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presents itself, driving team in the village streets. There are 
home adornments, and even luxuries within the reach of the 
most humble. With a considerate division and apportionment of 
labor, and last, though by no means least, a way provided by 
which rest and recreation can be afforded to the whole family, 
the farm may be what it certainly ought to be, the place on 
earth nearest like that Paradise God placed our first parents in. 
We have thorns and briers, cold and heat to contend with, but 
we are compensated by this life among the beauties of nature 
seen no where else so grandly and so often; living where we. 
read the hidden mysteries of life and death. Let us grow 
with the growth of our trees, and enlarge our minds as we 
broaden our acres. We have thrown upon us by God, the respon¬ 
sibility of bringing up our children in such a manner that they 
may help in the great vineyard, help the wandering and the 
erring, in the pathway that leads to the beautiful gate; help 
tender little feet over rough places; help the strong in their 
strength and the noble in their greatness. 
SUNLIGHT IN THE HOUSE. 
BY S. L. BOARDMAN, AGRICULTURAL EDITOR MAINE FARMER. 
This subject is one deserving thought, as it relates directly to 
the health, and therefore to the happiness of the people. 
It would be interesting to show the changes that take place in 
the constitution of the blood in consequence of the cutaneous 
vessels on the surface of the body not being freely exposed to the 
oxygenating and life-forming influence of the sun ; how, resulting 
from this, the fibrine, albumen and red blood-cells become dimin¬ 
ished in quantity, and the watery portion increased in volume, 
thus prostrating the vital strength, enfeebling the nervous energy, 
and ultimately inducing organic changes in the structure of the 
heart, brain and muscular tissue, bringing on a loDg train of dis- 
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