Warm food is more digestible than cold.

Whiting mixed with glue water or calcined plaster and water makes a good putty for filling cracks in plastered ceilings.

To carve neatly is an accomplishment worth acquiring. A good carver will make a joint serve more people than a bad one.

It is a sad waste to put fuel under a boiling pot.

Vegetables should not be washed till immediately before being used. -Glass should be washed in water moderately warm.

The sides of meat-safes should be occasionally well scoured with soap and slacked quicklime. A brisk current of air should pass through all places where provisions are kept. The most simple dishes are the most nourishing.

To remove old putty from window-frames, run a hot iron over the surface, the heat rendering it soft.

Stale bread may be broken up, dried slowly in the oven, then grated or pounded in a mortar to coarse powder and kept in wide-mouthed bottles. well corked. It will keep a long time in a dry place, and is useful for every dinner in the week in one way or another, for breading chops, cutlets, &c.

House-linen, ill managed, is

an expensive article.

Change of apparel greatly promotes the secretion from the skin so necessary to health.

Old linen, cambric, calico rags, and old pieces of flannel, should be carefully kept by the housewife, for some time or another they will all come in and be of service.

In summer the under-garments, which become loaded with perspiration during the day, should be hung up in a dry airy place at night. Changes of linen should be more frequertin summer than winter.

Wax or tallow grease should not be scraped from plate with a knife, as it is apt to leave scratches.

The leaves of the common laurel, when scalded, will be found a good sedative poultice for the purpose of allaying neuralgia.

NEVER SPEND YOUR MONEY

BEFORE YOU HAVE IT.

Be more prudent for your children than perhaps you have been for yourself. When they, too, are parents they will imitate you, and each of you will have prepared happy generations, who will transmit, together with your memory, the worship of your wisdom.

Poultry should be plucked as soon as possible after being killed.

When flowers are sent by post, nothing is better to preserve them than wrapping them in oiled paper.

There would be less sickness in the winter months if care were taken that the feet were well shod and the legs and lower parts of the body warmly and comfortably clad.

TEMPERANCE IS A FEAST.

The best meat, and the prime parts, are the cheapest in the end.

An oyster-shell placed in a tea kettle will remove the crust in the inside.

Those who take long walks should not wear cotton stockings, as they are apt to blister the feet. Woollen stockings are best.

Failure in Fife.

Many men fail in life from the want, as they are too ready to suppose, of those great occasions wherein they might have shown their trustworthiness and their integrity. But all such persons should rememberthat in order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine. The more minute, trivial, and we might say vernacular opportunities of being just and upright, are constantly occurring to every one; and it is an unimpeachable character in these lesser things that almost invariably prepares and produces those very oppor tunities of greater advancement, and of higher confidence, which turn out so rich a harvest, but which those alone are permitted to reap who have previously sown.-COLTON.

Never throw animal or vegetable substances in the dust-hole.

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

In making tea Dr. Kitchener recommends that all the water necessary should be poured in at once, as the second drawing is bad. When much tea is required, it is better to have two tea-pots instead of two drawings.

The amount of sleep needed differs according to the constitution and habit. Persons who perform much brain labour need much sleep -if they do not get it, an injury will ensue. Children need more sleep than grown people, because construction is more active than decay in their brains.

Baking is the least advantageous mode of cooking.

Lightness, looseness, and ease, with moderate warmth, should be kept in view when clothing children.

The pulp of potatoes scraped into water cleanses the finest kinds of silks without injury to the fabric or colour.

Eat slowly, and you will not over-eat.

Hair trunks are very liable to attract moths.

Meat that is very fat requires more time to roast than lean meat.

Carpets are very frequently more worn out by the influence of the sun, the dust, and grit, than by any fair wear from the feet. The oftener they are shaken the better.

Some cooks spoil their vegetables by boiling them too much. In the spring of the year the judicious use of aperient medicine is much to be commended, especially with children.

A child's digestion is more delicate than that of a grown-up person; therefore children like vegetable fat-formers such as sugar and treacle- better than animal fat; and they are better for them, unless sweets disagree with them. Sugar also helps to dissolve the ashes that make bone, and purifies the blood.

A bright knife will often assist a dull appetite.

The use of fruit and fresh vegetable food during winter should be encouraged.

Cheese kept in a cool larder or cellar, with a damp cloth placed round it, will never have mites in it, or, if it has, this will soon destroy and also improve the cheese.

To clean flasks and smallnecked vessels, use blottingpaper, with enough water to make it into a pulp. Place it in the bottle and vigorously swing round-this will clean the dirtiest vessel.

The first requisite for making good bread is that the flour should be good.

To keep the hands soft, rub them freely with glycerine every night, heat them by the fire, and rub it in as hard as possible.

MAKE HOME A PLEASANT PLACE

FOR THE CHILDREN.

