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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[April 29, 



»IZSCEI.I.ANXi:S. 



But in addition to this horrid dressing, his clothes 

 are often so tight, that he frets and roars though 

 [The pliilosophic Cowley entertained a high opinion p,p cannot o'ive words to his complaints. Pin-; 

 of this art, and has celebrated, in some oi his best | should never he used in an infant's clothes : and 

 strains, the wonderful transformations which It pro- every thing should be so loosely tied, that one 



— ight get two fingers between it and the part 



duces.] 

 We nowhere art do 10 triumphant see, 



As when it grafts or buds the tree. 

 In other things we count it to excel 

 If it a docile scholar can appear 

 To nature, and but imitate her well ; 

 It overrules, and is her master here. 

 It imitates her Maimer's power divine. 

 And changes her sometimes, and sometimes does refine. 



It does, like grace, the fallen tree restore 

 To its best state of paradise before. 

 Who would not joy to see his conquering hand 

 O'er all the vegetaDte world extend command ! 

 And the wild giants of the wood receive 

 What laws he's pleased to give ? 

 He bids the ill natured crab produce 

 Th» gentler apple's winy juice ; 

 The golden fruit that worthy is 

 Of Galatea's purple kiss. 

 He does the savage hawthorn teach 

 To bear the medlar and the pear ; 

 He bids the rustic plum to rear 

 A noble trunk and be a peach. 

 Even Daphne's coyness he does mock, 

 Though she refused ApMlo's suit. 

 Even she, that chaste and virgin tree, 

 Now wonders at herself to see 

 That she's a mother made, and blushes in her fruit. 



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where it is fixed. Bandages round the head 

 should be strictly forbidden. Many instances of 

 idiotistn, fits, anil deformity, are owing to tight 

 bandages. In laying a child to sleep, he should 

 be laid upon the right side oftener tlian upon 

 the left; but twice, in the four and twenty hours 

 at least he should l>e changed to the left side. — 

 Laying him on his back when he is awake, Is 

 enough of that posture, in which he can alone 

 move his legs and arms with freedom. Infants 

 are sometimes very restless at night ; and it is 

 generally owing either to cramming them with a 

 heavy supper, tight night clothes or being over- 

 heated by too many blanket". It may also pro- 

 ceed from putting ihem to sleep too early. He 



The following song written by Hesry J. P'in.n, I"sq. 



was sung by him at the late celebration at Concord. 



Tune — " Scols wha hae," &c. 



The night was hushed, the moonlight gleam 

 Lay sleeping on the gentle stream, 

 As silent as an infant's dream 

 Upon its parent's breast ; 



And Concord sluniber'd, safe from care. 

 But mists were in the midnight air. 

 As though the heavens were weeping there, 

 O'er briefly broken rest. 



When morning's breath came o'er the vale. 

 War's voice had mingled with the gale. 

 And hearts were sad, and chetks were pale, 

 To hear the distant drum. 



The mother clasp'd her babe, and fled. 

 The maiden, tears of terror slied ; 

 As onward moved the martial tread, 

 " The cry was still — they come !" 



More loud and long, the trumpet's sound, 

 Sent forth its shrill alarms around. 

 And foes were on the battle ground 1 ' 

 What chains can bind the brave t 



k.1 Ocean's mountaiu-billows meet — 

 Against the rock in madness beat. 

 Then rush in Ibamiug, fierce retreat, 

 Back roU'd the warrior wave I 



The foe of Freedom sternly stood, 

 In pride, upon the bridge of blood — 

 But death was floating in the flood ; 

 The tomb of Tyranny. 



Our vollics echo through the sky. 

 Hark ! hark ! What glory's in the cry, 

 For l reemcn shout, " they (ly ! they fly ! 

 The land tec lovt is fret .'" 



The custom of dressing the graves of the dead 

 with flowers. Is prevalent throughout all Ger- 

 many. — Every little mound resembles a flower 

 bed, the weeds are carefully pulled up, and dai- 

 sies, evergreens and violets, are planted in this 

 consecrated earth. On the centre of one, the 

 grave of a daughter, was seen amidst the blos- 

 soms, a solitary lily ; it was tied to a stick to sup- 

 port its languishing head from the violence of 

 the wind. Need we say after this that this del- 

 icate tribute to the memory of a child was rear- 

 ed by the hands of the mother? 



There is some dangerof our becomings superstitiout- 

 people. — We are looking in the atmo-phere for unus- 

 ual birds, and to the heavens for strange appearances ; 

 and we are in a good measure gratified. '1 hus, at. 

 New- York, when Gen. La Fayette entered the harbor^ 

 a magnificent rainbow illuminated the fortress La 

 Fayrlte. When Mr Monroe wa< inaugur.ated, a mam- 

 moth Eagle flew over the capiiol. When Air. Adams 

 was assuming the office of President, four Eagles hover- 

 ed over the national senate house. — \nd one had pre- 



should be kept awake until the family are going yjously looked down from the clouds, on the afliect- 

 to rest, and the house free from noise. Undres- 

 sing and bathing him will weary and dispose 

 him to sleep, and universal stillness will pro- 

 mote it. Never let anything hut the prescrip- 

 tion of a physician in sickness, tempt you to give 

 him wine, spirits, or any (hus to make him sleep. 

