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For Woman’s Work.
KITCHENS AND FUEL.
T is amazing that some people are abl e
to keep servants at all. We refer to
that class who pay liberally and
promptly, yet furnish their depend
ents such poor quarters to live in, and to
work in, that not only is comfort out of
the question, but health is often jeopar
dizeu and life is made dreary and distaste
ful.
To argue the pros—there can be no
cons—in favor of a tidy place in which to
rest after the day’s work is done, would
make this article too long. Our own prac
tice has taught us, however, that a com
fortable kitchen and a neat, pleasant bed
room are great magnets to the poor crea
tures who must earn their living by mak
ing life easier for other people.
In respect to these matters a queer state
of things exists here in Dixie. Whether
it is because the negroserva.it is rarely in
clined to keep her surroundings neat and
clean, or whether it is natural indiffererce
to conveniences of any and ad sorts what
soever, or whether it is because a thirteen
months staple crop consumes all oi men’s
energies and leaves them no pride in their
homes, it is quite certain that a white crow
is scarcely rarer than a good kitchen.
Dining-rooms are little better.
With long summers and short winters,
no Dixie family cares to make a sitting
room of their kitchen as common folks do
in the North, according to the story
books. But there has as yet been no rem
edy save food obtained against hunger, and
to have good food it is necessary to make
some provision for cooking. Southern
people may be supposed by the world at
large to exist on fruits, quinine and mala
ria; and as a matter of iact a great many
of them do look on the latter resources of
the country as less dangerous than a diet
of fruit and vegetables; but a good deal
of cooking is done, notwithstanding— past
generations of lavish slave-cooks insured
that. And many a poor darkey would
fare badly if the reign of economy of time,
labor and provisions should set in sudden
ly, for what is a loss to the “big house” is
his gain. That may strike you as an un
warranted approach to the language of the
obituary; let it pass, for it was doubtless
born of the thought that the negroes would
starve but for the cooked victuals “left
over” by the white families.
Noone minds cold so much as the negro
and that is the only sort of servant to be
found in Dixie that is worth the hanging.
Yet outside of the better houses in towns,
a kitchen that is fitted for cold weather is
unknown. It is, indeed, the fund delusion
of half the people that we have no winters,
and certainly the delusion is convenient
sirce it precludes all arrangements for
comfort except in mild weather. But win
ter we do have, and that of the sort that
pinches the very marrow—there is not a
nice thing to be said for it.
Whatever theinexperienced may believe
to the Contrary, the free negro d. es not
make an ideal servant. She courts warmth,
but, lavishes all her wages on “Sunday
clothes,” so that she is rarely provided
against cold weather. Thus she may be
relied upon to grow more “trifling ’ as the
thermometer takes a downwaid migration.
Withan open, cheerless kitchen the case
becomes absolutely hopeless.
The funniest thing, though, is that here,
where the negro abounds in tropical pro
fusion, comparatively few people care
nowadays to bother with cooks. Indeed
that lititle word “bother” affords about
the best key to the new situation. So it
has long ceased to be the lashion for
Southern women to be ignorant of the
homely arts pertaining to housekeeping:
the daughters and grand-daughters ol wo
men who at the close of the war could not
dress themselves unaided are the best of
housekeepers and cooks. Necessity forced
them to acquire the skill, and the sprite f
independence leads them to excel their
former teachers,
There is usually a woman in the kitchen,
but her mission is odd jobs of all sorts,
and she is rarely to be trusted with im
portant tasks. In fact, you trust her at
your peril: either the “meal” will come up
ruined or it will “come up missing,” ac
cording tq or cupidity.
WOMAN’S WORK.
We have outlived the day when our
purses were plethoric enough to stand the
waste and stealage of our colored folk; the
housekeeper now measures out everything
that will enter into the composition of a meal
and puts the store-room key in her deepest
pocket. If her black Abigail professes re
ligion and talks sanctification she may
wisely add another story to her pocket.
