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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



and, with -whatever wisdom in management or suc- 

 cess this school has formerly met under its simple 

 act of incorporation, as a Female Medical School, 

 the writer learns from a circular received, (and it 

 is stated that the same circular has been sent to 

 all the physicians of the city) from the direc- 

 tors, that their purpose is to make efforts to secure 

 a full charter for a medical college at the nest as- 

 sembling of the Legislature. This, again, is as it 

 should be. There ought to be no half-way work 

 about it. Women should be either made physi- 

 cians, or let medicine alone. We have no opinion 

 of half-educated physicians, and we see no objec- 

 tion to opening a door for all females, who wish 

 to 'have full instruction upon all subjects taught in 

 any medical college. It seems to be carrying out, 

 to its legitimate result, the efforts of the union to 

 educate thoroughly all women who wish to receive 

 an education. w. m. c. 



Hero's Department. 



TRUE FRIENDSHIP. 



If scandal or censure be raised 'gainst a friend, 



I3e the last to believe it, the first to defend; 



Say to-morrow will come, and then time will unfold 



That u one story's good till another is told !" 



A friend's like a ship, when with music and song 



The tide of good fortune still speeds him along, 



But see him when tempest hath made him a wreck, 



And any mean billow can batter his deck; 



But give me the heart that true sympathy shows, 



And clings to a messmate whatever wind blows, 



And says, when aspersion unanswered grows bold, 



Wait — "One story's good till another is told !" 



FRANKNESS. 



There are some persons who are never willing 

 to acknowledge that they have done wrong. 

 Whenever they are blamed for anything, they 

 will be sure to have some excuse or palliation to 

 offer, or they will contrive to turn the attention 

 to the share which somebody else had in the 

 wrong. James Benson was just such a boy. 

 "Why, what a looking place you have made of 

 this room, children!" his mother said, as she 

 entered the parlor one day. 



"Why, William took down every one of those 

 books," vociferated James. "I didn't touch one 

 of them ; and Emily tore up that paper into little 

 bits, and threw it upon the floor. I couldn't 

 help it ; I told her not to do so." 



"Well, I should like now to have you gather up 

 those quill tops and put them out of the way," 

 interrupted his mother ; "you know I have al- 

 ways cautioned you against letting your pen cut- 

 tings fall upon the carpet." 



"Well, AVilliam has been cutting too. They 

 are more than half his," replied James, instead of 

 stooping at once to pick them up. 



Now such a disposition as James showed here 

 is far from being the right one. James had a 

 hand in putting things into disorder, and his own 

 blame was that he had any concern in it. It was 

 nothing to him what his brothers and sisters had 

 been doing. He ought to have acknowledged his 

 own fault, and obeyed his mother's direction im- 



mediately, instead of stopping to find excuses, or 

 to tell what the others had done. 



It is very mean and ill-natured to wish to bring 

 others into difficulties, or expose their faults, when 

 it will answer no good purpose. It is very ab- 

 surd, too, for any person to suppose that he is 

 any the less to blame himself, in any case, be- 

 cause somebody else has also been to blame. Sup- 

 pose that a man who was brought to trial in a 

 court of justice for the crime of stealing, should 

 say in self-defence, "Why, to be sure I have been 

 guilty of stealing : but then such a person stole 

 too. He stole just as much as I did." This 

 would lie foolish enough ; and yet nothing is more 

 common than for boys and girls, when they are 

 reproved for any misconduct, to begin to tell what 

 some of their brothers, or sisters, or companions, 

 have done that is quite as bad. — Rev. Jacob Abbott. 



A WORD TO LADS. 



Of the three modes of using tobacco, smoking 

 is that which seems to have insinuated itself most 

 extensively among the youth of our community. 

 Tobacco employed in this way being drawn in 

 with the vital breath, conveys its poisonous in- 

 fluences into every part of the lungs. 



There the noxious fluid is entangled in the 

 minute spongy air-cells, and has time to exert 

 its pernicious" influence on the blood — not in vivi- 

 fying, but in vitiating it. The blood imbibes the 

 stimulant narcotic principle, and circulates it 

 through the whole sys'tem. It produces, in con- 

 sequence, a febrile action in those of delicate 

 habits. Where there is any tendency to phthisis 

 and the tubercular deposit in the lungs, debility 

 of those organs, consequent on the use of tobacco 

 in this way, must favor the deposit of tuberculous 

 matter, and thus sow the seeds of consumption. 

 This practice impairs the natural taste and relish 

 for food, lessens the appetite, and weakens the 

 powers of the stomach. — N. Y. Tribune. 



Power of Kites. — The power of a kite twelve 

 feet high, with a wind blowing at the rate of twen- 

 ty miles an hour, is as much as a man of average 

 strength can stand against. With a stronger gale, 

 such a kite has been known to break a line capa- 

 ble of sustaining 200 lbs. The surface spread by 

 this sail is forty-nine square feet, and it should be 

 noticed that these serve as standing ratios, from 

 which, by the rule of proportion, the power of 

 larger kites can be calculated. We must not, how- 

 ever, suppose that a kite of thirty-six feet in length 

 has only three times the power of a kite twelve feet 

 in length ; for, in fact, it has three times the pow- 

 er in length, and three times the power in breadth, 

 which will make the multiple nine ; so that it would 

 lift or draw nine times as much as a kite of twelve 

 feet. Two kites, one fifteen feet in length, the 

 other twelve, have power sufficient to draw a car- 

 riage with four or five persons when the wind is 

 brisk. — History of the Charvolant. 



Brothers — Sisters. — The following feeling tri- 

 bute to home influences will be responded to by 

 many a wanderer from the paternal mansion and 

 its dear inmates. Alas! that in some it should 

 awake the painful recollection that the loved ones 

 are no more of earth : — 



"I am very proud of my sisters, and I am 



