Litchfield enquirer., 1834-01-23

There is also to be detected occasionally, 1 small patch of cultivation in the shape of a curious watch-key or seal, which depends [ from part of the chain, and is evidently a | great pet. A not uncommon subject. off cultivation is gold watch.
 In our time we have known some men whose taste for cultivation descended SD, low as the ve:y foot: they took pleasure in aparticular set of the pantaloons at the bot tom, where they joined the shoe. Then there isa class who cultivate silk umbrel- las. 1t is prevalent idea among many men that a silk umbrella is an exceedingly gentret thing. They therefore have an ar- licle nf this kind, which they are always carrying tn neat careful manner, so as to show that it is silk They seem to feel as if they thought all right when they have their silk nnibrela in their hand: it is a kind of patent of responsibility. With a silk umbrella, they could meet the highest parsonage m>the land and not be abaslied. A silk umbrella, is indeed a thing of such vast effect, that they would be content to go in humble guise in every other respect, provided they only had this saving clause to protect them. Nay, it is not too much to suppose them entertaining this belief that five-and-twenty shillipgs pat forth on a good silk umbrella produces as much val- ue in dignity, as five pounds spent upon good broad cloth. How some men do ton- dle and cultivate silk umbrellas
 There is a species of cultivators who may in some cases, be very respectable. and entitled to our forbcarancc, but are in oth- CTS worthy of little ridicule. mean the health-seekess the men who go out at five in the morning to cultivate an appetite, and regularly chill every sharp-set evening par ty they attend, by sitting like Melancholy retired, ostentatiously insisting that they never take supper.' When heal.h-seek- CT takes a walk, hc~keeps his coat wide O. pen, his vest half open--seems, in short, to woo the conlact of the air.-and evidently regrets very much that he cannot enjoy 1t in the manner of bath. As he proceeds, he consumes air, as a steam-boat consumes coal; insomuch that, when he leaves the place, you would actually think the atmos- pherc has fatigued and exhausted look, as if the whole oxygen had been absorbed to supply his individual necessities, Wher- ever this man goes, the wind rises behind him, by reason of the vacuum which he has produced. He puffs, pants, fights, strives, struggles for health. When he returns from his morning walk, he first looks in the glass, to congratulate himself on the bloom which he has been cultvating in his cheek, and thereafter sits down to solace the appe- tie which he finds he has nursed into a kind of fury. At an ordinary time, he could spring from his bed at nine o'clock, and devour four cups of tea, with bread, ham, and eggs, beyond reckoning. But he thinks it necessary 10 walk four hours, for the purpose of enabling himself to take eight cups, and still more unconsciona- ble proportion of bread. ham, and eggs He may be compared, in some measure to the fat oxen which are sometimes shown a. bout as wonders, though apparently there is nothing less wonderful, the obvious nat ural means being taken. These oxen, if left to themselves in good park, would become very respectable oxen-a little en- bOn-point perhaps, but no more. But be- ing treated otherwise, they are rendered unnecessarily fat and uhwieldIy; and so it isw with the appetite ofthe health-cnltivator.
 Cultivations, it will thus be observed, is subject of vast extent, and of great in,- portance, not only to the L0nded interest, but to the other interests of the country.- I.shonld be glad to treat it at full length in a separate volume, for which, doubt not, ample materials might be found. But must content myself with giving it in the mean time only kind of topping, as the farmers say; and perhaps l may return to it next hdrvest.
 IO the Fair. Se1.-The following ad- veriisement appeared in a recent number of the Cornish Guardian ;-' Wanted, as a better half, lady of moderate fortune, say five or six hundred pounds, of small stat ure, genteel proportions, neat in her appar- el, and of modest reserved manners, of the age of thirty, but not particular to five years up or down blue eyes would be prefer red but not nice about the other features. provided the countenance is pleasing. She must not be aIilliner, as milliners are too much given to showy dress and Haunting demeanor nor must she be confectioDer, as confectioners are too apt to assume cap- tivating looks to attract young customers i; neither must she. have been accustomed to draper's shop. for the habit of extolling goods above their real value, though ve- " common practice, is very apt to bring on habit of exaggeration, and, ultimately, -E l. II h.nS