• . - r i jagn ZUtro 1:0 'w ANDA: oatarbal morning, 'April 15. 11354. S)1 ALL-PDX. lariat:l—Thtory of themense—Dis •ind. Cmilllll9li n d'Modyieri Sympt— CaUSE". /lsrci,mit —1 reatment Inoculation— Vaccine die. V a cct7/11/101 1 and Kr vaccination * 'The far' that many cases at small poz have late ,icrarred in this County, arid the general want la formaima in regard to a disease so greatly arid but little known, is our excuse for „spring and publishing in the Reporter, the fol. '312 amide. 'Our object principally is to give readers, a gent rat view of the disease in all m odifications, as now regarded by medical n—bat more parrii•ularly by bringing the subject 0 . lie Ihern at a time when contagion is every- W, ere around us, to direct their attention to the rev now generally received in regard to re-vacs .Stea and to urge upon them the necessity for i • t g those precautions which are necessary for rnlual safety and the welfare of community. titseaAe appears from the moat authentic an . •,•ttes tttl have prevailed in India and China from ; :tr trnirtemori.d. Thbre is no prool that it was _en to 'he anconti Greeks or R“manot Europe : Dec:tme wrh it through the Ara .rs. It is said in have shown itself in Arabia the time 01 the birth of Mahommed and to I.l%.tded Syria E..!vpt and Southern Europe . fi r;) the ar mies ol 10. %Ilerega.orgi Ttvrt r• t•nt• e ,, ' vanetie et the disease have been ,10,1 t,y m , sI rattlers upon the subject, the - ;rultrirt a ,I.he ; h (ormercharacterized 'he r•tr)t.r . rorr or the imottnier4 the linter by their rzw , rier. rhere are bestrie4. numerous eorn• rn , rtirieat lons of the tiu.eaee most of :‘ , ;rll.lre ;..citled under the title of carioloid 4 A C.l`. , regular srnali it•A h a ve three distinct I ilie initial or crap ive lever; 2of •he and o•atora , t:r - in of the eruption ; anti 3 of rne ruentotirmy fyrnp!orns of the --.444- Ir. dki , uct oin4ll-pox, ale such an often ush '-• tlier may be briefly elm , Awl usually wllll 1 . 1:2016 01 wlur•h are followed by -4 • • e,e,.,., .• .•t• he puke. furred lunette, _~;.ga. uneasiness. nl'en ' .• . -. pains in the back =MEI a. muscular we,,kness. And It I ,', , i ., 11 ...,,,, •„• ; --leo. a li,•re :he sense of rzer i• not stain... ' ' a , err's cr,! even physt f at .:. m „ntem n L ~,\ , •. .: , il , " ~ L l'. n,i.ute , cii toe ~ prnpl init. until its a.,. ~ILemeril to 'he second :; ktt , lf t he re is a li c,r,“,g pi altar to distinguish :rum a common frbrilc all.wk, it is the violence (fie pant, in the ~,r nall of ihe b.ick, and the Ire. tent occurrence of obstinate vomiting, which can• i• be relerred Io,gastrie Inflammation or cerebral ),rase a , rd which often resists all the remedies Itcan he applied. The lever is decidedly re an, anal u-ually continues for three or (Our days, . t Lett -üb-vd,ts upon the occurrence of the erup -1.t,t.. generally commences in the course of '1 -.; 1,-,l ,l.iy. though often so slight at first, that it ;;,,.v,mmediately observed. Minute bright red •z.t . li , show themselves upon the lace, soon after : rat t, up , rri the neck, upon part of the breast, and r..arrna, arid at last upon afl parts of the trunk and -' ~ e x•rornities. The eruption is generally er/Ill• e.i. I.) !lie end of the fourth. or beginning of the 2! d., t, at whic.i - time the fever has entirely dts ',. ,•;....ate,t' MIMI llc in_ .he period of mruration the body of the :Lent exhaled a peculiar and disagreeable odor, y.. , !0c1i one familiar with the disease can gener- Teo2riize it r , e,sc . aibi. begin to fall off ihe face on the tour st , h and fifteenth days, and by ihe iwenty-first %Ice entirely fallen oft he body leaving blotches • ceilili-tt brow- which sometimes l ion ire they disappear Some of e,pe,,tally of the face in consequence %:,re u!cerative 4structiori - of the true skin, leave vat! , or pre, which are never eflecert fhe whole nttriv uf the disease occopies from two to three tt.t, Clyiunt small pox. is a more aggravated for ...me disease, and there are many gradations 4! - xer-i'itte extremes of the two varieties. No .de.te can he more revolting in its general lea ; PP. than a severe cue of confluent small-pox ..e Lies and scalp swell so much that the eyes are closed, every feature obaterated. and the bead monstrously Aimed The whole tare ofted invested with a' mask of dark-colored Matt teneath which matter exists, and when they /`' ' o m .li. as they are apt to be. in consequentse Int.upportable itchinge which attends their ~m