The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-18
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the higher education and too much ath-
leticsa are death to the noble art Of
housewifery. But it is not. Tte-new
love for dairying that has possessed
fashionable femininity is a straw that
shows the wind.
This development is not very new-even
among fashAonables. French royalty led
the idea decades ago, and English roy
atty took it up a few years since.
When the beautiful Austrian woman
grew tired of court gowns and heavy
courtesies she went TO the country, where
her famous dairy is part of history.
What Marie Antonette did all the
court did, and soon all ladies of high
degree were as busy patting butter and
churning as if they were forced to earn
their living. Probably the gowns did
not carry out the suggestion, though the
Queen thought hers the very genius of
simplicity. How lovely she looked in it
can be seen by vigee LIE Bruins picture
of her at the time.
The Princess of Wales, who had been
brought up in the most Democratic fash
ion by the sensible Danish King, found
that actually milking the cows at San
dringham and experimenting the dairy
gave her better health than all the medi-
cine of the court physician.
Some time ago that f~avorite, Fanny
Davenport, lost her health. Nobody saw
or heard of her. A nervous prostration
was said to be the cause of her retire
ment. Then came a rumor from her eoun-
try place. She was milking two cows
at dawn, skimming the cream off yes
terday's milk, and finally churning a little
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until she could lift out great spoons of
yellow butter. Then the report came that
she was well again.
The finest private dairy in the world
belongs to Governor Levi p. Morton, who
built it after his many daughters had
begun to grow to girlhood. This dairy
was for a long time managed by the
family. A milkmaid would do the but
fer work and the Morton girls would
help her. They lived at Ellerslie then, and
part of every day was spent with the
cows and the milk. To this day if they are
sick or out Of sorts they go to the farm
and revel in the great marble butter
rooms for a day. When the youngest was
taken to San Francisco for her health
last winter she begged to go to the but
ter house instead.
Miss Pullman, who was recently we'd
ded, has a famous butter house. Through
the farm runs a clear, cool stream, and
upon the coolest portion of it is set the
little dairy. The outside is>of rough
granite, low built and narrow. Inside
there is but one room. This is tiled, and
through the centre of it flows the stream.
Great windows air the butter house.
The water enters through a silver fau-
Get of great size that filters it, and it
masses out through a specially contrived
appliance. In the middle of the butter
house the stream gurgles and rises and
falls all day. There are two steps lead
ing down to the water, and on these
steps the fair buttermaker sits and
washes the butter until the water flows
through it clear. This is butter making
on a decidedly romantic scale. Its use
fulness to this wealthy and beautiful girl
is that 1t develops the muscles, gives her
something to do and Is the healthiest
pastime known. But then she is and
always has been an industrious girl.
Very different from the Western mil
: lionaire,s splendid dairy for his daughter
is that where the little daughters of the
President of the United States learn
the great health secrets of the dairy
maid The small sanded room at Gray
Cables is very insignificant, but friends
say it is no insignificant thing to see
the comely wife of the Chief Executive
show Ruth and Esther how TO churn.
This summer the little tots car make
butter. to the tune of their sweet kin
dergarten songs. which they have studi-
ously worked at all winter.
This homely employment has been
found a great panacea for the-neTves of
emotional actresses as well as society
women.
Olga Nethersole has learned its value
and no better equipped dairy is found
than the lovely young Englishwoman
comes into after she has arisen at dawn
to milk the cows.
And Calve, the great Carmen, finds
no greater happiness when the singing
season is over than to fly to her farm
where, feeding the. chicken and milking
the cows, she forgets all about the foot
lights.
One of the strangest things parents
ever do is to punish their children for
what they have not the strength of
character to overcome in themselves
Fathers nave been known to punish
severely their little ones for profan-
ity, when at the same time they almost
increasingly indulge in it, saying, 81
lave become accustomed to using such
expressions, and cannot help 1t, but I
intend that my children shall form no
such bad habits as 1 have"
oh, Consistency, thou art a jewelt'
Do they not realize that the who list
of the little ones doings is an imitation
of its elders?
If the elder. with his reasoning facul-
ties matured, and with the full force
of will power his own, cannot over
come a fault. how can a child be ex-
pected to?
Mothers often seat their little ones
at the table containing food Injurious to
both parent and child. compelling the
child to abstain while they partake,
afterward remarking in the presence OF
the child: Il ate too much of that rich
food, but / could not leave it alone, it
was so good"
What kim of an influence does such
an example exert over "a child? Does not
the child feel that 1t has been wronged,
and that as soon as it can nave its
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