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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 5, lH29. 



MISCELLANIES. 



Hints to People of Moderate Fortune. — The pre- 

 vailing evil of the present day is extravagance. — 

 1 knuw very «'ell that tlie old are too prone to 

 preach about modem degeneracy, whether they 

 have cause or not ; but laugh as we may at tlie 

 sage advice of our fathers, it is too plain that our 

 present expensive habits are productive of much 

 domestic unhappiness, and injurious to public pros- 

 perity. Our wealthy people copy all the fooUsli 

 and extravagant caprices of European fashion, 

 without considering that we have not their laws 

 of inheritance among us, — and that our frctpient 

 changes of policy render property far more preca- 

 rious here than in the old world. However, it is 

 not to the rich I would speak. They have an un- 

 doubted right to spend their thousands as they 

 please ; and if they spend them ridiculously it is 

 consoling to reflect that they must, in some way 

 or other, benefit the poorer classes. People of 

 moderate fortunes have likewise an unquestioned 

 right to dispose of their hundreds as they please ; 

 but I would ask is it ivise to risk your happiness in 

 B foolish attempt to keep up with the opulent ? — 

 Of what use is the effort which takes so much of 

 your time, and all of your income ? Nay, if any 

 unexpected change in affairs should deprive you 

 of a few yearly hundreds, you will find your ex- 

 penses have exceeded your income— thus the foun- 

 dation of an accumulating debt will be laid, and 

 your family will have formed habits but poorly 

 calculated to save you from the threatened ruin. 

 Not one valuable friend will be gained by living 

 beyond your means, and old age will bo left to 

 comparative, if not to utter poverty. 



There is nothing in which the extravagance of 

 the present day strikes me so forcibly as the man, 

 ner in which our young people of moderate for- 

 tune furnish their houses. 



A few weeks since, I called upon n furmor's 

 daughter who had lately married a young jihysi- 

 cian of moderate talents, and destitute of fortune. 

 Her father had given her at her marriage, all he 

 ever expected to give her ; viz. two thousand dol- 

 lars. Yet the lower part of her house was fur- 

 nished with as much sjilendor as we usually find 

 among the wealthiest. The whole two thousand 

 had been expended upon Brussels Carpets, i\llias- 

 ter Vases, Mahogany Chairs, and Marble Tables. 

 I afterwanis learned that the more useful house- 

 hold utensils had been forgotttn ; and that a few 

 weeks after her wedding, she was actually obliged 

 to apply to her husband for money to purchase 

 baskets, iron spoons, clothes lines, &c. — and her 

 husband, made irritable by the want of money, 

 pettishly demanded why she had bought so many 

 things they did not want. Did the Doctor ;.fain 

 any patients, or she a single friend, by offering 

 their visitors water in richly cut glass tumblers, or 

 serving them with costly damask najikins, instead 

 of [(lain soft towels ? No, — Their foolish vanity 

 made them less happy, and no more respectable. 



Had the young lady been content with Kidder- 

 minster carpets, and tasteful vases cf her own 

 making, she might have put 07ic thousand dollars 

 at interest ; and had she obtained six per cent., it 

 would have clothed her as well as the v^ifeof any 

 man, who depends merely upon his own industry, 

 ought to be clothed. This would have saved 

 much domestic disquiet ; for, after all, hiunan na- 

 ture is human nature, aud a wife is never better 

 beloved, because she teazcs for mnnev. 



How to Bathe. — Reader, we are disposed to take 

 some care of your body as well as your mind. — 

 Be duly thankful, therefore, for the advice we are 

 about to give you. If you are an M. D. do not 

 turn up your medical nose at our instructions, for 

 they are founded on much experiment and long 

 experience, backed by the uncommon wisdom we 

 received from nature. 



The spring bath come, "refreshing earth, re- 

 viving all but man," your head aches, aud you feel 

 occasionally drowsy, languid, and uncomfortable. 

 Take a warm bath ; it will relieve you in an hour ; 

 but take it in the proi)er way, 



" When 't is done 't were well 

 It were not done quickly ; " 



for in this lies the mischief of warm bathing. A 

 man generally posts into a bath as if he were car- 

 rying an express, or running away from a broom- 

 stick. — He is out of breath, and in a persjiiration 

 on his arrival. He imdresses himself in a great 

 hurry, souses himself in the hot water, kicks about 

 for five minutes, emerges with every pore open, 

 puts on his garments, looks complacently in the 

 mirror, and thinks he has taken a warm bath. — 

 No such thing : he has taken nothing but a cold ! 

 In one hour he begins to sneeze, and the next day 

 he commences coughing, and curses the bath. — 

 Philosophy grieves over his folly, but will not re- 

 lieve his nose and lungs. Why did the bath give 

 him a cold ? Because he was in a perspiration 

 when he went into the water, which said perspira- 

 tion was increased by the heat, and checked as 

 soon as he raised, " placedum caput [it should be 

 corpus] unda," into the colder medium of the air. 

 The order of nature must be reversed to jirevent 

 a man from taking cold under such circum- 

 stances. 



Now reader, we will tell you how to take a bath. 

 In the first place, pay your note if it be due ; or 

 if you cannot do that, let it be protested, and think 

 no more about it. If you have any quarrel on 

 hand, whip or get whipped at once, tranquillity of 

 mind is all important in rendering the warm bath 

 beneficial. Walk leisurely to the house of ablu- 

 tion, and disrobp yourself with moderate haste. — 

 You may have the water hot enough to parboil 

 you if yoti choose, that is left to your own taste. 

