Litchfield enquirer., 1831-09-15
No. 14.-WnoLE No. 274.

young persons who were respectful and
 polite at home, seized with most painful
 and unbecoming bashfulness, as soon as . guest entered. To avoid this evil, allow
 children to accompany you as often as pos
 sible, to make calls and social visits. Oc7 casional interviews with intelliRent and cultivated individuals have great influ-' ence on early character and manner, partic- ularly ifparents evidently place a high val ue upon acquaintanceS of that description. l have known the destiny of a whole fam; fly changed for the better. by the friendship of its members with person of superior advantages and correct principles.
 But it must be remembered that call.' or social visit may be nude almost as in- furious as party, if childtel are encourag- ed in showing off. or constantly habituated to hearing themselves talked about. Much as the failing has been observed and laugh- ed at, ii is still common for mothers to talk too much about their children. TAe wea- riness with which strangers listen to such domestic accounts is slight evil compared with the mischief done to children. by indu-. cling them to think themselves of SO mucE importance they should never De taught to consider themselves of any consequence, except at home, in the bosom of their own families.
 Nothing tends to foster the genuine pc likeness, which springs from good feeling, so much as scrupuIous attention to the aged. ..& .,
 It is considered sign of's good heart to love little children; I think spontaneous kindness for the aged is a, much better proof I have seen gentlemen, who, iti mixed companies, always bestowed the largest share of attention upon the old and neglected. Had l a beloved daughter, I would choose such man for her husband!
 The Aothsr's Book.
 Girting the Chest.-There is one pare of female dress, the dangers of which have been made known, but which still, fear. continues to be practised I mean giRtipg the chest. In what notions of beauty this practice took its origin, am unable to dis7 cover. The angular projections formed by tightly drawn cord, are in direct op- position to the models of Gr0cian or Ro- man beauty. In the flowing robes Of the. Juno, the Ves.a and Diana, every part is light and graceful. Nor have ! been able to discover, in the representation of tb9 Muses or tho Graees, any habilimsnt which would lead us to believe they wore stays or corsets. The taste of the other ss1 i. .ps- nifsrmlyy eRpssgsssaa sal sa 5.Sng lady of lf; teen, who has not imbibed disposition iot' the species of application. and scarcely { we'll dressed lady ofany age. whose chest is not confined in such asanncv as to im- pede the motions of respiration, and the free use of the muscles of the upper ex% tremities. It is true we are constantly told that they are uncomfortable without those appendages bus this only shows what great inconveniences we can by habI it become accustomed to. Ths Indian nations, who consider the Gat,sned fore-' head to be beauty, eon6se the heads ot their infants between two pieces of board corded together, and the child exists snder, this pressure, and may grow up. Xet there can be no doubt that disease: are generated by it that some lose .h:ir lives. and others their ihtellects. StiYt the iash-, ion continues from ,age to ago; for ! nave uow in my possession dattsnsd headsS which must have lived some hundred oi wears since, and others which have belong ed to individuals of the existing generation | Dr. J. c. Warrsn's Lecture. II