Jottings For Summer

We cut í'rom Hall's Journal of Health a íew woi-ds of advioe, satirical and othorwise, to thoso who mny be preparing to visit the country during the hotter montbs. Thoy are vory generally avnilable, and inay be at any rute prnfitably considered by thoae they do not hit too strongly : 1. In going to the oountry to spend your Huiamer, leave business boliind, but take with you your entire stock of patience, courtesy, selí-respect, and religión. Go as plain 'John smith, gentle man.' 2. If you have the first claim to be well bree], you will be the last person in the world to volunteer any uí'ormation on the subject. If it must bo told, let it be by your conduot; let your entire deportmeut prove that you are a lady or a gentleman. 3. Do not profesa that you 'kuow' Mr. Astor, Mr. Grinnell, Mr. Minturn, or other distinguished citizens, when your entire knowledge consista in their liaving been pointed out to you ou the street. 4. Avoid claiming acquaintanca with this or that family of note, when you only happen to have spoken to them on a railroad car or steamboat, or n some purely business transaction. An enterprising individual once olaimed that ho knew a distinguishod judgo very well. On inquiry, it was found that the said judge had on.ee sent Jaim to the ponitentiary. 5. If you have the first mite of eommoD sense and really go te the country for recreation, enjoyment, and health, leave your best and seoond best clothing at homo; take ouly your commou wardrobe, and but a sraall part of that ; not only that the persoos you 'stop with' may feel moro easy, but that you may be freer yourself to scale feoces, climb trees, scramble up mountaia sides, wade across creeks, penétrate forest tangles, and jump Jim Crow generally. 6. Never turn up your nose at anything at the table f if you have the slightest disposition to do so, you may be suro it is a pug, and isn't long enough to turn. If you don'tlike a thing, let it alone, - eat nothing, and by the next meal you may be glad to get anythin j. 7. ïtemember that iu going to tho country a sensible man's object is neither to dress nor eat chiefly, but to obtain mental repose, pure air, aod unrestraiuod exercise. 8. Endoavor to conform, without apparent effort, to the arrangenients of the family witb whom you board, and to the maoners and customs of the people around you, as far as they do not oom promise your principies óf good moráis and good taste. 9. Be eheerful, be kind, be considerute, be acoammqdating. 10. Do not obtrude your political or religious sontimonts. 11. 8hün argument and controversy m any and all subjeets. 12. Let your eourtcsy come out natirally ; and if religious, dou't be a Pharisee.