DOMESTIC NOTICES. 





from their impaired health and feeble 

 coiistitutioiis. 



" There should and must be a change. We 

 know that health of body is not a panacea; it 

 alone will not remove the evils of society, and 

 place all in their proper positions; bnt without 

 it, and until tlicre is a change wrought here, 

 we cannot hope to see the females of our coun- 

 try become the earnest, sensible, well-informed 

 women that they must be to meet the great and 

 increasing demands of their age and country. 



" We are aware that these evils are far more 

 prevalent among females in towns and cities, 

 than those who live in the country, yet they are 

 fast becoming fearfully prevalent here. The 

 daughters of our more wealthy farmers, es- 

 pecially, are inclined to imitate too closely the 

 habits of the city ladies. They are much too 

 fearful lest their hands should be soiled, or 

 their foces browned by labor and exposure; 

 and they are too careful to prevent the pure 

 air and healthful sunlight from entering their 

 apartments. The casements must have no 

 crevices; air-tight stoves must be introduced 

 to keep the vitiated air at a high temperature, 

 (too often even in sleeping rooms,) and the 

 windows must be darkened by blinds and 

 abundant drapery, botli to protect the carpets 

 and insure pale and delicate countenances to 

 the daughters. 



" Now this is all wrong. We do not wish 

 you to become masculine in looks or manners, 

 nor to aid your brothers in their laborious oc- 

 cupations, but we do earnestly desire that you 

 should draw back the curtains, ventilate your 

 rooms thoroughly, engage actively in household 

 labor, avoid injurious habits of dress and of 

 diet, pay strict attention to personal cleanliness, 

 and above all, take abundant exercise in the 

 open air. We wish you to consult your own 

 constitutions, and instead of making tlie^ir natu- 

 ral delicacy an excuse for perpetrating any 

 amount of injury upon them, we wish you to 

 develop and strengthen, without overtasking 

 and injuring them. In a word, we wish you to 

 cultivate and possess healthful and vigorous 

 physical constitutions. 



" Woman cannot be elevated until her mind 

 is vigorous and active. With an intellect en- 

 feebled and dull, inactive and indolent, she is fit 

 for no more elevated station than a parlor doll 

 or a kitchen drudge. She must be awake and 

 in earnest: but the mind is, to a great extent, 

 dependent upon the body. If the latter is 

 diseased and enfeebled, the former must be 

 weak ; but give tone and energy to the physical 

 system, and mental vigor will generally be pro- 

 portionate." 



Pruing Fruit Trees. — From observation 

 and experience I have learned some facts rela- 

 tive to trimming trees, which may be useful to 

 others; and I know of no medium of com- 

 munication so suitable as your excellent work. 



The question is repeatedly asked, " When is 



the right time to trim fruit trees?" But I have 

 never heard the more important question asked, 

 How is the right way to trim trees? 



The answers to these two questions, which I 

 propose, is the following rule for trimming trees. 

 Between the 20th of June and 4th of July, 

 cut the limb very close to the trunk, so as not 

 to sejiarate the bark from the wood ; then with 

 a brush, cover the wood and bark with gum 

 shellac, having it previously dissolved in alcohol. 



Why this particular time? some will ask. I 

 answer, because this is the season when the 

 year's growth of wood is soft, [when the de- 

 posit of young wood is going on,] and it will 

 unite with the bark quite out to where it is cut 

 off, a very important point. Why cover over 

 the space with gum shellac? another will ask. 

 Simply because this will preserve the wood from 

 decaying, while Nature is at work healing the 

 wound. 



I burn apple tree wood in a Franklin stove, 

 because it never snaps on the carpet, — and I 

 have no difficulty in pui'chasing it. Farmers 

 are " cutting down old apple trees which form- 

 erly bore superior fruit, because they are dy- 

 ing." And why are they dying? Simply be- 

 cause they nave been improperly trimmed. In 

 cutting up the trees, the outside has generally 

 a sound appearance, but inside I find large 

 limbs have been cut off, and before the wounds 

 healed over, that part of the limb not removed 

 had become rotten, and thereby so materially 

 affected the health of the tree, that it could 

 bear no more fruit — it could hardly live — it 

 must be cut down to make room for young 

 trees, which, if treated in the same manner, 

 will prematurely decay from the same cause. 



Trees should be trimmed when young, in such 

 a manner that there will be no necessity for 

 cutting off large limbs. If this were done our 

 fruit trees would attain a good old age, instead 

 of being cut down when they should be in the 

 prime of life and in full bearing. A Subcri- 

 BER. Trenton, N. J., Nov. 26, 1850. 



5lnsiarr3 to (rnrrfSfinukutB. 



Naked Place. — IF. S. (New Haven.) We 

 notice your plan, and the want of trees about 

 your house. You had better expend $50 in 

 planting ten Elm trees of good size — say 

 with trunks five or six inches in diameter- 



