Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1843-05-04

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without artificial aid.
I 1t is surprising that SO few Of our young
men take any interest in setting grape vines
about the house. II is not because they rel
ish not the fruit, for you will see them ira
versing the meadows and woods to filch
what does not belong to them and to make
sure of their prey they will pluck it before
! it is fit to eat. How much less labor would
it be to take home root or cutting and
place it where the grapes might hang until
they were fully ripe!
We have many fine native grapes in our
meadows and by the woodside, which are at
! least equal to the imported kinds. In addi.
ton to the common purple grape, many
they are permitted TO ripen on the vines, We
have several kinds of reddish grapes that
have not the foxy taste which some dislike
in the purple kinds. Then we have vari.
ETY. Of wild white grapes.
In our own garden we have two kinds Of
white, or rather cream-co lored grapes. from
vines that we procured from our own fields.
These ripen in the last Of August, month
sooner than the Isabella grape. And these.
together with the Isabella and the common
purple grape, give Us an abundance of grape
fruit during five or six weeks Of every season.
The grape is cultivated with less labor
slant bearer. 1t is less subject to depreda-
tons of worms and insects than most kinds
of fruit, and there is less trouble in having 10
in ones own garden, than in goinga mile to-
borrow a supply from neighbours meadow
Young men are informed that grapes
can be propagated from cuttings that is.
by burying q vine cut from growing ono.
The latter part of April is a good time TO bll-
ry the vine. One end of it must remain
above ground, and the other must DO kept
moist-PloughmaH A.
THE WlrE.-It needs not guilt to breaksa
husbands heart the absence of content, mutt.
terings ofspleen. the untidy dress and cheer.
less home, the forbidding scowl and deserted
hearth-these, and nameless neglecis, with.
out crime among them, have narrowed the
hearts core Of many a man, and planted
there, beyond the reach Of cure, the germ
of dark despair. Oh! may q woman, before
that sad sight arrives. dwell on the Secolfe0.
lions of her youth, and, cherishing the dear
idea of that time, awake and keep alive tho
promise she then 50 kindly gave and though
she may be the Injured, not The injuring
one /; the forgotten. not the forgeeful wife q
happy allusion to that hour ofpeace and love-
. kindly welcome to a comfortable homes
smile Of love to Danish hostile words, o kiss
Of peace to pardon all Tie past, !, and ne hss.
S Ss s4 IF 4T Xa in ad 3, her years ii
matchless bliss, loved. loving, and content.
the source Of comfort aud the spring Of Joy.
CAambers' London Journal.
FoR YOU'VE MEN AND WoMRN-We find
the following excellent article In The OF.
fering, edited by tho Factory Girls Of Low.
ell. II breathes the right spirit-eveFy moth.
er and daughter, father and son, should read
1t. tss
"From whence originated the idea that IL
was derogaaory 10 ladyss dignity, or blot
upon the female character, 20 labor and who
was the first to say. sneeringly. "Oh, she
works for a living1" Surely. such ideas and
expressions ought not to grow on republican
soil. The time has been, when ladies Of tho
first rank were accustomed to busy them
selves In domestic employment. Homer tells
US of princesses who used to draw water from
the springs, and wash with their own hands
the finest Of the linen Of their respective fame
lilies. The famous Lucretia used to spin In
the midst Of her attendants and the wife OF
Ulysses, after the seige Of Troy. employed
herself in weaving until her husband return.
ed to Ithaca. And in latter times, the wife Of
George III. Of England. has been represent.
ed as spending an evening in hemming peck.
ct handkerchiefs, while her daughter Mary
sat in the corner darning stockings. Few
Americans fortunes will support woman
who Is above the calls Of her family and
man of sense in choosing q companion 20
Jog with through all the uphills Of life, would
sooner choose one who had to work for liv.
ing, than one who thought il beneath her to
soil her pretty hands with manual labor. al.
though she possessed her thousands. To DO
able 70 earn ones living by laboring with
her own hands, should be reckoned among
female accomplishments and ] hope the
time is not far distant when mono Of my coun.
trywomen will be ashamed to have it known
that they are better versed in usefulness than
they are In mere accomplishments"
TOUCH OF SupL,ME.--l rise Mr.. President 20
argue the case of the rich man against the
poor man, and believe that before shall
have concluded you will allow that it admits
of no argument The rich man. Mr.. Presi.
dent, declines his emancipated form on ma.
hogany sofa, cut down, hewed out surveyed
and manufactured from the tail cedar Of Le.
banon, which grew upon the lofty and cloud
| cant SUBMITS OF the ever memorial mountain
of Jehosaphat. Then. Mr.. President, he lifts
I'D TO his cavaderous lips the golden china
4 cup, manufactured AS is well known, Mr.. Pre-
sident, in Chilli. Peru, and in other unknown
and uninhabited parts Of the universe. While
on the other hand, Mr.. President. the poor
man declines his expectation in cottage.
from which he HetireS to the shade Of soma
outrageous stream-there to contemplate
the ncomprehensibility Of the vast constell.
alton and other fixed and immoveable saitel.
lites that deyolve around the celestial axle