Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-11-12
MILKMAIDS.

Flanders and Holland are justly
celebrated for their dairies, which are
distinguished alike for their cleanli-
ness, good management, and ricn
produce. Dutch butter and cheese
form no unimportant item in the
commerce and comfort of the world.
Milk, chemically aid medically con.
sidercd, contains those very ingre.
dients, in the right proportion, which
arc requisite for tie formation of
blood, bone, sinew, muscle, TISSUE,
Sc, and it is in fact model food SO
that dietary however made up, for
Young or old, IL wholesome and nu-
tricious precisely as it bears an in
trinsic relation tc the component
parts Of pure milk. Man, if his life
were led in simple and natural man.
ncr, would thrive best Oh farm pro-
duce. Artificial drains on the nerv-
Gus system, especially on the brain,
call for artificial modes Of compensa-
tion, and l.cncr many forms and CONF
pIicaiions of disease are introduced !:
so that CARLYLE was perfectly right,
aud in a deep sense too, when lie said
somewhere 1--WE quote from memory,
"The COW is the friend aud ally of
man, but the French cook is his nat
ural enemy" There is singular
story tvru vr e.---- ..-:as.'"..iS~ ..a..
| once were the means Of saving city.
Let me relate the story. During the
wars in the sixteenth century in the
Low Countries, the Spaniards ill.,
tended TO besiege the city Of bort, in
Holland, and accordingly planted
some thousands of soldiers in ambush,
to be ready for the attack when op-
portunitv might offer. On the con.
fines of the city lived a rich farmer,
who kept a number OF cows in his
fields. to furnish the citizens OF bort
with butter and milk. His milk
maids at this time coming to milk the
cows, saw under the hedges the troop;
lying in ambush. Seeming to take ne
notice of them, the girls MIXED the
kline, and then went home, singing
mcrrily as they went with the milk
pals OH their heads. On reaching thu
, farm house, they told their master
what they had seen, who, ;,stonishet
: at the information, took one of th
maids with him to burgonaster 70
magistrate) of the city. On the ma
gistratc hearing the story of the girls
he Immediately sent spy to ascertain
j, the truth Of the tale. Finding I'll
report c,rrect, he began to prepar
for safety, aud Instantly sent TO III
!. Staics, or Government, who ordcre
IN soldiers into the city, and command
: ed the river Mas to be let in by
'g certain sluice, which would soon Ia
i that par: of the country under wate
:. where the besiegcrs lay hid. Thi
e. was forthwith done, and gre;
number of Spanish soldiers wei
drowned; the rest, being checked
their design 10 take the city, escape
with their lives. And thus the cit
e, of bort was saved. The States,
perpeluatc the memory Of the mcrl
" milkma;ds' services to the countr
voted the farmer large sum of III lone
= to rccompemse him for the loss OF Ii
q house, Land, and cattle by the floot
and they also caused the coin Of Il
" city to have lnilkmaid milking
3 COW engraven thereupon, which,
= believe, is 10 be seen ut this day upt
the bort dollars, stivers, and doit
The same representation was also S
4 up OH the watergate OF the Mas; Al
rs the milk maids we're granted a han
ii ii some annuity for life. Mi!kmai,l
. both Flemish, Dutch, and Englis
render important services TO the
IL respective countries in plying the
daily avocation of first milking q
cows and then selling the milk b
, , it is not given to all snch maids
nd have in their "miik-way" life, all el
sode so striking and so profitable
H. that which befel the fair maids
at Dort.-[Our Own Fireside.
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