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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Aug. 



us," gays Cicero "that has been instructed with 

 any care, that is not highly delighted with the 

 sight, or even the bare remembrance of his precep- 

 tors, masters, and the place where he was taught 

 and brought up ?" Seneca exhorts young men to 

 preserve always a greater respect for the masters, 

 to whose care they are indebted for the amendment 

 of their faults, and for having imbibed sentiments 

 of honor and prosperity. The exactness and se- 

 verity of our teachers may displease sometimes at 

 an age when we are not in a condition to judge of 

 the ohligation we owe them ; but when years have 

 ripened our understanding and judgment, we dis- 

 cern tliat their admonitions, and a severe exact- 

 ness in restraining the passions of an imprudent 

 and inconsiderate age, are the very things which 

 should make us esteem and love them. Thus 

 Marcus Aurelius,one of the wisest and most illus- 

 trious Emperors that Rome ever had, thanked 

 heaven for two things especially — for his having 

 had excellent tutors himself, and that he had 

 found the like fur his children. The duties of 

 school-boys consist in docility and obedience, re- 

 spect for their masters, zeal for study, and a thirst 

 after the sciences, joined to an abhorrance of vice 

 and irregularity, together with a sincere and fer- 

 vent desire of pleasing God and referring all their 

 actions to him. 



A Promise. — A promise should be given with 

 caution and kept with care. A promise should be 

 made by the heart and remembered by the head. 

 A promise is the offspring of the intention, and 

 should be nurtured by recollection. A promise 

 and its performance should, like the scales of a 

 true balance, always present a mutual adjustment. 

 A promise delayed is justice deferred. A promise 

 neglected is an untruth told. A promise attended 

 to is a debt settled. 



Caliies' IDepartmcnt. 



An English Woman's Opinion of Husbands. — 

 As a general rule, we know that men have, by na- 

 ture, a superiority in strength which enables them 

 to go through labors and dangers, mental as well 

 as bodily, from which females should be exempt ; 

 and that by education they are qualified for exer- 

 cising the several trades or professions by which 

 they arc to maintain their families. On the other 

 hand, women are endowed (besides all the graces 

 and amiabilities of the sex) with a great superiori- 

 •ty of quickness, tact, and delicate discernment, in 

 all the every-day afikirs of life. In all these, there- 

 fore, the iiusband ought to be completely guided 

 by his wife. And this shows the Avisdom of our 

 ancchtors in making the husband "endow with all 

 his worldly goods" the wife he has chosen. The 

 wife is dependent on the husband, and clings to 

 him for support, just as a hop-plant climbs on its 

 pole, and a sweet pea on the stick to support it, 

 and as the vine in Italy was, according to the lan- 

 guage of the poets, "married to an elm." But 

 if you could only conceive a hop-pole, or a pea- 

 stick, or an elm, imagining that those plants were 

 put there on purpose for its adornment, you would 

 tell them that this was quite a mistake ; that the 

 climbers are cultivated for tiie flowers or fruit; and 

 that the stakes are placed there merely for their 

 sake, and must not claim any superior dignity or 



worth over the plants they support. Now just 

 such is the office of the husband ; and this state- 

 ment of things is what people approach to more 

 in proportion as they advance in civilzation. 



Household Measures. — As all families are not 

 provided with scales and weights referring to in- 

 gredients in general use by every housewife, the 

 following may be useful : — 



Wheat flour, one pound is one quart. 



Indian meal, one pound two ounces is one 

 quart. 



Butter, when soft, one pound one ounce is one 

 quart. 



Loaf sugar, broken, one pound is one quart. 



White sugar, powdered, one pound one ounce 

 is one quart. 



Best brown sugar, one pound two ounces is one 

 quart. 



Eggs, average size, ten eggs are one pound. 



Sixteen large table-spoonfuls are half a pint, 

 eight are one gill, four half a gill, &c. 



Wash for the Head. — "A Mother" asks, 

 "What is an eflicient remedy for removing dand- 

 ruff in the hair, as she has an objection to using 

 an ivory comb?" This objection is well founded, 

 as it increases the evil. The following wash, ap- 

 plied with a small piece of flannel, to the roots of 

 the hair, will be found excellent : Three parts of 

 oil of almonds ; one part lime-water ; to be shaken 

 up well, and can be procured of any chemist. — La- 

 dy's Book. 



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Farm in Westboro', Mass., 



For sale or exchange, for Boston property, sit 

 uated on the old Grafton road, within \ mile of 

 the Railroad Depot, containing 27 acres of as 

 good lai;d as any other 27 acres laying in one 

 body, in the town; it is elevated about 75 feet 

 MlHJVf the railroad, and overlooks the town, and is within 7 

 minutes walk of three churches and the town house, which 

 for healthy location is unsurpassed. The buildings consist of 

 a modern house, buili by Boston mechanics in 1851, and is 32 

 by 22 feet, with a kitchen attached, 16 by 23 feet, two stories 

 high, with a cellar under the whole. Wood-house, 16 by 20 

 feet; work-shop 16 by '2 feet; carriage and hen house, 16 by 

 21 feet; poultry yard, 30 by 53 feet, enclosed by slat fence 8 

 feet high; barn, 60 by 36 feet, with celbir under the same, so 

 divided as to give a vegetable cellar containing about 2000 

 bushels; cistern and well water is brought into the. house, and 

 all the wash of the kitchen and privy is conducted by a drain 

 to the barn cellar; likewise a farm house 24 feet square, li 

 stories high, cellar under the same; there are three good wells 

 of water and one good brick and cement cistern on the prem- 

 ises. There are now on the farm 142 large apple trees, most- 

 ly grafted, also 220 young thriving apple trees, mostly Bald- 

 wins, from 4 lo ' years from the bud, some of them have 

 borne fruit; likewise 34 peach trees of early choice variety, 

 10 pear trees, <fcc There has been taken from the farm the 

 past year, 30 tons of hay, 375 bushels of corn in the ear, 700 

 bushels of carrots, beets and S. turnips, 80 barrels grafted 

 fruit, besides vegetables used in the lamily For further infer 

 nation, apply at this office, of Messrs SIMON BROWN or 

 WILMAM SIMOND.^; at Westboro', of Messrs. FAYER- 

 WETHER.^ GRIGGS. 

 Feb. 5. 1853. tf 



