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NETTED BED FRINGE. Materials.-Messrs. Walter Evans & Co.'s Boar's Head Cotton, No. 6, and their Trafalgar Cotton for darning the pattern. Two meshes, one round, which should measure in the string which should be placed round it half an inch; and one flat mesh, a full half inch in width; a long netting needle.

Foundation-Net on a string four diamonds, and continue netting for as long as may be required these four diamonds; then gather one edge of this length of netting into a string; on the other edge net two rows of netting to form one diamond.

Border, with wide mesh.-Net 7 stitches into a loop, 1 stitch into next loop, and continue.

2nd and 3rd rows with round mesh; two ows, or one diamond.

4th row, wide mesh-one row. Outside row, wide mesh-one row, taking the seven loops into one.

In the centre of foundation draw a row of diamonds, and along the edge work with needle and some cotton a single stitch in each diamond, turning back at the end of length of netting, the reverse way.

WATCH POCKET. Materials-Messrs. Walter Evans & Co.'s Boar's Head Cotton, No. 20. Quarter of a yard of Penelope canvas, that which has 12 double threads

BY MRS. WAREEN.

to the inch; 6 skeins of magenta-coloured Berlin wool, and one skein of black; half an oz. each of opaque white, crystal, and chalk beads, sufficiently large to cover the threads of canvas; a bunch of No. 10 steel beads, and five good-sized pearl beads, to fill in the centre of each flower. Use ink, in which put a little loaf sugar and a camel's hair brush, and a piece of tissue-paper.

First, place the tissue paper over the engraving, and with brush and ink trace off the entire outline, but only the upper or pointed part of the design; then on another part of the paper trace off the pocket part of outline and design; this pocket part must be cut a trifle larger in the canyas than the outline taken off in paper, and another ink tracing made outside. This will allow of the pocket hanging fuller than the back, for the reception of the watch. Now work the outline in black wool, then fill in all but the design with magenta-coloured wool. The stems and veins of leaves are all of steel beads. There are six divisions, or leaves, of flower; one leaf must have all chalk beads; the two leaves on each side of it be opaque white; the two next of crystal, and the lowest, opposite to the chalk. The crystal beads must be threaded with black cotton. By this arrangement of the beads, shade of tint is given to the flower. The leaves on stem must be sewed on each stitch of the corners, the vein of steel beads, the upper part of the leaf in chalk, the

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THE UNBELIEVER'S CREED.-I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God, and God is matter; and that it is no matter whether there be any God or no. I believe also that the world was not made-that the world made itself--that it will last for ever, world without end. I believe that man is a beast-that the soul is the body, and the body is the soul, and that after death there is neither body nor soul. I believe that there is no religion that natural religion is the only religion, and that all religion is unnatural. I believe not in Moses-I believe in the first philosophyI believe not the Evangelists. I believe in Chubb, Collins, Toland, Tindal, Morgan, Mandivilles, Woolston, Hobbe, and Shaftesbury. I believe in Lord Bolingbroke-I believe not in St. Paul. I believe not in revelation-I believe in tradition. I believe in the Koran-I believe not the Bible. I believe in Socrates-I believe in Sanchoniathan-I believe in Mahomet-I believe not in Christ. Lastly, I believe in all unbelief.-Bishop

Horne.

WORDS FOR A WEDDING.-Do not run much from home. One's own hearth is of more worth than gold. Many a marriage begins like a rosy morning, and then falls away like a snow-wreath. And why, my friends? Because the married pair neglect to be as well-pleasing to each other after marriage as before. Endeavour always to please one another, but at the same time keep God in your thoughts. Lavish not all your love on today, for remember that marriage has its to-morrow likewise, and its day after to-morrow, too. Consider what the word wife expresses. The married woman is the husband's domestic faith: in her hand he must be able to entrust the key of his heart, as well as the key of his eating-room. His honour and his home are under her safe keeping -his well-being in her hand. Think of this! And you, sons, be faithful husbands, and good fathers of families. Act so that your wives shall esteem and love you.

