Volume 23 (1871) (426 pages)

298 SCIENTIFIC PRESS. {November 11, 1871, Som ESTIC ‘Economy. Household Economy. Eps, Press:—I always havea great many things to find fault with, too many perhaps; but the complaints I am about to set before you, concern everybody, and if everybody would combine to put down the impositions they relate to, they will easily be remedied, and for healthand happiness, should be. Let me premise that I keep five scrap books; one poetical and miscellaneous, one cook book, one medical, one agricnltural and one for comments, prints, etc.; that few—not speaking of my book for engravings, and the one for newspaper prints worth preserving. Now, when scissors in hand, I lie down to rest with a paper, and it furnishes me with nothing worth scissoring for either of these, no matter what exciting serial or political problem it may contain, I throw it aside with disgust; but I have a different complaint to make of your paper, and yet it is not one of the evils that I should like to see remedied. My complaint is that if TI want to slip out along receipt, that I think IT conld now easily refer to in one of my books, I can’t cut it out because I invariably discover something -valuable on the other side, thatI can’t destroy. I thinkI shall have to take two papers, one to file, the other to sacrifice to scrap books. All this introduces a scrip I send you, cut from some paper, which youcan publish again if you see fit, Itis abont the narrowness of boot soles, and itis correct in its statements. Ihave also seen articles on the injury which high heels do the foot and leg. A person with a moderately high instep cannot get a boot that will not be an unwearable torture, without buying a pair a-size too large every other way; and then the heels are put on with nails which wear out the stocking and excoriate the heel, and which hammering down don’tcure. I cut up old hats into soles, and until the nails come through them, am easy. Why all this torture? Cannot shoemakere learn to make wearable shoes, euch as they did years ago? Butin vaindo I entreat’ the best San Francisco artiste in leather, to please make my shoes bread enough and large enough, and with high insteps. Not a thing to walk out in, while boots lie all around. I sometimes sit and calenlate which of the different tortures will be most:endurable for the day—Oh! shoemakers, if ye have souls tofeel, I pray you consider ours. a Compuaint 2p:—Let auy housekeeper find an old yeast powder box obtained in years agone—oue that she has put by, perhaps with seeds in it or other trifles, and endeavor to put upon it the cover of one of the present ortwo last years, ang she will find it can't be done. Iu fact the boxes are a size smaller—Why ?— To pay for stamps, Isuppose; but the yeast powders are dear enough without that. They become quite anitem in the month’s expenditure. Can’t this imposition be rectified? If not— Way? Tapioca is recommended ss a cheaper and more nutritious article of food than even potatoes and rice, by no less a personage than the Prince of Travancore, the southernmost province of Hindostan. The cultivation of the manioo plant, from the root of which tapioca is made, as starch is from potatoes, is rapidly extending in the province. Its advantages are that it grows in almost any soil, requiring but little labor, and after the first month but little moisture. It is very productive, and is easily prepared for consumption. The Indian government have taken measnres to test the merits of the plant; bnt as the food it yields is almost exclusively of the etarchy or fat-producing character, and contributes little or nothing to the formation of muscle, itis difficult to see what benefit would be derived from increasing its use. Harp anpD Sort Warter.—An attentive correspondent has just sent us, for this department, a very practical article in regard to eoftening water for domestic use, which we shall publish next week. To Maxe Gravy THAT wiIuL Kexp SrvERAL Days.—Lay in a stew-pan or suitable vessel half a pound of lean, juicy, fresh meat of the poorest pieces or trimmings; over this put half a pound of pickled pork, or a little less bacon of the side meat. Cut up 2 medium-sized onions and a fewsprigs of parsley. Pour into the vessel a tumblerful of boiling water (not more than this); cover the vessel, and let the meat stew, turning it once, until it is arich brown color; then pour in boiling water enough to just cover it; let it simmer an hour; remove the meat; thicken the gravy slightly with a paste made of brown flour and water; let that simmer half an hour; add any essence of ham or good gravy that may be saved for such purposes. Putin an earthen vessel well covered, and exclude from tie air. Warm it before serving; season with any catsup liked. For making all brown gravies, fry the meat first, and pour over hot broth, gravy or water; use the browned sugar or flour for coloring and thickening. Kidneys, livers, necks of poultry, the soraggy parts of the necks of animals, may be used for making the stock for gravy. PENNYROYAL FoR Furas.