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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jan. 



"Yes, sir ; but I'll conquer him yet." 



A third time the boy mounted, and then made 

 good his word, the horse yielding to him com- 

 pletely. 



This was a manly boy. 



Of another, twelve years old, it was told me, 

 that being at a large school in one of our cities, 

 he was visited in his room by two young men, 

 half-a-dozen years older than himself, who used 

 very profane language. After hearing for some 

 time what was highly offensive to him, he said, 

 "Gentlemen must be so good as to abstain from 

 this language, or leave the room." They sub- 

 mitted to the rebuke and remained. This was a 

 still higher kind of manliness. 



It was true of another boy, not so old as this, 

 ■who had long been afflicted with a diseased and 

 helpless leg, that being told, one Sabbath morn- 

 ing, of the surgeon's decision to amputate it, he 

 said, "Then I will have it done immediately, be- 

 fore mother comes home from church, that she 

 need not know anything about it ;" and it was 

 done immediately. 



If you consider these as fair illustrations of 

 my subject, you will admit that the manliness ex- 

 hibited by these boys could in no case have been 

 enhanced by any fashion of garments. 



I beg you to observe, that the terms, man and 

 woman, manly and womanly, in their proper and 

 full import, convey far more than those of gen- 

 tleman and lady, gentlemanly and ladylike. A 

 true man and a true woman will be gentlemanly 

 and ladylike, and a great deal more besides. — 

 There are men, and there are so-called gentlemen, 

 who have little or nothing that is manly about 

 them. 



MOBAL TONE OP A SCHOOL. 



The Rev. J. P. Norris, Queen Victoria's Inspec- 

 tor of Schools, on the moral tone of a school, 

 says : — "The value of a school, after all, does not 

 depend on the branches of learning that are stu- 

 died in it — no, nor upon the life that is lived in it. 

 Unhappily for many of those who write and speak 

 about education, this is a truth of which the full 

 force can be comprehended by none but those who 

 are spending days and years of their lives witliin 

 the four walls of a school. Once in a report ad- 

 dressed to your lordships I endeavored to explain 

 to teachers what I meant when I spoke to them of 

 the moral tone of their schools. Six years have 

 passed since that Report was written, and I can- 

 not say that I find it easier now than I did then 

 to define exactly wherein this most subtle quality 

 of the school resides. But this I know, that the 

 longer one lives in a school, or rather, the more 

 one's life is spent in passing through a great va- 

 riety of schools, the more sensitive one becomes 

 to this their most important characteristic. Spend 

 an hour or two in one school, and you feel all the 

 while as a man fells who is confronted for some 

 time with a bad countenance. Go into another, 

 and all is right and liealthy again, and even be- 

 fore you inquire what branches of education are 

 taught you are convinced that it cannot but be 

 well for children to spend their days in so bright 

 and wholesome an atmosphere. Whatever be the 

 value or direction of the intellectual teaching, 

 there is heart and love and healthy moral influ- 

 ence at work, and therein lies the real education 

 Qu which the after-man and after-woman depends. 



It is surely this that Milton had in view when he 

 said that the end of education was "to repair the 

 ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know 

 God aright, and out of that knowledge to love 

 him, to imitate him, to be like him." 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



DOMESTIC RECEIPTS. 



AViscoNSiN Fruit-Cake. — Three-quarters of 

 a pound of raw salt fat pork, chopped very fine ; 

 then pour on a pint of boiling water, one cup of 

 sugar, two of molasses, two teaspoonfuls of 

 cloves, one of cinnamon, one nutmeg, two tea- 

 spoons of saleratus, one pound and a half of 

 raisins, also a citron and currants if liked, and 

 flour as stiff as can be stirred ; bake very slowly 

 an hour, or longer if necessary, as it will burn 

 without great care. This will make three loaves, 

 and will keep well. 



Ginger Snaps. — Two cups of molasses, one 

 of lai'd, a tablespoon of ginger, a tablespoon of 

 saleratus, dissolved in as little hot water as pos- 

 sible ; flour ; roll very thin. 



Soda* Jelly-Cake (delicious.) — One teacup of 

 sweet cream, two of sugar, two eggs, half a tea- 

 spoon of soda, one of cream of tartar stirred in 

 the flour ; flour to the consistence of butter cakes ; 

 bake immediately. 



Tea-Cakes. — One cup of butter, two of sugar; 

 beat together ; one cup of sour milk or water, a 

 teaspoonful of saleratus ; spice with nutmeg or 

 caraway ; flour to roll out ; mix as soft as pos- 

 sible. 



Sago Pudding. — Wash a teacupful of sago ; 

 put it in your pudding dish, and pour on a quart 

 of boiling water, stirring all the time ; put in a 

 little salt and a tablespoon of sugar. The longer 

 it stands thus before baking, the bettei*. Bake 

 slowly an hour. Eaten with sugar and butter 

 stirred together. 



For a Burn. — Raw cotton, flour and sweet 

 oil, applied immediately, is the best remedy I 

 ever saw tried. Rub on the flour first, then the 

 oil, and lastly bind a quantity of cotton. — Qodey's 

 Lady's Book. 



Onions. — I perceive that Senator Hale objects 

 to onions on account of the unpleasant odor 

 which they communicate to the breath. If he 

 will swallow a little vinegar after eating, it will 

 remove the cause of his objection. What is 

 much better in this case, is a few kernels of 

 burnt coffee, taken immediately after eating. It 

 will effectually rerhedy the evil spoken of. — Gran- 

 ate State Farmer. 



To Keep Part of a Bottle of Porter or 

 Ale Brisk. — Put in the cork firmly, and set the 

 cork end downwards, in a tumbler, or other ves- 

 sel, nearly full of water. 



Delicate Cake. — Stir to a cream a pound of 

 powdered white sugar, seven ounces of butter ; 

 then add the whites of sixteen eggs, beaten to a 

 stiff froth, half a nutmeg, or a teaspoonful of 

 rose-water, or lemon ; stir in gradually a pound 

 of sifted flour ; bake the cake immediately ; the 

 yolks can be used for custards. 



