BATHING INDISPENSABLE TO HEALTH! Marlboro' Bathing Rooms, rear of Marlboro' Hotel, 231 Washington Street, Boston. Through the Arch, on the left hand side going up to the Chapel. These Rooms are in a central part of the city, to accommodate the citizens as well as strangers who visit the city, have recently been fitted up in good and convenient style at a great expense to the owner, and are now ready to receive the public patronage for Warm or Cold Baths, both day and evening. The present proprietor having purchased of the former proprietor all his interest in the above establishment, would respectfully inform patrons and the public, that the whole establishment has been thoroughly repaired, painted, and put in the best order for the comfort and convenience of customers, and he hopes by strict personal attention to his business, to merit and receive a liberal share of public patronage. The prices will be the same as heretofore viz., single bath, 25 cents; five tickets for $1; Quarterly Season Tickets, admitting one person to one Bath a week any time from Monday morning to Saturday at 6 o'clock, P. M., for thirteen successive weeks, $1 62; two Baths a week, do. do., $3; or as often as any one may please, not however exceeding one Bath each day, $4 50; Plain Vapor Baths, 50 cents; Sulphur Baths, $1. N. B.-A female always in attendance to wait upon ladies. Open every day and evening, Sundays excepted, from 5 o'clock, A. M. to 10 o'clock, P. M., and Saturday evening until half past 11 o'clock. DR. S. F. STEARNS, DENTIST, Corner of Court and Howard streets, Boston. REFERENCES-Hon. I. Livermore, Rev. A. B. Muzzey, Rev. W. A. Stearns, Rev. Mr. Albro, Dr. C. F. Chaplin, Dr. W. W. Wellington, and Dr. C. H. Allen, of Cambridge; Dr. E. Sanborn, of Andover; Rev. W. M. Rogers, Joel Giles, Esq., Dr. E. Buck, and Dr. E. Buck, Jr. of Boston. JAMES FRENCH, PUBLISHER, Bookseller and Stationer. Also, importer of Steel Pens, of every variety, No. 78 Washington Street, Boston. Constantly on hand, a general assortment of School Books and Stationery, of every variety; for sale wholesale or retail. Booksellers, Stationers, School Committees, Teachers, &c. &c. supplied on the most reasonable terms. G. MANCHESTER, HOUSE BROKER, No. 2 Marlboro' Chapel. MARLBORO' HOTEL. TEMPERANCE HOUSE. John Coe, No. 229 Washington Street, Boston. G. ADAMS, BUSINESS INTELLIGENCER and Circulating Express, office No. 2 Marlboro' Chapel, established for the convenience of business men, and affording facilities to extend business by a system of agencies. He distributes daily in the Railroad cars, advertising sheets, which is an excellent and effective mode of advertising. This institution should be encouraged. CHASE'S DAGUERREOTYPE ROOMS, 257 Washington Street, Boston. First Floor over Haskell & Howland's large Silk and Shawl store, in the new stone building just erected. No pains or expense will be spared to make these Rooms the most Genteel and Fashionable of any in the city, and to secure the most competent skill in every thing appertaining to the business. The public are respectfully invited to call and judge for themselves, being assured that whatever comes from this Establishment, will be executed in the highest perfection of the art. Perfect satisfaction is guaranteed in all cases, or no charge. Pictures taken in any weather. Apparatus, &c. furnished and warranted. WILLIAM J. REYNOLDS, BOOKSELLER, No. 20 Cornhill, 3 doors from Washington Street. left side, BosParticular attention paid to orders of Booksellers and Country Traders. ton. DEALER in Butter, Cheese, Fruit, Lard and West India Goods, No. 50 Brattle Street, Boston. JORDAN & WILEY, WHOLESALE and Retail Dealers in Periodicals, cheap publications, Foreign and American Newspapers, Books and Music 20 State and 121 Washington Streets, Boston. All new works received as soon as published. WINKLEY & CO. (IMPORTERS of Cloths, Cassimeres and Vestings), Merchant Tailors, No. 93 Washington Street, up stairs, Boston. WHITE & FERGUSON, DRUGGISTS and APOTHECARIES, No. 230 Washington treet, four doors south of Summer Street, Boston. JOHN