done separately, beginning with the upper The top of the flower and bud are outlined in No. 1 Mecklenburgh thread. This, also, is done before the braiding. The entire ground is in Raleigh bars. The filling up is as follows: - The leaves are worked in Brussels lace, with Evans's Boar's Head, No. 70. Over th lace the veinings are done with Mecklen burgh thread, No. 100. The best way of doing the veinings is to take a thread three times along the length of the leaf, ending at the point; then cover these threads with close button-hole stitch, as far as the first branch; run the needle through the braid at the proper place, and work back on that single bar of thread to the main stem, on which continue until you come to the next side veining, which work like the first. ozaeggs in The whole of the veinings are thus done without breaking off the thread. The buds are worked in close, fine English lace with a W. Evans and Co.'s Boar's Head Cotton, No. 100. The single spot at the upper part, and the Brussels lace are done with the sanie cotton.te The petals are done in Venetian lace, with W. Evans and Co.'s Boar's Head No. 70. The Meckline wheels in Mecklenburgh 160.ees ortogot huisgere Down each front a few rows of close foundation stitch may be worked with small spaces left at intervals, for the button-holes, which should be very small and to correspond with each other. A collar, to match with this habit-shirt, might very readily be formed of the flowers and buds. Being rather solid work, the paper is better lined with Alpaca than with calico. anivallo diet Thepparde ORIGIN OF THE HUMAN RACE.-I believe that the origin of the human race is not connected with any given place, but is to be sought everywhere over the face of the earth; and that it is an idea more worthy of the power and wisdom of the Creator, to assume that he gave to each zone and each climate its proper inhabitants, to whom that zone and climate would be the most suitable, than to assume that the human species has degenerated in such innumerable instances.-Niebuhr. THE TOILETTE FRIEND. III. THE SKIN-ITS DISEASES. In the present paper we propose considering some of the most common diseases of the skin, such as are of daily occurrence or liable to occur at certain seasons of the year; and in our next we shall give the treatment to be adopted. DISEASES OF THE SURFACE GENERALLY. 51. Measles are ushered in by an increased heat of skin or feverishness, soreness and watering of the eyes, and redness at the edges of the eyelids; a short, dry, harsh cough follows, and is accompanied by sneezing, hoarseness, and running from the nose. About the third or fourth day after these symptoms have made their appearance, a redness is observed upon the skin, especially over the face and breast, and it then extends to the arms, legs, and body. The redness is not general; that is to say, the whole skin is not red, but the redness occurs in patches which are of an irregular and somewhat crescentic form, slightly elevated above the surrounding skin. These red patches consist of minute pimples, which have inflamed bases, and when congregated together assume the irregular forms or patches we observe; and leave portions of the skin between them unaffected, so that the body is covered with irregular patches or red blotches. After the eruption makes its appearance, the symptoms generally become aggravated, especially the cough, fever and hoarseness, which increase sunset approaches, and do not generallate until about sunrise on the following day, when the same routine is observed until about the fifth or sixth day; then the eruption disappears, and about the eighth or ninth day the scarf-skin (§ 6) falls off in scales, looking like bran (§ 50). 52. Measles may be confounded with rose rash (§ 62), or scarlatina (§ 57), but a little attention to the symptoms of each, will enable any one to distinguish between them. 53. Ordinarily there is no danger to be apprehended, for the disease runs on in the course we have pointed out, but sometimes unfavourable symptoms present themselves. 54. If the eruption suddenly disappears, or the patches turn livid, an unfavourable termination is generally the result. 55. Spasms of the limbs, difficult breathing, twitching of the muscles, delirium, and insensibility, are bad symptoms. 56. Great care is required in the treatment of measles to keep up an uniform temperature of the body; for if the surface is not kept warm, or the temperature suddenly lowered, inflammation of the lungs, dropsy, diarrhoea or frequent purging, and obstinate ophthalmia or inflammation of the eyes, will supervene. 57. Scarlatina, or Scarlet-fever, is very infectious, and may be mild or complicated with severe sore throat, but of the latter form we shall not treat. 58. After exposure to the infection, it may come on at a period varying from one to thirty days. The symptoms are fever of more or less severity, according to constitution, temperament, &c., and a white tongue, with prominent red pimples about the tip, looking like the points on a strawberry. Then on the third, or sometimes on the second day, an eruption of minute bright red points, appear all over the body, not in patches, like in roserash or measles, but general, and looking as if the person had been dipped in scalding water. This eruption continues for three or four days if mild, but more generally for six or seven days, and as it decreases, the fever subsides, and the scarf-skin falls off, in scales, or peels off in flakes. The eruption is preceded or accompanied by inflammation of the throat and adjoining parts, and sometimes by a cough, and red, tender eyes, but not suffused with tears as in measles. 