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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Pomestic IDcpartnicnt. 



Management of Domestic ArrAiiis. — The pros- 

 perity, hcappiuess, and reputation of a family depend, 

 in a very great measure, on the judicious and pru- 

 dential management of the household department. 

 With economy and skill, a family may be made com- 

 fortable, happy, and respectable, with one half the 

 expense on the part of the husband that is required 

 with the extravagance and mismanagement that pre- 

 vail in some families. This will make all the differ- 

 ence between prosperity and the accumulation of a 

 competency, and a failure and want. 



This shows the importance of woman's influence ; 

 and she has not this influence merely on the comfort 

 of the famUy, and its prosperity in the acquirement 

 and saving of property, so essential to its well being, 

 but her influence is equally great in training the in- 

 fant and youthful mind to virtue and learning, and 

 rendering the subjects under her care an ornament 

 and blessing to the communitj'', and a credit to them- 

 selves and their j^arents. 



Strict economy and skilful management, while 

 they contribute to the acquirement, preparation, and 

 arrangement of those possessions that are essential to 

 independence and happiness, exercise a wholesome 

 discipline over both body and mind, laying a founda- 

 tion for health, strength, and those principles which 

 insure present comfort and satisfaction, and a well- 

 founded hope for future prosperity. 



No woman should think of taking charge of a 

 family without being well A'crsed in her profession, 

 so as to act upon the best principles, and practise in 

 a skilful nianncr. Science and skill are as important 

 in the kitchen as on the farm, and the one is no more 

 disreputable, difiicult, or unpleasant to a woman, than 

 the other is to a man. 



Every person should endeavor to excel in his or 

 her avocation, and consider nothing, however minute, 

 as unworthy of attention. No person, who is not 

 skilled in domestic aff'airs, should ever have a famil}' 

 subjected to her mismanagement or neglect. Labor 

 is the necessar)' lot of all animal beings throughout 

 creation, and it is essential to health and happiness. 

 Then how important that it be directed by intelligence 

 and skill, which are absolutely requisite to success ! 



To BAKE Apples. — Take sour apples, those of a 

 keen acid, and to every square tin HUed with them, 

 pour over a tea-cup full of water, and one tea-cup 

 full of sugar. Bake them slowly till done. Eat 

 them v.-ith cream and the juice which cooks from 

 them. Nobody knows much of baked apples who 

 has not eaten them in this way. No quince, pear, 

 peach, or plum x^rescrves arc equal to this simple 

 dessert. 



Dancing. — " I am now an old fellow," says Cow- 

 per, in one of his letters, " but I had once my dan- 

 cing days, as you have now ; yet I could never find 

 that I could Icam half so much of a woman's real 

 character by dancing with her, as conversing with 



her at home, when I could observe her behavior at 

 table, or at the fireside, ana in all trying scenes of 

 domestic life. We are all good when pleased ; but 

 she is the good woman who wants not the fiddle to 

 sweeten her." 



lloutl/s Pcpartmcut. 



Thoughts for the Young. — The Garden of Eden 

 was undoubtedly a place of surpassing loveliness. Its 

 beautiful groves, its fragrant flowers, the melting 

 richness of its fruits, its cool streams and limpid 

 rivers, the choral strains of its feathered songsters, 

 and the soft and balmy atmosphere, must aU have 

 conspu-ed to render it a most delightful abode. We 

 wonder that Adam and Eve could not have been con- 

 tented, and let the forbidden fruit alone, so that wo, 

 their posterity, could have had access to the garden 

 also. 



But instead of mourning over the loss, we may as 

 well look around us, and see whether there is not 

 something yet left worth possessing. There is, after 

 all, much that is lovely and beautiful in the earth, 

 notwithstanding the dazzling glories of Eden have 

 departed. The glowing beauties of the maiden have 

 faded, but traces of that beauty still beam in the face 

 of the matron. That man must have a morbid dispo- 

 sition, who can look out upon the face of the earth, 

 on a bright inorning in sjoring, when vegetation is 

 bursting its fetters and unfolding its beauties, when 

 the feathered tribe is filUng the air with rich melody, 

 and when the balmy fragrance of the atmosphere is 

 courting into life the buds and blossoms of a thousand 

 diff'erent plants, and discover no beauty, no loveliness. 

 The mind endued with a right spirit will perceive 

 much to admire, and will look through all these clus- 

 tering beauties of nature up to nature's God, and 

 discover his handiwork in the development of life, 

 and all the various arrangements for the growth and 

 maturity of the vegetable and animal w^orld. 



It is interesting to notice the perfect system and 

 order that nature exhibits in all her works. She 

 seems like a chemist in a vast laboratory, nicely 

 weighing and measuring out various simple elcmei^ts, 

 and compounding them in such exact proportions, as 

 to produce the most beautiful experiments in count- 

 less numbers. Man can only faintly imitate her, and 

 wholly fads in the ability to give the life-inspiring 

 principle, which tills the earth with joy and gladness. 



How mysterious is the agency of light, at first 

 serving to keep the vital principle dormant, but when 

 it has once burst into activity, becoming so essential 

 to the growth and beauty of the plant ! The power 

 and goodness of God are magnificently displayed in 

 this element. As we look out on the landscape, 

 lighted up by the glorious orb of day, and relieved by 

 the various shades of verdure ; as the eye wanders 

 over hill and valley, mountain and plain, streamlet 

 and lake, or as we gaze with admiration on the blue 

 vault above — the summer clouds, or the stupendous 

 arch of varied light which so frequently spans the 

 heavens as the rainbow — how can we refrain from 

 bowing down with grateful adoration before the 

 Being who has, by the creation of this one simple 

 clement, contributed so wonderfully to the happiness 

 of his creatures, and saved them from the horror of 

 groping in perpetual darkness ! And how excellently 

 does the divine goodness and wisdom shine out, in 

 constituting this light, of seven different colors, as it 

 is exhibited in the rainbow, or separated by a prism. 

 Different objects absorbing difl'erent rays, and reflect- 

 ing others, produce an endless diversity of shades, 

 and we are charmed with the varied and gorgeou^ 

 hues of creation. — Vermont Agriculturist. 



