The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-03-28
fepaif s'hop on the Farm,

Every farmer who has any mechani-
cal genius should have some place
where in rough or stormy weather he
can go in and make such repairs on his
farm implements as his knowledge of
mechanics will enable him 10 do well. If
the farm be large and the farmer skill
full, 1t pays to have small building by
Itself, where nos only carpenters tools
arc to he found, but also d blacksniith's
forge, with few of the most important
tools. The farmer who can turn his
hand so as to use successfully both the
carpenters plane and the blacksmith's
hammer, is truly fortunate, because it
enables him to not only mend hi5 farm
implements during leisure hours in the
winter, but II also enables him TO repair
sudden breakdown in the busy season,
much quicker than he usually could if
he had TO depend on others living at Il
distance. 1t is not, however good policy
Tor the farmer to turn his attention so
much to mechanics rs TO neglect his
farm there is point beyond which it is
neither profitable nor good policy to 90.
Farming should be the principal bust
ness of the farmers life; to this occupa.
ton he should give his principal and his
best thoughts; whatever other business
he may engage in, he should treat as u
side business, and never let it interfere
with his principal business. lie who
lets the weeds grow while he is build
ing wagon, had better be without
repair shop, but he who only spends his
leisure hours in repairing farm implc.
ments, will find his repair shop among
his best investments.
On farm where there is family of
boys the repair shop is a necessity, If the
boys are to receive thorough instruction,
and the farm is to be made attractive.
The boy who is able to make his own
sled feels An independence which is un-
known to the boy who has never had an
opportunity to become acquainted with
the use of tools, and when he has II
farm of his own the practice which the
repair shop gave him, will enable him
to readily make most of the repairs ON
the farm, and if he has leisure, make
many new improvements. A repair
shop should always be building by H.
self, because if in connection with 9th.
ers, it increases the risk of fire, ard
makes the rate Of insurance very much
higher Massachusetts Pl0uohman.
Chest Development.
II is stated "that during the last
twenty-five years not O. single singer has
died of consumption ut st. Petersburg,
although this disease has outstrpped all
others, and now holds the first place
among the causes of death at the Rus
sian capital" From this and other facts,
DIR. Vasilieif draws M inference in favor
Of the exercise involved in singing, MS
preventive measure against consump-
ton. There would seem to he room ior
question as to the relation of cause and
effect. 1t may either happen that sing.
ers are not consumptivc because they
can use your chest and throat freely,
or that consumptive persons are not
singers because the weakness which pre-
cedes incapacitatcs the chest and throat
from action. Both of these hypothGse'
are true to certain point, but neither
holds good in all cases. A very little
observation will suffice to show that II
good singing voice may coexist with II
weak or disabled chest, whereas the per-
fectly healthy may be unable to sing
1t was a common practice, forty years
ago, to give consumptiye patients Il
apecially-arranged tube to breathe
through with view OF exercising the
chest. We venture to hope the expert.
ment will not be repeated. Chest
development can only he oc-
complished in manner cou'
sistent with health during tho grow
ing stage of childhood, and then thc
most natural and convenient methods oI
exercise are the best. Later on in lie
great mischief may done by unduly
straining the muscles of the thopx and
those of the throat, beside the peril OF
injuring the smaller tubes and air-vesi.
cles of the lung by violent excrtion, for
which the organs of respiration and
voice are not adapted because they have
not been early trained.