. Boston Thomsonian manual and lady's companion . rdie thus broke out tohimself:—Ah! your mother loves you as amother ought to love her children, and she willnot allow you to cramp your dear little toes ina piece of kid skin, and thus open the way forcolds, coughs, asthmas, catarrhs, consumptions,influenzas, and all imaginable and unimaginablediseases to creep into the system, nor does shewish you to lay a crop of corns to fret over thebalance of your life, to spoil your temper andmake you blow your husband when you get of husband, we are not in a hurryourself, and perhaps we may


. Boston Thomsonian manual and lady's companion . rdie thus broke out tohimself:—Ah! your mother loves you as amother ought to love her children, and she willnot allow you to cramp your dear little toes ina piece of kid skin, and thus open the way forcolds, coughs, asthmas, catarrhs, consumptions,influenzas, and all imaginable and unimaginablediseases to creep into the system, nor does shewish you to lay a crop of corns to fret over thebalance of your life, to spoil your temper andmake you blow your husband when you get of husband, we are not in a hurryourself, and perhaps we may wait a couple ofyears or more for you yet—Stick to those thickshoes, and dont make a simpleton of yourself assome grown-up girls have before now. Caution.—Avoid arguments with the ladies—in spinning yarns among silks and satin, a manis sure to get worsted. He is sure to get twistedand in danger of getting doubled—and when aman is doubled and twisted, he may be consider-ed as wound up. No. x.] AND LADYS COMPANION. 153 THE OTA XV IT Purgatives should not be used in any case whatever. Theyare at variance with every principle of my system, as will beseen by reference to the New Guide. They irritate the bowels,and destroy the equilibrium of the circulation, which we shouldalways endeavor to avoid. The sudden deaths of whifth we of-ten hear as occurring among the Thomson ians, are no doubtprincipally owing to the administration of cathartics. * * *Since my Agents have discarded the use of butternut and bitter-root, they are mutih more successful in their practice. Samuel Thomson. BOSTON, APRIL 1, 1840. DO- TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS, ^oWe are very much in want of money to pay ourpaper maker and other expenses attending thepublication of the Manual, and wish our subscrib-ers for the present volume, who have not alreadypaid, to forward us the amount of their subscrip-tion as soon as possible. Money may be sent bymail at our risk provided it be mailed in the pre-sence of a postm


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