The Litchfield County post., 1827-11-22

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gentlest behaviour; and having, participated
IN the sunny calm, the haley0n hours OF the
establishment, we depart before the unreal
and transitory delusicn is dispersed, and leave
the husband 10 COM, nplate the less brilliant
changes of the lady's cuuntenance and tenn.
! per, and to maintain single combat against
the boisterous perversiiies of her Offspring.
1t is certainly most desirable thing, that All
those persons who are blest with large houses
and good cooks, should marry for do not
understand how they can otherwise hope to
achieve any very good balls, or even anv toll
cradle dinners. If houses are TO be onened
with effect, there must be 4 mistress: and il
rs therefore absolutely incumbent On all pub-
I lie SPIRITED persons, who have the real good
! nl society at heart, to provide their establish
n1ent with so important member But
| marriage is an act of generous self-devotion
for the benefit Of the circle among whomswe
m"ve,--a sacrifice of personal advantage
made to attain the power of being gracefully
hospitabe to our friends; for it is established
beyond doubt, that we single persons eniov
the cream aud quintessence of matrimonial e..
betty and that wives and husbands possess
painful monopoly of its tumu.ts and its dis
fractions its anxieties and its restraints.-
Then again with regard to Home don't be-
lleve that any individual in existence knows
what really comfortable home s-the quiet
the conslderation-the uninterruptibiIitv--
the easy chair drawn parallel with the fire.
piace-the undisputed right of sitting with a
foot on either nob-the lamp arranged to suit
the level of his own eye-the careless LUXURY
resulting from an exclusive appropriation of
all the conveniencies of an apartment
man can be really chezsoi---can be in the full
enjoyment of all the accommodation afford
ed by his own house, and fire side, and furn;-
ture, and presume to exercise the right of a
master over them. unless he be independent
of the letters of wedIock.
| In the other case if he attempted to mt
himself at his ease, his conscience upbraids
him of sefshnesss he can't draw footstool
near him, without feeling his sensbty distur-
bed ny the apprehension of interfering with
the comforts of another. No man, | repeat
it, can be in the entire enjoyment of life, un-
less he be a young unmarried man. with an
attached elderly valet to wait upon him.
am so thoroughly pursuatled of this fact. that
nothing on earth but my love for you, Maria.
could persuade me to relinquish "nv unhous-
ed, free condition." Nothing but NV adora-
ton of such union of various beauties. and
almost incongrual mental Accomplishments.
could have induced me to abandon nv pres
ent state OF luxurious independence but un.
der my peculiar and most favoured circum
stances, only pass from lower to a higher
degree of happiness. True, the idle, the
downy, the somewhat ignominious gratifca-
tons of celibacy are sacrificed; but thew ara
exchanged for the pure and dgnfied enioy-
ment of laborng to secure an angels hap-
piness, beneath the cheering influence of her
exhilarating smiles.
Such were the reflections that hastily pass
ed along my mind, on the afternoon of Thurs
day the 18th of February, 1897, as sat with
volume Of the Tor Hill in my hand, in the
back drawing room of my lodgings in. Con-
dut street. 1t was about three O'Clock in the
afternoon. My dinner was inst removed. 1t
had LETT me with that gay complacency Of
disposition, and irrepressibIe propensity to ell
ocutlon, which result from satisfied appe-
tite, and an undisturbed digestion. NV sense
OF contentment became more and more yigo-
rous and confirmed, as cast my eyes around
my apartment. and contemplated my well
filed bookcase, and the many articles Of CON-
venience with which had contrived to accom-
modate my nest, till at length, the emotions
of satisfaction became too strong to be re-
strained within the bonds of silence. and an
nounced themselves in the following soIilo
guy -
"Whatscapital Goals these are !--There's
nothing ii the world so cheering---so enlive-
ning-as good, het, blazing sea coal fire."-
| broke a large lump into fragments with the
poker, as i spoke" It's all mighty fine"
continued, for us travellers to harangue the
ignorant on the beauty of foreign cities, on
their buildings without dust, and their skies
without a cloud; but for my own part, / like
to see a dark. thick, heavy atmosphere, hang
ing over a town. 1t forewarns the traveller
of his approach to the habitations, the bust
ness and the comforts of his civilized fellow
creatures. 1t gives an air of grandeur. and
Importance. and mystery to the scene II
conciliates our respect We know that there
must be some FIRE where there is so much
smother; while, in those bright, shining.
smokeless cities, when even the sun shines
upon them, ones eyes are put out by the
glare Of the white walls; and when IL does
not shine why, in the winter, there's no.
resources left for man but hopeless and shiv
ering resignation.with their wide, windy Chin
neys, and their damp, cracking. kissing, smut.
tering. tantalizing faggots." / confirmed INV
argument m favor of our metropolitan obscu-
rlty by another stroke Of the poker against
the largest fragment of the broken coal; and
then. letting fall my weapon, and turning nv
back to the fire, exclaimed, "Certainly---
there's no kind of fortune like books :---noth-
ing else can afford one an euual air of ron,