. Boston Thomsonian manual and lady's companion . se up their leavesat the approach of a storm, and this is so marked acharacteristic of that family of plants, that they areoften denominated the farmers barometer. Thesame practice is observed in tulips, and the greaterpart of the flowers with yellow blossoms, in prepar-ation for rain. Single Journal says, it isamong the most vulgar of errors to consider womenuseless because they are single. Only look aroundyour acquaintance—who is the one universally use-ful, tire one applied to in every time of difficulty andtrial ? The singl
. Boston Thomsonian manual and lady's companion . se up their leavesat the approach of a storm, and this is so marked acharacteristic of that family of plants, that they areoften denominated the farmers barometer. Thesame practice is observed in tulips, and the greaterpart of the flowers with yellow blossoms, in prepar-ation for rain. Single Journal says, it isamong the most vulgar of errors to consider womenuseless because they are single. Only look aroundyour acquaintance—who is the one universally use-ful, tire one applied to in every time of difficulty andtrial ? The single sister of the family. Married.—A gentleman was lately enquiring fora young lady of his acquaintance. She is dead,very gravely replied the person to whom he ad-dressed his enquiry. Good Heaven! 1 neverheard of it—what was her disease ? Vanity,returned the other ; she buried herself alive inthe arms of an old fellow of seventy, with a fortune,in order to have the satisfaction of a gilded tomb. No. xiii.] AND LADYS COMPANION. 201 THE AIIIAL. 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 which we of-ten hear as occurring among the Thomsonians, are no doubtprincipally owing to the administration of cathartics. * * *Since my Aeents have discarded the use of butternut and bitter-root, they are inueh more successful in their practice. Samuel Thomson. BOSTON, MAY 15, 1840. WILL YOU PAY? Many of our subscribers for the present volumeof the Manual are still in arrears, and it is time thattheir bills were paid. We do not wish to beforever dunning. Two dollars is but a small sumfor each subscriber, but in the aggregate it is a con-siderable amount for us to lose. Will our friendslet us hear from them ? Some of our subscribersfor the last volume
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