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N E V/ ENGLAND F A R M L R . 



OCTOBRR :, 1S3S. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



THE FIRST YELLOW LEAF. 

 Thou bring'st sad llioughls to ine, 



First yellow leaf; 

 Thou tell'sl the change so soon to he, 



From Summer, hriijht and brief, 

 To Autumn's sear and sadd'ning time. 

 When gladness leaves our happy clime. 



But few short months have gone, 



Thou fragile thing. 

 Since first upon the grassy lawn 



So gaily drest by Spring, 

 I watched thy beaulie-;, nue by one. 

 Spring forth to grcoi lb' cjiliviiin,' sun. 



And all this lovely lanh, 



So fresh and g.r.-n, 

 Prais'd well the pow'r that gave it binh. 



And deck'd it all unseen. 

 I gazed, and joy my bosom fill'd ; 

 Nor thoughts of blight, my transport still'd. 



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And now to see tliec 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 ilying moans : 



" Thy life, like mine, is brief; 

 Thou, too, may'st bloom but for a day. 

 Then fade, like Autumn leaves away." 



SLEEPING CHAMBERS. 



Is tlie philosophy of sleep enough considered ? 

 Are the circumstances connected with 'lis condi- 

 tion of human nature, for one quarter or one third 

 of htnnan life, duly attended 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 mintite. But if so, how many of us breathe bad 

 air in our sleeping rooms ! We seldom lie quietly 

 in our beds widi 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 

 sutler. This is the case if the sleeping room is 

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

 possible to have a liogshead of poisoned air dif- 

 fused through a sleeping room without doing mis- 

 chief 



I know it will bo said that the carbonic acid 

 o-as, produ'-ed by breathing, is heavier than atmos- 

 pheric air, and soon settles to the door ; and if 

 the bed-room is not s<i small that the room, like a 

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

 the 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 much more. Nay, even in cold 

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



is entangled in the bed clotlie.s. 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, buskin' 

 formed by breathing, is also constantly formed by ; frolics, gossippin', talkin' scandal, and neglectin' 

 the wliole surface of our bodies, in greater or less tlieir business. Tlie.n little matters are like throw- 

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

 between the^ji 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 nothing is more minded." It keeps them busy, and when folks are 

 common than for a small quantity of this 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- amuses them too, :ind keeps the dear 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| E.tTRAv.iOA.NCE i.v the U.mted States. — 

 part of it i 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 tlie most favorable circumstances; ed off with lace and riband to the nine's, a mincin' 

 that is, when our sleeping rooms are large, and i along with parasols in tlieir 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 

 small, or has several beds in it, and when the beds 

 are of feathers or down, the evil and the danger 

 are v.?ry greatly increased. 



I wish sleeping rooms were generally much lar- 

 ger than they are. Then I wish they were al- 

 ways freed as mucli as possible from unnecessary 

 clothingj and every thing which could retain bad 

 air. The bedstead should be rather high, and only 



blind? Well, that's gist the ruin of this country. 

 It ain't poverty the blue noses have to fear, for 

 that they needn't know without they choose to 

 make acquaintances witli it ; but it's gentility. — 

 They go the whole hog in this country, you may 

 depend. They ain't content to appear what they 

 be, but want to be what they aint ; they live too 

 extravigant, and dress too extravagant, and won't 

 do what's the only thing that will support this ex- 



broad enougli to accommodate freely and fully one J travagance; that is, be industrious. Gist go into 

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



is light and porous, as oat or wheat straw, corn 

 husks split finely, grass, hay, &c. ; and the cloth- 

 ing should be adapted to the season, but should 



lere there ought to be nothin' but homespun cloth, 

 and home made stuflTs and bonnets, and see the leg- 

 horn and palmettors, and silks and shalleys, mere- 



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

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



or lamps, or fires witliout Hues, should be found 

 in the room. A window or door which will admit 

 fresh air should be, in all seasons, but especially 

 iii hot weather, left open in such a direction from 

 the bed as will not expose 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 bed 

 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 

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

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

 truth as possible hibrary of Health for September. 



somethin' not altogether gist right in this. — Samu- 

 el Slick, second series. 



Signs of prosperity. — Do you sec that are 

 house on that risin' hummock to the right there ? 

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

 right Flanked on botli sides by an orchard of 

 best grafted fruit, a tidy little clever flower garden 

 in front, that the galls see to, and a'niost a grand 

 sarce garden over the road there sheltered by them 

 are willows. At the back side see tliein everlastin' 

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

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

 marcliin' Indgian rile arter milkmin', down to that 

 are niedder. Whenever you see a place snugged 

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

 arc of the right kind. Them flowers too, and that 

 are honeysuckle, and rose bushes, sliow the family 



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 SEAT IIV NBWTiiIV, Pi)R SALE. 



Tlie subscriber offers for sale the house in which he now 

 resides, with the Barn, Sheds, Garden and about 35 acres of 

 land.situaleil on Nonantuin Hill, in Newton 5 1-2 miles from 

 the city. The garden occupies nearly mo acres, is stocked 

 with a great variety of fruit tress, and about 10,000 Antwerp 

 Raspberry Vines. The place may be seen and further partic- 

 ulars obtained on application at the premises. 



LOT WHEELRIGHT. 



July 16di. 



ALDCRNBY STUCK FOR SAI.K. 



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

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

 The Cows are said to be the richest Milkers ofany imported. 

 For further particulars address L. M. WHKATON, Nortou, 

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

 attention. June 27 



FOR SAl K. 



A Ram and Ewe from ihe Cape Good Hope, hiquire at 

 this office. 



THIS NE^V ENGLA.M) FARRIER. 



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