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NEW ENGLAND EAKMER. 



JUNB 



Cabbox. — Carbon constitutes about one-half of 

 the organic combustible parts of plants and vegeta- 

 bles. The remainder of the organic matter is oxy- 

 gen, hydrogen and nitrogen, wliich become soUd in 

 vegetation. 



BOYS' DEPARTMENT. 



BROTHERS aUARRELING. 



A SCOTCH NUKSERY BALLAD. 



DAVIE. 



"Father, settle Sandy ! 



He's making mou's at me ; 

 He's aye plague, plaguing. 



And winna let me be j 

 And snye he looks so simple -like 



"Whene'er he thinks he's seen, 

 But just as soon's you're out of sight, 



He's making mou's again- 



"Father, settle Sandy I 



He's crying names to me, 

 He's aye tig, tigging. 



And winna let me be ; 

 But 0, sae sly, he bauds his tongue 



"Whene'er he kens ye're near. 

 And says't again below his breath, 



That none but he can hear." 



8ANDT. 



"Father, settle Davie ! 



It's him that winna gree, 

 He's aye jeer, jeering, 



And lays the blame on me ; 

 1 daurna speak, I daurna look, 



I daurna move a limbj 

 For, if I gi'e a wee bit laugh, 



He says I laugh at him." 



FATHER. 



"O, learn to be loving, and kindly agree. 



At home all as happy as brothers should be, • 



Ere distance may part you or death may divide, 



And leave you to sigh o'er a lonely fireside. 



"The sweet look of kindness, the peace-speaking tongue, 

 So pleasant and lovely in old or in young, 

 "Will win the affections of all that you see, 

 And make you still dearer to mother and me. 



"But, O '. if divided by distance or death. 



How sore it would grieve you, till life's latest breath. 



That anger or discord should ever have been. 



Or aught but alTection two brothers between !" 



exercising merely its power of recepti\ity — its mem- 

 ory, I say nay, nay, nay. The great princij^le on 

 which a child should be educated, is not that of re- 

 ception, but rather that of action, and it Avill ever 

 remain uneducated, in the highest sense, so long as 

 its higher mental powers remain inert. One may 

 lead a horse to water, but twenty cannot make him 

 drink — and yet if he does not drink, he dies. So a 

 boy or girl may be supplied with all the materials 

 of education, and yet remain uneducated to the end 

 of time. Moses struck the rock, and the waters 

 gushed forth. When it is proposed to apply a 

 force to inorganic matter, the force not being with- 

 in itself, must be applied externally, or it must 

 change it? internal constitution like chemical action. 

 But when we pass to the li\'ing soul, we find the 

 organizing, energizing force within, and all our skill 

 must be directed to the development of this, of a 

 true moral and spiritual life. — A. Potteb, D.D., in 

 Conn. School Journal. 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



CHILDREN MUST DO IT THEMSELVES 



If I were to reduce to a single maxim the con- 

 centrated wisdom of the world, on the subject of 

 practical education, I should but enunciate a prop- 

 osition, which I think will command your assent, 

 but which I fear, is not incorporated as it should be, 

 into the practice of schools and families. That 

 principle is, that in educating the young, you serve 

 them most effectually, not by what you do for them, 

 but by what you teach them to do themselves. 

 This is the secret of all educational development. 

 We talk of self-education as if it were an anomaly. 

 (n one sense of the word, all education is obtained 

 simply by the exertion of our own minds. And is 

 this self education ? What does education mean ? 

 Not inducation. 



The popular opinion seems to be that education 

 is putting something into the mind of a child by 



DOMESTIC RECIPES. 



Ginger Beer. — Two gallons of ginger beer 

 may be made as follows : Put two gallons of cold 

 water into a pot upon the fire ; add to it two ounces 

 of good ginger bruised, and two pounds of white or 

 brown sugar. Let all this come to the boil, and 

 continue boiling for half an hour. Then skim the 

 Uquor, and pour it into ajar or tub, along with one 

 sliced lemon, and half an ounce of cream of tartar. 

 When nearly cold, put in a teacupful of yeast to 

 cause the liquor to work. The beer is now made ; 

 and after it has worked for two days, strain it and 

 bottle it for use. Tie the corks down firmly. 



MouLDlNESS. — Fruit jellies may be preserved 

 from mouldiness, by covering the surface one- 

 fourth of an inch deep with finely pulverized loaf 

 sugar. Thus protected, they will keep in good con- 

 dition for years. 



Rice Cakes. — Boil rice until it is soft, and while 

 warm make it into cakes or flat balls. Dip these 

 balls into a beaten egg, and then roll them into 

 Indian meal till thoroughly coated. This done, 

 fry them in lard, which is better than butter for 

 this purpose. Serve them with sauce, or with but- 

 ter or cream and sugar. 



A Good Way of Cooking Onions. — It is a 

 good plan to boil onions in milk and water ; it di- 

 minishes the strong taste of that vegetable. It is 

 an excellent way of ser"ving up onions, to chop them 

 after they are boiled, and put them in a stew-pan, 

 with a little milk, butter, salt and pepper, and let 

 them stew about fifteen minutes. This gives them 

 a fine flavor, and they can be served up very hot. 



Washing Silver Ware. — It seems that house- 

 keepers who wash their silver ware "with soap and 

 water, as the common practice is, do not know 

 what they are about. The proprietor of one of the 

 oldest silver estabHshments in the city of Philadel- 

 phia, says that "housekeepers ruin their silver by 

 washingit in soap suds ; it makes it look like pew- 

 ter. Never put a particle of soap about your silver; 

 then it will retain its original lustre. When it wants 

 polish take a piece of soft leather and whiting, and 

 rub it hard." 



