Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1830-07-22

vice to young mothers, by grandmother"
we recommend their attentive perusal TO
every parent =
"The hair in children should be cut
short until they are eight or nine years old
as the cooler the head can be kept, the less
danger there is of many maladies pecul-
| lar to that part of the body, especially wa
ter in the brain. Besides, there is good
reason for believing, that children who
have a great quantity of hair, are those
most liable to eruptions, as scald head,
| &c. it is at least certain, that in them err
options are very difficult to remove.
Mothers whose vanity may be alarm
| ed, lest repeated cutting the hair for so
many years should make it coarse, may be
assured they have no cause for this appre-
hension, provided the hair be kept con-
stantly brushed. have never seen softer,
finer hair than on girls who have had it
kept short-like that Of acknowledgements
til they were in their tenth year."
A Cholenge.-When the question of
the emblems and devices of our national
! arms was before the old Congress, men,
Der from the South warmly opposed the
eagle, as a monarchial bird. The king of
birds could not be a suitable representa-
ton of a country whose institutions were
founded in hostility to kings. The late
( Judge Thacher then representative from
Massachusetts, in reply, proposed the
Goose, which he said was humble and re-
publican bird, and would in other respects
prove advantageous, inasmuch as the gos-
Inns would be convenient to put on the ten
cent pieces, &c. The laughter which fol-
lowed at the expense of the Southerner
was more than he could bear. He con-
strued this good humored irony into an in
suit and sent challenge. The bearer de-
livered it to Mr.. Thacher, who read and
returned it to him, observing, that he
should not acceptit? What, will you be
branded as a coward Yes, sir, if he
pleases always was a coward, and he
knew it, or he would never have challenged
me. The joke was too good to be resist
ed by the angry party. 1t occasioned in
finite mirth in the Congressional circles,
and the former cordial and gentlemanly
intercourse between the parties was soon
> restored in a manner entirely satisfactory
ExTRzcTs.
Man is belligerent by nature, and the
| thought of war summons up sensations anc
even faculties within him, that in common
course of life, would have been no more
discoverable than the bottom of the sea.
the moral earthquake must come to strip
tho bosom to our gaze.
never met female, from the aat-no-
sed and ebony-colored monster of the trop-
I les, to the snow.white and sublime divinity
of Greek isle, without a touch of ro-
nance: responsiveness could not conceal it,
age could not extinguish it, vicissitude
could not change it. I have found it in all
times and places; like spring of fresh
waters starting up even from the flint
cheering the cherries, softenng the insen-
sible, renovating the withered-a secret
whisper in the ear of every woman alive,
that to the last, passion might flutter its ro-
sy piniOns round her brow.
Physiognomy is "a true science. The
man Of profound thought, the man of active
ability, and above all the man of genius, has
his character stamped on his countenance
by nature; tho man of violent passions and
the voluptuary, have it stamped by habit.
But tho science has its limits; it has no
| stamp for mere cruelty.
Happiness. real ape1 of human
| felicity is pronounced I'D the last Ednburg
Review to be " the Inconsistencies of pos
sessing stomach"
A merchant not remarkably conversant
with geography, picked up newspaper
and sat down to read. He had not pro-
ceeded far before he came to a passage
stating that one of his vessels was in jeop-
ardy. Jeopardy Jeopardy ~ said the
astonished merchant, who had previously
heard that the vessel was lost, let me see,
that is somewhere in the Mediterranean
well Pm glad she's got into port, as |
thought it was all over with her 70
n cheap husbGnd.-A young servant girl
who had conducted herself very much to
the satisfaction. of her mistress, was pre-
scented by her with five pounds, to serve as
a marriage portion. Some time after, her
mistress desired to see her lover. He was
ugly and mis-shapen. "My good lass"
said the lady, "what comical husband
you have chosen ~ "Ah, madam" re-
piled the girl with much simplicity, what
can one expect to get for FIVE pounds"
I'm Expensive Toast.-The son of re-
spectacle farmer in the neighborhood of
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