The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1842-07-07

For The Recorder.
Ma. HEARrr: or at The absurdilies Of
his sge of vagaries, what one can he
greater slan The silly fancy thai the pre-
sen. age is inferior IN wisdom and know
LEDGE and refinement. 70 The one immedi-
a.eiy prece ling! or. in other words, that
we are not " ser aud more learned lhan
our fathers and gTaudlalhers! Can any
man Of observation, entertain Tor mo-
mens supposilion 20 utterly unioundedl
Ifso, he certainly must belong % ihe rlass
Of ihose, who. :. having eyes. sec not"
Look Cor . momeHi--a single glance IS y
enough-look AZ the muluinde Of books
with which The press Is leeming, Com
pare them with the obsolete works Ct lhe
last age. Instead Of Noah WebsIer's ele-
menlary Spelling Book. we have . mag
ni6eenI quarlo American Lexicography
Of The English Language, with asynopsis
Of words differently pronounced by differ
ent orlhoepisls, by Noah Webster, l.. L.
ID. Look al that Mr. Editor, aad say
whether the latter be not an immeasna-
Bic Improvement upon The former. Look
al The :. Poor Richard OF q former age.
and compare il with the mammoth sheets
OF universal knowledge now daily and
weekly issuing from The newspaper press.
Our fathers were a dull plodding race Of
day-laborers, who voluntarily confined
themselves TO The limits Of their own
plantations, or chained themselves. Is ID
were, to- their benches and workshops,
scarcely leaving home except on Sundays
To 10 10 church, and even then more
coarsely clad than our servants Of the pre-
sent day. Their leisure hours and wet
days lhey spent in coming such obsolete
works as the Spectator, Guardian. RAM
bier, &c. Our mothers and grandmo-
Tiers, useful drndges, employed thcm-
selves in carding, spinning and wearing,
sewing. cooking and washing. The lime
which they spent IN the kitchen and laun-
dry, our Young ladies now devote 10 tho
toilet. The parlor, and The elegant novels
and periodical literature Of the day. Our
grandmothers could talk Of LILLE else than
domestic operations. The Bible and
| few other old works on morals and hislo-
~ constituted the whole of their reading.
Why sir, my little daughter, just in her
teens, knows more OF botany, and phIlo-
sophy, and orihngraphy and eiymology.
and chemistry and pncumaiics, optics,
acoustics and calliothenics, than her grand
mother ever dreamed Of, indeed great
deal more Of these and hundred other
things than was in The werld in her grand
mothers day. II would do you good,
Mr.. Editor, to hear The child talk over
these things, when she comes home from
the boarding school TO spend her yaea-
lions. Why sir, we can hardly under-
stand word she says: aud when we ask
her 70 explain the meaning Of some Of
these wonderful sciences invented in mo-
dern times, she railles il of like book.
II you could only see her old grandma
Their, As she sits at her lillle wheel spin
I ming Ilax, or siringing snaps. Smelling peas
IN her lap, or picking COTTON. according 10
the season for we are obliged 10 humaur
I these olt-l:me fnIks in their inveiPraic
| whims, and let them have any thing 10
keep them busy snl aaici.l ii ynu could
OILY see the old lady. say, actually stop
ping her work, her eyes Frightening and
dancing IN their sockets. and her mouth
gaping in admiration rs she listens 10 tie
chiid's wonderful display ofaequiiemen 5,
il would do your heart good. Why slr,
declare 10 you upon my word and ho-
. nor, that when lillle Forcelina was walt
/ zing across the room the other day. her
granny actually took her eyes of the BIZ
bic u thing she has moi been known 10
do for the last forty years) threw he, spec.
tacles up. and exclaimed, Dear mel!
dear me! How differently The children
walk now a days, from what they did
when was a girl. Well. am quite he-
hind the age, and if am not taken from
this world soon, really am afraid shall
see Euterpian gems, dulciloquenl jewels
and Italian airs take the place Of good old
SirInholl and Hopkins, and Scott aud
Byron and Bulwer usnrping The place Of
I The old family bible" But here comes
my lille Euphelia bringing half dozen
medals from school, dear LILLE Thing. lisp
ing ont Tor she cant talk plain YETI 9 one
Tor astronomy pa, one for philosophy. one
Tor mclaphysics-.sweat little tongue
and one lor"--I really cant understand
which Of the ologies, ad her poor old
grand mother is in such iii Of hystea-
cal admiration, that | am forced to lay
down my pen, leaving unsaid what most
wished to say.
!, Yours. &c.