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NEW ENGLAND FARMEE. 



Pomcstic Department. 



Advice to Young Labies. — The editress of the 

 Literary Gazette, Mrs. Lydia Jane Pearson, in an 

 article addressed to young ladies, upon the subject 

 of marriage, discourses as follows : — 



" Do not, as you value life and its comforts, marry 

 n man who is naturally cruel. If he will wantonly 

 torture a poor dumb dog, a cat, or even a snake, fly 

 from him as you would from cholera. We would 

 sooner see our daughter dying of cholera, than mar- 

 tied to a cruel- hearted man. If his nature delights 

 in torture, he will not spare his wife, or his helpless 

 children. When we see a man practising cruelty on 

 any poor helpless creature, or a fractious horse un- 

 mercil'ully, we write over against his name, devil, 

 and shun him accordingly. 



" We once knew a man, ay, a gentleman, who, 

 during a ride for pleasure, became so demoniacally 

 enraged at hie horse, which refused to go, that he 

 sprang from his carriage, drew hU knife, and cut out 

 an eye of the poor brute. The lady who accom- 

 panied him fainted, suffered a long nervous illness, 

 and will never recover from the horror the outrage 

 gave her. And we knew the young lady who, 

 knowing this of liim, was fool-hardy enough to be- 

 come his wife. And we know how he tortured her ; 

 how he outraged all her feelings ; how he deUghted 

 to destroy whatever she prized, or took pleasure in ; 

 how in his fits of passion he broke up her furniture, 

 seized her by the shoulders, and shook her till she 

 could not crawl to bed ; how he beat her ; how ho 

 kept her poor babe black and blue with blows and 

 pinches until her parents took her home, and shel- 

 tered her from his cruelty. 



" If you have a suitor whom you feel inclined to 

 favor, look narrowly into the temper and disposition 

 of the man. Love may soften it for a while, or it 

 may induce him to restrain or disguise it, but be 

 assured, the natuial temper will remain, and the 

 time wiU come, when your presence will be no 

 restraint upon him. We have heard wives complain, 

 * I was so deceived in my husband ; men are so 

 deceitful,' &c. 13ut we believe, in nine eases out of 

 ten, those women deceived themselves. They suf- 

 fered the romance of theh own foolish heart to adorn 

 their lover with all the excellences which their fancy 

 attributed to a perfect manly character, and to draw 

 a veil over all his vices and defects, which, if it did 

 not conceal them, greatly softened or disguised their 

 features. 



"Men are not perfect — women are not perfect. 

 In all cases, there must exist a necessity to bear and 

 forbear, but it does not therefore follow that you 

 should marry a bad man, knowing him to be a bad 

 man. If you do so, you deserve chastisement ; but 

 a life-long misery is a terrible punishment. A bad 

 man's wife must either live in a continual torment of 

 fear, apprehension, and the bitter disappointment of 

 her fruitless efforts to please ; or she must become 

 callous, cold, insensible to pain, and consequentlj^ to 

 pleasure. AVill you take upon yourselves either of 

 these terrible alternatives ? We hope not." 



Custards without Eggs. — One quart of new 

 milk, four tablespoonfuls of flour, two of sugar. 

 Season v/ith nutmeg or cinnamon, and add salt to 

 your liking. The milk should be placed over a quick 

 fire, and when at the boiling point, the flour should 

 be added, being previously stirred up in cold milk. 

 As soon as thoroughly scalded, add the sugar, spice, 

 and salt. This is an excellent dish, and deservedly 

 priced by eveiy one who has tried it. 



lloutlj'0 ilBcpartment. 



Beware of Beginnings. — Young persons should, 

 above all things, beware of beginnings, and by no 

 means parley with temptations : their greatest secu- 

 rity is in flight, and in the study to avoid all occa- 

 sions of evil ; for the cockatrice, which may be 

 easily crushed in the egg, if suffered to hatch and 

 grow up, will prove a deadly serpent, hard to be 

 destroyed. 



Advice to Young Men. — Let the bxxsiness of 

 everj' one alone, and attend to your own. Don't 

 buy what you don't want ; use every hour to advan- 

 tage, and study even to make leisure hours useful ; 

 think twice before you spend a shilling — remember 

 you will have another to make for it ; find recreation 

 in looking after your business, and so your business 

 will not be neglected in looking after recreation ; buy 

 low, sell fair, and take care of the profits ; look over 

 your books regularly, and if you find an error, trace 

 it out ; should a atroko of niisfortunc come upon 

 you in trade, retrench — work harder, but never fly 

 the track ; confront difficulties with unflinching per- 

 severance, and they will disappear at last ; though 

 you should even fall in the struggle, you will be 

 honored ; but shrink from the task, and you will bo 

 despised. 



gcaltlj IPepartment 



Hints to the Bald-Headed. — According to the 

 following extract from an editorial article in the Bos- 

 ton Medical and Surgical Journal, the easy and sure 

 way to prevent baldness, is to go bare-headed, or 

 wear a well-ventilated hat : — 



" A refined civilization has brought with it a train 

 of phj'sical evils which it is in the province of science 

 to control or subdue. Our tight hats, our warm 

 rooms, closely fitting caps, silk nightcaps, from which 

 the perspirable matter cannot escape, by their com- 

 bined agency, in connection with other influences, 

 not always easy to define, bring off the hair prema- 

 turely, and turn it gray, sooner than personal vanity 

 is willing to exhibit such evidences of decay. And 

 this is not all ; the skin is actually in a low state of 

 disease, the effects of which are recognized in the 

 accumulation of dandruff — desquamation of the 

 epidermis. The bulbs of the hair are inflamed also 

 from the same cause, and from year to year the hair 

 degenerates and becomes thinner, and not unfre- 

 quently ends in baldness. On aU that part of th"} 

 head not covered, viz., from the back side, between 

 the ears, and on the temple, the hair generally re- 

 mains to extreme old age, however much the apex 

 may be denuded. If females wore equally tight cov- 

 ering, the hair would probably suft'er very much in 

 the same manner ; but their hght, airy bonnets admit 

 of ventilation, and hence a bald-headed woman 

 would be a phenomenon. WTio ever saw a bald- 

 headed Indian ? We have had an opportunity of 

 seeing various tribes, in all the freedom of an unre- 

 strained savage life, but a sparse head of hair we 

 have never noticed. Atmospheric exposure con- 

 duces to the luxuriance of the hair, and a healthful 

 condition of the scalp." 



Dandelion Coffee.— Dr. Harrison, of Edinburgh, 

 prefers dandelion coifce to that of Mocha, and many 

 persons, all over the continent, prefer a mixture of 



