The Litchfield County post., 1827-07-12

of the establishments, where they tanght the art of cooking, the price and qualities of provisions and to make pastry, jeles &c. In short,every branch of household industry was attended to, while reading the best authors music, drawing embroidery and dancing, occupied portion of their te In parts of Germany,
 found this system of education for women had been pursued for manyyears. In Swzeriandt 1t is the same on a smaller scale. How many women do we in the commercial societies of France, Germany, and Switzerand taking charge occasionally of their hus- bands affairs, attending to his books, carrying on his correspondence, and in of his death, continuing the business of his house with success.
 "With us these things are too much neglected, to dress and parade the in kid white satin shOes arrayedn all the coors of the rainbow, to dash, mar ried or single in splendid eqaipage in EngatSh Stye-
 that's your sort talk loud in company, ogle dandy, shnn the old and experienced dharrass servants for all their petty wants and their husbands and athers
 for what they cannot afford to give them; money to support them their eravagance, appears to be the sole occupation of the females in what IS called the fashionable circles in beloved country My heart sickens in contemplating such things. Away with these nondescripts! may they all die old maids, and waste their sourness for sweetness they have not on the desert air'-men of discernment will seek the modest, discreet, retiring female, who will prove "crown of glory to her husband. "Sweet as the rose 4sa.. ,' When the dew-drop vets its leaves, Unstained and pure %is.ss -. A As the lily of the mountains snow.'
 "When I find such an one Twill change my forlorn condition and if you undertake to choose her for me.
 promise you far relates to me, she shall pass her time, N.t
 ACalm and unruffled as summers sea,
 When not breath of wind blows OCT its surface"
 The luxurious habits of modern society are strongly exhibited in the increasing number of carriages of all descriptions. Mankind are becoming, every day, less dependent the locomotive powers that nature gave them. The Ladies desert their houses to live in riages like the Scythians of old, in their wagons and the Gentlemen, in imitation of the ancient Lapi the, are identified with their horses.
 1t isa singular fact mentioned by David Hume in his
 life of Charles first that there were not more than 20 hackney coaches in London at that period. The hs- torian states that they had increased in his day 8OO And it is calculated that not less than from IA to 900 carriages are maintained in London at the present day. modern French writer, speaking of the revolution of fashion, of which there may be yet found living witnesses says, that towards the middle of coaches in Paris but that there 4OO0 The hacks have been multiplied the proportions their pres- l ent number is at least 40O0. ./
 The increased of carriages in the United States, shows what successful mtators are of the luxuri- Ous habits of our transatlantic models.
 W7,imsical I,steratption.-Whe Dr. Bradon was rector of Etham in Kent, the he day took to preach from, was, "Who art thou ?' After reading the text he made las his custom) pause for the congregation to reflect upon the words; when agente man in military dress, who at the instant was march very sedatey upth middle aisle ofthe church ,sup- posing question addressed to him. the surprise of all present replied, officer of the seventeenth foot on recruiting party here and having brought my wife and family with me, wish to be acquainted with some of the neighbouring clergy and gentry.p- This deranged the divine, and astonished the con- gregation that though they attempted to listen with decorum the discourse was not proceeded in without 1 considerable difficulty.
 ] A person in the neighbourhood of Truro, finding that wood paling which fenced field, diminished nightly, resolved on novel expedient to detect the ged them with gunpowder and then scattered them the ground. few days after, he had the pleasure hear that public baker had been surprised by ploson of gunpowder his oven, which had shaken it to ruins.