proaches the warm skin, in receiving its part of that vaper, receives therewith a degree of heat that rarafes and render it lighter, when it will be pushed away with its burthen by cooler, and therefore heavier fresh air, which for a moment supplies its place, and then being likewise changed and warmed, gives way to a succeeding quality. This is the order of nature, to prevent animals being infected by their own perspiration. He will now be sensible of the difference between the part exposed to the air, and that which, remaining sunk in the bed, denies the air access; for this part now manifests its uneasiness more distinctly by the comparison, and the seat of the uneasiness is more, plainly perceived than when the whole surface of the body was affected by it. Here then is one great and gen. eral cause of unpleasant dreams---For when the body is uneasy the mind will be disturbed by it, and disagrecable ideas of various kinds will in sleep be the natural consequences. The remedies preventative, and curative, follow. 1. By eating moderately, (as before advised for health's sake) less perspirable matter is produced in a given time; hence the bed clothes receive it longer before they are saturated, and we may therefore sleep longer, before we are made uneasy by their fusing to receive any more. re 2. By using thinner and more porous bed clothes, which will suf fer the perspirable matter more easily to pass through them, we are the less incommodated, such being longer tolerable.. 3. When you are awakened by this uneasiness, and find you cannot get asleep again, get out of bed, beat up and turn your pillow, shake the bed clothes well, with at least twenty shakes; then throw the bed open and leave it to cool; in the interim continuing undres t,, walk about your chamber till your skin has time to discharge its load,, which it will do sooner, as the air may be dryer and more algid.When you begin to find the air disagreeable, then return to your bed, and you will soon calmly fall asleep, and your sleep will be sweet and delectable. All the scenes presented to your fancy will be of the pleasing kind. I am of ten as agreeably entertained with them as by the scenery of an opera. If you happen too indolent get out of bed, you may instead of it lift up your bed clothes with an arm or leg. so as to draw in a good deal of fresh air, and by letting them full force it out again. This repeated twenty times, will so clear them of the perspicable malter that they have imbibed, as to permit your sleeping well for some time afterwards: but this latter method is not equal to the former. Those who do not love trouble, and can afford to have two beds, will findgr eat luxury in rising One or two more observations will conclude this short essay.— Care must be taken when you lie down, to dispose your pillow so as to suit your manner of placing your head, and to be perfectly easy; then place your limbs so as not to bear inconveniently hard upon one another, as for instance, the joints of your ancles; for tho' a bad position may at first give but little pain, and may be hardly noticed, yet a continuance will render it less tolerable, and the uneasines may come on while you are asleep and disturb your imagination. These are the rules of art. But though they will generally prove effectual in producing the end intended, there is a case in which the most punctual observance of them will be totally fruitless. The case is when the person who desires to have pleasant dreams, has not been sufficiently on his guard to preserve what is necessary above all things a good conscience. FRANKLIN, For the Lady's Miscellany. TO CUPID. Nothing, for some time past, has afforded me more pleasure than the recent communication from the regions where you are suppo-sed to reside; for I am a wandering pilgrim through the chequered scenes of life, and thus far as I have past, occasionally have received a few shots from your bow, which, if has its designed effect, tempers our various inclinations with moderation and contentment, and ever thereafter renders life pleasant and agreeable; but experience has proved that your kind endeavours to inflict a wound upon me, has hithertobeen ineffectual; and as I am extremely anxious to know, the pleasing sensations and pains created by your dart, pray you will not make another attempt, unless armed with a bow, not made by mortal hand, but of the most elastic limb of the most fragrant tree, in your bower; mounted at each end, with the wings of a snow-white dove, strung with the finest fibers of a virgin's soul, a quiver made of the membrain of her heart, replete with arrows made of her tongue, bearded with wisdom, pointed with discretion, and dipt in the pearly tear of love, shed from beauty's eye. If thus you are equipt, I shall still entertain some hope of re To the author of “ NUPTIAL TIES." I contemplated, agreeable to my engagements on my return from the country, to have answered your communication in a very serious and ample manner, and endeavoured to have afforded an antedote against that sickness of mind, which it seems my soliloquy has occasioned; but as you have received a shot from Cupid's bow, which in all probability has answered the same purpose, has at the same time, saved me the plea. sure. Yours, &c.