Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.