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lariat:l—Thtory of themense—Dis
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/lsrci,mit —1 reatment Inoculation— Vaccine die.
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'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
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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
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-.; 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 .
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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
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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:
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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
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in every case' isthicti has dot Wen tested by expos
ure iti'small:jui - i Contaaion during an epidemic
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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 !"
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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
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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.
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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.
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