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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



pleasure yourself is to do the right thing. You 

 may not always hit the mark ; but you should, 

 nevertheless, always AIM AT IT, and with every 

 trial your skill will increase. AVhether you are 

 to be praised or blamed for it by others ; wheth- 

 er it will seemingly make you richer or poorer, 

 or whether no other person than yourself knows 

 of your action, still, always, and in all cases, do 

 the right thing. Your first lessons in this will 

 grow easier, until finally doing the right thing 

 will become a habit, and to do a wrong will seem 

 an absolute impossibility. 



LADIES' DEPaStMENT; 



-WEBSTER MATCHED BY A TVOMAN. 



In the somewhat famous case of Mrs. Bodgen's 

 will, which was tried in the Supreme Court some 

 years ago, Mr. Webster appeared as counsellor 

 for the appellent. Mrs. Greenough, wife of Rev. 

 Wm. Greenough, late of West Newton, a tall, 

 straight, queenly-looking woman, with a keen 

 black eye — a woman of great self-possession and 

 decision of character, was called to the stand as 

 a witness on the opposite side from Mr. Webster. 

 Webster, at a glance, had the sagacity to foresee 

 that her testimony, if it contained anything of 

 importance, would have great weight with the 

 court and jury. He therefore resolved, if possi- 

 ble, to break her up. And when she answered 

 to the first question put to her, "I believe," Web- 

 ster roared out, "We don't want to hear what you 

 believe ; we w^ant to hear what you know !" Mrs. 

 Greenough replied, "That is just what I was 

 about tc say, sir," and went on with her testimony. 



And notwithstanding his repeated efi'orts to 

 disconcert her, she pursued the even tenor of her 

 way, until Webster, becoming quite fearful of 

 the result, arose apparently in great agitation, 

 and drawing out his large snuff'-box, thrust his 

 thumb and finger to the very bottom, and carry- 

 ing the deep pinch to both nostrils, drew it up 

 with a gusto ; and then extracting from his pock- 

 et a very large handkerchief, which flowed to his 

 feet as he brought it to the front, he blew bis 

 nose with a report that rang distant and loud 

 through the crowded hall. Webster — "Mrs. 

 Greenough, was Mrs. Bodgen a neat woman ?" 

 Mrs. Greenough — "I cannot give you very full 

 information as to that, sir ; she had one very dirty 

 trick." Webster— "What's that, ma'am ?" Mrs. 

 Greenough — "She took snufi'.!" The roar of the 

 court-house was such that the future defender <-f 

 the constitution subsided, and neither rose nor 

 spoke again until after Mrs. Greenough had va- 

 cated her chair for another witness — having am- 

 ple time to reflect upon the inglorious history of 

 the man who had a stone thrown at his head by 

 a woman. 



DOMESTIC BECEIPTS. 

 A Hard and Durable Soap. — A patent has 

 been granted in England for an improvement in 

 the manufacture of soap, by the addition of sul- 

 phate of lime to the usual ingredients employed 

 in its manufacture. The sulphate may be added 

 to the soap in a dry powder, or in admixture 

 with any of the usual ingredients employed in 

 the manufacture of soap. The proportions of 



the sulphate which it is best to employ, vary ac- 

 cording to the article manipulated upon, and the 

 quality of the soap to be produced. Thus about 

 twelve ounces of dry sulphate is sufficient for 

 one ton of best soap, whereas, in common or 

 highly liquored soap, six or eight pounds may be 

 used with advantage. Soap, made with the ad- 

 dition of sulphate of lime, becomes hardened, 

 keeps dry, and is not liable to shrink while in 

 water, its durability is increased, and it does not 

 wear or waste away before its cleansing proper- 

 ties are brought into action. — Scientific Ameri- 

 can. 



Indian Bannock. — Take one pint of Indian 

 meal, stir into it a pint of sour milk — fresh but- 

 termilk is better — half a teaspoonful of salt, a 

 spoonful of molasses, and a spoonful of melted 

 butter. Beat two eggs and add, and then stir in 

 a pint of wheat flour ; then thin it with milk to 

 the consistency of drop cakes, and when ready to 

 bake, add two heaping teaspoonfuls of soda dis- 

 solved in hot water. Pour in square buttered 

 pans an inch thick, and bake fifteen minutes. 

 This quantity makes two pans. Try it. 



Vermin Riddance. — Half an ounce of soap 

 boiled in a pint of water and put on with a brush, 

 while boiling hot, infallibly destroys the bugs and 

 their eggs. Flies are dri\en out of a room by 

 hanging up a bunch of the plantain or fleawort 

 plant after it nas been dipped in milk. Rats and 

 mice speedily disappear by mixing equal quanti- 

 ties of strong cheese and powdered squills. They 

 devour this mixture with greediness, while it is 

 innocuous to man. When it is remembered how 

 many persons have lost their lives by swallow- 

 ing in mistake mixtures of strychnine, ratsbane, 

 coiTosive sublimate, &c., which are commonly 

 employed for this purpose, it becomes a matter 

 of humanity to publish these items. — Hall's Med- 

 ical Journal. 



Washington Cake. — Heat together one quart 

 of milk, and one ounce of butter ; when about 

 lukewarm, pour them into two pounds of flour, 

 adding a cent's worth of yeast, three eggs, and a 

 tablespoonful of salt. Place the batter in pans, 

 let it stand over night, and the next morning 

 bake it in a quick oven for three-quarters of an 

 hour. 



Loaf Cake. — Three teacupfuls of light dough, 

 one teacupful of sugar, one teacupful of butter, 

 two eggs, one teaspoonful of pearlash, and two or 

 three large tablespoonfuls of milk ; add also a 

 half pound of raisins. After it is thoroughly 

 worked together, put the dough into the pans, 

 and raise until it becomes light. Bake in a slow 

 oven. 



What the Girls Need. — Mrs. Ellis thus 

 hints at the deficiencies of the English girls in 

 household knowledge. The cap will fit our Amer- 

 ican young ladies, except that some of the latter 

 have plenty of "frankness," and do not think it 

 woi'th while even to show "mock modesty." 



"The truth is, my dear girls, you want, gener- 

 ally speaking, more liberty and less fashionable 

 restraint ; more kitchen and less parlor ; more 

 leg exercise and less sofa ; more making pud- 

 dings and less piano ; more frankness and less 

 mock modesty; more breakfast and less bustle." 



