Year: 1867

Indomestic happiness, the wife 5 influence
is much greater than the husbands s. for ths
one, the first cause-mutual love and conf
dence ce-being granted, the whole comfort OF
the household depends upon trifles more
immediately under her jurisdiction. BY
her management of small sums. her hus-
band Tespectabillty and credit are created
or destroyed No fortune can stand the
constant leakages of extravaganza and mis-
management; and more is spent in trifes
than women would easily believe. The one
great expense, whatever it may be, is turned
over and carefully reflected on ere incurred;
the income il prepared for it; but it is pen.
MES i'm perceptibly sliding away that do the
mischief; and this the wife alone can stop,
tor It does notcome within man province.
There Is often an unsupported trlfie 10 be
saved IN every household 1t is not in econ
omy alone that the Eife's attention is so
necessary, but In those little niceties whick
mark wellregulated household An unfur-
nished fruit stand, missing key, button
less shirt, soiled table cloth, a mustard pot
with its oldeontents sticking hard and brown
about it, and seYerally nothing; but each can
raise an angry word and cause discomfort.
Depend on it, there a great deal Of domes-
tic happiness in a well dressed mutton chop
or tidy breakfast table Men grow sated
of beauty, tired Of music, are often too YeaTi-
ed for conversation, however intellectually
but they can always appreciate a well swept
hearth and smiling comfort A woman may
love her husband deYotedly-may sacrifice
fortune, friends, family, country for him
she may have the genius of Sappho, the
enchanting beauties of an Armida; but
melancholy fact--if with these she fail to
ms 10 hrs hpT,oa fali h1c haa~A mill
inevitably escape her. Aud women live so
entirely in their affections that without love
their existence is void Better submit,
then, to household tasks, however repugnant
they may be toyour tastes, than doom your
self to loveless home Women of higher
order Of mind will not run this risk: they
know that their feminine, their domestic,
are their first duties


A NEW BUILDING MATERIAL


There has been recently introduced into
this country, a new building material which
closely resembles sandstone, but is simply
kind Of concrete rock, which has been used
in England for number of years, and which
by practical tests, has proved equal in
durability to rock moulded in nature cruel
bic. Tie process of manufacture is exceed
iugly simple, although based upon the most
scientific principles. The sand, chalk or
other mineral substance is intimately mixed
with proportion Of solution of silicate Of
soda. This is effected in an ordinary pug
mill, and the mixture, which is thus rem
dered of a plastic consistence, is either
pressed into blocks or moulds, or can be
rolled into slabs or forms as may be desired,
and is afterwards either immersed in OF
saturated with solution of chloride Of
calcium, when a double decomposition of
the two solutions employed (viz: of the sill
cate and soda and of the calcium) immedi-
ately takes place The silica combines with
the calcium and at once forms an insoluhle
Silieate of Lime, firmly enVelopiBg and ce-
menting together all the particles of sand,
chalk, or other minerals Of which the stone
is composed, whilst at the same time the
chlorine combines with the soda and forms
chloride of sodium or common salt, which is
easily removed by subsequent washing.
The rapidity with which the stone can be
manufactured is astonishing. In FIVE min
utes sand can be taken from the heap and
converted into a block of solid stone; and
this, too, ornamented IN any style that the
mould designer may fancy-a statute or a
block for paving, the most intricate tracery
for ornamental building, or the bed stone for
an engine, rustic work, coTnices, or balus-
trades, in fact, anything that tasks the skill
of the stone cutter may be moulded with
facility; and with all this the portions of a
building can be furnished to the builder at
a price but little if any in excess of the cost
Of sandstone at the quarry.-E.C.