Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16

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Next after the management of chill
! dren, comes housekeeping, an accom-
!, plishment before which everything il
the relations of real life appear insight
|. hcant. 1t embraces all that goes t
make well-ordered home, cemented by
the dearest ties, the perfection of which
is only acquired by years of study anC
experience. We should take AS muct
pride in dusting a room well, hanging {
picture or curtain gracefully, making
pure sweet butter as we would to master
a grand strain Of music, paint picture
or write "the moral law" Thorough
ness should be our motto, especially in
the art of ceOkidg. 1t is well to be educa.
ted in the arts. science, music and Ian
guages of the age, but what shall it profit
a woman in few short years if she for.
gets these things, and her domestic edu+
cation has been neglected? If she knows
not hog 60 cook a steak without losing
its flavor, or how to cook vegetables to
be fit for the human stomach9 How to
bake good pure bread, for some one has
said that "total depravity goes hand in
hand with bad dinners Gov. Jackson,
of West Va, recently gave an address TO
young ladies at progressive education
al institution, where cooking was made
a study, and intelligent women were as
familiar with saucepaDS, pots, kettles,
and dishrags, as with books, music, or
blackboards, and "the woman of thought
and culture will have hold on family
and home that will enable her to make
those about her happy and comfortable,
and where better wives and husbands
and happier homes will be the result, for
we are very much what we eat, and an
ill-fed family will be dyspeptic family,
and dyspepsia is an evil in any home,
and with it we cannot have good
men and women"
Labor is the lot of humanity either of
the head or hand, and there is no excep-
tion to the general rule. 1t may be made
an honor and glory that lifts mankind
from barbarism to the light of the pres
ent age. and need not be the mere drudg.
cry of repetition. The same wants, the
same cares, and demands, meet us every
day, but it Is this succession of little du+
ties that displays true nobility in the
grand work of life. We are created for
action, and not for mere existence, but
for higher improvement in heart, intel
lect, and tastes, which are to be sus-
tanned by bodily organs in active exer
else. All seasons claim oversight, ener-
gy and employment With the awaken
ing of Spring comes house cleaning,
sewing, preparing garden and flower
beds; then in Summer the extra cooking
for harvesters, and the visitors who
come to enjoy the country quiet. Fall
brings double portion; fruit and vege-
tables are to be gathered and stored
away for winter use; warm clothing to
be furnished aud made for the family.
all to be seen to by the wife and mother,
whose interest is far greater than the
help she may employ. To attend to
this round of daily duty, and to be ecor
nomical, and live comfortably, requires
resolution, self-denial and self-reIiance.
To justly estimate the value Of money is
not to absorb all time and thought for it
to live mesnly, to stsrve spiritual life,
or blunt the moral sense. "But to live
for the glorious privilege of being inde
pendent" is honorable. but if the .pen>
MES slip away beyond income. labor BET
comes drudgery on the credit system,
and we live "from hand to mouth" in
poverty and slavery.
To the man of business, home should
be an earthly paradise to the adOrning
'of which his leisure time and thought
may we'll be employed. Every part and
portion of the structure should be con-
sistent with truthfulness, and the vari>
Gus labors and occupations carried on by
members of the household, should have
apartments suitable, if possible. that
they may not interfere with each other
while the family sewing could be done
in the kitchen. A light pleasant room
elsewhere could be used without having
to put away the work every time it was
laid down. Such room could be used
for family sitting room, and should
have all the advantages of cheerful
comfort, be made as attractive as posi-
BILE, for no other part of home has so
many cheerful recollectiOns in after
life as the sitting room with its pict-
ures, books and music, associated with
reading, study and sewing, or quiet
amusement. The farmer often here can
keep his account books, maps, plans, ag-
ricultural books and papers; also trans
act business with bis neighbOrs. If that
room could lead out into light, cheer
full dining room, and from that to enter
a well-arranged kitchen with wood, coal
and water convenient and on the same
level, ii would save much labor, time,
and mny steps. Right here, would 1t
be asking too much from our husband
or "ths boys" to lend helying hand in
gardening or milkingP Western people
decide that question most emphatically.
Topic eff husband and wife be one,
there cannot be serious opposition, for
that destroys the oneness, and happiness
of the married relation-so it is neces
sary to consult tastes and dispositions in
respect and love, and enter into perfect
harmony'to succeed happily. God made
man strongest physically, and our laws,
whsther right or wrong, make him strong
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