59. When the sore throat becomes severe, the fever considerable, the breath fetid, and on looking into the mouth, whitish or ash-coloured spots are seen on each side of the root of the tongue, with or without ulcers, then the case is unfavourable, and you should by all means send for a medical man, and when you can do so, whether the disease is simple or severe, always call in a medical man, because there are so many little attendant symptoms that cannot be explained in books, and which frequently foretell the termination of disease in a more aggra 61. Chicken-por, is known by a number of small spots looking like little bladders of fluid, spread over the surface of the body at irregular intervals. They appear as if you had dropped scalding water upon the skin and blistered it. There is always a little fever, but sometimes it is much aggravated. The blisters have no depression in the centre, therefore, cannot be mistaken for small-pox, and they usually break and heal about the fifth or sixth day. 62. Rose-rash is known by red patches of an irregular form, which are not prominent, or above the surrounding skin; at first they are of a bright red, then they gradually become a rose colour, and afterwards terminate by desquamation or throwing off the scarf-skin in scales. The amount of fever is trifling, and on the whole the disease is a slight affection lasting from twenty-four hours to a week. It is generally caused by teething in children, and in adults by indigestion, or drinking cold liquids when the surface of the body is heated. 63. Nettle-rash is an inflammation of the skin, which appears as if the person had been stung by nettles, hence the name. The symptoms are prominent irregular patches, redder or whiter than the skin, with troublesome itching which is increased by friction or scratching the skin; these patches disappear at times, and then return with increased severity. The disease is frequently caused by eating some kinds of shell-fish, such as mussels, or crabs, and mackerel; some kinds of fruit such as bitter almonds, or olives, induce the disease, or particular states of the atmosphere, and teething. This disease is usually ushered in by nausea, vomiting, and slight tever, which sometimes continue for several days. 64. Sometimes nettle-rash is very obstinate, and the eruption will disappear and At return again at irregular periods. other times the patches are hard, painful, and deep-seated. 65. Running scald, or humid tetter, is an eruption of numerous minute vesicles congregated in irregular patches and running together. They may dry up by the contents of the vesicles being absorbed, or may become broken and discharge a thin fluid which forms brownish incrustations on the surface. Sometimes the scabs or incrustations are yellowish, and in that case the vesicles have discharged matter instead of the thin fluid. The most usual parts for this disease to attack are the head, ears, arm-pits, between the fingers, &c., and it is frequently seen in cooks, grocers, and masons. It is sometimes attended with fever, but not generally. It may be simple and soon be cured, or complicated and become chronic or continue for a long time. 68. Shingles are numerous globular vesicles forming an irregular semi-circular band around the waist, which run the same course as tetter (§ 67). This 69. Acne, or copper nose, is a chronic inflammation of the sebaceous glands, and the surrounding tissues. It is known by a number of hard, conical, isolated pustules or little pimples with black tops, so that when the face is the seat of the disease, the skin looks as if it was sprinkled all over with grains of gunpowder. disease generally attacks the neck, face, shoulders and back. If the disease con tinues a long time, the bases of the pimples become hard, indolent, and of a deep red colour, while the tops of them fill with matter, and at length burst. The disease is generally induced by excesses in eating and drinking, local irritation, and sedentary occupation requiring the head to be kept hanging down, with constitutional disturbance. 70. Dandriff is a slight chronic inflammation of the most superficial layer of the dermis, accompanied by constant exfoliation or shedding of the scarf-skin in the form of minute bran-like scales (§ 50), which are continually reformed. There is sometimes heat, redness, and tingling of the skin. It attacks any part of the body, but particularly the scalp, where it is caused by the use of small tooth-combs, hard brushes, or local irritation, though sometimes it is constitutional. HOW TO KEEP FOWLS. BY M. LESLIE. No fowls can possibly thrive well, or be profitable to the owners, unless they are plentifully fed, and have a comfortable place to roost in at night and for a shelter in cold or wet weather. Their room or hen-house may be adjoining to some other out-building. It is best to have it facing the east or the south, and it must be perfectly weather-tight. It should have a door and windows, and be very well lighted: the windows may either be latticed with wood, or netted with iron wire. In the evening, after the fowls have gone to roost, let the door be locked; seeing that it is 71. Ringworm is an inflammation of the hairy scalp generally, but may attack any part of the body, commencing in patches, in which you see groups of minute pus-opened very early in the morning, unless tules, which are seated in the substance of the skin, and secrete a fluid, which ultimately forms scabs, when it attacks any other part of the body. It is seen in circles, looking red, and raised above the surface, with or without any fluid secreted; sometimes the patches are only semi-circular. I AFFLICTION. There is scarcely any affliction so pungent but time will abate the severity of its sting. But surely it is highly unbecoming a great mind to want for relief from such a tardy remedy. Sorrow is the lot of humanity; and immoderate grief betrays unmanly weakness. As we see nothing but misfortune around us, we ought always to be prepared for the approaching shock, and expect an increase of woe. Weak minds often exclaim that nothing can exceed their misery. But, alas! though