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PERSEVERANCE
A swallow in the Spring.
Come to our granary, and !neath the eases
Essayed to make a nest, and theredid bring
Wet earth, and straw and hares.
Day after day she toiled
With patient heart, but ere her work was ermined,
Some sad mishap the tiny fabric , spoiled,
And dashed it to the ground.
She found the ruin wroneht,
tut not east down, forth 'from the plFtee she few,
And with her mates, fresh eartivand gratsesbroisilit
Ard built her nest. ,
But scarcely had she placed
The last soft leather on its ample. door,
When wicked hand, or chance, stain laid 'waste
And wrought the rain o'er. • ,
But still her heart she kept,
And roird again ;—and last night, hearing calls,
I looked. and lo! three little swallows slept'
Within the earth-made walls.
What Troth is here, 0 Man!
Rath Hope been smitten in its early dawn
Huh clouds o'ercast thy purpose, mist or plan 1
Have ?Aiwa, and struggle on !
NO TIME TO LOSE I
No time to lose! no time to lose!
Life's fleeting moments urge us on!
E'en while we pause to think, and choose,
The golden tikie for Action's gone.
No lime to loset Times pinions flying
•Chasing and hurrying moments fast 1
And one by one the hours are flying
Cnat another year is past.
NO time to lose ! lees banish sorrow . • ,
And live in pleasure while we may I
Let's fling our cares upon the morow,
An 4 seize the blessings of to•day,
AV- have no time to lose in sadness,
No rhtlitna grief our hearts should freeze;
Acl, , am life's stream let's glide in gladness.
And spread our sails to pleasure's breeze.
No time to lose! life's sands are ebbing,
And all things whisper of decay;
And the pulse clock's ceaseless throbbing
Ti , ll. that we too must pass away.
N , time to lose! let's not be , wasting
The felk brief moments left us here ;
F,:l tip your cup, while life is lasting,
And drink a welcome to the year.
'PAUL DENTON k'
Or, the Texan Canip.l3leeting.
DT CHARLES SCM!4ERTIELD.
the last week of September, 1R36, the
first Wrc•e=.lUl Camp-meeting was held in Eastern
IrsaA I employ the epithet " successful," be
ttatis several previous failures had apparently Tee
th—et' a!: efforts of . a like kind perfectly hopeless.
Indeed the at that period, was most un
congenial to religious and moral enterprise. ~The
country bordering on the Sabine, had beentoccupi
el rather than settled, by a class of adventurers al
most as crud as the savages whom they had scarce
ly expelled, and the beasts of prey which still Ws
pred their domain of prival forests. Professional
gambler:. refugeetefrorn the jail, ate.corided debtors,
outlaws from every land, forgers of false coin,
robbers, murderers, interspersed among a
race of uoeducated limiters and herdsmen, made .
up itre strange social miscellany ; without courts, or,
roo:onc, or chin ches , or schools, or even the shad
n! authority or sttbordination—a sort of on
ri,lcipletlpandentontum, where fierce passion sat
enthroned, waving its bloody sceptre, the naked
bow.e knife! Let no one accuse me of ex-extern
-0.1 inc the sake of dramatic effect; 1 am speak.
ins now of Shelby country—ghat home of the
Lynchers—the terrible locale, where ten 3 earilater,
luny persons were poisoned to ceath at a marriage
Supper !
ft will be obvious that, in each a community ;
very few would be disposed to patronize camp
meetings; 111111 accordingly a dozen different trials,
at various limes, had never collected a hundred
hearers, on any single occasion. But even these
tvere'nvit allowed to worship.in peace ; unilorrnily,
the first day or night, a band of armed despet Woes,
headed by the notorious Watt Foeman,.chiel judge
and eirecutioner of the Shelby Lynchers, broke into
the altar and scattered the mourners, or ascended
the pulpit and treated the preachers to a graluitoae
rope of tar - and leathers! Hence all prudent evan
gelists soon learned to shim the left bank of the
Sabine. as if it had been infested by a cohort of de
tubas ; and two whole years elapsed without any
new attempt to erect the cross in so periloasa field.
At length, however,
- an advertisement appeared
promising another effort in behalf of the gospel.—
The notice was unique, a perfect backwood's cart
osity, both as to its tenor and mode of pablicathart.
1 -et as give it verbatim et hteratim •
g ql /Altar! ekItIN•MEETRO."
