The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-10-28
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Ileseni Rarat: There is no position
connected with farming that requires
ono 70 be so instant in thought, in
Iseason and out Of. season, as that Of
ihOasewife. When cooking, she must
haze her thoughts revolving at the
rile of.three hundred revolutions in
tie minutc.of some of the numerous
lions are sure to burn. Those cakes,
that roasting coffee, and numerous
other things, must be attended to at
the right moment, or We sit down to
burned cake, cold cofFe, or y dish of
pork and beans burned nearly to a
'cinder.'
How,s this? Well, she has so much
to do: so many irons in the fire, and,
withal, has been 4 little careless
How could it be otherwise? Just a
little carelessness on her part is sure
ito bring her to grief; and her hus-
band to burned or spoiled victuals,
and to drink black swill,and call it
Coffee.
A good housewife must have her
wits about her all the time, or the
leakage from the kitchen will mate
rily diminish the profits of the farm.
Bits of meat, bread, cake and pie,
which could be just as well saved,
are carelcssly thrown away. In the
course of 4 year, could they be placed
i'm pile, they would greatly aston
iish the cook, and account for the
dollars deficit in the far
liners calculations. A stream Of
small things daily pouring from the
Kitchen in years time would swell
sinte 4 small brook, which would pratt
Tie carclessness and waste and
Kin steaeh a valuable lesson to all
sl solld dcign to listen.
TIE sysl ssel is the key that
opens the secrets Of tho :tousewifs's
dominionsofcookery. Fin the hct-
erogeneous mass are floating liberal
quantities Of bread and cake, pud-
ding and pie, potatoes and meat, it
is ominous of careless and unthink-
ing waste. What is thrown into the
hopper by the provident hand of the
farmer, passes over the tail-board Of
the kitchen into that omnium gath
'erum, the swill barrel; and the dol
lars that should go to clothe herself
and children, are swallowed up in
the greasy waters Of that atopcn-mouth-
cd catch-all.
Want Of order and care rob us Of a
mint of money. without our seeming
to notice the leakage, without our
taking heed to the lesson which is
before us from ono year's end 10 the
other. Wastefulncss is the twin broth
er of poverty. At first they appear
to be distant from each other and
without family look; but as age
creeps on they grow to look alike,
and at last, when side by side in the
poor house, the resemblance is per-
feet, and we wonder that we had nev-
er noticed it before.
The true economy in the kitchen
is to have everything in order and
in its place, to save everything that
is useful. A little saved to-day, and
day by day as the months glide by.
will insensibly grow into notice, and
at last be properly appreciated. Ex.
travagance is the other extreme, and
like wastefulness, swallows up the
dollars without any equivalent; In
deed, they are in their results syn
onymous, both showing the disap-
pointed improvident crawling out at
the little end of the cornucopia.
The man who has good housewife,
in whom order and economy hold a
prominent place, may consider him
self rs blessed among men, and if he
can not appreciate her, he deserves
the cxecration Of all women, and to
be pcltcd with rotten eggs by unfor-
tuNate men.
She stepped into the car radiant
r;tb rontb and 1nokino cool and