—The oil of pennyroyal will drive these insects off; but a cheaper msthod, where the herb flourishes, is to throw yonr dogs aud cats into a decoction of it once a week. Mow the herb, and scatter it in beds of pigs once a month, I have seen this done for many years in succession. Whsre the herb canuot be got, the oil may be procured. In this case, saturate strings with it, and tie them around the necks of dogs and eats; pour alittle onthe back and about the ears of hogs, which you can do while they are feeding, without touching them. By repeating this application every 12 or 15 days, the fleas will flee from your quadrupeds, to their relief and improvement, and your relief and comfort in the house. . Strings saturated with the oil of pennyroyal, and tied around the necks and tails of horses, will drive off lice; the strings should be saturated ouce a day.— Scientifie Anerican. Borrime Appues.—If you have a quantity of empty self-sealing bottles, and you wish to prepare a large quantity of apple sauce and to have it until spring, an excellent way is to bottle it. Prepare the sauce . according to whatever rule you wish; then, when hoiling-hot, ponr into the bottles and put on the covere immediately. Apple sauces prepared now and bottled will have more flavor thau that made in the spring of the year. A Sussirute For Corrre.—From chemical analysis it appears that the seed of the asparagus when dried, parched and ground makes a full flavored coffee, but little inferior to Mocha, containing in common with tea, and coffee, the principle called tannin. Dry the asparagus berries well, after being thoroughly ripened, then rub them on a sieve; thus the seeds are readily eeparated.—Journal of Health. Taxine CaRE or Broons.—Havea screw with an eye or ring on its end; this can be sorewed into the end of the handle of each new broom. Itis handier to hang up by than a string, though the latter will do if alwaye used. It is bad fora broom to leave it standing upon the brush. If not huug up, always set it away with the stick end down. InDELIBLE Inx.—By placing a piece of caustic in the end ofa quill, and whittleing the side to a point, any cloth, being first slightly damp with water, may be written on so indelihly that no art can remove the color. Protection FRomM Damp Watus.—Boil one pound of powdered sulphur in two quarts of water for half an hour. Apply with a brush while still warm, and you will prevent the damp and unwkolesome oozings from the brick walls of your workshops. Watery Potators.—If your potatoes are watery, put a piece of lime about as large as a hen’s egg in the pot, and boil with them, and they will come out as mealy as you please. Ir brooms are wet in boiling suds once a week, they become very tough, will not ent the carpet, last much longer, and always sweep like a new broom. To Cuzan Lame-SHapes.—Lamp-shades may be cleansed with soap or pearlash; these will not injure or discolor them. Frrep SquasH.—Slice thin, dipin egg, then in flour, and fry in butter. Excellent. Domestic Receipts. Torsmove egg stains from silver, rub with table salt. CHamPacNse CmER.—To 35 gallons of good cider put one gallon of strained honey, or eight pounds of good white sugar; stir them up well and set aside for aweek, Clarify the cider with one quart of skimmed milk or six ounces of dissolved gelatine, and add five quarts of pure spirits. Atter two or three days bottle the clear cider, and it will become sparkling. How to Deoponize Om.—You may deodorize any oil by shaking it with a weak solution of bleaching powder which has been previously acidulated with hydrochlorio acid. This is best done in a large bottle, into which oil and lye are introduced, the bottle stopped and now and then shaken. After two or three days pour off the oil and wash it several times with water, when it will have lost its unpleasant odor. Pracu-Lear Yeast.