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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



March 



only be a source of misery and bitter recollection in 

 maturer yearf. 



Physical exercises and the cultivation of the per- 

 ceptive faculties should, with the reading of moral 

 and instructive books, form the principal occupations 

 of children. Their expanding frame requires the 

 invigorating stimulus of fresh air; their awakening 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



DOMESTIC RECEIPTS. 



To Make L\dl4^ Puduixg. — "Real Genewine 

 Yankee Pudden." — Take three pints of scalded 



organs seek for external objects of sense; their '^l'^' '"^f^d as much fine, yellow Indian meal as will 

 dawning intellect incessantly "calls for the action of,'^^ sufficient to make a stiff batter, and a teacupful 

 their observant powers. This is the great law of ^^ ^o^^sses, with salt to your taste. Boil it four 

 Nature. She has given to the child that restless I '^""i"^' or even longer, for boiling doe.'; not hurt, but 

 activity, that buoyancy of animal spirits, that i i™P™^"e« ^t. A few ripe cherries or whortleberries 

 prying inquisitiveness, which makes him delight ' ^'i^l '^1*^° ™Prove it. Many think a small portion 

 in constant motion and in the observation of new , o^ ^"^^ (beef's) chopped fine, without the fruit, a 

 objects. If these wise intentions of Providence be 'good and even better addition. It is to be eaten 

 not frustrated ; if he be allowed to give himself up "'i^'i '^"tter and molasses, of course, 

 to the sportive feelings of his age, he A\ill acquire a This fine dessert of Revolutionary memory should 

 healthy constitution, and a physical and percej^tive occasionally have a place on every man's table, 

 development, which are the best preparation for ^own East it often comes to hand. Out West it 



mental labor 



Of the men who have conferred benefit on soci- 

 ety, and have been the admiration of the world, the 

 greater number are those who, from various causes, 

 have in early life been kept from school or from 



is quite too rarely found. — Ohio Farmer. 



Baked Indian Pitdding. — Take three pints of 

 I scalded milk, one handful of wheat flour, three 

 j eggs, and as much Indian meal as will make the 

 ^ , „, , , . , ,, 'whole thick, lilce batter for pancakes. Add one 



serious study They have, by energetic and well- { jjl of molasses, and salt to vour taste. Bake three 

 du-ected efforts, at a period when the brain was hours.-Ohio Farmer. 

 ready tor ttie task, acquired knowledge, and dis- 

 played abilities which have raised them to the high- Best New England Johnny Cake. — Take one 

 est eminence in the different walks in life, in litera- ^ quart of buttermilk, one tea-cup of Hour, two-thirds 

 ture, the arts and sciences, in the army, the senate, 1 of a tea-cupful of molasses, a little salt, one tea- 

 the church, and even on the throne. The history j spoonful of saleratus, one egg (beat, of course.) 

 of the most distinguished among those who have' Then stir in Indian meal, but be sure and not put 

 received an early classical education, sufficiently ! in too much. Leave it thin — so thin that it ^vill 

 proves that it is not to their scholastic insti-uction, 'almost run. Bake in a tin in any oven, and toler- 

 but to self-education after the period of school, that 'ably quick. If it is not first rate and light, it will 



they chiefly owed theii- su])eriority. 



David, the sul)lime author of the Psalms, follow- 

 ed in his early occupations the dictates of nature ; 

 he had, in his youth, muscular power to tear asun- 

 der the mouth of a lion, to resist the grasp of a 

 bear, and to impart to a pebble velocity sufficient 



be because you make it too thick witli Indian meal. 

 Some prefer it without molasses. 



A Nice Dish for Breakfast. — Take one egg 

 and beat it up, add a teaspoonful of salt, pour into 

 it about two-thirds of a pint of water, then slice 



-Ohio Farmer. 



to slay a giant. " Napoleon, when in the' school of rJ""^ bread, dip it in, and Iry in a little butter. 

 Brienne, was noted in the quarterlv reports of that ^^^/i^'^'''^^"'' '"^"'^ >"0" '"" ^"^ '^ ^"^ excellent dish, 

 institution as enjoying good health ; no mention 

 Avas ever made of his possessing any mental supe- 

 riority ; but, in physical exercises, he a^ as always 

 foremost. Sir Isaac Newton, according to his own 

 statement, was inattentive, and ranked very low in 

 the school, which he had not entered until after the 

 age of twelve. The mother of Sheridan Ion 

 garded him as the dullest of her children. 



Clarke was called a "grievous dunce" by his first 

 teacher ; and young Liebig a "booby" by his em- 

 ployer. Shakspeare, Moliere, Gibbon, Niebuhr, 

 Byron, Humphry Davy, Porson, and many others, 

 were in like manner undistinguished for early ap- 

 plication to study, and, for the most part, indulged 

 in those wholesome bodily exercises and that free- 

 dom of mind, which contributed so much to their 

 future excellence. — Marcel. 



A Pity. — The young Prince of Wales, a lad of 



about thirteen or fourteen, is, it seems, already by a 



sad mixture of boyishness and dissipation, giving no 



little uneasiness to the maternal heartof the Queen, 



re- 1 who has honestly enough, no doubt, tried all that a 



Adam i mother could, to keep him out of harm's wa^-. 



Courage and Discretion, — A courageous ram 

 took it into his head to resist a locomotive. The 

 brave old sheep heard the whistle, the roar and the 

 rumblt- ; he saw the shower of fire and glaring eye- 

 balls of the monster; he curled up his majestic 

 head, and he battered his brow into the foe. Alas ! 

 poor ram ! not a lock of wool nor a peice of horn 

 could be found. The owner, in lamenting the loss 

 of poor ramray, said : — "I admire his pluck, but 

 confound his discretion." 



With the education, learning, power and religion of 

 all England, with its State Church at their backs, 

 the royal pair, possessing no little education and 

 taste themselves, find the same di'Kculty that George 

 III. did, and all other kings have done from Henry 

 III. downwards — the difficulty of providing the 

 right kind of moral education for one born the heir 

 apparent to the British throne. This arises in part 

 no doubt from tlie anomaly of his position. He is 

 a child educated with the knowledge that he is one 

 day to be a king, the king over every inhabitant of 

 Great Britain and its dependencies, embracing hun- 

 dreds of millions of human beings, witha territorv' 

 on which the sun never sets. A lad with his head 

 filled with these ideas, surrounded by those vvhose 

 interest it is to flatter and indulge all the whims of 

 a child, in hopes of being remembered hereafter by 

 the powerful young man, may well have his head 

 turned, had he the wisest as well as the best of 

 mothers. 



