Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-12-21
Saoies' Department..
NECESSITY OF CULTURE FOR THE
WIFE.

| The mothers heart can take care OF
itself the mothers hands must be busy,
whatever her station in life. But the
mothers intellect has too often been al
| lowed to suffer and die, with no one
wise enough about her to lift a warning
voice And look at the results. The
children grow up to young man and
womanhood, secretly in their thougtless
hearts despising her for her want of
wise and broad culture. She carried her
brains into little tucks and embroidery
to ornament their beautiful childhood;
but for this they have no thanks. The
pretty dresses are worn out; now they
need mother who can command their
intellectual respect, and teach them
some of life's highest lessons before they
90 out from the household forever. Plain,
strong clothing, then, would have left
time for loving, strong wisdom now.
The husband, who has been growing as
men always grow who are continually
mingled with the world, rubbed sharp
and bright with its frictions, and COM
PEELED to pick up many chapters from its
varied experiences, may be still kind,
loving, considerate to the faded, inanl-
mate wife, whose mind has remained
stationary for score of years. But he
must be a rare man if a very thorough
contempt for the female intellect does
not worm itself into some of the secret,
inner chambers of his soul. Has any
wife moral right to suffer herself to be
outgrown in character by her husband ?
Cakes and jellies may fall into the back
ground, but ideas, in the family econo-
my. must rule always above par. Work
ing women more than any other need the
strength and consolation which are to be
derived from wide field of ennobling
thought, need thorough and persistent
self-education, and all the dignity and
;. respectful consideration which is always
given by rich and poor alike to we'll
cultivated intellect. The highest work
which can be done for ones family is
teaching them practically that the mind
o is of even greater worth than the body.
= Little children accustomed to see an
o honored mother studying habitually, if
only for half an hour every day, must
o learn early to respect the wisdom which
is so highly priced. Is any woman am.
4 bilious for her family? There is no bet
q ter way of steadily promoting then
~ welfare. Example is immensely better
= than precept, and she more influential
q than all other teachers in forming theil
% plant characters. As many plants turn
q the face of every leaf and petal TOWARD
q the sun, so human beiug who early
II learns that knowledge is its own exceed
re ing great reward will turn toward it in
\ stinctiyely in every emergency. 'N'
h distances are so great as moral dis
] tances. . Rev. Antoinette Blackwell.
The HOUSEWIVES TABLE.-The fol
~ lowing is very valuable housewife
Il. table, BY which persons not havln
81 and weights at hand may readil
er measure the article wanted to form an
d recipe without the trouble of weighing
ne allowance to be made for an extraordir
III airy dryness or moisture Of the articl
81 weighed or measured:
O. Wheat -four, l pound is l quart.
10 Indian meal, pound ounces al
~ one quart.
Butter, when soft, pound is quar-
he Loaf sugar, broken, pound is quar-
"a White sugar powdered, pound
in ounce are quart.
a Best brown sugar, pound 2 ounce
I'll are quart.
rlv len eggs are one pound.
to Sixteen large teaspoonfuls are one-ha
or: pint.
is Eight large teaspoonfuls are gill.
,ay Four large teaspoonfuls are l-2 gill
+ Two gills are IL pint.
ion A common sized tumbler holds on
at, half a pint.
is, A common sized wine-glass is on
DOR halfa gill.
AVS A teacup is one gill.
a A large wine-glass is one gill
a A tablespoonful is IL ounce.
ON Forty drops are equal to teaspoonf'
eek -Four teaspoonfuls are equal to tab
.ty- spoonful.