—One of our Southern exchanges gives the following recipe: Take three handfuls of peach-leaves, and three medium sized potatoes; boil them in two quarts of water until the potatoes are done; then take out the leaves and throw them away; peel the potatoes, and rub them up with a pint of flour, adding sufficient cool water to make a paste. Then pour on the hot peach-leaf tea, and scald for about five minutes. If you add to this a little old yeast, it will he ready for use in three hours; if you add none, it will require to stand a day and a night before use. Leaves dried in the shade are as good as fresh oues. As this is stronger than hop-yeast, less should be used in bread-making. Wetca Raresit.—Put into a fryingpan 2 quarter of a pound of cheese cut up into thin slices. Pour on it half a pint of sweet milk. Stir in an egg that was already beaten up, add a fourth of a tcaspoonful of mustard, a little less red pepper, already ground, and a teaspoonful of nice butter. Stir this mixture all the time. Then add, lastly, a few crackers well broken up, and after thoronghly incorporating them into-the mixture, turn it all into a heated dish and cover it. Mechanical Hints, Cast Steet that has been burnt or spoiled by overheating can be partially restored by heating it over and quenching in water four or five times, each of less extent than the first overheating and decreasing; lastly, hammering the steel till nearJy cold, to give the greatest condensation before hardening. Some prefer the eteel thus recovered for cutting-tools, and the treatment really produces a remarkable change, as afragment of the same bar in the spoiled etate will be extremely coarse, and another of the restoration as extreniely fine. CiEanine Window Panes.— Housewives sometimes are very much surprised at their inability to remove the emoky and pied Spe esc en pence oa the rough places of his own domain with panes. Glass is oftea changed hy a very short exposure to the weather. Sunshine and rain alone, will effect a most marked change in certain (soft) kinds of glass. When a little soda will not remove the stains, the only way to remedy the trouble is to buy new glass. Cueanine Ponisnep Brass.—The firet requisite is to remove all grease. This may be done with a eolution of concen trated lye, and fine pumice or rotten stone. A weak solntion of muriatic acid and clean scouring dust will then brighten it, after which it may be oiled, with olive or cocoa nut oil. Vinegar and common salt may be nsed instead of the acid. Weak vegetable acids are preferable on fine work, and vegetable oils better than animal fats. AnotHEr Mestuop.—Take eight parts water, and one part muriatic acid; mix them, and put in common water lime, until the mixture ie thicker than water. Shake up well before ueing. Pour eome on a rag, and put on the brass. Let it stay 2 minute or two and thenrnb. It will clean the dirtiest brass more quickly and better than anything else, so says a correspondeut of the Scientific American. Inaration Waunot ie made by washing butternnt-wood with Jime-water and then varnishing. Lime-water will also etain cherry-wood to a good imitation of mahogany. Rerinep Ori For Mercuanism can be prepared by putting zine and lead shavings, in equal parts, into good Florence olive oil and placing it in a cool place till the oil becomes colorless. gratification, Lige Thoughts. BorRoweED garments seldom fit well. Haste often trips up its own heels. A Foon generally loses his estate hefors— he tiuds his folly. A man that hoards his richss, and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. Towers are measured by their shadows and great men by their calumniators. TRUE courage and love are the sylablewe of faith. Tux chains of habit are generally too small to be felttill they are too strong tobs broken. A THERE is an efficacy in calmness of which weare unaware, The element of ssrenity is one which we peculiarly need. Ir good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning, in their virtue, how many would thsy win to the good cause, THINKERS are as scarce as gold; hut hs — whose thoughts embraces all his objects, pursues it unwearedly, and fearless of ths consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. Every desive bears its dsath iu every Curiosity languishos undsy stimulants, and novelties cease to excits surprise until at length we cannot eveu wonder at a miracle. Waat a world of gossip would be prsvented if it was only remembered that a person who tells youof the faults of others intends to tell others of your faults, Onscunrty leaves a man free, but a famous man isa slave to his fame. Incenss is bought dear, Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, althongh the crown may bs of laurels. The Influence of Example. Men’s lives are pages of history. Those who read are etimulated to good deeds thereby, or taught to avoid the mistakes . such lives record. There cunnot betoo . much said, or