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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



platiiuiiTi plate immersed in the li<}uid at some dis- 

 tance from the object to be silvered, and connected 

 with th_a coke cj^linder. A plate of cast iron, of 

 four square indies surface, is generally completely 

 plated in Jialfan hour. 



HOMB AND WOMAIT. 



If ever there has been a more touching and elo- 

 quent enlogium upon the charms of homo, and its 

 deare-st treasure, woiTirin, than is contained in the 

 following extract from the Christian Inquirer, it 

 has not been our good fortune to meet it : — 



"Our homes, what is tlseir corner-stone but vir- 

 tue of woman, and on what does social well-being 

 rest but on our homes ? Mast we not trace all other 

 blessings of civilized life to the doors of our pri- 

 vate dweliinjjs! A re not our hearth stones, guarded 

 by the holy forms of conjugal, filial, and parental 

 love, the corner-stones of church and State; more 

 sacred than either; more necessary than both? I^et 

 our temples crumble, and oar academics decay: 

 let every public edifice, our halls of justice, and 

 our capitals of state be levelled with the dust; but 

 spare our homes. Man did not invent and he can- 

 not improve or abrogate them. A private .shelter 

 to cover in two hearts dearer to each other than 

 all in the world; high walls to exclude the profane 

 eyes of every human being; seclusion enough for 

 children to feel that mother is a holy and peculiar 

 name — this is home; and here is the birth-place ol 

 every virtuous impulse, of every sacred thought. 

 Here the church and the vState must come for their 

 origin and their support. O, spare our homes ! 

 The love we experience there gives us our faith 

 in an infinite gt)odness; the purity and disinterested 

 tenderness of home is our foretaste and our earnest 

 of a better world. In the relations there established 

 and fostered, do we find through lile the chief sol- 

 ace and joy of existence. Whnt friends deserve 

 the name conipar(3d with those whom a birth-right 

 gave us. One mother is woith a thousand friends, 

 one sister dearer aiui truer than twenty iniimatf 

 companions. We who have pla3'od on the sami? 

 hearth, under the lights of smile, who date back to 

 the same scene and season of innocence and hope; 

 in whose veins runs the same blood, do we not 

 find that years only make more sacred and impor- 

 uuit the tie that binds us? Coldness may sprint^ 

 up, distance may separate, different spheres may 

 divide — but those who can love anything, who con- 

 tinue love at all, must find that the friends whom 

 God himself gave are wholly unlike any we can 

 choose for ourselves, and that the yearning for 

 these is the strongest spark in our expiring affec- 

 tion. 



in sweet and kindly tones and words to nature, to 

 beauty, to acts of benevolence, to deeds of virtue, 

 and to the source of all good, to God himself. 



lIoMc; EjjrcATioN. — Education does not com- 

 mence witli tlie alphabet. It begins with a mother's 

 look — with a father's nod of approbation, or sign 

 of rt-prouf^ — with a sister's gentle pressure of the 

 hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance — with 

 handl'uls of tlowers in green, deisy meadows — with 

 birds" nests, ;i.dmired but not touched — with crcap- 

 ing aunts, and almost imperceptible emmets — witli 

 hunuiiing bejs, aad glass bcc-hives — with pleasant 

 waik.s. and shady lanes — and with ihouglit.s directed 



Boiling Potatoes. — The correspondent of the 

 London Times says: 



"I'hc following method of dressing potatoes will 

 be found of great use at this season of the year, 

 v.'luiii skins are tough and potatoes are watery- 

 Score the skin of the potato with a knife, length- 

 wise and across, tpiite around, and then boil the 

 potato in plenty of water and salt, with the skin on. 

 The skin readily cracks when it is scored, and lets 

 out the moisture, which otherwise renders the po- 

 tato soapy and wet. The improvement to bad po- 

 tatoes by this method of boiling them is very great, 

 and all who have tried it find a great advantage in 

 it, now that good potatoes are very difficult to be 

 obtained." 



Mock Turtlk. — Take two calf's feet, and one 

 chicken, cut them into j)ieces as for a fricasce ; 

 make the seasoning with three large onions, a large 

 handful of parsley, and a few sweet herbs; chop 

 them all together ; then sea.son the meat ; let the 

 calf's feet stew two houis and a half in three 

 quarts of water ; then put in the chicken, let it 

 stew half an hour ; then take the juice of two lem- 

 ons ; some cayenne pepper ; put that in last ; let 

 it all stew together half an hour and serve it up m 

 a soup-dish. Forced-meat balls of veal may be 

 laid at the top, and hard eggs. 



Gingerbread Snaps. — Take a pound and a half 

 of Hour, half a pound of butter, the same of sugar, 

 and molasses, and an ounce of powdered gi^iger. 

 Mix well before the fire, add five table-spoonfuls of 

 thick cream, work into a still' paste, roll out thin, 

 dip a wine-glass into flour, cut out the snaps with 

 it, and bake in a quick oven. 



Beef Tea. — Cut a pound of lean beef into thin 

 slices, put it into three pints of cold water, set it 

 ( TcT a gentle fire wdiere it may become gradually 

 warm, let it be well skimmed, cover the saucepan 

 c'oss, and boil gently for two hours, strain it, and 

 let it stand to settle, then pour it off clean. One 

 onion, a few peppereorns, and a little salt, may bi; 

 added if required. 



017° Brave ax:tions are the substance of life, and 

 good sayings the ornament of it. 



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