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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Domestic iDcpartmcut. 



Female Educatiox. — Xo Avoman is educated, says 

 BaiT.p.p, -who is not equal to the successful nianage- 

 moiit of a family. Although it does not require so 

 much talent to rule a household as it docs to govern 

 a state, still it rcciuircs talents of the same kind. As 

 he makes the best general who has begun at the 

 lowest post, and passed up through every grade of 

 office ; as he makes the best admiral who entered 

 the navy in the most inferior station ; because they, 

 and they alone, are acquainted with the Avhole com- 

 pass of a subaltern's duty, — so that woman will 

 manage a family with the greatest ease and efficiency, 

 who knows exxierimentally the duties of every mem- 

 ber of it. 



Daughters who neglect this part of education are 

 entirely without excuse, and their mothers are still 

 more to blame. The very apology which is often 

 made for the neglect of it, is the greatest condemna- 

 tion of those who offer it. It is said by those who 

 are growing up in ignorance of these things, "Any 

 one can loain how to keep house when it is neces- 

 sary. Any one who loves her husbiind, and is de- 

 voted to his intei'ests, will make herself accomplished 

 in those things as soon as she is married." As well 

 might the young man say, " O, what use is it for me 

 to learn a profession, or make myself acciuaintcd with 

 the details of my business ? When I am married, if 

 I love my wife, it will then be time enough to learn 

 a profession, or to accomplish myself in the details 

 of business." Would there be any surer omen of 

 total failure and discomfiture ? That which a woman 

 can learn to do under the tuition of love, can cer- 

 tainly be learned to much greater advantage under 

 the tuition of a mother. If it is all so easy to learn, 

 then certainly they are utterly inexcusable who neg- 

 lect it. It is no degradation to the finest lady to 

 know all the details of domestic affairs. It is honor- 

 able, and ought to be her pride. A woman, though 

 she may be as beautiful as the morning, as wise as 

 Minerva, and as accomplished as the (iraces, ought 

 to know all the details of house affairs. 



Washing Ci-othes. — Mrs. Swisshelm gives the 

 following direction how to wash clothes much soiled 

 by field or otit-door work, especially when they are 

 much saturated v.ith perspiration. 



" If yoti would take a teacup full of spirits of tur- 

 pentine, and as much spirits of wine, with a quart 

 of water, and a gallon of soft soap, or two pounds of 

 hard soap, put them on the fire and boil a few 

 nunutcs, then put the mixture away for use, and the 

 eveiung before wash day, put your white clothes into 

 cold water, with enough of this mixture to make 

 suds, and let them stand all night, you will find your 

 clothes very easy to wash. A little of this stuff 

 thrown into the boiler, makes them white and clear, 

 and if you rinse them well, does not injure the 

 clothes." — Prov. Transcript. 



13outlj'0 Department. 



Pleasures of Gaudexixq. — No one can be truly 

 said to live, who has not a garden. None but those 

 who have enjoyed it can aitprcciate the satisfaction, 

 the luxury, of sitting down to a table sjjread with 

 the fruit of one's own planting and culture. A 

 bunch of radishes, a few heads of lettuce, taken 

 from the garden, of a summer's morning, for break- 

 fest, or a mess of green peas or sweet corn, is quite 



a different affaii- from the same articles brought in 

 large quantities from market in a dying condition, to 

 be ])ut in the cellar for use. And a plate of stni.sv- 

 berrics or raspberries lose none of their peculiar 

 flavor by passing directly from the border to tb.e 

 cream, without being jolted about in baskets until 

 they have lost all form and comeliness. And yet how 

 many in the smaller cities and villages of our coun- 

 try, possessing every facility for a good garden, either 

 through indolence or ignorance, are deprived of this 

 source of comfort ! And how many farmers, with 

 enough land lying waste to furnish them with most 

 of the luxuries of life, are content to plod on in the 

 even tenor of their waj', never raising their tastes 

 above the "pork and beans" of their fathers. 



For the Boys. — Seven classes of company are 

 to be avoided, viz. : — 



1. Those who ridicule their parents, or disobey 

 their commands. 



2. Those who profane the Sabbath or scofi' at re- 

 ligion. 



3. Those who use profane or fdthy language. 



4. Those who are untruthful, play truant, and 

 waste their time in idleness. 



o. Those who are of a quarrelsome temper, and 

 ai-e apt to get into difficulty with others. 



6. Those who are addicted to lying. 



7. Those Avho are of a cruel disposition, and take 

 pleasure in torturing or maiming animals. 



^ealtlj Department 



Down urox Calomel. — The Scalpel, a New York 

 medical publication, edited by Dr. Dixon, deals very 

 plainly with many subjects connected with medical 

 practice. The following qviotations from a late num- 

 ber will serve to show the views of the editor upon 

 calomel : — 



" In dyspepsia, or indigestion, when nothing goes 

 right, and nobody knows why, it is a perfectly philo- 

 sophical deduction, that something is wrong. It 

 may be the blood, it may be the solids, it may be the 

 spleen, it may be the brain. The whole case appears 

 to bo a doubtful one — ' a may bo.' Does it not 

 strike every medical logician, that the treatment of a 

 disease should be in accordance with its condition? 

 What better mode of treatment cotild bo pursued 

 than the ' may be ' one ? Give calomel ! ' May 

 be ' the patient will get better notwithstanding the 

 calomel, and you, ' may be,' will get the credit. 

 The worst Avhich ' may be ' is, that the calomel ' may 

 he ' fatal to him ; but if it be, you have only carried 

 out the theory of a medical 'may be,' to its t/iarapeu- 

 ti'j conclusion. 



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" Some of the alterative effects of calomel are very 

 apparent. Wc have known stout, healthy persons 

 altered to lean, feeble ones. Some, whose stomachs 

 were capable of taking and digesting any thing, were 

 rendered incapable of taking or digesting at all ; 

 others, who were always regular in their bowels, 

 were so altered, that they found the necessity to reg- 

 idate them the future business of their life. Some 

 have a moderate-sized liver altered to a large one; 

 others are so altered as to lose a large portion of their 

 liver, already diminished. Some find out that they 

 have kidneys, who never knew it before, and many 

 can define the exact boundary of their stomachs, by 

 the uneasiness which they feel, who fbrnrerly did not 

 know they had a stomach. 



" There is, however, one valuable property in cal- 

 omel above all other medicines, It is this ; If there 



