Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-13
FOR TIE FAIR SEX.


I 'Lnglunu can no longer furnish ner own
butter. The cheaper kinds come from
America, for Americans. even with
their rich pastures and improved stock
of cows, cannot make the best grade.
The high-priced grades come to South
ampton from Normandy and Brittany.
And why is good butter not made in
EnglandP Because the dairymaid with
her pail is thing of poetry and the past.
Because farmers wives and daughters
now think dairy work degradation"
The Gazette proceeds to state the
enormous income which dairy farming
carried ON by women has brought to
France; the daughter of dairy farmer
often receiving dover of twenty thou
sand dollars on her wedding day. Much
of it is the product of her own work,
skill and management.
We might 60 on with the inquiry.
Why cannot Americans make the best
grade of butterP Because the business
has gone out of the hands of the farmers
wife and daughter, and is done by ma
chinery. Near Philadelphia, in the
rich hill-farms, there are few old
Quaker danes and their daughters who
are not ashamed of this old-time craft !;
whose yellow fragrant pats of butter,
wrapped in cool leaves, and packed in
tubs dalicately clean, are known all
over the country, and command 81 or
Sl.50 per pound in any city market.
/ 50 RIlt ~ auVa bn fayt,,o,. ora n,ir
daughters, who have received modern
education, to go back to the old drudg-
/ cry OF their grandmothersP'
We question whether the modern edu-
cation has not made them despise too
much the old drudgeryP
In the majority OF cases, these daugh-
ters are still compelled to work for their
living. They crowd into the cities, as
poor artists, china decorators, clerks,
shop-girls, or they besiege editors with
mawkish verses.
In this Sighted dairy work is paying
business which belongs to women, and
which, could they master it, would yield
them rs certain an income as it does the
Breton or Norman girl. IL is business
which requires Intelligence, scrupulous
cleanliness and delicaey OF manipulation.
a roll of clover. scented butter of the
best grade is higher work of art than q
bad picture or are trashy verses. Our
girls who are looking from their coun-
try homes, pining for a career, should
dig under their own hearthstone to find
if the pot ofgold be not waiting for them
there Youths ComDaalion.
The Senate Pie stand.
The Senate pie stand, says the Wash
ington correspondent OF the Hartford
Times, was kept by Il crippled lady
named Mary Bureh. She has been
there for many years, and has probably
made money. During the time Mary
has kept it she has had us customers
many of the leading men of the nation.
Senator McCrary, OF X ntucky, the most
humorous speaker that has been in the
Senate since the days of Nye, was Il
regular customer of Mary's stand; so
also was Zach Chandler. David Davis
could be seen there every day the Senate
was in session, drinking his glass of
milk and eating his piece of pie, for
Which Mary charged eight cents.
Chandler was great pie-eater; Senator
Vest, of Missouri, was also frequent
but not regular consumer of Mary's
famous pies. | remember one day of
hearing Senator McCary invite Senator
Ransom, of North Carolina, up to
Mary's stand. Said McCrary, whose
strongest point was his economy and
saving-he saved, lit is said, $685.
600 of the $4,000 he received as
salary for the eight years he was
in the Senate" Ransom, you have
lunched me several times, now come
and take II lunch with me-" Ransom
accompanied him, expecting, of course,
to be led down 10 the restaurant, but
McCrary walked direct to Mary's pie
stand. Mary" said he, give Us two
glasses of milk and live cents worth of
ginger cakes" Turning to Ransom, he
asked, innocently: Ransom, do you
like ginger cakesP" Ransom said he
did, but he drank the milk only, while
McCrary consumed the five cakes. An
other day he met Conkling walking
along the hail. Stopping him, he said:
"Conkling. have something" "Conk-
ling said: Certainly" Mcyrary went
over to the stand, and. handing Mary
two pennies, said: "Give us two of
those long sticks of candy" Taking
the largest, he handed Conkling the
other, and the pair walked off. One
day Mary was asked if Senator Davis
ate in pr oportion to his size. She an
swered: mo, he don't eat much, but
he is good pay, which is more than some
of them" Senator Davis, besides his
million. dollar farm, has ut least another
million dollars lying around. Mary
made n cake which was known as the
two-cent cake. 1t was made of better
material than the ordinary penny cake.
Chandler was noticed munching on
them one day by friend, who asked if
he could stand such food. "Stand it!"
he replied; "no, don't stand it. My
liver is too active, aud eat these to stop
it little"
Words OF Wisdom.
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to
give content to your own lot; to mitigate
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