written, to encourage men of wealth to devote their leisure and money ~ toward developing the heantiful in Nature, recovering and regeuerating waste places, and affording men with lese means and op. portunities for the study of ruralart. Ths influence of an example of good taste in the adornment of a single place ina neighborhood or town, reaches far into the fu: ture and molds more than most men think, the external features of that neighborhood or town, and affects more ultimately ths lives of those whom it influeuces. If one man plante a tree his neighbor wants one. If one housewife has a flower parterre, an— other is not insensible to the enthusiasm with which the first exhihits and praises: her floral pets. If one man seee his neighbor clearing out an old ewamp, 4 ravihe, or a rough place of any sort, and converting its rude angularities into symmetrical lines of beauty, he ever after looks upon at 5 the possibilities of what it may become in his mind’s eye, and realizes, eooner or later, the ideal beauty which the realizations of his neighbors have established. Be a Man—Foolish spending is ths father of poverty. Do not be ashamed of work nor hard work. Work for the salary or wages you can get, work for half prics — rather than be idle. Be your own master, and do not let society swallow up your individuality—hat, coat and boots. Do not eat np or wear out all that youearn. Compel your selfish body to spare something for profits saved. Be etingy to your own appetite, be merciful to other’s necessities. Help others and ask no help for yourself, See that you are proud. Be too proud to be lazy; too prond to give up without conquering every difficulty; too proud to be in company that you cannot keep up with in expenses; too proud to be stingy. Tur study of the magnet ie one of un failing iutereet to grown people as well as to children, and itis a matter of surpriss that so little attention ie given to so profit: able a eubject. Wecan find nothing that teaches so forcibly of Christ and his influ ence upon the eoul—nothing that could nore thoroughly convince a skeptic of his ignorance and folly. Ir half the pains were taken by soms people to perform the labor alloted them that are taken by them to avoid it, we ehould hear mnch less said about the troubles of life, and see much more actu: ally completed. .

298 SCIENTIFIC PRESS. {November 11, 1871, Som ESTIC ‘Economy. Household Economy. Eps, Press:—I always havea great many things to find fault with, too many perhaps; but the complaints I am about to set before you, concern everybody, and if everybody would combine to put down the impositions they relate to, they will easily be remedied, and for healthand happiness, should be. Let me premise that I keep five scrap books; one poetical and miscellaneous, one cook book, one medical, one agricnltural and one for comments, prints, etc.; that few—not speaking of my book for engravings, and the one for newspaper prints worth preserving. Now, when scissors in hand, I lie down to rest with a paper, and it furnishes me with nothing worth scissoring for either of these, no matter what exciting serial or political problem it may contain, I throw it aside with disgust; but I have a different complaint to make of your paper, and yet it is not one of the evils that I should like to see remedied. My complaint is that if TI want to slip out along receipt, that I think IT conld now easily refer to in one of my books, I can’t cut it out because I invariably discover something -valuable on the other side, thatI can’t destroy. I thinkI shall have to take two papers, one to file, the other to sacrifice to scrap books. All this introduces a scrip I send you, cut from some paper, which youcan publish again if you see fit, Itis abont the narrowness of boot soles, and itis correct in its statements. Ihave also seen articles on the injury which high heels do the foot and leg. A person with a moderately high instep cannot get a boot that will not be an unwearable torture, without buying a pair a-size too large every other way; and then the heels are put on with nails which wear out the stocking and excoriate the heel, and which hammering down don’tcure. I cut up old hats into soles, and until the nails come through them, am easy. Why all this torture? Cannot shoemakere learn to make wearable shoes, euch as they did years ago? Butin vaindo I entreat’ the best San Francisco artiste in leather, to please make my shoes bread enough and large enough, and with high insteps. Not a thing to walk out in, while boots lie all around. I sometimes sit and calenlate which of the different tortures will be most:endurable for the day—Oh! shoemakers, if ye have souls tofeel, I pray you consider ours. a Compuaint 2p:—Let auy housekeeper find an old yeast powder box obtained in years agone—oue that she has put by, perhaps with seeds in it or other trifles, and endeavor to put upon it the cover of one of the present ortwo last years, ang she will find it can't be done. Iu fact the boxes are a size smaller—Why ?