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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 29, 1830. 



MISCELLANIES 



THE DYING CHILD. 



Ah, look thy last, fond mother — 



On the beauty of that brow. 

 For death's cold hand is passing o'er 



Its marble stillness now ; * 



Those silken eyelids weighing down 



Upon the glazed eye, 

 Are telling to thy breaking heart, 



The lovely one must die. 



Yes, mother of the dying one, 



The beautiful must go ; 

 The pallid cheek, and fading eye, 



And trembling lip of snow. 

 Are signets fro-n the hand of Death, 



When unseen angels come 

 To bear the young and beautiful 



To their own happy home. 



That soft white hand within thy own. 



May never more entwine 

 Its arms around the mother's neck. 



Like tendrils of the vine — 

 Those still, cold fingers never more 



Along thy forehead fair, 

 Shall dally with the raven curls 



That cluster thickly there. 



The flashes of its speaking eye — 



The music of its mirth — 

 Shall Viever more make glad the hearts 



Around the parent's hearth ; 

 Then look thy last, fond Jiiother — 



For the earth shall he above . 

 And curtains up that sleeping one. 



The first born of thy love. 



But let thy burning thoughts go forth — 



And pray that thou may'st meet 

 That sinless one, where worlds shall bow 



Before the judgment seat ; 

 And pray, that when the wing of death 



Is shadowed on thy brow. 

 Thy soul may be beside the one 



That sleepeth near thee now. 



JV. E. Review. 



A HINT TO MOTHERS. 



When we contemplate what great things de- 

 ])cnd on what, to a superficial observer, is of 

 small moment, we wish to speak a word of cau- 

 tion. Our subject is that of the common, every 

 (lay conversation of mothers to their children. 



When giving to your children commands, bej 

 careful that you speak with a becoming dignity, 

 as if, not only the right,but the wisdom also to com- 

 mand was with yon. Be careful not to discover 

 a jealousy that your injunctions may not be attend- 

 ed to, for if the child sees that you have doubts, 

 ' they will lead the child to doubt too ! Be cautious 

 never to give your commands in a loud voice, nor 

 in haste. If you must speak loudly in order to be 

 obeyed, when it is not convenient to raise your 

 voice, you must expect to be disobeyed; and if it be 

 convenient for you to speak loudly, you must re- 

 msmber that it is inconvenient for others to hear it. 



But with regard to manner, be careful to speak 

 in a soft, tender, kind, and loving way. Even 

 when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to 

 do it with manifest kindness. Tlie effects will be 

 incalculably better. When you are obliged to 

 deny the request that your child may make, do 

 not allow yourself to do this with severity. It 



is enough for our little ones to be denied of wliat 

 they may think they want, without being nearly 

 knocked down with a sharp voice ringing in their 

 tender ears. 



If you practise severity, speak harshly, frequent- 

 ly punish in anger, you will find your children 

 will imbibe your spirit and manners. First, you 

 will find they will treat each other as you treat 

 them ; and after they arrive to a little age, they 

 will treat you with unbecoming replies. But if 

 you are wise and treat your little ones with ten- 

 derness, you will fix the image of love in their 

 minds, and they will love you and each other, and 

 in their conversation will imitate the conversation 

 which they have heard from the tenderest friend 

 which children have on earth. 



TATTOOING. 



The operation of tattooing is one of a still 

 more severe and sanguinary description in New 

 Zealand, than it would seem to be in any of the 

 other islands of the South Sea ; for it is performed 

 here, not merely by means of a sort of fine comb, 

 which merely pricks the skin, and draws from it 

 a little serum slightly tinged with blood, but, also 

 by an instrument of the nature of a chisel, which 

 at every application, makes an incision into the 

 flesh, and causes the blood to start forth in gushes. 

