Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-08

! the greater number OF towns, able ana
willing to do all the service that the
Dame of the Crumpled Horn usually
requires. f.llL
As this is q subject which comes
home directly to the housekeeper, we
shall be pardoned II we dwell upon 1t .
moment. II will be seen that the OUT
lay is not large which procures and
maintains this household comfort; ana
what comfort it is it will not take long
either for the purse-holder or for the
mother Of children, or for the cook dis
tracted over her desserts, TO discover.
Wherever there Is COW giving tho
usual quantity of milk, there need never
be actual hunger; it supplies score OF
Deficiencies; and even where hunger Is
not in question the bills of the butcher and
grocer are very sensibly and healthiiy
diminished by large rations OF milk
served to those that can drink 1t, which
even the most delicate and dyspeptic can
do with the tasteless addition of little
lime-water, especially IL they remember
the favorable action Of milk-cures " in
many cases, which probably means
nothing more than cure by means OF q
nourishing. food easily assimilated, as
other food may not be.
Very few families feel themselves able
to contract and pay large milk bills, and
they are apt to 60 without more than
just enough for tea and coffee, or per-
haps the exact needs Of the baby. But
when the milk Is i'm the pans, and they
are not feeling the cost Of 1t, they find
its advantage not only in the pleasure
and comfort of bountiful draughts, but
in the thousand and one varying dishes
which it makes possible, and which were
previously reckoned as too expensive
for daily use. Thus in the more gener-
Gus table made possible the well-being
of the family Is increased, as enriching
and blood-producing diet can not help
doing.
What q comfort 1t Is to the house,
keeper to have her pans of milk ready
to surrender their rich skins of cream
only those can tell who have been sud-
denly taken unawares by company
without satisfactory dessert on hand,
or who are at loss for something just
q degree nicer than common for break
fast; since this cream Is capable of
being whipped and poured into count
less number of hurried forms, each
more palatable than the other, and Is
delicious poured plain and untutorcd
over the simple breakfast cake, while
served with q common apple pie, or
with even dish of boiled oatmeal, or
with old-fashioned "preserves, 1t
gives a delicacy and daintiness that de-
ceive one into thinking the dessert Of
the finest. Meanwhile there is left the
"skimmed milk, " for which the cook
has endless uses, for which the poor
are only too thankful, and on which, II
one has little pig as well as al little
COW although that we never will ad-
vise-the pig can be fattcned royalty.
The good house-mother also may find
that the men of her family who have
plenty Of rich milk to drink will not
seek any thing much stronger or more
her larder and a balm to the feeling
that hates to dismiss tramp with
out food, lest 1t should be the tradi-
tional " angel unawares, IL there Is q
big bowl Of milk to be handed out to
him.
We do not mention at length the In
effable comfort, saving and satisfaction
of having ones own butter at command,
for one can not do every thing with one
COW; and remembering the vulgar but
veracious adage that one can not have
ones cake and eat IL too, we understand
that we can not use our cream and still
have butter. There Is, nevertheless,
now and then some one cow which de-
serves fame, which gives family all
the milk they can drink, the cream they
can use, and furnish enough cream be-
sides for a good quantity Of butter; and
II we ourselves have never met with
her, yet her report has reached us.
But they that ever realized the charm
of "gilt-edge" butter which once tasted
makes those who used to spread the
thinnest possible skin of butter on their
bread afterward eat rs much butter as
they do bread, will realize still greater
charm when the butter Is Of their
own production, and will be willing
either to keep an extra COW, or to be
sparing in the use of the cream of the
one COW, for the sake of having that
luxury all their own, and will think
nothing of the care that the necessity
for purity and cleanliness occasions,
which, after all, when the routine has
become established, is hardly a notice.
able addition to the Homework. Nobody
knows, but those that have experienced
It, the pleasure and pride to be had In
The giving to less fortunate friends and
neighbors, Of little dewy pats of golden
butter made and stamped by ones own
HDOhuk as IL tnc COW tn6L DTO-
1uced that butter were fed only in
pastures.
To crown the whole, the pleasure to
be gained in the love and admiration of
he COW that adds all this comfort to our
arrangements Is something
more than money usually can procure
or us-those sleek sides, those great
noon eyes, those gentle ways, are al
most as good in the yard as the daily
light of Cuyp would be in the parlor;
md there Is something very hu.
in the presence and posses
len OF the pretty creature. One grows
more and more attached to
Ter; and we have seen the little half
red Jersey, bought when calf for ten
dlars, increase her values In her
wner's estimation at such gigantic
ates, as month by month went by and
hat owner reveled in the luxury of
casting Of her points and her beauty,
hat there was apparentlv NOT rnopcv