Litchfield enquirer., 1837-04-20

W with a clean check apron. looked around the rooms-What contrast A plain 6ut new ingrain carpet neat rush bottom chars a sofa, two small looking glasses in the piers under which was plain mahogany taole' and plated candlesticks on the mantle piece Every thing was neat, and directly m the opp posite extreme of the splendor ot thelr TOT mer habitation. The lady of the house mel me with cheerful smile and coroial snaNe of the hand. The last time hao seen ner she was alighting from her carriage SPleh- didIy dressed, at Stewards III DrOau"ay she now had on a neat calico dress, silk
 onron and a plain cap and she looked ex- cae,Iinylv interesting. Why how you stare, said she am not an altered wo- man z" {" Yes, but altered for the better.- How we'll you do look! ]" "DoI! Why yes, I think do. l take great eXercise-bustle about the house-rub furniture, as you once advised me to do-look after the kitchen am constantly employed; it must be so, for we cannot keep an army of servants, as we formerly did" "It will all work well, be sure of it: the storm will soon blow over, at least with you, because you show yourself to be skilful pilot; you take in sail in time, and will soon have your ship moored in smooth water" "Well, you do comfort me exceedingly, for have seen but few of my gala friends of late. Here comes my hus- band-now you must sit down and take cheerful family dinner with us." A very white but not very fine table cloth was spread; uncut tumblers-blue plates-buck handle knives and forks-japanned bread basket, &c. &c.,, and the little girl with a check apron waited on us. A beefsteak and hot potatoe-a couple of slices of fried halibut- an apple dumpling-good white bread and a tumbler of beer constituted our dinner.-- Don't look at me-" said the hostess, "t for really eat like late have had most unfashionable appetite; but then I rise with the sun, and the day passes so l quickly that night sets in before have done one half of my Work-now don't smile when say work, for although you know have
 not been used to it, yet really do work, and
 very hard" "Do you miss your horses and
 carriage-your rides up and down Broadway -vour visits to Stewart, Boyle, and Vena-
 bles 2" "No, not in the least; do miss my
 purse occasionally, to be frank with you, but then accommodate my means to my wants, and all is smooth. We cannot eat gold you know, it only can perform certain offices, which do not want. have enough of a rich wardrobe to last me for years, rather too many pocket hankerchiefs that cost me $50 piece, and as to the carriage and horses, if they brought their qualifications they were also source of trouble, vexation and expense, and am better without them. It IS thus derive consolation from misfortune, and am content and most happy" | All this is the result of practical good sense-of a determined mind, which scars above misfortune-of happy contented na- tuse. What a treasure such wife is to a naA in these times, and who, instead of in- fcreasing his gloom and despondency by frowns, upraidings and fretfulness, meets him with the smile of hope and cheerfulness- points out the road to reform, and leads him towards it by her own good and successful example-keeps up his energy and inspires him with new lite-animates him to future exertions-smooths the pillow of disappoint- ment, and cheers him with the assurance of better times.-N. Y. Star.
 THE BRIGHT SIDE OF HUMANITY.
 BY THE REV. o. DEWEY.
 There are good men every where. There are men who are good for goodness sake.- In obscurity, in retirement, scarcely know the world and never asking to be known, there are good men-in diversity, in poverty, amid temptations, amid all the seventies of earthly trials, there are good men, whose lives shed brightness upon the dark clouds that surround them. Be it true, if we must admit the sad truth, that many are estranged from infinite goodness; that many are cold ly selfish, and meanly sensual-cold and dead to every thing that is not wrapped up in their earthly interest, or more darkly wrap ped up in the veil of fleshly appetites:: Be- so; but thank God, that it is not all that we are obliged to believe. No; there are true hearts. amid the throng of the false and the faithless. There are warm and generous hearts, which the cold atmosphere of sur rounding selfshness never chills, and eyes unused to weep for personal sorrow, which often overflow with sympathy for the sorrow of others. Yes, there are good men, and true men, lthank him; bless them for what they are. God, from on high, doth bless them and he giveth his angels charge to keep them; and nowhere in the holy record are these words more precious or strong than those in which is written, that God Ioveth these righteous ones. Such men there are. Let not their precious virtues be distrusted- As surely and as evidently as some men have obeyed the calls of ambition and pleasure, so surely and so evidently have other men obeyed the voice ofconscience, and "chosen rather to suffer with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for season."
 Why, every meek man suffers in conflict keener far than the contest for honor and ap- plause. And there are such men, who, amid injury and insult, and misconstruction, and the pointed finger, and the scornful lip of pride, stand firm in their integrity and alle- glance to loftier principle, and still their throbbing hearts in prayer, and hush them to the gentle emotions of Kindness and piety.-I Such witnesses there are, even in this bad world, signs that redeeming work is going forward amid its mournful derelictions proofs that it is not world forsaken of Heav- Al r