To measure out meals and give the nec
essary aid and oversight in preparing it re
quires that the housekeeper be in the
Kitchen much of her time under even fa
vorable circumstances. She not only sees
how the cold effects her servant, but she
may also feel it for herself. Yet the kitch
ens are just the same. Great cracks yawn;
windows are broken, or perhaps made of
wood and so thrown open to admit light.
The woodpile is away off in one direction,
with no shed over it, and the water is sure
to be rather far from tae door, in quite
another direction. The men may be
counted upon to cut a little less wood than
is needed, but there is no lack of refuse to
be picked up for the stooping. The water
must be drawn by a windlass from a deep
well, and may be the indirect means of a
great growth in patience, provided your
meditations tend that way at all times. A
sink is undreamed of. You may wash
your vegetables at the well. When the
dish-water and scraps accumulate to incon
venience, call all the pigs to the back gate
and stand treat. By this means they can
be easily trained to do their duty in pro
viding fleas for the establishment. Fleas
are conducive to self possession; you be
come an adept at presenting a serene
countenance under torture.
Os course there is half the year when the
kitchens are suffocatingly hot, and ten to
one it does not boast of a single able-bod
ied chair in which to drop down by the
window while the cake bakes; nor is there
the remotest suggestion of screens against
flies. There is no place in the house hot
ter than the kitchen during summer, but
there is one spot alone which is colder in
winter—the dining-room. With so much
beauty going to waste outdoors in Dixie, it
is perhaps too much to expect that the
dining room should contain other than its
business furniture; it is not recorded, how
ever, that pleasajt surroundings impede
digestion or detract from the satisfying
qualities of a good meal.
We call to mind many a luxurious meal
eaten in shivering discomfort in the tireless
dining-room, with its chinks and crevices
inviting all outdoors to prey upon our
poor body. Ten to nothing the doors stand
open the year round.
We recall a visit to a large plantation
one Christmas when the snow fell. Ne
groes of all ages and of all stages of use
fulness abiunded to articipate our every
wish. Great log fires roared and cracked
in the living rooms, and ail was gay
and joyous—inside. But the kitchen was
freezing cold, and both mistress and mauls
suffered greatly. They took turn about to
run to the house fires, thus saving their
leet from frostbite; because the winter
would be short there was no complaint
about the lack of comfort. Then, too, de
spite the freezing weather and consequent
drawbacks we fared sumptuously at every
meal.
With the whole face of the earth covered
with fine timber of all descriptions, the
common fuel for stoves is pine, dry, wet or
green as may happen. Labor and lumber
are cheap, but wood-houses are fe.v ard far
between; when they do exist they are gen
erally empty, because “no one expected
bad weather so early.” If the good Lord
had not looked out for this sort of thing
and provided an abundance of rich, “fat”
lightwood, as heart-pine is called, it would
be sad times when New England lends us
her winters as happjued last year.
Now any cook knows there is nothing
more exasperating than poor fuel. And it
it worries the housekeeper, who being tied
up in the bonds of matrimony,cannot give
notice and hunt another puce, it is tou
much to expect that a hired cook will pa
tiently endure it. Even the most con
scientious like to go- a task finished in
time to rest before the next hard pull.
It is usually a man’s business to provide
fuel for the house. That is the fashion in
Dixie, at least; it may be different with
“girl bachelors,” and all Indians let their
women get the wood. Outside oi these,
when a man fails habitually or without due
cause, as, for instance, a broken neck or a
call to the penitentiary, he ought to be
< bliged to go cold and hungry. Often
times he would, if he were cook, doom the
whole family to short rations rather than
face the elements in the kitchen that his
wife or his hired cook occupies day after
day. We have always rather admired the
woman who, when pleading had been vain,
faithfully prepared her bread, vegetables
and pies and set them in the stove which
no wood had been prepared to heat. When
her hungry spouse came to dinner she
pointed out the excellence of her handi
work, leaving him to infer what was lack
ing. It is said that he reformed in time to
save himself from starvation.
Bland Brunnkr Huddleston.
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