— To pay for stamps, Isuppose; but the yeast powders are dear enough without that. They become quite anitem in the month’s expenditure. Can’t this imposition be rectified? If not— Way? Tapioca is recommended ss a cheaper and more nutritious article of food than even potatoes and rice, by no less a personage than the Prince of Travancore, the southernmost province of Hindostan. The cultivation of the manioo plant, from the root of which tapioca is made, as starch is from potatoes, is rapidly extending in the province. Its advantages are that it grows in almost any soil, requiring but little labor, and after the first month but little moisture. It is very productive, and is easily prepared for consumption. The Indian government have taken measnres to test the merits of the plant; bnt as the food it yields is almost exclusively of the etarchy or fat-producing character, and contributes little or nothing to the formation of muscle, itis difficult to see what benefit would be derived from increasing its use. Harp anpD Sort Warter.—An attentive correspondent has just sent us, for this department, a very practical article in regard to eoftening water for domestic use, which we shall publish next week. To Maxe Gravy THAT wiIuL Kexp SrvERAL Days.—Lay in a stew-pan or suitable vessel half a pound of lean, juicy, fresh meat of the poorest pieces or trimmings; over this put half a pound of pickled pork, or a little less bacon of the side meat. Cut up 2 medium-sized onions and a fewsprigs of parsley. Pour into the vessel a tumblerful of boiling water (not more than this); cover the vessel, and let the meat stew, turning it once, until it is arich brown color; then pour in boiling water enough to just cover it; let it simmer an hour; remove the meat; thicken the gravy slightly with a paste made of brown flour and water; let that simmer half an hour; add any essence of ham or good gravy that may be saved for such purposes. Putin an earthen vessel well covered, and exclude from tie air. Warm it before serving; season with any catsup liked. For making all brown gravies, fry the meat first, and pour over hot broth, gravy or water; use the browned sugar or flour for coloring and thickening. Kidneys, livers, necks of poultry, the soraggy parts of the necks of animals, may be used for making the stock for gravy. PENNYROYAL FoR Furas.—The oil of pennyroyal will drive these insects off; but a cheaper msthod, where the herb flourishes, is to throw yonr dogs aud cats into a decoction of it once a week. Mow the herb, and scatter it in beds of pigs once a month, I have seen this done for many years in succession. Whsre the herb canuot be got, the oil may be procured. In this case, saturate strings with it, and tie them around the necks of dogs and eats; pour alittle onthe back and about the ears of hogs, which you can do while they are feeding, without touching them. By repeating this application every 12 or 15 days, the fleas will flee from your quadrupeds, to their relief and improvement, and your relief and comfort in the house. . Strings saturated with the oil of pennyroyal, and tied around the necks and tails of horses, will drive off lice; the strings should be saturated ouce a day.— Scientifie Anerican. Borrime Appues.—If you have a quantity of empty self-sealing bottles, and you wish to prepare a large quantity of apple sauce and to have it until spring, an excellent way is to bottle it. Prepare the sauce . according to whatever rule you wish; then, when hoiling-hot, ponr into the bottles and put on the covere immediately. Apple sauces prepared now and bottled will have more flavor thau that made in the spring of the year. A Sussirute For Corrre.—From chemical analysis it appears that the seed of the asparagus when dried, parched and ground makes a full flavored coffee, but little inferior to Mocha, containing in common with tea, and coffee, the principle called tannin. Dry the asparagus berries well, after being thoroughly ripened, then rub them on a sieve; thus the seeds are readily eeparated.—Journal of Health. Taxine CaRE or Broons.