Litchfield enquirer., 1838-12-13

Men may cSnGescend fo sport with chiI- dr,.n without fear of contempt: and for those who like rn slselfer themselves under, authority, and cannon venture to be wise and happy their own way, we bavo plenty Of splendid examples. anciest and modern, living and dead to adduce, which may sanc- iIom love for those pigmy playthings..- Statesmen have roMptd with them, orators told them stories, cunqnerors submitted to their blows. judges, divines, and phiIoso.-. = pllers listened tO their pratlle and joined in lheir sporis. Ia 3
 Notwithstanding the great pains taken to spoil natures lovely works, there ist a principle of resisssnce, which allows of on- , ly partial success and numbers of sweet children exisr, tO delight and so6lhe, and divert us, when we are weary, or fetted by grown sp people, and to justify all that hss been said or written of the charms of childhood. Perhaps only women, their natural nurses and faithful pro,ectresses, can thoroughly apprecia,U the attractions nt the first few months of human existence.
 The recnn'bent position. the fragile limbs, the lethargetie tastes, and Ungratefnl indif- ference 10 noiices of very young infant, reMder it. uninteresting to most gentlemen, except ils father; end he is generally afraid to touch it for fear of breaking its neek.--u But even in this state, mothers, grandmo.h- CTS, and nurses assure you that strong indi- cations of sense and genius may be discerf- ed in the little enianal, and have known a clatter of surprise and joy excited through q whole family, aud matter afforded for. twenty long letters, and innUmerable ani- mated conversations. by some marvellous demonstrations of intellect in a creature in long clothes, who could not hold it's head straight. a9;ai @ Y F .,t is1ijStqafi
 But as soon as the body has acquitted ffrmness and liveliness: ss soon as it efb- pleys it's hands and eyes in constant expe- ditions of discovery, and crows and leaps from tue excess of animal contentment---is becomes an object of andetinable and pow erful interest to which all ahe sympathies of our nature attach us-an object ut once of curiosity, and tenderness, Interesting as it is in its helplessness and innocence.
 Who has Hot occasionally, when fondling an infant, felt oppressed by the weight of mystery which hangs over its fa,ee Psr- haps we would hold tn our arms, an angel, kept but for . few months from tho heaven in which it is 60 spend the rest of an immor- 'al existence: perhaps we see ihe germ of all ttat is hideous and hateful jn our nature. Thus looked and thus spor.ed. thus calmly slnmbercd and sweetly smiled, the mon sters of our raceiD their days of inGncy.-- Where ars the marks to distinguish a Moro from Trajan. au Abel from Cain 7---i But it Is nos tn this spirit that tt Is either wise or happy to contemplate any thing.- Better it is-when we behold the energy and animation of young children. ibeir warm affections, aheir ready, unsuspicious confidence, their wild, unwearied glee, their mirh SO easily excited, their love so easily won--to enjoy nnrcstrsined the plcasans- ness oflife's morning SO bright and joyous, and to teach us that hsture intended us to be happy, and usually gains her end till we are old enough to discover how we may de- feat it.-MOnsh!y Augustine. ~ Ea