"There will be a Camp• Meeting, to tornmenee
the last Monday of this month, at the Double spring
Grove. near Pews Brinson's, in the county of Shel
by
"The exercise will, open with a splendid barbe
cue. Preparations are being made to suit all tastes;
there will be good barbecue, beUer liquor,, and die
best of gospell
Sept. 1, 1836.
This singular document Was nailed lathe door Of
every public house and grocery; it was attached to
the largest trees ai the intersections of ski cross
roads and principal trails; and even the wander
ing hunter, iliemselves, found it in remote dells of
the mnuntain, miles away horn the smoke of a
human habitation. •
At first many regard the roallerat ihnax play
ea oil or some wicked wag, in ridicule of popular.
cr idoloY. But tits hypothesis was negatived by
the statements of Peter Brinson, proprietor of the
" Double Spring Grove." whn infirrined all errhni
rervr;• that be had been employed arprl p. l-41 . b 3 a
arranger calling himr.ell a Methodist missionary, LO
Provide an ample barbecue sidle period sad ewe
advanised."
ihe Tiqubr=ahe beUerltqutq---are Iyou to
fitruish•the liquor too I" maid*, invariable, Ties.
tioo•of each visitor. ' -
"'the othadonafy. alti4 he irottlq attend to that
httnoelf i n „tepliefiji,
1.1 kle must be 4,procious origictil,Y was the gee.
Brat rojoirider. A proposition which . moat of them
afterwards hid arr oppottunity to aeufyerkperimen.
tally. • .
Need ad hardly add thumb Irdeinte etcheinent
resulted. The . tumor took wings; 'flew on the
Wind Otirnell to storm-4'lMM= cittaferairoti.:—
every echo increeted sound, ull nothing use
.
could behaardian the . BarbaCO camp -meeting ; it
became the focus of thought, the staple of dreams.
And tbustble anknottn preather had insured ane
Min in advance, a c ave d ition embracing the en
tire population of the country, which was likely the
sole purpose of his 'stratagem
I was travelling in that part of Texas at the time,
and my imagination being inflamed by the cam-
mon curiosity, I took some trouble and:attended.—
But although my eyes witnessed the extraordinary
scene, I may well ilespair of the undertaking to
mint pen ol pomer, or the pencil of Ho.
gartil, were alone adequate to the sublimity and
borlesque of the complicated task. I may only
sketch the augolar outlines.
A. space. had been cleared away immediately
around the magnificent " Double Spring, " which
boiled up with force sufficient to rota a mill wheel,
in the very centre of the ever-green grove. Here
a pulpit had been raised, and before it was the in
separable altar for mourners. Beyond these at the
distance of filly paces, a succession of plank tables
extended in the form of a great circle, or the peri
meter of a polygon, completely enclosing the area
about the spring. An oderiferous steam, of Enlist
delicious savor, diffused itself through the air; this
was from the pits in the adjacent prairie, where the
fifty slaves of Peter Brinson were engaged in cook
ing ih the promised barbacue.
The grove itself was literally alive, teeming,
swarming, running over, with strange figures in ha
man shape; me, women, and children in every
variety of outlandish costumes. All Shelby county
was there. The hunters had come, rifle in hand,
and dogs barkin at their heels ; the rogues, rein-
Lree, , , and gamblers, with pistols in their belts, and
big knives peeping limn their shirt-bosoms; while
here and there might be seen a sprinkling of well
dressed planters, with their wives and daughters.
The tumult was deafening, a tornedo of babbling
tongues, talking, shooting, quarreling, belting and
cursing for amosenaesit. Suddenly a cry arose,
"Col. Watt Foeman! Hurrah for Col. Watt Foe.
man !" , end the crowd parted to the right and left,
to let thiiion Lyncher pass.
I turned to the advancing load stone of all eyes,
and shuddered Involuntarily at the devilish counte
nance which met my glance : and yet the features
were not only youthful, but eminently handsome ;
,the hideousness lay in the look, lull of savage fire
—ferocious, murderbus. It vas in in the reddish.
yellow eyeballs with arrowy pupils, that seemed to
flash jets of lurid flame; in the thin sneering lips
with their everlasting icy smile. As to the rest, he
was a tall, athletic, very powerful man. His train,
a dozen armed desperadoes, folflowed him.
Foeman spoke in a voice, sharp and piercing as
the point of a dagger: "Eh ! Brinson, where is
the new missionary ! We want to give him a
plumed coal
ft PAUL DENTox,
Missionary M. $. C."
