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THE GOOD OF A PIPE. | 
Editors Southern Cultivator — A smoking tobacco | 
pipe is good for a horse, a sick or cholicy horse or mule, | 
As a remedy for spasmodic cholic in horses, it is un- 
doubtedly a remedy of considerable value, and well worth 
a trial. 
Get a common tobacco pipe and stem, or a larger than 
common pipe and stem, plug up the end intended for the 
mouth, and drill two or three holes near said end in the 
sidesof the stem for the egress of smoke. Fill the pipe 
with good dry tobacco, fire it well and insert the stem well 
up the rectum of the horse and as soon as the tobacco is 
consumed refill the pipe until a few (3 to 5) pipes full 
are administered, when the spasmodic strictures of the 
intestines become relaxed, the bowels begin to act kindly 
and naturally, and the the horse relieved, begins to eat. 
Bob Short, 31. D. 
Piney Woods, Oct., 1855. 
In accordance with the promise in our November No , 
page 345, we present a cut of this very valuable implement. 
It is figured above with one of the subsoil points attached, 
but the plow is so made that any number of other points | 
of divers forms and for different purposes, can be substi- 
tuted in a moment. Among the points or shares furnish- 
ed with the plow, when desired, are the following. Subsoil 
points, of different forms; turning shares ; medium ditto; 
sweeps or grass killers ; openers, or double turning shares, 
&c. &c. I. C. Fitten & Co., of this city, are the general 
Agents. 
A SHORT LETTER ON EXTRAVAGANCE. 
“ A little house, well filled.” 
Our houses are too large and too costly. We have, j 
usually, one or two rooms that are merely for show ; a 
parlor, perhaps two, with folding doors between that are 
only open for company, that are too nice for children to 
play in, too large to be warmed readily in winter, in short, 
like a dandy, too nice for anything useful. And, then, 
often, there is a part of the house unfinished, a large attic 
which might accommodate a whole family, occupied now 
by a few old boxes of white beans, and a few bunches of J 
catnip and penny-royal, and some broken chairs and a 
cradle. This upper story was probably put on because 
you wanted a house as large as your neighbor’s. Now, a 
house should, in some measure, fit a family, as a suit of 
clothes should fit an individual. Although it is not, per- 
haps, always safe to count your children before they are 
born, and, therefore, the capacity of your house must often 
be by estimation, yet everywhere are houses going up, 
with a perfect understanding that a considerable part of 
the room is to be useless, either kept for an annual party, 
or to remain unfinished. If we who plan and build such 
houses, would reflect upon it fairly, we should see that no 
rational man would entertain for us any more^espect for 
living in a house which we do not fill, than for wearing a 
suit of clothes made for a person twice our size. 
Let us have “a little house, well filled,” with no spare 
room except a chamber for our friends, and no lumber 
room of a garret, for ghosts and rats and mice to inhabit. 
The thousand dollars which even careful men generally 
expend in building “a house to live in,” merely to conform 
to fashion, or an architectural whim, costs the poor wife 
and children many a lecture upon penny economy, which 
might otherwise have been spared. And when you have 
built or purchased a house too large for your wants, the 
evil has but commenced. Your large and numerous rooips 
require large and numerous carpets, and curtains, and 
sofas, and other adornings. But this is not all, nor the 
worst of it. The house and the furniture must betaken 
oft’, swept and dusted daily, and scrubbed and scoured 
spring and full, when hnu.'^c cleaning time comes round. 
You must either pay for help to do all this, or what is 
perhaps more common, allow additional burdens to fall on 
your wife, who has already a ceaseless round of cares. A 
sensitive or even a just man should see that, in this land, 
where servants are an expensive luxury, at best, his wife 
have comfort and leisure, and a selfish man may soon 
learn that hetrannot lead a peaceful and happy life with 
a woman who is overrun with hard work and family 
cures. We think if oui reader himself is not open to cen- 
sure in the particulars named, he may find plenty of his 
neighbors to whom our remarks will apply. 
And then, again, we are extravagant in our household 
furniture. The ladies must come in for a share of our 
lecture on this topic. The furniture of a house is mainly 
for use and comfort. Carpets jmd sofas and chairs and 
tables are chiefly designed to promote warmth and quiet 
and physical enjoyment in some way. A carpeted floor 
is warmer in w'iutcr, and children make less disturbance 
on it than bare boards ; and, besides, they require much 
less labor to keep them in nice order. Let comfort, then, 
be regarded, principally in selecting furniture. 
But a nice perception of the fitness of things which is 
good taste — the faculty ol producing harmony bctwi en the 
occupants of the house and the house itself, and between 
the house and the furniture and surroundings — this is 
what you do not buy at the upholsterer’s, this is beyond 
price, and a matter, madam, in which it is your province 
to excel. Let the furniture say, as plain as things can 
speak, this house is for the comfort of those wdio live in- 
side of it and not for mere callers and stangers. This car- 
pet is not too good for the children to roll on, this arm- 
chair will not be soiled by being occupied, and the bright 
sun-light may vi.sit the inmates in the morning, bringing 
health and cheerfulness, without fear that it will fade the 
brilliant colors of the silk and velvet. If, when your house 
is built and furnished, you have money to spare for articles 
of mere taste and luxury, the world is full of books and 
pictures, and a thousand other things, which will afibrd to 
a refined and cultivated mind far more rational enjoyment 
than a whole warehouse of gilded mahogany 
On the whole, we tliinkthe ambition which is common 
among all classes, to live, in large houses, elegantly fur- 
nished, is leading us daily into embarrassments and dis- 
comforts, which as a thoughtful and rational people, we 
ought not bnger to suffer. 
