none of it. Mr..
Mason and baby both needed warmer cloth
ing at once, and the housework was getting
sadly behind. "Why, Lizzie. " said, what
a heavy burden you are carrying about D"
throw it off at once. The wrinkles are on
your face already - THAT is Just what
Henry told me at dinner" she replied. He
said he would rather hire all the sewing done
than have me so troubled about H. But
you know he is Just beginning for himself
and want TO help him all can. 1t seems
shiftless for me TO hire sewing with only my
little family to care for" Well Lizzie used
to say just the same, but look at it different
ly now. Young wives and mothers are too
proud, and too ambitious. They want 10 do
every thing themselves, and be esteemed
model housekeepers, when in fact they are
not yet through with the alphabet. You
are not strong. Your little one is " orrisome.
The care of that as well as of your house
is new care. Yon make hard Oork of il. By
degrees you will get along easier. You will
learn wbers to take the advantage of your
work, and how to favor yourself some, while
at the same time you will accomplish more.
1t is new thing for you to have the long
night of refreshing sleep, parcelled up into
maps so broken and un9uiet, that the morn
ing finds you even more fveary then bed
time. 1t is just here that so many young
wives break down; and becoming discour-
aged at the prospect before them, indulge in
q complaining spirit, and an inefficiency, ia.
tai like to their own happiness, and TO all
with whom they are associated. Settle
points in your mind, the sooner the better
First, take proper care of your own health
in a pecuniary as well as domestic sense.
You cannot violate natures laws with i'm
punity. Exercise in the fresh air every day;
il nothing more then brisk walk on your
piszzs, throwing your arms backward and
forward, receiving into the lungs that which
shall change the torpid and impure blood to
a life giving current, impartiDg energy and
strength to the system. Take good care of
your child Make it as comfortable and happy
as in your power. Prepare wholesome and
nutritious food for your table. If Mr.. Mason
provides abundant material, he has a right
to expect that OH your part it shall be turn
ed TO good account. Next in order is sew
ing. Have one or two garments ready, and
sew when you can, Don't think of others,
until these are done. Select that which is |
most difficult and irksome and hire some one |
to do it for you. You will not, by and by, |
with half dozen little ones around you, |
carry such a load as you are sinking under |
to-day. think my long lecture did her |
good. for she told me in parting that she |
should not forget it, though the half dozen |
little ones" she would Danish from her mem
ory, with the piles of sewing | had said |
must have such fate. From The brow of
the bill, as looked back, | saw her on the |
porch. going through gith auch evolutions
and attitudes, that stranger would at once
have pronounced her crazyl
ks6ruary-aA place for every thing, and
every thing in its place. How invaluable
this rule 10 the housekeeper. For every
article in common use about house, a place
should be assigned, and each member Of the
family distinctly understand it must be
found there. Any one in the dark should
be able to put hands upon it. How much
time ard patience is thus saved. Hannah,
though good girl in many respects, cannot
have the bump Of ordei well developed, al
least, if there is sny truth in pbrenOlogy.
How annoying to be questioned as to the
Of missing articles, and then
find them in some out of the way pace. where
she has csrelessly left them. To-day, after
The had commenced washirg. the floor was
covered with water. found she had lef,
he tubs in the wcsdshed all the week, ,instead
Vt taking them to their true place in the
cellar. Then she had long hu, for the
indigo bag Had / not taken it from the
pantry? She was so sure she put it there I
osf Monday She woul1 have baan iusf |