THE CULTIVATOR. 
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Bed recess, size of bed. 
g, Door, leading from dining room to hall, 
b, The kitchen, 16 feet square, 
i, Door, leading from kitchen to dining room. 
k, Door from kitchen to hall. 
l, Door to cellar stairs. 
2, Door from kitchen to parlor. 
m, Door from kitchen to bed-room. ( 
n, Bed-room, 10 feet by 12, including clothes-press, with 
a small fire-place. 
o, 
Clothes press. 
Door from bed-room to parlor. 
Back stairs to kitchen and wood-house chamber. 
Buttery, 7 feet by 8. 
Door from kitchen to buttery. 
Door from buttery to dining room. 
Clothes press. 
, Door from clothes press to dining room. 
x, Door from kitchen to platform and wood-house. 
y, Platform, open to wood-house, with sink for wash- 
dish, 6 by 16 feet, &c. 
z, Well of water. B, Wood-house. 
flJi Windows. M; Fire-places. 
Plan B.—[Fig. No. 44.] 
kept through temperance exertions, some in each church 
who were called confirmed drunkards, now each Sab¬ 
bath “sitting clothed and in their right minds,” meekly 
worshipping Him who came to seek and to save that 
which was lost. The dissipation that seems most pre¬ 
valent now, is a propensity to waste time. District li¬ 
braries will prove one of the most effectual remedies 
that could have been offered for its cure, if the people 
can be persuaded to apply it; but there are many, very 
themselves, but enable "them also to return to the State tjjmany, not only fathers but mothers, who will not stay 
to refine, and to direct into the proper channels of use¬ 
fulness, its choicest wealth, the intellect and strength of ? 
its junior population. When I reflect on what has been 
done by some, to educate their families, in this late wil¬ 
derness of Western New-York, with comparatively no 
public aid, and then look at the facilities now so libe- 
rally held out to parents by the State, 1 cannot but feel 1 ; 
an anxious desire that they may so accept and apply 
them as shall not only bring comfort and credit to 
other” with the five talents they are receiving at its 
hands. 
Now, sir, one of the objects of this communication is 
to suggest to you the idea, that it might be proper to 
give mothers a more general invitation to enter into the 
labors of this field of usefulness, than they have yet had. 
There are many who only need to be reminded of their 
| duty, in order to do it. There is an energy natural to 
woman, that when once awaked and directed to one ob¬ 
ject, accomplishes great things : witness the thousands 
of garments and materials for such, that have been pro¬ 
vided and sent off by them to heathen nations within a 
few years. Now I would not propose to stop these be¬ 
nevolent operations; but I would make them the “mint 
and cummin of their tithe,” that need not be neglected 
while the “ weightier matters” of providing for, of go- 
attended to. I would not be understood to mean that 
mothers should provide for the temporal support of their 
children, but for their present and future happiness, by 
an unremitted attention to all their doings for a number 
Plan B, is the elevation view of the end of front part 
and side view of wood-house. I have thought it unne¬ 
cessary to draw plans of cellar and chambers. The 
cellar is intended to be divided in two parts, with win¬ 
dows, and one outside doorway, with steps. One part 
with fire-place and kettle set in an arch, for coarse 
kitchen work; cellar wall to be laid in lime mortar; 
cellar bottom to be floored with hard burned brick, to 
prevent rats digging under the wall and entering cellar, 
and no hollow space left for rats or mice, from cellar to 
garret. The front building to be two stories. The 
chamber to be divided into four bed-rooms on back side 
and two rooms with fire-places on front side. As chim¬ 
neys in brick houses against outside walls, take up 
very little room and little additional expense, I have 
prefixed a chimney to each fire-place on ground floor. 
This will give one to the kitchen, to which is attached 
the fire-place in cellar; and two to the end of the front 
part which has the bed-room, and one for dining room 
at the other end, coming out of front side of roof; ano¬ 
ther false chimney, for the sake of uniformity of ap¬ 
pearance, might be added at trifling expense. This 
gives the fire-places in the centre of the side of each 
room. 
A house, according to my estimate, of this descrip¬ 
tion, would, at ordinary price of materials and labor, 
cost about $1,300 dollars, finished in a plain handsome 
style. Respectfully yours, 
J. F. CHUBB 
On Education. 
Yates, Orleans County, Sept. 16, 1839 
Hon. J. Buel — Sir — I have come to the conclusion, 
although personally an entire stranger, of addressin: 
you on the (now much agitated) subject of education; 
and if business is pressing, you will only need to cast 
your eye on the signature at the end of this (at least, 
what 1 intend shall be,) long communication, to know 
that its perusal may be dispensed with, till an hour pre¬ 
sents in which you can give it your attention without 
an infringement on your own more important concerns. 
