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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Ciliics' !Dcp.Ti-tm:ut. 



FAIiSa PRIDB A BANS OP SOCIETY. 



A youifg lady of high accomplishments (and no 

 priue) in the ;ihscnce of the servant stepped to the 

 door on the ringing which announced a visit from 

 one of her admirers. On entering, the beau, glanc- 

 ing at the harp and piano which stood in the apart- 

 ment, exclaimed, '"I thought I heard music ! on 

 which instrument were you performing, I\Iiss1 " 

 " On the gridiron, sir, with an accompaniment of 

 tJie frying pan!" replied she; "my mother is 

 without HKLP, and she says that I must learn to 

 FiNGEii these instruments sooner or later, and 1 

 have this day commenced taking a course of les- 

 sons." 



The present system of domestic education has 

 less of common sense in it than any other arrange- 

 ment in social life. The false idea that it is ungen- 

 teel to labor — especially for a lady — prevents thou- 

 sands from taking that kind and amount of bodily 

 exercise on which sound health and a firm consti- 

 tution so much depend. Those who are brought 

 up to work in the country, and go to the city and 

 make a fortune, indulge the false pride of training 

 their children to despise labor, which was the 

 birthright of their parents, and make it a point to 

 decry lionest toil, in which they were themselves 

 reared, and to which all their relatives are still de- 

 voted. This is mushroom aristocracy, and the 

 most contemptible of all. Young men will wil- 

 lingly become clerks, and roll and lift boxes, and 

 so long as they are clerks and in a mercantile 

 house, and can wear a standing dicky, they de- 

 spise an apprentice to a business perhaps far less 

 humiliating and subservient — all because they are 

 MERCHANTS, or intend to be. 



The successful merchant is a laborious man, but 

 so long as his efforts are not regarded as labor, it 

 does not wound iiis pride. He toils for thirty years 

 as vigorously as a mechanic, but not exactly under- 

 standing that his work is really labor, he feels that 

 he has just as good a right to despise it as does the 

 man who is born to fortune; and he teaches his wife 

 and daughters to despise every useful occupation, 

 and goes to his store daily to sweat and toil, not 

 doubting the respectability of his efforts, however 

 onerous, so long as tiie world doas not brand it with 

 the disgraceful name of LMiOR. For such men — 

 for ANY man to despise the ennobling subsistence. 

 is making war on the natural institutions and bes: 

 interests of society, and treading sacrilegiously and 

 contemptuously on the ashes of his father or grand- 

 father who tilled the soil. Young men! you are 

 fostering a false pride which will ultimately rankle 

 at the core of your happiness and make you slavei- 

 indeed. Off with your coats and in tlie name oi 

 reason and liberty rush with manly strength inti 

 architecture, or the manufacture of works of util- 

 ity, and leave the measuring of tape to those whose 

 souls are as " short as the yardstick and as narrow 

 as the tape." Be men! cease to crowd into clerk- 

 ships and starve your way through lite in the vain 

 hope of being the fortunate one who shall become 

 rich out of the five thousand who remain poor. 

 Ladies, if you would be worthy of your age, ol 

 the genius of a noble country, and of an exalted 

 .civilisation, set an example of wisdom by employ- 

 ing youj time on somelliing useful to tlie world. 

 Are you rich'' thank God, then, that you rr-ay have 



your time at your command to bless and benefit 

 your less fortunate sisters of want, and their help- 

 less offspring. You can thus Ijecome angels of 

 mercy, almoners of good, and merit the benedic- 

 tions of God's poor while you live, and their tears 

 when you die. — Phrenological Journal. 



HINTS POJti YOUNG IjADIES. 



If any j'Oung woman waste in trivial amusements, 

 the prime season for improvement, which is be- 

 tween the ages of sixteen and twenty, they regret 

 bitterly the loss, when they come to feel themselves 

 inferior in knowledge to almost every one they con- 

 verse with; and above all if they should ever be 

 mothers, when they feel their inability to direct and 

 assist the pursuits of their children, they find igno- 

 rance severe mortification and a real evil. Let this 

 animate their industry, and let a modest opinion ot 

 tlieir capacities be an encouragement to them in 

 their endeavors after knowledge. A moderate un- 

 derstanding, with diligent and well-directed appli- 

 cation, will go much farther than a more lively ge- 

 nius, if attended with that impatience and inatten- 

 tion which too often accompany quick parts. It is 

 not for want of capacity that so many women are 

 such trifling, insipidcompanions, so ill qualified for 

 the friendship and conversation of a sensible man or 

 for the task of governing and instructing a family; 

 it is often from the neglect of exercising the talents 

 which they really have, and from omitting to culti- 

 vate a taste for intellectual improvement; by this 

 neglect they lose the sincerest pleasures, which 

 would remain when almost every other forsakes 

 them, of which neither fortune nor age can deprive * 

 them, and which would be a comfort and resource 

 in almost every possible situation in life. — Mrx. 

 Chapone. 



EXCELLENT COLD STEW. 



Take a nice fresh white cabbage, wash and drain 

 it, and cut off the stalk. Shave down the head 

 evenly and nicely into very small shreds, with a 

 cabbage cutter or a sharp knife. Put it into a deep 

 dish, and prepare it for the following dressing. Take 

 a gill or a half tumbler of the best vinegar, and mix 

 with it a (juarter of a pound of fresh butter, dividc<l 

 into four bits, and rolled in flour; a small salt-spoon '^ 

 of salt, and the saine quantity of cayenne. Stir all 

 this well together, and boil it in a small saucepan. 

 Have ready the yolks of three eggs well beaten. As 

 .■!ioon as the mixture has come to a hard boil , take it 

 off the fire, and stir in the beaten eggs. Then pour 

 it boiling hot over the shred cabbage, and mix il 

 W(dl all through with a spoon. Set it to cool on 

 ice or snow, or in the open air. It must be quit-e 

 cold before it goes to taljle. 



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