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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



OCTOBKR S, 1838. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



THE FIRST YELLOW LEAF. 



Thou bring'st sad thoughts to me, 



First yellow leaf; 

 Thou tcll'sl the change so soon to be, 



Prom Summer, bright and brief, 

 To Autumn's sear arid sadd'ning litne, 

 When gladness leaves our happy clime. 



But few short months have gone. 



Thou fragile thing, 

 Since first upon the grassy lawn 



So gaily drest Ijy Spring, 

 I watched thy beauties, one by one. 

 Spring forth to greet tir enliv'ning sun. 



And all ibis lovely earth. 



So fresh and green, 

 Prais'd well the pow'r thai gave it birth, 



And deck'd it all unseen. 

 I gazed,, and joy my bosom fiU'd ; 

 Nor thoughts of blight, my transport still'd. 



And now to see thee fall 



So soon to earth, 

 And thus to see thy bright train all 



Resign their notes of mirth. 

 Nor whisper to the breeze again, 

 'Tis sad, and well might give me pain. 



But there are other tones 



Than fading leaf. 

 That thus speak in thy dying moans : 



" Thy life, like mine, is brief; 

 Then, too, may'st bloom but for a day, 

 Then fade, like Autumn leaves away." 



SLEEPING CHAMBERS. 



Is the philosophy of slsep enough considered ? 

 Are the circumstances -connected with this condi- 

 tion of human nature, for one quarter or one third 

 of human life, duly attecded to ? 



While we are awake, our bodies are, as a gen- 

 eral rule, more or less in motion ; and the air, even 

 in our rooms, more or less in motion also. But 

 while we sleep we are quiet, the air is quiet, and 

 is soon contaminated. Do people consider how 

 fast ? 



The air is spoiled fast when but one person oc- 

 cupies a bed, and there is but one bed in the room. 

 Franklin and others have supposed the air to be 

 rendered unfit for breathing at the rate of a gallon 

 a minute. But if so, how many of us breathe bad 

 air in our sleeping rooms 1 We seldom lie quietly 

 in our beds with the doors and windows closed, a 

 heap of feathers under us, and thick clothes over 

 us, more than an hour at most, before we begin to 

 suffer. This is the case if the sleeping room is 

 large ; but if small, it is much worse. It is im- 

 possible to liave a hogshead of poisoned air dif- 

 fused through a sleeping room without doing mis- 

 chief. 



~ I kfiow it will be said that the carbonic acid 

 gas, produced by breathing, is heavier than atmos- 

 pheric air. and soon settles to the floor ; and if 

 the bed-room is not so small that the room, like a 

 culinary vessel, gets full of it up to the surface of 

 tlte bed, before the individual wakes, there is no 

 danger. 



But it does not all settle to the floor. In hot 

 weather, it scarcely settles at all ; though in cold 

 weather it does so tnuch more. Nay, even in cold 

 weather some of it falls on the bed, and much of it 



is entangled in the bed clothes. This, however, is ' are brought up right; somethin' to do at home, in- 

 not quite all. The same poisonous gas which is stead of racin' about to quiltin' parties, huskin' 

 formed by breathing, is also constantly formed by ' frolics, gossippin', talkin' scandal, and negleci.in' 

 the whole surface of our bodies, in greater or less their business. Tliem little matters are like tlirow- 

 degree ; and this, if improved tinder the bed clothes, ' in' up straws, they show which way the wind is. — 

 between them and a thick bed of feathers, is not When galls attend to them are things, it shews 

 only injuring us by its contact with our skins, but that they are what our minister used to call, "right 

 still more by our breathing it. For notliing is more minded." It keeps them busy, and when fo)ks are 

 common than for a small quantity of tliis impure busy, they ha'n't time to get into mischief; and it 

 air to escape from the bed by the side of our bod- ' airiuses them too, and keeps thdidear little critters 

 ies, especially upon the least motion ; thus giving ; healthy and cheerful. — Sam Slick, second series. 



an opportunity — nay, a certainty — of inhaling a| Extr.wagasce i.v the United States 



part of it. 1 Do you see them are country galls there, said Mr 



To all these evils we are subjected, I have said, ' Slick, how they are tricked out in silks, and touch- 

 when under the most favorable circumstances ; 'ed off with lace and riband to the nine's, a mincin' 

 that is, when our sleeping rooms are large, and along with parasols in their hands, as if they were 

 when only one person occupies a bed, and one bed afear'd the sun would melt them like wax, or take 

 in an apartment. But when two persons, or even ■ the color out of their faces, like a printed cotton 

 more, sleep in the same bed, when the room is blind .' Well, that's gist the ruin of this country. 