—Havea screw with an eye or ring on its end; this can be sorewed into the end of the handle of each new broom. Itis handier to hang up by than a string, though the latter will do if alwaye used. It is bad fora broom to leave it standing upon the brush. If not huug up, always set it away with the stick end down. InDELIBLE Inx.—By placing a piece of caustic in the end ofa quill, and whittleing the side to a point, any cloth, being first slightly damp with water, may be written on so indelihly that no art can remove the color. Protection FRomM Damp Watus.—Boil one pound of powdered sulphur in two quarts of water for half an hour. Apply with a brush while still warm, and you will prevent the damp and unwkolesome oozings from the brick walls of your workshops. Watery Potators.—If your potatoes are watery, put a piece of lime about as large as a hen’s egg in the pot, and boil with them, and they will come out as mealy as you please. Ir brooms are wet in boiling suds once a week, they become very tough, will not ent the carpet, last much longer, and always sweep like a new broom. To Cuzan Lame-SHapes.—Lamp-shades may be cleansed with soap or pearlash; these will not injure or discolor them. Frrep SquasH.—Slice thin, dipin egg, then in flour, and fry in butter. Excellent. Domestic Receipts. Torsmove egg stains from silver, rub with table salt. CHamPacNse CmER.—To 35 gallons of

good cider put one gallon of strained honey, or eight pounds of good white sugar; stir them up well and set aside for aweek, Clarify the cider with one quart of skimmed milk or six ounces of dissolved gelatine, and add five quarts of pure spirits. Atter two or three days bottle the clear cider, and it will become sparkling. How to Deoponize Om.—You may deodorize any oil by shaking it with a weak solution of bleaching powder which has been previously acidulated with hydrochlorio acid. This is best done in a large bottle, into which oil and lye are introduced, the bottle stopped and now and then shaken. After two or three days pour off the oil and wash it several times with water, when it will have lost its unpleasant odor. Pracu-Lear Yeast.—One of our Southern exchanges gives the following recipe: Take three handfuls of peach-leaves, and three medium sized potatoes; boil them in two quarts of water until the potatoes are done; then take out the leaves and throw them away; peel the potatoes, and rub them up with a pint of flour, adding sufficient cool water to make a paste. Then pour on the hot peach-leaf tea, and scald for about five minutes. If you add to this a little old yeast, it will he ready for use in three hours; if you add none, it will require to stand a day and a night before use. Leaves dried in the shade are as good as fresh oues. As this is stronger than hop-yeast, less should be used in bread-making. Wetca Raresit.—Put into a fryingpan 2 quarter of a pound of cheese cut up into thin slices. Pour on it half a pint of sweet milk. Stir in an egg that was already beaten up, add a fourth of a tcaspoonful of mustard, a little less red pepper, already ground, and a teaspoonful of nice butter. Stir this mixture all the time. Then add, lastly, a few crackers well broken up, and after thoronghly incorporating them into-the mixture, turn it all into a heated dish and cover it. Mechanical Hints, Cast Steet that has been burnt or spoiled by overheating can be partially restored by heating it over and quenching in water four or five times, each of less extent than the first overheating and decreasing; lastly, hammering the steel till nearJy cold, to give the greatest condensation before hardening. Some prefer the eteel thus recovered for cutting-tools, and the treatment really produces a remarkable change, as afragment of the same bar in the spoiled etate will be extremely coarse, and another of the restoration as extreniely fine. CiEanine Window Panes.— Housewives sometimes are very much surprised at their inability to remove the emoky and pied Spe esc en pence oa the rough places of his own domain with panes. Glass is oftea changed hy a very short exposure to the weather. Sunshine and rain alone, will effect a most marked change in certain (soft) kinds of glass. When a little soda will not remove the stains, the only way to remedy the trouble is to buy new glass. Cueanine Ponisnep Brass.—The firet requisite is to remove all grease. This may be done with a eolution of concen trated lye, and fine pumice or rotten stone. A weak solntion of muriatic acid and clean scouring dust will then brighten it, after which it may be oiled, with olive or cocoa nut oil. Vinegar and common salt may be nsed instead of the acid. Weak vegetable acids are preferable on fine work, and vegetable oils better than animal fats. AnotHEr Mestuop.