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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



CaiJica' Department. 



TREATMENT OF CHILDREN. 



Some people do not govern and manage their 

 children well because they have not the ability; 

 some because they do not know how; and others 

 because they are not willing to use the requisite 

 thoughtfulness, and submit to the necessary self- 

 denial, for such self-control as is necessary. For 

 some of these difficulties there is no outward and 

 applicable remedy; others may be aided by a few 

 simple reflections. 



Do not lay useless commands upon children and 

 allow them to be violated. If a command is fit to 

 be made it ought to be obeyed, and if it is not 

 proper to be obeyed it ought not to be made. 

 Many parents deem it incumbent on them, in order 

 to vindicate their authority over their children, to 

 give a great many useless or absurd commands, 

 without reflecting on their absurdity till they are 

 carried out; when they must stand before their 

 children committed to a false position to which 

 they must adhere for the sake of authority or con- 

 sistency, or recede from it for the sake of common 

 sense with the loss of their respect, or must suflfer 

 a silent disobedience for the same reasons with the 

 loss of their authority. 



Do not threaten punishment unsuited to the case, 

 or which from the nature of the case cannot be in- 

 flicted. Children soon learn what the real import 

 of such threatening is; and thus ac(juire contempt 

 for the authority of their parents, and learn the 

 habit of falsehood at the same time. 



Do not attach a threat of penalty to every com- 

 mand Children ought to obey their parents and 

 teachers because they command them. A habit of 

 obedience merely to avoid punishment is one of 

 the worst that can possibly be acquired. A child 

 should learn to do what is right , because it is right. 

 This will be a correct rule for him now and al- 

 ways. 



Do not contract a habit of talking in a scolding 

 or objugatory manner to childien. It discourages 

 them from trying to please you, at the same time, 

 that they will themselves contract a similar habit, 

 to be exhibited whenever their occasion shall come. 

 — Prairie Farmer. 



And though they may be far or near, though the 

 ocean may separate, or the grassy grave hide the 

 from you — never in all the rush and shifting lights 

 and shadows of existence, never forget that you 

 are a brother. 



How TO Keep Worms out of Dried Fruit. — 

 Have a pot full of scalding water over the fire, 

 then put the fruit into sacks of a suitable size, and 

 dip them into the boiling water, which will kill 

 the worm or what causes it. After scalding, 

 spread the fruit out to dry — the scalding does the 

 fruit no injury. Whatever it is that causes the 

 worm, is deposited on the fruit during the process 

 of drying. 



jj^ Spare minutes are the gold dust of time; and 

 Young was writing a true as well as a striking line, 

 when he affirmed that "sands make the mountain, 

 moments make the year." Of all the portions of 

 our life, the spare minutes are the most fruitful in 

 good or evil. They are gaps through which temp- 

 tation finds the easiest access to the garden. 



|i[^ The stately dames of Edward the Fourth's 

 court rose with the lark, despatched their dinner 

 at eleven o'clock, and shortly after eight were 

 wrapped in slumber. In the "Northumberland- 

 house Book for 1512," we were told that the fami- 

 ly rose at six, breakfasted at seven, dined at ten, 

 and supped at four. 



(i^°" Why is an infant like a diamond ? Because 

 it is a "dear little thing." 



0^ Kindness, like the gentle breath of spring, 

 melts the icy heart. 



THE TIES OF FRIENDSHIP. 



Are you a brother 1 In what manner do you 

 treat this relation? Have the voices that were once 

 pleasant to you lost their tone? Have the cold and 

 pitiless storms of the world frozen the current of 

 your kindred feelings within yon; or have they 

 lost their i)ower, and wasted in selfish cares, and 

 hollow, heartless formalities? * * * O ! cher- 

 ish, at home or abroad, the dear ties of kindred, 

 and amid all the turmoil, and all the change of 

 earthly pilgrimage, never, never, forget the obli- 

 gations which they entail upon you. Summon 

 back the bright visions of boyhood. Call up the 

 stream, the hill-side, and the woodland — call him 

 up whose face so often reflected the joyousness of 

 your own, and whose hand at night warmly elapsed 

 in yours — call up her whose voice, like every sis- 

 ter's voice, was around your sunny path like mu- 

 sic — call up those who with you 



-"played 



Beneath the same jrreeii tree. 



And every evei.ii'g knelt and prayed 



Ardiuid one parent knee." 



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