EREMY TAYLOR, when a boy, was very remarkable for his talents and knowledge. He was educated in the free school at Cambridge, and at thirteen years of age he entered Caius College, of which he was soon chosen fellow. At a very early period he began to preach, and his preaching afforded great pleasure to the then Archbishop of Canterbury, who, however, declined to ordain him on account of his extreme youth. "But the youth," says one of his biographers," humbly begged his Grace to pardon that fault, and promised, if he lived. he would mend it." The Archbishop encouraged and advised Taylor to pursue his studies; and his subsequent career and great usefulness show that he profited by the good advice. Coleridge pronounced Jeremy Taylor the most eloquent of divines, adding" Had I said, of men Cicero would forgive me, and Demosthenes nod assent." Dr. Rust, who preached Jeremy Taylor's funeral sermon, passed the following splendid panegyric on him. "He had the good humour of a gentleman, the eloquence of an orator, the fancy of a poet, the acuteness of a schoolman, the profoundness of a philosopher, the wisdom of a chancellor, the sagacity of a prophet, the reason of an angel, and the piety of a saint. He had devotion enough for a cloister, learning enough for a university, and wit enough for a college of virtuosi; and had his parts and endowments been parcelled out among his clergy that he left behind him, it would, perhaps, have made one of the best dioceses in the world."

TRUE VENGEANCE.

TASSO replied to a proposition that he should take vengeance on a man who had injured him, "I do not wish to deprive him either of his goods, his honour, or his life. I only wish to deprive him of his illwill..

A SIGH FOR YOUTH!

WHEN DA. WOLCOT (Peter Pindar) lay on his death-bed, one of his friends asked if he could do any thing to gratify him. "Yes." said the dying man, with a touch of that satire which he had so freely used during his life; "give me back my youth!"

A GOLDEN RULE.

"I HAVE resolved," says BISHOP BEVERIDGE, never to speak of a man's virtues before his face, nor of his faults behind his back; a golden rule! the observation of which would, at one stroke, banish flattery and defamation from the earth."

OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES.

As an instance of the triumphs of perseverance, it is told that JoHN HEATHCOT, the ingenious inventor of the "bobbing net" machine for making lace, in speaking afterwards of the mental toil he had bestowed in completing its mechanism, said "The single difficulty of getting the diagonal threads to twist in the allotted space was so great, that if I had to do it now I should probably not attempt its accomplishment. -Heathcot was the son of a small

farmer in Derbyshire, and was born in 1783. He was apprenticed to a framesmith at Loughborough; and at the age of sixteen conceived the idea of making lace by a machine, instead of by hand, as was then the method. This invention he completed; and in 1809 he set up a factory at Loughborough, which in 1816 was sacked and burnt by a mob (the "Luddites") jealous of the introduction of machinery. Greatly mortified at this treatment, Mr. Heathcot removed to Tiverton, where, by his talent for invention, combined with a genius of the bigh est order for business, he established a large factory, in which two thousand workpeople found employment. In 1881 he was elected member of Parliament for Tiverton, and represented that town for nearly thirty years-having Lord Palmerston for a colleague during the greater portion of that time. He died in 1861, at the age of seventy-seven.]

HE following anecdote is related of FLAXMAN, the celebrated sculptor:-Not long after his admission to the Royal Academy, Flaxman gained the silver medal, and had made sure of the gold one, which was, however, given to a fellow student, Engleheart. "I gave in my model," are said to have been Flaxman's words on the occasion, "and believed the medal was my own! I knew what Engleheart could do, and I did not dread him. I had made up my mind to win, and even invited some friends to cheer themselves at my little table till I should return from the Academy with the prize. It was given by Reynolds to Engleheart! I burst into tears: this sharp lesson humbled my conceit, and I determined to redouble my exertions and put it beyond the power of any one to make mistakes for the future."

"DO YOUR DUTY."

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, in reply to a clergyman who was doubting the policy of missionary work in India, said, "What is that to you, sir?-you have received your general orders. Go and teach all nations. Do your duty, sir; never mind the result."

THE BEST REVENGE.

EUCLID (a disciple of Socrates), having offended his brother, the latter cried out in a rage, "Let me die, if I am not revenged on you one time or other!" to whom Euclid replied, "And let me die, if I do not soften you by my kindnesses, and make you love me as well as ever!"

ROUSING UP HIS CONGREGATION.

Ir is told of BISHOP AYLMER that inattentive, he would repeat some when he observed his congregation the people naturally stared with verses of the Hebrew Bible, at which

astonishment.

He then addressed them on the folly of eagerly listen. ing to what they did not understand. while they neglected instructions which were readily comprehended.

PRESERVING HONOUR. WHEN LOUIS XII. was persuaded to retain the Archduke of Austria prisoner, on the ground that he had been duped by the artifices of Ferdinand, he replied-"I would rather, if it must be so, see myself deprived of my kingdom, the loss of which might hereafter be recovered, than forfeit my honour, which can never be restored. The advantages which my enemies obtain over me, can scarcely excite surprise, since they employ means to which I shall never resort-a contempt for good faith and for honour."

A NOBLE REPLY. WHEN CATHERINE II. ascended the throne of Russia, she solicited COUNT MUNICH to accept some marks of her favour, although she knew he had been the most formidable opponent to her accession. "No," said the count," I am an old man; I have already suffered many misfortunes; and if I purchased a few years of life by compromising my principles, I should make but a bad exchange."

CARRYING THE WORLD.

