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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



titude, and again woman was required to do and 

 dare. Nay, it was not thought unwomanly for 

 her to follow the fortunes of her husband to the 

 deep shades of the forest, and there to share with 

 him the toils that were destined to convert the wil- 

 derness into fruitful fields. She walked for miles 

 on missions of mercy without reproach, piled brush, 

 and, if need be, aided in sowing the fallow, and in 

 reaping the harvest, and no one chided her for her 

 intrusion upon the reserved rights of the other sex. 



But now when plenty and even luxury are to be 

 found through all these once savage wilds, there 

 is a strong tendency to limit and define on one 

 side, and to resist on the other. 



We believe there has been, of late years, a strong 

 tendency on the part of many, to impress the 

 minds of women with the idea that they were not 

 made to be useful; and from this may have been 

 deduced another false idea, namely, that the dis- 

 charge of ordinary domestic duties does not, in it- 

 self, entitle woman to consider herself equally em- 

 ployed. She feels that her life is not a productive 

 one, because she is mainly engaged in the manu- 

 facture of those articles immediately consumed by 

 those around her. Her labor is rarely counted out 

 in dollars and cents, and since it is coined in no 

 mint, it is accounted of little value. 



Many a w'oman pines because she has no great 

 object before her. She feels no strong current 

 sweeping through her veins, impelling forward 

 some mighty work that shall be seen and admired 

 by others. She sees her husband go forth daily 

 to some kind of stirring enterprise: he meets his 

 fellows and they bow to his power: his genius 

 finds applause, and his labors reward, while she 

 sits nursing a fretful infant, repaid by no apprecia- 

 tion, encouraged by no praise. But his is child's 

 play compared with the grandeur of the task that 

 lies before her. And if her labors meet with no 

 well-coined currency in exchange, it is because the 

 world has none in which its value can be estimated 

 Let no woman sink down in despondency, saying 

 "My labors all go for nothing in this great scale 

 of human eflforts." They are too great for mortal 

 computation, and hence unestimated rather than 

 overlooked. H. M. Traoy. 



— Albany Cultivator. 



HOME. 



He who has no home has none of the pleasures 

 of life; he feels not the thousand endearments that 

 cluster around that hallowed spot to fill the void of 

 his aching heart and while his leisure moments in 

 the sweetest of life's joys. Is misfortune your lot? 

 you will find a friendlywelcome from hearts beat- 

 ing true to your own. The chosen partner of your 

 toil has a smile of approbation when others have 

 deserted, a hand to help when others refuse, and a 

 heart to feel your sorrows as her own. Perhaps a 

 smiling cherub, with prattling glee and joyous 

 laugh, will drive all sorrow from your care-worn 

 brow, and enclose it in the wreath of domestic 

 bliss. 



No matter how humble the home may be, how 

 destitute its stores, or how poorly its inmates are 

 clad; if true hearts dwell there, it is yet a home — 

 a cheerful, prudent wife, obedient and affectionate 

 children, will give their possessor more real joy 

 than bags of gold and windy honor. 



The home of a temperate, industrious, honest man 

 will be his greatest joy. He comes to it "weary 



and worn," but the merry laugh and happy voiceof 

 childhood cheers him; a plain but healthy meal 

 awaits him. Envy, ambition, and strife have no 

 place there; and, with a clear conscience, he lays 

 his weary limbs down to rest in the bosom of his 

 family, and under the protecting care of the poor 

 man's friend and help. 



RECEIPT FOR BURNS. 



As I see many receipts for various cures in your 

 paper, I send you one for burns: — 



Take lime water as strong as it can be made, and 

 add to it as much alum as it will dissolve, after which 

 add one ounce of sweet oil, which will turn it to a 

 jelly, like opodeldoc, if the lime is strong enough. 

 This should be kept by every family in a tight bot- 

 tle in some place where it cannot freeze, and should 

 be immediately applied. A child of mine got her 

 clothes on fire in the absence of the family, and 

 when discovered the skin was almost all burnt off 

 her face and neck; we had to make the prepara- 

 tion, but in fifteen minutes after it was applied, the 

 fire was extracted and the child at ease. I have 

 tried most of the receipts published in your paper, 

 but nothing have I found to equal the above. If 

 rightly made and properly aj)plied it will extract 

 all the burning heat in ten minutes. 



Hiram Root. 



[We have been acquainted with the use of lime 

 water and olive oil salve, for burns, for more than 

 twenty years, but we never saw it made up with a 

 mixture of alum. It is a very good salve. Poul- 

 tices of linseed meal are the best remedies that we 

 ever saw applied to burns. — Scientific American. 



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