It was a young girl
The first time we ever saw that household word, M Saleratus," was when we were just beginning to take lessons in " Cor- derii," the first Latin primer. There was the picture of an angel broke loose., with her long hair floating back in the breeze, an uncontrollable joyousness in her face, and, withal, a most unsuspicious, don't-care look about her; she was not on earth or in heaven, but between the two, in mid-air like, as if she had taken a spring, which was to end in a somerset, landing her right side up; and under this pic-ture was, in large letters, Sal Eratns. Our first impulse was to tttranslate that." "Sal," we confidently believed, meant Sal, and " Eratus " had something to do with erring; so we concluded that if Sal and Erring were put together, it would make, in plain English, "Erring Sal;" and that somebody's daughter, named Sal, would very probably, if she " cut up so," in the end " put her foot in it," that is, " spoil the brothor, in other words, make a fool of herself; which means, to take her pigs to a poor market; that is to say, would come out at the little end of the horn. Will any spirit about us vouchsafe an ability to express our idea in more courtly phrase, and better adapted to the modern market? For we ran back a moment to old times; and their associations so enveloped us, that we were n possessed " of old words, phrases, comparisons, Burberry Outlet old everything; specially did it briug to our mind, of how we went a moonshiny night to a prayer-meeting in the country, with Dr. Clelland's daughter, and how, when an essay was made to help her over the fence, with the tip end of a gloved finger, she exclaimed, M0, get out I" and laying one hand on the top rail, she cleared the panel at a bound 1 We felt mean for a whole year. 332 How sigh we for the times to come again, when for a girl to laugh outright, to clear a fence, to reach the saddle at a bound, or row on a river, or gallop alone to a  miles and back, shall be considered nothing remarkable, its neighbor's, five "symptom" beiug, an index to physical health, to joyous good-nature, and possession of high moral and physical abil¬ities. How would a regiment of the true "tomboys" of olden times, quartered on Gotham, work a revolution for the better in mind and morals, in physical elevation and mental power, whose influences for good would be felt for generations I DISEASE AND CRIME. LIGHT is daily coming in upon Burberry Sale the world of mind, and by the help of clearly established facts, arguments may be ad-duced, which will have a stronger tendency to compel men to take care of their health than any which have arisen from conscience, money, or duty.

who can leave their families nothing
she was to " make herself useful" in the various changes and adversities of life. Very many girls, in this drear winter weather, go to bed hungry, and rise to hover around stinted fires, and shiver  TOMBOYS. ing, wearing the wrinkles of sadness and care all dav in scanty cloth- on faces yet in their teens, willing enough to work — aud abundant work to do, with liberal pay, in luxurious mansions, whose rich oc¬cupants would count it a " fortunate thing " to find a person suited to the place. Why, then, are the doors of all our charities besieged and daily thronged ? and why does the pitiful appeal strike the ear of the pedestrian in his early walk, or noonday promenade, or nightly visit to the party, the lecture, the concert, or the opera? It is simply because these starving, freezing girls were not brought up to be useful, were not taught, by careless Burberry Sale or over- indulgent mothers, how they might command situations. The incessant and earnest cry of thousands of almost despair¬ing housekeepers, is for Burberry Outlet competent w help," to cook, to nurse, to sew, for chamber work, or for waiting. Within any twenty- four hours, two thousand, may we not say ten thousand, such girls could find welcome homes, in the very best families in New York, at high wages. But American girls think it degrading to cook, and nurse, and wash, and wait on the table, and their more inexcusable and 6hort-sighted parents confirm them in their views; and the next we hear of them is " starvation,'* " suicide," prema-ture disease, or a dishonored grave. Let all these, especially those , impress on the minds of their children, day by day, that it is more dishonor-able to beg than to work; that it is more criminal to do noth-ing than to be industrious; that no employment is dishonor¬able which is useful; and that it is not only a disgrace, but a crime to be idle, from feelings of a despicable false pride. TOMBOYS. 331 How we love the phrase I How it carries us back to the good old times when girls were not afraid to laugh out a whole heart at once, and never knew anything of modern "pro¬priety;" sanctity before folks, satanity  behind; angelic in the street, animal in the pantry, and in the study asinine I TOMBOYS. w Tomboys " is associated in our mind with saleratus. Sal- eratus rises, and helps to rise; so does a tomboy, for she is so full of romping and of fun, that, with her joyous nature and her unsuspicious abandon, she fires up every young heart around her, and makes the saddened faces of the old beam with the subdued but sweet smiles of the memories of Auld Lang Syne, when they too were young.

MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL
by stirring enough of common salt in the yolk of a good egg to make it sufficiently thin for a plaster, to be kept on the bitten parts. Neuralgia and toothache are sometimes speedily relieved by applying to the wrist a quantity of bruised or grated horse¬radish. Costive bowels have an agreeable remedy in the free use of tomatoes at meals — their seeds acting in the way of the seeds of white mustard or figs, by stimulating the coats of the bowels over which they pass, in their whole state, to increased action. A remedy of equal efficiency, in the same direction, is cracked wheat — that is, common white wheat grains, broken into two or three pieces, and then boiled until it is as soft as rice, and eaten mainly at two meals of the day, with butter Burberry Outlet or molasses. Common sweet cider, boiled down to one half, makes a most excellent . pleasant to the taste, and will syrup for coughs and colds for children — is keep throughout the year in a cool cellar. In recovering from an illness, the system has a craving for some pleasant acid drink. This is found in cider which is placed on the fire as soon as made, and allowed to come to a boil, then cooled, put in casks, and kept in a cool cellar. Treated thus, it remains for many months as good Burberry Sale as the day it was made. We once saved the life of an infant which had been inad¬vertently drugged with laudanum, and was fast sinking into the sleep which has no awaking, by giving it strong coffee, cleared with the white of an egg, a teaspoonful every five minutes, until it ceased to seem drowsy. Our book on " Health and Disease " was written with a view to introduce people to the knowledge of items like these, in the hope of doing something towards abolishing the ruinous and almost universal habit of purchasing patent medicines, which, in so many instances, are either inapplicable, hurtful, or utterly useless, and, in this latter case, are indirectly the means of death, by the loss of time in obtaining the services of a competent physician to apply the proper means with a wise discrimination. MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL. 330 THIS is the standing injunction to a large family of steady and affectionate children, of a w Friend " mother, whom we know, and we regard it as one of the most important les¬sons which childhood can learn. Many a young man would have been saved from the halter, had he learned iu his father's house how to " make himself useful" under all the circum¬stances of life. And well do we know, that many a girl with a good heart has gone down to an early grave of infamy, from being brought up, by a false kindness, without the knowledge of how .

Common rice, parched brown like
accomplishing their object without any shock to the system, and without the danger of killing the patient, by mistaking the quantity, or quality, or name of the dose. Ripe fruits and berries, slightly acid, will remove the ordi¬nary diarrhoeas of early summer. coffee, and then boiled and eaten in the ordinary way, without any other food, is, with perfect quietude of body, one of the most effective rem¬edies for troublesome looseness of bowels. Some of the severest forms of that distressing ailment called dysentery, that is, when the bowels pass blood, with constant desire, yet vain efforts to stool, are sometimes entirely cured by the patient eating a heaping tablespoon, at a time, of raw beef, cut up very fine, and repeated at intervals of four hours, until cured, eating and drinking nothing else in the meanwhile. 328 If a person swallows any poison whatever, or has fallen into convulsions from having overloaded the stomach, an instanta¬neous remedy, more efficient and applicable in a larger num¬ber of cases than any half a dozen medicines we can now think of, is a heaping teaspoon of common salt and as much ground mustard, stirred rapidly in a teacup of water, warm or cold, and swallowed instantly. It  FOOD CUBE. * 329 i to come up, bringing with is scarcely down before it begins it the remaining contents of the stomach; and lest there be Burberry Outlet any remnant of a poison, however small, let the white of an egg, or a teacup of strong coffee, be swallowed as soon as the stomach is quiet; because these very common articles nullify a larger number of virulent poisons than any medicines in the shops. In case of scalding or burning the body, immersing the part in cold water gives entire relief, as instantaneously as the lightning. Meanwhile get some common diy flour, and ap¬ply it an inch or two thick on the injured Burberry Sale part the moment it emerges from the water, and keep sprinkling on the flour through anything like a pepper-box cover, so as to put it on evenly. Do nothing else, drink nothing but water, eat noth-ing, until improvement commences, except some dry bread softened in very weak tea of some kind. Cures of frightful burnings have been performed in this way, as wonderful as they are painless. Erysipelas, a disease often coming without premonition, and ending fatally in three or four days, is sometimes promptly cured by applying a poultice of raw crauberries, pounded, and placed on the part over night. Insect bites, and even that of a rattlesnake, have passed harmless.

VEGETARIANISM AND ILL-TEMPER
and, consequently, as to themselves, they had better never have been used, as they are so liable to abuse. But science and fact unite in declaring them to be nutritious, as well as stimulant; hence, they will do a new good to the system every day, to the end of life, just as bread  TEA AND COFFEE. do; hence, we and fruits Burberry Outlet never get tired of either. But the use of bread and fruits are daily abused by multitudes, and dyspepsia and cholera morbus result; yet we ought not to forego their em¬ployment on that account, nor should we forego the use of tea and coffee because their inordinate use gives neuralgias and other ailments. But the habitual use of tea and coffee, at the last and first meals Burberry Sale of the day, has another high advantage, is productive of incalculable good in the way of averting evils. 326 We will drink at our meals, and if we do not drink these, we will drink what is worse — cold water, milk, or alcoholic mixtures. The regular use of these last will lead the young to drunkenness; the considerable employment of simple milk, at meals, by sedentary people, — by all, except the robust,— will either constipate, or render bilious; while cold water largely used, that is, to the extent of a glass or two at a meal, especially in cold weather, attracts to itself so much of the heat of the system, in raising said water to the temperature of the body — about one hundred degrees — that the process of digestion is arrested; in the mean while giving rise to a deathly sickness of stomach, to twisting pains, to vomitings, purgiugs, and even to cramps, to fearful contortions, and sud¬den death; which thiugs would have been averted, had even the same amount of liquid, in the shape of simple hot water, been used. But any one knowing these things, and being prejudiced against the use of tea and coffee, would subject himself to be most unpleasantly stared at aud questioned, if not ridiculed, were he to ask for a cup or glass of hot water. But, as tea and coffee are now universal beverages, are on every table, and everybody is expected to take one or the other as a matter of course, they are unwittingly the means of safety and of life to multitudes. They save life, where a glass of cold water would have destroyed it. So that the use of these  * 327 beverages i3 not merely allowable, it is politic, it is a necessity. VEGETARIANISM AND ILL-TEMPER. SOLOMON was a great lover of beefsteak; and when he wanted a fit comparison with one of the meanest and lowest traits of our nature, to wit, a bad temper.