Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-06-16

of Calcute, and at the expense of two
hundred d,llars And so it is, that if Mrs.
Puff have IN article of fancy, that costs
sixty dolIas, Mrs. Puffy, forthwith, must
have one It hundred
"It's hadest work of man alive,
To makethree guineas go for ive;"
and so DE- Mr.. and Mrs. Puffy ind it; for
at last ugly creditors demand their dues,
and the rest is obvious.
But if there are some who are made
poor by the affectation Of wealth, there
are others who make themselves despi-
cable by an affeclation of poverty. A.
mong such, slovenliness of dress,
coarseness of manners, contempt for
the common courtesies and distinctions
Of life, and moreover loud and Persever-
ing lamentations over losses, expenses
and ruin, are characteristics which are
meant to Indicate superior wisdom. 1t
would be anexceIent lesson for these
grumbIers attually to suffer for little
while the mi series and deprivations they
affect to experience. Such affectation
is nothing bd insulting and ungra;elal
mockery. Apd then there is a mawk-
ish affectatiol of sensibility and senti-
mentalism, sort of halffool susceptible
ity of mind anil nerve, that sees the " air
drawn daggei' in common pitchfork,
and that PLACES the Possessor in an mag
mary region, far above the common feel
ings, the com mon business, and the COM
mon sense of the world. People may
be too subIima teI for world like ours,
which, as king Richard says, we must
s. hustle in" II by any misfortune you
we're bleeding ID death you could ex-
pect no relief from such persons be
cause they'' owe you no subscription"
and because they would faint away at the
sight of drop(of "Christian blood )"
and more than all, because they might
injure their green dress, or as Shake
speare says, make "the green one red"
Exquisite sensibility is employed in pOr
ing, day and night, over the wanton pa
ges Of the " sentimental" Werter, the
blasphemous raBing of the tender Rous-
seau, or the fee faw-tum nonsense of the
delectable Dela Crusca.-Acts of mercy
are too common place for sensibility.
And then there's an afiectation of almost
every thing under the sun; an affecta-
ton in writing and talking, walking and
riding, laughing and crying, and in eating
and dressing. One person writes in all
the ponde'osity of Johnson, another pun
ishes you with puns, and another lingles
through tie alphabet with "not Glitter
atoms arGul aid"
One lsDs in modest childishness, and
another busters like a storm in winter
Some PERSONS speak as if their tongues
were burnt, and others as if they had a
teazle in their throat. In short, there
is no end to affectation. One man sports
small hat with never crown, and a.
mother recreates bis head with a hat
! without brim, for the sake of notorie-
| ty. One person writes you letter hat
you cannot read, and consequently can
not answer, and another fills page with
his signature. A very worthy man of
my acquaintance, walks on his toes, asif
he were treading among eggs; while
another, equally respectable, plants his
heel on the pavement AS if he were en-
forcing the word of command 70 a pla-
toon ofsoldiers. There you win see one
who is polite enough tobow twenty
times an hour, like a Frenchman, and
here another grunts at you once year,
like a Dutchman. If Alexander were
alive we should see much graceful de-
formity of the neck, but in place of that,
we have at present only the "Grecian
stoop." If the Cynic philosophers were
among us, we should have tubs, i'll ma
ture, and wit,-we now have i'll nature
enough, and
Words of learned length, and laundering
sound"
but very little wit, it must be acknowl-
edged. JACQUES.
Preservation Of Eggs.---The preser-
walton of eggs, fresh and good, through
many months, may be effected by mere
ly altering their position daily to fresh
side downwards, in order to prevent the
yolk settling, and coming in contact
with the shell. tits the practice of far
mers wives, in several of the midland
and northern counties of England, TO
closely pack, with interposed straw,
their increasing stock oieggs, daily, in
TO bee hive, or similarly shaped bas-
ket laying straw upon them, and
stretching three or four pointed sticks
across, tight upon the straw, so as to en-
able the bee hive ~ be tilted on its side
or even 10 be turned upside down into
new position, each day, in their dairy
or beer cellar; and this daily turning is
continued until on the approach Of lent
the eggs are removed from the hives
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