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jU W W W f\- A A W >™SA1 rSPARTMEHT. Cr-an of the 3o:rgia Teachers Association- O'ran of the State School Commissioner, G. J, Orr. W. I?. I5()N> ICT/L, Editor. This Page. By the extreme liberality of the publishers, Messrs John IL A W. B. Seals, is wholly at the disposal of the Georgia Teacher’s Association. It will be occupied in part by the proceedings o: the annual meeting, or by essays and address es delivered before the Association, and in part ' v contributions, selections and communica te rs on educational subjects. Space will also be allotted for items of intel ligence concerning our schools and colleges, with notices of any changes in their manage ment or progress. B r ok publishers and manufacturers of school furniture, apparatus and other facilities,will, of course, ask a place on this page, and we shall endeavor to present and represent cmly those houses and goods that are substantial and reli able. In connection with this feature it is proposed at an early day to establish an agency for teach ers wishing to find employment, and for insti tutions or families desiring to obtain instruc tors. This, we have no doubt, will be hailed with delight by our Southern teachers. AH these things considered, we are warrant ed in entertaining the most saDgnine hopes for the success of the Sunny South and its Educa- eational Department. Special Notice. All who are influenced in the slight est degree l>y an interest in this, the educational feature of this paper, will please he sure to address all communi cations and remittances to the editor whose name appears at the head of this page. Whether you subscribe for yourself, or for some one else, send the name with the money, direct to him, if you wish the paper sent to a teacher or friend of education. Official Organ of State School Com missioner. he State School Commissioner will! c this department of the Sunni/ South the medium of his official decisions and ; communications. All Countv School Commissioners! ichers employed by the State, | common school law will find it important to have the paper for this reason. Let the County Scnool Com missioners take note of our special rates, published elsewhere; exert himself to send to the mat aim at under luonun let eacti editor of this of subscribers. department a large list Woman. To Members of the (*a. Teacher’s As sociation. (OFFICIAL.) Some of these letters were irresistibly ludi crous. One I recollect, was from a California widow, who had heard nothing from her hus band for a year. ‘As to waiting for him any longer,’ she wrote, T don’t intend to do it. Most likely he’s dead, but if it should so hap pen, which heaven forbid ! that he should re- To make a pretty and economical hanging basket take an old earthen bowl or deep dish that has a piece out of the bottom, so that it turn after my second marriage, I have no doubt he could be persuaded to yield his claims.’ ‘There’s an affectionate wife for you,’ said Fred: ‘If he should return, which heaven for bid ! ’ Bass that by.’ I shall give entire the next letter, which came in a browD envelope, and was directed at the very top to Mr. A. B. C., Esq., in a handwriting executed by fingers plainly more accustomed to the rolling-pin thnn the quill. ‘Mr. A. B. C., Bear Sir:— Happening to take up the news paper the other day, I saw your advertisement. Didn’t think much of it at the time. After a while I happened to think —you must know I keep a boarding-house—that if I was married my husband could look after the marketing, I and do the carving for the gentlemen. Now, I | have to get one of them to do it, by boarding j him at half price. So. thinks I to myself, as | this seems to be a proper sort of a gentlemaD, j (judging from the advertisement, you know.) I j guess I’ll write ana see what he thinks about it. j My boarding-house A No - 3 Central Street, and I should he happy to have you come and take dinner with ns to-morrow. The boa.ders need not know that you have come for anything par ticular, and then you can see how it suits you. | Yours to command: ‘Polly Stubbs. ‘P. S. — Dinner hour at one o’clock, precisely. ! Please be punctual.’ ‘Mrs. Stubbs is a sensible woman,’ said Fred, after reading the communication, ‘and a thor- j ough l'ankee. I’ll be bound. She looks at the f practical side of things, she does. Shall you | take dinner at No. -j Central Street?’ i ‘Not I. I neve? could carve decently, as my ! Aunt Penelope can testify, But what have we l here?’ I asked, taking up fl perfumed note, writ ten in a small hand, which could be deciphered health was poor, and as it was inconvenient to spare a room, she regretted that I would be compelled to seek another boarding-place. My Aunt Penelope died about a year since. I had firmly expected to her heir. But she never forgave me lor my share in the events which I have described. Witness the following item in will : ‘Item.