The Litchfield County post., 1828-08-21

hOTity over the treasury, but IN the House oi Repre-"
senlatiyes, which makes every appropriation, and de-
cides how much shall be expended upon each speei-
6c object. But these grumblers talk as though tho
president held the keys othe strong box and opened
il at pleasure. layshing thousands and millions upon
objects of Importance and solely for the gratfca-
ton Of his own selfish wishes. II they do not know bet
ter they are to be pitied for their brutal ignorance;
and if they do know better, they to be despised
for their use of such vile in the support of des-
perate cause.
DIR. d. NJ. Reeve, highly respectable physician of
New-York, in work recently published upon the sub
jec of Iniemperance, notices this moral evil under
several different speciesas Incorporate Drinking, Eat
ing, Sleeping, Clothing, Labor Depraved Appettes,
&c. and is OF opinion that if mankind universal
y temperate in all these respects casualty and old age
would be the chief and almost sole passports to the
grave.
We shall content ourself with noticing his remarks
upon those kinds of intemperance chiefly confined to
the ladies' not however with the idea that they will
improve by the hint. relax in the least from their
efforts to render more elegant and delicate the most
perfect and finished part of the work of creaton.--
Under the head of Inemperance in Clothing, DR.. R.
points the destructive consequences to health from
eight acing; destructive according to the testimony
of almost every professional man. In the course of
his practice, he has assisted in the dissection of two
young females, who had fallen victims this fashion,
able vice. andh says that 'the adhesion of parsand
the arrangements of structure, truly rightful."
Numerous instances have been known where the sys-'
tenn had become completely deranged by this prac-
tce that the poor victim could not free herself from
her bands even at night without falling into the most
distressing and dangerous aintngs,-so complete had
the work of destruction become, that nothing but
terna stays and bands could afford any relief the
poor crazed and half ruined FORM Other instances
have been known where the breast bones have
been forced to lap upon each other, in this effort
atreduclng the dimensions Of the waist. DIR. r. says
that the "ingenuy of the ladies cannot be better
erted than in contrving method Of preventing
such havoc is annually occasioned among them from
tight ac'ng and thin dressing.
DR.. r. also relates fact well known to the fac
ulty that hundreds of females in large cities are
in the daily of opium, which is "nothng
than fashionable way ofgetting drunk land which
ought to he frowned upon by every husband and ia
Their" He also mentions the eating ofsnufwe had
could he brought relish such perverse Diet but he
the public that such is the fact and that the
habit IS ".ncreasing among the ladies' of our country
with rapidly only equaiIed by the agesof ardent
spirits, and which is less ruinous health and de-
strucve to lite '"Fhis practice,' says author,
has its origin in the Of Scotch Snuff for tooth poo-
der, by which fondness is acquired for it, and
hundreds among females get d,unk upon it every
day of their ves The effects he describes as ''paIe
of counenance, torpor of body, stupor of mind,
diseases Of the stomach, lungs, &C., Thus we see
now many methods the madness of poor deluded NOR
tails can, and do, invent to shorten their day of
probation, aud hurry themselves before the bar God
and to the retributions of eternity. For the purpose
of adding one more charm to a fashionable, butterfly
life, thousands endure pain, which would be compared
to the rack, ifinfcted by enemy; and thus either
shorten life or render it almost burden by the nnu-
merahe ills it carries along with it. Others, whose
pride keeps them from the use of ardent spirits will
destroy themselves by substitute of the disgust
ing kind, -yetoao Scotch Snaf!