 small, or has several beds in it, and when the beds It ain't poverty the blue noses have to fear, for 

 are of feathers or down, the evil and the danger that they needn't know without they choose to 

 are very greatly increased. make acquaintances with it ; but it's gentility. — 



I wish sleeping rooms were generally much lar- They go the whole hog in this country, you may 

 ger than they are. Then I wish they were al- 1 depend. They ain't content to appear what they 

 ways freed as liiuch as possible from unnecessary be, but want to be what they aint ; they live too 

 clothing, and every thing which could retain bad extravigant, and dre.ss too extravagant, and won't 

 air. The bedstead should be rather high, and only | do what's the only thing that will support this ex- 

 broad enough to accommodate freely and fully one ! travagance; that is, be industriou.s. Gist go into 

 person. The bed should bo of some material which one of the meeting houses, back here in the woods, 

 is light and porous, as oat or wheat straw, corn where there ought to be Hothin' but homespun cloth, 

 litisks split finely, grass, hay, &c. ; and the cloth- and home made stuffs and bonnets, kni see the leg- 

 ing should he adapted to the season, but should horn and palmettors, and silks and shalleys, mere- 

 never be so constructed as to prevent entirely tlie nos, gauzes, and blonds, assembled there, enough 

 passage of the air through it. No dogs, or cats, to buy tlie best farm in tiie settlement. There's 

 or lamps, or fires without Hues, should be found | somethin' not altogether gist right in this. — Sainu- 



in the room. A window or door which will admit 

 fresh air should be, in all seasons, but especially 

 in hot weatlier, left open in such a direction from 

 the bed as will not e.xpose the occupant to have 

 currents of air fall directly upon him; — to prevent 

 the possibility of which, however, a screen might 

 be placed before the window. Then, in the last 

 place, and as I have already intimated, the bed 

 should contain but one person, and unless the room 

 is exceedingly large, there should be but one bod 

 in it. 



Perhaps it will be said that I require too much. 

 Most persons, I shall be told, cannot have all this. 

 No, they cannot. Sin is in the world, and has 

 long been in it ; and it will be long before we can 

 get it out entirely. But sin has brought with it 

 among other evils, that of poverty ; and poverty 

 does not always permit every thing which is best 

 for health. But one thing at least we can do ; 

 which is, to come as near what we know to be 

 truth as Tposs'Me.— Uirarij of Health for September. 



StGNs OF PROSPERITY. — Do you See that are 

 house on that risin' hummock to the right there ? 

 — Well, gist look al it, that's what I call about 

 right. Flanked on both sides by an orchard of 

 best grafted fruit, a tidy little clever flower garden 

 in front, that tlie galls see to, and a'most a grand 

 sarce garden over the road there sheltered by tliem 

 are willows. At the back side see them everlastin' 

 big barns ; and, by gosh ! there goes the dairy 

 cows ; and a pretty sight too; that fourteen of 'em 

 marchin' Indgian file arler milkmin', down to that 

 are medder. Whenever you see a place snugged 

 up and lookin' like that are, depend on it the folks 

 are of the right kind. Thom flowers too, and that 

 are honeysuckle, and rose bushes, show the family 



el Slick, second series. 



Original Anecdotf — A drunken fellow, not 

 long since, staggered into one of our most respect- 

 able victualling cellers, and greeted the attendant 

 with a familiar ' how are you ?' ' Who are you,' 

 said the host, ' are you drunk ?' 'Aye,' said the 

 bacchanalian, ' drunk enough ! and have been ev- 

 ery day for two years ! My brother Josh and I 

 am engaged in the temperance cause ; he goes 

 about delivering lectures, and I give samples of in- 

 temperance. Now shaiit we get up a reformation.' 



COUNTRY SE:AT IX JlEVVTiHV, FOR SA1.B. 



The subscriber offers for sale the bouse in »liichbenow 

 resliies, with the Bain, Sheds, fj^irden and about 35 acres of 

 land, situated on fi'onantinn Hill, in i\ewton, 5 1-'.' miles from 

 the city. The gnrden occupies nearly two acres, is stocked 

 with a great \aiiety of fruit tress, and abont 10,000 Antwerp 

 Raspberry Vines, 'i'lic place may be seen and liiiiher partic- 

 ulars obtained on application at the |}remises. 



LOT WHEELRIGHT. 



July 16th. 



AliDERNEY STOCK FOR SAIiK. 



For sale a full blooded Bull, 3 years old the first of July 

 next — one Cow, five years old — and a Heifer three years old. 

 Tlie Cows are said to be the richest Milkers uf any imported. 

 For further particulars address L. M. WHEATON, Norton, 

 Mass., or aline left at this office, will meet with prompt 

 attention. June 27 



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