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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



JBomestic IDepartment. 



Aid Children in their Studies. — The good 

 mother, or other discreet member of the family, can 

 do much to encourage children in their studies. 

 Even when the parent is not well skilled in the 

 branches the child is attending to, she may exercise 

 a powerful influence by showing to the child that 

 she is interested in its success. 



If children sit down to what they consider a task, 

 and see no other member of the family attending to 

 study, or taking any interest in their progress, it 

 may be irksome, especially when all the rest of the 

 family seem to be free from care or labor, and enjoy- 

 ing life in a cheerful manner, apparently without the 

 labor of thought or reflection. 



Many are qualified to aid children essentially in 

 their studies, and all have the power of encourage- 

 ment, which often operates like a charm upon the 

 juvenile mind, and causes difficulties that loomed up 

 to a discouragement in the distance, to diminish or 

 vanish away, on near approach, or familiar acquaint- 

 ance, through the aid of a kind friend. 



"Wheaten Grits, or Cracked Wheat. — We 

 have often spoken of the great value of cracked 

 wheat mush as an article of diet in constipation, and, 

 in fact, for all persons, whether sick or well. Have 

 the best of wheat — of good, plump, well-matured 

 grain. Wash it if necessary. Have it cracked 

 coarsely in a mill that will cut rather than crush it. 

 The less you have ground at a time the better, for 

 the fresh-ground article is the best. The wheat 

 should be boiled in pure soft water ; rain Avatcr is 

 excellent. Boil this an hour at least, and two hours 

 are still better ; for the more we cook farinaceous food 

 the better. Eat this once, and better two times a 

 day as a regular meal, with a very moderate portion 

 of millc, stewed fruit, honey, sugar, or molasses. But 

 be very careful as to any or all of these condiments. 

 If too much milk is taken, the head is oppressed, 

 because of the stomach's too hard work ; and so of 

 the other articles, particularly sweets. This wheat, 

 then, is one of the best possible forms of food for 

 either sick or well. 



The family of one of our patients has oxperimemUjd 

 a good deal, of late, upon making brown bread, "juie 

 form that suits them best is that made by boiling the 

 cracked wheat at least for two hours. This is then 

 made into small cakes, with the use of a sufficient 

 quantity of fine flour to make the dough adhere 

 properly ; the cakes are then baked without salt, 

 yeast, or any addition whatever, and are much rel- 

 ished. It is one of the most foolish things in the 

 world for a person to eat superfine bread, when he 

 can possibly get any other. — Dr. Skew's Wafer Cure 

 Journal. 



Common Sausage-Meat. — Having cleared it from 

 the skin, sinews, and gristle, take six pounds of the 

 lean of young fresh pork, and three pounds of the 

 fat, and mince it all as fine as possible. Take some 

 dried sage, pick off the leaves and rub them to pow- 

 der, allowing three teaspoonfuls to each pound of 

 meat. Having mixed the fat and lean well together, 

 and seasoned it with six teaspoonfuls of pepper, and 

 the same quantity of salt, strew on the powdered 

 sage, and mix the whole well with your hands. Put 



it away in a stone jar, packing it down hard ; and 



keep it closely covered. When you wish to use the 

 sausage-meat, make it into flat cakes ; dredge them 

 with flour, and fry them in butter or dripping over 

 rather a slow fire, till they are well browned on both 

 sides, and thoroughly done. 



To make and fine Coffee. — Put a sufficient 

 quantit}' of coffee into the pot and pour boiling water 

 on it, stir it, and place it on the fire, bring it to a boil, 

 and as soon as four or five bxibbles have risen, take 

 it off the fire, and pour out a teacupful and return it ; 

 set it down for one minute, then pour gently over 

 the top one teacupful of cold water, let it stand one 

 minute longer, and it will be bright and fine. The 

 cold water (by its greater density) sinks, and carries 

 the grounds Avith it. 



To extract Grease from ^lotues. — Lay a 

 piece of brown paper doubled over the spot, and 

 apply a hot iron. 



Easy Way of Cleaning the Hands, for Dyers, 

 CoLORERS, &c. — Take a small quantity of potash or 

 pcarlash in your hand, pour into it a small quantity 

 of water, rub it wel] all over your hands with a little 

 sand, then wash it off, take in your hand a small 

 quantity of chemic, pour a little water into it, and 

 rub it well on the hands in a semi-liquid state ; wash 

 the hands well in water, and they will be clean. If 

 not perfectly clean, repeat the operation. 



Bogs' ^Department. 



Economy in Sleeping. — It is difficult to deter- 

 mine how long a person should sleep, as diffei-ent 

 persons differ constitutionally, some requiring more 

 sleep than others. But one thing is certain — that 

 some boys sleep far more than is necessary, lying m 

 bed eight or nine hours, when seven would be suffi- 

 cient. Some lie so long that they become fatigued 

 or tired with inaction. 



If a boy sleep an hour too much each day, he will 

 lose fourteen or fifteen days in a year, which will 

 amount in ten years to nearly half a year ; in fifty 

 yeai-s, to more than two years. This is an important 

 subject. Life is short, and we have a great deal to 

 do in this brief period. How absurd, then, to waste 

 in indolence, in a dormant, senseless state, so large 

 a portion of precious time, which can never be re- 

 called ! 



If a person would excel in any pursuit, either in 

 business or study, he must husband his time, and 

 sleep no more than is necessary for refreshment. 

 The object of sleep is to give rest to the body and 

 mind, and fit them for renewed and vigorous action ; 

 and he who sleeps merely to kill time or waste it, 

 that it may not hang heavy on his hands, is indul- 

 ging in a habit that will become so fixed, after a while, 

 that it will give character to the whole boy and 

 future man. 



Let every boy consider whether he is wasting in 

 bed the most precious hours of his life, and make an 

 estimate on the loss. Let him calcxilate how much 



