| Show from the new york tribune nov inov 24 bathing cooking ventilation the people of the country not counting conn conti ting many of those of the town have much to learn of the iha great art of life of domestic economy and the tie tle world of good it affords some recent observations in various rural parts have surprised us as to the real facts of their mode of living as we looked for s and reform in that department along with the whole upward impulse of the age without going south ii libre 11 re we learn from the tho southern papers that ill the life of the white trash is lower than that of the tha indians r taking the poor of the north but confining ur selves toa to a notice of people having enough to at drink wear and keep house with we find the standard landard of eom dom comfort domfort fort the laws of physical being included sadly ou on the tha wrong side of the balance I 1 he people in a word have ilare much anch to learn of he arts of ilfe life and on this head we wish to say few plain words i there are some things necessary to constitute consulate a well veil ordered household whether it cost n few or many thousands a year among these liese is first the aristocratic habit of having fresha water rater ad a nd plenty of it next there is the libera li bera use iso of the said water applied 0 to o washing the body and entirely every day washing the hands lauds clean when work is over or meals are eady ready cleansing the teeth so far as to forestall or decay and keep the breath pur puri now in agard to water the provi provisions ious ions of the tile great ma arity bority of little country households are simply vile 1 and tod sharrie shameful ful fui A basin and ewer which would not lot accommodate a monkey are set before a man hen such things as proper conveniences for lathing i L seem desperately scarce the people in I 1 i w word r da do dont nt wash themselves they are not I 1 lean bean clean where one washes himself from top to i oe each day there are hundreds who do not r t 1 the greasy mob mobs is thus a term too true and it be so why cannot tile tiie matl man of mail small means be as careful of his person as die tile dandy andy as the courtier as the aristocrat wash and ind be clean look well at tile the type of baptism iud ind find it an ever evor living declaration against the of the masses and the dimasa dimase moral and seeh sch soh sob filth begets if we ive had bad to give ad to a parent the first thing we iva would say be bathe dathe daily and find make your our children 0 tile the same be spotlessly clean lut iut but the stanard of cleanliness is now awfully lew low another point is coching cooking in the country rne the american cooking there ie Is generally ai as repulsive to taste kasteas as it is to health it is difficult to recognize the goodness good nebs noes of god with such cooking cooling as one gets in the vast majority of houses in the country good cooking will make inferior materials palatable and bad cooking will make a call fan vas back duck unfit to be tasted miss leslie says are three reasons why women will not learn to cook and in the country all the tho cooking is done by women the first is that no woman will use the scales to weigh tile the proportions of a dish the second is that no woman will u use a thermometer to do determine the heat beat of the water used and the third is that no woman will use a watch to mark the time a dish has been oil on the fire it is in a word sheer guesswork guess gus work now a few shillings spent on a good cook book and the habit babit of measuring and marking details by scales thermometer and watch up to the time lime if that should come that habit becomes fillible infallible iu will turn all the tho feminine yahoos of american kitchens aay say in number into decent decant god feuring fearing caterers cateress cater ers of his ills thu tangible gible mercies of the fatness odthe land of fruits and meats I 1 and all the abundant arvest harvest li of his la effable goodness asa As a general rule in the tha country there is nothing fit to eat first as to breakfast the coffee is simply slops though nothing is easier than to make a cup of or good coffee there should be viry vary very little water to it and muen pure milk or cream to dilute dilate it of which last items thera there ought to be an over overflow flow in the country the tea tes demay may be generally better than the coffee but it is sufficiently bad and unfit to drink then on the breakfast table there here is isa a chaos of crude dishes when some borne two or three things at most roost well cook cooked d ere are ample the bread is t too oo 00 often sodden tile the butter too much like tallow then there is a mess mesa of and booked to the consistency solo leather horror of hot cakes pies and beaven heaven knows what all ali sufficient to repel but not to invite ap appetite if this ram rampant panto multitudinous array of a bleak fast table came of poverty we woud have nothing to say about it but it is simply the product ot of ignorance there is generally an excess on the table tabie an extract of which excess might be and aou would ld be fit to eat if there was anything ug lil ill tike like e discreet preparation of food but there IT iff not housewives in the count country rys take our advice buy a cookbook cook book and learn to cook and spread your breakfast table with a chaotic mass indigestible endig e tibie tible repulsive crudities have little i have lave it gooda good a dish to put before a kill king b and then it is fit to put before yourselves ad and otherwise reform your cooking it is simply savage bavage then another point as to heating beating and ventilating in grooms rooms we have no question that the stati dard of good looks ami and of health is lowering owing the present mode of heating beating and ventilating is of not ventilating houses inthe ia the c country ou n try formerly the houses bouses were so rudely built that air had a lecure play and the foul air within was pu purified P ifield without malice then too there was a great chimney place where a blazing good fire carried off the odthe of the cooking and ala sitting room and nursery in most liou hou sesia sesla the tho country they aro all into one but now the houses are better belter built khedoo the til tir shut close and the tha windows shut closer heavens beavens leavens and the tha atmosphere are contraband the meat meal jars of the shakers tila ilia air is scrupulously excluded then again the nobles noble jolly chimney place is obsolete and an immense stove which would pro properly erly the devils patent has taken its place 1 this I is infernal arrangement hot hoi as pandemonium night and day in the kitchen and nursery and sit ting room the good wife and aud her babies are broiled over like their cakes and pot potatoes As for the tha composite sten stenches clies ciles of such an arrangement arrangements it were impossible to describe them pure pare air under I 1 an arrangement where can it be how can i exist in regard to the slee sleeping pill g apartments Chin chimneys ineys inels these have not and the windows are s constructed that tile the sashes welt elnier not hut slide bilde up or if they will there is no weight to h old oid then them BO so if it you cannot find something to hold them themus up your bedroom before morning will be in ill closeness ike the black hole of calcutta that there ought to be ventilation never ap pears lears leara to enter into the heads of the unfortunate creatures who construct such ruch houses such aberrations from froni the plainest laws of nature which bees and birds animals and reptiles all and equally understand and this among a people whose fourth of july oura curators tors tora vaunt the pop ulalious ious I 1 to the akies akles is as sad as it I 1 is incredible oar domestic arrangements for health have declined while luxuries have hare creased increased In declined simply because the present slate state of living in tile the country is generally speaking neither one thing thins nor the other not the pioneers pione ers erg nor the hunts mans nor that of tile the di disciplined scip lined and scientific man lise lite lire live a little more like immortal beings you have the means only study the mode which lles iles lies within your grasp |
