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NEW ENGLAND FAKMER. 



April 



obliged to observe from my earliest youth the 

 most perfect neatness in every respect, my moth- 

 er sent me to see if I could obtain the situation. 

 With alight step I started, for I had a long time 

 •wished my mother to allow me to do something 

 to assist her. 



"My heart beat fast, I assure you, as I turned 



otit of W Street into B Street, and 



made my way along to the number my mother 

 had given me. I summoned all the courage I 

 could muster, and stepped briskly into the store, 

 and made known the reason of my calling. The 

 merchant smiled, and told me that there was 

 another boy who had come in a little while before 

 me he thought he should hire. However, he 

 asked me some questions, and then went out and 

 conversed with the other boy, who stood in the 

 back part of the office. The result was, that the 

 lad v,ho first applied was dismissed, and I en- 

 tered the merchant's employment, first as an er- 

 rand boy, then as a clerk, afterwards his partner, 

 until his death, when he left me the whole busi- 

 ness, stock, &c. After I had been in his service 

 some years, he told me the reason he chose me 

 m preference to the other boy, was because of 

 the general neatness of my person, while in ref- 

 erence to the other lad, he noticed that he neg- 

 lected properly to tuck down his vest. To this 

 circumstance has probably been owing the great- 

 er part of my success in business." 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



these, again, aid in increasing the circumferen- 

 tial extension and clumsiness of the body, the 

 former of which is by no means accommodating 

 to the gentlemen, either on the narrow sidewalks 

 in Boston, or in carriages, or cars generally ; and 

 the latter surely cannot be viewed favorably as a 

 feminine recommendation by one of the other 

 sex in pursuit of a partner for life. 



But, seriously, there are most weighty objec- 

 tions against this now prevalent custom Of late 

 an eminent physician abroad has raised his warn- 

 ing voice against this pernicious custom. He 

 say-;, "he has no doubt but in the parturient 

 chamber he has lost several patients who might 

 have survived this critical period, had they not 

 have been debilitated by colds, and irritations 

 and inflammations induced by such a reckless ex- 

 posure of female health as does, and must neces- 

 sarily result, from such gear in winter, as hooped 

 petticoats, fashionably called 'skirts.' " 



If these are facts, and, from the nature of the 

 case, we see no reason to doubt their truthfulness, 

 there are weighty and ample reasons why such a 

 system of dressing should be immediately changed 

 for one safer and healthier. — Dr. Wrn. Cornell, 

 in Happy Home. 



THE HOOP FASHION. 



Now, lest it should seem unkind to our good 

 mothers, wives, sisters and daughters, (being of 

 the masculine gender, and withal a physician, 

 who of all men should be tender of female weak- 

 ness,) we frankly confess that there are circum- 

 stances connected with female life, and seasons 

 of the year, when moderately sized hoops may be 

 worn with an augmentation of comfort and in- 

 crease of health. But duty compels the state- 

 ment that such cases are very rare in our climate. 

 In very hot, dry weather, (of which we yearly 

 have but little,) light hoops tend to raise the 

 weight of skirts from the loins and lower portion 

 of the back, and, consequently, take oft", by ad- 

 mitting freer ventilation, a part of the warmth 

 which at such a time must be uncomfortable, and 

 lighten the dragging sensation resulting from the 

 weight of the skirts, So much is readily conceded. 



But, even then, the evil far overbalances this 

 moiety of good. Constant care is necessary at 

 e^'ery change of temperature, from hot to cold, 

 and from dry to moist, lest this cooling process 

 be carried too far, and the health of the wearers 

 of these frames become endangered, or essential- 

 ly impaired. No feeble person, or invalid, how- 

 ever, should risk this augmented ventilation at 

 any considerable distance from home, even on a 

 summer's day, unless she have a guarantee that 

 the weather will not change during her absence. 



So little has this gear to recommend itself even 

 in summer. But what shall be said of it for win- 

 ter ? Then it is positively unsafe for health. It 

 is true, some advantage can be devised against 

 this wanton exposure of health and life in winter, 

 by a mucff increased amount of under-dress. But 



DOMESTIC RECEIPTS. 



A Simple Pudding. — Boil a quart of milk, 

 cut up some bread in small pieces and soak 

 them in the milk for about half an hour; then 

 add a table- spoonful of Indian meal, and apiece 

 of butter the size of a walnut ; sweeten well, and 

 put in nutmeg and other spices. Bake about 

 twenty minutes. 



Pomatum. — Melt about half a pint of beef 

 marrow, and add to it six cents' worth of castor 

 oil, and three table-spoonsful of alcohol ; scent 

 to your fancy. First rend the marrow, then melt 

 it and put in all but the perfume, and beat it un- 

 til it becomes like cream ; then add the perfume. 



To Make Ckeam Cheese. — The following 

 are two recipes : — Take a quart of cream, or, if 

 not desired very rich, add thereto one pint of 

 new milk ; warm it in hot water till it is about 

 the heat of milk from the cow ; add a small quan- 

 tity of rennet (a table spoonful is sufficient ;) let 

 it stand till thick, then break it slightly with a 

 spoon, and place it in a frame in which you have 

 previously put a fine canvass cloth; press it 

 [slightly with a weight, let it stand a few hours, 

 land then put a finer cloth in the frame ; a little 

 i powdered salt may be put over the cloth. It 

 will be fit for use in a day or two. 



Another Method. — If cream is scarce, so 

 that a sufficient quantity cannot be had at once, 

 take a fine canvas bag, and pour as much cream 

 as you may happen to have into it, adding addi- 

 tional small quantities twice a day, and, from its 

 [becoming naturally sour, the thin part of It will 

 (drain through the canvass, and the remainder 

 'will prove an exc llent cheese. If one quart of 

 cream can be had at once, and poured into a fine 

 canvass bag, it will make a nice-sized cheese, 

 and of course equally as good as those made by 

 several small quantities added at convenient in- 

 tervals. The cheeses made in this way are not 

 fit for use so soon as those made with rennet. 



