The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-04-30
miscellaneous department.

miscellaneous Department.
II An OLD BEAU.-.f men sneer, as our habit
is at the articles of an old beauty, at her paint,
perfumes, ringlets, at those iununerable, and to
us unknown, stratagems with which she is said
to remedy the rayages of time and reconstruct
the charms whereof years have bereit her the
ladies', it is to be presumed, are not on their SIDE
altogether ignorant that men are vain as we'll
as they, and that the toilet of old bucks are to
the full as elaborate as their own. How is it
that old Blushington keeps that constant little
Tose.tint on his cheeks; and where does old
Bloadel get the preparation which makes his
silver hair pass for goldepa Have you ever
seen Lord gHotspur, get off his horse where he
thinks nobody is bookings Take out OF his STR
rups, his shiny boots can hardly totter up the
steps of Hotspur House. He is dashng
Young, nobleman still as you see the back OF
him in. Rotten Row; when you behold him o.
foot. what an old fellows Did you ever form
to yourself any idea of Dick Lacy. dick has
been Dick these sixty years. in natural stite'
and without his stays! All these men are OBJ
iects whom the observer of human life and man.
ners may contemplate with as much profit as
~ ,,,ast' ederly Beloravian Venus. or inveter-
afa Mavfair Jezebel. An old reprobate daddy
Iono Iegs who has never said his prayers lex.
cept perhaps in public) these fifty years; an old
buck whos cIipgs to as many OF the habits oi
youth as hisfeeble grasp Of health can hold by;
who has given up the bottle but sits with young
fellows over it, and tells naug gbty stories upon
ss;Il [ tsiLs .bout Il no wicke5lv as the Youngest
.ana m. q in, eomnany-sneh san old fellow, | saw,
;f.nv .r.rson ;a .p;ml;.o or St James were to
..Iay tL. La.,iLos 10 b,;no him ;n;o the middle
~, - and -, 49, -. him n an arm.eha;r and make
I 49, .na mr.. nreaeh about him to the con.
.,.a,.a,;an -m - '~.,,.a hs tnrned to = wholesome use
tor once II his life.s and migbt de surprised to
fnd th.t aon,a good thanobts came of out ofhim.
- - = 2 81 ~ Thackerau.
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The editor Of the Maine Cultivator published
a few days sgo' bis management Of one sen acre OF
Oh ground, nom wnlcn we gamer .ae ,oo"s 's"a:,
resulIs ols:'nlsu u an ao'e ~ oo4 g.. ] @.;nt
ousce Ssss pusaes " 'Ta Ts . S"antitv M was
sufficient sor family ns.y and for fattenine one
large or two small hogs. From the same ground
he obtained two or three hundred pumpkins,
and Instantly supply Of beans. From bed Of
xrods square, he m usually abtainedsixty bushels
Of If onions these he had sold at one dollar ner
busbsl and the the amount purchased his flour
Thus from one.tbird Of an acre and an onion
bed, he obtained his breadstufs. The rest Of
the ground was appropriated to all sorts of
vegetables, for summer and winter use; potatoes
beets, parsnips, cabbage green corn, pease, Gu.
euumobers melons souastes, &c. with fifty or
sixty bushels of beets and carrots for the food Of
one cow. Then he had also flower garden,
raspberries, curants, and goosberries in great
variety; and few choice apple, pear, plum,
cherry, peach and qUiuee trees. lfa family can