The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-07-15

Of small income infiict upon themselves
and their children is positively frighfful
/ The boys of such families usually live
in state of chronic insurrcction, while
the girls settle down aud accept pretty
! dresses as substitute for food Who
1 does not know some widow who ] as
struggled to raise her family genteell5,
and seen them die, one after another IS
they approached or soon after ,hey
reached majority The food was not
sufficient to sustain the growth, aud they
/ perish of slow starvation. ] know OF
several such cases, and others where chill
dren brought up in this way inger on in
kind of comatose, state, incapable Of
any efficient action of mind or body /
would correct this evil, and find use for
the unemployed boy power which is rum
ming to waste IN every street Of city aud
town, and village, by teaching every boy
the art Of cooking and clothing him with
more or less Of cooks authority in the
family. Get a butcher to teach him the
special use Of every cut of beef, just what
part Of the living animal it represents,
and how to know it at sight; teach him
ITO make the purchases aud keep account
4 Of them, to take. directions from a cook
book; aud pay him for we'll done work.
If there are girls in the family, let them
set tables and look after the dishes; or,
in some way, divide the work fairly, Civ
ing to each that portion for which he or
she is best qualified by natural taste aud
ability.
The cooking and marketing for an or
dinary family would be no serious ia
reference with school hours, especially
II there were two boys in the family. A
half hour is enough time in which TO
prepare breakfast; and all the dinner
vegetables can be prepared, and some of
them, with the soup, set to cook before
morning school time. The mother, or
some one at home, can give the necessary
attention during school hours aud the
boy who has to finish cooking his dinner
before he eats it will get home early, aud
soon learn to get up nice dinner in
very short time.
Once in the habit, and not few Of
them will follow up the BUSINESS for life;
and it will be quite right that they should
do so. All those men who spend their
lives in daily eruption Of the red-hot
lava Of imprecation because their dinners
are spoiled are themselves unquestionsbly
spoiled cooks. Their light has been hid
den under bushel, their talents buried.
and they forced into uncongenial work
by purely arbitrary law Taey very
probably have wives who could attend
to their down town business quite az
well, if not better than they; but who
who never can or viii learn - cook.
These unfortunates very probably spend
their lives in a martyrdofn Of endeavor,
and become soured and wretehed through
the uBremittiug fault finding wbteb is
their only reward for an hourlJ cruHix
ion Of their own tastes and earnest effort
to do what is required of them. In any
case where a man knows himself to bee
possessed Of this inordinatc love Of food,
aud the intujtive knowledge Of how II
should be prepared, while his wifes
deficiency in this respect makes IL a con
slant conflict with nature for her to at
tempt to meet his requirements, tho
wisest and shortest way is for him so to
order his business that lie can lie his
own cook, or employ some one gifted IN
this line, while his wife attends TO some
business for which she has a natural
If his business Is mercan-
tile, or anything that requires account
keeping, the probabilities arc that sho
could learn all about it, and become an
efficient helpinate in it, with a little Of
the effort she would waste in tryi( (fto
earn to cook. Let eacha individual do
hat for which be or che has natural
and see if the cooking IS not
lone by men and boys. O.