—Take eight parts water, and one part muriatic acid; mix them, and put in common water lime, until the mixture ie thicker than water. Shake up well before ueing. Pour eome on a rag, and put on the brass. Let it stay 2 minute or two and thenrnb. It will clean the dirtiest brass more quickly and better than anything else, so says a correspondeut of the Scientific American. Inaration Waunot ie made by washing butternnt-wood with Jime-water and then varnishing. Lime-water will also etain cherry-wood to a good imitation of mahogany. Rerinep Ori For Mercuanism can be prepared by putting zine and lead shavings, in equal parts, into good Florence olive oil and placing it in a cool place till the oil becomes colorless. gratification, Lige Thoughts. BorRoweED garments seldom fit well. Haste often trips up its own heels. A Foon generally loses his estate hefors— he tiuds his folly. A man that hoards his richss, and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. Towers are measured by their shadows and great men by their calumniators. TRUE courage and love are the sylablewe of faith. Tux chains of habit are generally too small to be felttill they are too strong tobs broken. A THERE is an efficacy in calmness of which weare unaware, The element of ssrenity is one which we peculiarly need. Ir good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning, in their virtue, how many would thsy win to the good cause, THINKERS are as scarce as gold; hut hs — whose thoughts embraces all his objects, pursues it unwearedly, and fearless of ths consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. Every desive bears its dsath iu every Curiosity languishos undsy stimulants, and novelties cease to excits surprise until at length we cannot eveu wonder at a miracle. Waat a world of gossip would be prsvented if it was only remembered that a person who tells youof the faults of others intends to tell others of your faults, Onscunrty leaves a man free, but a famous man isa slave to his fame. Incenss is bought dear, Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, althongh the crown may bs of laurels. The Influence of Example. Men’s lives are pages of history. Those who read are etimulated to good deeds thereby, or taught to avoid the mistakes . such lives record. There cunnot betoo . much said, or written, to encourage men of wealth to devote their leisure and money ~ toward developing the heantiful in Nature, recovering and regeuerating waste places, and affording men with lese means and op. portunities for the study of ruralart. Ths influence of an example of good taste in the adornment of a single place ina neighborhood or town, reaches far into the fu: ture and molds more than most men think, the external features of that neighborhood or town, and affects more ultimately ths lives of those whom it influeuces. If one man plante a tree his neighbor wants one. If one housewife has a flower parterre, an— other is not insensible to the enthusiasm with which the first exhihits and praises: her floral pets. If one man seee his neighbor clearing out an old ewamp, 4 ravihe, or a rough place of any sort, and converting its rude angularities into symmetrical lines of beauty, he ever after looks upon at 5 the possibilities of what it may become in his mind’s eye, and realizes, eooner or later, the ideal beauty which the realizations of his neighbors have established. Be a Man—Foolish spending is ths father of poverty. Do not be ashamed of work nor hard work. Work for the salary or wages you can get, work for half prics — rather than be idle. Be your own master, and do not let society swallow up your individuality—hat, coat and boots. Do not eat np or wear out all that youearn. Compel your selfish body to spare something for profits saved. Be etingy to your own appetite, be merciful to other’s necessities. Help others and ask no help for yourself, See that you are proud. Be too proud to be lazy; too prond to give up without conquering every difficulty; too proud to be in company that you cannot keep up with in expenses; too proud to be stingy. Tur study of the magnet ie one of un failing iutereet to grown people as well as to children, and itis a matter of surpriss that so little attention ie given to so profit: able a eubject. Wecan find nothing that teaches so forcibly of Christ and his influ ence upon the eoul—nothing that could nore thoroughly convince a skeptic of his ignorance and folly. Ir half the pains were taken by soms people to perform the labor alloted them that are taken by them to avoid it, we ehould hear mnch less said about the troubles of life, and see much more actu: ally completed. .