The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-08-23
HOUSEHOLD.

ExTRAvAGANcE OF AMERICAN WOMEN
Every month or so newspapers contain &C
counts of some brides outfit for married life
her Jewels, her silks, her satins, the vari-
GUS fnery--all which looks and reads very
much like extravaganza, and leads often to
grave moralizing upon the wastefulness of
American women. No doubt there are ex-
travagant women, but look at this
The value of silk and the manufactures of
silk imported into the United States for the
year ending June 30, 1869, was $22 ,334654.
Now in the State Of New York, in 1865,
there were | ACT ,636 women and girls over
ten years of age. The sum of $22,334 ,654,
the total value of imported silks, divided
among these women and girls of one State
alone, would give only fifteen dollars and
twenty-five cents worth of all silk goods i'm
ported in the United States to each. This
is the value of tive gallons of fine brandy
" imported from France" but in fact often
est made at home. r-.ess
This simple fact seems to show that as
class, American women are not extravagant;
as whole, they are in fact the best econe-
mists for they make small means go farther
in their own expenses and in their house
holds than any women in the world. That
there are extravagant women, as there are
men, no one of course denies. That there
are some who live only to make show and
glitter, is true, but in comparison with the
whole number of wives and mothers, and
sisters and daughters, these are but very few
indeed. They will make, more cheerfully
and without complaint, more devoted sacri-
fees for their husbands and children, than
any other women. They bow with more
dignity and grace to the loss of property,
and bear up with more resolution and fOrti-
tude under adverse circumstances, than any
of their SEX There never has been exhibit
ed in the worlds history more and nobler
heroism or greater self-sacrifce, than by the
women of the United States during the late
rebellion.
Go up and down Broadway, through all the
streets, into all the cities and larger towns,
and where you find one place fitted up for
women to trade and buy in, you will find ten
saloons, restaurants grog- shops, cigar stores,
sample rooms, concert halls and other plac-
es, where men pay large sums in the aggre-
gate for things which profit neither body,
mind, nor estate" but weaken the one, ener-
vate the other, and waste the last.-N. Z.
Eoening Post.
FArHER.-What was that you said, "Pa-
pa?" and you girl of fifteen. What would
/ say? l would say Father" Think of
a boy or girl in their teens using the child
ish pet names. fpapa or mamma! When
we have a good expressive word let US
use it !; and where in our language do we
find more expressive words than father or
mother? The very words themselves ex-
press to our hearts honor, esteem, love and
reverence while papa, mamma, express
merely what Webster says, A name given
to parents by young chileren."
Would you say that Washington was the
papa of his country? No, you would say
at once it was irreverent and unbecomng.
Would you speak of the mammas of the rev.
olution, who were willing to sacrifice their
sons for their country? No. Take up a
good author, the words father, mother, Of
ten thrill the heart, but papa, mamma, new
er then there is another, more reverent,
holier, dearer still, in all times of sorrow,
doubt, or fear, how gladly we turn our
thoughts above and say, "Our Father who
art in Heaven"
Show that you have mind to appreciate
such beautiful words as father, mother let
them ever come with loving cadence from
your lips, expressing the deep, loving
thoughts of your heart. Papa, mamma, suit
the childish years before deep thought comes,
but they have not the meaning, and do not
express the love and respect of the dear
old words, Father, Mother.
SCRAPPLEs.-Take hogs liver, lights,
heart; tongue and the head, except the
jowls and olfal pieces both lean and fat, from
other parts OF the animal boil them thor
Oughly in small quantity of water; chop
all pretty fine, after taking out OF the liquor;
season as for sausage; then return to- the
pot, thickening the whole with one half
buckwheat meal and one half corn meal SO
that it will be about the consistency of In
dian meal cake; let it boil gently half an
hour, then pour in pans to cool slice it.,
and fry in its own fat. It is far better than
what is commonly called liver pudding"
PEACH AND CHERRY PICKLEs-For Eva
G. j. To one quart of good vinegar add
six pounds of coffee sugar, whole cloves and
cinnamon to taste; when hot, wipe and drop
in your peaches or cherries, as soon as they
commence to crack take out and place in
your jar, then add more fruit till all is cooked,
boil down the juice very little and pour
over the fruit. ---.-.--.
GREEN CoRN PUDDENG.-I have also a
very good recipe for green corn pudding.
-Four cups of grated corn, six tablespoonful
of flour, six of sugar, six cups of sweet milk,
four eggs and very little salt; bake two
hours. MF .-a
JELLY ROLL CAKE.-Eight eggs fourteen
ounces of sugar, nine ounces of -four, and
one-half ounce of bi-carbonate of ammonia.
Spread very thin and bake in quick oven.