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, AT,,TOWANDA, BRADFORD gOATY, pA., BY O'MEARA GOODRICH.
"He husitint yet arrived," replied tl4 planter.
" IVil I suppose w•e must wait far him ; but
put the barbecue on the boards; I am hungry as a
starved wolf."
" I cannot till the missionary comes; the barbe
cue is his property."
A fearful light blazed in Foreman's eyes, as he
took three steps toward Brinson, and fairly shout
ed, " Fetch the meat instantly, or fill your own
stomach with a dinner of lead and steel!" •
This was the ultimata/a of one whose authority
was the only law, and the planter obeyed without
a murmur. The smoking viands were arranged on
the tables, by a score of slaves, and the. throng pre
tuned to commence the sumptuous meal, when s
voice pealed from the pulpit, loud as the blast of a
trumpet in battle, " Star, 'gentlemen and ladies,
till the giver of die barbecue asks God's blessing !"
Every heart vaned, every eye were directed to
the speaker; and a whisperless silence mimed, for
all alike were struck by his remarkable eppearoce.
He was almostra giant in stature, though scarcely
twenty years of age ; his hair dark es the raven's
wing. flowed dean bis immense shoulders in mas
ses of natural ringlets, more beautiful than ever
wreathed around the jeweled brow of a queen by
the labored achievements of Imaiatt art; his eyes
dark as midnight, beamed like stars over a face
pale is 'Persian marble, calm, passionless, spiritual,
and vrearin,g a singular, indefinable expression,
earl as might have been shed by the light of a
dream from Penalise, or the luminous shadow of
an angel's wing. The heterogeneous crowd, bunt
ers, gamblers, nomicides, gazed in mute astonish
ment
The missionary prayed ; bet it sounded like no•
other prayer ever addressed to the donne of the
Almighty.. 4t contained no eneorniume . on the
,splendor of the divine attributes; no petitions in
the tone of earutnarsds ;no ovisausint distant ida
eta, time, 'at oliecti; nor no liopfied lustraetiont
as to the administration aT the government of the
univerite. Ti related exclusively to the present per,.
pie ,std the presee hour; it was the cry at a snak
ed soul, and dun soul a beggar for the bread aid
' the water of heas:enly life.
He ceased, and not tilt then I beeome con
1 , 60114 weepina. I tanked around through my
tear-, and saw a kundre.: - face) wet as with rain
New, my said the ITI . PW4OII6 I fy, " par
tike unit's il'Ar• at the lade, and then come sit
down nail listen to His Gospel."
It would be impo•q•ibto 10,lescribet.the saver
tone ol'kevlness ut which theses maniple mad" were
uttered, Alai made turzt on the iasiant Sae hundred
kiende. One heart, however, in the assembly wis
" kitsiabtzsa 0> D62tilNtt►7iO3 Aunt Asir quints."
maddened by the evidences alba preacheamon
derful poster. Col. Wan Rieman, exclaimed in a
sneering voice: "Mr.-Palal Denton, your rereptner
haS lied,. Yon promised os not only good bitrhe
cue, hatter laws. Whers is the liquor'"
" There!" answered the missimutryr hi tones of
!bender; and pointing his %Whittles e fing'r at the
matchlessflOutile in tsrestrotle
colurrind, with a Petted liko-a shout of joy Irons the
bosinnet the Muth. "There," he 'repeated. with
.a took terrible us lightning, While his enemy Selo
ally trembled on hill feel ; "fliers is the liquor,
which God, t4l , teraal , . brew& for all his cht:iiresa I
R Not in I* simaterbig'inill, over 'smoky fires,
ch . oked svitli poiso"nems gasses, and surrounded With
the ?stench of *ening odors and rank corruption,
Math your Father in Heaven' prepare the precious
esseade of life, the pure cold water. Bet In the
green glade and grosiy dell, where the red deer
wanders, and thenhild loves to play, there God
himself brewed it; end down, low down in the
deepest vaileys, where the fountains murmur and
the rills sing; and high up on the tall mountain
tops where the storm cloud broods, and ihe thun
der storms crash ; and aw a y far out on -the wide
wild sea, where the hurricane howls music, and
big waves roar the chorus, "sweeping the March
•.f God"—there He brews it that beverage of life,
healing -water. And every where it is a thing of
beauty—gleaming in the dew drop; singing in the
summer rain; shining in the Ice-gem, till the trees
all seem turned to living jewels—spreading a gold
en veil over the setting sun, or a white gauze around
the ' midnight moon; sporting in the cataract:
sleeping in the glacier ; dancing in the hail-show
er; folding its bright snow ccrtains softly ihout the
wintry world ; and weaving the .many-colored
that seraph's zone of the sky, whose harp is the
rain-drop of earth, whose roof is the sunbeam of
heaven, all.cheeked o'er with celestial (lowers, by
the mystic hand reflection. Still always it is beau
ti fut—that blessed life-water! No poison bubbles
on - its brink; its loam brings not madnest and mot.