 This cliisel is sometimes nearly a quarter of an 

 inch broad, although, for the more minute parts 

 of the figure, a smaller instrument is used. The 

 stick with which the chisel is struck, is occasion- 

 ally formed into a broad blade at one end, which 

 is applied to wipe away the blood. The tincture 

 is said to be sometimes obtained from the juice of 

 a particular tree. 



Some are tattooed at eight or ten years of age ; 

 but a young man is accounted very efleminate, 

 who reaches his twentieth year whhout having 

 undergone the operation. Mr Marsden told one 

 of the chiefs. King George, as he was called, that 

 he must not tattoo his nephew Racow, who was 

 a very fine looking youth, with a dignified, open, 

 and placid countenance, remarking that it would 

 quite disfigure his face ; ' but he laughed at my 

 advice,' says Mr Marsden, ' and said he must be 

 tattooed, as it would give him a noble, masculine, 

 and warlike appearance ; that he would not be fit 

 for his successsor with a smooth face ; the New 

 Zealanders would look on him merely as a wo- 

 man, if be was not tattooed.' Mr Savage says, 

 that a small spiral figure on each side of the chin, 

 a semicircular figure over each eyebrow, and two, 

 or sometimes three lines on each lip, aj'e all the 

 tattooing the New Zealand women are required 

 tc submit to. Rutherford's account is, that they 

 have a figure tattooed on tlie chin, resembling a 

 crown turned upside down ; that the iiisidc of 

 their lips is also tattooed, the figures here appear- 

 ing of a blue color ; and that they have also a 

 mark on each .side of the mouth resembling a 

 candlestick, as well as two stripes about an inch 

 long on the forehead, and one on each side of the 

 nose. Their decorations of this description, as 

 well as those of the other sex, are no doubt difler 

 ent in different parts of the country. 



Rutherford states, that in the part of the coun- 

 try where he was, the men were commonly tat- 

 tooed on their face, hips, and body, and some as 

 low as the knee. None were allowed to be tat- 

 tooed on the forehead, chin, and upper lip, except 

 the very greatest among the chiefs. The more 

 they are tattooed, he adds, the more they are hon- 



ored. The priests Mr Savage says, have only i 

 small square patch of tattooing over the right eye 



These stains, although their brilliancy may per J 

 haps decay with time, being thus fixed in the flesh I 

 are of course indelible — just as much as tl:- ' 

 marks of a similar nature which our own sai'.o 

 frequently make on their arms and breasts, by in 

 troducing gunpowder under the skin. — Libran I 

 of Enterlaininp^ Knotded^e. \l 



— : . — 



The contented Female.-A nobleman soliciting 

 a young country girl to abandon her rustic statei 

 and reside in a populous city, she replied, 'Ah !— 

 my Lord, the farther we remove from ourselves, thf 

 greater is our distance from happiness!' — Tliej 

 who leave their homes, uncalled by Providence, ir 

 search of happiness, generally find they are onlj 

 farther from it. 



Requisites. — There are five requisites for i 

 professed drunkard : — A face of brass — nerves ol 

 steel — lungs of leather — hei»rt of stone and an in. 

 combustible liver. 



Pretty Women. — ' Of all other views, a mar 

 may, in time, grow tired ; but in the countenance 

 of women there is a variety which sets -Tcarinesi 

 at defiance.' — The divine right of beauty, say! 

 Junius, is the only divine right an Englishmat 

 can acknowledge, and a pretty woman the onlj 

 tyrant he is not authorized to resist. 



Idleness Lord Chatham writes to his nephew- 



at Cambridge — ' Vitanda est improba Siren, Desi 

 da, I desire may be affixed to the curtains of youi 

 bed, and to the walls of your chambers. If yot 

 do not rise early, you can never make any pro 

 gross worth anything. If you do not set apar 

 your hours of reading ; if you suffer yourself, Oi i 

 any one else, to break in upon them, yom- dayi h 

 will slip through your hands, unprofitable am ^ 

 frivolous, unpraised by all you wish to please, anci \' 

 really unenjoyed by yourself.' i' 



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