My apology for thus intruding upon the notice and time 
of a person of your high standing, will better appear in 
the importance of my subject, than it could in any words 
I might utter. 
I am well aware that those moral reformations which 
most materially benefit community at large, originate 
with, and are most successfully carried on by, those 
whom Providence has placed high in society. Happy! 
would it be for us as a nation if all great people under-® 
stood this, and entered as cheerfully into the work for 
which Infinite Wisdom seems to have designed and fit-1 
ted them, as do many whom I could name as inhabitants 
of the truly benevolent city, of which you are both a 
resident and (forgive merited praise) ornament. 
Though I do not belong to the class mentioned above,! 
and am too sensible of my want of talents to think I 
could do much good if I did, yet since philanthropists 
have become so deeply engaged in the cultivation of thel 
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much the state is dependent on our exertions to cultivate, |added to the many that may be supposed to have been 
at home enough to read and know what they contain. 
The libraries are a system worthy of New-York and its 
rulers. But I cannot say what I desire to, on this sub¬ 
ject here; therefore I shall accept as a great favor, a 
sincere opinion expressed by you, whether I had better 
say any more with my pen at all or not. My husband 
wished me to consult some of the “learned” of our own 
county, but as I could not agree with him in thinking 
there were any superior to himself in literary judgment 
or taste, I obtained his consent to address a resident of 
my (once) own Albany county. I thought of D. D. 
Barnard ; of G. Hawley; and indeed I should not hesi¬ 
tate to address that man of powerful mind, William H. 
Seward, did I not know that the benevolent schemes in 
which he is already engaged, together with the duties 
of his station, must fill up his time. Think not it is 
verning, and of instructing their own offspring, must be £because we esteem you less, or think your time less 
usefully employed, that this “ lot” of intrusion has fallen 
upon you. I wish you to tell me, if you think any per¬ 
son in your vicinity would accept an address to parents, 
scribbled by me, and dissect it, take my ideas, clothe 
of the first years of their lives. We have divine autho-| them with their own more eloquent words, and present 
rity for saying that this duty, when faithfully performed, it to the public. Remember, I speak as a mother that 
human intellect, I have felt an almost irrepressible de-| 
never fails of being attended with success. I know 
there would seem to be some exceptions to this rule; 
but ’tis a great thing to have done our duty. Oh! that 
parents could be led to realize this while their children 
are young! How much misery would be avoided, both 
in time and eternity! 
Some years since, I saw a woman at her tub, washing; 
her two children were in the same room, making cob- 
houses ; a lad some older than her son was visiting there, 
and at play with them. When they had laid up all their 
building materials, and not finished their houses, the 
little girl offered to go and bring more, if her brother 
and his visitor would not take any of hers in her ab¬ 
sence. Both promised faithfully that they would not 
As soon as she was out of sight, the visitor proposed 
that they should each take a few of hers, in order to 
make their houses the highest; the brother at first re¬ 
fused, but was finally persuaded. The mother was one 
that (whatever might claim her attention) kept an eye, 
and an ear open to the doings of her children. She had 
made up her mind that to “guide the house,” meant 
something more than to keep the clothes clean, though 
she knew that to be essential. She believed that to have 
“ brought up children,” would be to have grown up her¬ 
self into that perfection of character which the gospel 
enjoins, and to have led her children up with her. Happy 
will it be for America, when all its young mothers shall 
begin with, and adhere to, such principles while rearing 
their families! She took her seat by her children, and 
spent the next half hour in obedience to that divine 
command respecting laws, which says to parents, “thou 
shalt teach them diligently,” &c. Those boys are now 
young men, both only sons; both their fathers upright, 
honest men. The visitor has not been under the care 
of a mother like the one described above; he is now a 
noted thief, and has been taken up by the public autho¬ 
rities as such. The other is what chivalrous people 
would call the “soul of honor:” none that know him, 
would be afraid to trust him with thousands. Now who 
can say that he would not have been a thief as well as 
the other? He was persuaded to break his word, and to 
take what was not his own, and might have been again 
and again, but for his mother’s watchful eye, which was 
his constant guard until his feet were fairly set in that 
path from which Infinite Wisdom has said “ he will not 
depart.” When I reflect on the incidents of this nature 
that have come under my own observation, I feel an al¬ 
most uncontrollable desire to impart the little knowledge 
I possess to those who are just beginning the fearful 
task of training immortal beings for everlasting bliss or 
woe. 
’Tis true, yet I know not why, that whatever of re¬ 
form is started in your city, has a better effect on this 
part of the State, than if it had originated elsewhere. 
