Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-09-29

lnAu6 OF BOOQ anu well cooked 1OOu na
pluck courage, endurance, and noble
impulses.
In the good old days there would b.
eleven children in the family and only
one skillet. Everything was broken OF
cracked or loaned or lost.
There ought to be law making it (
crime punishable by imprisonment, tt
fry beefstake. Broil it; it is Just as oasy
and when broiled it is delicious. Fried
beefsteak is not fit for a wild beast. You
can broil even on stove. Shut the bach
damper open the front one, then take of
al griddle. There will be draughi
downward through this opening. Put on
your steak, using wire broiler, and not
particle Of smoke will touch it, for the
reason that the smoke goes down. II
you try to broil it with the damper open,
the smoke will rise. For broiling, coal,
even soft coal, makes better fire than
wood.
There is no reason why farmers should
not have fresh meat all the year around.
There is certainly no sense in stufilng
yourself full of salt meat every morning
and make well or cistern of your stom-
ach for the rest of the day. Every farm
er should have an ice house. Upon or
near every farm is some stream from
which plenty of ice can be obtained, and
the long Summer days made delightful.
DR.. Draper, one OF the worlds greatest
scientists, says that ice water is healthy,
and that it has done away with many
of the low forms of fevers in the great
cities. Ice has become one of the neces-
sites Of civilized life, and without it
there is very little comfort.
Make your homes pleasant. Have
your houses warm and comfortable for
the winter. Do not build story and a
half house. Tho half story is simply an
oven in which, during the Summer, you
will bnke every night, and feel in the
morning as though only the rind OF
yourself was left.
Decorate your rooms, even If You dc
so with cheap engravings. The cheapest
are far better than none. Have books,
have papers, and read them. You have
more leisure than dwellers in cities.
Beautify your grounds with plants and
floweIs and vines. Have good gardens.
Remember that everything of beauty
tends to the elevation Of man. Every
little morning glory whose purple bosom
is thrilled with the amorOus kisses OF the
sun tends to put blossom in your heart.
Do not judge of the value of everything
by the market reports. Every flower
about the house certifes to the refine
ment of somebody. Every vine, climb.
ing and blossoming, tells of love and
joy.
Make your houses comfortable Dc
not huddlc together in a little room
around red hot stove, with every win
dow fastened down. DO not live in this
poisoned atmosphere, and then, when
one of your children dies, put piece in
the papers commencing with "Whereas,
it has pleased Divine Providence to re.
move from our midst" Have plenty
of air and plenty of warmth. Comfort is
health. Do not imagine anything is un-
This is an old and foolish idea.
them from their beds in the darkness OF
night. Do not compel them to associate
all that is tiresome, irksome, and dreadful
with cultivating the soil. In this way
you bring farming into hatred and dis
repute. Treat your children with infinite
kindness-tr them as equals There
is no happiness in home not filled with
love. Where the husband hates the
wife; where the wife hates the husband ;
where children hate their parents and
each other there is hell on earth.
There is no reason why farmers should
not be the kindest and most cultivated OF
men. There is nothing in plowing the
fields to make them cross, and cruel and
grabbed. To look upon the sunny slopes
covered with daisies does not tend to
make men unjust. Whoever labors for the
happiness of those he loves elevates him
self, no matter whether he works in the
dark and dreary shop or in the perfumed
fields. To work for others is, in reality,
the only way in which man can work
for himself. Selfshness is ignorance.
Spectators can not make unless some
body loses. In the realm of speculation
every success has at least one victim.
The harvest reaped by the armer benefits
all and Injuries no one. For him to sue
ceed it is not necessary that one should
fail. The same is true of all producers
Of all laborers.
can imagine no condition that carries
with it such q promise of joy as that of the
farmer in the early winter. He has his
cellar filled, he has made every prepara
ton for the days of snow and storm-ht
looks forward to three months of ease
and rest three months of freside com.
fort three months with wife and chill
dren; three months Of long delightful
evenings; three months of home; three
months of solid comfort.
When the life of farmer is such as
have described, the cities and towns will
not be filled with want-the streets will
not be crowded with wrecked rogues
broken bankers, and bankrupt specula
tors. The fields will be titled, and coun
try villages, almost hidden by trees ant
vines and flowers, filled with industrious
and happy people, will nestle like gemi
on every plain.
The idea must be done away with tina
there is something intellectually degrad
ing in cultivating the soil. Nothing cal
be more noble than to be useful Idle
ness should not be respected.
If farmers will cultivate we'll, an,
without waste; if they will SO build tina
their houses will be warm in Winter ant
cool in Summer if they plant trees nm,
beautify their homes if they will occup.
their leisure in reading, in thinking, il
improving their minds, and in dcvisinl
ways and means to make their busines
profitable and pleasant if they will liv
nearer together and cultivate sociability
if they will come together often if the,
will have reading-rooms and cultivate mu
sic /; if they will have bathrooms, ice
houses, and good gardens; if the night
can be taken for sleep and the evening
for enjoyment, everybody will be in low
with the fields. Happiness should beth
object Of life, and if life on the farm coz
be made really happy, the children vii
grow mn in love with the meadOWs th
streams, the woods, and the old home
Around the farm will cling and cluste
the memories Of delightful years.
Why The Bride Cried.
On the bank of the Kennebec, rive
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