Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-10-13
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Above all, let every farmer treat his wife
and children with kindness. Give them
every advantage for culture. Taey Will
grow about you like flowers; they will ill
Your life ith JOY and perfume; they will ill
your home with sunshine and your lives
it'll happiness. See TO IL that they have all
the comforts and all the conveniences OF life
that you can possibly give them. Give them
the advantage OF every Improvement as soon
a. you car. Try and make life a perpetual
delight. Rrcollect that cooking is one OF the
fine arts. IL takes Iar more sense TO be an
excellent cook than a tolerable lawyer. l
am good COOK my self, and have no ac-
comIl.Shment of which am SO proud. Tue
farmers should have good things 10 cook and
good lhipgs to cook with. OF ali people in
our country, you should live the best Throw
your miserable little stoves out of the win
dow. Get ranges, aud have them 50 built
that your wife need not burn her face off TO
get YOU breakfast. Do not make her cook
III a kitchen hot as an orthodox periiliOn. 10
IL Just as cheap TO have everything convent
ent. III IL Just as easy 10 COOK well a. TO cook
any other way. There ought 10 be a law
making IL a "a lme, punishable with impris-
o. ment in the p nitentiary. TO fry heef-te6k.
Broil 1t; IL is Just as easy, and when broii Ell,
II is delicious. Fried beeisseak isn't n for A
beast Give your wives and daughters the
COW epiences, and in a little while they Will
be most excellent cooks. Good cooking is
one of the highest arts of civilization. and
we are more Indebted 10 this art IN develop
Ing zeal manhood than TO almost any other
The man whose arteries are filed Sith good,
rich blood, made OF good and wrll-cpOlIaa
food, has pluck, courage, endurance and
noble Impulses. The man who invented A
good soup did more for his race, than the in
Ventor Of any system of theology. Nou must
rerne m Der that If } GU wish yoaT wife 10 cook
well, she must have the convenience to cook
with. In old times there would be eleven
children IN The family and only one skillet.
and they generally Dope ded upon what few
boards Ihty q uld Il al of the house for kIDd-
ling. See TO II that there IS plenty of good
wood, plenty OF good coal, plenty of .ooI
klnGlEg, and plenty To cook. There is 40 rea-
son why iarmt r. should hot have fresh meat
ali Tie year round. There - no sense "a STUFF
Ing yourself with salt meat every morning
anu making well OF yourself for the rest Of
the day; a. then wondering why yyu don't
e. JOY good health. Theie i 10 sense in his
Upon nearly every farm l. some little stream
from "hltn plenty 81 .ce could DC Ub, aimed.
ana an ic.'Louse Will Gll every summer Win
JOY. 10y. Bralcr, one OF the creates men IA
The world. says that icc-Vd.er llt only is
healthy, but that II Ia, done away wilh
many low forms OI fever la the great c!.lss.
Every faTnIlT should nave ice Eat -. ana Ia
can have Il with al expense S;p II; Il az taai
the very poorest could scarcely feel 10. Maze
yorr homes pleasant. Have your houses
warm aad comfortable iOr the winter. DO
not tuIld q story and a hall house. TIE half
story i an oven, IN which during the sum
Iner you will bake every night, aud fesl in
the morning 81 though only the rind of your
Sell was lett Decorate your rooms. even *
you DO so with cheap eL cravings; they are
better than Lone. Have books, IA ave pa geg>:
rtad them. You nave more leisure than the
dWellers in cities. Beautify your grounds
with plants, with flowers. Have COOL gar
dens, and recollect that everything Of
beauty tends TO your elevation. Every
ntte morGing glory, whose purple heart is
thrilled with the light OF the morning sun
tends to blossom In your heart. 1 can ina
CINE no condition that carries with IL such a
promise OF joy as the farmer in the autumn,
with his cellar full, with every preparati Dn
made for the winter, with the prospect of
three months OF comfort and rest, three
mol tbs of fTeside and content three M ouihs
OF home and family, three months of pure
solid comfort. Make your houses comfort
able. Do not huddle together in a little 70 ,m
around a red not stove with every window
fastened down; do not live in this poisoned
air, and then when one OF your children dies,
put piece In the paper commencing with
whereas, 1t has pleased Providence 10 re-
move from our midst" Have plenty OF air
and plenty of warmth. Let Your ch liren
sleep. DO not drag them from the beds in the
darkness of the ght. Treat them with in
finite Kindness. There is no happiness in a
house not filled with love-where the man
hates the wife or the wife hates the husband;
. wnere children fear their parents, where
parents dislike their CHI l1ren. Every Slcu
. home is simply a hell upon earth. There is
nothing in the cultivation Of the soil 10 make
3 men Grabbed or unjust. To look upon the
sunny slopes covered with daisies does NOT
tend 10 make men cruel. Whoever labOrS
for The happiness OF those he loves eleva;es
himself, no matter whether he works in the
shop or ploughs In The perfumed fields.
