Litchfield enquirer., 1836-03-17


 We care for quality, not quantity. Yor can pour out Ihe two glasses of water for yourself, we can sip one--of Burgundy. TASTE FOR READING.
 IfI were to pray for a taste W lich should stand by mc under every variety of cir- cumStaDceS, and be a source of happiness and cheerfuTness to me through life, and shield against all it's ills, however things might go amiSs and the world frown on me, 1t would be a taste for reading. speak of it., of course, only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightes, degree 'er"gating fom the higher office and sure and stronger panoply of religious princi- p'"s--but as taste, an instrument, and mode of pleasurabIe gratifcation. Give man thlS taste, and the means of gratifying il, and you canilardly fail of making him happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history: with the wisest, the wittiest, with the ten- derest, the bravest, and the purcst cIlarac- 'ers Who have adorned humanity. You make him denizen of all nations-a con- temporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
 1t is hardly possible hut the charac should take higher and better tone from the constant habit of associaling in thought with class of thinkers, to say the leas, of it, above the average of humanity. It is morally impossible but that the manners should take tinge of good breeding and civilization from having constantly before our eyes the way in which the best inform- cd have talked and conducted themselves in their intercourse with each other.- There is gentle. but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading, we'll direct- ed, over the whole tenor of a mans char- ac'er and conduct. which is not the Jess elfectnal because it is really the least thing he dreams of. It cannot be better sum- med up than in the words of a Latin poet, Emollit mores, nee shit sse leros.' It civilizes the conduct of men, and suffers them not to remain barbarous. D0vy.
 Very Nice.-The captain beckoned to us the other day across the streel-and there was such quizzical look on his face, that we knew he had something new in his 'gourd.' No sooner had we reached his side, than he threw hack bis head and for two minutes indulged in soundless laugh. Then his eye twinkled-he threw his rusty broad brim little back-Faid his finger on his nose-canght us by the button, and then began. Upon my word I've something new, first rate, and true too--it isn't often, now-a-days, that you can couple EAS sNT sulation. There's an old woman in the town of H. whose house caught fire lately; and when the neighbors ran up to help Ter, the old lady planted herself right before the door. and screamed. " No, no, them stairs has just been washed-I clean ed them with my own hands, and aint a gon to have you runnin up and down with your great clumsy feet; wont so, ar,er I've scrubbed them myself.' So there she stood aud away went the house, and in a little while the fire made prodigious love to it, and carried it pretty much all off, We'll, well,' said the old woman, l don't believe there's a house in Massachusetts could burn down cleaner than that. for I scrubbed it with my own hands-and that's some consolation !'-BOstOa Gaka1y. "Is this raai hogany" said a green horn, who was asio nsheG a the lsl,c ofan elegant mahogany table, in genilenans pailOr, ai the same ire taking out his j'rkne, and shaving " large slice of the edge "WaI swow 'iis ain! n?"
 WoMEN-FRENcm AND GERMAN.--It must be confessed (and make the con- iession with regret) that the German wo- men are not handsome; they want the beauty of the English women, the tour nure of the French, the strange indepen- dent look of the Roman women, and the charming gracefuI"ess of the Spaniards.-- 1 But then they surpass imneasurably all their continental neighbors in accomplish n,enls and requirements, and excel, not only in wattzing, but, owing to a tinge of blueism and sentiment, for which they arc distinguished, in conversation and Irritation also. In France, only married women Airt and though they converse pleasantly enough, they are generally too i'll inform- ed lo carry on conversation independent ofthe mere gossip ot,he day, or direct love- making; to say no,hing of their frequently inAic.ing upon you long descriptions of frills, levers, and founces. Mere gossip soon becomes tedious aIings are expul- sive subjects; and frils have little inter- est for US lords of the creation; and though love is certainly pleasant topic of dis course, it should form the object rather than the direct subject of conversation.-