HAMMOND, REAL ESTATE BROKER, No. 10 Brattle square, Boston. Houses Bought, Sold and Let. Mortages Negociated. WILLIAM B. MAY, REAL ESTATE RROKER, No. 3 State Street, up stairs. W. B. M will attend to the purchase, sale and letting of Real Estate, the negociating of Mortgages, and the purchase and sale of Stocks. J. M. DOE, WHOLESALE and Retail Dealer in Furniture, Chairs, Feathers, Mattresses, &c. &c. Nos. 55, 57, 59, 61, 63 and 65 Cornhill, Boston. CHARLES M. BRIGGS, DEALER in Carpetings, wholesale and retail, No. 205 Washington street, 2d door from Bromfield street, Boston. BOWKER & CO. FASHIONABLE Millinery and Straw Goods, Chambers 163 Washington street, opposite Milk street, Boston. DR. G. O. STEARNS, DENTIST, Corner of Court and Howard streets, Poston. REFERENCES-Hon. S. H. Walley, D. A. Sigourney, Esq., J. J. Soren, Fsq. and Hon. D. A. Simmons, of Boston; Dr. W. F. Stevens, of Stoneham; Dr. Mansfield, of South Reading; Dr. C. M. Winship, Dr. B. E. Cotting, B. Stone, Esq., W. Whiting, Esq., H. White, Esq., and A. F. Howe, Esq., of Roxbury. MEDICATED VAPOR BATH ESTABLISHMENT, & ASYLUM FOR THE SICK. Nos. 8 and 12 Franklin Street, Boston. THE Proprietors of this Institution for the comfort of the well and relief of the sick, have recently added the adjoining house to their former accommodations, so that the Ladies' apartments are now in a separate house from the Gentlemen's. Dr. M. M. MILES is the Principal. Mr. H. B. MAY, Assistant. Invalids are accommodated with medical treatment, board and good nurses, at reasonable prices. These baths are highly recommended by some of the first Physicians in this country and in Europe. Persons can take them under the advice of their own Physicians, and rely upon their directions being strictly followed. The following kinds of baths are administered every day in the week (Sundays excepted), from 8 o'clock in the morning till 9 in the evening. Whitlaw's Medicated Vapor Baths. Sulphur Fume Baths, Iodine Vapor and plain Vapor Baths. RECOMMENDATIONS. The undersigned would unite in recommending to the confidence and patronage of the public, the Medicated Vapor Bath Establishment, conducted by Dr. M. M. Miles and H. B. May. We would do it, first, from the confidence which we have in the practical excellence of the Vapor Bath, which is becoming daily more in use among the medical profession, as a remedy for various forms of disease. is so efficacious as to succeed, when many other means have failed. It Second, we would recommend it also from our personal experience of its benefits. We have resorted to it on various occasions, and have been highly gratified with the results. We would further unite in recommending the establishment, in view of the kind attention which the patient receives while there, and for the general good management which seems to pervade the institution, and the ability and skill with which it is conducted. WILLIAM INGALLS, M.D. FRANCIS A. WILLARD, M.D. J. TUCKER, M.D. CHARLES TAPPAN, BOOKSELLER and Stationer, No. 114 Washington street, Boston. Constantly on hand, a General Assortment of Medical, Miscellaneous, Classical and School Books. American and Foreign Stationery. Country Dealers, Towns, School Committees, Teachers, Library Associations, Choirs, &c., supplied on liberal terms. Orders for Account Books, Ruled and Bound to any pattern, executed with neatness and despatch. SAXTON & KELT, (OLD Stand of Richardson, Lord & Holbrook,) Publishers, Booksellers, Stationers and Periodical Agents, No. 133 Washington street, Boston. Agents for Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, American Biblical Repository, Eclectic, Democratic Review, Mothers' Monthly Journal, American Review, &c. Depot for Phrenological Books and Busts. Country trade supplied with School, Miscellaneous Books, and Stationery, on the best terms. All new books received as soon as published. JOSEPH B. JOHNSON & CO. MANUFACTURERS of Philosophical Instruments, No. 4 Court Avenue, rear of Davis, Palmer & Co., Boston. Druggists' and Confectioners' Scales and Models made to order. N. B. Every description of