Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1829-08-20
More Hints to Peonle of 1Toderate for

WI" w uO SoOuS SO IOng as tllelf own care
lessness is supplied by anothar's attention.
Make them depend on themselves. In all
probability there will be times when care
aud anxiety mast come upon them; at all
events 1t is wise to prepare them for such
contingencies. In this country we are too
apt to let our children romp and idle away
all the time they are out of school, till thew
are fourteen or fifteen; aud then how soon
the pitiful rivalry of fashion and vanity be-
gins +!
The fact is, children can be so educated
as to take pleasure in their duty. thew
can find enjoyment in usefulness; and is i
not we'll that they should find their happi-
ness in sources over which time and Cir
cumstances have no power!
" Begin early" is the great maxim for
every thing in education. A child six
years old can be made useful; and thew
should he taught to consider every day as
lost, in which they have failed to do some
little thing for the benefit of others. The
eager inquiries they make whether thew
have done any good, and the innocent and
gleeful pride they evnce when they re-
ceive assurance that they have, is sufficient
proof that the habits of usefulness are not
naturally felt as bondage.
tits wise to keep an exact account of all
you expend even to paper Of pins. This
answers two purposes. 1t makes you more
careful in spending money; and it enables
your husband to judge precisely whether
his family live within his income. No false
pride, or foolish ambition to appear as we'll
us others, should ever induce Il person to
live one cent beyond the income Of which
he is certain. fyou have two dollars !
day, let nothing but sickness induce you to !
spend more than nine shillings. If YOU
have one dollar, do not spend more than !
seventy-fve cents. lfyou have but half |
dollar day, DO satisfied to spend forty
cents. .s .s.
To associate with influential and genteel
people, with an appearance of equality.
unquestonably has its advantages; partic-
ularly where there are family Of sons and
daughters coming upon the theatre of life
but, like all other external advantages, il
has its proper price, and may be bought too
dearly. They who never reserve cent of
their income, with which TO meot an un.
fofeseen calamity, "pay too dear for their
whistles" whatever temporary advantages
they may derive from society.
Self-denial in proportion to the narrow
ness of your income, will eventually be
The happiest, and the most respectable
e ciaaffsaeetseE y VIII apa uy y9uys yauRsraa.
ton as your ambition 'covets and IL you
are not PROSPEROUS, it will be we'll for your
children uilit they"have not been educated
to higher hopcsthan they will ever realize.
.9 #N
Chane6s IN LSfc.-Our first era of'life is
under the influence of the primitive feel
ings we are pleased and we laugh; hurt.
and we weep; we vent our little passions
tho moment they are excited and SO much
of novelty have we to perceive that we
have little leisure to reflect. By-and-by,
fear teaches us to restrain our feelings
when displeased we seek to revenge the
displeasure, and:age punished: we find the
excess of our JOY, our sorrow. our anger,
alike considered criminal, and chidden into
restraint. From harshness we become &C.
ouainted with deceit the promise made
is not fulfilled, the threat not executed. the
fear falsely excited, and the hope wilfully
disappointed; we are surroundedb by sys-
tematized delusion, and we imbibe the con-
tacion. From being forced into conceal
inc the thoughts which we do conceive. we
begin TO affect those which we do not; SC
eagerly do we learn the two main tasks o.
life, to suppress and to feign, that our mem
DRY will not carry Us beyond that period o.
artifice to state of nature when the twin
principles of veracity and belief were sc
strong as to lead the philosophers Of mod
ern school into the error Of terming them
innate.-[Disowned.
An extraordinary story is told by Capt
Wallace of a lover and his mistress who
were saved in singular manner from the
laws of a shark. A transport, with part Of
a regiment on board was sailing with gen.
tie breeze along the coast Of Ceylon, ont
of the officers was leaning over the pool
railing, conversing with young lady VIII
had inspired him with the tender passion
the fair one was in her cabin, and in tn
act of handing paper to her lover, whel
overreaching herself, she fell into the sea
and supported by her clothes, drifie'
astern the officer lost no time in plungin
after her, and swimming towards her, up
held her by one arm. The sails wer
quickly backed, the ship lay to. and pre-
..;oos ,Uore making to lower q boa