St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-03
HOUSEHOLD Lice.
Kit Glover In Texas Farm and
Ranch Takes Look After the
Day Is Done,

Ranch Takes a Look After the
Day Is Done.
Did you ever try to make time through
the day.that You might have little rest
with your family after the days work
was over? If you have not. you don't
half know the pleasure there can be had
out of working day.
This has been one of my average days,
and besides the usual work had cream
to churn and butter to pack down,
chickens to feed, and new brood to
coop, strawberries TO pick and my five
bee hives TO go through. Thai, to be
sure, is not an everyday job. but it
might have been washing instead. Then
l went around our farm-we have three
quarters of an acre am happy to say
tied up vines, cut rose bouquet for the
table. dug all about my grape vines,
skinned the milk that was not quite
ready this morning, and MIXED the COW.
1t has been busy day, as all my days
are, for our house is large, and there is
always some room to sweep or dust, or
any of q dozen other ever-recurring
things to attend to, but through it all
lind myself making time that 1 may
have an hour to spend in pure idlenesS
with my husband and children before
bedtime.
One does not get the leisure for a
nightly rest and chat in winter. Then
the lamps are lighted and one can read
aloud while the busy mother sews or
mendS some of the many rents that are
sure to come in the little garments, but
on these summer nights, when the days
are longest, when it is too hot to sit III
the house, and there are too many bugs
and beetles to think of lighting lamp,
these are the nights to have a bit of
leisure at the days close.
One of the things we do is to spread
an old gray shawl on the back porch,
lay out all the chintz-covered cushions
there are to be had and lie down out
there to tell stories and cool off.
Around on the side porch, in ham,
mock and camp chair, are the older
children with, perhaps, company, but
back here. we'll out of sight, the papa
and the babies pull off shoes and
stockings, and l tuck my slippers one
side, while we rock or lounge or stretch
out on the floor, giving the babies an
extra chance for good old tOuse."
Now, maybe you are thinking that it
must smell of old Stops and old pals
ami tubs. No. not bit of it. L never
allow drop of water thrown out at the
back of the house, any more than do
at the front steps, and the grass is just
as clOSe-cut and velvetY, and straw or
chip is never allowed there.
Do you ask why? Well, always had
horror of a place for Stops; must and
would have it sweet about the back of
we dOt't have Sl0pS except from the
chambers, and there is the vault for
that. Studs is valuable for fruit trees
and grape vines, and dish water
is excellent for vines and such
rapid growers. All table scraps are
given the chickens, away over in their
yard, while the pet cow has all peelS,
pea-pods, strawberry husks, and any
greer things of good taste and flavor.
The cow has not only this. but q little
mixed meal and bran morning and
night. and is left in the pasture over
night, and though she has been giving
milk for over nine months, and sell
three quarts day, and use all the
cream we want for our family. yet |
made seven pounds of butter last week.
Of course she is a Jersey, and that
makes me think / would not advise any
one who keeps COWS for their butter to
Keep any except a Jersey or Attorney.
However. | must admit that l don't
OW the merits of the HOlStein-FrieS-
ian, never having had their milk, but |
shall never forget the scrub stock of the
home farm, that would give a pail of
blue-white milk. and these cows cost
just as much to raise and to feed as the
cream producing Jersey. [ have heard
it said that the Jerseys were cross, as a
breed, and tender, liable to colds and
lung trouble. From our experience l
don't believe either Almost every
one in town keeps Jersey, and
they are gentle-I never heard of
case of hooking here-and inclined to
be great pets. But they are a knowing
lot, I'll admit, and great rangers. Light
and wike awake. 1t has been my en-
perience that fine breeds of any kind
are more wide awake and knowing than
breeds that have not been selected and
kept up. That is part of the process,
anyway, a result of selection. But we
don't want stupid. dull cows or horses,
OF, for that matter, fowls.
This is a long depression from that
rest on the back porch, but the subject
is yet in my mind. I'll tell you another
reason why | won't have Stops thrown
out at the house, but have them dug
into the garden instead.
| spent part of one day, not many
summers ago, at the house OF distant
relative. The house was new, on new
site, large and fine, and they were very
proud of their new home. The girl hap
pened to be away for few days. and
after tea [ offered to wipe the dishes.
The kitchen was model of comfort and
convenience, and out of the window be-
You'd the draining sink the view was
simply grand. Seeing this, stepped to
the door. This was the ''back door, of
the kitchen. and opened into sloping
orchard. | noticed there were no steps,
although the door was three feet above
the ground, and outside, what was my
astonishment to see, was the place
where all the Stops from the house were
thrown. Washing tubs, a dish of sour
milk. radish tops, q pan of wiltcd let
tuce, dishwater, and even the drain
pipe from the iron sink spouted ont on
top of the ground. The stencil was hor-
rlble, and L stepped back and closed the
door. 'ThOsc folks will die of typhoid
fever if they don't change their place
for Stops" l said, when 1 went home.
Remember. they had been there only
year. A season or two later son died
of typhoid fever, and brothers. child,
who was brought from distance to at
tend tue funeral. after a stay of few
weeks, died of diphtheria.
There's no use tempting death in that
way, so we sit on the back porch with
never Whit of Stops or slop-pails, and
l know of no more useful half hour in a
lifetime. How about tonight? Well,
you see, Tom is off ON business and
Little Love" sits up on a chair beside
me, while l use the last lingering light
from the western sky in telling YOU
thow l make the days work easy by
thinking of the little rest when the day
done.
My pencil is always in my pocket, and
pencil tablets are only three cents
apiece. so have one here and there in
handy places, ready to be used in Just
such half hours as this. And this, also,
is rest after the day is done.
Dairy Short Horns.
1t is quite evident, says the Live Stock
Indicator, that although the American
Short Horn association is both wealthy
and generous, they have decided that
the funds voted with q view tO sfimu-