THE PROGRESS OF VACCINATION.-On the 14th of May, 1796, Jenner vaccinated a boy of the name of Phipps, eight years old, from the hand of a dairywoman who had the true cowpock; the boy

went well through the experiment, was inoculated for small-pox in July, and failed to take it. From this time forward it was the custom to make the 14th of May a day of rejoicing in Prussia and elsewhere, and to publish the annual results of vaccithe births, showing that the people were aware of nation. For many years the vaccinations exceeded their danger, while any remained unsecured. In Prussia, the deaths from small-pox had averaged 40,000 annually before vaccination was introduced, and within twenty years they had sunk to 3,000, though there had been a large accession of new territory. Sweden and Denmark, and some territories in Germany, remained absolutely free from small-pox for twenty years after the practice of vaccination had been properly adopted. A sudden change from the few preceding years when 600,000 persons died annually of small-pox in the world at large, and 210,000 in Europe, and when every quarter of a century saw 25,000,000 of human beings carried off by the foulest of distempers!

NUMBER OF DAYS THE DIFFERENT WINDS BLOW IN THE COURSE OF A YEAR.-From an average of ten years, of the register kept by order of the Royal Society, it appears that at London the winds blow in the following order :

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ADVICE TO THE YOUNG.-Improve every moment to some valuable purpose. Cultivate an intimate acquaintance with the Scriptures. Reverence the name, the laws, and the worship of God. Devote your time, on the Sabbath, to the duties and business of religion. Live in the constant practice of the duty of prayer. Cherish a sense of your accountability to God, and of your need of the renovating influences of His divine Spirit. Forget not the debt of gratitude you owe to your parents. Treat them with kindness and respect. Listen diligently to their counsels and admonitions. Accustom yourselves to look forward to the hour of death, and to contemplate the scenes that will follow. Early consecrate your time and your talents to the service of God and your fellow-men. You are now the hope of your parents. From you they expect much. them happy by living lives of religion and sobriety, and by preparing to fill their places with dignity, when they shall be sleeping in the dust. Remember that the eyes of God are upon you, and that you are not beings of a day, but are formed and acting for a state of immortality.

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HOW TO KEEP AN UMBRELLA.-Dr. Buckland could not bear to lose an umbrella. He lost two or three in one way or another, and at last he inscribed in conspicuous letters on the handle of a new one he bought purposely, "Stolen from Dr. Buckland," and this he never lost, although it often invitingly stood by itself in solitary glory in the umbrella stand in the hall.

DOMESTIC HINTS AND RECEIPTS. REST OF CHILDREN.-Infants cannot sleep too long; and it is a favourable symptom when they enjoy a calm and long-continued rest, of which they should by no means be deprived, as this is the greatest support granted to them by nature. A child lives, comparatively, much faster than an adult; its blood flows more rapidly, every stimulus operates more powerfully; and not only its constituent parts, but its vital resources also, are more speedily consumed. Sleep promotes a more calm and uniform circulation of the blood; it facilitates the assimilation of the nutriment re

MAHOGANY.-In furnishing your house, thegreat difference between the Spanish and West India mahogany should be carefully kept in view. The first gains hardness, durability, richness of tone and colour, from age; the other becomes impoverished, and loses tone and tint. We believe it is a Swiss proverb which says, "that a good thing is dear only once, and a cheap thing always;" and this is quite true of the two sorts of mahogany.

VERMICELLI SOUP.-To make vermicelli soup, take as much good stock as you require for your turcen; strain, and set it on the fire, and when it boils put in the vermicelli. Let it simmer for half an hour by a slow fire, that the vermicelli may not break. The soup ought not to be very thick. Half a pound of vermicelli is sufficient for eight or ten persons.

CRUMPETS.

