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language correctly, and express truly any thought 

 you desire. At some future time, \vc may illustrate 

 our remarks by examples. 



Good Advice to Bots. — Be brisk, energetic, and 

 prompt ! The world is full of boys — and men too — 

 who drawl through life, and never decide on any 

 thing for themselves — but just draggle one leg after 

 the other, and let things take their own way. Such 

 people are the dull stuff of the earth. They hardly 

 deserve as much credit as the wooden trees ; for the 

 trees do all the good they can, in merely growing, and 

 bearing leaves and seeds. But these drawling, drag- 

 gling boj's do not turn their capacities to profit, half 

 as far as they might be turned ; they are unprofitable, 

 like a rainy day in harvest time. Now, the brisk, 

 energetic boy will be constantly awake, not merely 

 with his bodily eyes, but with his mind and attention, 

 during the hours of business. After he learns what 

 he has to do, he will take a pride in doing it pimctu- 

 nlly and iceU, and would feel ashamed to be told 

 what he ought to do without telling. The drawling 

 boy loses in five minutes the most important advice. 

 The prompt, wide-awake boy never has to be taught 

 twice, but strains hard to make himself up to the mark, 

 H.S far as possible, out of his own energies. Third- 

 rate boys are always depending upon others ; but 

 first-rate hogs depend upon themselves, and after a little 

 teaching, just enough to know what is to be done, 

 they ask no farther favors of any body. Besides, it 

 Is a glorious tlung for a boy to get this noble way of 

 self-reliance, activity, and energy. Such a one is 

 worth a hundred of the poor, draggling creatures, 

 who can hardly wash their own hands without being 

 told, each time, how it is to be done. Give me the 

 boy who does his own work promptly, and well, with- 

 out asking — except once for all, at the beginning — 

 any questions. The boy who has his wits about him, 

 is never behindhand, and don't let the grass grow 

 under his heels. — Farmer and Mechanic. 



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Bathing or Washing in Winter. — This opera- 

 tion, so essential to good health, is so little practised 

 in winter, that the very naming of the subject will 

 send a thrill through the sensitive frame of many of 

 our readers, and they will draw their gtuuncnts closer 

 around them, and move nearer the fire, to save them 

 from taking cold while reading this article. 



There is but little trouble in bathing in hot Avcath- 

 cr, when the application of cold water to the system 

 is often grateful. But in cold weather, there is in 

 most minds a dread of water, almost as great as in 

 one afflicted with the hydrophobia, and bathing and 

 washing, in winter, ai-c generally discontinued ; and 

 this is one cause of colds at this inclement season. 



In summer, the skin is soft and moist, and by pro- 

 fuse perspiration, and the frequent change of gar- 

 ments, the system is cleansed, in some measure, 

 without washing ; yet washing is necessary. But 

 in winter, the perspirable matter passes out to the 

 surface of the body, where it lodges, fonning a dry 

 scurf, closing the pores of the skin, and perspiration 

 after a while becomes impeded, and the redundant 

 matter is thrown inward upon the lungs, and must 

 be thrown off by coughing ; thus requiring a double 

 office of these deUcate organs, which have enough 



to do in their own peculiar province, in a climate 

 where the thermometer often varies in twenty-four 

 hours as many degrees. 



Infants are generally washed daily, but v/hen they 

 become lai-ge children, and adults, they often go six 

 months without this operation, so essential to health 

 and comfort. The face is washed often, the body 

 seldom. "Wiry this difference r A thorough washing 

 of the whole system once a week, is not a hard task, 

 and the advantages from it will be groat. It will not 

 onl}- add to health and happiness, but to life itself. 

 If one thinks he has not time, let him take the time 

 from the hours of sleep, even if he be already limit- 

 ed in that respect to five or six hours in the twenty- 

 four. He will sleep faster, after bathing, and make 

 up for the deficiency. 



After bathing or washing in cold water, brisk rub- 

 bing, with a coarse cloth, will produce a pleasant 

 glow, and prevent injury even to a person of a delicate 

 constitution. But those who choose can use warm 

 water in a warm room. We say to our readers, as 

 you value health, life, and happiness, give due atten- 

 tion to thorough and frequent bathing and washing. 

 Sec that every member of the family attends to it, 

 at least once a month ; once a week is better. There 

 is no exciLse for the gross neglect on this subject, for 

 if any one has not a bath, or shower bath, a tub is 

 sufficient ; and any one who has six hours to sleep, 

 can take haL'" an hour for bathing, and then he will 

 gain an hour in sweeter, sounder, and more refresh- 

 ing sleep. 



Remedy for Tetanus, or Locked Jaw. — We have 

 been furnished, by a correspondent, with the follow- 

 ing simple remedy for this disease, accompanied with 

 a request to publish. 



The writei-, after alluding to a case in which a 

 deserving individual lost his life by having a rusty 

 nail run into his foot, says, — 



" I would state, for the benefit of all who may 

 have the misfortune to encounter similar mishaps, 

 that a cent, or piece of copper, bound firmly over the 

 wound, so as to compress it, will effect immediate and 

 entire relief. The wound, whether made by a rusty 

 nail or any other substance, speedily heals, and 

 ceases almost instantaneously to be sore or painful. 

 Tarnished or rusty copper is to be preferred to pure. 



" One vvuo ' doctors ' himself." 

 — Maine Cultivator. 



Remedy for Asthma. — An individual who has 

 suflered much from asthma, and who had in vain 

 sought relief from regular physicians, wishes us to 

 give publicity to the following remedy : — 



" Procure common blotting paper, and thoroughly 

 saturate it in a solution of nitre, {saltpetre,) and let it 

 be carefully dried by the fire, or exposure to the rays 

 of the sun. On retiring at night, ignite it, and de- 

 posit it, burning, on a plate or square of sheet zinc or 

 iron in your bedroom. In many cases, it is said, this 

 has enalDled persons painfully afflicted to enjoy their 

 rest." — Maine Cullivator. 



To CURE A Burn. — A lady, preacher of the so- 

 ciety of Friends, in New York, was so successful in 

 curing burns, that many supposed her possessed of 

 the power of working miracles. 



The following is the recipe for the salve : " Take 



