Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-08-23

never vet planned for a day Of leisure
and got it. Some unforeseen and unexpect
ed thing invariably arose 10 consume it.
Only the other day said to myself, ITO
morrow | will spend in the library and
straighten up my correspondence" Well,
when the morning came. Aneximander
wanted me for an hour for his "coachman!'
Then the lanndress came with complaints
about the ironing boards, and had three
boards to strip off and re dress; then there
we're strawberries to be sent 10 sick boy
in the neighborhood, and Unjust pick those
only the choicest ones. Before that was
done, visitor was announced. which con
sumed another hour, and cutting roses for
half dozen vases used up the rest of the
morning. In the afternoon there were as
many more unexpected events, and had
scarcely more than got into my white frock
before the ice-man came, and there was
the ice cream to make for dinner. The
day was nearly over. and had found ex-
actly one half hour for reading some mag
szine papers. 1 sometimes wake up in
the night and think with terror how life is
slipping away-how little / am accom-.
plishing, and sigh that one cannot live a
thousand years. But then if could
should probably jog on all the same, spend
my days in sewing up rents, darning
stockings, contriving for breakfast and
dinner, fighting rose bugs, and keeping
1.-The dining room free from flies. How
ludicrous it all seems! And yet the sanity
Emerson said that our highest duty is that
which lies nearest to US. So gaily sew
on Aneximander's buttons, and see that
the student lamps are filled and trimmed,
and pay the oil man, shut up the cat to
keep her from eating up the young birds,
attend to the children's buttons. cam
the fruit, 60 to Sunday school, keep the
cook well up to her business, and see that
the chickens are supplied with fresh water
Anent fruit canning, I'm not yet done,
with the tomato question, and I've an idea
for the glass men. More than one-half the
tomatoes put up in glass leans" spoiled
although perfectly air-tight and kept in a
dark. cool place. All that l put up in
green glass beer bottles. with patent stop
pers, kept well, and think there must be
something in the dark glass, and more
perhaps in the small surface the top OF the
tomatoes enjoy" in the neck of the bottle.
If | were can manufacturer, would
make colored glass cans with a small neck
especially for tomatoes, and make my
fortune thereby.
suppose every housekeeper has her
notion concerning fruits, and have mine
| think preserved cherries the most indi.
gestibc of all preserves and dsapprove OF
them entirely. Canned cherries are ex-
celent where simply stewed; pears and
plums, ditto; raspberres are full of seeds
that clog the bowels, and are the least de-
srable Of all fruits. Peaches and apples
are good in any way whatever. Currants
fully ripe, delicious for breakfast served
on their stems; dip in sugar and eat
Preserved strawberries are very nice to
serve with buildings. and custards fol
favor and sauce. We like the white mul
berry best plain. tried cooking the fruit
in various ways, but found that nature
was not improved upon. My neighbor
says her strawberries are devoured by the
ants hary Wager Fisher. in Rural Neu
Yorker.