The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-02
RECENTLY Mr.. WV. 4. BAKER,
millionaire of Massachusetts, gave a
r. r. ser .orss and $4,000 in money

millionaire of Massachusetts, gave
! farm of fifty acres and $4,000 in money
for the purpose of founding school oI
cookery. That there is room for great
reform in the kitchen is evidenced by
the following picture of the average
farm living in New England, and
the picture would not be greatly exager-
sted if applied TO the average household
in other sections Of the country The
education of all girls should begin in the
kitchen. Let their lessons there be
learned, and well learned. Let them be
rigidly taught how 10 prepare good and
diyestible breakfast and n better dinner,
and that these 60 far towards making the
most restive men good and contented hus-
bands. Professor BLOT used to teach
that baking in stove instead OF roasting
before n wood fire, frying meats that
should be broiled, wasting bones and
scrsps that should be converted into
savory soups, using hot, heavy biscuits
for breakfast or "teS" were barbarities
which should not be tolerated in a country
claiming common civilization. But to
our picture OF New England life:
"In the interior the mass Of the people,
worthy small farmers, live to-day exact
ly rs their fathers, grandfathers and fore
fathers lived Next to indigestible salt
pork, which is frequently eaten raw on
bread, and molasses, the principal meat
staple throug hOut the year is coarse corn
cd beef, which long before the bottom Of
the barrel is reached is rs briny and
almost as bitter rs the salt sea.
There are intervals in the year when
there is some variety. The one great
annual feast, Thanksgiving Day, is at
hand. Then the small and mean farmer
selects out the Oldest, leanest, toughest
turkey -gobbler; and when it comes from
the stove oven TO the table, bundle OF
bones, enclosed in a tightly-dressed,
dried-up skin, he has the cheek to say
grace oyer such an assumed evil
dence of Providential bounty" But the
Young and fat fowls will bring so much
per pound in the nearest market, and the
best parts OF the pork, such rs the tender
loins and spare-ribs, will also bring their
price; for the principle with these very
small farmers is TO sell the best, to give
the next best to the hogs, and what the
hogs will not eat they put on their own
tables. After "killing time" for while,
;here is surfeit of unstable portions OF
the hog, such rs tho head; and even the
pink-colored liver. frequently spotted
with n dull yellow, and
80 diseased, of course, is cut in thin slices,
fried into hard sole-lesther and served up
with AN abundance of grease for break
fast. Then there are the fat sausagcs,
fried in more fat, accompanied by tough,
lesthery buckwheat cakes, reeking with
grease from the old-fsshioned iron grid
dies. 1t iss wonder that the whole
family does not die on the same day from
dyspepsia" .- . ~
The correspondent adds:
Mr.. Baker could largely increase his
ph,lanthIopic reputation if he would en-
ploy portion of his great wealth in
sending out band of missionaries to
visit every small farmhouse in the in
terror, 10 smash the patent kitchen
stoves, reopen the wood fre-places, and
restore the old-fashioned Dutch oven
rosster with the revolving spit; to
throw the frying pan down the well,
and to furnish every family with double
wire gridiron, and especially TO re
quire that every small farmer shall eat
some of his own veal lamb, mutton
poultry and vegetables, and not live ex-
clusiyely on salt pork, corned beet and
dried apple pies, for the sordid sake OF
boarding q few more dollars in sundry
old stockings.