Year: 1866




make good bread without shortening.


If your mother did no, succeed in teach
ing you, my daughter, to make good, light,
sweet, yeast bread without shortening, you
better get leave Of absence and come home
and take lessons and practice under the eye
Of your mother till you can. will as
sure you that the influence Of wife over
a husband will soon wane, ii she cannot
make good bread So, sugar Is three times
as costly as breed and you should use il
spariugly. The appetite is susceptible Of
cultivation. Prepare food for your family
which is most conducive TO health, and use
will render it most palatable, and rice versa
Plain food well prepared is most eondu
ciye to health. Plain gingerbread and oc
casionally little sponge.cake, plain apple
and pumpkin PIES, snS-sss your mother
and most farmers wives make, are not only
healthy but delicious. But, my darling
dear, never be guilty of making "pound-
CAKE" nor such rich mince pies as some
make. To eat such is suicidal. Old DIR.
Twitchell used TO say that " any body who
would sat minee pies ought to be sick"


So in dress. When you purchase ma
terials Tor making dress, buy the most
desirable goods. II costs DO more TO make
up a good than poor article; and the
good will wear twice as long, and in the end
it viii cost no more than three-ffths as
much TO clothe yourself with good as with
poor materials. When you get good
clothes take care of them. Hare work
ing dress and always wear it till your house
work is done. Take care of your furni-
ture and Of everything that is brought in
to the house. Thus you will prosper.


4thly, as the ministers say. Be careful
s0hea you ask favors Of your husband
When child is tired and hungry, it is
very apt TO be cross. Man, in this res
pect, is but grown-up child. Many a
wife has been denied new dress or new
piece of furniture by her husband, merely
because she asked for them when her hus
band was tired and hungry, or had other
bills to pay, or was in hurry at the time
In the morning, or at noon, after a gooC
breakfast or dinner, when husband feel
comfortable and good-natured, are the bes
times to ask favors, other things bein!
equal. But, even then, watch your has
band and ascertain first if anything troub
: les him, or if he is nervous or in hurry
it so, do not trouble him with any Of you
wants. You will almost surely fail if 20
do. Better wait a week and succeed, tina
fail. Or, if everything seems favorabl
when you make your request If you fin
it does not meet with hearty response
waive it and let it pass for the present, ,anS
introduce it at a future favorable period
Let him see that you are self-denying, ant
patient, and reasonable, and he will no
have the heart to put you off too long
But, my darling daughter, do hear yo,
say, 50 Horrid If man is such brut,
that have got to feed him and rest hin
before / can ask favor of him Why
| would rather live single all my days J
Well, my child, you are not single, bu
married TO as good as an average of man
kind and you took him for better or 70
worse" and we husbands are all called til
!" worser-ha)ves" of creation, and you mus
take us for just what we are, and not fo
what we ought to be. am telling yo
, the best way to get along with the mascC
line gender; and, my word for it, if 20
wi | follow my advice you will have NOR
peace and quietness, and more certanl
secure your ends. than if you pay no a
tention TO times and circumstances. Yo
have always professed 10 think that yo
Lad pretty good father; and / have a
/, ways tried 10 be good husband to you
mother, and she has never had to ask twit
for dress, nor for any article of furn
, ture, or anything for the children. Bu
darling, she always observed the rul


which | have laid down for your guidanc


Ne more this time. May God Bile


you, my precious one.


JACOB LoyINGToN.