der; tio . blood stains its liquid glasses ; pale wid
ows end starving orphans weep not burning tears
in its clear depth's.; no drunkard's shrieking ghost
from the grave curses it in words of eternal despair !
Speak out my friends, would you exchange it for
the demon's drink, alcohol
A shout like the roar of a tempest answered
(Nor
Critics need never tell me again that backwoods.
men are deaf to the divine voice of eloquence; for
I saw at that moment, the missionary held the
hearts of the multitude, as it were, in the hollow of
his hand.; and the popular feeling ran in a current
so irresistable, that even the duellist, Watt Fite.
man, dares not venture another interruption during
the meeting.
I have iustr'evie wed my report of Chia singular
speech in the foregoing sketch ; but alas ! I dis
cover that I have utterly failed to convey the tall
impression as my reason and imagination' received
it. The language, to be sure is there—that 'never
could forget—but it lacks the spirit ; the tones of
unutterable pathos, the cadences of moarriful mu
sic, alternating with crashes of terrible power; it
Licks the gesticulation, row graceful es the play of
the golden willow in the wind, and anon, violent
as the motion of a mountain 'pine in a hurricane;
it lacks the pale face wrapped in its dream of the
spirit land, and those unfathomable eyes, flashing a
light such as never beamed from sun or stars; and
more than ail, it lacks the magnetism of the mighty
soul that seemed to diffuse itself among the hear
ers, as a viewless stream of electricity, penetrating
the brain, like some secret fire, melting all hearts,
and mastering every volition.
The Camp meeting confirmed, and a revival at
tended it, such as never before, or since, was wit
nessed in the forests of Texas. But unfortunately
orr the last of the exercises, news arrived on the
ground that, a neighboring farmer bad been mur
dered; and his wife and children carried away pris
oners by the Indians.
The young missionary sprang into the pulpit, and
propotied the immediate organization of a company
to pursue the ravages The suggestion being
adopted, the mover himself was elected to head the
party. After several days of hard riding they' over.
took the barbarous enemy in the grand prarise.—
The missionary charged foremost of his troop, awl
having performed prodigies of bravery, fell—not
by the hand of the Irsdittn--bot by a shot from one
of his own horsemen !
limed scarcely name the assasisn ; the reader
will have anticipated me ,The ineam,ate fiend,
Cot. Watt Foeman, chief hangman of the Shelby
Lynchers, and ten years later, a Master cook at the
Poisoned Wedding !
Such is the only fragment. from the biography of
wonderful gettitts ; the sole twinkling ray of a
dazzling luminary, that rose and set lathe wilder.
ness : a torn leaf from Pant Denton'ts book of life.
• Peace be with his ashes. He sleeps well in that
' lone isle of evergreepi, surrounded by The ever.
green sea of the great prairie. Itrectures bel . cred
son inherits her costliest tomb--that jaatpossession,
the inalienable ke.eirnple of all lime I.64 , Great
Wed.
A Lasiraza , sisii Dom a were discussing the an
tiqeiry of their responds* professions, and each cit.;
edintbority to-prase biethwnioet ancient. "Mine,"
said the d pte oi !genera% "runinnenced alined
with the a cold's era; Cain siewl4 brother Abeli
and that was a criminal case in common law !"--
t enjoined E4colaplus, btn tnY"roleission
is coeval ;rith the ereatkm itst.ll. Old mother live
was made out of a rib -taken from Adam's body,
and that oraa d Surgical Operaticn." The lawyer
dropt his green bug.
Bev Mortr.—Where peach leaves, pounded with
'ah, are put ntider * bee-hive, I have not fern a
bee-moth Although my hives hare heretofore
atufleretl much from tehafiource, the .Itlnptfcm . nf fins
plan kat canoed lhe utothi,lo .1g comeast inisitus.*
—Prairie Farmer,
THE UPON.