ation,a bloody discharge from the raw surfaces 4 , ' , place Di.torganiztrin inflammations are apt :3 OCCUt to various parts of the body; troublesome Itwc ""°_..t l ttd boils break ont ; eruptive olfaction, are d"eVved awing rise to intrarilbie sores, de s rtleliVe attacks of ophthalmia occur, whisk are aP' ' 0 leave behind them the lORR of one or. both el When alone. with thane phenomena, the intolera blPlelnt WhICII POiateil horn the patient is taken pro con , iderahon, II ray be cavity conueoed, the; lee objeco- rn /wore are more revolting to, our mnses and ~e rtathilittes than a patient in a.tark of confluent small-pox The premonitory symptoms do not differ from firmer variety nt ttte tioteatm;eacept perhaps in the ritdettee at the mould fever, and-itie severity of the P 41116 in the back In the more ageravated cases, ath FlenP,ally takes place from the seventh to the rhis a rich. ha, been compiled with great care, 1 4, 11 the very ne%t a r ~o gwledged medical anthointes stnexunil.r deteri nee ~..Ine had to the opinions of fi. WOOO. Pro tes,•or of the Theory and P rdetiri. of Medicine in the University of 1 . " I,eapsyl Ma. President of the Coliege of Phys icians of Ph d , Orlphia, &c.. whnse Treatise on the Practice of is in higher repute than any other te.rbeal work of the prcselt . ~ r. .• • m ... ~, , 7. 7.:. , ..; )•. 3-..it..4 z : • .•.• •• 7 -i . •, %, '1 • , ,-, • ~ ,....,•;,rosz; ":. .O. , JAV ,,, •'' ~ . - - , , :.-. . , .1' . )..r.-.1 , 1.1! , .• f . tr,i4e,_.. ..- . t ,, ,.. , ....,.. . •) . A ;.;...- ",, ..„,.. v.!, ra... ' ,'-‘'. '. 5' . ~. ' e 1 ~.... ' i• ..,'...' , if -, ••'i:,; . - • ; 4 -1 !) ! E!! :. :r. 7,, ..-:.; . .t 15 . 1 ., II I I „.? • 7 hit: -.-. .., : 17 • , i - A+ -.:,. . -, 1*1141 ' . ~.. : ~.....: „c.,. „~..... - , . - , • , '• . sl '.' 1.7 , ~,,,,, 4 . .‘ 7. 4' l ,r . , ' ".•.3)* >7.. I •:-.. 4 -. .7" . : ''',•'' ' . :• , i'i , ` .7 . ,••• •.!, .7.4' 4... . : •". • • o - .1. i . , . . . '-' • or , ...7'.,....4 . .: - .:::f ,- ,: - .: 7: " .'"..--.,_ ~..." -...1, ninth day of the disease. Should the disease not prove laud, the patient enters into a slow convales cence, which is sometimes extended for (our-or five week& There are, however, some cases of confluent small-pox which run a more kindly coarse, and which, after surmounting the dangers of morn ration, go on without interruption to a more favora ble issue. FOrisuiately, cases .of this aggravated form of this disease are comparatively rare: Varioloid.—This is a modifidatioa 61 the disease, the result of the qualifying influence of vaccination, or previous small-pox. That it is a form of small pox is proved by the facts that it is produced by exposure to the contigion of that thattase,. avid is capable of - producing small-pox in the unprotected The premonitory symptoms vary but little-from that in the preceding varieties. The lever particularly, may be severe, but a no feattre of the case is , that it bears no proportion to the amount of the eruption. The shorter notation of the eruption and the comparative absence of odor, may be con aidered as the diagnostic signs of varioloid. Any case without them, must be looked upon as true small-pox. Notwithstanding the modifying influence of vac cination arid variola, genuine small-pox, in all iti stages, has sometimes followed these diseases; while on, the other hand.modified forms of the com plaint have been noticed in persons who had nev er been afflicted with either of them. Varioloid is very seldom dangerous, and is much less apt ihan the small-pox, with an eqoal amount of eruption to leave pits behind it. Never theless, th , ..se do occasionally occur, r and the dis easesumetimes proves latal, generally in noose quence of some accidental complication. The cause of small pox is universally admitted to be a specific contagion. This is indeed one of the most contagious of diseases The sufferer may tax his memory lot a recognition of his exposure, but in vain, and the problem may remain forever unsolved. The accidental contact, with a passer in the street,or the contagion inithe moat unexpect ed locality, may communicate", the disease to him, the first warning of which, will be the advanced stages of the disease to the eye of the skilful Ova iciau. There are very few hot protected by vac cination or a previous attack of this disease, not lia ble to be affected, by it on exposure Occasionally an individual is met with, whp has resisted (heel (pets of contagion to old age; hut even such