The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-31

for example, ana for uIbnefl yuney NV.
young Girl eating baked beans for supper !
/ saw one do Il over and again. A gentle
man who sat next TO me would eat :hrec
kinds OF meat, cheese, and huckleberfies az
tca. The omnipotent craw OF the Yankee
~ one secret Of his success In life. nave
vet 10 see the first dyspeptic. Mutton
il rarely seen IN country parts. We had
/, once during the week ] stayed
in Litcnfeid, and there ] saw the only
fock OF sheep, small one, have yet seen;
Ham. an Inch or inch and hall thick, ana
cut smack through bone and oil, 10 made
into steak, and served with abundant gravy
MIddlinps and shoulders are not catch
tina. is, TO my knowledge. Fowls are not
We bad turkey In August at
Litchtield; at a Cornwall picnic there was
fried chicken, and good, too. VIII not
saw that Yankee chickens are tough, out
they are permitted TO enjoy life longer than
with us, aud for that reason no dorDt they
are not deprived Of existence TIL the day OF
their death. as an lrlshman would say-tnat
Il, till the day they are brought TO tue taDie.
Beefsteaks also offer such gallant resist
ance to the knife that they caa seldom be
carried by assault, but have to be reduced
by slow and solemn approaches and mas.
ticating sieee-train. The best beef, OF
course. goes TO the cities, and IN this re-
spect Yankeeland Is no worse and Is no bet
ter than other parts OF the world. Al q
farm house 10 Lebanon got tenderer corn
beef than l got at the New Haven Hotel,
one OF the best OF its class; but at that
same breakfast there was appe"pie, OF
which ! was fool enough TO eat slice.
There was nothing the matter with the pie,
but i'm about fifteen minutes there was win
the man who had eaten 1t. IL VIII not al
WAYS do to do In Rome as the Romans DO
unless YOU want to make do-do OF your
self.
"Picked.up Goldfish" sort OF chowder,
will be new to you. So will succotosh,
sort OF soup, in which great plenty OF
beans and green corn is found, and OF
which the natives are very fond. Every
morning the butchers cart, appropriately
colored red, drove through Cornwall, and
on Thursdays came the fshmonger with a
supply OF balibut, bay mackerel, blue-fisb,
etc., on ice, and delicious. In this paTticu-
lar our northern friends are greatly blessed
above even the rich in the country parts OF
the South. An ample supply OF ice, rail-
roads everywhere, and the coast very near,
they are much to be envied. heard a deal
Of talk about clans, but saw comparatively
little of them. Everybody here loves these
bits OF bleached sole-leather. Perhaps the
queerest sight Of all is a goblet OF milk and
huckleberries, half-and-half, not eaten with
a spoon, but drank down, berries and all.
This came under my observation several
times.
At no private house except that OF man
OF wealth in Bridgeport have | seen hired
cook My landiady in Cornwall did all the
cooking herself here In Lebanon the lady
of the house is assisted by her daughter OF
fourteen; so it is wherever the girls are old
enough to render efficient aid. At one OF
the farm.houses in which | stayed the mis-.
tress, being old, had hired "help" in the
person OF a pretty girl OF sixteen. AS a
rule, In the farming towns and In the coun-
try proper the cooking, and very often the
washing, loo, is done by the wives
not only of farmers, but also OF
merchants and professional men-men
able to employ cook and wash
erwoman. But it is the habit OF the coun-
try not TO employ anybody at all il the work
in and about the house can be done by the
husband and wife, assisted by the children,
when they get old enough. talked with
Mr.. A. on the subject. "My wife and
l." said he, having no children, needed
no help, and we never had any, except when
we lived in the country and l was engaged
in large farming operations. Ny neighbor,
B., does n mercantile business in addi-
ton to his farming, and be needs help; but
at the clearinghouse, just as soon as the
bOarderS leave, the help will all be dis
missed. Look, cit was Sunday afternoon,)
there goes the help of the next house. How
nicely and in what good taste she is dressed.
You would never take her TO be cook or
would your"
"No, indeed" l replied. 81 thought
she was one Of the young ladies from New
York or Brooklyn"
II don't know it to be fact" he con-
tinued, "but | think it quite likely that
she takes one or two magazines. She is a
girl, think, and has been
employed by that family for a number Of
years"
Putting crucial questions, will you de-
mand to know exactly bow these house
cleaning, clothes-w washing women look and
act, and what impression they made upon
me? | answer that if in coming to New
England had been actuated by base mo-
tiyes, and had, while pryiDg into back
doors, seen anything which IL set down 10
print would have wounded and grieyed the
people thus taken uDawares, my course
would not have been clear. Bound TO tell
the truth, if / tell anything at all, would
have been compelled either to bring my let
tiers TO an abrupt close or else to give such
offence as would have placed me outside
the pale, not merely OF gentility, but OF
human nature. Happily l am in no
such quandary. There is nothing OBJ
jectionable to report. In my mind are
six women, all of slender build and appa-
rently physically incapable of cooking.
much less OF washing, and one OF them old
enough to be grandmother, or these only
one came from the kitchen TO the table with
hair little disordered and g dress not abb
solutely fresh. One, remember, appeared
at every meal, morning, noon, and night,
always pale and tranquil, never worried, or
cross, or overheated by the stove, her hair
and her whole attire thoroughly cared for.
Her tea and coffee and her dessert she left
in the kitchen to be kept warm. AS each
cup needed filling she rose, took the cup to
the kitchen, filed II, and resumed her place
at table, composed in feature, untaXed
In strength. And so with the dessert.
AS soon as we finished our meat and
vegetables she changed our plates and
helped each in succession from the hot
dishes on the stove without furry or impa.
tience. Yet she was seemingly the most
delicate Of the six. She, however, had no
washing to do.
In Litchfeld the landlords son-in-law
told me that his wife made all the pastry
with her own hands. Now, when you
learn that every day We had five different
kinds OF pies, besides pudding OF some
sort, and that there were never less tban
table, you may form some Idea OF the work
she bad to do. Yet when she took her seat
at table, often with the guests, you could
not have distinguished her from the city