Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-14
LIroHFIELD's GREAT CHARM.

LITCHPIELD's GREAT CHARM.
 petuIty A DeIIciou. Assurance
 Growing Ont Of This Pact-The
 Original Impression Remains Un-
 alterable. the New club House
 NoiwIthstandIng-T Spirit oT
 Prehistoric Club Must Have How
 ersd-PerIander Contemplate the
 New Improyements-An object Les
 son For the student or HeredttJ,
 Hut Litchheld Has Had a state Of
 Mind Recently.
 LITCHPIELD, Sept. l2, 1893. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 When the tired wandersr whom sad fate and direful destiny have kept away, once more returns to his own and only Litch- field, or to soms other fellows own and only Litchfsld, It's lovely attractions break upon him ss new creation. Though his mind has been kept stored with lively remembrsnces of the place and his imagination has not only been given full rein, but hss actually been spurred, to console exile; the reslity is SO far away be- yond recollection and imagining that memory and fancy are seen to have been but servants In preparing capacity for in- tensifying the enjoyment of the actual and the present.
 The one great charm of Litchfsld Is Its unchanging and powerful perpetuity. Changes may come, but only such changes ss may be quickly absorbed into the un- changing. Other details msy vary; but the spirit. the essence, remain the came. Changes which would revolutionizs other centers pass into the organic system and become part of it without jog, or hustle. The wsnderer Is delioiously comforted by the manifest assurance that Litchfield will always be Litch6eld, and that its dominant traits and characteristics have become SO endesred to time that times chief joy will be iu preserving them.
 He is delighted to perceive that North street still runs up North street; that South street still runs down South street, and that the two still hold their venerable social and intellectual equipoise. He sd- mires to behold that East and West streets have not varied percephbly from their | archaic directions and that if there be variations 1t is not in them but in the parsllsxes. He counts and recounts the houses and rejoices in their enduring num- Der and In their unchsngiug distances. If there be few more, the original and un. alterable impression remains the game. As he meets Litchf.ldsrs he is addressed by the same: How do-dot" containing exactly the same amount of genuine Liteh' field cordislity, and no more. Or be Is ST rested by that same Sphinx-like and msiss tic glance which ssya. as 1t has been saying for cons: 'I don't know you. Don't try to know me. You are not of us" If b, looks or drive, about be finds that Kit. Ton is ss round, as attractive, as benevolent and ss avuncular as ever; that Chestnu hill is ss high above the postofice az ever that the lake Is ss full of fish ss ever; tha Sol. Wheeler is as genial aud as efficient host as ever; that Gotham cheeses and girl are as fat, as ruddy and As seductive si ever; that the grAys and their owner ara ss we'll fed, ss sleek, ss fAst, and as naughty as ever; that the Shspaug and its rsilrosl are ss sinuons as ever; that all the neigh boring towns are as socially inferior as ever that the roads are as hilly as ever; that tn, air Is as inyIyorating as ever; that tn | Litchfeld work of art is ss reEplendent Q ever, and that the jail Ia as ugly and S
 badly placed ss ever.
 Turning from the jail into West street t
 zee the new club house he fears that come
 thing might meet his gaze which Is not ss
 Eentislly Litohfeld. He recalls the dis
 cuspiona which attended the birth of th
 club; the doubts of venerable Litchfelder
 as to the advissbility of permitting suc
 an institution in their midst, fearing it
 effects upon the morals and mannera of th
 young and the unregenerate. One vIeI
 removes apprehension The club seems s
 perfectly Litchheldisn in its pose, its srch itecture and its surroundings that tn ) spiri, of a prehistoric club mlst have koy cred over the site for centuries, aEaitiu transmigration. An astounding fact Abou this astounding town is that all the d. vises of modern civilization fit in so easIl and are accepted co readily that they seer to come laden with reminders of far ava civilization which must have fourishe . on the Shepsug before history indited Il first epic. No people could % aniabl } and 60 immediately accept waterworks 7 sewerage. monumental hre-eDgine houses ] clubs and works of marvellous srt-All ot | jects of Puri,snicsl detestation-had ther
 not been transmitted from fsr-a1sy su l cestry the germs of civilization equail 8 splendid, equally advanced. The studeu n l of heredity may well hx his hsblta. 6 D Litch6sld, for here s. hand are living an , speaking evidences of the truth of his tht 6 ory and of all other theories which oonneC ' the present with the past and which sho t that in the cycling of ages there Is COT @ stant recurrence to things to which th