per sons are not secure What products of the diseas ed holy are contagious is not exactly known ; but the puruleru contents of the pustules and their dried scabs are certainly so. Opinion is not settled as to the period of the dis ease at which is contagious ; some believing it to be so, only after the commencement of supports. tion, while others, with greater prudence, consider it as capable of self.propagation,'ig any period after the first estat lishment of the fever It is certain that the body retains the power of imparting the disease atter death; according to Mr. Hankins for a period of at least ten or twelve days without con tact. Some have.have supposed that the odor is connected with the contagious effiu•ia; but it car tainly is not essential to their activity; for the dis ease may be propagated tram cases , in which there is no appreciable smell. The contagious principle attaches itself to clothing which retains it sometimes for months, and it has been said for years, when confined. ut it appears to be easily dissipated in the air so as to become inert ; for the well authen heated instances are very few, in which physicians have conveyed it from one person to another. At. tempts have been made to determine the 'distance from its source at which the volatile poison is ca. gable of acting ; but there are necessarily futile ; for the distance must varl greatly with the con centration of the poison ;and it= activity is probably much greater in certain conditions of the atmos phere than others, as, fir example, during the pre valence of a varilons epidemic. It is certain that that the contagion may extend directly from it Bin u,le chamber to all the individuals of a large house, and even to those of a neighboting house. In relation to the effect of the contagion, it does not appear that the peculiar character of the Com municating case has any influence upon the form and grade of the one produced. Thos, the severest confluent case ma' produce the mildest form of the distinct variety, and vice versa. The time which intervenes between the recep tion of the poison, and the beginning of the prima ry fever, is generally horn nine to twelve days,bot the attack is asserted to occur sometimes so early as the fifth day, and in othet instances to be post poned to the end of the second or third week. Unmodified small-pox is a very fatal,and was for: merly a very destructive disease. The general average of deaths is stated at one in four Under favorable circumstances of livtng and treatment, it would undoubtedly be much less The varieties dif fer greatly in the amount of their danger. The dis tinct, when uncomplicated,is seldom fatal; the malig nant almost always ends in death. The fatal cases of variolnid are comparatively very few; and in the vast majority of cases the affection is very tri fling except frormthe corn, deration mat it may be source of danger to the unprotected. The disease is more fatal at the two extremes of life than at its intermediate wages. Plethora and debility are both unfavorable. The intemperate are very apt lo die The disease is often fatal, and always dangerous in pregnancy; and abortion not unfrequently mews. Death may take place at any period of the disease, from the, time of the attack to the end of the fifth or sixth week. The greatest number of deaths, however, Weer between the twelfth and eight:tenth days. In few diseases hapimedical opinion undergone a more beneficial change than in this Under the opinion that the eruption Was an efiervol nature to rid the system of noxious matter, which-if retained most prove fatal, it was formerly deemed impel lent to favor instead of topless MI process. The same notion yet prevails with som4 in repeal to the eruption in measles. Hence arose the practice of sedulously czcludiag fresh air from tho sick Mtn: PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT. TOWANDA BRADFORD COUNTY;PA., BY E. O'MEARA) GOODRICH. - " SEISIIDLEEIS "NENUNCIATION FROM ANT 9,VAIVTEN.7 heaping up bed",olothria`ipbh, the, patient ; giving hot drinks, . and. sot ;infrequently administering stimulants. Now; that the greatest danger: in email Pox is known to arise from•the eopiousneer of the eruption, it will be readily understood how fatal must have been the disease under the old system of practice., To Sydentiam belongs the matt of changing the current of medical sentiment upon this subject. living bye series of experiments, asertained the favorable effect& of an opposite . plan