OUR illustration represents one of the st simply elegant dresses of the season. e plain (without pattern) English barége 10w much worn in Paris; and we do not why the ladies here should be so long in opting a material produced in our own intry, as is sometimes necessarily the e when the desired article is foreign. y thin fabric can, however, be chosen, th the exception of washing muslins; and only except these on account of a little ficulty which the laundress finds in getg up the trimming, which is given with is dress, and which is now extremely hionable.

The body of this dress is made to fit the ape, open in front, and with a basque.

The sleeve is quite new; it is made with two puffings at the top, and with a double open sleeve below; being worn with a close under sleeve, very wide, and confined at the wrist. These two parts of the sleeve of the dress are finished round each edge with the plissé à la vieille, which is the most fashionable trimming of the season, and is likely to supersede every other. It is made of rather wide ribbon, varying from two to four inches in width, laid in flat plaits, and fastened down with great regularity about a quarter of an inch from each edge. This trimming is also carried all round the basque and up the front of the body. The skirt is made double with the same trimming on the edge of the upper

to the chin.

e addition of a simple scarf completes ress; this may be either of the same ial, of white clear muslin, or of black A few folds are laid in the centre of carf, which is fastened at the back r low down, with a bow of ribbons =g long ends.

e dress altogether has an air of fashion imple elegance which we strongly reend to the notice of our lady-readers.

TREATMENT OF INFANTS.

is found by careful inquiries that one of all the children born in England Vales die before they reach their fifth In some towns and districts the proon of deaths is not more than a third; e general average of infant mortality here stated. The greatest proportion the large manufacturing towns. Such versally large mortality of infants must estionably arise chiefly from some es of mismanagement most likely ance of the proper means to be emd for rearing children. Besides the f so many infants, society suffers serifrom the injuries inflicted on those survive. The health of many indils is irremediably injured, temper d, and vicious habits created, while are still infants. Whatever, indeed, e original or constitutional differences e mental character of children, it is stent with observation, that no small rtion of the errors and vices of manhave their source in injudicious nursery gement. As ignorance is clearly at oot of this monstrous evil, the followshort and easily comprehended directo mothers and nurses will, we doubt be duly valued.

t no other kind of milk be given to fant in addition to the milk of the

er or wet-nurse.

e less rocking the better. hen asleep, to be laid upon its right

e best food is biscuit powder, soaked welve hours in cold spring water, then d for half an hour, not simmered, or it turn sour. Very little sugar need be d to the food, and then only at the when given.

veets, of every kind, are most inju, producing flatulency and indigestion, in the mouth, and disordered secre

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The warm bath (at ninety-four degrees of heat, not less, for ten minutes, every other night) is a valuable remedy in many cases of habitual sickness or constipation.

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Soothing-syrup, sedatives, and dynes, of every kind, are most prejudicial. They stop the secretions. A very small dose of laudanum given to an infant may produce coma and death.

When an infant is weaned, which is generally advisable at the age of nine months, it is of the utmost importance that it be fed with the milk of one cow, and one only (a milch cow), mixed with biscuitpowder, prepared as before directed, and very little sugar.

Boiled bread pudding forms a light and nutritious dinner, made with stale bread, hot milk, an egg, and very little sugar.

When an infant is twelve months of age, bread and milk should be given every night and morning; stale bread toasted, soaked in a little hot water, and then the milk (of one cow) added cold.

Solid meat is not generally required until an infant is fifteen months of age, and then to be given sparingly, and cut very fine. Roasted mutton, or broiled muttonchop (without fat), is the best meat; next to that, tender lean beef or lamb; then fowl, which is better than chicken; no pork or veal; no pastry; no cheese; the less butter the better.

An infant should not be put upon its feet soon, especially while teething or indisposed.

Avoid over-feeding at all times, more particularly during teething. It is very likely to produce indigestion and disordered secretions, the usual primary causes of convulsions, various eruptive complaints, and inflammatory affections of the head, throat, and chest."

"THE ENGLISH OF IT."-We have a common

saying which we employ when we wish to state the real meaning of any given proposition:"The English of it is this;" "the English of it" is the truth of it; the English and the truth are supposed to be identical. If this expression be correct, I know of no phrase in all our copious phraseology more honourable to us as a nation. And, in all future time, when men wish to state a a fact, to expose a fallacy, to unravel a sophistry, to explode a sham, to lay bare an imposition, may they say, and say with reason," This is the English

of it.

THE BAROMETER AND THE

WEATHER.

THE Barometer, though well-known as regards its general appearance and uses, is not so commonly understood in reference to its principle and construction. It will be the object of this article to explain the principle of its action, and also to point out with such precision, as observation and experience justify, the exact phenomena which its changes indicate. The Barometer or rather its principle was first discovered by Galileo. It is recorded that whilst residing at Florence, he was applied to on the occasion of the Grand Duke having sunk a deep well, and finding that the water would not rise to the top when a pump was set to work, he sent for the philosopher to explain the mystery. Galileo observed that the column of water rose in the pump to about thirty-two feet, and that all attempts to raise it higher by means of the sucker were useless. He therefore concluded that the sucker was not the cause of the water's rising to a given height, as was the opinion at that time; but that the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water in the well, caused that water to rise into the tube of the pump, and so fill the space which had been emptied of air by the action of the sucker. This phenomenon was afterwards discussed between Galileo and his pupil Torricelli, and the latter first demonstrated the principle, in which consists the whole value of the barometer as a philosophical instrument. He found that the atmospheric pressure on the surface of the water would support a column of water, in an exhausted tube closed at the top, to the height of about thirty-two feet; but being sensible that such a column would, from its height, be very ill-suited for conducting his experiments, he chose mercury, a fluid fourteen times heavier than water, and consequently better adapted for the experiment. In the year 1643 he accordingly took a glass tube about forty inches in height, and a quarter of an inch in the bore. Having sealed one end, he filled the tube with mercury; then placing his finger at the open end in order to secure the mercury, and inverting the tube, he plunged the extremity, thus secured by his finger, into a cistern containing mercury, and having a certain quantity of water upon its surface. Having passed the open end of the tube through the water, and below the surface of the mercury, he withdrew his finger. Upon this, the mercury in the tube instantly fell to about thirty inches above the surface of the mer

cury in the cistern. On his raising the open end of the tube until it became with the bottom of the water, the mere instantaneously sank entirely out of the tit while the water with the same rapid sprang up to the top and occupied the of the cavity. It would, of course, laws of specific gravity, have risen height of about thirty-two feet, had tube been sufficiently long. Torricelli clearly saw that the columns, both of cury and of water, were supported from same cause, namely, the atmospheric He next altered the shape

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glass tube by bending up the lower open end.

After the publication of Torricelli's experiments in 1645, the field was opened to all philosophers for the practice of every experiment to which the barometer is applicable. Torricelli did not live long to enjoy the fame of his discovery, and died at an early age. To enter into an account of the numerous experiments of distinguished men with the Torricellian tube, would be extending the limits of this paper beyond the object proposed. It may be sufficient for us to know that the principle remains precisely the same. By the barometer, we are enabled to determine the pressure of the atmosphere, which is known to be about 15 lbs. on a square inch. This fact is proved when the exhausted, by means of an air-pump, any glass receiver or air-tight box.

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The principle of the Torricellian having been thus explained, and its shown of registering the incumbent of the atmosphere, it now remains scribe the barometer as it is mad