416 



NEW ENGLAND PARMER. 



flour, add one tea-spoonful of salt and two of cream 

 of tartar, and mix all well together; then beat 

 together two eggs with two table-spoonfuls of fine 

 wMte sugar; put the eggs and sugar into a pint of 

 milk, and pour the milk into the other ingredients; 

 mix well, add one tea-spoonful of super-carbonate 

 of soda, knead, mould, and bake immediately. — 

 Mrs. Bliss's Practical Cook Book. 



A HINT TO MOTHERS. 



"A poor, hard-working and feeble mother re- 

 cently insulted her daughter— a girl of seventeen 

 idle summers — by asking the Miss to help her in 

 the kitchen. Outrageous!" — Exchange paper. 



The above is "ower true," as doubtless many of 

 our readers can testify from personal observation. 

 How often do we see the mother working harder 

 than a Southern slave — keeping a boarding-house 

 perchance — while her idle daughters lounge in 

 tawdry finery in the parlor reading the latest new 

 novel, or listening with delight to the senseless 

 chatter of some shallow bewiskered and moustached 

 dandy ! But who is to blame for this heartless- 

 ness? In the majority of cases, not the daughter, 



for 



"Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined." 



If mothers would bring up their daughters to 

 habits of cheerful industry— accustoming them to 

 assist in the household duties — there would be 

 fewer heartless daughters, and, we might also add, 

 fewer matches where wretchedness is the bridal 

 portion. — Evening Journal. 



l3ot3'3 ^Department. 



CATECHISM OF FAMILIAR THINGS. 



What is Coal? 



A hard, black, sulphurous and inflammable sub- 

 stance, dug out of the earth, serving in many coun- 

 tries as fuel. It is common in most of the coun- 

 tries of Europe and America. In some parts of the 

 United States, it is found in beds having an area 

 of several thousand square miles. 



From what is Coal supposed to have originated? 



Its origin is supposed to be derived from gigan- 

 tic trees which flourished in the swamps and forests 

 of the primeval earth. These having been torn 

 away from their native bed, by storms and inunda- 

 tions, were transported into some adjacent lake, 

 river, or sea. Here they floated on the waters un- 

 til, saturated with them, they sank to the bottom, 

 and being buried in the lower soil of adjacent lands, 

 became transformed into a new state among the 

 members of the mineral kingdom. A long inter- 

 ment followed, during which a course of chemical 

 changes, and new combinations of their vegetable 

 elements, converted them to the mineral condition 

 of coal. 



What is a Coal Mine? 



A subterraneous excavation, from which coal is 

 obtained. 



Do the terms Coal and Charcoal signify the same 

 substance? 



No; Charcoal is an artificial fuel, made in imi- 

 tation of coal, by burning wood covered with earth 

 so as partially to exclude the air. It is used for 

 various purposes, as the making of gunpowder, 

 polishinsf brass and cnpppr, &r.. and when a clear 



and bright fire is required, as it burns with little 

 or no smoke; it is dangerous, however, for one to 

 remain many hours in a close room with a charcoal 

 fire, as the fumes it throws out are hurtful, and 

 would destroy life. Charcoal, in fact, is the only 

 coaly residuum of any vegetables burnt in close 

 vessels; but the common charcoal is that prepared 

 from wood, and is generally black, very brittle, 

 light, and destitute of taste or smell. It is a 

 powerful antiseptic, unalterable and indestructible. 



YOUTHFUL NEGLECT. 



Walter Scott, in a narrative of his personal his- 

 tory, gives the following caution to youth : — 



"If it should ever fall to the lot of youth to pe- 

 ruse these pages, let such readers remember that it 

 is with the deepest regret that I recollect in my 

 manhood the opportunities of learning which I neg- 

 lected in my youth ; that through every part of my 

 literary career I have fell pinched and hampered by 

 my own ignorance ; and I would this moment give 

 half the reputation I have had the good fortune to 

 acquire, if, by doing so, I could rest the remain- 

 ing part upon a sound foundation of learning and 

 science." 



Louis XIV., when in his inteicourse with the 

 accomplished society of France, he felt his own 

 deficiencies, often upbraided the foolish indulgence 

 which had left his youth without instruction, ex- 

 claiming, "Was there not birch enough in the for- 

 est of Fontainebleau?" 



Arts that respect the mind were ever repu- 

 ted nobler than those vvhich serve the body. 



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