The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-19

mindedness are inseparable from an abrupt Lenox hilltop. Where the view is being continually interrupted by succession of puny protuberances the soul has no chance to expand. No wonder the beholders grow shallow minded and shallow pated and find their thinking and their acting reduced to the false and petty exigencies of a debas<d social creed. If the dudes and the dudesses of Lenox could be camped on Chestnut ridge. or on any other Litchfield ridge, for fortnight, they might be awakened to an under standing and to an appreciation of the beatitudes of existence. Where they are, their fate Is as certain as 1t Is sad.
 It Is blessed sign of improving dimes that Lenox victims are becoming aware of the truth of the above pro- position and are stopping over at Litchheld on their way home. Most interesting to observe the daily, the hourly, improvement in the appearance and the speech of these poor deluded creatures. They come puffed up with vanity; they leave humbly confessing their faults, determined to do better, and enthusiastic ridgers.
 There are other facts about the ridges which need elucidation. In the vicinity of the village all the ridges run north and south. Of course Litchfield ridges are too we'll acquainted with the laws of beauty to run on mathe- nautical lines, but their main directions are polar. The result is that in the ravines separating the ridges currents of air are constantly streaming north and south; that is along the lines which, charged with electricity and magnetism, connect the magnetic poles of the earth. These air currents are, therefore, perpetually in close contact with electric currents, are intertwined with them, and are naturally becom- ing more and more surcharged with natural electricity; which, as every one knows, is far superior to artificial electricity for curative, purifying and elevating purposes. The air thus puri- fled and spiritualized naturally be- comes lighter and is in obedience to natures laws continually rising to and surrounding the tops of the ridges; while ordinary air rushes in from be- low to be in turn electrified and ether ialized. That this is the reason, the purely scientific reason, why Litch- the very best air in the wide world for breathing purposes must appeal to the common sense of every student of ad- vanced knowledge. The ridges, their direction, the ravines, the magnetic poles and the electric currents are all equally concerned and interested in the beneficial result. The air currents and the electric currents must intervibrate in order to produce the desired product. A product which affects not only the physical man but equally so the in- tellectual and the moral man. If the entrants cross at ugly and irregular angles, as they must necessarily do amid the short and crooked ravines of Lenox and Norfolk, for instance, the result will be, in nine cases out of ten, race of puny people with perplexed understandings, twisted apprehensions, ignorant of truth, despising simplicity The power of the electric currents, even when unaided by air currents, is well understood at Yale college. Stu dents are now sleeping on magnetic lines with their feet to the pole, hoping the electric currents will strike those parts of their person which are of the most use in modern education. The occasional scholars who still sleep with ftnivp t1orn1 1 10 fIo nol1 number that no general deductions can be drawn from their unimportant and antiquated habits. If Yale ath- letes could be laid out for a week apiece in Litchfield ravines, the result would be that there soon would be but on institution, Yale college!
 The fact of the effect of Litchfield upon his sense of truth, is beyond dis pute. The Litchfield Historical and Antiquarian society has accumulated instances without number which are open to the inspection of the public. No Litchfielder ever told a lie. Even George Washington, when he visited the village and reviewed the village militia from Professor Hoppin's back door unwittingly curbed his unfortu- nate cherry tree habit. He did not even swear at the militia, though the provocation must have been enormous.
 Clergymen who imagine they can nev- CT write another sermon, and whose congregations hope they never will, find within a week of Litchfleld ridge experience newer, clearer, more &C., tive and more diversified ideas of truth yelling up within them. They buy sermon paper unconsciously and be- gin to wag sermon pens automatically. They are invited to preach in the will lage church. The fame of that preach reaches the ears of the far-away con- gregation, by whom the rejuvenated dominic is received back in the au- tumn with open arms and increased salary.
 Members of the legal profession, be- logged in the intricacies of doubtful case, see through it like g. shot after filling their lungs with breeze from Chestnut hill. The politician, doubtful which way to jump, jumps straight if he takes his leap from Brush hill. Physicians, coming te the village, at once see the beauty, the force and the irresistibility of the laws of homeopa- thy, or vice versa. Misers give up being mlserly. True love speaks out without blushing. Good will fills the hearts of men, women and children. Even tho small boy is polite and affa- ble. ..
 So here's once more to old Mtchfleld!