The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-04-09

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frequent of late wears among distinguished
men. and persons in what IS termed high
life. have their cause very often no doubt IN
luxuirons and dissipated living. Of the
dead, who have prematurely fallen.by ex-
cessive indulgence in eating and drinking,
il is useless to speak. But it is impossible
to look through our cities, and among public
men, without feeling of strong repngnance
at Redistribution of gross indulgence WHICH
every where prevails. tits by no means
reputable to eat four times as much as Is
ecessary and drink brandy and VINE
nouoh 10 preserve it; but it is very danger
ous. The consequences are every day seen /
in1sse sudden blow up or popping of OF lndi-
vidnsls who thus indulge themselves. What
isathe practice of most of our countrymen OF
all grades of professions? Is 1t not to take
kftEe something before breakfast, especial
w if travelling, or attending upon the leglS-
lature, or engaged at court, or any other
public business. Must not ele9en O'CLOCK, !
forenoon, be attended to with brandy or
gin cocktail and if ever take any thing 1t |
is about this time in the day-whlch means
any time. Dinner of course always apollo
gises for brandy and water, and ifever there
IS a rood time for a bottle of wine, it is be-
tween four and five, when dinner is over.
At the south the water Is so warm 1t needs
something in it to make it 60 down good IN
New York it is so bad no one thinks OF
drinking it without brandy, and at the north
II is too cold for health without the mixture.
Having taken tea and walked out square
or to, some hot whiskey punch is the sort If
it is cold weather, or if it is hot, cold punch
is cooling-and "thus runs the world
away"
The drunkard is dirty, debased and beast
ly enough, but glutton more so, and when
both characters are united, what a con-
summation" The only consolation and the
only hope of-man in such case IS, that some
hot day he will blow up, the torpedo will let
fiy. 1t was remark of the Emperor Napo-
leon that he who eats the least always
eats too much; and there is no doubt of it.
Especially it is true of men employed at the
lighter avocations oflife, or engaged IN study
or professional business. Continually there
fore do we find such men falling by apo
plexy, and diseases affecting the action of
the heart or the tone of the stomach. They
take none of that exercise which renders
the farmer robust and gives energy to the
digestive organs; and yet perhaps, they
devour daily more food than laboring man
should and that of a luxurious and indiges-
tible quality. The muscles Of such an one
bones and sinews with a feeble tenacity, the
blood vessels become weak and enlarged,
and on some occasion of an overloaded,
stimulated and irritated stomach he is seen
to fall suddenly upon his face and dies so
even SO!
Incorporate and luxurious living is now
an evil among US, fixed and deep beyond
eradication. Societies and individuals, and
the press, may indeed do something, but we
despair of seeing, by any effort that can be
made, any general or important reformation
the tide ofdissipation is moving on, and it will
continue to swallow up its yearly, mighty
congregation, until that all powerful agent
questionable which Is now genteel: for If
IS among the fashionable, the genteel. the
middle and the higher classes, that dissipa-
ton IS most extensive, and with them rests
the example and all its power, which is to
operate upon the rest of mankind. Contin-
ual and most alarming warnings are not
sufficient to check indulgence in one who
has long consulted his palate. He will con-
tlnue to feed as though he were " calf of
the stall" and /" follow strong drink. until
wine inhame" him. He canno. be reclaim.
ed by any effort that can be made--his fate
IS fixed, and he must be left to encounter if.
But there is field for every man who has
right feeling on this subject, and who
knows the luxury of a total abstinence from
all intoxicating drinks-in his own family
among his own children. There, his exam
pie and his precepts, rightly enforced, NAV
leave an impression and benefit mankind.
when the vice of mankind no longer claim
his pity or excite his disgust
VISION OF PARADISE. ACCORDING to the
Venetian traveller and the Arabian author
of the Sirch Hakembiemer-illah." there
was at Alamoot, and also at Masiat in Syr-
ia, delicious garden, encompassed with
lofty walls, adorned with trees and flowers
OF every kind-with murmurng brooks and
translucent lakes with bowers of roses and
trelllces OF the vine-airy halls and splendid
klosks, furnished with the carpets of Persia
and the silks of Byzantium. Beautiful maid
ems and blooming boys were the inbabit-
ants OF this delicious spot, which ever re-
sounded with the melody of birds, the muir
muir OF streams, and the ravishing tones of
voices and mstruments-all resDired con-
tentment and pleasure When the chief
had noticed any youth to be distinguished
for strength and resolution, he invited him
10 banquet, where he placed him beside
himself, conyersed with him on the bappi- |
ness reserved for the faithful, and contrived
to administer TO him an intoxicating drauobt !
prepared from the hyoscyamus While In |
sensible, he was conveyed into the garden |
OF delight and there awakened blythe aD- /
piicatlon of vinegar. On opening his eyes