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44 room and nursery, in comfortable homes, for real rest, the common one will remain in use for general purposes.

It must be obvious, as hinted above, that this article can have no great bear- ing upon easj'-chairs of any kind, al- though their lines of support are not always well chosen, because, being mostly kept low upon their support, their upholstering, more especially when spring-cushioned, enables them to adapt themselves very nearly to the true rest- ing poise of the body. They should all, however, be kept lower than they are at the back of the seat, and straighter and more upright. But for those who have to sit long at a time, and for days together, easy chairs become particularly uneasy chairs, and very deleterious to the health. Nothing save a hard stuffed leather cushion, or absolute wood, is admissable for the necessarily sedentary, who, through the additional precautions of bending, with a straight back, from the hips, keeping the lungs always distended, and walking two or three miles daily, can keep themselves in good working condition for almost any length of time.

THE PHILADELPHIA PARK EXTENSION AND THE CITY WATER.

UCH} and earnest comment was occasioned in Philadelphia, about sixteen or seventeen months ago, by the water of the Schuylkill, then confessedly ill-tasted and noxious; attributes which, from the experience of generations, we know were not fairly imputable to the river itself, but to the deleterious refuse poured into the stream, for miles above Fairmount dam, by the numerous factories upon both banks. Little was said amongst the people last winter, and, it is believed, nothing in the newspapers; but, in the northern part of the city, the same evils ran their usual crescendo and diminuendo, until the disgust arising from a simple draught of water was nearly equal to the worst of winter before last; and what we know, from reliable informants, to be true of the Twentieth and other wards, is, probably, not unknown in other sections.

Acting upon these and other facts, the Commission for the Extension of Fairmount Park lately presented a very able report to City Councils, which bodies, in all essentials, affirmed the views therein urged, and, as our city readers will have already seen amongst the. news items of the daily papers, sent up to Harrisburg a large and deservedly influential delegation to impress the Legislature with the salient points. As drawn from the map accompanying the report of the Commissioners of Fair- mount Park, the boundary-line of the Park, as now agreed upon, omitting some trivial details, is: Commencing at the southeast angle of Fairmount grounds, corner of Twenty-fifth and Biddle streets; thence westerly along the south line of Fairmount, and across the Wire Bridge, direct to Bridgewater street, along Bridgewater to Haverford, westerly on Haverford to the Junction Railroad connecting the Pennsylvania Central and the Reading Railroads, northwesterly along the curved line of the Junction railroad to Girard avenue; thence westerly to the east line of Fortieth street; thence diagonally and west-northwesterly to Fifty-second street; thence northeasterly to Fifty-first street; thence east-northeasterly to Ford road, between Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streets; thence in the same general course by a more northerly line to the