Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-03-06

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branch Of education, in the country as we'll
as in the. city. A tour through tho land will
reveal, in houses of all ranks of society, cook.
cry which is tho fruitful source of dyspepsia
and its frightful train of ills. In the houses
lof many farmers, particularly in tho west and
south, where abundance is always present,
however, coarse the quality, how often are
tough meats floatcd in grease and fried to tho
pliancy and color of leather, and served with
biscuits like bullets, and of nearly equal do.
structiycnoss. Such viands arc oven moro
prcjudical to health than tho ut-producing
delcacies of tho gournand as they como from
the sklllful hand of French cook. "Whilc
the Lord sends meats" almost with the pro.
fusion of the quals that fed the Israeltes, it
must be that " the devil sends cooks" The
evil should be remcdied. The faculty of any
female college in tho land is incomplete with
out some Professor Blot
If the Arabs permitted divorce for igno-
rance of bread making, thcir laws wore less
inimical to good morals than are those Of In
diana. A woman is broken reed, who can
not, in tho time of necd-which is omphat-
oally tue hour Of servant.girl abscntccism-.
produce The staff of life. Fow kitchen girls
can bake a loaf of bread of the first quality;
many arc able to make only the most wretch
ed failures. 1t would not be cxtravagant to
say that sab bread had destroyed more life
than gunpowdcr ertainly produced moro
suffering. Whatever womau's accomplish
ment or fortune, she cannot be certain of hay
ing wholesome food for her family unless she
eau, at least, teach practically the high art of
bread making. 1t is prime essential in a
young woman's education, for tho lack of
which no culture in other directions can com.
pensate.
Many Of those who have neglected this cd
uoation, in youth will be compelled to acquire
1T under circumstances the most disagreeablo
and inopportune, as is the case of lend of
a wcll-known American authorcss, (NIrs. Sig.
ourncy,) who encountered dishoartcning
and mortifying. experience in the west, but
pcrsevcring, surmounted all obstacles, and be-
came as accomplished in domestic affairs as in
tho learning of tho schools. Tho following
is brief extract from her interesting de-
scription of her suffering, her conflict, and
her victory:
"Houschold work cannot, as somo imagine
be done e.ctcmporc, nor is thcrc royal road
to domestic economy any moro than to any
other art or science. Iapplied my strength
my mind, and my conscience to tho business.
[ often failed, but I learned from failure as
well as from success. Practice made that ca
sy which at first seemed impossible I can
now dispatch bit of work in the time at
first consumed in signing over it, and oftcn
find hands arc performing their work like ma
chincry, while my mind is wandering ovor
earth, sea, and skies What wonder-work-
or is habit! When we canuot obtain domcs-
tics, we do not now suffer Such occasions
are however, rare. We can get rough Irish
or Germans, and know how to direct them
what to require of them, and whcro to assist
them. They are we'll called 'hamls;" their
employer must be head to them And now,
my dear friend, those branches of my cduca-
tion which, in my first despair, thought ut.
tcrly lost upon mo, have assumed their right
position, and household drudgcry takes its
subordinate place. now feel
tho full value of my lato domestic education,
whic.4 enables mo to enjoy With a quiet con-
science, the elegant pursuits for which my ear
ly instruction alone qualified mo-"
A New WAY TO KILL HAwKs.-Tho fol.
lowing extract from the {" Associate Reformed
Presbyterian" is worthy of notice. Spring
time is coming, and the Hawks will be after
chickens, wc,woud suggest to cxpcrimcntcrs
caution, in using the prescribed remedy not
to allow careless servants or children to mod.
die with the Nux Vomica.
NUX VoMIoA.-4Thc seed of the trcc Of
the genus Strychnos, growing in the East
Indies. Ityiclds strychnia and bruoia and is
o very yirulcnt poison"
1t is said that this article will kill birds. |
the hawk, for example, hatchcd with its eyes
shut but will not injure chickens. procured
few "seed or buttons of tho "nux'' not
long ago and had them filed down to powder
at the smith shop they arc very hard. The
powder was mixed with dough for few days
and fed to the little chickens apart. About
twowceks ago tho hawk removed his visits and
carried off ono of the chicks. He has not
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