Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-26
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GOOD SENSE.

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GOOD SENSE.
A farmers wife writes bit of sound sense
to newspaper when she says that many OF the
women who complain so sorely of their domes-
tic labor, would find their burdens lightened
immensely if they and each member of their
families, would put everything they use in it's
place the moment they are done with it. A
good many people, besides farmers wives,
would profit by laying this advice to heart.
Observation of the domestic habits OF many
households, has taught us that not having
definite place for everything used in daily life,
or neglecting to replace things on their proper
nail or shelf, wastes more time and sourS more
tempers than all other causes combined.
There should be place for every dish and i'm
plement used in the kitchen; for the scissors,
thread, needle and materials for sewing, and
it is an easy matter to train ones self and
children to careful and tidy habits about
clothes. We should not make allowance for
the disorderly ways of men that the writer
alluded to does She appears to have given
them up as hopeless, careless and provoking;
but there is no excuse for the man who, When
places are provided for them, tosses aside his
boots for his tired wife to pick up reads the
paper and throws it wide open upon the floor,
and strews his soiled linen about the sleeping
room 1t is thoughtless to add so much to the
housewives cares and labOrS, but 1t is also
selfish and unkind. Every one knows the diff
ference between the guest who takes books
from their shelves and scatters them all over
the house, borrows thimbles and scissors and
carries them off in her pocket, or leaves us to
hunt for them through the mouse after her
departure, and the careful, observant person
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who puts things in their right places. The
one rasps our nerves and TEMPER, and the other
fits deftly into household ways and causes us
to mourn her departure. The same lack OF
order is observable in the frequenters Of read
ing rooms One will leave every paper and
pamphlet he touches askew and in a tumble,
perhaps carried to another table than the one
to which it belongs, while the second reader
will leave the table in as good order as he
found it, and tighten the tasks of the librarian
by habit that costs nothing at all. Women
should see to it that their children, boys as
well as girls, form orderly habits in childhood,
and they will never forget them. In this mat
ter, as in all others, example is worth more
than precept
WHAT AN OLD FARMER SAYs.-This is
the advice of an old man who has titled the
soil for forty years: . .-.......
am an old man, upwards Of three score
years, during two scores of which l have
been tiller of the soil. I cannot say that ]
am now, but have been rich, and have all |
need, do not owe dollar, have given my
children good education, and when l am
called away will leave them enough to keep
the wolf from the door. My experience has
taught me that:
/. One acre of land well prepared and we'll
cultivated, produced more than two which
received only the same amount of labor used
on one.
2. One cow, horse, mule, sheep or hog we'll
fed, is more profitable than two kept ON the
amount necessary to keep one well.
3. One acre of clover or grass is worth
more than two of cotton where no grass or
clover is raised.
4. No farmer who buys oats, corn, wheat,
fodder and hay, as a rule tor ten years, can
keep the sheriff away from the door in the
end.
5. The farmer who never reads the papers
and sneers at book farming and improvements,
always has leaky roof poor stock, broken
down fences, and complains of bad seasons"
6. The farmer who is above his business
and entrusts it &c an other to manage, soon
has no business to attend to.
7. The farmer whose habitual beverage is
cold water, is healthier, wealther and wiser
than he who does not refuse to drink.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MrLLING.-The scien.
ti6c department. of the Californian contrib
utes some very interesting remarks concerning
improvements III the art of milling, developed
under the lights Of science. Pieces, of iron,
formerly so hurtful, are now separated from
the wheat by magnets. Bran, formerly sepa.
rated by means of blower, which carried
fine dust throughout the mill, at the expense
of considerable power, and sometimes caused
explosions is now separated from the flour
by frictional electricity at trifing expense
Science, by the aid of the microscope, has
shown that good bread cannot be made
of -four in which any large portion of the
starch globules have been broken by being
reduced to dust The rising of bread is due
to the starch globules which remain whole,
while the dust from the dsintegrated ones,
by souriug, impair the lightness and quality
of the loaf. 1t is but recently these facts
have become known to millers, and they are
discarding old methods and adopting those
which will separate the starch globules with
out pulverizing them.
OBSERVE THE BrRTHDAYs.-Keep the
birthdays religiously. They belonged exclu'
sively to, and are treasured among, the mem.
ories of home. Do not let anything prevent
some token, be it ever so slight, to show that
it is remembered. Birthdays are always
great events to children. For one day they
feel that they are heroes. The special pud-
ding is made expressly for them; new jack.
ct or trowsers with pockets, or the first pair
of boots, are donned; and big brothers and
sisters sink into insignifcance besides "little
Charlie" who is "six to DAY" and is soon
"going to be man." Fathers who have
half a dozen little ones to take care Of are
very apt to neglect birthdays, they come 80
often, sometimes when they are nervous"
but if they only knew how much such souv-
enirs are cherished by the children years af
ter, they would never permit any cause to step
between them and parents privilege.
WANT OF PUNcTUALITY.-Itis is astonishing
how many people there are who neglect pune
tuality. Thousands have failed in life from
this cause alone 1t is not only serious Of
fense in itself, but it is the fruitful parent of
numerous vices, so that he who becomes the
victim of it, gets involved in the coils from
which it is impossible to escape 1t makes
the merchant wasteful of time, it saps the
business, the hopes and reputation Of the
lawyer, and it Injuries the prospects Of the
mechanic In g. word, there is not profess
sion, nor a station in life, which is not liable