of treatment, hetecommended it in his works ; and refrigerant measures arernow universally admitted to be the Most efficient in' the cure of the disease, - as they are certainly the . nost agreeable to the pa tient. Throughout the treatment the greatest care should be taken tp keep the apartment well yenta. kited, to change the clothing of the patient, and his bedclothes frequently, and to remove everything offencive from the chamber. Of very great importance in evening or _less ening the ravages of this disease, was the plan of ilia:a:lion, or imparting of smallpox by the inser tion of the virus into the akin. The disease thus produced, while infinitely milder and safer than when taken in the natural way, is scarcely less ef fectual in protecting against a secofid attack. It was therefore, a happy discovery, and was employ ed with vast individual benefit before vaccination became known. It ie said to have been, practised from the earliest time in India, arid was certainly familiar to the people of Turkey, long before it became known in Western Europe. It was intro duced into England chiefly through the agency of the celebrated Lady Montagu, who became ac quainted with it is bile residing in Torkey, as the wife of the Bluish Ambassador. Though much op prwed at first, it gradually made its way into almost universal adoption. o?casionally inoculated small-pox proved fatal; but the chief objection to the practice is, that though it protects the individual inoculated, it makes him the centre of a contagious influence, and thus tends inevitably to keep up the disease in a community- Hence the practe of inoculation is forbidden ,under a heavy penalty. The discovery of the vaccine disease was un questionably one of the greatest benefits ever be srolied by medical science upon the human fami ly The fact that a disease occasionally appeared in the cow, capable of being imparted to man, and of seeming him against small-pole, Stems to have been long since known, and to a limited extent acted upon in various parts of the world, and it was bythe existence of a popular belief of this kind,that the belief was reduced to a certainty. The merit of the observation's and experiments necessary to demohstrate the efficacy of the disease, as a safe guard against small-pox, of bringing the art into general use, is due to Dr. hmseit of Gloucester, England. Being largely engaged in the practice of inoculation, he found certain individuals who obstinately resisted the infection, and ascertained, in relation to Mope persons, that they had been af fected with the complaint derived from cows, which was supposed to be a preservative against small pox. Acting upon the idea suggeste.l, a se ries of experiments verified that it might be artifi cially communicated with the same effect. The next step was the establishment of the fact that the' disease may be propagated from individual to •n -dividual. Dr JENNER, in 1798, published his discovery, sustained by such an array of proofs, as - to excite immediate attention. But it was only after years of discouragement and opposition, that the science became firmly established. The British Parliament made him a gift of 30 000 pounds sterling, as an acknowledgment of the benefit !he had conferred upon mankind. Al this day the merit of the dis covery is universally ascribed to !him, and the name of Dr JENNER will ever be regarded as one of those who have left their fellow-mortals a legacy of un speakable value. Previons to the letroduct ion oflinoculation, small pox was one of the most dreadful scouiges ever. sinned upon the human family Since the drecove ry of Ur. JERRNga , it has bectime comparatively but little dreaded, and in a majority of cases is readily confined to a limited circle—generally composed of those exposed to the contagion before us real character becomes apparent. Much greater secu rity could be afforded, if proper attention was paid to vaccination—though even this almost certain se curity can never be made the means of totally ex tirpating the disease, because it is an established fact, that small-pox sometimes springs up anew, independently of contagion. Vaccination unquestionably affords the best at tamable security, greater even t than that accruing from a previous attack of small pox. It was for merly supposed that a single successful vaccination would prove for all time a certain preventive of small-pox; but this is now a matter of much doubt. It cannot now be defied that a single vaccination