New-York tribune., 1905-08-13

boys and girls who had to work its dasher up
and down. up and down, before the butter would
come, has had its usefulness brought to close
by the modern creamery, and the custom of
butterrnaking has become obsolete in nearly all
farmhouses. The creamery man" unheard
of individual a quarter of a century ago, now
goes his rounds collecting the milk and cream
from the farms, and the rural housewife does
not make even the butter used by her own
family.
Hanging from some dust covered beam in the
attic are the old candle moulds in which the
housewife used to mould her candles if she did
not make them by the slower process of dip
ping them. What housewife of to-day dips
taller or would dip" it without protest? When
she thinks of her candle dipping days and Of
the Pickering, feeble light her candles produced.
when compared to the lamps she has to-day, ths
housewife is inclined to regard the Standard On
Company something of blessing, after all
She is also thankful that customs change even
in the matter of diet, and that the farmer who
once lived almost wholly pork, when it came ta
meat, now uses almost pork at all Butcher
ing day has become thing Of the past on many
farms. and lard has almost disappeared from
some pantries in which it was never absent n
the days of long ago. The housewife does not
fry everything in sputtering lake of fat she
once did, although there are rural localities tl
which the frying pan still takes first rank a
cooking utensfl and everything that can bs
fried goes into it.
Rusty old scythes bear testimony to the fact
that time was when the sound Of the reaper and
, mower was not heard in the land, and the farm,
er swung his scythe from morning until night
cutting less with it IN a day than he now
cut in hour with the mower Of modern inyen-
ton. The farmer Of to-day owes much to ths
! inventive genius of the of recent years for
his barn is supplied with labor saving imple-
ments OF which his ancestors the farm he
now owns knew nothing. He may work as hard
they did, but he has the satisfaction OF know
ing that his work counts for much more with tho
implements he has at hand.
We not, like the people OF many other
lands, conservative in regard to adopting new
customs and new inventions when that
they better than old customs and old tnven-
tons. We not bound by custom by
sentiment to the ways of our ancestors, although
the writer knows Of one old woman living In ths
heart OF the city Of Boston who to-day prepares
all Of her meals the Goals IN the fireplace
in which her mother and her grandmother
cooked She will have nothing to do with any
'newfangled" ways of cooking. and that bless
ing OF the housewife OF to-day, the beautifully
appointed kitchen range. has no charms for
her.
Modern invention has driven to the attic many
household utensils once in common and weart-
some use, and custom has wrought such changes
that II our ancestors who have been lying IN
their graves these hundred years could como
back to earth they would be almost helpless
farm or in kitchen of to-day. while great.
noisy odortferous. touring car OF an automobile
would doubt cause some of them to feel that
some OF modern methods OF lOcomotion are
IN c-fr{ md Of Our fDya
not unmixed blessings