Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-05-21

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Connecticut State Agricultural Society.
From condensed report in the Hartford
papers we select the following admirable
closing paragraphs:
But there is something worth living
for besides money That is very good,
but il is not all With the rest let us
raise crop of good ideas While you
are farmers, remember that on are men,
with duties and responsibilities Live
down the old brutal notion that farmer
must be uncouth, uneducated, and I'M
thinking mere plodder.
You are brought into immediate con-
tact with the great heart of civilization.
You cannot get out of the buz of tho
toiling world. The tril of the wonder
working wires, and the rumble of the
locomotive (the thunder threat of ma
tlons) come to your once secluded hill
side.
Move towards better life. Do not
keep your boys corn-shelling in the long
winter evenings. Make your farm a
place that your sons and daughters can
not help loving. Cultivate the trees
they are Gods messengers. Don't say
that you care nothing for looks. You
do care, else why did you build that
two-story white house, with blinds and
a cupola into which you never go2 Or
why did you, years ago, carefully brush
your coat, and pluck up your shirt col
lar, when you were starting on Sun
day evening, to visit that good woman
who now shares your home
Care much more for books and pic
lures. Don't keep solemn parlor into
which you go but once a month with
parson or the sewing society. Hang
around your walls pictures which shall
tell stories of mercy, hope, courage, faith.
and charity. Make your living room tho
largest and most cheerful in the house.
Let the place be such that when your
boy has gone to distant lands, or even
when, perhaps he clings to single plank
in the lonely waters of the wide ocean,
the thought Of the still homestead shall
come across the dcsolation, bringing al
ways light, hope, and love.
Have no dungeons about your house
no room you never open--no blinds
that are always shut.
Don't teach your daughters French
before they can weed 6ower-bed or
cling to side-saddle; and daughters do
not be ashamed Of the pruning knife -
Bring to your door the richest flowers
!, from the woods; cultivate the friendship
Of birds; seorn the scamp that levels his
murderous gun at the blue-bird or the
robin. Study botany, learn to love ma
turc, and seek a higher cultivation than
the fashionable world would give you.
CooLTNG Rooms. The warm weather
will soon be here, and every one will DO
seeking the refreshing influence Of cool
and shady place, whereunto they can re-
treat from the blazing sun: 30 we will
give our readers few hints concerning
the cooling Of their houses The first
necessity is a thorough draught. This
can be obtained by opening every door
and window in the basement, the top of
every window above, and by throwing
each door wide open; but above all be-
sure that the trap door in the roof is
open, and there is plenty air-room from
it down stairs, 80 that, whichever be the
direction Of the wind, there will be at
least one ascending current Of air in tho
house. Another requisite is shade
Our common Stat shutters answer well for
the windows, but the cheapest and most
convenient shelter for the roof is TO cover
it thickly with straw, dried reeds, or rush
es. These will resist the influences Of
the monday gun, and keep the garrett
almost as cool as the basement. One Of
the most simple methods, and at tho
same time cheapest means Of artificially
lowering the temperature Of the room is
to wet cloth Of any size, the larger tho
better, and suspend it in the place you
want cooling; let the room be well ven
tilated and the temperature will sink from
ten to twenty degrees in less than half
an hour. The above hints will be use
full to many, and as last suggestion.
we will inform the reader that in sum-
mer it is we'll TO keep solution of chic
ride Of lime in the house, and occasion
ally springlc il in the more frequented
parts, such as the passages and stairs.
II Az ALLEGORY.- venerable old man
toiled through the burden and heat of the
day in cultivatng his field with his own
hand, and in strewing with his own hand
the promising seeds into the fruitful lap
of yielding earth. Suddenly there stood
before him, under the shade Of hugo
linden tree divine vision. The old
man was struck with amazemcnt II
am Solomon" spoke the phantom in
friendly voice what are you doing
here, old InanP IF you are Solomon
replied the venerable laborer, chow can
you ask this? In my youth you sent
me TO tho ant; ! saw its occupation, aud
learned from that insect to be industrious
and gather. What / then learned | am
following to this hour" "You have
only learned half your lesson" respond
cd the spirit; Ego again to the ant, and
learn from that insect TO rest in the win
ter Of your life, and to enjoy what you
have gathered up
IT. Bachelors are not entirely lost 10
the refinement Of sentiment, for the fol-
lowing toast was given by one Of them
at celebration -" Tho Ladies-sweet
briars in the garden Of life"
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