Litchfield enquirer., 1834-01-23
WINTER.

WINTER.
 Our virtues, like our complications, arc the effect of climate, and external circum stances. The English more domes tic race than the Italians, because the eli sun is good friend, but the stars are bet ter. Long nights are blessings. Wher is the social state the most perfectI in thu tribes that gather spontaneous fruits unde the line, or the races that struggle witl winter in the arctic circle? To the Lap. flanders, theft and violence are unknown and their annals are without wars. Theil pursuits are quiet, and their spirits gentle. They knew LinnRus, but, perhaps, never heard of Napoleon. Iceland, with with ering name, and worse climate, supports an honest, social, and very intelligent race. They have the never-failing resources of literature, in their long winter nights
 In climes beyond the solar road
 Where shaggy forms Der ice-bullt mountains roam,
 The muse hath broke the twilight gloom
 To cheer the shvering natives dull abode.''
 In the pleasant city, wherein we dwell and publish, the inhabitants are renowned for adapting the things needfnl to comfort, to the principles of good taste. Perhaps there is one exception-dress. What is uncomfortable can hardly be elegant. U- tility is the basis of beauty. To the hardy animals, that are covered with hair, nature gives warmer coat in winter than in sum- mer: to man she gives no covering of fur or wool, but she has granted reason, by which he devises means to supply all his wants! Man, however, has erected for himself different standard from reason, and has become follower of Fashion, Fashion, then, leads him, in winter cli- mate, like that of Greenland, to interpose, between his dauntiess heart and the ele- ments. covering of the finest linen; as white and as cold as the mantle of Mont Blanc. The cheek of beauty is too much chilled to smile under straw hat, in Jan- uary and satin shoes upon ice, though they may show neat foot, yet raise in the beholder less pleasure than pain. He sees consumption, like 3 beagle upon the traces of beauty. Death and disease cannot be cheated, though men and women may be deluded.-NeU- England Magazine,
 At camp meeting, a number of females continued standing on the benches, not. withstanding frequent hints from the minis ter to sit down. A reverend old gentle- man, noted for his dry good humor, arose and said think if the ladies standing on the benches knew that they have holes in their stockings, they would sit down. The address had the desired effect; there was an immediate sinking into seats. A young minister standing by him, and blushing to the temples, said, 70 brother, how could you say that2' Say that replied the old gentleman, it is fact; if they hadn'l holes in their stockings, I'd like to know how they would ge. them on9'
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 Family Religion we look up- on n family-when we contemplate it, as a company of human beings passing through a most solemn and perilous trial for hap pincss and heaven, when we observe that the most intimate of all relationship, exert- ing too the most powerful and direct of all moral influences, when we know that noth- ing but the true love of God, and of one another, can make that family happy, that this alone can make all duties easy, and al- leviate all trials and smooth all difficulties, and soften all harsh and angry thoughts; when we consider how soon it will pass a- way from the earth, away to it's everlasting destiny how soon and how certainly death shall come in the midst of all it's earthly joys and hopes, we ask, if nothing of all this shall De openly and fully recognized in its dwelling That dwelling itself is moul- dering gto dust, and a century or two hence the passing winds shall hear no sound of mirth or grief from all its desolate cham- bers. Shall no altars be set up then to the hopes that are immortal, and no voices be lifted to the regions of everlasting life Toils. and temptations, and cares, are in that dwelling; shall there be no, prayers, no holy communing with the sacred page, no united resort to the sources of relief, comfort and slrengthi Youth is there iak- ihg its deepest impressions. and it is going forth to struggle with the perils of life,-I the youth of the immortal is there, and it is takilgils eternal bias shall not religion be lifted ID before it's eyes visibly, as the great hopeof 2 happy life, and of . blessed eter- nityl