In winter, get the work forward by | daylight, to prevent running about at night with candles. Thus you escape grease spots, and risks of fire, Be at much pains to keep your children's feet dry and warm. Don't bury their bodies in heavy flannels and wools, and leave their knees and legs naked. Apples and pears, cut into quarters and stripped of the rind, baked with a little water and sugar, and eaten with boiled rice, are capital food for children. A leather strap, with a buckle to fasten, is much more commodious than a cord for a box in general use for short distances. Cording and uncording is a tedious job. After washing, overlook linen, and stitch on buttons, hooks, and eyes, etc.; for this purpose keep a "house wife's friend," full of miscellaneous threads, cottons, buttons, hooks, etc, For ventilation open your windows both at top and bottom. The fresh air rushes in one way, while the foul makes its exit the other, This is letting in your friend and expelling your enemy, There is not any real economy in purchasing cheap calico for gentlemen's night-shirts. Cheap calico soon wears into holes, and becomes discolored in washing, Hitting to sew by candle-light at a table with a dark cloth on it is injurious to the eyesight. When no other remedy presents itself, put a sheet of white paper before you, Persons very commonly complain of indigestion. How can it be wondered at, when they seem, by their habit of swallowing their food wholesale, to forget for what purpose they are provided with teeth? Never allow your servants to put wiped knives on your table, for, generally speaking, you may see that they have been wiped with a dirty cloth, If a knife is brightly cleaned, they are compelled to use a clean cloth, There is not anything gained in economy by having very young and inexperienced servants at low wages; they break, waste, and destroy more than an equivalent for higher wages, setting aside comfort and respecta bility, No article in dress tarnishes so readily as black crape trimmings, and few things injure it more than damp; therefore, to preserve its beauty on bonnets, a lady in nice mourning should, in her evening walks, at all seasons of the year, take as her com panion an old parasol to shade her crape, If you cut off the back legs of your chairs, so that the back part of the seat shall be two inches lower than the front part, it will greatly relieve the fatigue of sitting, and keep your spine in much better shape. The principal fatigue in sitting comes from your sliding forward, and thus straining the ligaments in the small of the back. The expedient advised will obviate this tendency, and add greatly to the comfort and healthfulness of the sitting posture, The front edge of a chair should not be more than fifteen inches high for the average man. The average chair is now sev enteen inches high for all, which no amount of slanting in the seat can make comfortable. READY MONEY will always command the best and cheapest of every article of consumption, if expended with judgment; and the dealer, who intends to act fairly, will always prefer it, TRUST NOT him who seems more anxious to give credit than to receive cash, THE FORMER hopes to secure ens tom by having a hold upon you in his books; and continues always to make up for his advance, either by an advanced price, or an inferior article; while the latter knows that your cus tom can only be secured by fair dealing, THERE IS, LIKEWISE, ANOTHER CONSIDERATION, as far as economy is concerned, which is not only to buy with ready money, but to buy at proper seasons; for there is with every article a cheap season and a dear one; the sun's rays appear like Moses' horns and with none more than coals: inso-if white at setting, or shorn of his much, that the master of a family who fills his coal-cellar in the middle of the summer, rather than the beginning of the winter, will find it filled at less expense than it would otherwise cost him, and will be enabled to see December's snows falling without feeling his enjoyment of his fireside lessened by the consideration that the cheerful blaze is supplied at twice the rate that it need have done, if he had exercised more foresight. WE MUST NOW CALL to the recollection of our readers, that chimneys often smoke, and that coals are often wasted, by throwing too much fuel at once upon a fire. Signs of the Weather.-DEw. If the dew lies plentifully on the grass after a fair day, it is a sign of another fair day. If not, and there is no wind, rain must follow. A red evening portends fine weather; but if it spread too far upward from the horizon in the evening, and especially morning, it foretells wind or rain, or both. When the sky, in rainy weather, is tinged with sea-green, the rain will increase; if with deep blue, it will be showery. CLOUDS. Previous to much rain falling, the clouds grow bigger, and increase very fast, especially before thunder. When the clouds are formed like fleeces, but dense in the middle and bright toward the edges, with the sky bright, they are signs of a frost, with hail, snow, or rain. If clouds form high in air, in thin white trains like locks of wool, they portend wind, and probably rain. When a general cloudiness covers the sky, and small black fragments of clouds fly underneath, they are a sure sign of rain, and probably it will be lasting. Two currents of clouds always portend rain, and, in summer, thunder. HEAVENLY BODIES. A haziness in the air, which fades the sun's light, and makes the orb appear whitish, or ill-defined or at night, if the