"IN the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground." II. W. BEECHER.

TO MAKE ONE'S FORTUNE.

"To make one's fortune is so fine a phrase, and signifies such an excellent thing, that it is in universal

use.

We find it in all languages; it pleases foreigners and barbarians, reigns at court and in the city; it has got within cloisters, insinuated itself into abbeys of both sexes; there is no place, however sacred, into which it has not penetrated, no desert or solitude where it is unknown."-LA BRUYERE.

LIVING DOWN DETRACTION.

WHEN one told PLATO that the boys in the streets were laughing at his singing, "Ay," said he, "then I must learn to sing better." Being at another time reminded that he had many aspersers, "It is no matter," said he, "I will live so that none shall believe them." And once again, being told that a friend was speaking detractingly of him, he replied, I am confident he would not do it if he had not some reason."

A TRAITOR REBUKED.

IT was a noble answer a Roman general once made to a traitor, who came and tendered him the keys of a town that he had besieged :Wretch," said he, "know that it is not yet so bad with the Romans that they should stoop to the baseness of taking towns by treachery."

HOW TO CHOOSE A WIFE.

"A PLACE for everything, and everything in its place," said the patriarch to his daughter. "Select a wife, my son, who will never step over a broomstick." The son carefully treasured up the lesson. "Now," pleasantly said he one day to one of his companions, "I appoint that broomstick to choose me a wife. The young lady who will not step over it shall have the offer of my hand." The ladies passed by the broomstick, some stumbling over, and others jumping over it. length a young lady stooped and put it in its place. The promise was fulfilled; she became the wife of an educated and wealthy young man, and he the husband of a prudent, industrious, and lovely wife. He brought a fortune to her, and she knew how to save one. It was not easy to decide which was under the greatest obligation; both were rich, and each enriched the other.

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THE LITTLE TOUCHES!

AN on-looker observing the slight taps given to a statue by CANOVA, spoke as if he thought the artist to be trifling; but was rebuked by this reply-The touches which you ignorantly hold in such small esteem are the very things which make the difference between the failure of a bungler and the chef d'œuvre of a master."-COLEY.

TRUE SYMPATHY.

A LONDON merchant having been embarrassed in his circumstances, and his misfortunes being one day the subject of conversation in the Royal Exchange, several persons expressed great sorrow; when a foreign gentleman who was present, and who had a great respect for the unfortunate man, said, "I feel five hundred pounds for him; what do you feel?"

A WORD IN SEASON. FUSELI, the painter, in the early part of his life was vacillating between the palette and the pulpit. About this time he showed some of his sketches to Sir Joshua Reynolds, who encouragingly said, "If I were the author of these drawings, and any one offered me ten thousand a year not to practise painting as a profession, I would refuse it with contempt! This decided Fuseli, and he determined to devote himself to painting.

TRUE GENEROSITY.

THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH and LORD BOLINGBROKE were opposed to each other in politics, and consequently, on most occasions, were ranged against each other. Some gentlemen, after the Duke's decease, were canvassing his character with much severity, and particularly charged him with being excessively avaricious (as was the case). At length they appealed for the truth of their statements to Lord Bolingbroke, who was one of the company. This nobleman with true magnanimity answered: "The Duke of Marlborough was so great a man that I quite forgot his failings.'

JOHN WESLEY'S REPROOF.

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OUR PART IN LIFE. "We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our simple duty is confined to playing them well.”— EPICTETUS.

A BISHOP'S WIT.

Dr. HINCHCLIFFE, who died Bishop of Peterborough, had much ready wit, and was extremely apt at checking those who were fond of cavilling at the meaning of different texts of Scripture. On being asked one day what was to be understood himself with curses as with a gar by the expression, "He clothed ment," the doctor replied "The clearest thing in the world; the man had a habit of swearing!"[The father of Dr. Hinchclifle had been a London livery-stable keeper.]

A BENEVOLENT PHYSICIAN.

DR. BROCKLESBY (an eminent physician of the last century) was so assiduous in being useful to his fellow-creatures, that he was equally acceptable to the poor and the rich. When some of the former, through delicacy, did not apply to him, he would exclaim, "Why am I treated thus? Why was I not sent for?[Dr. Brocklesby was intimate with Burke, and, hearing he was in ditculties, sent him £10,000.]

THE VALUE OF HOPE.

AN old general, after a dreadful defeat of his army, called together his staff, and inquired about the condition of his troops. He was informed that they were suffering from nothing but want of heart. They had food, but would not make fires to cook it-had all they needed, but had no heart for the hour. The general replied, "Unless we can fill their minds with hope, all is indeed lost." These words might be repeated along all the paths of mankind, for, unless the heart be kept full of happy anticipation, everything is already in sad decline.

WATCHING AGAINST UNTRUTH.

DR. JOHNSON on one occasion was saying to a friend :- Accustom your children constantly to tell the truth, without varying in any circumstance." A lady who was premuch; for a little variation in narsent exclaimed, "Nay, this is "too rative must happen a thousand times a day if one is not perpetually watching. Well, madam," replied the Doctor, "and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying that world." there is so much falsehood in the

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