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and other extra work and you have a hard Revelation re-asserts it) is that
persons near
week's labor. Fifty-two such weeks with soap of kin shall not marry. Touching
this subject
making and house-cleaning in the Spring and a forcible illustration is furnished
by the edi-
butchering season in the fall, and you have a tor of the Fredericksburg fews,
who says:-
year's work which no woman can perform, "sIn this county, in which we
were raised, for
year after year, without injuring her health twenty generations back, certain
families of
and bringing on old age prematurely.       wealth and respectability have
intermarried,
  Those who are not blessed with a strong until there cannot be found in
three or four of
constitution to commence with, fall by the wny. them a sound man or woman!
One has sore
They die of consumption, fevers and every eyes, another scrofula, a third
is an idiot, a
disease flesh is heir to,-but no one can tell fourth blind, a fifth bandy
legged, a sixth with
how long they have been dying by inches. a head about the size of a turnip,
with not one
Husbands, if you hltve wives with whom you out of the number exempt from
physical de-
would spend the evening of your days, see to fects of some kind or other."
it that they are not overburdened, but have a  And so it is and must be.
Young melt arid
little chance for rest of the body, and im- maidens, don't persuade yourselves
into love
provement of the mind. Be not more careless with your cousins.
of their necessities than you are of the wants
of your beasts of burden. Do not think be-        DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
cause a woman's whole time is consumed in
such work which would be nothing for your             The Preseivingof Fruits.
broad shoulders and strong arms, that she is  Whether the process of keeping
fruits fresh
never weary. Do not say that housework is by the exclusion of the air be
really a modern
not anyihntg, until you have tried it yourselves invention or not is a matter
of indifference.
for a week,-not after your bungling mascu- The fact stands that fruits of
any kind thus
line mnanner, but as it should be done. Do not preserved are just about as
good as new at any
be very particular about getting all the latest period thereafter.  And so,
the old method of
patented drills, reapers, mowers and sowers stewing down in sugar enough
to bankrupt a
before you fix things convenient for her work prince, with a product radly
wanting in flavor
about the house and door yard; and above all, and savage on digestion, is
fast falling into
don't speak so slightly of housework before disrepute.
your young daughters; this creates a distaste  Vessels of every description
are in use for
for it in their minds, and causes them to wish canning, and each has its
zealous advocates.
for employment that will be more appreciated, Other things being equal, glass
is preferable,
thus leaving the whole burden upon their moth- for the reason that it is
more easily cleaned,
er's shoulders long after they should have re- and, if carefully handled,
will last forever.
lieved her of a part of its weight.        Tin answers well, but soon spoils
by rust.
                      MiBs. G. H. ADAMS.       The following method, practiced
by the Onei-
  ELBA, Dodge Co., Wis.                      da Community of Friends, N.
Y., is highly

      HIEALTHI ANDDISEASE.                  approved by those who have tried
it. The
               HEALTH  AND  DISEASE.       ~description is taken from their
Circular:
                                               1. The fruit, properly hulled,
assorted or
    Penalty for Marrying Bloed Pations,    prepared, is placed in clean glass
bottles man-
  Nature's laws are all in harmony with each ufactured for the purpose, filling
them to the
                                            neck.
other and perfectly inexorable as to man. We  2. Prepare a syrup of melted
refined or
may violate them with seeming impunity for a white sugar, and pour into the
bottles by the
                                            following rule, viz: Allow six
ounces of sugar
time, but the penalty Is none the less sure to to one quart of fruit, or
melt one pound of su-
come.   One of these decrees of nature (and gar in one-half pint of water,
and give one-