the cup of affliction seems swelled to the brim, yet it may still admit of an additional drop; and when we think the measure of our woes complete, it rises even above despair. The effects of this perturbation of the mind are frequently mistaken. Weak spirits always seem deeply affected. Great souls appear more calm and unconcerned. Yet the former do not feel more, or so much as the latter, but they bear less. THOSE who harp on the weakness of men's wit convert the defects of their own discoveries into a calumny on nature, and a source of despair to every one else. -Bacon. in bad weather. The hen-house should be frequently cleaned out, and occasionally whitewashed; for, if kept dirty, the fowls will be infested with vermin. If this should happen, catch every fowl, even to the smallest chicken, and rub their skins and feathers well with lard or dripping; then have their house thoroughly cleaned and whitewashed at once; afterwards fumigating it with burning brimstone. Next, throw some sand or fresh earth on the floor. If fowls are scantily supplied with water, or if they have access only to that which is dirty or puddled, they will con.. tract a disorder called the pip, which is a thin white scale that grows on the tip of the tongue, and prevents their feeding. Catch them, pull off the scale with your fore-finger nail, and then rub the tongue with salt. When fowls have this or any other disease, they look drooping, their eyes appear dull, and their combs and gills become pale and flabby. When they are sick, feed them with bran that has been mixed to a paste with boiling water. In wet weather, keep the fowls shut up all day in the hen-house; also when it is very cold, taking care that they are properly supplied with food and water. They should have in their house a little manger or feeding-trough, which ought never to be empty. If they have plenty of food always by them, they will eat frequently but only a little at a time, and it is hest for them to do so. When their food is given to them scantily and irregularly, they injure themselves by devouring it too fast. They should have food given to them regularly three times a day. When newly hatched. they may have bread soaked in milk. By way of variety, you may give your fowls, occasionally, buck-wheat, barley, rice, and oats. If always fed there, they will stay chiefly in their house during the winter, and will in consequence be more healthy, and in every respect more profitable. They must be well supplied with plenty of clean water in large shallow pans of tin or earthen; and also with brick-dust and gravel to assist their digestion. It is well to place in the centre of their large water-pan, a small but heavy one of earthenware, turned bottom upwards, on which the fowls can stand to drink without wetting their feet: which often in winter makes them sick. Recollect always that dirty water gives them diseases. But a little clean brickdust thrown occasionally into their drinking pans, is good for their digestion. sulphur, or by burning boughs; and then strewed with sand. Wormwood and rue, sowed plentifully every spring about the neighbourhood of the hen-house, will tend to keep away vermin; and if strewed about the floor in the vicinity of their nests, it will keep off weasels and other such animals that come to suck the eggs. Bantam fowls are less injurious to a garden than any others, as the feathers about their feet prevent them from scratching up the seeds. If your garden fence has the paling sharp-pointed at the top, the fowls that are outside will find it difficult to get over; as after flying up to the top, they will have no place to rest their feet on, while preparing to take their flight downward. BLESSINGS UNAPPRECIATED. The common benefits of our nature entirely escape us; yet those are the great things. These constitute what most properly ought to be accounted blessings of providence, what alone, if we might so speak, are worthy of its care. Nightly rest and daily bread, the ordinary uses of our limbs and senses and undertakings, are gifts which admit of no comparison with any other. Yet because every man possesses these, we leave them out of our enumeration. They raise no sentiment; they move no gratitude.--Paley. Their nests should be moveable, that whenever the hen has done sitting, they may be taken away, and cleaned out before they are replaced. For the nest, you may place on the floor (not far from the walls, but not against them) old flat baskets; or deep boxes set up on the side; the open or entrance part turned from the light. Fill them with clean dry straw or hay. Place near the boxes lime for the hens to form their egg-shells. Old rubbish-lime, or RECONCILEMENT.-It is a blessed thing plaster from old walls, is very proper for and they who love sincerely know well this purpose, if well broken up. If you how blessed-when, after a moment of cannot procure this, mix lime and water misunderstanding-nay, perhaps, even of to a mortar; let it dry, then break it up mutual transgression-to repose heart and put it into the hen-house. See that against heart, and feel, sincerely feel, that the setting hens have plenty of food and one certainty is to be found on earth, one water every day, at the time they come off certainty which defies all the power of their nests. If they are not supplied at hell, one certainty which is heaven upon once, they will go back to their nests with-earth-that they love one another-that out waiting, and suffer much in conse they belong to one another-that nothing, nothing in the world, shall divide those who have found in each other true celestial love. O! this is a certainty, the most beautiful which is to be found upon earth -a certainty, the ground and guarantee of every other. He felt it well, that man, who, about to pass from the theatre of life, laid his hand upon his heart, and said, “I love, therefore I am immortal !"'—Mary Howitt. |