Show efrom froni the monthly visitor SALLY SLY AND jany jani JANE 39 mckean c lean KEAN HUMOROUS REPORT ON ox BUTTE BUTTER L T the h e beni bent licence of the creator is manifest in so dla dia disposing posing our cur ta tastes des nes and so adapting these to the varieties with which we are surrounded as to make life a scene of enjoyment instead ft of a burden it lt might have been that necessary food would have been nauseous as it is sometimes to the diseased stomach had it not have pleased the tiie creator to have ordered it otherwise bread 1 Is is the tile staff of life but butter is given to make it slip down easier and with a better letter relish but ut it depenis depends depends soi sol something on orn who makes the butter whether it answers this purpose butter made in joe bankers banker a house needs to be eaten in the dark then to make it pass well one or two other senses should be laid aside while that made by his brother jonathan may be eaten in the full blaze of noon you would wish that your neck was as long again that you might have the V pleasurable e asti astl rable rabie sensation of swallowing prolonged prolong ed perhaps r 11 aps a bit of the history of their better belter halves will explain the whole matter joes wife was selly sly when a small email girl she the wai sly she would not half halt wash the milk pail but sly it away and let it sour she was sly at school arid and did not half get her lessons but would have her book in sight when reciting but as she grew older she learned that to get well married she must appe appear arwell well weil and so she bent all her cunning to get gel a superficial education in everything from roasting a potato to playing tile the piano poor poor joe fell in lose iose lo love loie ve with her and love has no eyes so he be married her but bu t soon after she entered on housekeeping his eye sight came and he saw his fix that it was for better or worse and he thought it was all for tor worse like a true philosopher he tie concluded to endure what he be could not avoid or cure and got along tolerably well only when lie he came to lier fler her butter for his mother was a real butter m maker mayen a ker lvery every every time lime be saw or tasted of sallys butter he felt the horrors her manner of making butter is sou son somewhat as follows she thinks it of no consequence whether the milk pail is sweet or sour our sets the milk illik in a warm w um room because it is is easier than to go into the cellar and if some dirt should blow into the pans she thinks every man must eat a peck of dirt and in no place will it slip down easier than in butter butler she lets the cream pota pots be open and when she churns forgets the poke leaves the cream at blood heat beat that tha t it may come quick when she takes it out of the churn she picks out the bodies of all flies flits and spiders the legs and wings are so small they can be swallowed she works out half the buttermilk and arid sets it away in a warm place for use poor joe has seen reen so much of this kind that lie he declares butter butler does not agree with his malth health and will not taste it yet his wife wonders why he does not try it and marvels that he does not riot keep a dairy and make butter for market jonathan was a younger brother of joe and he had occasion to eat at his brothers enough to know why he did nl not A eat butter and he declared he be never would mar marry ry without knowing what his blead bread would be buttered with following the bent of his fancy lie he made several attempts at matrimony and julia jumper almost caught him for there was always good butter on the table for tea but lie he was determined to know who made it on inquiry she says la mel me mother makes the butter I 1 lake take lessons on the piano 64 well IVell ll 11 says jonathan 1 I want a wife that takes lessons on the churn I 1 shall look further after several unsuccessful attempts and just ready to despair he be started in pursuit of stray cattle before breakfast and wandered through the forest into the next town and weary antl and hull buli hungry gry called at a decent looking house and asked for some refreshment which were most cordially grant granted edy edg for the family were apat are called scotch irish in religion presbyterian and in hospitality boundless here be he found the butter exactly right though the weather wal was hot the butter kept its ha shape as well as beeswax he catechised catechi sed the old lady about her housewifery for the bread was as right as the butter the old lady said her health beaith was feeble she could do but little and jenn jenny Y had the whole management he made some rou tou roundabout round rid about inquiries concerning jenny and heard that she was a hearty black eyed las lass ol 01 about two and twenty had never seen a piano or attended a ball but kaw ni xv the cate chism and could sing old hundred to a charm spin flax and dam stocking stockings and was then gone to town with butter he lingered but she was delayed and when his excuses for staying were exhausted lie started he lie could not get the thee good butter out of his bis mind and how hov it happened I 1 know not he soon found his way there again azain and the result of ils lis his adventure was lie made a wife of jane mckean and now one lump of his beer butter is woith worth more than joes wife would make in a month theres therea no tio trouble in going to market the keepers of genteel boarding houses in the neigh neighboring borim villages send aud and take lake it at the highest market pr price ice no now the main difference between these two women arises from the manner of training thol tho there is ro difference in natural disposition old madam sally never looked on to see that sally did up her work right but summered suffered her to sly off her work as she chose and hough though g a good housekeeper herself was alta aita eth r too indulgent 11 and like some other mothers thought more of getting sally well married than of inaki making ng her lier fit for a wife while oid old madam mckean was determined jenny should be fit for any mans mates wife whether eie oie got go married or not perhaps there is no more certain criterion by which to judge cf lomaha general character for ri neatness and ard and good housekeeping than by ibe the quadi quality tv of her butter find on farmers table a goot goo coo d solid properly sailed well ivell worked slice elie e gf of butter Q and you need not fear to eat the cakes calces jr cr hash but see a epla splash dof of hal hai buter butter galt gait in lumps and aind i a sprinkling cf hair and fihs fiks lees leks you may n ay be ure sure that it you board here veny very tiong long iong death ath will not be obliged 1 lo 10 wait much for you to finish your peck 0 of dirt my advice is to young farmers to make it a fine sine qua non mn ina lna in a wife that she makes prime butter and the doting yoting ladies rho who mho aspire to be farmers wives had much better be imperfect in filla pree free cree and music than be deficient in bat that hat most important art of making butten butter which not only the sharp corners of crust and crackers but will gift smooth asperities asperi ties of the husbands temper 19 S D LITTLE |