To a pint and a quarter
Of warm milk and water,
Add one table-spoonful of yeast,
An egg, and a small

Pinch of salt, and beat all
Up for twenty-two minutes at lea
Then set by the batter,

To rise or grow fatter,
And, when it is ready, procure

A large ring that will take
In a cupful, and bake
"Till the top of it looks of a pure

Auburn colour; then turn it,
Lest the oven should burn it;
And, as soon as the other side 's brown,
You may take it away,
Without further delay,
And in like manner put others down.
G. M. F. GLENNY.
HUMAN GROWTH.-We know nothing by which
the growth of the human body may be promoted,
except, perhaps, a due regard to physiological
laws, proper exereise, food, and rest. Gymnastic
exercises may be adopted with great advantage,
especially those which contribute to muscular de-
velopment in a vertical direction, such as swing-
ing the arms, &c. But care should always be
taken not to carry exercise to excess. The bene
fits resulting from it are often marred by the lassi-
tude and debility resulting from over-exertion.

ceived, and contributes towards a more copious and regular deposition of alimentary matter, while the horizontal posture is the most favourable to the growth and bodily development of the child. Sleep ought to be in proportion to the age of the infant. After the age of six months, the periods of sleep, as well as all other animal functions, may in some degree be regulated; yet, even then, a child should be suffered to sleep the whole night, and several hours both in the morning and afternoon. Mothers and nurses should endeavour to accustom infants, from the time of their birth, to sleep in the night preferably to the day, and for this purpose they ought to remove all external impressions which may disturb their rest, such as noise, light, &c., but especially not to obey every call for taking them up, and giving food at improper times. After the second year of their age, they will not instinctively require to sleep in the forenoon, though after dinner it may be continued to the third and fourth year of life, if the child shows a particular inclination to repose; because, till that age, the full half of its time may safely be allotted to sleep. From that period, however, it ought to be shortened for the space of one hour with every succeeding year; so that a child of seven years old may sleep about eight, and not exceeding nine hours: this proportion may be continued to the age of adolescence, and even manhood. To awaken children from their sleep with a noise, or in an impetuous manner, is extremely injudicious and hurtful: nor is it proper to carry them from a dark room immediately into a glaring light, or against a dazzling wall; for the sudden impression of light debilitates the organs of vision, and lays the foundation of weak eyes from early infancy. A bed-room, or nursery, ought to be spacious and lofty, dry, airy, and not inhabited through the day. No servants, if possible, should be suffered to sleep in the same room, and no linen or washed clothes should ever be hung there to dry, as they contaminate the air in which so considerable a portion of infantine life must be spent. The consequences attending a vitiated atmosphere in such rooms are obvious, and often fatal. Feather beds should be banished from nurseries, as they I bend, but never hurt with stroke." are an unnatural and debilitating contrivance. A MOTHER. It is in early childhood that the The windows should never be opened at night, but fatal disease, consumption, can most be enleft open the whole day, in fine clear weather.couraged or discouraged by a mother. Sufficient Lastly, the bedstead must not be placed too low on the floor: nor is it proper to let children sleep on a couch which is made without any elevation from the ground; because the most mephitic and pernicious stratum of air in an apartment is that within one or two feet from the floor, while the most wholesome, or atmospheric air, is in the middle of the room, and the inflammable gas ascends to the top.

PRESERVATION OF HEALTH.-Sir William Paulett, who died in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, at the age of ninety-seven, gave the following answer to a person who inquired how he had preserved his health:

"Late supping I forbear:

Wine and excesses I forswear:

My neck and feet I keep from cold:
No marvel then though I be old!
I am a willow, not an oak:

clothing, guarding against colds and chills, plenty of wholesome sleep on a wool mattress (not on an enervating bed of down), plenty of ablutions, sometimes sponging the chest with vinegar and water, plenty of often-repeated, but never fatigning exercise, plenty of simply nutritious food -these sweetened and enlivened with an enlightened household cheerfulness form the best prescription that we can offer.

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..40 MRS. GRUMMY thinks that there are now so many books, that the people need not take the trouble to think at all, as they can find all they want to say in the books.

WHEN a Kentucky judge, some years since, was asked by an attorney, upon some strange ruling, "Is that law, your honour?" he replied, "If the court understand herself, and she think she do, it are!"

