Litchfield enquirer., 1849-10-18

The past summer! Can it be, it has
so soon fed that bounteous autumn is
at our door so gently and succeeding,
and yet SO beautifully replacing the BIOS
som Tor the fruit; the exhausting heat
for the mild tempered shade, the green
foliage for the many-hued gorgeous COL
oring, which all poets pronounce the love
lest vision of the year?
Let us review the departed summer a
moment. May we not say it has been a
season of anxiety to most people,-of
terror to some,--of awful warning to
others, and yet Of more than ordinary
thoughtfulness to all?
The pestilence, and the fear of this
scourge, has been the principal theme of
conversation BY steamboat or stage
coach, by railroad or pedestrian travell-
ers, all have found common sympathy
in relating Or hearing where its ravages
are last broken out, and the victims whom
it has seized for its prey. Most people,
too have felt kind Of bodily indisposi-
ton, predisposing them to acute diseases
which has made them unusually regard
full Of the laws of health. Having been
locker on as I rambled abroad, / have
been struck with the simplicity of living,
which even the epicure has maintained
who would not allow that fear of dis
case ever entered his brain.
Late in the season, a party of jolly fol-
lows arrived at a country hotel. 1t was
midday and they were hungry, and from
outward appearances careless of life, pro-
vided the outer man Jared sumptuous-
ly every day" The host sat before them
large dish Of green corn. huge piles Of
cucumbers, beans sparingly cooked, ber-
ny pies, and the usual varieties of fish,
flesh and fowl, to which good inn pre-
sents, and was prepared to see these
voracious travellers eat without fear or
stint but no a simple slice of meat and
potatoes completed their repast, and they
acquitted themselves like men. Almost
every landlord told me that vegetables,
fruits and pastry, were useless appendix
ges--rarely were they eaten, and never
called for.
Some may exclaim, how foolish such
abstinence i" l would rather add how
wise, thus to heed the teachings of Prov.
idence! And when fear of the destroy.
ing scourge has passed away, l would
still ask If it is not the part of wisdom
thus to maintain these primitive habits
We eat and drink too much; we thinl
too much of our appetitcs-and we vi
tate our tastes, until nature, worn on
with our rebellion, breaks down, and let
| disease invade our system. We lose on
vigor by thus everlasting the body, grow
premcturely old, and then wonder thi
generation is not as hardy as our father
were-forgetting that with their toll the,
seldom mixed Injuries, and that GU
generous living always foreshadows al
age Of decrepitude, bodily pain, and of
ten speedy termination. Let US thel
use the cholera preventives still living
temporarily and righteously. as the bes
"specific" for pleasant home here ant
a purer one hereafter. Then like tn.
gradations of the season, we shall al
most insensibly pass from one period Of
life to another, each stage rejecting new
beauties, and the sunset Of life being fal
more glorious and resplendant thar
either; inasmuch as its radiant glow il
the forerunner of an introduction to ou
rising anew to glory and immortality.
Olive Branch