The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-10-14
Woman on the Farm.

The following sensible article is from
that sensible farmers paper, the Western
Rural: There is no position connected
with farming that requires one to be so
instant in thought, in season and out of
season, as that Of the housewife. When
cooking, she must have her thoughts re-
volving at the rate of three hundred
revolutions in the minute, or some OF the
numerous irons 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 coffee, or dish of pork and
beans burned nearly to cinder.
How's this? Well, she has so much to
do, 80 many irons in the fire, and, withal,
has been little careless. How could it
be otherwise? Just little carelessness
on her part is sure to bring her to grief,
and her husband 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 materially diminish
the profits of the farm. Bits of meat,
bread, cake and pie, which could be just
as we'll saved, are carelessly thrown
away. In the course of year. could
they be placed in pile, they would
greatly astonish the cook, and account
| for the hundred dollars deficit in the
farmers calculations. Astrcam of small
things daily pouring from the kitchen
in a years time would swell into a small
brook, which would prattle of careless.
ness and waste, and kindly teach a valu'
able lesson to all who would deign to
listen.
The swill barrel is the key that opens
the secrets of the housewives deminions
of cookery. If in the Heterogeneous
mass are floating liberal quantities O.
bread and cake, pudding and pie, pota
toes and meat, it is ominous Of careless
and unthinking waste. What is thrown
into the hopper by the provident hanc
of the farmer, passes over the tail. boart
of the kitchen into that omnium gath
erum, the swill barrel; and the dollar
that should 90 to clothe herself ant
children, are swallowed up in the greas,
waters Of that open-mouthed catch-all.
Want of order and care rob us of
mint of money, without our seeming t.
notice the leakage, without our taxing
heed to the lesson which is before us from
one years end to the other. Wasteful
ness is the twin brother of poverty. A
first they appear to be distant from eacl
other and without family look; but a
age creeps on they grow to look alike
and at last, when side by side in the poo
house, the resemblance is perfect, ant
we wonder that we had never noticed
before.
The true economy in the kitchen is T.
have everything in order and in its place
to save everything that is useful. 4
little saved to-day, and day by day a
the months glide by, will inscnsibly. gro,
into notice, and at last be properly al
preciated. Extravagance is the othe
extreme, and like wastefulness, swallow
up the dollars without any equivalent
, indeed, they are in their results synony
} nous, both showing the disappointe
improvidcnt crawling out at the littl
r end of the cornucopia.
, The man whe has good housewife, !
= whom order and economy hold a prom
Z nent place, may consider himself
e blessed among men, and IL he can M
appreciate her, he deserves the execr
z tion of all women, and to be pelted wit
& rotten Gags by unfortunate men.