—For my nephew, Henry Dobbs, know ing his partiality for roses, I direct that a suffi cient sum be laid aside to purchase for him two rosebushes—one white, the other red.’ It was thought a singular r< quest, but I un derstood it. The house and $1,300 invested in railroad shares went to another member of the family. Header, I am still unmarried. The first trial was sufficient, and the remaining forty-six let ters, against the persuasions of my friend Fred, tfere consigned to the grate. The red and white rose-bushes, my aunt's be quest, still grace my bachelor’s apartment. Whenever I feel matrimonially inclined, which is not often, as I am over forty, I look at them— consider—and decide in the negative. Health Department, By Juo. Stainhack Wilson, JI. D., Atlanta, Ola. Time of Wea iiing-IMe! After Weaning. Never (Iopr her claim to suffering appeal so forcibly to the conscience and the heart as when she stands and asks for power to protect the i T • , ~ home ami those she loves better than life itself difficulty,^ I read. as follows^ from the temptations with which legalised vice ! assail them; but justice to Woman is also safety j The Committee on Publication, appointed at | to the State, and in this, as in so many cases", [ ov.r last annual meeting,and consisting oi W. B. ; the earnest radical is the true conservative; for Bunnell, W. F. Slaton, J. H. Chappell, B. Mai- I surely when her purity and disinterestedness ion and G. J. Grr, met on September 2d, in the ! come as an added force for good, into the office of the S‘ate School Commissioner. After • higher politics, the foundation of civil prosper- c-onsultatien in regard to the matter of the effi-1 ity will be strengthened and broadened. cial organ, it was decided to authorize the sec retary of the association to issue a circular in viting proposals from several of the leading pa pers of the Slate. In pursuance t f this resolution, the following circular letter was prepared and sent to the pub lishers ot the principal journals. OFFICE OF SECKETAKY. Georgia Teacher' s Association. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2d., In78. Dear Sirs.—It is the wish of the Georgia Teach er’s Association to procure as the medium for the publication of its annual proceedings, the essays read at its meetings, and other education al intelligence, one of the leading weekly news papers ot the State. It is proposed when such an organ is selected, to have this department edited by one elected from and by the Association (at present the Sec retary beiDg editor) and he is to receive for his IDVERTISIHG fie 1 WIFE. From a Bachelor's Note-Book. BY CART CANTAB. ‘Dobbs,’ said my intimate friend, Fred Hop kins, as we sat together one summer evening in my cosy bachelor’s apartment at the house of my Aunt Penelope, with whom I board, ‘Dc-bbs, if it is not an impertinent question, will you tell me your age ?' ‘Certainly,’ said I; Tam twenty-seven, or shall be if I live to see October.' ‘Very well,’ said ho; ‘and how does it happen w that you have reached such a mature age and services such compensation as may be agreed , and gave not married? Did you never reflect upon. _ j how pleasant it would he to sit by your own The State School Commissioner is also invited fireside, with your wife opposite and perhaps to make the paper his official organ. | two or three little ones crowding around you ?’ It is Loped and believed that such a feature ‘AnI jj, 1 „ .</ never r«.H vt ’ T c n would aa :i materially to the interest, value and ; the pleasure of being kept awake all night, baby circulation of the journal selected, while it would j crying, wife scolding, coming down in the prove no less advantageous to the Association | morning tired and sleepy to a comfortless meal, and the cause of general education. j Drepared by an unskillful servant? But to \Ye therefoie solicit from you, the most libe- , answer you in serious earnest, I have thought of | marriage. There is bat oue objection.’ Dear Sir: - Or rather, may I not address you as beloved friend? Yes—yes, I will ! Away with the cold conventionalities that would deny me the privilege! Yes, my friend, there are some characters that we read at a glance. Yours I read in the terms of your advertise ment—so modest, so concise, so appropri ate.’ •Y’on must apply that to yourself,’ interrupted I, laughing, ‘for you know, Fred, you drew up the advertisement. But let me go on.’ •My heart is drawn to you—I blush not to con fess it; I feel that we were made for each other; I have long pined for a congenial spirit—an in timate of the other sex for whom I might live, and to whom I might cling with fond affection. Trusting to hear from you ere long, I remain, •Yours in the closest friendship, ‘Georgiana Dale.’ ‘I will leave Miss Dale to you, Fred, as she has evidently fallen in love with your character, not mine. Hope she won’t be disappointed.’ So we went through the list. We do not in tend to faco:- the reader with the contents of the forty-seven. One was from a milliner—two from ladies in reduced circumstances— seven, from widows with large families—seventeen from professional old maids -the remainder were not explicit upon this point. One thing I noticed in regard to these letters. None of the ladies who were over twenty, made allusion to their age. Time for •Vrsmiiilf — As a general rule, the time for weaning is when the child is about a year old; but mothers should be governed more in this matter by thejdegree of genera! develop ment, stateofthe child's health, and progress of the teething, than by the age. Ualess there is something in the condition of the mother im peratively requiring it, the child should not be weaned until Nature shows her readiness to set up lor herself by exhibiting a mouth pretty well tilled with teeth. It is well known that the teeth ing period is not fixed with any definiteness— that it commences much earlier and progresses much more rapidly in some children than in others; and as the indications of Nature should always be our guide, as far as possible, we should be governed in deciding on the propriety of weaning more by the number of teeth "than by the number of months from birth. It is also well known that the heat ot summer strongly predisposes to ‘summer complaint’and other fatal affections of childhood, and, as ex citing causes of disease in the form of improper and txcessive eating, are much more likely to come into play after a child is weane i, the sum mer season should, as far as possible, be avoid ed in weaning. To do this, the child should be weaned some time before the beginning of warm weather, so as to become accustomed to the change of diet, or the weaning should be post poned until the heat of summer has passed. Mothers are not justifiable in subjecting their children to ttie dangers of summer weaning with out very good cause. Still, if a child can have pure country air, and if its diet is properly reg ulated, the dangers of summer weaniDg can — to a great extent, be obviated. But, as things are generally managed, weaning is at all times rather a critical process. Therefore, no undue risk should be incurred in choosing a season which increases the dangers. In the present unhygienic mode of living, there are not a few women who are so feeble and delicate that they are incompetant to afford a sudiyiency of pure, healthful nutriment for their offspring; hut the difficulty both as to the quantity and quality of the milk can generally be obtained by the change of habits on the part of the mother, and a more correct manner of living. And this forsaking of most healthy and vigorous. It is a mistake to suppose that meat is more nourishing and bet ter adapted to growing children than vegetables. The truth is, most of the articles of vegetable diet in common use are more nutiitious than i meat. | Vegetable diet should be preferred to ariimal I in early life, because it is sufficiently nutritious 1 aud because it is more cooling and less stimu lating; and therefore better suited an age pecu- { liarly prone to inflammatory afflictions. Toothache. A man with the toothache doesn't care about anything else. The glories of the world pall on his taste, the wonders of creation seem as naught. The tooth becomes a volcano of beleh- I ing tury, and the rest of life hidden in a cloud | of billowing smoke. You can’t borrow anything ! of the man with the toothache. You can’t in- j struct and improve him. Y'ou can tell him that J the world travels at the rate of a thousand miles ; in a minute, and it doesn’t startle him in the | least. He simply groans. You say to him: ‘My ! friend, there are stars so far off that their light : has not yet reached this world,’ but he don’t I mind it; he only howls. You teil him that some of the sun-spots are 100.000 miles in diameter, j and that one of them would take in Jupiter at ; one mouthful, but it is nothing to him. He [ goes on swearing and weeping. Sometimes a man’s tooth achts so hard, the pain is so ago nizing, that several strong men have to hold him down by mam force, while some important sci entific fact is being communicated to him. Remarkable Diamonds. From so many writers, I found it difficult to j bad habits is the only true and proper course lor | .12 - yh. - as—I co Id j tdgo, . *11 mothers w howr -uirk uf ib'eUxUcioDt $p qoun- ; would best Huit ife. At length, I decided ; tity or impure in quality. This will succeed in 1 ral offer you can afford. State defini’ely. 1st. How much space of each weekly issue you will place under our control lor education al matter ? _. What compensation you will agree to give the edit'r, either as salary or a per cent of the subscription. If the latter, state what per cent. j. What per cent of proceeds of advertise ments obtained by the editor will be allowed? 