Middletown transcript., 1896-06-20

j. III 49, has always beer
.,s11|x1 ~ and a consultation
ZY5 of doctors wa
i called. The Prin
cess could not stop crying. The air :"
the street made her wetp the harder
and the breath of the lawn drove lei
into perfect paroxysms of tears.
"When I used to cry like lnis in
Denmark l was a GIRL" she
said to her physician, ''my mother sent
me out to the dairy. There We had
milk-white cows with sweet breath and
soft skin, and when l sat down to milk
t hem they would swish their tails and
send down the creamy milk in big
streams"
"Go milk now," ordered the ply
sician. '.Get out TO Sandringham,
where the dogs are. Get up in the
morning, swing a milk-pail on your
arm and learn contentedness of the
dumb beasts"
The Princess did this apd got we'll.
A portrait of her with her milking
stool hangs in the queens private
breakfast room at Windsor. 1t is a
blue stool with cowslips painted on it.
Victoria never would milk. She liked
her dunkey and her ease too well. But
Alexandra found peace at the milking
stool. =
Some time ago that old favorite,
Fanny Davenport lost her health. No.
body saw her or heard Of her. A
nervous prostration was said to be the
cause of her retirement. Then came a
rumor from her country place. She
was milking two cows at dawn. skim
ming the cream off yesterdays milk,
and finally churning little blue-han-
died dasher in little blue churp, until
she could lift out great poons of yel-
low butter. Then the report came that
oho w DIS Wcll again.
Pretty women have known for a
long time of the virtue of fresh milk
and sweet butter in health and good
looks. The little country place nestled
away not far from the city and mani
festly to supply the town house with
country products has been really for
the freshening of the complexion and
nerves.
When certain very well-known So
ciety woman went to her doctor with
a muddy complexion, that distinguish
ed worthy said to her: "Don't come
to me. Take that face somewhere
else."
"Why, doctor, what do you mean?"
replied she, startled and indignant.
II mean literally what l say. Take,
yourself to your little country place
and wash your face with fresh milk
every morning at o'clock.o
"But, doctor, where can l get fresh
milk at such an hour?"
"Get it from the COW. Do your own
Put some in bowl and
bathe your face with it. Let it dry on. |
Drink some milk. Churn your cream,
wash your face in the bultermilk tw ice
! day; carry the milkpail from the barn
pour the milk into the pans
with your own hands; do your own
1airy work. In month come back |
and l will tell you what to do next"
inside month she had forgotten the
muddy complexion, for it was a thing
Of the far past.
The finest private dairy in the world |
belongs to Levi P. Morton, who built |
It after his many daughters had begun
% grow to girlhood. This dairy was
'or along time managed by the family. |
milkmaid would do the butter work |
md the Morton gills would help her.
Fhey lived at Ellerslie then, and part |
If every day was spent with the cows
Ind the milk. To this day if they are
lick Or out of sorts they go to the farm
ind revel in the great marble butter
.ooms for a day. When the youngest
vas taken to San Francisco for her
leslth last winter she begged to go TO
he but ntterhouse instead.
A Western millionaire, whose daugh-
el's recent quiet marriage surprised
10Th continents, has a butter house
,uilt for this same daughter On the
most romantic plan. Through the farm
uns clear, cool stream, and upon II 9
coolest por ion Of it is set the little
larry. The outside is 0f rough granite.
oW built and narrow. Inside there is
,ut one DOM. This is Tiled. and through
he centre of it q ,Ws the stream. Great
windows air the butter house.
The waller enters through silver
aucet Of great SIZE that filters il, and
! passes out through specially con-
rived appliance. In tile middle of the
ntter house the stream gurgles and
ises aud falls all day. There are two
teps leading down to the water. and
II these steps the fair butter maker
lis and washes the butter until the
iater flows through it clear. This is
utter making on decided romantic
Gale. Its usefulness to this wealthy
nd beautiful girl is that it develops
he muscle, gives her something to do,
nd is the heaithiest pastime known.
Tut then she is and always has been
n Industrious girl. f
The butter making Of the little
'leyelands ut Gay Gables is somt-
hiuo = q N lighfft,l as u fairy tale II