 Milk and water, whey, or thin gruel is the only 

 fit liquor for little ones, even when they can 

 run about. The more simple and light their 

 diet, the more they will thrive. Such food will 

 keep their body regular, and they cannot he 

 long well if you neglect that essential point. 



When opening medicine must be given to sup- 

 ply the defect of nature, a little manna or mag- 

 nesia is safest. A careful and diligent mother 

 will attend to the particulars, keeping all her 

 children under her own eye, and giving them 

 lessons of more value than gold or jewels, in 

 the time that lazy and gadding gossips are look- 

 ing at their fingers, or giving and hearing news. 



ting ceremony of Gen. La Fayette's visit to the tomb 

 of the illustrious Washington. A star, at Mid-day, 

 cast its chaste brilUance on the rising cenotaph of De 

 Kalh, at Camden. And the sun, which had remained 

 behind the clouds on the day of Gen. Ija Fayette's 

 entree into Charleston, shone forth with delightful 

 brilliancy, just as ht lit from his carri.ige at the City 

 Hall, to receive the Intendant's welcome. 1 hese are 

 grateful incidents, they are all of them well attested; 

 but whether tli< y intimate any peculiar relation be- 

 tween things above and things below, we leave to the 

 decision of Augurs and Astrologers. — 



C/iarleston Courier, 



RULES FOR MOTHERS AND HOUSE-WIVES, 



Some people in dressing an infant seem in 

 »Hch haste as to toss him in a way that must fa- 

 tigue and harass him. The most lender delibe- 

 ration should be observed. Every one knows 



ihat a kid, a lamb, a calf, or even h puppy or aS^rcording to" a scientific observer, not only lb 

 liilteii, cannot thrive it squeezed or tumbled a- j ,|„,,„,|,y of rain but the annual number of rainy 

 bout. An infant is certainly more easily hurt. [;,„(i cloudy days is continually increasing. 



Aphorisirts. — The hardest trial of the heart is 

 whether it can bear a rivafs failure without tri- 

 umph. 



Thoroughly to iry a man's patience, he must 

 have the labour of years consumed before his 

 eyes in a moment ; thorou!rhly to prove it, he 

 must in- tantiy bet i 1 to renew his labour. 



The woman ol sensibility, who preserves se- 

 renity and Sfood temper amidst the insults of a 

 faithless husband, wants nothing of an angol but 

 immortality. 



The man who, improving in skill or knowl- 

 edge, improves also in modesty, has an undeni- 

 able claim to greatness of mind. 



He, whose first emotion on the view of an 

 excellent production is to undervalue it, will 

 never have one of his own to show. 



Nothing is such an obstacle to the production 

 of excellence, as the power of producing what 

 is pretty good ivith ease and rapidity. 



Would a man of rank estimate his real dig- 

 nity, let him think of that stale in which all 

 rank is abuiished. — Dr. Aiken. 



A great increase in the quantity oC rain has 



been remarked in England. The same has been 



[noted thrnugbouf the South of France, where. 



BELL FO U.NDER, 



The Wonderful Norfolk Trotter, imported July 1822, 



from England, 



WILL STAND THIS SEASON, 1825, 



At Ticenli/ Dollars, and One Dollar the Groom. Tht 



money to bt paid to the Groom at Catering, 

 rj^lliS celebrated Horse is a bright bay, with black 

 I If^^s, standing 16 hands high ; his superior blond, 

 symmetry and attinn excel those of every other trotting 

 Stallion, He is allowed by the best Judges in Norfolk 

 to be the fastest and best brid Horse ever sent out of 

 that County. He has proved himself a sure foal getter, 

 and his Stock for size and subst.ence arc not to be sur- 

 passed ; they are selling at the highest prices of any 

 Horses in Norfolk. 



BELLFOUNDER was get by that well known, fast 

 and high formed Trotter, Old Bkllfoxihdfr, out of 

 Velocity, which trotted on the Norwich road, in 1! 06, 

 Sixteen Milet in one hour, and though she broke fiftrea 

 times into a gallop, and as often luintd round, won her 

 match. In lfe08 she trotted Tuenly eight 7niles in one 

 hour and forty seven minutes, and lias also done many 

 other great performances against time. 



BELLFOUNUER, at five years old, trotted Tua 

 miles in six minutes, and in the following year was 

 matched for 20U guineas, to trot A'ine miles in thirty 

 minutes, and he won easily by thirty two seconds. His 

 owner shortly after challenged to perform with him Sev- 

 ei^feen miles and a half'm one hour, but it leas not tic.- 

 cepted. He has since never been saddled or matched. 



Old BF.i.i.ironNDER was a true descendant Irom the 

 original blood of the Fireaways, which breed of Horses 

 stand unrivalled, either in this or any other nation. 



BELLFOUNDER is strongly recommended t" the 

 public by the subscriber, as combining more uselhl 

 properties than any other Horse in America, and will 

 stand, during the season, at his stalde in Charlestown, 

 where all inqniries, post paid, will be attended to. 



Be.li.fovndf.r's foals thus far have proved fully 

 satisfactory, showing extraordinary action. 



Samuel JAQUES, jr. 



C:harlestown, Mass. March 11, li;2u. 



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