moon and stars grow dim, and a ring encircles the former, rain will follow. If rays, or if he goes down into a bank of clouds in the horizon, bad weather is to be expected. If the moon looks pale and dim, we expect rain; if red, wind; and if of her natural color, with a clear sky, fair weather. If the moon is rainy throughout, it will clear at the change, and, perhaps, the rain return a few days after. If fair throughout, and rain at the change, the fair weather will probably return on the fourth or fifth day. Weather Precautions. If the weather appears doubtful, always take the precaution of having an umbrella when you go out, particularly in going to church. You thereby avoid incurring one of three disagreeables: in the first place, the chance of getting wetor encroaching under a friend's umbrella -- or being under the necessity of borrowing one, consequently involv ing the trouble of returning it, and possibly (as is the case nine times out of ten) inconveniencing your friend by neglecting to do so. Those who disdain the use of umbrellas, generally appear with shabby hats, tumbled bonnet ribbons, wrinkled silk dresses, etc., etc., the consequence of frequent exposure to unexpected showers, to say nothing of colds taken, no one can tell how. Leech Barometer. Take an eight ounce phial, and put in it three gills of water, and place in it a healthy leech, changing the water in summer once a week, and in winter once in a fortnight, and it will most accurately prognosticate the weather. If the weather is to be fine, the leech lies motionless at the bottom of the glass, and coiled together in a spiral form; if rain may be expected, it will creep up to the top of its lodgings, and remain there till the weather is settled; if we are to have wind, it will move through its habitation with amazing swiftness, and seldom goes to rest till it begins to blow hard; if a remarkable storm of thunder and rain is to succeed, it will lodge for some days before almost continually out of the water, and discover great uneasiness in violent throes and convulsive-like motions; in frost, as in clear summerlike weather, it lies constantly at the bottom; and in snow, as in rainy weather, it pitches its dwelling in the very mouth of the phial. The top should be covered over with a piece of muslin. The Chemical Barometer. Take a long narrow bottle, such as an oldfashioned Eau-de-Cologne bottle, and put into it two and a half drams of camphor, and eleven drams of spirit of wine; when the camphor is dissolved, which it will readily do by slight agitation, add the following mixture: Take water, nine drams; nitrate of potash (saltpetre), thirtyeight grains; and muriate of ammonia (sal ammoniac), thirty-eight grains. Dissolve these salts in the water prior to mixing with the camphorated spirit; then shake the whole well together. Cork the bottle well, and wax the top, but afterwards make a very small aperture in the cork with a red-hot needle. The bot tle may then be hung up, or placed in any stationary position." By observing the different appearances which the materials assume, as the weather changes, it becomes an excellent prognosticator of a coming storm, or of a sunny sky. Cheap Ice Pitcher.The following is a simple method of keeping ice water for a long time in a common pitcher or jug: Place between two sheets of paper (newspaper will answer, thick brown is better), a layer of cotton batting about half an inch in thickness, fasten the ends of paper and batting together, forming a circle, then sew or paste a crown over one end, making a box the shape of a stove pipe hat minus the rim. Place this over an ordinary pitcher filled with ice water, making it deep enough to rest on the table, so as to exclude the air, and the reader will be astonished at the length of time his ice will keep and the water remain cold after the ice is melted. Mischief Makers. Oh could there in this world be found Of gossips' endless prattling. For ever and for ever: "Tia mischief-makers that remove What gives another pleasure. Mixed with their poisonous measure. Wife, husband, friend, and brother. That every one might know them; With things so much below them. We ought to love and cherish. Significations of Names. Arthur, British, a strong man. Benjamin, Hebrew, the son of a right Bennet, Latin, blessed. Bernard, German, bear's heart. Brian, French, having a thundering voice. Cadwallader, British, valiant in war. Frederic, German, rich peace. Gabriel, Hebrew, the strength of God. Godard, German, a godly disposition. Hezekiah, Hebrew, cleaving to the Horatio, Italian, worthy to be beheld. Jacob, Hebrew, a supplanter. Denis, Greek, belonging to the god of Joab, Hebrew, fatherhood. wine. Dunstan, Saxon, most high. loved. Ernest, Greek, earnest, serious. Job, Hebrew, sorrowing. John, Hebrew, the grace of the Lord. Jonathan, Hebrew, the gift of the Lord. Evan, or Ivon, British, the same as Leonard, German, like a lion. John. Everard, German, well reported. Ezekiel, Hebrew, the strength of God. Ferdinand, German, pure peace. Leopold, German, defending the people. Lionel, Latin, a little lion. Luke, Greek, a wood or grove. Martin, Latin, martial дей. Michael, Hebrew, who is like God ? Noel, French, belonging to one's na- Norman, French, one born in Nor- Obadiah, Hebrew, the servant of the Oliver, Latin, an olive. Orlando, Italian, counsel for the land. Percival, French, a place in France, Mebastian, Greek, to be reverenced. Arabella, Latin, a fair altar. Bridget, Irish, shining bright. | Diana, Greek, Jupiter's daughter. |