re extremely hurtful and troublesome in the spring season, in
destroying peas and beans, as well as lettuces, melons, and cucumbers in
frames. Traps for this purpose are contrived in a great many ways; but
as field vermin are very shy, and will rarely enter traps which are
close, the following simple cheap form has been advised, though it has
nothing of novelty in it. These traps may be made by stringing garden
beans on a piece of fine pack-thread, in the manner of beads, and then
driving two small stake-like pieces of wood into the ground at the
breadth of a brick from each other, and setting up a brick, flat stone,
or board with a weight on it, inclining to an angle of about forty-five
degrees; tying the string, with the beans on it, round the brick or
other substances and stakes, to support them in their inclining
position, being careful to place all the beans on the under sides of the
bricks or other matters. The mice in eating the beans, in such cases,
will also destroy the pack-thread, and by such means disengage the brick
or other weighty body, which by falling on them readily destroys them.
Mice are always best got rid of by some sort of simple open traps of
this nature.

TREACLE BEER. Pour two quarts of boiling water on a pound of treacle,
and stir them together. Add six quarts of cold water, and a tea-cupful
of yeast. Tun it into a cask, cover it close down, and it will be fit to
drink in two or three days. If made in large quantities, or intended to
keep, put in a handful of malt and hops, and when the fermentation is
over, stop it up close.

TREACLE POSSET. Add two table-spoonfuls of treacle to a pint of milk,
and when ready to boil, stir it briskly over the fire till it curdles.
Strain it off after standing covered a few minutes. This whey promotes
perspiration, is suitable for a cold, and children will take it very
freely.

TREATMENT OF CHILDREN. It ought to be an invariable rule with all who
have the care of children, to give them food only when it is needful.
Instead of observing this simple and obvious rule, it is too common,
throughout every period of childhood, to pervert the use of food by
giving it when it is not wanted, and consequently when it does mischief,
not only in a physical but in a moral point of view. To give food as an
indulgence, or in a way of reward, or to withhold it as a matter of
punishment, are alike injurious. A proper quantity of food is necessary
in all cases, to susta