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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Domestic Department. 



Domestic Training. — Permit us to say to those 

 mothers who interest themselves in the education of 

 their children, Be assiduous early to plant domestic 

 taste in the minds of your daughters. Let your 

 little girl sit by your side with her needle. Do not 

 put her from you when you discharge those employ- 

 ments which are lor the comfort of the family. Let 

 her take part in them as far as her feeble hand is 

 capable. Teach her that this will be her province 

 when she becomes a woman. Inspire her with a 

 desire to make all around her comfortable and happy. 

 Instruct her in the rudiments of that science whose 

 results are so beautiful. Teach her that no selfish 

 gratification, but the good of a household, the im- 

 provement of even the humblest dependant, is the 

 business of her sex. When she questions you, repay 

 her curiosity with clear and loving explanations. 

 When you walk out to call on your friends, some- 

 times take her with you ; especially if you visit the 

 aged, or go on errands of mercy to the sick and poor, 

 let her be your companion. Allow her to sit by the 

 side of the sufferer, and learn those nursing services 

 which afford relief to him. Associate her with you. 

 Make her your friend. Purify and perfect your own 

 example for her sake. And while you mingle with 

 domestic training, and with the germ of benevolence, 

 a knowledge of the world, of books, to which it will 

 be a sweet privilege to introduce her, should you be 

 able to add not a single fashionable accomplishment. 

 Still be continually thankful in shielding her from 

 the contagion of evil example. 



Rice Balls. — Pour upon half a pound of rice 

 three pints of boiling milk, and boil it with a little 

 cinnamon, sugar, and lemon peel, until it is quite 

 tender ; allow it to remain until it is cold, and then 

 make it into balls. Beat up two eggs, roll the balls 

 in it, and afterwards in grated bread crumbs ; fry 

 them in lard, drain them on a piece of jjaper, and 

 serve them up covered with sifted sugar. 



Rice Fritters. — Slice the rind of a lemon, and 

 boil it in milk, with sugar enough to sweeten it, and 

 a cup of rice. When the rice is quite soft, take it 

 out ; beat up the rice Avith a glass of brandy, shape 

 it into fritters, brush them with yolks of eggs, cover 

 them with bread crumbs, fry them in butter, and 

 serve them up with lemon juice squeezed over them. 



|)outl)'0 Department. 



Economy is due our Employers. — " Waste not, 

 want not," is a good old proverb. " He that is faith- 

 ful in little, is faithful also in much." A person who 

 takes no care of the materials committed to his hands 

 by his employer, will never duly husband his own 

 property. Economy and wastefulness are habits that 

 will infiuence us in all things, both when we are en- 

 gaged about our own substance, or that of another. 

 To waste another's goods is the same as to rob him. 

 The loss in both cases is equal, and the principles 

 whence they spring very much alike. The man who 

 takes care of his employer's goods is sure to look 

 after his own, and thus is on the road to prosperity. 



It would be difficult to calculate the immense loss of 

 property that every year occurs from carelessness 

 and want of economy. Some persons are worth 

 nearly half their wages more than others, because 

 they never injure or waste any thing. The employer 

 being wealthy, or the stock abundant, is no excuse 

 for carelessness. A loss is a loss, and a robbery is a 

 robbery, whether taken from the heap of the miser, 

 or the smaller store of the indigent. "Gather up 

 the fragments, that nothing may be lost," is a divine 

 command. Heaven allows nothing to be destroyed. 

 There has not been a single drop of water wasted 

 from the creation until now. The decomposed ele- 

 ments of last autumn are the aliment of our present 

 spring. Economy, rigid economy, is one of the laws 

 of nature; and we shall not realize "the good time 

 coming" until we have a careful and economical 

 world. Let this spirit prevail, and not only will the 

 master be saved from loss, but, in many instances, 

 the servant will rescue himself from the union. 



j^ealtl) Department. 



Deafness. — James Yearsley, an English surgeon, 

 has discovered, according to the Medical Examiner, 

 a curious and efficient mode of relief for deafness 

 resulting from scarlet fever, &c., in cases where the 

 drum of the ear has been broken. It is simply to 

 moisten a small pellet of raw cotton, and gently push 

 it down the passage of the car till it reaches the 

 drum at the bottom ; adjusting it till it produces the 

 best hearing. This adjusting is necessary, else it 

 may make the deafness at first only greater. Mois- 

 ture is indispensable. The cotton should be changed 

 every morning. Many other cases arc cited in proof. 



Cure for Hydrophobia. — At Udina, in Friule, a 

 poor man, lying under the frightful torture of hydro- 

 phobia, M'as cured with some draughts of pure vin- 

 egar, given him by mistake, instead of another po- 

 tion. A physician of Padua got intelligence of this 

 event at Udina, and tried the same remedy upon a 

 patient at the hospital, administering to him a pound 

 of vinegar in the morning, another at noon, and the 

 third at sunset, and the^man was speedily and per- 

 fectly cured. 



ilTccl)anics' Department, ^rts, Uc. 



Healthful Buildings. — The following remarks 

 are from an article by T. S. Bell, M. D., contained 

 in the July number of the Western Medical and 

 Surgical Journal. It is founded on an address by 

 A. H. Stevens, M. D. After remarks upon the im- 

 mense amount of sickness and death caused by a 

 culpable neglect of the plain laws of health, en- 

 forced by a startling array of facts concerning the 

 prevalence of disease in particular dwellings and 

 localities, to which the " plague district " in Louis- 

 ville adds a fearful chapter. Dr. Bell proceeds with 

 the following suggestions : — 



We cannot quit the important subject without 

 calling attention to the important facts contained in 

 the appendix of Dr. Stevens's address. These facts 

 are connected with the sanitary construction of coun- 

 try dwellings, ventilation, drainage, &c., and bear on 

 subjects on which medical men are often questioned, 