"LADIEs' CoMPLEXIoNs RuERED A,
The recen mt meeting OF The Social Science Con-
gress In Aberdeen, Sc,.!ald, MIR .Jban
Forbes White read paper emitted ''How
can Ar be best 1ntrodu ced into the house OF
persons # limited inc pmt?' He attempted
TO show that there is not a room OF the ham
6lest mechanic that might not be made a
beautiful home. This result C luld be a com
pllshed, he salu, by the psr>ons in he nous
using their eyes. They should learn TO enjoy
beautiful things around them in every day
life. by noticing tire relation of the parts OF
landscape, the harmony of form and color
the distribution of light and shade the vs.
rlety, suotiey and simplicity of the whole
scene, they would get TO understs nd what tlt.
greatest artist had put before them. His frs.
suggestion was as 10 the color OF the walls of
,heir houses. Nature was sparing in her use
OF bright colors. The walls should be in ter.
tiary hues, which would enhance rather than
dim inlsh the beauty of objects in the roDms
I'VE should be shocked" he continued, eff
we saw a gaudy background in q picture,
and yet we are content to live in rooms so
hideously painted or papered that even oar
ladies' complexto;is are robbed of their
Deauty by The background against which
they are set The ceiling, If il could not De
decorated, should be toned in a pleasant
color. Furniture should be simple and suit
able. Floors are plane surfaces, and there
fore carpets should not indulge In elaborate
effects OF light and shade.
The TUNNEL BENEATH THE RRTrrsH
Gil ANEkL-OperaIion connected with toe
submarine tunnel have already been com
menced On tue other side Of the channel sew
eral pits having been sunk to the deoth az
about one hundred and ten yards AT Ia.
same time the French and English commit
tees have definitely drawn up tue ca lditions
OF working for the route. Toe property of the
tunnel is TO be divided ia hall by the leugth-
mat is 10 say, each company Will possess
nall OF The line, reckoning the distance from
coast 10 coast at low tide. Each company
VIII cover the expense OF its portion. The
general WOE K of excavation will be done on
The one hand by the Great Northern of
France, and on the other by the latham
aud Southe astern companies, the two latter
having each direct route from London To
Dover. All the materials of the French and
English lines Will pass throu III the tunnel In
orCer 10 prevent any unnecessary expenses
and delay OF transhipment, as in In land
and in France atlway companies use each
others lines, and goods can pass from one
lire 10 another without changing vans. Ii is
Understood That an arrangement Will be es-
tabiishtd FOR a similar exchange of lines be-
tween all the English aud continental rail-
way companies when Lie tunnel is compile.
ted. The tunnel viii belong to its founders
AT The expiration of thirty years the wo gov
ernnlents will be able to take possession of
lie Tunnel upon certain conditions London
Ddily NeUs.
THE NAVAL SECRETARY PREACHING
THE GosPKL.-The Rev. j. e. Fletcher, OF