Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1874 — Plain Diet. [ARTICLE]

Plain Diet.

This is what children, ought on every account to be accustomed to from the first ; it is vastly more for their present health and comfort than little nice things with which fond parents are so often apt to vitiate their appetites, and it will save them, a great deal of mortification in after life." If you make it a point to give them the best o of everything; to pamper them with rich cakes, sweetmeats and sugar plums; if you allow them to say with a scowl, “ I don’t like this or that,” “ I eanf eat that, u and then go away and make them a little toast, or kill a chicken for their dainty palates—depend uponfit you are doing a great injury, not only on the score of denying a full musele and rosy cheek, but of forming one of the most inconvenient habits that they can, carry along with them in after life. When they come to leave you they will not half the time find anything they can eat —and thus you will prepare them to go chafing and grumbling through life, the veriest slaves almost in the world. Mothers, listen and be warned in time, for the time will come yvhen you will repent ; seeing your sons and daughters make their homes miserable by complaint, and raising their children up in the same way-.— Rural Neu> Yorker. —A start has been made in the construction of #167611 miles of portable railway at Finconning Bay, Mich. It is built in the following manner: There i are first twelve to sixteen foot logs laid ; crossways about six feet apart. Grains ! are cut in these logs and fitted timber ! laid in these grains to prevent the road : from spreading. The ties that cross the stringers are of two-inch hemlock plank from six to twelve inches wide, and are let down even with the stringer to prevent ! its rolling. On the curves iron rails are 1 used; otherwise the rails are of hard maple. The road is operated with locomotive oower, and the cost of building, without rolling stock, is about $2,000 per mile.