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is superior, stimulates others to the production of 

 something as good or better, the exhibitor thus becom- 

 ing a public benefactor. Mutually assist each other, 

 then, by showing the products of your skill and labor, 

 giving at the same time, full and accurate statements 

 concerning the same. 



BREAD 



We do not need the testimony of medical men to 

 convince us that our health depends largely upon the 

 quality of the bread we eat. And what affects the 

 body affects the mind also. Not more surely does the 

 cochineal insect grow gradually red from the crimson 

 cactus blossoms on which it feeds, than does a man's 

 temper become morose by living upon sour bread. 

 The importance to the community, then, of having good 

 bread, can hardly be over estimated. 



The young lady who is skilful in music, painting, 

 &c, has it in her power, under favorable circumstances, 

 to give much pleasure by the practice of those arts ; 

 but she who habitually makes good bread, deserves a 

 daily blessing from all who partake of it. Our pray- 

 ers for "daily bread" are answered by the "smiling 

 plenty " which " crowns the year ;" but how badly we 

 do our part towards furnishing it when we convert His 

 bountiful, life-giving harvests into some clammy un- 

 wholesome compound, which it would be a piece of 

 bitter irony to call the " staff of life." 



Those who make good bread, say that it is a simple 

 and easy thing to do. But the way to do it must first 

 be learned. We would say to young ladies, then, get 

 the necessary information from some source ; then, if, 

 in after life, you are so placed as even 4:o put this labor 