does not afford the permanent security it was sup. posed to do. Probably one half or those vaccina ted successfully are liable to more or less effect from the variolous contagion—and particularly du ring the epidemics prevalence of variola. It is suppoSed by some that the preservative in. fluence lasts about seven years, hom the fact that children under eight years olt are seldom attacked. But the conclusion is nor justified by the (acre of the case. It the gradual failure of the vaccine pro tectivirinlturnietrwins the law; it ought to bo note general Whereas, itla known-to be the case, that about one.balf of the vaccinated are permanently protected. ExperienciershOws a greater tendency to varioloid (luring the epidemic prevalence of small pox than at other times; and he greater frequency between the ages ottilteen and twenty-five. A de gree of protection sufficient at ordinary times, may fail during an epidemie,-.ot during the ages before mentioned, which earlier or later in life, will be sufficient. - 4 • But if onerveerfriation lane . to afford' • senarity ag,ainst a nio,l iithilittanic of small- oxin eery ma ny ininances,, z yet- a certain remedy is afforded' in n vaccination. This operation should be einployyd -', , r. w ME . in every case' isthicti has dot Wen tested by expos ure iti'small:jui - i Contaaion during an epidemic . al. prevence of the disease. The following are the reasons for this advice There can be no car. tainty that an individual, only once vaccinated, may not have en attack of modified small-pox, on ex posure; and though die attack wilt probably be moderate, no one can predict, with confidence th - at it may not be severe and even dangerous. 2. , 4bun• dant experience has shown, that a second vaccina tion, properly timed, is capable of supplying any deficiency of protection left by the first, in a vast majority of cases. 'l3n,all occasions, like the present, when so many per••ontare necessarily exposed to the cootagious influence of - small-pox, every possible measure of precaution ste'cnirl, be employed Particularly should vaccination be resorted to by those who have not had the vaccine-Afisease. We are asinn. tshed to learn tram nor physiaris of the proportion at persons who have negiected to savail themselves of this protection, and are coosequeritik liable to have small pox in its very worst forms. lepently occurring cases should prove a sufficient wariiinp, in several of these the person afflicted has been Unaware of the nature of his disease, until the whole neighborhood, in their desire to perform the kindly offices of neighborly charity, have been ex• posed to one of the most loathsome and dieagreea• ble of diseases. Many have gone into the presence of small ,pox. who are wholly. unprotected. Under such circumstances, it is impossible to prevent The spread of the contagion, though it may possibly be confined to neighborhoods . We have shown that although one vaccination, may not be a certain protection, yet re-vaccination is almost invariably so. This is fully established. We need hardly urge upon the members of com munity the adoption of aeeasy an Immunity from a disease which once contracted almost outlaws its subjects, and shuts them off from the ministering offices which are so grateful to the sick. ft should be the care of every head of a family to see that each member is fully protected. Procrastination may be attended with the most deplorable results. The remedy is so simple, so easy of access to *na ry one, that a failure to employ it, admits of no ex cuse. ()tr. One Dr Scwst., of England, has published a book to prove that tobacco was the "forbidden fruit " Now this is something new under the sun, and the wise man was oat of it at once. We clues. lion if Solomon himself ever thought of tobacco be. ing the " forbidden fruit." Indeed, come to think of it, we can't accept this new idea, much as we are disposed to patronize new things. Only think of mother Ere tempted by a plug of tobacco! If .he had been presented with one of Bast's bran-new pipes, or a fancy box filled with royal-scented snuff, she might have transgres sed ; but as we are informed and believe, no such fascinations accompanied the" weed" six thousand years ago. Besides, it is said that Mother Eve was beautiful ; at least we know that Mr Adam was much taken with her, and he was the best judge abour those times; and Milton, an excellent wit- ness, says " Eve was the fairest of her daughters" —an expression as true as it is grammatical at least. Now, only think of the " fairest" promenading the Garden of Paradise, chewing tobacco! Pass [bat man Seutal and Ilia tobacco round.