Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-02-28

TRAISING GIRLS ron HoUsEuoLp Dr.
rEs.-Training girls for household du-
ties ought 10 be considered as necessa-
ry as instruction ir writing and arith-
metic, and quite as universal. We are
in our house more than half Of our cx-
istence, and it is the household surroun-
dings which affect most largely the hap
piness or misery of domesticc life. IL
the wife knows how to "kecp house" if
she understands low TO ''set table" if
she has learned how things ought to be
cooked, how beds should be made, how
carpets should be swept, how furniture
should be busted, how clothes should
be repaired, aud turned, and altered, and
renovated if she knows how purchas.
es can be made to the best advantage,
and understands the laying in Of proyi-
sions, how 10 make them go the fartbest
and last the longest if she appreciates
the Importance of system, order, tidi-
ness and the quiet management of chill
dren and servants, then she knows how
to make little heaven Of bome-how
to keep her husband from the club
house, the gaming table and the wine
cup. Such family will be trained to
social respectability, TO business sue
cess, aud TO efficiency and usefulness in
whatever position may be allotted to
them. 1t is safe to Say that not one
girl in ten in our large towns and cities
enters into married life who has learned
to bake loaf of bread, TO purchase
roast, to dust a painting, to sweep
carpet, or to cut, and fit, and make her
own dress. How much the perfect
knowledge of these things bears upon
the thrift, the comfort and health Of
families, may be conjectured, but not
calculated by figures. II would be Of
immeasurable advantage 10 make be.
ginning by attaching kitchen TO every
girls school in the nation, and have les
sons given daily in the preparation Of
all the ordinary articles Of food and
drink for the table, and how to purchase
them in the market 10 the best advan-
tage, with the result Of a large saving of
money, an increase Of comfort and high
er health in every family in the land.
A HoRRIBLE confession. franklin
B. Evans, the Norwood murderer, was
hanged on February II, at Concord, n
IL He made confession, admitting
the killing Of Georgiaaa Lowering, his
niece, and Of young girl, in the Fall
OF 1850, and in detail tells the story Of
bis useless and licentious life. lie re-
lates stories about some OF bis female
relatives Of disgusting character. He
says be killed Georgians Lowering be-
cause she threatened 10 expose him for
altering one dollar bill TO ten dollars.
In relation to the murder of another
child, he says: "1n the Fall of 1850 I
left my wife, having been living With
her in Salem, Mass, and came to Der
~, n. II. On arriving at the house Of
Mr.. Mills, late in the evening, l found
the door fastened. I heard in .he
house moaning sound, a. of child. I
opened the window and got in. /
found several children lying on the
floor, and one girl sitting on the foor
who seemed TO be very sick. On ex-
aiming her l concluded she could not
live until morning. Wishing 70 pro-
cure the body for surgical purposes, ]
resolved to kill her, and took her TO the
woods, at some distance, and there
strangled her. On examining the body
found one hip and part Of the spine
deformed, and partly on this account,
but more because of feeling Of re-
morse and terror that seized me, ] de-
sisted from my purpose Of examining
! the body. found chestnut stump,
partly rotten, anl turning it up, hid the
BODY under Il, and replaced the stamp"