DT D. 11. Lonortuour.
Thud, too, sail, on, 0, ship of State!
flail on, 0 IlniOn.strantt Ana/Meat?
Heinsnity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future year*.
Whanging breathless on tby
e know what master la.d thy keel.
What wrirkinan wrought thy tilts of sleet
Who made titbit itiaat, and sail, and rope.;
. Whatianyilalang, what hemmers beat, , •
In what a forge, t ied what a heat.
" Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
reartiot each sudden sound and sboOlti
'Tis of the wave zed not the rock;
'Tit bat the aapisg of the sail. .
And 'iota rent made by the gale!
In spite ntroek and tempest mar,
Sett on, nor Rai, to breast the sea! •
Oar.hearta. our hopes, are all with thee
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, oar teats,
Oar faith triamphant o'er our fears.
Ate all with thee—are all with thee! •
The Seven-Maw Pieta
was daring . the panic of 1826, that a genUe•
man, whom we shall call Mr. Tompsoa, was seat-
ed with sorgething of. a melancholy look, in his
dreary back morn, watching his clerks paying
away thousands of pounds hourly. Thompson was
a banker of excellent credit; there existed,
,perhaps,
is the city at London,-no safei concern than that o
Messrs. Thompson Sr. Company ; but at a/gement
such as I speak of, no rational reflection was admitt
ed; no tormer stolidity was looked to ;a general dis
trust was felt, and every one rushed to his banker's
to withdraw his hoard, fearful that the next instant
would be too late, forgetting entirely that this step
was that of all others the most likely to insure the
ruin which he sought to avoid.
But to return.. The wealthy citizen sat gloomily
watehiug the out pou ring of his gold, an,' with spin'
smile listened to the clamorous demands on his
cashier; for although he felt patiently easy and so
;
' cure as to the ultimate strength of his resources,
yet he could not repress a feeling of bitterness, as
he saw constituent after constwient rush in, and
those whom he had fondly imagined to be his
dearest friends, eagerly assisting its the run upon
his strong box.
presently the door n,nened•and a stranger was
ushered in, who, after gazing for a moment at the
bewildered banker, coolly drew a chair; and ab
ruptly addressed him to the following singular
language.
You sc ill pardon me, air, for a strange gnesition:
but I am a plain man, and like to come straight
to the point."
"Well, air. " impatiently interrupted the Whet.
" I have heard that you Pave had a run on your
bank sir,"
Well!"
" Is it uue
"Really, sir, I most decline replying to you•
very ex traorlinary query. It, lion ever, you have
any money in the bank you had better at once draw
it nut, and so ssti.fy yourself; our cashier will in
stantly pay you, - and the banker rose, as a hint
for the stranger to withdraw.
" Far from it sir ; I have not one sixpence in your
hands."
"Then may I ask what is your business here r
"I wish to know if a small sum would aid you
at this moment!"
" Why do you as: the question r
" Because if it would, I would gladly pay in a
small deposit"
The money dealer started.
"You seem surprised ; you don't know my per.
son or my motive. rll at onre explain. Do yon
recollect some twenty years I;T°, when you maid.
ed at Essex lii
" Perfectly "
• Well, then, sir, perhaps you have not lorgotton the
turnpike gate trough which you passed daily?—
My farther kept that gate, and was often tailored
by a few minutes chat with you. One Christmas
morning my farther was sick and T attended the
toll bar On that day you passed through, and I
opened the gate for yon. Do you recollect this, tit r ,
" Not 1, my friend."
"No sir; few such men remember their kind
deeds, but those who are benefiled by them. sel
dom forget them I am perhaps prolix ; listen,
however, only a lew moinents longer, and I shall
have done."
Tire banker begasie be-intetesteds sad at oncc
assented
, g Well, sir, as I said before, I threw ripen the"
gate to you. acd considered myself In duty
bound, I wished you a happy C'hritsmas. "'Thank
Sod my replied you—."thank you, and the
same to you : here is a trite to make it so;" -and
you threw me a seven-stilling piece. It was the
first inoney i ever iiessessed ; and never shall 1 for
get my jny at receiving if; or your kind smile in
bestowing it. I long treasured it; and as T grew up,
added.stAttle te.it, nil I was abler to rent sr trill my
self. You left that part of the country and I Inst
sight Of lOU. Yearly, however, nave been gett
ing offl your present brought good fortune with it;
Taft no 4 cOrtiparatively rich, and to yea I consider
it*is . lll. So this morning, hearing accidentally
thattbere west a run on your bank,. I collected all
torcapilat anti have broughtil to lodge with you
in cuseit-can be of any use. Here it is," and be
banded-,a bundle of bank ;totes to the agitated
ThlDmPsPu- • "La a Ipw days otgikas;%and
throwing down his card, walked out of the room,
and left the premises.
