Litchfield enquirer., 1837-08-17

to dig, and is ashamed to beg.
 We are obliged to avail of severe lan- guage in application to deep rooted mal- ady. We want words of power. We need energetic and stern applications. No coun- try ever verged moro rapidly towards ex- travagance and expense. In young re- public like ours, it is on.inous of any thing but good. Men ofthought, and virtue, and example, are called upon to look to this evil. Ye patrician families, that croak and complain. and forebode the downfall of the republic, here is the origin of your evils.- Instead of training your son to waste his time, as an idle young gentleman at large of intoxicating on your daughter, that the incessant tinkling of harpsicord, or scornful and lady-like toss of the head. or dexterity in waltzing, ara the chief re- quisites to make her way in life--if yeu can find no better employment for them, teach him tho use of the grabbing hoe, and her to make up garments for your servants.- Train your son and daughter to an employ ment. to frugality, to hold the high front, and to walk the fearless step of indepen-
 dence, and suficiency to themselves in any
 fortunes, and country, or any state of things.
 By arts like these the early Romans thrived.
 When your children have these possessions,
 you may go down to the grave in peace, as
 regards their temporal fortunes.-Flint.
 Zemper.-Of all personal and mental at- fractions, the two most permanent arc un- doubtedly smoothness of skin and temper sort ofvelvetness of body and mind. As they both especially depend upon the di- gestion, that is one of the strongest argu- ments for attending to its state. For once that the actions of human beings are guided by reason, ninety and nine times they are moro or less influenced by temper. It is an even temper only that allows reason her full dominion, and enables US to arrive ut any intended end by the nearest way. or at all. On the other hand. there is no obsta- cle to advancement or happiness so great as an undisciplined tempef-a temper sub ject to pique or uncertainty. Pique is at once the bitterest and most absurd enemy man can have. 1t will make him run counter to his dearest interest, and at the same timo render him completely regard less of the interests of all around him. 1t will make him blindly violate every prinei- pie of truth, honesty, and humanity. and defeat the most important business, or break up the happiese party. without e. morse, or seeming consciousness of doing what is wrong. It is a pity that'those who allow themselves to be subject to it, are not treated with great deal more severity than they usually are for in truth, they are greater pests to society than all the criminals who infest it, and. in my opinion, are much more blameworthy. I have re- marked, that persons much given to pique, are frequently particularly strict in the out ward observances of religion. They must have strange notions, or rather no notions at all of the spirit of Christianity and the doctrines they hear must fall upon the most ssoney places. Nay, have met with per- sons so insensible to propriety, as to avow without scruple, that they have left off at- tending place of worship for some sup- posed af1rons they have received there. The concluding sentence of Fenelon's Telemachus is so much in unison with my sentiments, and is so we'll expressed. that l will conclude with it.
 "Above all things, be on your guard against your temper. 1t is an enemy that will accompany you everywhere, to the last hour of your life. If you listen to it. it will frustrate your designs. It will make you lose the most important opportunities, and will inspire you with the inclinations and aversions of child, to the prej judice of your gravest interests. Temper causes the greatest affairs to be decided by the most paltry reasons; it obscures every tal- ent, paralyses every energy, and renders it's victims unequal, weak, vile, and insup- portable. ."-Gent. Magazine.
 Bc frank with the world. Frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do upon every occa- sion-and taking it for granted. you mean to do what is right. If friend ask fa- vor. you should grant it if it's reasonable iii, is not, tell him plainly why you cannot. You will wrong yourself and wrong him by equivocation of any kind. Never do a wrong thing to mako friend, or to keep one the man that requires you to do SO, is dearly purchased at such sacrifice. Deal kindly but firmly with all men; you will find it the best policy which wears best.-l Above all do not appear to others what you are not. you have any fault to find with any one, tell him, not others, of what you complain. There is n0 more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be ops thing to a mans face, and another thing to his back. If the very conscious ness of being capable of such duplicity does not degrade you in your own eyes, you must he lost to every noble feeling of your nature. know there is notion of the confidential character of private inter-