— He'll not do—Lour-ft:ilk Democrat. WOMAN —Do you love her? Has she left home, her parents, her sisters, brothers, her friends, for you— do you love her! have you forgotten the voirs you made her before heaven's tribunal?—has time and the troubles incident on all life made her physically less favorable in your eyes ?—have you (cowmen that her youth, her hopes, her aspirations for that sphere that honorable women covet was pledged to you!—and have you chef ished her, and are you still to her all in all? If you are, then she is happy, and you have acted a pact to be applaud ed by your fellow-men, and yoo wilt receive one Jay. your recompense of reward. But on the other hand, have you become satiat• eJ?— have you fo,gotleu the being you swore to cherish?—have you left her to her own resources, and by your continual abseneel caused her to pine in solitude, like a meek, yet"gentle sufferer?— If you have, remember, oh, man you will one day pay the penally of your neglect TIIINCING Au= —The course of true love never does run smooth. A young gent:etnan of our ac quaintance lately found it so ; and, as he thoucht, to punish the hesitating fair one, rushed off and married himself to another, He 'was a splendidly handsome fellow. The subject being talked of at some party, one of the company said, " Was it not very sudden I I did not know that he was even ac quainted with her." He was a foolish fellow, and being angry with Miss Smith, determined to marry the first girl he met in his pique!" a young lady who was present, innocently: " °dear me, I'tvish be had met me in his pique!" We never heard of a better specimen of thinking aloud. (p The following anecdote is told of n colebrat ed clergyman of Albany ; He told his parishioners be should reserve the best effects of his mind for rainy days—and the worse the weather i the better should be his sermons—end he kept his word. The con sequence naturally was that hia church was never so well filled as in wet weather; and the harder the rain poured down, the more people flocked in. until it finslly became his practice to pray the Lord to bless his flock with rainy Sundays! (Kr " Have pin any limb-born . bonnets !" in goired a . very modest Miss as shap:lntetiei. ."Any wbat . " Any ,liml>lninn bonnets V! "'Any— you don't mean Legpbom The young lady wif "to by , the . giver , restorative/. BEIM SOULS', NOT efAtioN. What shall judge a man from manorirs? Who shall know tinkilay his dress t Paupers may be fit for princes. Princes fit for something less. , Ct ompleit,obirla and.fluly jacket z . May l•ectchtie K.; golden ore. Of the deepest thoughts and feelings— Satin vest con)tl.tio no more. , There ire springs of crystal nectar Ever sweiti ng out of stone, , There are purple buds and golden, Hidden, err/shed and overgrown, God, who moots by soots ha dresses', Loves and prospers you and me, While he values thkuutisthebighest, as pebbles in the sea, Man. upraised above his fellows. , Oft forgets his fellow, then ; Muters—ruleri—lords—retnember That your Meanest hands are men! Man by labor. men by feeling . Men by thought and men ' by fame. Claiming equal rights to sunshine In a man's ennobled nettle; There are foam-embroidered oceans; Theke are little wood clad rills ; There are little inch high saplings, There are cedars on the hills ; Dot Gcd, who4oonts by souls, not stations, • Loves and proper you and me, For to Him all vain'distinctioris Are as pebbles in the sea. Toiling hands alone are builders . Of a nation's-wealth and fame ; Tilted laziness is pensilned, Fed and fattened on the same, By the sweat of other's foreheads, Living only to rejoice. While the poor crtin'e outraged freedom Vainly Vieth up his voice. But truth and justice are eternal, Born with lovelinessand light, 11 And sunset's wrongs shall never pfosper While there is a sunny right; And God, whose world dmlrri voice.is ringing Boundless love to von and me, Wlll sink opire.sinon with its tales, As the pebbles on the sea. THE HALF tinessiarrs.a.