Litchfield enquirer., 1834-01-23
FrOm an Eaei;sh paper.
CULTTvATIONs AND PET PAssIONi

CuuuralIStS, or arUOricuituTdlIStS, Out yet at most all men are cultiUatOrs. By this it is meant that men in general cultivate, or coax, or unduly appreciate and fondle, some particular features of their persons or else, perhaps, some integument connected with their persons, to such degree as to be rather conspicuous, while to every thing else they only give the ordinary degree ot attention. There are many features of hu- man nature which remain tO be detected and described and this is ORe-caltird7 tiOnS. So far as am aware, no one ever thought of pointing il out to mankind the subject of cultivations has hitherto remains ed totally ancultioatsft. So it shall be no longer.
 Hair, as the only part of a person which actually grows like avsgetable, is natural- ly large subject of cnliivat ton. The cav. alters long ago cultivated love locks, which they kept hanging down in graceful fasI- ion from their temples. These locks, or 'curls, are now changed for tufts or punches of hair. which the young men cultivate at the same place. and are ever shaking tip and tending, exactly as if it were a crop of hay instead of hair. Mark a modern beau, as he walks along the street, and you vii! ob- serve at one glance that the principal part. of the man-the heart-the sensorium---' the cynosure--the point from which all the rest evolves--tlle rout of the man, in short, is the tuft under the right rim of his hat.- All the rest of him is mere pendulum, vii brating from this axis. As he walks along, he hardly feels that any other part of him is in existence, except that. But he feels his tutt most intensely. Thought, feeling, every thing, lie concentrated in that head. body, and limbs, are all alike mere mem- bers devolved from it. If you were to cut of tue side bunch of modern beau in his sleep, he would, for the time, be utterly ru- ined. It would be like the polypus, de- prived ofevery thing but single leg and he would require several mouths of dor- nant existence--that is. retirement from the streets--to let the better part of him grow out again from the worse, which had remained behind. Let not the demure pu- ritan, however, think that the joke lies all against the gay cavalier or beau. There may be as much of the sin of cultivation in the stroked and glossy hair of the round head, or plain man, as in the love-locks and punches oftheir antipodes in sentiment. l have seen some men, who affected to be very unaffected, cultivate peak On the top and centre oftheir brows as sedulously, and with as much inward graduation on ac- count of it, as ever saw dandy cultivate a tuft or train side-curl, 1t must be un- derstood that there are ,cultivators ofa neg- alive character, as well as of positive, and he who is guiltless of cultivation in his heart is alone guiltess. Next to curIs stand whiskers. What field of cul,iva- ton have we there! The whisker is a bounty of nature, which man does not like to refuse taking advantage of, The thing presses upon I,im--it is there; and to put it altogether aside, except upon the demand of temporary fashion, is scarcely to be thought of Some men, however, are more able to resist the demon of whiskers than others. There are some men so prone enlarge and enlarge their field of cultiva- ton, by small and imperceptible degrees, till at length the whole chin falls prey, excepting perhaps small bit about the mouth, just enough to preserve the culti- vator within the pale ofthe christian church. Sometimes the whisker fend makes an in- sidious advance or sally up towards tire corners of the mouth and there--in those small creeks or promontories-doe the sin of cultivation invariably flourish more proud and rampant than any where clse.- The whisker of the cheek is broad, hon. est, candid, downright cultivation but that down about the corners of the mouth is sly and most impish one-a little pet sin, apl to beset its cultivator in far less resistible fashion than any other: and it may be said, that he who has given himself fairly up to this crime is almost beyond re- demption.
 There are some men who cultivate white hands, with long fair nails. For nothing else do they care very psychological is well, if only their hands be neat. There is even a ridiculous notion that elegant hands are tine most unequivocal test of what is called good birth. l can say, for my own part, that the finest hands ever saw belonged to woman who kept a butchers shop, So much for the nonsense about fine hands. Thes there is a set of people who cultivate ring on particular fnger -evidently regretting from their manner of managing it. that the South Sea fashion of.wearing such ornaments in the nose has not yet come into this country. Some men cultivate neat ebony canes with golden hooda Cr.srn rult;vota a li9r A Ene., .., <.