Thompson undid shill roll; it contained - thirteen
thousand poondd l The stem-hearted banker--fur
all bankers must be stem—burst into tears. • The
find did not require this prop; bat the motive wad
so noble, that wren a millionare sobbed ; he could
not help It. The fruit is still one of the first in
Lendon.—Englith Paper.
Emo. Morse Hoz.n.,—Take aping' -of Common
hiellsearister the hole with it, and yolz Wiry reel ,
assuretlyou willfieve no Molter. table flint altat
quarter. It ,is equally efloornall as t alin . sate,
towhee am, sync z
iiimitylcurQpirtrript or
WASHING. MADE EASY. .
(Our readers may bsive.seen insomtiofthe CMS.
paperi, an advertisement, beaded, "Washing Made
asy," tiT Mrs. Reared% wherein- she 'premises to
give certain valuabielittra and feformsrien in re•-•
gapt to Waiting. for the suns of oae dollar, Be
low will be Wand her great secret, which we pnhlish,
thinking if may possibly be useful to hoesewivis.)
ea. fleresegitr
Madame B. heed' not eater into a long disterta
on the troubles of Washing 'Day These are al
ready tb well known. Her o*ct is to impart in
formation that will obviate all these troubles, and
render W . as . AißgThrypir . tileasaq,lS:p . py of die seven
and at the same time, &see labor, wear of clothes,
tearing oftbuttode, skinning of hands, the cost ot
washboard., machines, pounding barrels, Ste. '
• rzresite. -
Pat your- clothes lb seek in soft" water, (just
enough escorts them.) the night;Defore you wish
to sestsh If a few quarts of strong soapsuds are
added so much the better. Shoolil the wristbanda
or binding of shirte be eery dirry 'rub in such spots
a little soap, before patting to soak, THIS IS ALL
THE RUBBING about the whole washing. After
puning-the clothes In .soak, take three orinces.of
fresh nnslackedlime, halls pound of common soda,
and half a pound &good hard soap, (Out 'beerier ,
in small pieces.) or half a pint of strong home-made
soft soap, in a vessel by themselves, and pour on
them one gallon of boiling soft water: shake them
tip and stir them well, and let all stand till morning,
when you most take this liquor and strain' it. being
very careful not id have the particle of settling;
poured off with the Heuer. When you get ready
to wash. have ten gallants of boiling soft water in
your kettle or boiler, into which poor the liqnor
made from the soap, lime and soda. (keep out the
settlings.) and place an earthen plate in the bottom
of the boiler. to keep, the clothes tom burring.—
(Some persons also enclose their finest linens and
cottons in a bag before placing in the boiler; 'Ma
dame B. considers this a good plan) First rins
ing them in warm water. Then pot your clothes
into the boiler and boil them half ell hour. (The
same water will answer for three lots of clothes,)
Then take them out, scald them, and rinse in clew
soft water, warm dr cold, and your clothes will be
as clean and white as diiven ) snow, and all vrithont
rubbing or machinery. By this ztan the finest linens,
tares, eambrics, &c. can be earlity and easily
cleansed. Woolens are not to be washed by this
method. Madame B can safely assert that bet
plan is the easiest . mode of washing ever discover
ed. By it one person can do the washing of a
tamily of twen'y persons before breakfast, have the
clothes out to dry, and the house kept in good or
der, and the gentlemen of the family, as well as
all about the house, free from washing day an
noyances. Should the clothes to be washed re
quire more or less than ten gallonsof water to boil
them try mote or less soap, lime or soda, can be
I used in -proportion. When there is any di ffi culty
1 in always procuring hesh lime, a liquor can be
made from it which will keep for years, if corked
ap, and always be ready for use.
