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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

CONCERNING BATaING OF THE BoDY.-I
think our sanitarians are very extravagant,
and they have done great public m ischief by
setting the great towns to plumber the rivers
OF their supplies from the head streams.
Even the prophet Mohammed, fanatic Of
cleanliness, regarded friction with sand as
compensatory for washing. If any one sup
poses that the limbs and trunk Of the body
cannot be kept as perfectly clean by dry rub
ping as by any amount of washing, [ say he
has something to learn. Undoubtedly, in
hot climate, or hot weather, there is nothing
50 pleasant and so rapidly efectual as bath
ing, II the temperature of the water be not
too low, as it is apt to be with US, even in
our hottest weather. | have always enjoyed
swimming; but reluctantly give it up. be-
cause the cold makes my hands dead, which
cannot be healthful. L once brought on a
severe attack of illness by using sitz bath.
All the hardy barbarians of the north have,
at all times, been reproached by southern
people Tor their neglect in washing. The
old Romans did nOt-as a natlon-betake
themselves to baths till the era of effeminacy
set In. Tacitus says of the Germans 'In
she midst OF this dirt they grew up into those
limos which We admire The Scythi ms,
OF Herodotus, were reported not to wash
put IN cold weather, at distant intervals, to
cover their bodies with a hot, spicy paste.
1t dried on them, and dropped of wnen cold,
leaving the flesh clean. Northern races
know that cold water takes strength out of
them, and they do not volunteer to touch it.
Their practice has more weight with me than
recent theories. No doubt where hot baths,
warm dressing-room and luxurious towels
can be commanded, warm bathing tends to
human beauty. Perhaps it makes a more
delicate animal, more susceptible to cold. |
think it does. A hot-air bath is very df-
terent thing, and more akin to the Scythian
practice. But, granting that wealth may
avail itself of warm water,
with cold shower bath after it, that does
not justify a universal command to men and
women, rich and poor, to wash their whole
bodies every day in cold water, as many of
our sanitarans do.:T. w. Net0man in
Herald of Health
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

NAVY BEANs.-The soil best adapted for
beans is a light, loamy one, not too rich, but
clean and free from weeds. They should be
planted in hills twenty -four inches apart, or
in drills twcnty-seven or thirty inches apart,
and eighteen inches apart in the drill; five or
SIX beans may be dropped in fill. The crop
needs sufficient cultivation to keep the ground
clean, but they should not be hoed or cult
waited while wet with rain. They are har-
vested by pulling the plaHss when the beans
are ripe, and stacking them up around pole
five feet long. laying the punches of beans
across each other, the roots being kept on
one side of the pole. Do not expose t. rain,
which Injuries the color of the beans. Thrash
with fail, or with the machine with the
concave raised.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

GREEN PEAS will soon be here. Cook them
as soon alter picking as possible. Marion
Hariand says shell and lay them in cold wa
ter until they are ready for cooking saw.
never wet them until you cook them if Won
can avoid it. To secure this, shell them as
clean as possible. Pour boiling water over
them. and boil half an hour, or little less
If they are very tender. Do not salt them
until they are soft, and then but lightly.
their own flavor is SO delicious. Add little
cream or milk if you have it, but never add
any butter except the very best, and not that
i you have cream.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

Ii you have dog that kills or runs sheen.
ana dOn want to shoot him, build a pen
sixteen teet square, and run pole across the
top, and then pick the largest and Oldest
buck IN the flock, put him in the men oct
your dog with collar around his nesk and
a rope to draw up over the middle of the MOLE
SO that the dog will have his fore iees swing
ing OF the ground few inches. Get out Of
the Pen and let the buck give him several
good butts, and then turn him loose. This
is sure cure. tried it on my fathers dogs
when L was boy, and never knew them to
even cross field where the sheep were graz
ing.-Corr. Rural Sun.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

TIE ARABs.-Persons of the middle
class have sandals instead of shoes or
thin pieces of wood, fastened to the feet
with leathern thongs. Richer people wear
slippers, and the women always use the
latter covering for the feet. Drawers,
with the addition Of shirt, always form
the female dress. At Hedsias, as in
Egypt, they veil their face with a piece
Of linen, leaving only the eyes uncovered.
In Yemen, the veil is much larger, and
covers the face. so that even the eyes are
not observable. At Sana and Mokha the
women wear transparent gauze veil en-
broiiered in gold. They are very fond of
rings on their fingers, arms, wrists and
ears; they stain their nails red, and their
hands and feet of a brownish yellow, with
the juice of plant called Ell heane they
also paint all their eyelids, and even the
eyelashes themselves, with ko bel, which
renders them quite black. Men even
sometimes initiate this fashion, but it is
considered effeminate. The women OF
Yemen make black punctures on the face,
which they consider improves their beauty.
Fashion shows its influence in this country
most particularly in the manner of wearing
the hair and beard. In the States Of
Sana all men, whatever their rank, shave
their heads; in other parts of Yemen it is
the universal custom to knot the hair up
behind and wrap it in a handkerchief.
Caps and turbans are not in use here. In
the mountain districts the hair is left long
and loose, and is bound with small cards.
All Arabians of rank have one curious ad-
dtion to their dress. 1t is piece of fine
linen upon the shoulder, which probably
was formerly intended to keep off the heat
of the sun, but is now used only as an
ornament. Carreri states that the Ara
bian women wear black masks with elegant
little clasps, and Niebuhr mentions their
showing but one eye in conversation. In
Moore, also, We fud these lines:
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

