California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



possession of that priceless treasure, a set of 

 perfect teeth? 



Note: Through the kindness of Mr. E. H. 

 Davis, Superintendent of Public Schools in 

 Wobiirn, Mass., the writer has been furnished 

 with the following astounding statistics, em- 

 bracing returns from several of the largest 

 primary schools of Woburn, a fair represen- 

 tation of the prevalence of diseased teeth 

 among children: 



With Sound 

 No. Scholars. Teeih. Decayed. 



Lawrence Primary ll;i 14 Iw) 



Plymjiton St. Primary. 9-4 27 (i7 



Hikland St. Primary... 71 26 46 



"What Smoking Does fob the Boys. — A 

 certain doctor, struck with the large number 

 of boys under fifteen years of ago whom he 

 observed smoking, was led to inquire into the 

 effect the habit had upon the general health. 

 He took for his purpose thirty-eight boys, age 

 from nine to fifteen, and carefully examined 

 them. In twenty seven of them he discov- 

 ered injurious traces of the habit. lu twenty 

 two there were various disorders of the circu- 

 lation and digestion, palpitation of the heart, 

 and a more or less marked taste for strong 

 drink. In twelve there was frequent bleeding 

 of the nose, ten had disturbed sleep, twelve 

 had slight ulceration of the mucous membrane 

 of the mouth, which disappeared on ceasing 

 from the u.se of tobacco for some days. The 

 doctor treated them all for weakness, but with 

 little efl'ect until the sinoking was discontin- 

 ued, when health and strength was soon re- 

 stored. These facts are given on the author- 

 ity of the UrUish Mnlical Joariml. 



SpECT.iCLBs become necessary when you 

 first notice yourself going to the window in- 

 stinctively for a better light, or when your 

 eye gets tired by looking at any small thing 

 near at hand, or a dimness or patering is 

 manifestad, so as to cause indistinctness. 

 First purchase No. 20, and as you observe the 

 symptoms above named, get No. 18, and so 

 on. Glasses should be near enough to the 

 eye almost to touch the lashes; they should 

 be washed every morning in cold water, and 

 carried in a pocket by themselves. Brazilian 

 ])ebble makes the best lenses. Avoid reading 

 before sunrise and after sunset. Read as lit- 

 tle as possible before breakfast or by artificial 

 light; do not sew on dark material at night, 

 and use no other eye-wash than pure, tepid, 

 soft water. Babies' eyes are often injured by 

 allowing the glaring sunlight to fall upon 

 them. 



Coke for a Felon. — As soon as discoversd, 

 take some spirits of turpentine in a cup, dip 

 the finger in it, and then hold the hand near 

 a hut fire till dry; then dip it iu again, and 

 repeat for fifteen minutes, or till the paiu 

 ceases. The next day, with a sharp knife, 

 pare off the skin, and you will find something 

 like a honey comb filled with clear water, 

 open the cell and the felon is gone. If the 

 felon is too far gone for turpentine, oil of 

 origanum, treated in the same way will cure. 

 If too far ailvanced for either to cure, the 

 felon will be benefitted, as it wiU. be less pain- 

 ful. Never draw it. 



Burns and Freezes. — Whatever is good for 

 one is just as good for the other. Cold water 

 or snow will remove the first fire or cold, then 

 essence of peppermint, or a strong solution of 

 alum water will h.arden the skin and draw out 

 the pain. Great care should be taken witli 

 bui'ns or freezes, not to break or rack U|i tlie 

 skin; and never put on drawing poultices, it 

 makes a big sore. A cloth with a little mut- 

 ton tallow or some soft oil spread upon it, 

 will keep out the ail- and heal it where the 

 skin is lorn up. 



Abstinence from low pleasures is the only 

 means of meriting or of obtaining the higher. 

 Kindness in ourselves is the honey that bUnds 

 the sting of unkiudness in others. 



'What 



Shall We Do 

 Daughters ?'" 



With Our 



RS. LIVERMORE has made this query 

 the text of one of her fine lectures. It 

 is certainly an important problem, but 

 the Davenport Democrat thus sums up 

 some sensible lessons which should early be 

 impressed upon them : 



Teach them self-reliance. 



Teach them to make bread. 



Teach them to make shirts. 



Teach them to foot up store bills. 



Teach them not to wear false hair. 



Teach them to wear thick, warm shoes. 



Bring them up iu the way they should go. 



Teach them how to wash and iron clothes. 



Teach them how to make their own dresses. 



Teach them how to cook a good meal of 

 victuals. 



Teach thgm that a dollar is only a hundred 

 cents. 



Teach them how to darn stockings and sew 

 on buttons. 



Teach them everyday, dry, hard, practical 

 common sense. 



Teach them to say No, and mean it; or Yes, 

 and stick to it. 



Teach them to wear calico dresses and do it 

 like queens. 



Give them a good, substantial, common 

 school education. 



Teach them that a good, rosy romp is worth 

 fifty consumptives. 



Teach them to regard the morals and not 

 the money of their beaux. 



Teach them all the mysteries of the kitchen, 

 the dining-room, and the parlor. 



