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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



DECEMBER 33, 1«33. 



MISCELLANY. 



SYMPATHY. 



EV BISHOP HEBBR. 



A knight and a lady once met in a grove, 

 While each was in quest of a fugitive love ; 

 A river ran mournfully murmuring by, 

 And they wept in its waters for sympathy. 



" O never was kniglit such a sorrow iliat bore !" 

 " Oh never was maid so deserted before !" 

 " From life and its woes let us instantly fly. 

 And jump in together lor company \" 



They search'd for an eddy that suiied the deed, 

 Hut here was a bramble and there was a weed - 

 '•' How tiresome it is," said the fair, with a sigh, 

 So they sat down to rest them in company. 



They gazed on each other, the maid and the knight, 

 H*»w fair was her form, and how goodly his height ; 

 "One mournful embrace!" sobb'd the youth, "ere we die! 7 

 So kissing and crying kept company. 



" Oh, had I but loved such an angel as you !" 

 " Oh, hail but my swain been a quarter as true !" 

 " To miss such perfection how blinded was I !" 

 Sure now they were excellent com pan}'. 



At length spoke the lass, 'twixt a smile and a tear, 

 " The weather is cold for a watery bier, 

 When summer returns we may easily die, 

 Tiil then let us sorrow in company." 



DELICATE WOMEN. 



" A delicate woman," said B} ton, as recorded in 

 Lady Blessington's Conversations, "however pret- 

 tily it may sound, harrows up my feelings, with a 

 host of shadowy ills to come, of vapors, hysterics, 

 nerves, megrims, intermitting fevers, and all the ills 

 that wait upon poor weak woman, who when sickly, 

 are generally weak in more senses than one. 



The best dower a woman can bring, is health and 

 good humor; the latter, whatever we may say of 

 the triumphs of mind, depends on the former, as 

 according to the old poem, 



1 Temper ever waits on health, 

 As luxury depends on wealth.' 



But mind, when I object to delicate women, that is 

 to say, to women of delicate health, alias sickly, 1 

 don't mean to say that Hike coarse, fat ladies, a la 

 Rubens, whose minds must be impenetrable from 

 the mass of matter in which they are encased. 

 Nol I like an active and healthy mind, in an active 

 and healthy person, each extending its beneficial 

 influence over the other, and maintaining their 

 equilibrium ; the body illuminated by the light with- 

 in, but that not let out by any chinks made by dis- 

 ease or time. 



Buxom health, with rosy hue, gives me a better 

 idea of female loveliness, than ' lanky languor, 

 sickled o'er with the pale cast of thought ;' that is, 

 I think bad health, and bad humor are often syn- 

 onymous, making tomorrow cheerless as to-day. 

 Then see some of our line ladies, whose nerves are 

 more active than their brains, who talk sentiment, 

 and ask you to administer ' to a mind diseased, and 

 pluck from the memory a routed sorrow,' when it 

 is the body that is diseased, and the rooted sorrow 

 is some chronic malady. 



In short, I like as who does not ? a handsome 

 healthy woman, with an intelligent and intelligible 

 mind, who can do something more than what it is 

 said ;i French woman can only do habille, babille, 

 and dishabille, who is obliged to have recourse to 



dress, shopping and visits to get through a day, and 

 soirees, operas, and flirting to pass an evening. 



I am moderate in my desires ; I only wish foi 

 perfection." 



HINTS TO FAMILIES. 



To comply with the prevailing fashion of the times; 

 to receive, and attend large parties; to associate on 

 terms of equality with those who are considered in- 

 fluential and genteel people, and whose circum- 

 stances can enable them to sustain such expense, 

 doudtless has its advantages, especially where there 

 are families of sons and daughters just coming on 

 the theatre of life ; but these advantages may be 

 too dearly bought. Those families who spend 

 their whole yearly income from year to year, for 

 the sake of appearing with the more wealthy and 

 fashionable, keeping nothing in reserve ' for a rainy 

 day,' must under a change of circumstances, find 

 abundant cause to regret such an unthrifty course. 

 There is perhaps no way so sure to lay the founda- 

 tion for future discontent and wretchedness of chil- 

 dren as to educute them above their circumstances 

 and condition in life, and especially daughters of 

 families in moderate circumstances, giving them a 

 little music, and just enough of what is denomina- 

 ted a fashionable education, to form in them a dis- 

 taste for every sober employment, and render them 

 discontented, useless and worthless through life. 