—She was only a. half housekeeper. Go where you . would about her home, there was neither taste nor neatness. She would begin with great avidity, but lose all her zeal before she got through. Of her husband's half a dosten new shirts all were pariially finished —one wanted sleeves, another a collar and %Iris'. bands, another a bosom and gusseto, and so on through the whole list. Sevefal skeletons of . quilts lay unfolded in her drawers, and her tables and trunks were loaded with niagmficent promise Her bread was always unpalatable because she forgot this or that—and though she had been mar ried ten years, in all that time the tables was never rightly laid for a meal. Either the salt was want ing a knife or spoon, or some important ingredient. This afforded good exercise for o.e family, and there was at all times a continued running to and fro. She wage half hoocekceper. Her meals were never cared for•after droner, and then it was '• throw it away, it aint much." Moi•lt or linte, it makes the butcher's bill enormous, and her hus band half distracted. There always wood ir tier musty smelling, pantry, mouldy milk, mouldy bread. There always Laid about her room a dozen garments worn out by trampling rather th.iz. use.— She was forever tripping over brooms, forever wondering why cm earth work came sn hard to her. Her children's clothes came to pieces the first day, because they were only half made, and her temper soared quicker than anything else. She was continually lamenting that she ever married, and wondered where some folks got their house work. "Oh ! dear me 1" seemed to be the whole 01 her vocabulary and it would makPone sad to watch her listless movements, and hear her declare that no woman worked en hard as The, which was pretty true, for she had no method. She dragged throUgh lite, and worried through death, for which I tear, like every thing else, she was only half prepared, and IA six daughters to lullow her example, and curse the world with six more half housekeepers.—S. I Ofgun. CosTLY Daksses —The nonsensical love or in. fAtuation for showy and costly dresses is a great curse to the social welfare and repose of society in this woad. And it is a ruling passion which gains ground every day in oui ciiier. Graham, the Ppri gh, y editor of the Saturday Evening Mail. (Philadelphia,) An speaking of this sutjoet. says We observe that the New York tasltionableti die endeavoring to ou:do each outer in the costliness of their evening parties, and it is said that a lady's dress that cost less than one thousand dollars, is con sidered quite a meati affair. There is nothing more vulgar than the attempt on the pan of American ladies to imitate the flunk eyisin of the rich trades-folks of Ein2lantl, who, being shut out of aristocratic cucles by Wod, out• do them in extravagant waste of dollars in all their entertainments, under the delusion that they are thus elevating their social position. • A nth butcher of Loudon, we °Wei ye, asionlahed the natives, recently, by appearing in his carriage in bet shirt sleeves, with a coachman and footman in elegant livery. Now he was a - ..rtian of eense, compared to the vulgar mob of fool± who spend their Kinney in laces, at one hundred dollars per yard, to be cra.•hed at an evening party made up of silly women and young gentlemen in white kids, who never earned an honest , dollar, and are ashamed of their grandlather if he happened to have been a worthy aoap-butler or mechanic. ik western paper speaks , of a man who " died without the .aid of a-physician." Such in standes of daaih are very ram. - 04r The etlitot of an eastorkpapet says that many of bit; patrons wnlild !pada good wheel hors• ea, they " hotJ so well. - , , 4 ,*thrtit Voctri. i.r..:, , -7;s ;;E,n. , i.15 . ,71a --,i-:[ EMI!! Work! Work!l haretseen and heard of people who ihotight it beneath them to work-..t0 employ themselves in- dustriously at some useful labor. Beneath them to work! Why, work is the great motto of life; and he who accomplishes the most by his induitty, is the most oulitireat man, Aye, and is the most distinguished man among his fellows, too. And the man who forgets his duty to himself, his 'fellow creatures and his God—who solar lorgete the great blessings of lite as to allow his energies to stagnate in inactivity and uselessness, had better die; for, says Holy Writ, He that will not work, neither shall he eat " An idler is a curt.beret to this• gotta , a weary curse to himself as well as those around him. Beneath human beings to work! Why, whatbdt the continued history that brings forth the improve ment that never allows hint to contented withat tainment he may have made, of work that he may have effected—what but ibis raises man above the brute creation, and under Pmvidence, surrounds him with Bron forte, luxuries and