Madame B. wound advise her patrons to divide
their clothes into two or more parcels before boil=
irm, as the coarest, dirtiest and most greasy ones
ought not to be boiled with those of finer labric
containing less- dirt, as the water in which they are
boiled must, of course, partake of its contents.—
The finer, cleaner clothes can be boded first, or the
waxes for boiling the clothes in, (containing the li
quor of soap, nine and soda.)can be divided ihto as
many parts as you have parcels of clothe!, and
thus boil each parcel its proper time. When put
in soak before washing the clothes should be sepa
rate.
lb ilea Calicoes or Cotton Printed Goods —Take
a pint bowl of wheat flour and make it into a paste
with eold water. then pour this paste into two gal
lons of boilitrg soft water and boil for ten minutes. -
Then add enough of cord water, wash the calicoes
without snap. After this Water nose the clothes in
clear cold stater, rind if stiffness is reqnired add to
the tinting Water a little flour starch made as above.
By this system of washing calicoes seldom Or ever
fade. The quicker calicoes are washed, rinsed and
dried the better. They should be dried in the
shade if possible. Beef's gall mixed with the wash
water improves the eoltr..s.
To3fstke Starch fir Liner', Cotton, §-c one
citrate of the bete starch and just enough of soft
cold water to mate it. (by rubbing and stirring,in.
to a thick paste, carefully breaking well the lumps
and particles. 'then rubbed perfectly smooth add
nearly dr grille a pint of boiling water, (wlith bluing
to suit the taste,) and boil fur at least half do ;tour,
tak lit cart to keep it all stirred all the time to pre.
tent its banning. ' When not stirring keep it cover
ed to prevent the aectimnlation of dust, &e. Al-o
keep it covered *hea retooled from the fire to
prevent a scum from arising on it. To give the
linen a fine smooth. glossy appearance, and lire
vent The iron front sticking, add a litdesperrnaceti,
(a piece as large as a nutmeg.) to the starch when
boiling, and half a teaspoonful of the finest table
salt. It you have no spermaceti, (to be had cheap
of any druggist,) take a pies of the purest, whitest
bog's lard or tallow, (mutton is the best,) about as
iarge'ase nutmeg, or twico Thia_quantity of the m
utual lord sugar, and boil with tins starch. In iron=
bag linen collars, shirt bottoms, their appearance
wilt be much improved by rubbing them be4ne
ironing with a clean white towel dampened in
softwater. The bosom of a -shirt should be the
last part ironed, as this will prevent, its being soil
ed. All starch should be *trained before wsinf % ',.
To Clear Starch lttl2, te..--Siarch for laces shbulti
be thicker and used hotter than for klinens. After
yoer laceshave been wellWavited'and dried, dip
them into thethick hot starch in such a way as to
%tie every part properly Matched. Therr wringall
The •stafElt tout of them acrd siweatithernourtrottlith
air artiereS etlieen, eta roll them op'tokether and
let them remain for abonrhalf an hour. 'When thltv
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PTA RCHINa•--CLEAR PTA/tern:CO, ETC
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as
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Will be dry enough tr iron. ,Locewshould never
be clappea between the hands as it injhres (hem:—
Cambric:3 do not require so igk starch &sr net or
lace. Some people prefet eolfd or yaw march for
book-muslin; 05 some of thiwkiml Oimuslin ,has a
thick clammy a eiranc_ i i slarehed in 601E41
starch& Fine /aces: aro sopetimesw - ounti atioulltr
fki s iA t
er hi nu (try; Aichtirbitenis theni irate
r ed mos
lin can be iron ._.ecqstora smooth. ,
ing or sad •••ees &ARA, 01. Bcarea
irons fine laces thus :—When her lace has beep
starched and 51rie.1 ready for ironing, she spreads
it out asantooth as possibleon, her ironing cloth, and
passes over it back and ford►, as-qtrielly as sbe can.
a sMoOth sound glti= s'f tontaintng• lot xiiter,
giving the bottle such pressure as may be requited
to smooth the !see. Sometimes she passes the hi
etl•6ver the bottle, taking care Id keep it sinooth.
Either - way is much better than to iron laces with -
an iron. In filling the bottle with hot water, r:170
most be takenitarto pour it in too fast as the bottle
will break.
To Clem II:id Gloat —Lay am gloves on a clean
towel, and rub them with a piece et white flannel.
dipped in a *rang, lather or sods made of u lii:e
*crap, till t ediriis remoi•ed. The -less -water the
better, and the Faster they are rubbed the beater—
Hang-them up a di-tance from the fire to dry. ruld
-when Ariel pull out the wrinkles and stretch theM
on the hand. If you have campheno or spirit gas,
(,burning Iluitl,) rub thein 'with a cotton cloth dipp •
evl in either, and dry as above. To take out the
scent of the camphene take the gloves when than!
or stye r:het - 1i and roll them up in a cloth or hand•
herehiet on which you have dropped a few 'chops
of colcigne water or other perfumery..
