Litchfield enquirer., 1841-01-21

in the air, with their feet flying, and as per- fectly showing their garters and drawers as though no petticoat had been worn, was d sight altogether new to me. Their motions were as light as air and as quick as light ming; they balance themselves to astonish- nlent. No description can equal the reality. They are daily trained to it from early i1- fancy, at a royal academy, instituted for that purpose. You will very often see little creatures, not more than seven or eight years old. as undauntedIy performing their parts us the eldest among them. Shall speak truth and say that repeatedly seeing these dances Atts worn off that disgust, which at l first felt, and that see them now with pleas- ure! Yet, when consider the tendency of these things, the passions they must excRes and the known character, even to a proverb, which is attached to an opera girl, my ab- horFence is not lessSned,, and 1eitheT my reason nor indgmefit has accompanied my sensibility tn acquiring any degEee of cal- lousness. The arr of dancing is carried to the highest degree of perfection that 1t IS ca- pable of. At the opera, the house is neither so grand nor of SO beautiful architecture as the French theatre, but is more frequented by the beau monde, who had rathef be amus- ed than instructed. The scenery is moro various and more highly decorated, the dresses more costly and rich. And oh the music, vocal and Instrumental, it has soft, persuasive power and dying sound. Con- ceive highly decorated building filled with youth, beauty, grace, ease,. clad in all the most pleasing and various ornaments of dress which fancy can forfn'; these objects sing ing like hcherubs to the best tuned instru- nients, most skilfuiay handled, the softest. tenderest strains every attitude correspond ing with the music; full of the god or god dsce &.,hnrN fhoN fRSEa fnrAa1a vni. ces accompanied By an equal number of Adonises: Think you that this city can fait of becoming a Cythera, and this house a temple of Venus!
 When music sofens, ab&wher dancing fires,'
 it requires the immortal shield of the invin1 cible Minerva to screen youth from the ar- rows which assail them on every side.
 As soon as d giPl sets her foot upon the | floor pe the opera, she is accommodated by the church, and denied burial in holy ground. She conceiyes nothing worse can happen te her :; all restraint is thrown of. and she delivers kerself to the first who bids high enough fOr her. But let me turn from picture of which the outlines are but just sketched would willingly veil the rest, as it can only tend tot excite sentiments oS horror' ,.,I .,,,., ,strf s,... ..,,,r . , .,.ta+ .. A Family:-~The New. York Courier and Enquirer of Thursday, thus speaks of fam fly now resident iiN Groton, New London county. Connecticut. ,1,. ,,..,.....l.ay ;. ...
 Daniel Whipple; a young mnn of AZ years of age, had a family of 16 children. and No- ah Whipple, 40 years of age, had family of IA children. Daniel and Noah were cousins and had married sisters. In the visitation of prosiaencc,, Daniel died aud also Noah's wife, TShe widow had l6 children to pro- v;da fnr. md honest Noah O7sSH IA deAr little creatures. m
 To mothers and fathers whe. quail at the idea oT supporting small family or or lU children, look at this good mans history, and learn a lesson of valor, fortisude and resig- nation. Botf families were entirely destIL tute, dependant on the labor of their hands for suppost' L. Noah was stone mason, and daily went to his work with an honest heart and con- tented mind; and when he returned home at night, fourteen children fbcked around him at the door to receive 2 fathers love and caresses. L .i.ls,..y
 Mother they had none; and their father determined thafthey should have another to protect them during the day. when he was absent,and administer to their wants at night. zion of lis people, Ne did not study alone to make himself happy in the selection he was about to make he did not think alone of his children, but he thought of Daniels --and moreover he thought of Daniels wife, and became the father of Daniels children, and their mother the mother of hfs, making an united family of 32. two elder and 30 younger Wbipples. All you fathers and mothers who are .perplexed and dissatisfied in providing for a small family of 10 or F children. visit Connecticut and see small house filled to overfowiDg like beehive with contentnent ned pleasure impressed on the countenances ofalC; and you will return home instructed and contented.
 We wish Noah and Noah's wife. and all the two dozen and eight little WhiPples . merry happy New Year.