Instruments made and repaired at short notice. R. B. LINCOLN, GROCERY and Tea Store, 222 Washington street, second door from Summer street, Boston. MEN may perhaps reasonably differ respecting the desirableness of long life, but all must agree as to the desirableness of averting premature old age. It is sufficiently grievous to wear the badges of a withered old age, even at that period of life to which they appropriately belong; to have them forced upon us, at an age which naturally entitles us to the rosy charms of youth, is what can never be desired. For some reason or other, we of this country become old sooner than they do in England. This remark applies particularly to females. A comparison instituted between our females and those of France, Spain, and Italy, would not perhaps be seriously to the disadvantage of American ladies. But it is with their own natural mothers and sisters, the females of Great Britain, that most of the New England ladies, at least, ought to be brought in comparison. And here, all must admit, the advantage lies decidedly on the other side of the water. The ladies of England, generally, even in the large cities, are vigorous, blooming, youthful, to a much higher age than they are here. A dentist in London and a dentist in Boston, will tell widely different stories respecting the teeth of their lady-patients. So will the physician and the surgeon in every department of dis ease. Indeed it is almost a rare thing to find a female among us, who enjoys perfect and uninterrupted health. And perhaps it is still rarer to find one who, up to the age of forty-five, is without some decided marks of old age. Defective teeth, gray hairs, wrinkles, lustreless eyes, a feeble step, a faltering voice-one or all of these tokens of advancing age-begin, ere then, to show themselves. This ought not so to be. It is wrong, it is wicked, that we tolerate the causes of it :-Not that the unhappy victim is always guilty-No, she has perhaps done as she was taught, done as well as she knew how. Still, such are the laws of nature and the ordinance of God, that violence done to our constitution, whether wittingly or unwittingly, must inevitably meet its appropriate retribution. It has been frequently remarked, that with us ladies grow old faster than men. Foreigners are struck with this fact. A gentleman from England was asked in Boston how he liked our city. "Very much," he replied, "but there is one serious draw-back; almost every lady I pass looks like a fright!" He however explained himself to mean, that she looks in fearful ill health. If the point in question be natural beauty, we should not fear to challenge a comparison of our young ladies with those of any nation whatever. The only ground of complaint is, that the beauty does not last. Here is a blooming Miss of sixteen. To the observer's eye, there is perfect health and the promise of long and youthful life. But already some envious canker has begun to gnaw at the root of that fair form. Of this she has some painful tokens, occasionally, which are mostly known only to herself. Instead, however, of averting the catastrophe portended, the course is taken to precipitate it. The same causes which have begun the evil, are increased, as she comes forward into society. At the tender age of eighteen or twenty she is married :-She is passed along through all the exciting and exhausting forms of modern life, and at the age of forty, if alive, is but the shadow of what she was. Her husband, in the mean time, better sustained by his masculine nerves and habits, stands by her side comparatively young. Although both sexes grow old with us faster than they ought, the female sex goes considerably in the advance. In inquiring for the cause of such prevailing premature old age in our country, we do not necessarily find it in our climate. Perhaps no climate in the world is, on the whole, more favorable to long and healthy life. The climate of Great Britain is, in important respects, inferior to this. It is more relaxing, more debilitating, less life-sustaining. A dry, clear, oxygenous atmosphere, |