refinements, phys teal , moral and trite' tectual blessings! The great orator, the great poet, and the scholar, are great working men. The vocation is infinitely more la borious than that of handi craftsman, and the stu dent's lite has more anxiety than that of any other man And all without the perseverance, the at tention to teal industry, can never succeed. Hence the number of mere pretensions to scholarship, or those n ho have not the strength and industry folio real beholors, but stop half way, an I are smattering' —a shame to the profession. Beneath human beings to work ! Look in the artist's studio, the poet's garret, where the gegies of immortality rands ready to seal work with an uuelfacable Nue', and then you will only see in dust/. stand in i by her sole. • Beneath human beings to work ! Why, I hall metier that a child, of mi,pri . should labor regularly at the lowest, weariest employment, than to waste its time, its body, mind and soul, in roll) idleness and uselessness. Better to weir out in a year than to lust out in a century. Beneath human beings to work ! What but work has tilled our fields, clothed our bodies, built our houses, raised our churches, printed our books, cultivated our mind, -and souls? " Work out your own salvation," seiytt the inspired Apostle to the Gentiles. 1101.13 13 Ter EVENING.—Onp of the grossest neglects of a youth, producing incalculable mischief and ruin, is the spending of his evenings. Dark. ness is temptation to miscondnct ; suffering the youth to be out when the light of day does not mellow them from misconduct, is training them' to it. We nave already an abundant harvest of this seeding Riots, mobs, crimes giving tearful fore bodings, ate the results of youth, becoming fit agents of outrage, bs running, uncared for, in the evenings. What we see in these respects is deplorable enough —but what is this compared with what we do not see—multitudes making themselves misetable and noxious to the world. and what is that to come to II Parents should look at the froth, that pleasure and recreation are often dearly purchased—the price of their own impaired comfort, and the blighted pros pects of their offspring It must be obvious that its this matter thee can be no prescribed rule.— There can be no interior of all the evening recto- . ation and employment yet there is an evil not only destructive to youth, but planting thorns in many paths,and covering many lives with desolation. The i it lorm ation demanded most proceed trout judgment meowl conscii n •e—must to enlightened. Head of families must learn that the places in earth best adapted to be a blessing, is home ; and by example and wholesome restraint, they most teach this truth to all under them. O A sophist, wishing to puzzle Thales, the Nitlesian, one of the wise men of Greece, propos ed to him In rapid succession these dillicoh gum* , tions. The philosopher replied to them all, with out the least hesitation, and with how' much pro priety sod decision our readers can judos fot them selves: What is the oldest of ail things 1 God—because he always ec Wed. What is the moat beautiful • The world—because it is the woik of God. What is the greatest of things. Space—because it contains all that it created. Whin is the craickest of all things ? Thought—because at a moment it can fly to the end of the universe. What is the strongest ! Necessity—because it makes men men lace all the clangers of life What is the mos: Tu know thyself • What is the most coostaneof all things! Hope—because it still remains troll mall after he has lost everything else. Snooks wondering where all the pillow ebeet go to Ho sa)a he clever asked a girl what she was making, while engaged in white Sewell!, Willett( being told that a was a pillow ease. This is evidence that girls know how to answer tools atrenrdine to their folly. Snooks is a gand•(or nothing, trnitmlent fellow, to ask such impertinent qnestions, and die girls we re right in makirtg a shift and not answering him cortectly. O Breathes there a matt "With soul so dead, who cever to Ititnsell bath said, I will my 'Matte paper take, both for my own and tam ity'isake ? If such there be, let hire repenit, and have the paper to him sent, and if he'd pass a happy winter, be us advance should pay the printer. Kr." I have a good ear, a ascrnderfui ear," said a conceited musician, in the eoer•e of con• vereatien, 11 SeXtas a Ptckaiv," . l el' l se4 der. MUMS 46,
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