 In with you ; and to beguile the time, read a 

 newspaper, or smoke a cigar, taking care, howev- 

 er, to keep the cigar above water ; if you don't it 

 will go out. In about half an hour the water -will 

 cool to nearly the temperature of the air, and you 

 will have gone gradually and safely through h.ilf 

 a dozen climates. You will have left the torrid 

 for the temperate zone. — Then let in the cold 

 water, very slowly, almost droj) by drop, and 

 in the course of twenty minutes you will find 

 yourself in a cold bath. Your pores will have 

 closed gradually and moderately, your sensations 

 will be exquisite during the process, and you will 

 fi^el strength and elasticity in every limb. You 

 emerge from the cold water into the warmer air, 

 dry your body thoroughly with a coarse towel, aiul 

 fee! like a new man. It is an impossibility for you 

 to take cold : if you do, you are at liberty to come 

 and box our ears for giving you bad advice. — .V. 

 Y. Courier. 



If'ars. — I have been as enthusiastic and joyful 

 as any other one, after a victory ; but I also con- 

 fess that even then, the sight of a field of battle 

 has not only struck me with horror, but even 

 turned me sick ; and now that I atn advanced in 



life, I cannot understand any more than I could at 

 15 years of age, how beings, who call themselves 

 reasonable, and who have so much foresight, cari 

 employ this short existence, not in loving, and aid- 

 ing each other, and passing through it as gently 

 as possible — but, on the contrary, in endeavoring 

 to destroy each other, as if Time did not himself 

 do this with sutficient rapidity ! What I thought 

 at 15 years of age, I still think : " war, with the 

 pain of death which society draws upon itself, are 

 but organized barbarisms, an inheritance of the 

 savage state, disguised or ornamented by ingenious 

 institutions and false eloquence." — Louis Buona- 

 parte. 



Mangel )f'urtzel, Sugar Beet, Sfc. 



For sale at the Seed Store connected with the New 

 England Farmer, 52 North Market street, 



200 lbs. Maugel Wurtzel. 



200 lbs. French Sugar Beet, raised expressly for this 

 establishment, by John Prince, Esq. Roxbury. — The 

 superiority of this seed and the excellence of the roots 

 for cattle are too well known to need comment. 



Also, roots of the Pie Plant, or Tart Rhubarb, in fine 

 order for transplanting, — 25 cts per root. Double and 

 Single Dahlias, from 25 cts to one dollar each. The col- 

 ors and form of this (lower are magnificent, and are of the 

 easiest culture, requiring the poorest soil, in which they 

 bloom in the highest perfection. The roots are tuberous, 

 resembling a sweet potato — cau be packed for transporta- 

 tion to any part of the union. 



Also, Double Tuberoses, Tiger Flowers, Amaryllises, 

 Formossissima, &c., beautiful bulbs now in season to 

 plant. 



Also, White Mulberry Seed, 50 cts per ounce, Lucerne, 

 or French Clover, White and Red Clover, Sanfoin, Tim- 

 othy, Orchard Grass, Oat Grass, Herds Grass, &.c. 



Also, several varieties of field corn, viz. the Early Gold- 

 en Sioux, Gilman, Red, Turkey Wheat, Early Jefferson, 

 (for the table) Sweet, or Sugar (for the table.) 



The Appalusia Melon — a new variety from Illinois, in- 

 troduced by Doct. Green. — This melon was originally 

 derived fror; the western Indians, by E. Warren, Escj. 

 — is in eating from the 1st of September to the 1st of No- 

 vember — melons small, remarkably sweet, with red fiesb, 

 and a very thin rind — 25 cts per ounce. 



Also, the Apple Seeded Melon, a very early variety. 



The Star Melon, a very late variety, of the Nutmeg 

 species. 



Jlgricultural Books. 



The third edition of Fessendeti's jVew .American Gar- 

 dener ; this work has been pronounced by the most ju- 

 dicious liorticulturists in New England and the middle 

 states, to be the best treatise on Fruit Trees, Vegetables, 

 Grape Vines, &.C., to be Ibund in this country — price 

 $1,25. 



The Vine Dresser's Theoretical and Practical Manual, 

 on the Culture of the Vine; and Making Wine, Brandy, 

 and Vinegar, liy Thiebaut de Berneaud. 



The Young Gardener's As.-iistant, containing Directions 

 for the cultivation of Culinary Vegetables, and Ornainent- 

 al Flowers. By T. Bridgeman, gardener, New Vork — 

 price 37 1-2 cts. 



A practical Treatise on the Management of Bees; and 

 the Management of Apiaries, with the best tiielhod of des- 

 troying and preventing the depredations of the Bee Moth. 

 By James Thacber, II. D. — price 75 cts. 



Also, one copy of each of the following rare works: — 



Phytologia, or tlie Pliiiosojihy of Agriculture and Gar- 

 dening: with the theory of Draining Morasses, and with 

 an improved construction of the drill plough. By Dr Dar- 

 win, (Dublin edition, price three dollars and fifty cts.) 



Darwin's Botanic Gardeu — (price three dollars, a fine, 

 correct copy. 



Ihll Meadow Oat Crass Seed. 

 This day received at the New England Farmer Seed .Store, 

 52 North Market street. CO bushels of Tall Meadow Oal Grass 

 .Seed, at 5-.50 per bushel. 



Puliislicd everv Friday, at S'^ V^'^ annum, payable at tfie 

 end of the year— Ijui iliose' who pay wiiliin sixty days from the 

 time ofsuhscribiiig, are enjilled to a deduction of fifty cents. 



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 all descriptions of Printing can be extcnied lo nicot the wishes 

 of customers. Ortlers for printing receivfd by J. R. RiJSSF.LL, 

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