Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-04-09
Going to Keeping House.

which are pretty good for general
reading !;
When girl marries, she ought to 9
certain cxtent, to give up her acquain
tances, and consider the company o.
her husband the best company she
can have. The young wife must learr
cooking carefully. There are many
excellent cookery books, but she must
not follow them implicitly.
My own plan, for some time after
married, was to- take some dish and
prepare it once according to the recipe
given, and note carefully what ingre
dients could be dispensed with. The
second time I generally managed it a,
half the expense. A useful plan is to
keep blank book in the kitchen table
drawer, and whenever a deviation from
the orthodox cookery book is made,
to jot it down. Do not wait till you
have washed your hands; let the
book be 6nger-marked, rather than
lose an idea.
You will thus learn more of house
hold economy than if you trusted to
memory, alone, and when your daugh-
ters grow up, what fund of practical
information it will be for them. To a
great extent the celibacy of ouryoung
mon is owing to the, way in which
girls are brought up. Through mis-
taken kindness, mothers often do
themselves what they ought to make
their daughters do. Let them teach
housekeeping on fixed methodical
plan, and they will then learn their
history, French and music all the
better.
It is natural and right that mother
should wish to see her daughters we'll
educated, and even highly accom-
rlished, and it is a mistake that good
and careful education would unfit u
girl for the homely duties of cooking,
busting, etc. On the contrary, those
duties would be better performed, and
it. mothers would at the same time
they Seek talented instructors for
their daughters, impart to them some
Of their own culinary talent there
would he more good wives and more
marriages. -. ..,.., - =
Little girls should be taught, sss ear.
~ ~as. possible, to perform simple
household duties neatly, and as they
grow older let them grow older lei
them become gradually acquainted
with the theory Of Housekeeping in
such a manner that when they are
nsrriee they will be able to adapt
themselves to their circumstances, and
be useful as well as plesing compan-
ions to their husbands. Let none of
my unmarried sisters suppose that /
wish them, when they marry, to be.
come mere household slaves.
Most young men when they marry
have fair prospects of advancement,
and should they be steady they may
in time be able to keep not one servant
only, but several, and theifsewives'
knowledge of housekeeping prove no
loSsaaefhl . them then than it was
when they had no servant at all. {
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A USEFUL TABLE.-To aid farmers
in arriving at accuracy ;in estimating
the amount Of land IN different fields
under cultivation, the following table
is givsnbyan agricuItarat contempt
rary: Five yards wide by 97s yards
long contains / acre. Ten yards wide
By 4s4 yards long contains acre. |
Twsnty yards wide by 242 yards long
eontains 4 acre. Forty yard wide byl
letysrds long geontsins acre. Eighty
yardsw wide by soa yards long contains
raesS Seventy yards wids by 8Sa !
yards Tong Sontaans ! acre. Two hun.
drsd andr twenty feet vide by. 1as |
fesS long contains I ae.e. Four hun.
drsd 4nd way gsst. viids bysfeo fsstl
losgaeoptaihs Aasss One huhdresl
and ten feet wide by 1893 feet long
contains ! acfs & ixt9 fsst syiis by |
z2o feet lonka sosts sas1 acre, ( ohhE
huHdrs8 sad twenty feet wide by ssst
ssssissS Ssehfsiasd ssfs!! Tvs hundsed
spA sssg fsess; y. vide d eae eby. 1911 5sst long
contains ! acrS. ''
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