Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1830-12-30

came ashy pale. prayed inwardly that
; she might faint, so that the earlier stage of
the operation might be got over while she
was in state of insensibility. Ii was not
| the case however--her eyes continued riv-
eted in one long burning gaze Of fondness
on the beloved hand writing of her husband,
and she moved not a limb, nor uttered
! more than an occasional sigh, during the
whole of the protracted and painful opera
ton. When the last bandage had been
appliedshe whispered almost inafticulately,
Is it alLover, Doctor9' Yes, madam,
replied, and we are going 10 carry you
up to bed.'
No. MOI think / can walk--I will
try said she, and endeavored to rise but
on Sir 49, assuring her that the motion
might perhaps produce fatal consequences,
she desisted, and we carried her; sitting in
the chair, up to bed. The instant we had
laid her down; she swooned--and continu+
ed so long insensible, that Sir held d
looking-glass over her mouth and nostrils,
apprehensive that the vital energies had az
last sunk under the terrible struggle. She
recovered however; and. under the influ-
ence OF an opiate draught slept for several
nOurS.
Mrs. St --- recovered, though very
slowly; and attended her assiduously--
sometimes two or three times day, IT'LL
she could be removed to the seaside. I
shall not easily forget an observation she
made at the last visit paid her. Shewas
abiding one morning, distinctly and deli<
cately, to the personal Disagreement She
had suffered. /, of course, said all that was
soothing.
But, Doctor, my hmsband--' said
she. suddenly, while faint crimson mant-
led on her cheek--addimg falteringly, after
pause think ST .- will love me-
yet!
A good Wife.---We have letter from
correspondent who asks us for our opin-
ions as to the requisites of good wife,
This is delicate question, coming, as we
should judge by the hand writing, from d
female pen,---yet we will endeayor to re-
solve it. A good wife is one who regulates
her disposition according to the fortunes
of her husband---who, when he is depfess-
ed in spirits. exercises all those peculiar
properties for which women are distin-
guisI,ed. in endeavoring to tighten the bur-
den of this melancholy, and prove to him
that whatever may 60 wrong in the outs
door world, in her he may always expect
sympathy and support. "A good wife is
one who, at all times and upon all oeca-
sions, is willing to share the destiny Of her
husband provided that the husband has not
forfeited every claim to her respect and af-
fections by the brutality or unmaniiness Of
his conduct. She must bend over him. in
patient attention, in his hour of sickness
wipe the feverish drops from his brow. and
smooth the pillow Of the anguished mos
ments. She must repel the most remote
approaches to libel of his character
watch carefully over his worldly goods. and
preserve from waste and spendihriff expen-
diture all that he boards up whit patience
and toll. She must, as far as jim her lies,
meet him with kind feelings and OUT
stretched arms when he returns from his
daily vocation, be equally guarded Of her
person as if the sacred knot had not been
tied---trcat with becoming reserve the in
sidious familiarity Of the licentious and the
depraved-- ever act, in the COMPANY
Of others, with all the fondness Of wife,
but with the dignity of high-souled wo-
man. The preservation of the husbands
affections must be a matter ofpsramount inn
portance to the enlargement of his fortune.
She must study his disposition, and never
rritate its irritable parts---she must love
her children, and teach them so to conduct
themselves as to shed honor on their IA
theirs name. She must walk in such d
way before the world that calumny NAV
never reach her, and suspicion never be-
excited against her, for in tho preservation
of an unsulled name, she not only contri.
butes to the happiness, but to the honor Of
her husband. II her disposition is nature
| ally violent, its violence should all be turns
ed into the channel of affection, and, a
bove all things, she should never give way
to the influence Of momentary anger, nor
be warped in her opinion, as to the fidelity
and honor Of her husband, by the repre-
sensations of another. These are what we
should deem some of the qualities of good
wife.---Phi. Album.
A man recovered from sickness, asked
leave to eat little Cruel. How mach CRU
ell has the patient taken said the doctor
next day. Only tUelce quarts, was the re-
| ply.-Bost. Pal.
| G0-BETwEENS.
/ There is perhaps not More odiohs
| chararter in the world than that Of gO-be@