Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-12
TEE HOUSEHOLD.

NHHt III tue regular harness OF CITY NE
the sitting-Coom is so fsr from the kitchen
that We have BOT much understanding OF its
tolls and perplexities, we have not much
to say save when there has been an acci.
dent, and the pudding comes in burned or
the coffee has not been settled. But house
keeping sometimes in the country, and
during vacation, we have more time to con-
slider and our appetite whetted up by
sea ba.hing, we wander into the culinary
department 10 see when dinner will be
ready. We then bethink ourselves of the
grace necessary for the kitchen.
First-There is the grace for mansgisg
balky stove. You. being in the hardware
business and interested Ia certain patents.
may begin to rattle over ths names Of
stoves which never finch, which do things
brown at the right moment, which never
take up the habits OF our human race and
begin to smoke. and never let the fire GO
out. But we do not believe yen. Stoves
belong to a fallen race, snd the best of
them sometimes prove tricky. Some
times they ay into hot temper and burn
things up, and sometimes they will pout
fer half an hour because green chip or
unseasoned stick of wood is thrown at
them. The best.disposltioned stove will
sometimes refuse TO broil, or stew, or bake
or frizzle You coax it in every possible
way. You reason with it ard tell il how
important il is that it do it's duty, for com.
pany has come, or departing guest must
meet the train. or you are too tired to
bother any longer, and all it does in reply
is to sputter. Here is place for Chris
tian sympathy and help. For isck of this
Martha Of Be;hsny acted precipitately,
and many. good woman has lost her
equilibrium.
Second-Fhers is a grace needed for the
pantry. Somehow cups and glasses and
cake-baskets will get broken, and no one
has done 1t. Knives will disappear, and
no one has taken them. An old saucer
that was given to your grandmother the
day OF her marriage IS cracked and set
back on the shelf as though it had been I'M
injured. The tea. caddy has been despoiled,
or flour unreasonably failed, with no mira
Gle, as in Zarepath, to replenish it. There
are but few women who can keep their
temper when their best china set gets
broken. To study economy for month,
and to find the result of this unusual care.
fulness has leaked out at some my sterious
spigot; to have whole mess Of milk soured
by one thunder. storm to have the wash
boiler boil over and put out the fire; to
have the dessert only half done when the
people at dinner are waiting, wondering
whether 1t is to be sage pudding or Mar
cissus blanc mango; 70 have the servant
make up her mind she don't like the place,
and leave the house in the midst of the
ironing to have to provide elaborate en-
tertsinment Tor some one whom you asked
to come TO your house without any idea
she would accept the invitation; to find
after the ounces are sll peeled and cut
that the brass kettle has been borrowed
all this demands grace for the kitchen.
We masculines have yet to learn that the
kitchen is the most important end of the
household. II that go wrong, the whole
establishment is wrong. IL decides the
health of the household, and health settles
almost everything. Heavy bread, TOO great
| frequency of plum-puiding, mingliug Of
lemonsdes ard cussards, upmasticaole beef,
have decided the fate of sermons, store
, houses, legislative bills, and the destiny of
empires. What if Bismarck had been seized
| with long fit of indigestion about the
| time of the breaking out OF the last French
and German WARP What if, when Pjim-
soil was trying 60 raise an instruction
| among the sailors of Great Britain, Disraeli
should have been overcome OF the govt +?
| What if, when the monetary world was
| shocked with the failure of Duncan, Sher.
man & Co, the cook of Saratoga Springs
should, by means of some unhealthy pas.
try, have killed Commodore Vanderbilt ?
The kitchen knife has often cut off the
brightest prospects. The kitchen gridiron
has often consumed commercial enter
prise. The kitchen kettle has kept many
| a good man in hot water. It will never be
fully known how much the history of the
world was affected by good or bad cookery.
| Let no house keeper, therefore, despise
her occupation, but rather pray for grace
to fulfill her mission. The tolls and ia
tigues and yexations of such sphere may
be unsppreeiated by husbands and mothers
and fathers, but God knows end sympa-
thizes. If, according to the Billie, God
puts into bottle his peoples tears, de
will count the number of sweat.drops on
your forehead while bending over the stove
in the midsummer solstice. By the po-
teptial way in which you perform your
duties you may make the rolling pin n
scepter. Be faithful There will be a
grand supper after awhile for the prepare.
tion of which you will have no anxiety.
-ERev. T. Dewitt Talmage. D. D.
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