It was at Albany that, with regard to intemperance, the 
mighty deep of public opinion was so effectually agi¬ 
tated as to cause its swells to roll with so much force, 
even o’er this distant land, that almost every distillery 
was swept from its foundation. Some say, because 
those first powerful risings of the public mind have 
subsided, that the temperance cause has died away. I 
will tell you how it has died away in this little town. 
At the time of its commencement, there was scarcely 
one of the beautiful streams with which it is so well 
||watered, but that had one of those public nuisances, a 
“still,” located on it; there was not a church here; the 
people seemed every day to be growing more and more 
intemperate and vicious; wives and mothers began to 
tremble for the fate of their husbands and sons. Ah! 
and some of them trembled from a cause which even 
now to write would make my hand tremble. Now 
sire to offer my mite of aid; not as one fitted by educa 
tion to instruct the public—a position I could not main-| 
tain — but as possessing some little experience as an! 
American mother — a word, a name, sir, as you are al- : 
ready aware, of no small import. I have observed with 1 
some regret, that in those eloquent appeals (of late soi» 
fiequent) to public sentiment, on the subject of educa-||which arose such nauseous vapors as distilleries al- 
tion, that a reference to the duty of mothers has not beenfj ways produce, flow unobstructed and pure into the noble 
so often had as I think the public interest requires.Blake to which they are tributaries ; we have three large 
I here are, indeed, very few who really consider howgand well-finished churches; and best of all, we have 
our 
atmosphere is cleansed; the streams of water from 
(illiterate though she be) may understand the infantile 
mind better than man, with all his knowledge of abstruse 
sciences. Ill health has deprived me of the privilege 
of laboring as usual in my dairy; so I have turned my 
attention to writing, and why not as well as though I 
had been a play-actress and parted with my husband, 
&c. Respectfully yours, 
SELINA TYLER. 
On Educating Children at Home. 
Schenectady, May 9, 1839. 
Friend Btjel—I n the April number of your Cultiva¬ 
tor, under the head “We spread our nets too broad,” 
page 38, the writer says, “ The worst place to educate 
a boy, so far as depends on the advantages of the school, 
is his native village, where he is wont to lean on paren¬ 
tal support, and to remain a mere succor. Send him 
among strangers, and he will learn to go alone, and to 
\ depend, for knowledge and character, upon his personal 
M application and good conduct,” &c. &c. 
These assertions may be plausible to some of your 
readers; but so far as I have experience, the contrary 
is the safest course as to the government of children by 
their parents. 
So soon as my children could recognize me, I delight¬ 
ed them by the greatest attention to amuse and please 
them. This daily attention and fostering care for their 
comfort and amusement, soon produced their warmest 
affections and supreme love. They were the most happy 
when in my care, and were unhappy in my presence, if 
not in my care and attention. As their knowledge in¬ 
creased and faculties improved, we were extremely 
careful not to promise the least thing that we did not 
most rigidly fulfil; so that when they were told any 
thing,\ they were certain of its truth, and faithful fulfil¬ 
ment of every promise. Their supreme love and per¬ 
fect confidence in us was established. If they showed 
the least disposition to disobey, I told them that I could 
not love a child who did not love and obey me. This 
was sufficient for their immediate compliance, for the 
greatest pain would be the loss of our love, and the birch 
was never needed nor used. The poet’s remark on the 
influence of love was verified: 
In kindred minds it flourishes alone, 
And claims attachment equal to its own. 
We never gave them any pocket money, to absorb their 
thoughts, and to spend at their pleasure. Money was 
never given them but for specific purposes, although 
they were always allowed to have free access to it, and 
were told its objects and uses. They were provided at 
t home with all that was deemed proper, and they had no 
desire to enter the attracting and debasing cellars and 
shops for fruit and luxuries, which are the pests of good 
morals, and ruin of multitudes of otherwise good chil¬ 
dren. 
Before they reached their seventh year, (the age when 
the human organ of faculty, the brain, is fully developed 
and matured in volume,) they were manly and womanly 
enough for that age; for they were spoken to as ra¬ 
tional and adult beings, and not in trifling language. 
They were told that God was the author of them and 
their kind parents, and all good things; and that their 
love to him was paramount—next they might love their 
parents, &c. These are duties not to be looked for from 
strangers; nor will children receive moral instruction 
with the same faith from them, as from parents. 
When their age increased, and their manners and prin¬ 
ciples were formed, they travelled without us. They 
were furnished with money liberally, and were told not 
to spend money because they had it, but to pay for all 
useful and honorable wants — to spend nothing in vice 
nor evil company. They always had enough and to 
spare, and never asked for a dollar that I had the least 
hesitancy to furnish, for it never was misused or abused. 
.We are now happy in their reverential and filial obe- 
