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"We'll all be saved/' was the reply; **all but oor cook. She maun be 

 domnied !" 



Eoast turkey was not designed wholly for sinners. An Englishman can't fight 

 without beef in his stomach ; no more can you plow. Let white-livered, hatchet- 

 faced, thin-blooded, scrawny reformers eat their sawdust puddings, and take short 

 sleep on plank beds ; but on the farms, let perfect, physical manhood and 

 womanhood, with the amiability and virtue which accompany good health be 

 encouraged with good, varied, and abundant diet, and not have their pluck and 

 courage knocked out of them by a thin diet of theories and milk. We may 

 indulge in reasonable thanksgiving that among farmers' wives the sallow, skinny, 

 salaratus-fed sisterhood is almost extinct, and in their places stand a hale, 

 hearty company, who are bound to live on the fat of the land, and sell only 

 what they can't use themselves; who have, at least, time, taste, and means to 

 array themselves in something better than a skimp cotton gown, and gladly 

 make some concessions to hair-dressing; who take time to read something in 

 addition to the bible, and avow a purpose to have a somewhat easier time than 

 the farm team ! 



Personal habits of different members of the family greatly affect home life. 

 TJncleanliness of body and impurity of mind are equally damaging. Dr. Hol- 

 land says: "A young man is not fit for life until he is clean, — pure, clean, 

 and healthy, body and soul, with no filth about his person or clothing; no 

 tobacco in his mouth, no whisky in his stomach, no oath on his tongue, no 

 snuff in his nose, and no thought in his heart which would send him sneaking 

 into darkness from the presence of good women." We may condemn T. De- 

 Witt Talmage's gymnastics and yet breathe a fervent amen to the following 

 in one of his recent sermons : 



''You all know what botanists describe as nicotiana. You know it as the 

 inspiring, elevating, emparadising, nerve-shattering, dyspepsia-breeding, 

 health-destroying tobacco. I shall not be offensively personal on this subject, 

 for you nearly all use it. You say that God made it, and it is good. Yes; it 

 is good to kill moths, to kill ticks on sheep and lice on cows; to strangle all 

 kinds of vermin, to fumigate pestiferous places. You say God created it for 

 some particular use. Yes; so he did henbane, and nux vomica, and copperas, 

 and belladonna, and all those poisons. You say men live to be old who use it. 

 Yes ; in the sense that the man lasted well who was pickled. Smokers are 

 turned into smoked livers. It creates unnatural thirst. The way that leads 

 down to a drunkard's grave and a drunkard's hell is strewn thick with tobacco 

 leaves. That man is not thoroughly converted who has not only got his heart 

 clear but his mouth clean. Let those men who smoke go to the horse shed. 

 I can name three eminent clergymen who died of cancer in the mouth, an evil 

 caused by their tobacco. There has been many a clergyman whose tombstone 

 was all covered up with eulogy who ought to have had an inscription, * Killed 

 by too much cavendish.' Some smoke until the room is blue, their spirits are 

 blue, the world is blue. If you smoke cheap tobacco I want to tell you why 

 it is cheap. It is a mixture of burdock, lamp-black, sawdust, colt's foot, 

 plantain leaves, fuller's earth, lime, salt, and a little tobacco." 



If it is true that "cleanliness is akin to godliness," we must visit the bath 

 conscientiously, and sedulously cultivate clean finger nails, sleek boots, and 

 change of linen. In any home where the husband and brothers go about 

 smelling of the stall and pig sty, and the untidy wife and daughters appear 

 habitually in shabby attire, with hair flying, you may expect to hear snapping, 

 snarling, scolding, and find sullenness, petulance, and selfishness. Home is 



