THIE WISCON81N FARMIR.



must confess that after my travelson the west.
ern continent my opinions have A tendency it
that direction.  BeefMteak and pickles cer.
tainly produee msmart little men and women
Let that be taken for granted. But rosy laugh
ter and winning childish ways are, I fancy,
the produce of bread and milko-fhope.



HEALTH AND DISEASE.



             Excessive Zating.
  Many a lan has the courage to march to the
cannon's mouth, and yet fails to resist evez
indulgence in eating. He who has an intellect
peerless among the generation in which he
lives becomes an imbecile at the dinner table.
The great Jonathan Edwards endeavored for
two years to eat only as much as would meet
the wants of the system; but day after day he
found himself conquered; day after day he
made the same record of these attempts-fail-
ure. For two years he went to his meals each
day resolving he would not eat too much; for
two years he came away from the table forced
to confess his conviptmins that he had "oI n.4 -   -



ed." When he had eaten a decent dinner, his
common sense told him to desist; but then his
I uncommon sense would step in and say: "I
shall be somewhat faint if I leave off now."
So he would not leave off, and - in three min-
utes afterwards I am convinced of excess."
    If such great minds have so little control
 over !heir appetites, it cannot be wondered at
 that the less gifted, the masses, should aban-
 don themselves to over-indulgence in all their
 propensities. Excess in eating may be avoid-
 ed by taking three regular meals a dig (noth-
 iing between) in a private room-havg such
 an amount sent as observation shows can be
 eaten and still leave a desire for more. For
 fifteen years that was the practice of that
 beautiful character and eminent philanthropist,
 Amos Lawrence. of Boston. There is wisdom
 and health in the practice of some who habit-
 ually avoid eating meat of any kind every Fri-
 day.-Hals Joxrtal of Health.



  RZCIPE FOR KILLING BAnIEs.-The Water-
Cure World, for July, gives " eleven modes of
committing infanticide," one of which is the
following:
  "i Keeping children quiet by giving paregor-
ic and cordials, by teaching them to suck can-
dy, and by supplying them with raisins, nuts,
and rich cake. When they are sick, by giving
mercury, tartar-emetiv, and arsenic, under the
mistaken notion that they are medicines and
not irritant poisons."
  If the other ways are as certain as this, ala
for the next generation.



        DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

          Raw to Outwit the oeth.
  Most of our insects are very hardy, caring
little for wind or weather, and will never adie
of aromatie pain."  We once packed some
small skins in the contre of a cask of tobacco
leaves and stems, but the miller went there,
deposited her eggs and the furs were ruined.
This shows that they are not at all delicate and
care nothing for tobacco.  Expensive cedar
closets are frequently constructed, with the
idea that the rather pleasant odor of the cedar
is sufficiently disagreeable to the moth to keep
her away from articles of clothing deposited
there. This is a mistake.  The strongest in-
stinct prompts the miller to seek the means of
perpetuating its kind, and no trifling impedi-
ment will prevent it.
  But the preservation of furs, or articles of
clothing, is perfectly simple, cheap and easy.
Shake them well and tie them up in a cotton
or linen bag, so that the miller cannot possibly
enter, and the articles will not be injured,
though the bag is hung in a wood-house or
garret.  This is cheaper than to build cedar
closets, and better than to fill the bed clothes
and garments with the sickening odor of cam-
phor, tobacco, or any other drug.-N. E. Farm.

  To PREVEXT SKIPPERS IN HAes.-There is,
according to my experience, nothing easier
than to avoid the skipper, and all bugs and
worms that usually infest, and otten destroy so
much bacon. It is simply to keep your smoke
house dark, and the moth that deposits the egg
will never enter it.  For the past twenty-five
years, I have attended to this, and never had
my bacon troubled by any insect. I have now
hanging in my smoke house hams one, two,
and three years old, and the oldest are as free
from insects as when first hung up. I am not
aware of other causes for the exemption of my
bacon from insects, but simply from the fact
that my smoke house is always kept dark. Be-
fore adopting this plan, I had tried many ex-
periments, but always without success, or with
injury to the flavor of my bacon. I smoke
with green hickory. This is important, as the
SaTor of bacon is often utterly destroyed by
smoking it with improper wood.-Cotton Plkmt.

COTTAGE PUDD1IG.-stir well together one
pint of flour, one teaspoonful of butter, two
eggs, ond teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoon-
fuls cream tartar, and one teacupful of sweet
milk. Put in a deep pan, and bake half an
hour. Serve up with sauce made to the taste.

TO TAKX InK SBAris OUT or MAsOGAUT.-
Put half a teaspo sul of oil of vitriol into a
Large spoonful of watar, and touch the peat
with a feaher. Rub It quiekly, aud repent if
not quite renoved; if it remains on teo long
t will leave a white mark.



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