 Those families in New England, who begin with 

 little, and rise gradually, by industry and economy, 

 to the first rank in society, are with few exceptions, 

 the only happy families among us. If life were 

 to be one continued, bright, sunny holiday, and 

 nothing to be hoped or feared beyond it, that course 

 of education, which by discarding common sense, 

 disqualifies so many of our daughters for the ordi- 

 nary duties and sober employments of life, would be 

 less excusable. But storms as well as sunshine are 

 to he expected and provided for. Affliction and 

 adversity, at sometime, are the lot of all — and 

 what is more, those chastisements are necessary, 

 and are sent in mercy to reclaim us from our wan- 

 derings. Is it not wise therefore to teach our 

 children to expect and be prepared for those scenes 

 of life, which are most certainly before them ? — 

 Northern Farmer. 



STEAM COACH. 



Sir C. Dance's steamer, which makes its trips 

 three times a day from Wellington street to Green- 

 wich, continues to attract an immense crowd of 

 curious spectators, both on its departure and its re- 

 turn ; and such is the demand for places that the ap- 

 plicants exceed the power of accommodation, and 

 many wait fur two hours to gratify their desire for an 

 excursion in this new mode of conveyance. The 

 journey continues to be performed with safety and 

 certainty, and all seem pleased with the ease and 

 equable motion of the vehicle. 



The passion for railway undertakings seems to be 

 undiminished, and in some cases appears to over- 

 step the bounds of sobriety. We see continually 

 in the local papers announcements of fresh pro- 

 jects. Besides numerous additions which are con- 

 templated to the railroads within the limits of Lan- 

 cashire and the coal districts, where railroads may 

 be said to have become naturalized, there are now 

 plans in agitation which if they take effect, will in- 

 tersect the country with the following, among other 

 great lines of iron. The railway from Manchester 

 and Liverpool to Birmingham, and from Birming- 



ham to London (actually commenced) a line from 

 London to Brighton forming, with the line first 

 mentioned, a line from Liverpool to the southern 

 coast ; a line from London to Bristol continued to 

 Exeter, and we believe to Plymouth, thus cutting 

 the whole south of England : a line from Milford 

 Haven, in the western extremity of south Wales to 

 London ; a line cutting the western side of the isl- 

 and from Falmouth to Liverpool, connected by a 

 steam navigation across the Bristol Channel ; a line 

 from the east to the west coast of the island between 

 Carlisle and Newcaster; another from sea to sea, 

 farther south from Liverpool to Hull (or Selby.) 

 Here is some work cut out for engineers. 



FRUIT TREES. 



Orhamehtal TREES, ROSES, FLOWER- 

 ING PLANTS, &c. Nursery of WILLIAM 

 KENRICK in Newton. 5£ miles from Boston, 

 by the City Mills. 

 Tins iiursery now comprises a rare and extraordinary collec- 

 tion of fruit trees, Trees and Shrubs of Ornament, Roses, .&c. 

 and covers die most of 18 acres. Of new celebrated Pears alone, 

 150 kinds, a part of which, having already been proved in our 

 climate, are specially recommended. — Of Apples £00 kinds — 

 Peaches 115 kinds — Cherries, 55 kinds — Plums, Nectarines, 

 Almonds, Apricots, Quinces, Grape Vines, Currants, Raspber- 

 ries, Gooseberries, Strawberries, Figs, &c. &c.« — selections 

 from the best varieties known — a collection in unequal propor- 

 tions of 800 varieties of frail. 



While mulberries lor silk worms — the fruit poor. Also the 

 Morus Mli.ticaulis or New Chinese Mulberry, a beauti- 

 ful fruit tree, so superior for silk worms to all others. 



Of ROSES. A superb collection of from 300 to 400 hardy 

 and China varieties ; selections from numerous importations, 

 and first rate sources. Horse Chesnuts as hardy as oaks — 

 Weeping Willows, Catalpas, Mountain Ash, Silver Firs, Ve- 

 netian Sumach, Altheas, Honeysuckles, Azaleas, &c. dee. — 

 in all, of Ornamental trees, and shrubs, 650 varieties. Of 

 Herbaceous flowering plants, a choice selection of 280 varieties, 

 including the P peonies, Mot/tun and Papaveracea — and 24 other 

 kinds — and 83 splendid varieties of double Dahlias. 



Gentlemen are invited to forward their orders early — early ra 

 A ulumii being an excellent season for transplanting. Address to 

 WILLIAM 1<ENR1CK, Newton. Trees, &c. delivered in 

 Boston free of charge for transportation, and suitably packed, 

 and from thence when ordered duly forwarded, by land or sea.. 

 Or orders will receive the same attention if left with Geo. C. 

 Barrett, who is agent, at his seed store and New England 

 Farmer Office, Nos. 51 & 52, North Market Street, Boston. 

 Catalogues gratis on application. Jy 17 



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