4. The extent of your circulation G^is confi dential, if you desire. Furnish us, also, with an estimate of the cost of publishing 300 copies of the proceedings alone in pamphlet form. A copy of our last proceedings is herewith ‘What is that ? ‘I should never have the courage to pop the question, and if I did I don’t think I could find any one willing to have me.’ •Pooh ! my dear fellow, this is perfect folly. ‘Faint heart ne’er won fair lady.’ Depend upon it, there are hundreds who would jump at the chance of becoming Mrs. Dobbs.’ I shook my head incredulously. ‘As I eball make evident,’ pursued Fred, au- thoritively, ‘by referring to statistics. Aocord- though with hesitation, to answer one from a lad who professed to be gifted with an amia ble disposition and domestic tastes, and who, moreover, owned a small house in the city, with $1300 in railroad stock. I wrote veiling my real name as she had done, all cases where disease has not become irreme- > dable from inheritance or long persistance in ■ wrong living. After all, the principle thing to be considered ! in weaning, is the condition of the child and I of the mother. If the mother gives a sufficien- I appointing an in interview with her at the South | cy cf good, wholesome milk and remains in good part of the Common the next day at ten o'clock. She was to carry a white rose in her hand, and 1 a red one—that we might thus be able to dis tinguish each other. Let me, before proceeding further, sketch for you my Aunt Penelope Baxter, with whom I boarded. She was now somewhere about fifty years of age. She had never been very prepos sessing in personal appearanc. A sharp, wiry j ing to the last census, the number of females j figure, ncse long and thin, gray eyes, and com- | in Massachusetts was found to outnumber ihe ; pressed mouth were my aunt’s characteristics, males by C$,000. From which we may infer physically. Shs was a good woman in llie main, mailed to your address, on which you may base , that more than six'y thousand of the opposite the estimate. We hope to receive a favorable reply at an early date, not later than the 2o:h inst. Respectfully your obedient servants, B- BoEnri! (Chairman )) Committee 0D W F. Slaton, J. H Chappell, - Pabllcation . B. Mailon, G. J. Orr. ) sex are destined to single blessedness.’ ‘Well! said I. though somewhat disposed to scold. Aunt Pene lope was an old maid—from choice, she said She often declare she wouldn't marry for any D^n’t you see, therefore, that this large num- | money. ‘Do you think,’ said she, ‘that I would her will be old maids from necessity, not from choice, and would probably take up with the first offer? Consequently you have sixty thous and chances to marry.’ This was certainly a startling conclusion. ‘But consider my bashfuiness.’ ‘I have thought of that,’ said he, ‘and I would advise you, under the circumstances to adver tise for a wife. That, you see, would obviate all difficulties. Shall I draw one up for you ?’ Considering that such a proceeding would not necessarily bind me to matrimony, I consented, and Fred soon placed before me, for my appro bation, the following: ‘Wife Wanted !-A young gentleman of quiet and unassuming manners and good moral char acter, is desirous of securing a parther for life. He is engaged in mercantile pursuits, which af ford him a moderate income. Adj t one who may deem it worth their while, may hear further par- j senting the rose, To this, all the responses were quite liberal. Tne different propositions were submitted to the committee, and after due deliberation it was the decision t f those present that the Sun ny South should be selected as our official or gan. In many respects we deem this a wise and most fortunate cboic9. While there are reasons that operate powerfully in favor of a paper which is more purely educational in its character, still, in view of the partially developed condition ot education in this and our sister states, and in consideration of the circumstances of the vast number of our Southern teachers, it was exceed ingly desirable and important that an organ should be selected which would prove more gen erally attractive to the people. The large circulation and extensive patronage of the Sunny South, together with its fine lite rary, domestic and agricultural featurs, ren der it the best medium of communication that the Association could obtain. The subscription p rice is w ithin the reach of almost every farmer and mechanic in this broad land, and these are the persons who need to he reached by the in telligence which we desire to disseminate. The teacheis, W6are sorry to say, have shown them selves either unable or unwilling to encourage [ ^^^jn^g^ignTticantiy,'’'neve7fails and support an educa tonal journal, and as they ceiye €arly attention.’ are presumed—though the presumption is false — to need such information as educational asso ciations and their organs can and will furnish, less than any body else, we purpose to address the intelligence cf the people directly. The great questions of education touch every man in a vital point, and in order that every man may understand his rights and interests in this best gilt of God to man, we the educa tors and educationists of the country, should use a 1 1 means, this among the rest, to enlighten and instruct him, We therefore call upon all friends of educa tion, whether private or public, partial or com plete, rudimentary or liberal, to come to our aid. Write, contribute, discuss if yon feel so dispos ed, but be certain to subscribe to this capital pa per, and thereby bless yourself, your family and your country. tie my self to a husband and children, when I can live independent?’ To return. About nine o’clock the next day, arrayed in my best, I set out with palpitating heart for the Common. My rose I kep>t out of sight,till I arrived at the place designated,when, health, the weaning should be delayed until the teething is pretty well completed and the sea son is favorable. And, after the teething with its ailments is passed over, if the child is feeble and predisposed to consumption, scrofula, or any other hereditary disease, it is well to defer the weaning still for several months. It is the opinion of some of our mo3t distinguished med ical authorities that the children of consumptive parents should be kept at the breast eighteen months or two years,as the surest means of ren derring them healthy and robust. But in giving this view, it is always presupposed that the mother gives enough good milk,or that the child is supplied by a healthy wet-nurse. IMet Alter Weaning.—When weaning has been decided on, the ebange of diet should be made gradually, and special care slould be taken against over-feeding. This over feeding is a common error, and a fruitful source of bowel complaints, convulsions, general ill health, and death in all stages of childhood, and The most perfect brilliant in Europe is the ‘Pitt 1 or ‘Regent* diamond. It was found forty- five leagues from Golconda, and weighed 110 carats. It was purchased by Mr. Pitt, the Gov ernor of Madras, in 1702, for £20,000. He took it to London and had it cut as a brilliant, reduc ing its weight to 13G carats, and in 1717 sold it to the regent duke of Orleans for Louis XV., for £130,000. At the time of the first French revo lution it was sent to Berlin, but afterward reap peared, adorning the state sword of Napoleon I. The largest stone which is claimed to be a di amond is the ‘Braganza, ‘ found in Brazil in 1711. It is as large as a hen's egg, and weighs 1 u*o carats. It is supposed by some to be a to paz, but the Government of Portugal, to which it belongs, will not permit it to be examined for the purpose of ascertaining. The largest undoubted diamond is the'Orloff, which adorns the imperial sceptre of Russia. It is said to have formed one of the eyes of an Indian idol, and to have been stolen by a French deserter. Another story is that it belonged to Nadir, Shah of Persia, and on his murder came into the hands of an Arminian merchant, who took it to Amsterdam. In 1772 it was purchased by Prince Orloff for the Empress Catherine, for £30,000 besides a large annuity and a title of Russian nobility. The weight of this diamond is l‘J3 carats, and its pattern is a rose. The largest diamond belonging to the British crown is the Koh-i-noor, a brilliant of great pu rity. According to the Indian legend, it was found in one of the Golconda mines near the Kishna River, and worn 3,000 years ago by Kar- na, one of the heroes celebrated in Mahaharata, one of the great epic poems of India. It passed through many hands to Baber, the founder of the Mogul dynasty, in 132G, and was shown by his successor in 1GG5 to Tavernier, the French traveller. He describes it then as of the shape of half an egg, and weighing 280 carats, having been thus reduced by an unskilled stone-cutter from 703? carats, which it once weighed. In il i“ it passed to NadirShaii, the Persian 'nvad- er ot