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Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 98, 14 December 1872, Page 3

A writer in the Canterbury Preie, under tho nom de plume of" Tlie Loafer in the Street," says :—Talking of advertisement*, I like the testimonials best. They furbish up one's faith so doliciously. Whenever I fool as if I doubted things, an.l wiuil to pull myself into a believing attitude again, I go and ren 1 some advertised testimonial from some fellow who has suffered excruciating agony for fifty-eight yean, and hai bi'en cured by a camomile pill or an application of ointment. Thun t-NJrc are tie testimony Is fro.n learned ftl.D.'s who taste sauces and babies' food and things, and pronounce them inocuous, and let us say, filling and satisfactory ut the price. They are not common here, these testimonial advertisements, bat we have them occasionally. We possess a man or two in theso parts who have shown us that the inventive faculty is not quite wanting here. Some gentleman here has invented a fern-leaf blacking. He will leave foot prints on the sands of time, that man will, you'll find; and I cannot refrain from congratulating his Honor the Judgu U >on the pains taken by him to ttiuertair. the real merits of the colonial industry in question. His Honor's advertised testimonial runs as follows :—" The fern-leaf blacking has been used by me, and i> found to produce a good polish in a short time." His Honor, judging from tho üb>ve, evidently wired into his own boots, and was well satisfied with tliu blacking and the result. How to Make a Sckap Book.—There is otu; subjec for which paste is employed, and which forms such a specin object, of interest to most young ladies, that we feel that i would be unpardonable in u-t if we were to omit it. We ro fur to the making of Hcrap-bjoks. When poor paste or cam mon mucilage is u.-icd for this purpose several difficulties an encountered. Many of the scraps are rendered ho transpii rent as to be illegible, and they are so greatly expanded thn when they contract, as all paper does when it dries, the wrinkle up the leaves to whieli they nn> attached, and ronde them unsightly. If any of our young lady subscribers deair. to make a reallv handsome Hcrap-bwk,' we would advise the; to proceed as follows :■•-I'roeure some good panto, well boile but quite thick. Paste made from wheal Hour will nmwu but that made from rice Hour isii great deal belter, as it doe not, diminish the opacity of the .scraps. Use a very stii brush, as with n. soft brush you cannot spread such stii paste as you ought to use. Such a brush is best obtainei by getting one of the still" brushes that are usually put u with tin ferrules, and culling the bristles off to a length o say linlf an inch. Spread a very thin layer of paste over th back of the scrap, and place the latter on the page of tin scrap-book, rubbing it down lightly with a smooth ivor paper folder. Tf you wish a very neat scrap-book, it would be advisable to get, a dozen pieces of the thin, smooth pasteboard known as press-board ; place them between the leave.of the book, nnd lay something heavy on the latter until dry. The haves will be beautifully smooth.

The Abusr of Ti:a.—A recent Lancet contains an article, of Home importance on the abuse of tea. It has the ndvanfngo of being discriminate, find it shows very clearly Hint the cxuPKHiviTu.tu of ton wrongly made is injurious in various wavs to those who nvi; imprudent enough take it. Tea is beer when made bv pouring perfectly boiling water on a pretty larirc allowance of leaf, when tlic fresh infusion i.< ple'isinl, and gooii. It is wrong and mischievous to let the tea " stow" by" standing on the hob. This extracts too much of the the.ine'and other astringent substances, the results o! which when drunk hoi. nnd abundairly are dyspepsia, palpitat, ion of the heart, and other serious evils. Scof.uiNO.—This habit—for it is a habit.and has little meaning in it—is very disagreeable to persons of sensitive organization, arid grates upon their nerves in a terrible manner. Many a homo has been wrecked by the disagreeable habit, which begins with trivial faults, and finally imagines faults whore none exist. Even if they do exist, ecoldme does no good, but often provokes to a continuance in ev 1 ways, ov to the formation of bud habits if nono previously existed. . . . It. is a trite say inrr that coarseness nnd vulgarity have nothing to do with clothes or dialect, and may be found in every rank nnd profession. They are outward signs of a low animal nature, and or a rooted vanity, egotism, and indifference to «i man's neighbour—in a word, selfishness. 1 hey are tar more matters of morals then of taste. Rightly understood and really embraced, Christianity produces modesty ana delicate thought for others—the essentials of good manners in rich and poor alike ; but adopted in words and not in the heart, the profession of the moat spiritual religion heightens bv contrast this hideou=ness of a low and selfish professor. " A clrrcvmnn who had been staving for some time at the house of a friend, on going away called to him little Tommy, the four year old son of his hnsr, nnd a*kcd him what he should give him for a present. Tommy having great respect for "cl.ith," thought it his duty to suggest something of a re)i"ioii» nnlni-e, *o he nnnouneed, hesitatingly; " I think I -h mid like a Testament, and I know I should like a pop-

gun." Incivility.—There i< imffioient excuse for it; a man has no mo:-e rig'it to say nn incivil thing than to aet one; no nnre. ri"hAo say a'rude thing to another than to knoek hin diwn. °A man's own good breeding is the best security nsjirrM another's ill breeding. ' DrxEitMtNATios.—Never go back—never. What yon do, do with all your strength. Determination is omnipotent, If the prospect is somewhat darkened, put the firo of resolution to your »oul, and kindle ft flume that nothing but death can extinguish. Those who wish to rise early must strictly adhere to this rule :—Jump out of bed the "moment you hear a knock at the door. The man who hesitates when called is lost, The mind should be made up in ft minute, for early risiag is one of those subjects that admit of no turning ovor.