The Litchfield County post., 1827-05-03

handsome one to do. ! would only ad- wise. if you will permit me, that, in case vou resolve tu be an early riser, you w,il make common causes with a few friends, of as much taste and sincerity, ifpossibIe, as yourselves. 1t IS wonderful how much more can be done tn this way, than alone; and it is right and happy that it should be so. Comparing notes, you will please and be-plcascd with one anOth- CT, and exulting in eyes that you love and what noble heart could not do any thing for this
 To you madam no more need be said, except that if you have any thing to in- struct me in yourself, shall be very proud to learn. Perhaps you can refute what said. If so shall endeavor to copy the politeness and gc"d humor with which you have listened to me. To some however, I would say and even to yourself, that no person ever Outgrew their natural size in any considerable degree, and, remaining so attain to longevity. There is size and an age, at which it is even perilous to alter the system. You are far from both. Indeed, know not whether any body could not, for one, seeing the eyes that look over them. But there is, Madam i; they will not remain so, unless you take to your heels and to your early rising. Pray oblige us, and be charming at eighty. Lively good humored old women are what raisins are to fresh grapes. They are with cred, but they are also preserved and appear to advantage in the freshest com- pany.
 A word to the other sex, now that our fair friend is gone. Ninon de rEnclos told women to beware of the corpulent and the course-handed. Perhaps had she liv- ed in naval and commercial country, she would have sunk the latter objection but Love and Obesity, as the poet says of an another parsonage, certainly do not all we'll on the same bench.
 "Non bene conveniunt, nee in una se- de morantur, Majestas ct Amor" Hume, sitting on sofa between the ladies at Paris, was spectacle more un- be6ting his philosophy than he himself thought. A philosopher has no more bu- siness with so much fat, than a lover. 1t 1 is said of Gibbon, that when he made love ] to MademoiselleCu Curchod, and went down upon his knees, she was obliged to ring the bell for the footman to help him up again. It was certainly chivilrous step for him to take. He could not well do more for her, or get into worse scrape. It was his Knee plus ultra. The lady and he were the Decline and Fall. It is pi- ty that so many good fellows have con- sented to get fat, and make verses and proverbs in favor of it. There may be said, in this country, to be fat supersti- ton though it has been going out of late years, since bad nerves came up, and the French are no longer to be laughed at for the megerness they enjoyed under the old regime. The magic Frenchman was deplorable enough but the corpulent En. glishman was not much better. In old age he had by far the worst of it. Observe a corpulent old gallant, who has been hand- some fellow in his younger days: how hard he tries to brace himself in, and retain his elegance! And it is by no means the worst thing he does. He has turn for an ele- gance still, though he has not been grace full enough to preserve it. His brother el- ders are not so much his superiors as they think, in carrying their obesity with indif- ference. They are enormous and not a. shamed. In proper state of society, in which right and wrong were better under- stood than they are now, and better stress laid on the duties of health and chearful- ness, corpulence would be reckoned dis graceful.