DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



large — or, as in Mr. Lee's above referred 

 to, has shallow places filled with tall grass into 

 which the young trout swim, the old fish will 

 often devour the young ones to such an extent 

 as to prevent their increa.sing rapidly. To pre- 

 vent this, it is best to make a small pond, con- 

 nected with the large one by a shallow strait — 

 only three or four inches deep. Into this small 

 pond the little trout will escape when pursued, 

 till they are large enough to command the re- 

 sjiect of the seniors. 



Useful ponds of this kind may often be made 

 by merely forming a dam or embankment in 

 any favorable spot well supplied with water. 



Many persons have a fancy for makiiig ponds 

 as ornamental features in country places. This 

 shoidd never be done, unless it is first ascertain- 

 ed that there is not only an abundance of water 

 to keep the pond full in the dryest seasons, but 

 also to preserve it clear and fresh. A large 

 pond, covered with weeds and half stagnant, 

 may be useful — but it is far from ornamental. 

 Nothing but a constant overjlow — made by a 

 stream running continually into and out of a 

 pond, will keep it so clear and bright as to be 

 really ornamental. 



Delightful Winter Landscape. — I saw, 

 not long since, a country house where there was 

 a novel feature that delighted me. This was a 

 winter landscape, or scene, on one side of the 

 house, upon which the two rooms occupied by 

 the family in winter looked. A broad glade 

 of lawn was agreeably varied and quite sur- 

 rounded, by beautiful evergreen trees and 

 shrubs. From the windows commanding this 

 scene, not a leafless tree was in sight, nor any 

 other feature Mhich reminded you that the 

 leaves had fallen. The grass still green, and 

 the white pines, spruces, firs, hemlocks, juni- 

 pers, laurels, etc., from large trees to small 

 shrubs, were all arrayed in the richest green — 

 so as fairly to belie the season. Even when the 

 lawn is covered with snow the evergreens are 

 still cheerful, and their verdure is heightened by 

 contrast. I have seldom seen a happier idea, 

 or one better carried out. It seems to me par- 

 ticularly well suited to country houses in which 

 the family passes the whole year. Yours, S. 



[An excellent arrangement, and one which 



heightened in the execution. With the 



rican Holly and the Winter-berry to deco- 



rate it by their brilliant berries, and such 

 as the Yucca and Chinese Honeysuckle (which 

 hold their foliage all winter,) to give it variety, 

 a winter garden might be a gay and agreeable 

 thing to look upon when January is at its 

 bleakest. Ed.] 



Reform in Physical Education. — We have 

 read with great pleasure, an article in the Ohio 

 Cultivator, from the pen of Mrs. Bateham, 

 which is so much to the point, that we must find 

 a place for it. Mrs. Bateham's remarks are so 

 truly sensible and so admirably expressed, that 

 they must, we think, touch bottom in the west. 

 When feminine writers, in farming papers, begin 

 to speak to the purpose in this way, we may 

 begin to hope that the millenium of a healthy 

 race may one day dawn upon the country. 



" We may not agree with all of our readers 

 upon the mooted questions of "women's rights," 

 or the propriety of calling conventions to aid 

 in securing the rights and privileges that many 

 of them demand; but one thing is sure: we 

 can none of us remain indifferent while every 

 new.'^paper and periodical is more or less oc- 

 cupied in discussing the subject, and the public 

 mind is so much interested that even the odious 

 " fugitive slave law" can only crowd it a little 

 into the back ground. No, we cannot be indiffer- 

 ent; and few of us will deny that there are 

 great social evils to be removed, or assert that 

 woman now occupies in all her relations, the 

 position that she should. There is need of 

 reform, and of one branch of this reform we 

 wish now to speak, to wit, reform in the physi- 

 cal education of women. 



•'' Truly it is folly for any one to think of 

 having women educated so as to become orna- 

 ments to the bench, bar or desk, or expect them 

 to become conversant with political intrigues 

 and manoeuvres, and qualified to choose their 

 rulers, or become such themselves, so long as 

 their physical constitutions are so frail and 

 delicate that a little unusual exertion, either 

 physical or mental,is sufficient to prostrate them. 

 Indeed, they are not qualified to discharge their 

 present duties aright, much less to add new 

 and untried ones. With their feeble bodies 

 and diseased nerves, and the host of other 

 maladies that follow in their train, they are un- 

 fit for the responsibilities of mothers, house- 

 wives, or members of community. Their time 

 ■ is occupied, and their attention engrossed, by 

 their own sufferings, their own wants, and thinr 

 own petty interests, and they have neither time 

 nor sympathy to spare for others; and it is 

 vain to expect in them a philanthropic heart, 

 anxious to ascertain the necessities of the poor 

 and the wants of society, or to expect them to 

 manifest the strength and skill — the energy and 

 decision of character which would enable them 

 to apply the remedy. And all this necessarily 