India, who gave it the name of Koh-i-noor, or Mountain of Light, and from his successors in 1813 to Sunject Sing, the ruler ofLahore. At the capture of Lahore, in 1810. it fell into the hands of the British troops, and in 1830 it was presented to Q xeen Victoria It has been recut in the rose form, and now weighs 10G 1-16 car ats. It is displayed in the Record or Wakefield tower, along with the other crown jewels. seating myself on one of the benches, I awaited j especially at the time of weaning, my unknown visitor. I After a child has been weaned it should he I did not have long to wait. My eye soon . restricted for some time to the light, blond caught the figure ol a lady advancing towards j semi-fluid jrreposaton/ vegetable diet recom- me, with a white rose in her hanc.. She was j me nded in a previous article, where feeding is thickly veiled, so taat I could not catch a , resorted to before weaning. After continuing glimpse ot her face. $ae seemed „o be looking | f or three or four months,such diet as rice, onion- around her, doubtless for the Ivnight of the j roast, grated crackers, mush, sweet milk, etc., Red Rose. I concealed it until she was close at hand. Summoning all my courage, I rose, and with a rapid step, advanced towards the lady. ‘Knowest thou this token ?’ I whispered, pre- PricceFS Marie of Germany, the bride of Prince Hc-nry of the Netherlands, is one of the most highly cultivated women in Germany. Devoted to the scientific studies, she is also a good musician and artist and excellent linguist, being particularly well acquainted with latin. After her engagement with Prince Henry was ; decided she at once began to learn Dutch. ticnlars by addressing A, B. C., box 33, Post- Office.’ This document, being considered on the whole, sufficiently explicit. I carried it next morning to the office of a daily paper. ‘A friend of mine,’said I, not caring to iden tify mvself with the ‘Gentleman in Search of a Wife,’ wishes this advertisement inserted in your paper. How many times will it probably be necessary to insert it?’ ‘Three times,’ said the clerk, ‘will be amply sufficient. ‘That sort of advertisement,’ he o ^ to re ceive early I had resolved not to open any letters until the end of the three days on which the adver tisement was to appear. I sent to the office three times a day, and never failed to receive a letter for A. B. C. On the third evening, when Fred and I sat down to examine the pile which had accumulat ed in my letter-case, we counted forty-seven ! ‘Didn’t I tell you, Dobbs,’ said Fred laughing, ‘that there was still a chance for you ? And now let us plunge into the midst of things, lor we have a night’s work before us.’ It was a motely collection—no less various in outward appearance than in character of the contents. Some were inclosed in envelopes, others without. Some of the former were on delicate, cream-laid paper, others were written on a single half sheet of common letter-paper, and inclosed in a brown envelope. Some were sealed with a wafer, pressed by a thimble, others,—those of greater pretensions—were fas tened with sealing-wax, or with small motto- seals, with various devices and inscriptions, Of these inscriptions I recollect a few as , Wholly thine,’ ‘Faithful till death,’ ‘We .are one, ‘Forget me not,’etc. Then for devices, there was a pair of clasped hands, a heart pierced with darts and others of the same character. The lady who had been looking in the oppo- j site direction, turned round at the sound of my | voice. I was quite unprepared for what follow* I ed. With a shriek of surprise, she exclaim ed : | ‘Good Heavens ! It is Henry •’ ‘What Attiil Fenelojc said I, with a surprise j equal to her own. ‘Cm it be possible?’ ‘Yes,’said she, t: Jog to recover herself, ‘as it was so pleasant luis morning, (it was very cloudy and the sun bad not once made its ap pearance ) ‘ I came out to visit your Aunt Mary.’ ‘But,’ said I, who was determined to confuse Aunt Penelope as much as possible, ‘I thought Aunt Mary lived in quite a different part of the city.’ I thought,’ said my aunt, hesitatingly, ‘that A Funny Custom* That was a funny custom in olden times when a >onng Prince was being educated. A boy wa3 taught with him called the ‘whipping boy.’ When bis Highness was idle, did not know his lessons, forgot his Latin verbs, spilled the ink on his desk, or made caricatures of his master, then the poor boy was whipped and scolded for his misdemeanors. They thought it would punish the Prince sufficently to see an innocent boy punished for the faults he himself com mitted, besides no one would dare lay violent hands upon a prince. soft boiled eggs, rice pudding or custard, hom iny, syrup or molasses and steamed fruits may be added by way of variety. It is a common error to have the food of children too concen trated too much divested ot those husky innu tritions matters that are necessary for the prop er performance of the functions of the bowels. After the laxness and irritation of teething have subsided, corn bread, mush, hominy, potatoes, Graham or brown bread, etc, are much better food than fine flour, farina, starch, sugar, con fectioneries and all such concentrated food. j Another very prevalent error is the mistaken J notion that growing children require a great ! deal of meat. Many mothers commence stuffing ! their children with meat—and that the wo st S kind of meat, fat bacon and pork—even before weaning, and before nature has provided teeth for chewing solid food. No wonder that chil dren thus fed are liable to bowel affections, con vulsions, fevers, foul symptoms, and severe in- flamations from the slightest injury or expos ure. Children thus raised must suffir physical I would take a little walk on the Common d . er angement, and mentai and moral deteriora- tirst. ‘I see,’ said I, still in the tormenting mood, ‘that you have a white rose for her. How kind of you ! By good luck I have a red one. Please present this with the other.’ My aunt stammered some unintelligible an swer, took the rose and departed—not to my Aunt Mary’s, but homeward. I did not meet her at the dinner-table. She sent word that she was indisposed. ‘What is the matter?’ I asked. ‘I don’t know,’ said Bridget; ‘she’s acted un common queer this morning. About eight o’clock she sent me down town, to get a white rose. Said she was very particular about its being a white one. So I got it, and she went out about nine. She was very much flustered like, and ran right up to her chamber.’ My Aunt Penelope did not soon recover from the mortification of that day. It became painful to her to have one continually present who was acquainted with the circumstances. She sent for me one morning, and told me that as her tion. A sound mind cannot exist in an un sound body; and a child who is forever sick and puny, must as a necessary consequence, become fretful and ill-tempered; and feeling badly will act badly, ‘in spite of good counsel, parental authority, the nurses lullaby, or the barbarians rod.’ Physical and moral health are with very few exceptions, inseparably connected; aud mothers cannot reasonably expect to nurse bright, sweet- tempered children when the habits of the latter are such that they must inevitably be tortured with multiplied and intolerable physical disor ders. Such Job-like trials are often too much for the philosophy and Christianity of the best men and woman; and what hope for a child under such circumstances ! A vegetable diet is best for children, even to adult age. When a child reaches three or four years, it may be allowed animal food. But it is not necessary then; and abundant experience and observation prove that children raised ex clusively on milk and vegetable diet are the KENMORE University High School, NEAR AMHERST C. II., YA. IT. A. STRODE (Math. Medalist, IT. Va.\ Principal and Instructor in Mathematics; It. C. BROCK, B. Lit. U. Va. (recently Asst. Ins. Latin IT. Va.), Associate Instructor. This school is strictly preparatory to the Univeisity of Virginia, and embraces in its course every branch taught in the High Schools of the State. For testimonials as to its general character, and partic uiar.y as to its discipline, its high moral tone, aiid the success of its students, see the catalogues. TERMS FOR HALF SESSION : Board and Tuition $125. This charge may he reduced in many cases to $So, by boarding in private families near the school. Seventh session begins September 12th, ISIS. TESTIMONIAL. The success which the Kenmore High School has achieved under the energetic and conscientious admiuis- strution of the Principal and his able Assistant, and the preparation and training of its pupils, who have entered tile University of Virginia, have fully justified the recom mendations of this excellent school to the public, at its beginning. I regard it as a very successful educational foundation, ard I trust it wi 1 continue for many year to do its good work for our State and country. augo 2m C- S. Venable, Prof. Math. U. Va. MIRISHirCOLLEGE Reduction of prices in the acknowledged “Woman’s University of the South,” and the pioneer of the higher education of woman : Board and tuition, washing included, for term of five months, in Collegiate Department, only £!)T ."0 Tuition only, five mouths, in Collegiate Dep’t ;)0 00 Tuition, five mouths, in Intermediate Dep't 15 00 Tuition, live months, in Primary Dep’t. io 00 Xext session will commence September 5th. 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