The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1848-01-13

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| To say nothing, however, of its appearance
the smothering prickling sensation it give
mein hot wea her Is almost beyond endurance
but in order to keep peace in the family,
contlive somehow to stand under it. Thert
are not wanting those (and Mrs. Pandevacl
is of the number) who make some show o
resort to the Scriptures in defence of this hid
cous fashion, and appeal with an air of tri
umph to the practice, in this respect, of the
patriarchs, apostles and prophets. Never was
there a more unhappy application of Scrip
ture. The venerable worthless referred to, il
is true, wore their boards, but they wore them
whole and entire; no razor was suffered tc
carve out certain little plots and patches in
that fanciful manner so much in vogue at the
present day.
Old Father Abraham would be startled
out of his propriety could he arise and behold
those fantastic festoons all done in hair, which
give an expression of cOuntenancc so gro
tesquc and baboon-like to many men of this
generation. But to advance in this melan-
choly subject, now refer to the occasion, an
tecedent in point of time TO the incidents al
ready related, when Mrs. Pandevack COM
PEELED me to change my eyes. On account of
ncar-sightedness l had been obliged to wear
glasses from my boyhood. When in the
country pair with common iron frames an
swered the purpose, and when had lived a
year Or two in the city replgced them with
light, airy steel pair, so beautiful indeed, and
giving so slight pressure on the nose, that Il
ten years use of them created an attachment
to them on my part equal to that OF Il Dutch
farmer for his wite-almost as strong perhaps
as that he entertains for his wife. The time,
however, was fast approaching when these
faithful old servants, which had clarified my
vision for many years of my weary pilgrim
age, were to be discarded, and the fond fami-
liar friendship that had grown up between
them and the nasal appendage which had SO
long been their prop and support was to be
sundered forever, and their place ruthlessly
invaded and occupied by strangers of greater
glitter and show, but of far less companiona-
BILE and comfortable qualities. 1t was one
morning, just Il week after marriage, that my
bride observed, " DO YOU know, Mr.. Pande-
"a, that those eyes of yours, as you term your
specs, are great eyesorc to me"
"Ah!" replied |, its pity YOU did not
discover that Just two weeks ago, as YOU GER
tainly then had it in your power to have YOUR
eyes ef1ectualIy cured without danger Of re-
lapse"
ooh you always take what I say so Sc
riously; but in truth you are the only gentle
man know, who, wearing glasses at all, uses
any but gold trimmed ones"
To make long story short, the many sound
ings l had on the subject at length resulted
in my nose being straddled by pair of octa-
gon glasses, in heavy gold mouniings. The
metamorphose of my outward man was now
tol fro,,, hair, ,IoI.
Iy dressed individual, with loose trowsers, a
eyes looking through pair of unaSsuming
whiskered, mustachioed, white gloved, caned,
strapped at the end of pantaloons, and never
allowed to look at any thing or any body save
through a golden medium.
The last item in the catalogue of grievan-
ces to which | shall alude in the present ar
ticle is one of very grave and formidable i'm
port. Mrs. Pandevack forced me to change
my religion As may have been inferred,
am by birth and education a Congregation
aist This was the religion Of my fathers,
and the religion, in the faith of which, hoped
to live and at last to die Indeed Mrs Pan
but we had not been housekeeping twelve
llOIIu DClOIc SlC SOI IHc lICdh III uCT uSdu
that Episcopacy was the sort Of thing for an
aspiring family, and thereafter there was an
inccssant din kept up in my house concern.
inr the three orders of the ministry, exclusive
validity of alteration, and the apostolic sue
cession. | was myself surprised at the glib
ness and ilucncy with which Mrs Pandevack
ratified over these terms, and q stranger to
her previous history would have imagined
that she had spent her life in making herself
familiar with Episcopacy, and had been APP
pointed its peculiar eulogist and defender.
Paradoxical as it may seem, | embraced Epis-
copacy in order to get rid Of it, for as long as
| withheld my assent to Mrs P.'s propositions
was dosed and drugged to such degree
with them that they haunted me in my
dreams.
In the visions of the night heavy leadcn
mitre, pressing upon my brow, has walked me
to a realizing sense of having severe head
ache. Without in any degree desiring to re-
fleet upon the venerable and highly respccta-
bic denomination in question, of which ] am
now an unworthy member, ! must still confess
that my spouse and cut q figure both rich
and ridiculous in some few Of the initiatory
processes AS for myself, had been so ac-
customcd all my life to stand up during prayer
time, that number OF Sundays, when the
minister has repeated, "Lct us pray" in the
course of reading the liturgy, have sprung to
my legs in jiffey, and have only skunk again
to my seat, all covered with confusion, when
| perceived that the congregation generally
were disposng of their prayerful heads upon
the book-rests, My wife made several mis-
takes of an opposite character. In her zeal
to follow the letter of the rubric during the
prayers, she was apt, at those points where
directions are given to kneel, to drop upon
her marrow bones instanter, and the stir Gre
ated by my recalling her to sense of the cr-
ror has drawn upon us the eyes OF the occu-
pants of some fifty Of the adjacent pews.
On some occasions, not content with re-
peating the responses, have detected myself
in following the minister with an audible voice
in those parts of the service which are exclu-
oil bi-,, Sometimes tho