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tiniious portions of each, have one kind of forest tree, so 

 that an avenue of similar trees be formed. In planting 

 grounds, it is well to group trees of different kinds, but in 

 streets an avenue should be of elms, or of oaks, or of syca- 

 mores, or of maples, and not all of them mingled together. 



A PLEA FOR HEALTH AND FLORICULTURE. 



EvEKY one knows to what an extent women are afflicted 

 with ner^'ous dborders, neuralgic affections as they are 

 more softly tei-med. Is it equally well known that formerly 

 when women partook from childhood, of out-of-door labors, 

 A\ere confined less to heated rooms and exciting studies, 

 they had, comparatively, few disorders of this nature. 

 With the progress of society, fevers increase first, because 

 luxurious eating vitiates the blood ; dyspepsia follows next, 

 because the stomach, instead of being a laboratory, is turned 

 into a mere warehouse, into which everything is packed, 

 from the foundation to the roof, by gustatory stevedores. 

 Last of all come nexiralgic complaints, springing from the 

 muscular enfeeblement and the nerv'ous excitability of the 

 system. » 



Late hours at night, and later morning hours, early appli- 

 cation to books, a steady training for accomplishments y viz. 

 embroidery, lace-work, painting rice paper, casting wax-flow- 

 ers so ingeniously that no mortal can tell what is meant lilies 

 looking like huge goblets, dahlias resembling a battered cab- 

 bage ; these, together with practisings on the piano, or if 

 something extra is meant, a little turn, turn, turning, on the 

 harp, and a little ting-tong on the guitar ; reading " ladies' 

 books," crying over novels, writing in albums, and original 

 correspondence with my ever-adored Matilda EuphrosjTie, 

 are the materials, too often, of •■& fashionable education 

 While all this refinement is being put on, girls are taught 