Gf:ayse. Spots on Woolen Cloth, Silk, Linen or Cot
ton.—lay be removed by rubbing on. the spot a
li , tle moiztened magnesia, and %vixen dry .brush I t
off; Another method is to wash and peel oft t!in
Arial:Pi a potato•and cut in alines and rub ifie :spot
with cue or more slices till cleaned.
Paint may be removed by rubbing with %cooler;
rafts dipped in turpentine, and afterwards tin strong
soap ends.
Lk Stains mid Iron AV° tilds can be remoceti by
salts oflemon.
To' Was& ani Clem SO: Dre.q.s. &0.--Yrony per-
Ts sal - 1;16-e that silks cannot be washed, arni . un -
der this impres4ion hare Nu aide or given away
Such &eases as nearly worthless. Silks can 1..0
washed without injury by I%ladame licarelt's . sys
tem. To sun-TNKest if may be net to take
the dress to pieces, or partly' so, if very full. The.
silk should be laid on pen feetly smooth boa - 11; and
rubbed one *ay wiih a fine flannel well 'so: Ted
with pure goap, and wet in soft, milkwarm wa'er,
rub.in this way till the dirt is removed,. then Like a
sponge wetted iu cold water, (whiskey or a!'icoliol
is better) w . rub oft all the soap or suds lelt on
the silk. After thus cleaning one side ttim the
silk and clean the other side. th - ehnest slik and
silk ribbons may thus ge made as cleat as new --
Silk MockingS may be washed in a weak soil ,
suds and dried by 1111)h:rig them with dry. flannel,
or ironed with a warm (not hot) in on, placing a
blanket between the stocking and the Gala
should never be wrung after washing, but hung up
I
to dry in the air in the diode, or hung on a hore.e
within doors. The sun will fade the colors. A but
iron should never be used on siiks--one just wafrn
may be used. Black silk is often CleiMeil by be-
In; rubbed as above in beers gallwater,..and -clean
ed off with the sponge. Silk can be dried by
suetchiog out smooth with pins. The quicker silk
is cleaned and dried - the better.
Black LIC6 Veils are cleaned by passing them
through warm gall (beef's) water and rinsing v ui •
cold water, and dried on a frame or by itiuning,
out.
Cashmere Shawls . and Illrrinos may betleaned lv
passing them through cold water having o in it a
suds made of soap and alcchol and purified ox gall
and rinsed in alum water, and dried on flames, of'
pinned out:
Status from Frua, etc —.itlay he removed by rub
bing on virits of ammonia. If the stains are' qu itc
recent they may be removed by soap and Whiting
mixed together, and then bleached. our butter
milk often removes arch stains. If the stains on
linen am old rub each side with hard snap, then
put on a thick cold water starch and rub it well in,
and expo..e to the sun and' air for duce or fear days.
To Remove iiilaew from Linea.—.ifoisten a piece
of hard snap and rub on the parts affected. Then
rub over the spots with whiting, lay it on the grass
to dry and bleach, and as it becomes dry moisten it
a few times.
To Raise the File of Velvet when pressed riiiins.-
I,lTerm a smoothing ISM moderately & cover it with
a wet cloth, and lay it or bold it under the velvet
on the wrong side ; the steam horn this will pene
the velvet, and you can raise the pile with a com
mon broom brush and make it appear as, good as
new. ,
To Clean Silks, Staffs, .altrinos, Printed Canna,
Chilibel, de, by the use of Potatoes, without injur
ing the Colors. Grate taw potatoes • washed and
peeled, an a fine pulp, add, water in the proportion
of ..pint to a pound of potatoes, pars the hquid
through a seine into a vessel where it is to remain
mil the fine white starch subsides to the botiOnt—
Pour off the clear liquor, which is tole -used for
cleansing. To perforro this process ' , spread the
-article to be cleansed on a table coverecimitha linen
-cloth; di? a sponge into the petatd 'iglu* and 'nab
on the cloth until the dirt is remoreti, then wash
the cloth inielear waist d feW times. , •
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a good wan to lire ion. "Yes," said the little sis
ter, "and motber'e tine comb to% right in three
Pecs"
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ler be:heti* tetultectite2;:the Jsater, lieeplrst
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