DENTISTRY IN JAPAN.-An American den
fist living in Yokohama sends to the Denttt
Cosmos an account Of the japanese habits ia
regard to their teeth. lie says that as the
young women have very fine teeth it is re.
narkable that they should keep up the
practice of backing them after marriage
The japanese as race possess good teeth,
but they lose them very early in life.
- Their tooth bru shes consist Of tough
wood, pounded at one end to loosen the ibers
They resemble paint brushes, and owing to
their shape it is impossible to get one behind
an accumulation of tartar which frequently
draws the teeth Of old people. Their process
Of manufacturing false teeth is very crude,
The plates are made of wood, and the teeth
consists of tacks driven up under the side
A piece of wax is heated and pressed into
the roof of the mouth. 1t is then taken out
and hardened by putting it into cold water
Another piece of heated wax is applied to the
impression, and after being pres ed into shape
is hardened. A piece of wood is then rough
ly cut into the desired form, and the model,
having been smearei with red paint, is ap-
piled to it. Where they touch each other
mark is left by the paint. This is cut away
TIL they touch evenly all over. Shark teeth,
Dts of ivory, or stone, for teeth, are set into
The wood and retained in position by beiog
trung on thread which Is secured on each
md by a peg driven into the hole where the
thread makes its exit from the base. iron
'r copper tacks are driven into the ridge to
erve for masticating purposes, the unequal
wear Of the wood and metal keeping up the
lesire1 roughness. Their full set answer
FIR the mastication of fool, but,
ls they do not improve the looks, they are
worn but little for ornament The ordinary
ervice of a set of teeth is about five years,
'ut they frequently last much longer: All
ull upper sets are retained by atmos pherc
'ressure. This principle is coeval with the
TT. In Japan dentistry exists only as a
mechanical trade, and the status OF those
Who practice it is not very high. 1t il, in
acs, graded with carpenters their word
ladyikfSan, meaning tooth-carpenter.'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

In many parts of Arabia the women
wear little looking-glasses on their thumbs.
All the young women of the East are
particularly fond of being able to gaze
upon their own fair countenances, and sell
dom do without a looking-glass. The
Arabian princesses wear golden rings on
their fingers, to which little bells are sus-
pended, as we'll as in the flowing tresses Of
their hair. that their superior rank may be
known and they may receive the homage
due to them.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

WHITE CLOVER AS HONEY PLANT-An
English writer says White or Dutch clover
is the queen of honey plants. 1t is wild ely
cultivated in this country, and continues t.
flower long time. In Scotland the farmers
use more white clover seed in laying down
the land in grass than the farmers of Eng-
land, hence the clover fields are better there
than here. And the use Of lime and bone
dust as manure has great infsence in the
production of clover. ln travelling TO E1in-
burgh some years ago by the Caledonian line,
whole fields white with clover flowers caught
my eye, and made me take a second look TO
see il the whiteness came from daisy fl )wers
w hole districts, unsurpassed for excellence,
met my eye during a visit to my native land
many of which hardly ever received COM
plimentary visit from bees, and for this rea
son-that there were no bee keepers in these
districts.
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goetra.
DaTWinjsm i'm the Kitchen.

/ was taking off my bonnet
One afternoon at three.
When hinseck jumped upon it
AS proved to be'a flea.
Then takes it to the CRATE,
Between the bars to stick it;
But hadn't long to wait
Ere it changed into cricket.
Says /, "Surely my senses
Is a-gettin1In fogi"
so to drownd it commences,
When it halters to a frog.
Here my heart began to thump,
And no wonder | felt funky;
For the frog, with one big jump,
Leaped hisself into a monkey.
Then opened wide my eyes,
His features for to scan,
And observed, with great surprise,
That the monkey was a man.
But he vanished from my sight,
And sunk upon the floor,
just as missus, with light,
Come inside the kitchen door.
Then beginning to abuse me,
she says, "oarah, you've been drinkinH"
l says. "No, mum. you'll excuse ne,
But I've merely been a-thnkin'.
"But, as sure as Pm a cinder,
That party what you see
A-gettin' out o. winder,
Have developed from flea.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18
June.