Teach them that the more one lives within 

 his income the more he will save. 



Teach them to have nothing to do with in- 

 temperate and dissolute young men. 



Teach them that the farther one lives be- 

 yond his income the nearer he gets to the 

 poor-house. 



Rely upon it that upon your teaching de- 

 pends in a great measure the weal or woe of 

 their after life. 



Teach them the accomplishments, music, 

 painting, drawing, if you have time and mon- 

 ey to do it with. 



Teach them that a good, steady mechanic, 

 without a cent, is worth a dozen oil-patent 

 loafers in broad-cloth. 



Teach them that God made them in His 

 own image, and no amount of tight lacing 

 will imjjrove the model. 



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Begin Right. 



It matters little -what tbo employment 

 is upon wliich you are aliont to enter, 

 whether we go into the offie, the workshop 

 or upon the farm, it will be well f(jr us to 

 remember that as we commence the work 

 to be accomplished, so will we l)e likely 

 to carry it through to the end. The liook- 

 keeper who goes into the office to work 

 for a year, and allows himself to bo care- 

 less and his accounts to become confused, 

 will never recover. At the end of the 

 year, when customei-s come in to settle 

 and compare accounts, the negligent ac- 

 countant will learn that many little items 

 left over just for the present were never 

 recorded, and the dissatisfaction arising 

 from sncli negligence is likely to cost liiin 

 his position in the otlico, which must ho 

 iillc'd by a man who h.as learned to per- 

 form tlie work assigned him carefully and 

 promptly. 



Upon a farm, most especially, the -work 

 is varied, and tlie time at which many of 

 tlio tasks should be performed so arbi- 

 trary that, if wo court success at all, wo 

 must learn to do everything at the right 



time. This cannot be done if we go on 

 in a sort of haphazard way, making no 

 plans to-day for the work of to-morrow, 

 but we must have our course carefully 

 mapped out. There are farmers all over 

 the country who cannot to tell where they 

 will plow — what or where they will plant 

 or sow. They only know that they will 

 turn over a piece of sod somewhere for 

 corn, put in a little patch of potatoes some 

 other place, and sow a few oats if they 

 conclude where to put them. Is it any 

 wonder that such men are always in a 

 hurry, always behind with their work, 

 always put their crops in late, complain 

 that \t is a backward season and that their 

 corn was cut by the frost before it was 

 ripe, and that their potatoes are rotting 

 for want of time to dig them? Are there 

 not good and sufficient reasons why the 

 wind throws down their unstaked fences, 

 that their stock is unruly and always do- 

 ing damage, that their oi-chai-d3 bear none 

 but unmarketable fruit, that their mea- 

 dows yield nothing but wild grass for 

 want of draining, and that the roofs of 

 farm buildings are always leaking? Is it 

 a problem difficult to solve why their 

 mowing machines are continually break- 

 ing down, their harness giving out, and 

 cattle, sheep and horses dying of disease? 

 It is all because this class of farmers al- 

 low their work to drive them. They lay 

 no plans, and do everytliing a little too 

 late. They are forever "dragging the cat 

 by the tail." Such men ought to be com- 

 pelled to work for a year or two nnder a 

 careful, methodical farmer, and made to 

 know what it is to accomplish a great deal 

 and to do it easy and -well. As an illus- 

 tration of the success (or failure rather) 

 of those men who are negligent in the 

 important details of farm work, I will 

 mention one instance -which has just been 

 brought to my notice. A farmer residing 

 in a county adjoining that in which I live, 

 having read one of my letters concerning 

 root crops, determined to follow the ad- 

 viea given, and put in one acre of carrots. 

 After having drilled in the seed he left 

 the crop to itself until the weeds had be- 

 come so thick that he could not find the 

 little plants upon which he had, at their 

 first appearance, built visionary supplies 

 of yellow roots. But not completely dis- 

 couraged by the first failure, he plowed 

 the ground again and put in turnips. But 

 negligence again stepped in and robbed 

 him of the reward of his labors. Weeds 

 were again allowed to get the advantage, 

 and as a last resort he sowed Hungarian 

 grass, wliich, being put in late, -was killed 

 by the drouth, and thus ended his first 

 cx))erienco in raising root crops. Had ho 

 laid his plans the year before, and plowed 

 and harrowed the ground for roots re- 

 peatedly, making the weeds grow and then 

 killing tliem, he would have been able to 

 report a far different result.— C T. Leon- 

 ard, Ohio Farmer. 



Science on the Farm. 



What has science to do with farming? 

 Probably nothing, probably much. With 

 what <lo'es he deal? Soils, grasses, vegetables, 

 cereals, life, animal and vegetable, manures, 

 etc. What do these require? lutcUigcnco, a 

 kiiowlc'dgo of their merits, their condilions, 

 adaptabilities, the laws which govern them, 

 and their constituent elements. As science 

 is only knowledge reduced to practice, is it 

 not required on the farm? The structure of 

 ])lants is in itself a beautitul and useful study, 

 and one that should bo well understood by 

 each person who deals with them, and their 

 constituent elements and the food necessary 

 for their growth and highest perfection. In 

 order to obtain the best results from laud it is 



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