Year: 1872

II l0aC nave inaQe falr the forest lanQS


And turned the forest SOIL"


| Do you wish to be happy, healthy and


wise? If SO dig in the soil! Old mother


earth is the parent of US all, and from


her must we receive our daily sustenance


and our yearly support. Every body


should have little spot of ground that


is to be dug, hoed and worked upon by


their own hands. Did you ever notice
how calm, happy. hopeful and contented
you were, when all alone by yourself
working out in the open air, in the glad
free out-of-doors? How the mind seems
to expand and soar away into the bound
less fields Of space as joyous, and unfet-
tered as the rowing winds about you.
Rouse up, ye sluggards, and ye lazy d.
nothings. ye dyspeptics, and ye invalids,
| and go to work Work with will too,
and with cheerful spirit, and you will
be surprised at the vast amount of pure
enjoyment you will be able to extract
from the occupation itself. If you have
no more lucrative enjoyment, none that
will pay better all around, pay in health.
wealth, and happiness. then buy few
acres of land and make for yourselves
home! Create out of the clements around
you things of beauty. Don't slight and
sloven your labor but do it WELL and try
to make everything PAY! Save and econ
omise everywhere, but do not be miserly.
Think, plan and manage while you work,
so that you may make all things produc-
tive of the very best results possible, and
in few short busy, USEFUL years, you
will sec all around you the fruits of your
labor, the rich green grass covering your
Yards and meadows with the softest and
most luxurious of carpets, the waving
fields of grain, the nicely kept garden
with its rich dark mould, the fruitful
orchard, the fat and healthy stock. ald in
fne contentment, life and happiness: on
all sides. Not all at once will this be
accomplished, but little by little, and day
by day, will one thing be added unto an
other. until your home shall be home
of plenty and prosperity and all this the
work of your own hands, of your own
industry, and while you have been build
ing it up, collecting it together. you will
have also accumulated for yourself store
of health that win add ten years to your

life, and who may say how many more!
And every year of this new and vigorous
life will be worth half dozen of those
dull weary dragging ones, that you once
called LIVING!


Don't fly away to the other extreme
either. and make mere slave and ma
chine of yourself at your toIl. Take due
rest and recreation, snatch few moments
now and then to read some good book or
newspaper, exchange pleasant greetings,
with your neighbors, and friends, play
now and then some harmless game, in fine
enjoy any innocent amusement when you
please. only do not let your pleasure run
away with time that should be spent in
work or study. Don't sit whole days
around the store steps, on the hotel porches,
or worse still, in the corner grocerys. talk
ing and gossipping, idling and lazing,
when the world is SO full of work to be
done! Oh but, says the young lawyer
or medical student, how can L work and


- c,I x.,x,o aoo,rb for tt,o pacassiarv
study to fit me for the business life intend
to follow? Why very easily. my friend.
and be all the better for it, and healthier
likewise. Lay down your book. and 60
out and exercise with the spade and the
hoe bit, and it viii enliven up your ideas,
send your dull sluggish blood tingling
through your voices till you will feel
ncp all over. and your thoughts will be
SO much clearer, and better that you will
be able to grasp and retain any amount
more of ideas than could by sticking too
tight at your book, don't try to do too
much. but do what you do with cheerful
spirit and glad heart. And you, young
woman, why do you sit therein the darken-
ed parlor dividing you time between long
ing. wishing and reading that trashy
novels Rouse up from your lethargy.
Exchange that suit of burthensome health
destroying apparel. for something loose.
comfortable. and easy, then go out and
cultivate some corner of the yard or gard
en- all by yourself. If father or husband,
is too stingy to allow you suitable plot
of ground, just take that worthless spot
yonder and make it good. create it anew
carry manure from the eow-yard, the hem