78 Good Housewifery and Evil — The Mustard Plant. — Smoke. V^ol. XI. 



Good Housewifery and Evil. 



By Thomas TnssER. 



Ill huswifery lieth 

 Till nine of the clock : 



Good huswifery trieth 

 To rise with the cock. 



Ill huswifery trusteth 

 To him and to her: 



Good huswifery lusteth 

 Herself for to stir. 



Ill huswifery careth 

 For this nor for that : 



Good huswifery spareth 

 For fear ye wot what, 



111 huswifery pricketh 

 Herself up in pride : 



Good huswifery tricketh 

 Her house as a bride. 



Ill huswifery one thing 

 Or other must crave : 



Good huswifery nothing 

 But needful will have. 



Ill huswifery moveth 

 With gossip to spend : 



Good huswifery loveth 

 Her household to tend. 



Ill huswifery brooketh 

 Mad toys in her head : 



Good huswifery looketh 

 That all things be fed. 



Ill huswifery bringeth 

 A shilling to naught : 



Good huswifery singeth — 

 Her coffers full fraught. 



Ill huswifery rendeth, 

 And casteth aside : 



Good huswifery mendeth, 

 Else would it go wide. 



Ill huswifery craveth 

 In secret to borrow : 



Good huswifery saveth 

 To-day, for to-morrow. 



Ill huswifery pineth, 

 Not having to eat : 



Good huswifery dineth 

 With plenty of meat. 



The Mustard Plant. 



The following paragraph is found in an Address de- 

 livered by Jacob Green in Albany, in 1814, before the 

 Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts. In confirm- 



ation of the sentiment there expressed more than thirty 

 years ago, that this plant "might yield no trifling pro- 

 fit to the American cultivator," we would refer to the 

 99th page of our last volume, where the account of a 

 crop raised by J. H. Parmlee, of Ohio, is given by C. J. 

 Fell & Brother, of this city.— Ea. ^ 



The Sinapis, or Mustard, is a plant which 

 might yield no trifling profit to the American 

 cultivator. Small clusters of it are seen 

 growing in our fields and gardens; but whe- 

 ther it is a native of the country, or merely 

 the fruit of chance, I am not able to deter- 

 mine. In some catalogues, however, it is 

 marked as an exotic; but our climate is con- 

 genial to its habit, and almost every soil is 

 adapted to its growth. A gentleman from 

 Orange county, in this State, has informed 

 me, that he collected from half an acre of 

 but tolerable land, fourteen bushels of the 

 seed, which he believed equal in quality to 

 that of the Sinapis Arvensis, commonly known 

 by the name of Durham mustard. There 

 are many species of this herb, but it would 

 be well for the cultivator to confine his at- 

 tention to the one just mentioned, the seed 

 of which is more abundant and of a better 

 quality than in the other kinds. The high 

 price given for imported mustard, and the 

 facility with which it can be raised, induce 

 a belief that farmers generally might find 

 their account in making it an article of cul- 

 ture and traffic. 



Value of Smoke. 



A late number of the British Quarterly Review, has 

 the following statement. Ingenuity and a disposition 

 to turn every thing to account, sometimes bring about 

 curious results. A great deal that is now abandoned 

 as useless, will one day be made subservient to our 

 wants, and perhaps become important agents in min- 

 istering to our pleasures.— Ed. 



The British Quarterly Review for March, 

 contains the following paragraph : 



"A striking instance of economical talent 

 came to our knowledge in the District of 

 Alston Moor. From the smelting earths of 

 one 'house' an arched tunnel conducts the 

 smoke to an outlet at a distance from the 

 works, in a waste spot, where no one can 

 complain of it. The gathering matter or 

 ' fume' resulting from the passage of the 

 smoke, is annually submitted to a process, 

 by which, at that time, it yielded enough to 

 pay for the construction of the chimney. A 

 similar tunnel chimney, three miles in 

 length, was erecting at Allendale. Its 

 fume will yield thousands of pounds sterling 

 per annum. In this case smoke does not 

 end in smoke." 



