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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[November 



weeks before using it, as it spends fast when 

 it is new. 



Cranberries will keep all winter in a 

 firkin of water in the cellar. 



Potatoes should be put in the cellar as 

 soon as they are dug. Lying exposed to 

 the sun turns them green and makes them 

 watery. Some good house-keepers have 

 sods laid over barrels of potatoes not in im- 

 mediate use. To prevent them from sprout- 

 ing in the spring, turn them out upon the 

 cellar bottom. 



To thaw frozen potatoes, put them in hot 

 water. To thaw frozen apples, put them 

 in gold, water. Neither will keep well after 

 being frozen. — Eastern Farmer. 



Maxims for Married Women. 



The unmarried women, says an exchange, 

 who can read this without indignation, ought 

 to be married : 



Let every wife be persuaded that there 

 are two ways of governing a family. The 

 first is by the expression of that will which 

 belongs to force; the second to the power of 

 mildness, to which every strength will yield. 

 One is the power of the husband; a wife 

 should never employ any other arms than 

 those of gentleness. When a woman accus- 

 toms herself to say " I will," she deserves 

 to lose her empire. 



Avoid contradicting your husband. When 

 we smell a rose it is to imbue the sweets of 

 odor; we look for everything amiable in 

 woman. Whoever is often contradicted feels 

 insensibly an aversion for the person who 

 contradicts, which gains strength by time, 

 and whatever be her good qualities, is not 

 easily destroyed. 



Occupy yourself only with household af- 

 fairs, wait till your husband confides to you 

 those of higher importance, and do not read 

 lectures to him. Let your preaching be a 

 good example, and practice virtue yourself 

 to make him love it. 



Command his attention by being always 

 kind to him; never exact anything, and 

 you will attain much ; appear always flat- 

 tered by the little he does for you/ which 

 will excite him to do more. 



All men are vain ; never wound his van- 

 ity, not even in the most trifling instances. 

 A wife may have more sense than her hus- 

 band but she should never seem" to know it. 



When a man gives wrong counsel, never 

 feel that he has done so, but lead him by de- 

 grees to what is rational, with mildness and 



gentleness; when he is convinced, leave him 

 to the merit of having found out what is 

 just and reasonable. 



When a husband is out of temper, behave 

 obligingly to him ; if he is abusive, never 

 retort, and never prevail over him to hum- 

 ble him. 



Choose well your friends, have but few, 

 and be careful of following their advice in 

 all matters. 



Cherish neatness without luxury, and 

 pleasure without excess; dress with taste, 

 particularly with modesty ; vary in the fash- 

 ion of your dress, especially as regards col- 

 ors. It gives a change to the ideas, and re- 

 calls pleasing recollections. Such things 

 may appear trifling, but they have more im- 

 portance than is imagined. 



Never be curious to pry into you hus- 

 band's concerns, but obtain his confidence. 

 Always preserve economy, avoid being out 

 of temper, and be careful not to scold ; by 

 this means he will find his house pleasanter 

 than any other. 



Seem always to obtain information from | 

 him, especially before company, though you 

 may pass yourself for a simpleton. 



Never forget that a wife owes all her im- 

 portance to that of her husband. Leave him 

 entirely master of his own actions, to go or 

 come whenever he thinks fit. A w r ife ought 

 to make her company amiable to her hus- / 

 band, that he will not be able to exist with- 

 out it, then he will not seek for pleasure 

 abroad, if she does not partake of it with 

 him. — Alexandria Gazette. 



Don't Scold. 



Don't scold, — for it destroys affection. No 

 one ever did, ever can, ever will, love an 

 habitual fretter, fault-finder or scolder. 

 Husbands, w T ives, children, relations or do- 

 mestics, have no affection for peevish, fret- 

 ful fault-finders. Few tears are shed over 

 the graves of such. Persons of high moral 

 principle may tolerate them, may bear with 

 them, but they cannot love them any more 

 than they can love the sting of nettles or 

 the noise of musquitos. .Many a man has 

 been driven to the tavern and to dissipation, 

 by a peevish, fretful wife; many a wife has 

 been made miserable by a peevish, fretful 

 husband. 



Don't scold, — for it is the bane of domes- 

 tic happiness. A fretful, peevish, complain- 

 ing fault-finder in a family is like the con- 

 tinual chafing of an inflamed sore. Wo to 



