The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-08-16
HOUSEHOLD.

young men can not afford to marry. If
this be true, society is in great danger. If
only the rich can take to themselves wives,
not only will the race dwindle, but it will
dwindle through vicious channels. ! am
inclined to think that the aphorism is Sa-
tanic, and therefore lie. | do not believe
young men can not afford to marry, any
more than they could not afford to marry
fifty or hundred years ago. believe that
society, with all its ingenuity in the devils
service, can not so order things as to pre-
vent the honest union of the young man
and maiden, and happy married life God
has not constituted marriage as the normal
condition of humanity, and then rendered
the condition an impossibility to the mass
of mankind. The order to Noah's posterity,
Be fruitful and multiply" was no special
the earth. God has no respect for persons,
and if it were possible to conceive of par
TALLY in God, we should say that He leaned
to the side of the poor. The Scriptures
take it for granted that every man has
wife, and every woman has husband, ec-
ceptis ercipisndis. Any idea that resists
this sexual symmetry is perverse and pesti-
ferrous.
have seen very many cases Of the sup
posed cdnt-aforo-to marry disease, and ex
amned many, and always found the symp
toms to prove another complaint altogether.
The diagnosis had been utterly false. 1t
was a don't -,cdnt-to marry trouble that was
affecting the patient. This was the story
Formosa has dwelt in marble halls, and
clothed herself in acres of purple and fine
linen. Marriage with her means twenty
thousand year. So / look at my two
thousand and can't afford to marry. Or
the story was this: Pulchra aciShes to
dwell in marble halls, and clothe herself in
acres of purple and fine linen. Marriage
with her, therefore, means twenty thousand
year. So | look at my two thousand and
can't afford to marry. Formula-wise and
true-wise, it is this: Foolish girls wish
to live idle, pampered, and fashionable
lives and foolish young men are seeking
after the foolish girls" In such compli-
cation marriage loses its meaning; and it is
very natural for young man to say, 81
can't afford to marry" The truth is, he
can not afford to marry after the style
aforesaid, and he does not irish to marry in
a sensible style, to which his two thousand
would say, Amen. But there are other
than foolish girls in the world. There are
girls of simple tastes, modest mien, indus
trious habits, and unsel6sh hearts. You
are not apt to find them in the highways,
or in conspicuous places. They make the
best wives in the world, while the Saratoga
thing makes the worst. Look for them at
home, not in society-that fixing, bubblng
caldron, where pride, vanity, and vapidity,
seasoned with vice, sputter into assimilation.
Find them helping in nursery, pantry, or
kitchen; not sauntering with brazen stare
on a frequented promenade, or dawdling
among French novels in the boudoir.
Don't be desperate, my dear fellows, and
say there are no such girls as | describe. |
know better. don't blame you for think
ing so, when you judge from the article
that lies around loose in the city of New
York. But change your sphere of observa-
ton. Go into quieter paths. Don't be
dazzled by mere plumage. Parrots and
peacocks are not nightingales. The true
girl has to be sought for. She does not
parade herself as show-goods. She is not
fashionable. Generally she is not richl
But what heart she has when you find her,
so large, and pure, and womanly. When
you see it. you wonder if those snowy
things outside were really women. If you
gain her love, your two thousand are a
million. She'll not ask you for carriage,
nor a frstclass house. She'll wear simple
dresses, and turn them when necessary,
with no vulgar nadgnifcat to frown upon
her economy. She'll keep everything neat
and nice in your sky-parlor, and give you
such welcome when you come home, that
you'll think your parlor higher than ever.
She'll entertain true friends on dollar, and
astonsh you with the new thought, how
very little happiness depends on money.
She'll make you love home Gf you don't
you're brute), and teach you how to pity,
while you scorn, a poor, fashionable society
that thinks itself rich, and vainly tries to
think itself happy.
Now, do not, pray you, say any more,
Il can't afford to marry" Go, find the
true woman, and you can. Throw away
that cigar, burn up that switch cane, be
sensible yourself, and seek your wife in a
sensible way Working Church.
CHEAP WAY TO MAKE V1SEGAR.-I take
quite quantity of common Irish potatoes,
and wash them until they are thoroughly
clean, then place them in large vessel and
boil them until done. l now drain off care
fully the water that I cooked them in.
straining it if necessary, in order to remove
every particle of the potato. Then put
this potato water into jug or keg, which /
place near the stove, or in some convenient
place where it will be kept warm, and add
one pound of sugar to about two and one
half gallons of the water, some hop yeast, or
small portion of whisky. Prepared in this
way, and letting it stand three or four weeks.
you will have most excellent vinegar. In
deed it Is the only vinegar that will preserve
cucumbers cut fresh from the vines without
the aid of salt. If l have not a plenty of
potatoes, when 1 am boiling them for family
use put on more water than is necessary
to cook them, and drain off the water and
treat it as above described, diminishing the
ingredients to suit the amount of potato
water. The whole cost of really superior
vinegar made in this way does not exceed
six or seven cents per gallon Cincinnati
Gazette. - .s m
Roll JELLY CAKE.-To three well beaten
eggs, add one cup Of powdered sugar, one
cup OF Hour, stir well and add one teaspoon
full of cream of tartar, one half teaspoonful
OF soda dissolved in three teaspoonfus of
water. Bake in two pie-pans, spread as
even as possible. Have ready towel and
as soon as done, turn the cake on it bottom
side up, then spread evenly with jelly, roll
up quickly and wrap in towel.
A writer asserts that if you put piece of
lump sugar, the size of a walnut, into tea
pot, you will make the tea infuse in half the
time.