The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-03-09
Everyday Life .In-D Doors.
BIZ MRS. MARY MALCOLM.

John dislikes corn bread, as we'll a
myself; and so | compromise the mat
tes, by making a pretty stiff pudding
of meal, ~kneading In enough -four Il
make it stick without crumbling, ad
ding about a ~tea-cupful of hop or po
toto yeast To two quarts of meal
Keep up proper heat to make it raise
Hell, after which add a little more
four, if necessary. Make into tive
loavcs, and bake IN an iron vessel N
quick a possible. This makes a very
sweet and palatabie bread, which
three out of every five persons will
prefer to wheat bread for dinner, II
il a small matter, but Fun afraid that
we women overlook TOO many -'smali
matters" We should, in the words
Of somebody, all of us try to "iift a
little" ,t
/ noticed Mary ironing some linen
socks on the wrong side she says it
makes them softer, and n o 40 liable
10 hurt one's feet s9d<Fti Tpt az
When john put up his hams this
winter, he rubbed them well with mt
laszes, and again while they were cur-
ing /; we now take them and sew them
ND tightly in, cotton clolh. L had
saved some flour sacks, WHICH we had
bought buckwheat f0urElD, land Their
answers good purpose. 4 never speak
of buckwheat, but my mind reverts
TO youthful visions of pancakes; and
Ia winter if n has ap accompaniment
of honey, or maple nolasses, 1 know
of nothing better for breakfast. Del
icate persons. especially females, some
times have u troublesome rash" said
ITO be caused by eating buckwheat
cakes. Ifyfos We can safely adopt the
homeopathic motto, 'Simtla simtIbu@
- ess3sasrs sfordhere isTnothing better
ti8of the 'tnettle rash" on. children than
buckFheat fqurEpbbed on dry.
The approaching spring season,
while il brings With much JOY. also
brings tn the housewife a season of
much faber. Cleaning house time is
unwelcemo to the .anen-fo!ks," as well
us ONE They Know that ID the
SEames OF cold dinners, Uncomfortable
=, night5 cross children, besides other
J accompaniment equally disagreeable.
But still, it has q be dons, and Mary
4.andT went at it with that understand
: ang..f We waged an uncompromising
Against dirt and cebWebs; win
!, dows we're washe6,i floors scrubbed,
ceilings Fyhitewashed, carpets shaken
bed Clothes washed, and other things,
Fs4fticlht Every Woman KNOWS better
than I can tell. etinished IN five
-day-:woss tired mortals as you could
~'ih x % i Sno6s5 our country stores;
d few digs ago, and heard 2 woman
n ssk the price of butter. The answer
:, was, tiFEom twenty five to forty cents.
Now, what makes the difference? It
lis not IN the cows, nor yet in the
rreamtfrom ths cows. j1tfis simply
in-the making ; and my proposition
covers Just such cases, The merchant
cannot afford to pay as much for poor,
badly worked butter, as he can for
g.. good yellow butter. free from water,
aud nicely Kept Il stands us IN hand,
= then, to fmprove ourselves in the carts
tdand mysteries of housekeeping" {
~ 4ean'tget Mary to broil a beef. {
stake, when left. TO herself; she wants i
10 fry it, and thereby spells all the I
merits there IS in. beef-ts jniciness !
{ I can't conceive how any person can i
. prsferr beet fried aIfaTJs9 5
Mary has been hackeniag the stove I
to-day give my stove a polish ev- i
cry week. It not caly keeps them Z
looking we'll, bat preserves them from c
rusting; and a stove viii, l am salts @
fed, fast one-third longer than if al !
loved to rast: am no advocate for i
sprudery in house keeping i like to 4
house clean and heat but 1 do >
bet like re- sec "a stiffness" of prim- @
about a room nor do I like to $
,zexcl1Ads nav ehiidren-fEen~certain
troUmsiB, the house, except upon sta
ted oecasionsar do not lilo my n
children, with muddy shoes, 10 tramp o
parior carpet; but ! do on Il
j.. certain, conditions, allow them the free 4
: use of al the house. S
I received a letter to-day from ao
Younger sister She tells me that she v
Is soon to take the charge OF the do $
nestle concord Of one Q: the best i
farms in the county. suppose that a
i. includes the farmer, also. Poor grit c
She winlhRse many ~seasonsof sorrow, 7
hnebs telkrpieE,o and a great deal to a
learn. Her education, like that of { q 4
great many Others, has not fitted and G
-pfepared-her for fhe management of
farmers house Butter making, and 3
( the handfed other peculiar duties, are a
all mysterious fohefE as yet. She n
= needs the advice. and assistance of old-i h
Ger persons, hut, like most others in 3
her condition, she is ashamed to ask i
.Hitcs One Teasohof-thisis,-that most n
: persouss in giving adyice, give it as an d
evidence of Imentai superiority. 1t is
hard, even for the most refined and
intelligent, to give advice so that per-
sons receiving Il. shall notbe reminded
of their Ignorance, let the subject be
what it may.-Ransass Fdrmsr. IN