The month of rich perfume, delicious June!
When clouds drop down their warm and welcome
rains;
When Natures pulsng blood pours through her
veins,
And all her voices sound in perfect tune.
Blood of the plants born of the summer sun,
Whose lusty life and recreating force
Rebuilds where'er the hand of man destroys:
No tropic juice is this, o'erborne with sweets
IT'S strong, fit sustenance, that never clogs;
And boys are like the food on which they feed,
Tough as the fbres OF our plants. The girls,
(Such is the subtle alchemy of sexl,
Are like a rose upon its stem of green,
The fair embOdments of June, the Queen
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

DEBoRAH.-The history of the Jewish
nation in the Book of Judges presents a
succession of periods of oppression and oil
deliverance by a series of dlvinely.inspired
leaders, sent in answer to repentan,
prayers 1t is entirely in keeping with
the whole character of the Mosaic
institutions, and the customs of the Jewish
people, that one of these inspired deliver.
ers should be a woman. We are no;
surprised at the familiar manner in which
it is announced as thing quite in the
natural order that the chief magistrate o.
the Jewish nation for the time being. was
woman divnely ordained and gifted
Thus the story is introduced
6 And the children of Israel did evil in the
sight of the Lord when Ehud was dead. and
the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin
King of Canaan, that reignel in Hasor. the
Captain of whose host was Sisera. which
dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. And
the children of Israel cried unto the Lord g.
for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and
twenty years he nightly oppressed the chill
dren of Israel. And Deborah, the prophecies
the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at
that time. And she dwelt under the palm
tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel.
in Mount Ephraim, and the children ofIsrael
came up to her for judgment. And she sent
and called Barak, the son of Abinoim, and
said unto him: bath not the Lord God of
Israel said, g. draw towards Mount Tabor.
aud take with thee ten thousand men of the
OF Zsbulon and the children of
Naphtali? And will draw unto thee at .e
river Keshon>Sisera, the captain of Jabin'
army, with his caariots and bis multitude.
and will deliver him into thy hands And
Barak said: If thou wilt 60 with me, will
90 !; but If thou wilt not 60 with me, will
not 60. And she said will surely 90 with
;hee Notwithstanding, the journey that thou
,akest shall not be for thine honor, for the
Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a
Eoman.''
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

LEATHER CEMENT.-According to Stuben-
LAUGH, the so-called leather cement is pre-
pared by mixing ten parts of isulphide of
carbon with one part of turpentine, and dis
solving gutta- percha in it till the mass ap-
pears semi-huid The leather surfaces to be
united must be freed from grease, which may
be done by laying on rag, and pressing with
a hot iron. Alter applying the above-named
mixture. they are exposed to pressure till the
cement is dry,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

CHINESE FARMERs.-The Memphis Appeal
mentions the success of five Chinese, who
have this season cultivated one hundred acres
OF land few miles from that city across the
river. They had sixty acres in cotton and
forty in corn, and gave it tine ost thorough
cultivation, after blowing the land seven
times in preparation for planting, and have
kept their crop entirely free from weeds.
Their crop met with quick sale. Their health
had been perfectly good, although heated in
a miasmatic district.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

A horse-chestuut tree, of great size,
standing near the site of the first United
States Mint, in New Haven, Conn.,, has a
habit of blooming on the north and south
sides in alternate years, except that every
seventh year its blossoms appear on both
sides. This popularity has been noticed
since 1874, and the south is the favored
side this year.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

SPRING MISUNDERSTANDING and satisfy
VIII, with most persons, be gone when this
paper is printed. Asparagus, too, will ..-
most have had its day. have seen it very
poorly cooked On very elegant tables-boiled
IN long stalks, half of which We're white and
tough. 1t is much the best way, it seems to
me, to cut it in small pieces, cooking only
the tender part. and pour boiling water over
1t, and boil it half an hour, adding little
cream and sal: when it is done, and letting
ali boil up together once. Pour it over nice
toast if you like.
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The duke of c ambridge has been asked to
resign as commander-in-chi of the British
army. Instead of putting down the rebels
at the military school at sSandhuret, they
put him down.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

DRAINED LANDS AND FRosT.-The frost
will leave underdrained land in the spring
more quickly than that left undrained, since
the soil is not saturated with water at the
time of freezing in the fall, and the drains
being properly laid the water will immedi-
ately follow. The drains should be laid en-
tirely benea h the action of frost to be of ser
vice, since if not they will be thrown out Of
line and level by the freezing and thawing
If laid three feet deep you will experience no
difficulty.
of course, the more porous the soil the
quicker the water will pereolatc, but it will
surely find it's way through any soil, and
from the time the drainage is made fur five
or ten years you will find the land will in
crease in its capabIlity for carrying off the
water through the soil if done with tile. So
long, however, as the ground remains frozen
10 the spring. it will have lost It's capacity
for carrying off water, but it is not therefore
a serious impediment to drainage except for
the short time 1t continues, for the frost be-
ing once out of the ground drainage goes on,
although the earth may become again par
TALLY frozen. Western Rural.
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In many parts of Arabia the W,

g And yelled by such mask as shades
The features of young Arab maids
mask that leaves but one eve free
To do its best in wifcheryD
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