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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



EDUCATION OF YOUNG LADIES?" 



There are two systems at present in high favor in 

 schools for young ladies. One is to cram the unfortunate 

 pupil with every species of information on all imaginable 

 Subjects, from bridge building to dialectics ; the other 

 gives but passing attention to studies which are not ac- 

 complishments, and aims to make young ladies both 

 po'yglots and musieal artistes. It is quite generally for- 

 gotten that education (e-duco) is the drawing forth and 

 cultivation of those powers of body and mind which God 

 has given to each individual, and not the foi-oing in o( 

 a given amount of facts and theories. 



In the memoir of Mrs. Schimmelpenninck — a very fas- 

 cinating though incomplete book — a letter of her's is 

 given to a friend who wished her advice as to a governess 

 for her daughter. She gives her ideas of what a woman's 

 education should be so clearly, and the ideas are so just, 

 that we extract some paragraphs. She says : 



"A woman has no fixed destiny but the blessed one of 

 being a helper. Her education, therefoie, must be a con- 

 tinued training of all her faculties and powers ; to be 

 ready with each, to take up or lay down this, that or the 

 Other, as may be the future puri,uit of her husband, her 

 lather or her brother ; or the future calls of the sickroom 

 the school-room, the dispenser to the poor, or the claims 

 of the social oi- domestic circle. 



"A woman should have the principles of various things 

 (observe, not a smattering of the superficialities, but the 

 principles) well laid, so as to be able with ease to go on 

 with any thing which may be necessary, and to feel no 

 great disappointment in having to turn from one to the 

 other." 



She sajs that her reasons for this opinion are that it is 

 impossible to excel in any one talent without a too great 

 sacrifice of time and labor, and consequently giving an 

 undue prominence to that individual thing. In music, 

 for instance, a young person ought not to sing like a pub- 

 lic performer, but like one who has given the time neces- 

 sary to acquire sufficient skill to please in the domestic 

 circle, but has not sacrificed it in acquiring that which 

 might win puolic applause. A woman's education should 

 fit her for home and home duties, and not for the world 

 or society alone. 



The letter should be given entire to do it justice, but 

 we have only space for one more extract on the manner 

 of reading and the kinds of books to be selected: 



"Some rules I would enforce. For example, I .should 

 never allow time to be wasted on second-rate books. I 

 would not read a great variet}-, but every author should 

 be a standard one. 



" Nothing is a greater waste of time than reading poor 

 books. The be>t historian, the best poet, the best nat- 

 uralist, the best scriptural work, the best music, the best 

 drawings, are necessary to form a correct mind and ta.ste." 



And she would have added the best novelists had 

 not her system excluded that class of fiction ; but as 

 all young people will read novels, parents and teachers 

 ought to see that they read only good ones. The flood of 

 trashy literature which has inundated this country within 

 the last few years, threatens to engulph and sweep away 

 all the good common sense bequeithed us by our fathers, 

 and dilute the intellects of the coming generation to the 

 minimum amount of strength compatible with the 

 poisessioD of reasoning faculties. 



ORIGINAL DOMESTIC KECEIPTS. 

 Contributed to the Genesee Farmer. 



DouonNUTS.— Put two tablespooufuls of yeast in| 

 three pints of warm water; stir in flour till it is a mi' 

 dling thick batter; let it rise about three hours, till it 

 light, but not sour; take six quarts of flour, three pin 

 of brown sugar, rolled fine, three-quarters of a quart ( 

 sweet lard melted and warmed with a pint of milk, oi 

 tablespoonful of fine salt, and one ounce of powden 

 allspice. Put all together and knead as you would brea 

 If not quite wet enough, put in a little warm water, 

 should be about the stiflfness of bread-dough, and wel 

 kneaded. Let it stand over night, and then knead 

 again. Roll it upon a pastry-board, and cut it in sue 

 forms as you please. Fry the cakes in sweet lard as h( 

 as possible without burning. 



Spanish Cream.— One ounce of isinglass, one quart o 

 cream or new milk. Put the isinglass into a little tepi 

 water and boil it until it is thoroughly dissolved; the 

 strain it into the cream. Let it scald on the stove. Tak 

 it off, and when nearly cold add the yolks of six eggs 

 sweeten to the taste. Put it into molds, and eat wit; 

 sweetmeats. 



McFFi.vs.— Three tablespoonfuls of butter melted ii 

 three pints of milk ; when cold stir in six eggs, one tea 

 spoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of ye.ist, and flour ti 

 make the batter as thick as you cau beat it. It will ris< 

 in three hours. 



Rice Waffles — Take one teacup and a half of boilec 

 rice; warm it with a pint of milk; mix it smooth anc 

 take it from the fire ; stir into it a pint of cold milk anc 

 a teaspoonful of salt ; four eggs, and flour to make a thir 

 batter. 



Corn Cakes.— One pint of good cream, one pint of 

 buttermilk, one egg, one teaspoonful of saleratus, one of 

 salt. Stir in meal until it foams, and let it rise for a 

 half or three-quarters of an hour. 



Dyspepsia Bread.— Three quarts unbolted wheat flour, 

 sifted; one pint of milk and pint of water, warm but not 

 hot; one gill of fresh yeast; one gill of molasses, or not, 

 as may suit the taste ; one teaspoonful soda. 



A Cure kor Whooping Cough.— Cochineal, pulverized, 

 ten grains; salt of tartar, thirty grains; sugar, one 

 ounce. Mix with one-half pint of hot water. Dose, one 

 teaspoonful three times a day. 



How TO Soften Hard Water.— One-half an ounce of 

 quick lime dissolved in nine quarts of water, and the 

 clear solution put into a barrel of hard water. The whole 

 will be soft as it settles clear. 



Sweet Applr Pudding.— One pint of scalded milk, 

 half a pint of corn-meal, one teacup of molasse.-', one tea- 

 spoonful of salt, six sweet apples cut in small slices. 

 Bake three hours. 



Scotch Cake.— One pound of sugar, three-quarters of 

 a pound of butter, one pound of flour, nine eggs, one 

 wine-glass of brandy, (spices, if preferred,) and rasing. 



