The Litchfield County post., 1827-05-03

hour or two after dinner. Ifladies would not carry butter toast in their cheeks. in. stead of roses, they must shake the blood in their veins, till it spins clear. Cheer fulness itself helps to make good blood: and air and exercise make cheerfulness. When it is said, that air spells the complexion. it { is not meant that breathing it does so, but exposure to it. We are coyinced that it is altogether a fallacy, and nothing but constant exposure to the ex tremes of heat and cold will produce any such effect. The not breathing the fresh air is confess sedly injurious and this might be done much oftener than is supposed. People might oftener throw up their windows; or admit the air partially, and with an effect sensible only to the general feelings. We ind, by repeated experiments, that we can write better and longer with the admission of air into our study. We have learnt al- so by the same experience, to prefer large study to small one and here the rich, it must be confessed, have another advan- tage over us. They pass their days in large airy rooms--in apartments that are field and champain, compared with the closets that we dignify with the name of parlors and drawing-rooms. A gipsy and they are-in this respect, and in many oth- ers,more on footing; and the gipsy beau- Nty and the park beauty enjoy themselves accordingly. Can we look at that extre- ordinary race of persons-we mean the gipsies-and not recognize the wonderful physical perfection to which they are brought, solely from the exemption of some of our most inveterate notions, and by dint of living constantly in the fresh air Read any of the accounts that are given of them, even by writers the most opposed to their way of life, and you will find these very writers refuting themselves and their pro- posed ameliorations by confessing that no human being can be better formed, or healthier, or happier, than the gipsies, so long as they are kept out of the way of towns and their sophistications. A suicide is not known among them. They are as merry as the larks with which they rise have the use of their limbs to degree un- known among us, except by our new friends the gymnasts; and arc as sharp in their fac ulties as the perfection of frames can render them. A glass of brandy puts them into state of unbearable transport. It is super fuous bliss wine added to wine and the old learn to do themselves mischief with it, and level their conditions with stockbrok- CTS and politicians Yet these are the peo- pie whom some wisacres are for turning in- to bigots and manufacturers. They had much better take them for what they are, and for what Providence seems to have in- tended them, memorandum to keep alive among us the belief in nature, and proof to what a physical state of perfection the human being can be brought, solely by in- haling her glorious breath, and being ex- empt from our laborious mistakes. If the intelligent and the gipsy life could ever be brought moro together, by any rational compromise we do not dispair of it, when we see that calculators begin to phloso- phize) men might attain the greatest per- lection of which they arc capable. Mean while, the gipsies have the advantage oft, if faces are any index of health and comfort. A gipsy with an, eye fit for genius, it is not difficult to meet with {: but where shall we find a genius, or even tund-holder, with the check and health of gipsy.
 There is fact well known to physicians which settles at once the importance ot fresh air to beauty, as well as health. It is, that in. proportion as people stay al home, and do not set their lungs playing a: they ought, the blood becomes dark, ant lags in it's current; whereas the habit of in- mailing the air out of doors, reddens it like ruby, and makes it clear and brisk. Now the darker the blood the more melancho- ly the sensations, aud the worse the com plexion. ,t.. '
 It is common with persons who inherit a good stock of health from their ancestors, to argue that they take no particular pains to preserve it, and yet are always well. This may be true and it is also true, that there is painstaking to that effect, which is superfuous and morbid, and helps to do more harm than good. But it does not fol- low from either of these truths, that a neglect of the rational means of retaining health will ultimately be good for any bo- dy. Healthy people may live good while upon their stock. Children are in the habit of doing it.-But healthy chil- dren, especially those who are foolishly treated upon an assumption that health consists in being highly fed and having great beef-eating cheeks, very often turn