The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-01-08

lie who has robust health cannot be said
TO enjoy his personal liberty. Your healthy
man has so many claims upon his attention
- profession to follow uP--or his estate to
manage-or his household 10 rcguste-or,
a. best, round Of visits and engagements
which do not permit him day to himself
But once enter INTO confirmed il.health,
and you are emancipaiod from the tiresomc
Obligations Of existence you become sep
ara'e entity, an independent monal no
longer conglomcraled with the other atoms
Of tho world.
What ousy, anxious, hlgetiy creature
Ned Worrcll was! That iron frame sup
ported all the business OF all society! Ev-
cry man Who wanted anything DONE asked
Ned Worreil to do it And do il Ned Wor-
rcll did You remember how fcolinsly he
was wont to sigh,-" Upon my lie I'm a
perfect slave" But now Ned Worrell has
snspped his chain; obstinate dyspepsia, and
a prolonged ner,ous debility, have delivered
him from the carks and cares Of leas privil-
eyed morial5 No, ariel under the bough
is more exempt from humanity thar Edward
Worrell. lie is enjcined to he kept in a
state Of perfect ropose, free from sgita;ion,
and hormc;ically shat ont from grief. His
wife pays lis bills, and he is only permitted
to see lis bankers accounts when tho bal.
anco in bis favor is more than usually cheer
ful. His oldest daughter, an intelligent
ycunG lady, reads hi. letters, sad only pre-
senis to him tlosa which arc calculated to
mako a pleasing impression Call now on
your old friend, on question Of lie and
JeA.h, to ask h.s advice, or request Ills ia
icrfcrcnce--you uay as well call en- King
Checps under she Great Pyramid. Tbs
Whole hoa,o-gaard Of tender females J'cck
tie wny.
"Mr Warrall Is net to DO disturbed Oh
any matter Of lu.;nsss 1hatever."
But my dear raa'asn, he is trustee to my
marriage settlement lis Signature is nec-
es'sry to e transfer OF ray vife's fortune
from .Aoso our5cd railway sharss. To-laor.
ron iaoy W.; be I.wA at zero. We shall
be rrined."
or. WorreN - i .al, asr'cuo way, and
can't he disturbed, sig." And The deer Is
shui in your fAcs'
1t was aler some sgoa occurrence that |
took into confederation certain ,or,i.ucu,
Of Pato's which own had til then cen.
side'el very iihuman ; FOR that philosopher
is far from being lho tender and sons:lise
gentleman generally believed in BY lovers
and young ladies'.
Pl-;o, in bis Republic" blames Herodi-
Gus Zone Of the teachers or that great doe
tor, Hippocraiei,) for showing to delicate sick
ly persons, the means whereby to prooae
their vale'udnary existence. as Hur0licul
himself (na,urGlly a very yckeiiy fsl'ov) had
conirivcd TO do. Plato accuses this rhyAi
cian Of having thereby inflicted malignant
and wanlon irjury on those poor persons
nay, not only an injury on ,hem, tu, on d,
society. For" argues this stern, broad
-houldesed hihenian, how can people b.
yiriuous who arc always thinking of shoil
own inli'miiis,?" Aud. therefore, he opires
THAI if sickly porson cannot Wholly recoYe.
health and become robust, tho sooner he de.
tho better for himself anl oihorsl III,
wretch, too, might te base enough 10 marry
and havo children 80 ailing - ;heir father
and 50 i'jnre, in psrpetaO tho whols human
race! Away with him
Bul, upon cool aud dispassionato rclee
ticn, ii seemed TO me, angry as was viii
Ned Worrcl, that Plato stretched the poil
little lco far and certainly, il the presen
state Of civilization, 80 eepns a condem
nation Of the sicl,ly would 80 far towards Dc
populsting Europe CELSIUS, for Instance
classes among the dolcs,s or sickly Tie great
or part of the Inhabitants Of towns, and near
II MI literary folks (omnesque Psne cupid lit
erarnm) And if We ihus made away viii
the dcnizens Of the towns, it would tc a.
tended with great many inconvcniences =
to shopping, &c, be decidedly injurious T.
house property, and might greatly affect tn
) slate Of the funds; while without li.erar
fo.ks, We should be very du.l in our health
country seals, deprived of newspapers, nov
els, and The Keepsake" Wherefore, o.
the whole. think Ilerodcus was right an
that rickly persons Should not only be per
mitIed but encouraged to live as long as the
} can.
That proposition granted, il in this a,teml
to show that your confirmed Naleiudinaria
is not SO utterly miserable Us he is held t
Le by those who throw physic 20 the dogs
and tha. in sons points he may be a dec
ded gamer by his physical suaerings--I hay
not wholly failed-then | say, with the il
g,nious author who d.vo.e c twenty years
a work "On the Note OF theNglt.ngale -
81 hare no, lived in vain !"
f Danvers ehoes
- =. 7 80,