AN Irish lad, having been asked if the man who had just flogged him was his own father, replied, "Yes, sure enough, he's the parent iv me; but he trates me as if I was his son by another father and mother!

POETRY permits her votaries to indulge in many metaphorical ideas, but the latest one we have met with is positively the most original. Hear! "With eye of fire, majestic he rose,

And spoke divinely through his doublebarrell'd nose."

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"WHY are you like a crazy man, my dear?" asked a wife. Don't know," replied the husband, scratching his head. "Why," replied the wife, hitching up closer to him, and putting on one of her sweetest smiles, "I'm your other self, and you are beside yourself."

AN auctioneer, at a sale of antiquities, put up a helmet, with the following candid observation:"This, ladies and gentlemen, is a helmet of Romulus, the Roman founder; but whether he was a brass or iron-founder I cannot tell."

WHEN Foote was at Salt Hill, he dined at the Castle; and when Partridge produced the bill, which was rather exorbitant, Foote asked him his name. "Partridge, an't please you," said he. "Partridge; returned Foote; it should be Woodcock, by the length of your bill."

A FELLOW Coming from the top of the Alleghanies to New York, in winter, was asked whether it was as cold there as in the city. He had probably been at some march-of-intellect school, for he glanced at a thermometer. "Horribly cold," said he, "for they have no thermometers there, and, of course, it gets just as cold as it pleases."

SOMEBODY once remarked, that the Englishman is never happy but when he is miserable; the Scotchman is never at home but when he is abroad; and the Irishman is never at peace but when he is fighting.

A PERSON, who lived in constant fear of the bailiffs, having absconded, one of his acquaintances was asked what was the reason of his absence? to which he replied, "Why, sir, I apprehend he was apprehensive of being apprehended." JACK BANNISTER, praising the hospitality of the Irish, after his return from one of his trips to the sister kingdom, was asked if he had been in Cork. "No," replied the wit; "but I saw a great many drawings of it."

CULTIVATED FLOWERS.

WOMAN.-There is nothing, indeed, by which we are through life more profited than by the just observations, the good opinion, and the sincere and gentle encouragement of amiable and sensible women. DARE forsake what you deem wrong; Dare to walk in wisdom's way; Dare to give where gifts belong; Dare God's precepts to obey. Do what conscience says is right; Do what reason says is best: Do with willing mind and heart;

Do your duty, and be blest.

BE STEADY!-Who have done the most for mankind? Who have secured the rarest honours? Who have raised themselves from poverty to riches? Those who were steady to their purpose. PHILANTHROPY.

Hast thou power?-The weak defend;
Light?-give light: thy knowledge lend;
Rich ?-remember Him who gave;
Free?-be brother to the slave.

CUSTOM is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress. She, by little and little, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having, by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious, tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes. ON TIME.

Time darks the sky; time brings the day:
Time glads the heart; time puffs all joys away.
Time builds a city, and o'erthrows a nation;
Time writes a story of their desolation.
Time hath a time when I shall be no more;
Time makes poor men rich, and rich men poor.

DR. JOHNSON'S LAST REQUEST TO HIS FRIENDS. -On his death-bed Dr. Johnson sent a kind message to John Scott, afterwards Lord Eldon, His last words to Sir Joshua Reynolds were to begging him never to do legal work og a Sunday.

the like effect.

CHEERFULNESS.

I THINK We are too ready with complaint
In this fair world of God's. Had we no hope,
Indeed, beyond the zenith and the slope
Of yon gray blank of sky, we might be faint
To muse upon eternity's constraint
Round our aspirant souls. But since the scope
Must widen early, is it well to droop

For a few days consumed in loss and taint?
O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted-
And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road-
Singing beside the hedge. What if the bread
Be bitter in thine inn, and thou unshod
To meet the flints? At least it may be said,
"Because the way is short, I thank thee, God!”

A HABIT of judicious early obedience secures a child from a tendency to break the laws of his country when he becomes a man. All great criminals have been self-willed and disobedient in childhood; otherwise, they were badly trained— that is to say, badly educated.

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