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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



is too much company for the first table, who eats 

 at the second ? Who has always the right hand 

 and the most respectable position'?" We could 

 mention a hundred other cases in which, on the 

 simple question of right, everything is yielded to 

 the women. 



But there are many cases in which the condition 

 of men is still worse. For instance, if on any pub- 

 lic occasion a pew at a church, or a seat anywhere, 

 be occupied by men ever so respectable or aged, a 

 smirky little beauty trips along and presents her- 

 self at the top of the seat, and they must all jump 

 up and clear out as if they had been shot. Es- 

 pecially ought it to be noticed, that when matri- 

 monial negotiations are to be made, the whole 

 burden of performing the delicate and often very 

 embarrassing part of making proposals is thrown 

 upon the men, while the women sit and say no, 

 no, no, as long as they like, and never say yes, 

 until they have a mind to. 



DOMESTIC RECEIPTS. 



Indian Baked Pudding. — One pint of Indian 

 meal, one heaping table spoonful of wheat flour, 

 a table spoonful of butter, four eggs, salt just to 

 taste, milk enough to form a batter. Stand your 

 'butter near the fire to warm, add it to the Indian 

 meal, then the salt and milk. Beat the eggs very 

 light, the yolks and white separate ; add the yolks 

 to the Indian batter, then the whites alternately 

 with the flour. Do not beat it after the whites 

 are in. Butter a pan, pour in the batter, and 

 bake it in a moderate oven. This pudding is very 

 good with a quarter of a pound of currants and a 

 quarter of a pound of raisins, floured and stirred 

 into the batter. To be served with sweet sauce of 

 any kind. 



Oxford Pudding. — Haifa pint of bread crumbs, 

 one pint of milk, six eggs, two ounces of butter, 

 half a pint of cream, a quarter of a pound of dried 

 currants, sugar and nutmeg to the taste. After 

 the bread is soaked in the milk, which should be 

 warm, mash it very smooth and add the butter 

 while it is hot. Beat the eggs very light, the 

 yolks first, and stir them into the bread and milk, 

 then add the cr.eam, sugar, nutmeg and fruit. 

 Lastly have the whites whisked to a dry froth ; 

 stir them gently into the mixture ; butter your 

 cups, half fill them with the batter, and bake 

 them in a tolerably hot oven. Serve with pud- 

 ding sauce. — National Cook Book. 



Yeast. — The bitterness of yeast, which is often 

 a cause of complaint, maybe removed by straining 

 it through bran, or by dipping red hot charcoal in 

 it. But the most effectual and easily available 

 remedy, is to put the yeast into a large pan, and 

 cover it with spring or well water, changing it ev- 

 ery three or four hours. The bran seems to im- 

 pair the strength, and the coal sometimes stains 

 it, but the water purifies it in color and taste. 



The mode of using water for keeping and puri- 

 fying yeast has been adopted by some of the Amer- 

 ican housekeepers with entire success. So says 

 the Gardener's Chronicle. 



Hannah More's Pudding. — Six ounces of apples, 

 chopped fine ; six ounces of beef suet, chopped 

 fine ; six ounces of bread, grated ; six ounces of 



currants ; six ounces of raisins, stoned and chopped ; 

 six ounces of sugar ; six eggs, well beaten ; three 

 ounces of candied peel, chopped ; half a nutmeg, 

 grated ; and a glass of brandy. These ingredients 

 to be well mixed, and boiled in a well buttered 

 quart mould for three hours. This pudding should 

 be mixed the day before it is cooked. It is a rich 

 pudding for company, and not expensive. 



Bow's ^Department. 



THE BAG OF DAYS. 



Suppose you had a bag of marbles on your shoul- 

 der to carry, and yet if every boy you met, made 

 you give him a marble, your bag would soon be 

 empty. 



We are all sent into this world by God, with a 

 bag, not of marbles but of days. Sometimes death 

 stops the little child before it has gone far with its 

 bag of days, and its life in this world is closed. 

 But perhaps you may live for many years; yet do 

 not forget that Time is always after you, taking 

 now a day and again a day, and he will soon empty 

 the largest bag of days. 



If the bag were one of marbles instead of days, 

 people would feel the bag lighter, and inquire who 

 had taken them ; but many do not think that their 

 bag of days is always getting lighter, and too many 

 find it nearly empty before they scarcely think 

 about it. 



0, we should never forget that every night we 

 lay down to sleep, Time has taken another day 

 out of our bag. We have no time to lose, we can- 

 not afford to trifle, and therefore while life is be- 

 fore us, we must learn to improve what is good 

 and useful, to be pure and holy, so that if we live 

 to be old, we may look on the days that are left in 

 our bag without a sigh, nor regret the days lost or 

 idly spent. 



That is a good prayer in the Bible, "Lord, teach 

 us so to number our days, that we may apply our 

 hearts unto wisdom." Let us often think of our 

 bag of days, and examine it, to reckon up how 

 many time has taken away, and how many are 

 left. Let us use every one for the best purpose, ^ 

 and pray this good prayer to our Father that we 

 may not slight or abuse them. 



Politeness at Home. — Always speak with the 

 utmost politeness and deference to your parents 

 and friends. Some children are polite and civil 

 everywhere else but at home, but there they are 

 coarse and rude enough. Shameful ! 



Nothing sits so gracefully upon children, and 

 nothing makes them so lovely, as habitual respect 

 and dutiful deportment towards their parents and 

 superiors. It makes the plainest face beautiful, 

 and gives to every common action a nameless but 

 peculiar charm. 



"My son, hear the instruction of thy father and 

 forsake not the law of thy mother, for they shall 

 be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains 

 about thy neck." 



Appointment and Disappointment. — Gen. Tay- 

 lor, on one occasion, being besieged by office-seek- 

 ers, made the smart remark, that "some were 

 doomed to appointment, and some to disappoint- 

 ment." 



