The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-04-25
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From the .Neso York Morning Chronicle.
CEREMONY. 1t is remarked by some
writer that excess of ceremony shows want
of good breeding. This is true. There is
nothing so troublesome as overdone polite
ness: it is worse than an overdore beef
steak. A truly well bred man makes eve
ry person about him feel at ease; he does
not throw civilities about him with a slpv-
ell, nor toss compliments in a bundle, as(he
would hay with a pitchfork. There is no
evil under the sun more intolerable than
ultra politeness. When man has enjoy
ed good dinner, it sounds little like sar-
casm to tell him he has eaten nothing
When he has RECALLED his palate with
slice OF fine venlson or savory goose, it is
an insult to his taste to apologize for hav-
ing given him bad dinner. It is as much
as to tell him he is no judge of eatables-
that his palate is tasteless and Gothic-that
he does not know the difference between
turtle soup and soup mGigre-between. "a
young partridge and an old hen-between
an innocent and unsophisticated young pig,
and an ancient patriarchal ram. 1t is an
indirect way of giving the lie, to tell man
| that he has made no dinner, when the in
clpient horrors of dyspepsia are on him for
over eating. 1t is as fair ground for a
quarrel of the seventh cause" as any con-
gressional matter can possibly be. You
don't drink, says host to one of his guests
after Champagne has completed reyoiu-
ton equal to the yearly rotation of the
earth. And why does he not drink? Be-
cause night mare sits watching on his pill
low, and head ache and heart burn, "a
grisiy band" grin at him in the perspec-
tive of to-morrow's dawn. A gentlenlan's
bottle should be like his manners, unobtru-
sipe. 1t should not be thrust violently uIr-
der his neighbours nose, nor should its con-
tents be poured like dose of elixir-pro
down his throat. 1t is against the spirit of
our free institutions-it is anti-republiean
and despotc, to compel man to exercise
his grinders, and 70 moisten his clay, when
his palate cries 'no more p and the teeth
exclaim "we are weary"
A TRop1cAL CLIMATE. Insects are the
curse of tropical climates. The vete rouge
lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer.
In moment you are covered with ticks.
Chigoes bury Themselves in your flesh, and
hatch large colony of young chigoes in a
few hours. They will not live together,
but every chigoe sets up separate ulcer,
and has his own private pus; flies get entry
into your mouth, into your eyes, INTO your
nose. You eat flies, drink flies, and breathe
flies. Lizards, cockatrices and snakes get
into the bed-ants eat the books-scorpions
sting you on the foot-eyery thing stings,
bites, or bruises-eyery second OF your eX-
istence you are wounded by some piece Of
animal life, that nobody has ever seen be-
fore, except Swammertiam and Mariam.-
An insect with eleven legs is swimming in
your tea-cup-a non descript with nine
wings is struggling in the small beer, or
caterpillar, with several dozen eyes in his
belly, is fastening over the bread and but
ter! All nature is alive, and seems to be
gathering her chronological hosts to eat
you up as you are standing, out of your
coat, waist-coat and breaches. Such are
the tropics. All this reconciles us to our
dews, togs, yapor and drizzle-to our a.
pothecaries rushing about with gargles and
tinctures-to our British constitutional
coughs, sore threats, and swelled faces.
Edtnbtrg ReUiew.
A NOSE FOR AN ARM. That class OF
people, in New Jersey, who are not very
particular about the etiquette of fashiona-
bic life, have habit, when inviting their
guests at table to help themselves, of say
ing, ".make q long arm" A good woman
of this unsophisticated class, having one
day Scotchman to dine with ner, who
had an exceedingly long nose, could moi
help taking particular notice of that dis
tinguished member of her guests face
and as the enormous proboscis was natur-
ally uppermost in her thoughts, when she
would have said, make a long arm" she
was so unfortunate as to say, do make a
long nose, sir" "A lang nose, quotha !?
replied the Scotchman. Il thocht in a.
conscience, guide woman, we wad be con-
tent WI the ane ha'.'-Berk. american.
ADOPTION. There is q singular system
in France relative to the adoption Of chill
dren. A family who has none, adopts as
their own fine child belonging to friend,
or more generally to some poor person
the adoption is regularly registered by the
civil authorities, and the child becomes
heir at law to the property of its new par
ents, and cannot he disenherited by any
subsequent caprice of the parties they
are bound to support it suitable to their
rank, and TO do every thing due to their
offspring.
He who ploughs his land and breeds cat
tie, spins Gold and weaves Bank Bills
He who hath no in fortune is tired out
with good,