-Adicu. MORDEN. For the Lady's Miscellany. TO H. C. H. "The truest, tenderest love was mine, BY a piece published in the last number of the Miscellany, I perceive I am deserted. I know not what cause of offence I may have given that you should advertise for a wife. I thought every thing but a public declaration had made you mine. The tenderest, softest caresses, the sweetest music of thy lips, and the pleasing assurance of thy tongue were my delusive portion at our every interview; and our last, though not least, in every symptom that betrayed affection, seemed to be the precursor of a more intimate and lasting acquaintance. But it appears thy love for me, if thou ever hadst any, has vanished. Perhaps, being under an influence our sex are but too subject to, on account of overstrained professions from the male, I made myself too familiar. If that be the case, I think it shows an impoverished intellect in you; for if a young girl of my age cannot be lively, and joke and romp a little, with her sweetheart, then adieu to all courtship. Were all to be as pedantic and ceremonious as some of our sex, the society of old maids would be innumerable, to the great detriment of the soil and the generating of population, My dear Henry, you are in the wrong. If you have mistaken my gaiety and playfulness for levity and unthoughtfulness, I am sorry for it. You ought to have seen that those foibles, if I may give them that name, were only the effect of a lively imagination, and that the heart, as it was only a momentary participation, was not even tainted with or in the least addicted to coquetry. If, however, this gaiety or playfulness was disagreeable to you, or laid me open to the slanders of a censorious world, you as my friend, not to say lover, should have told me the fact, and chid me for it. You ought not to have deserted, clandestinely, one who tenderly loves you, and who, if she has committed a fault, and is made sensible of it, will make every possible reparation in her power. By advertising you may, per haps, get a wife with more beauty and money, but not one who has the same acquirements that I have, and that loves you with the same ardor and affection that I do. Your unfortunate KITTY. For the Lady's Miscellany. VARIETY. ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. A gentleman stepping into a public house in this city, called for a "nets tongue :" the landlord, being a German, told one of his waiters to serve the gentleman with a "souz dounge." it," exclaimed the former, in a passion, "I called for a beef's tongue." "Vell, vell, so it is beeve's dongue," replied the landlord, good naturedly, "but it be souzed too!" LITTLE GEORGE-STREET. In a new raised corps, a soldier, lately observed to his comrade, who was an Irishman, that a Cor You perceive, tho' you know I have cause sufficient to ruffle my temper, that I am cool and collected, and have refrained from tempting, in the least degree, to wound your feelings. This conduct I have deemed most judicious, as I have yet sonie hopes of reclaiming you. 'Tis true I am not displeased with you, but with myself, on my unaccountable weak-poral was to be dismissed from ness in listening to your adoring accents, breathing love and constancy, because I am half inclined to think they were most sincere, and that you took advantage of 'my too susceptible heart." the regiment. 'Faith, and indeed,' replied the Irishman, I hope it is the Corporal who is so troublesome in our company.'What is his name?' enquired the other; Why, corporal punishment, to be sure, my honey.' THE GOLDEN APOSTLES. When his Prussian Majesty took possession of Prague, he was surveying one of the principal cathedrals, attended by one of the most dignified ecclesiastics, and perceiving the twelve Apostles in rich gold habits, he asked the priest what was the value of the gilding? "Sire," replied the priest," they are solid gold."Gold! answered his Majesty, then the Apostles are put to a wrong use, for it was intended by their master they should travel all over the face of the earth. for the public good, and behold in your church they are all confined; therefore, to fulfil their master's orders, I will have them immediately made into ducats, that they may travel over the face of the earth.' So Alexander said of the beard of Esculapius, that it was cruel to suffer his Godship to have one of gold in the winter, when wool was so much warmer. green cabbage leaf, if to be had; if not, in brown gaper; lay it in hot embers and cover it up for 20 minutes then take it out and powder it as fine as possible :— Take hard soap and mix the pow. dered salt with as much soap as will make a salve; if the soap has little turpentine in it, (which may soon be known by the smell,) then add a little. Apply the salve when made to the spot affected by the felon, and it will in a few hours, and sometimes in a few moments, remove the pain. Advice to a youg Lady on her mar→ riage-by an attached friend. The first thing necessary for the insurance of conjugal felicity, is to study the disposition of the man in whom your future happiness is reposed; and always endeavor to derive pleasure from those amusements which seem to afford the highest satisfaction to his breast. Home ought to be the centre of domestic happiness; and it is the wife's duty to make it booth cheerful and sweet; for if your husband should naturally be of a roving disposition, you will in crease the propensity by coldness or reproach. Always receive him with cheerfulness and good humour; and never omit any polite attention to his friends; for every civility you pay to those he is attached to, he will consider as a mark of affection to himself. Be |