The ladies' garland. [volume], March 01, 1828, Page 151, Image 3

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servoir. The animals spend their strength to
dispatch cur business, resign their clothing to
replenish our wardrobe, and surrender their ve
ry lives to provide for our tables. In shot'.,
every element is a store house of conveniences,
every season brings us the choicest productions.
All nature is our caterer—and, which is a most
endearing recommendation of these favors, they
are all as lovely as they are useful. You olisert e
nothing mean or indecent. All is clad in beau
tv s fairest robe, and regulated by proportion’s
nicest price. The whole scene exhibits a fund
of pleasure to the imagination ; at the same
time it more than supplies all our wants. There
fore, thou art inexcusable, 0 man, whosoever
ihou art, that rebellest against thy Maker! He
surrounds thee with unnumbered benefits, and
follows thee with an effusion of the richest, no
blest gifts. He courts thy affections, he solicits
thy gratitude, by liberalities which are never
intermitted by a bounty which knows no limits.'’
VARIETY.
Family Relis'ion.—Let the pleasant and the
warm fire side be an emblem of the cheerful
and sincere affection which circulates from bo
som to bosom, through the whole family. It is
at the fire side the seeds of family peace and
piety, or of family discord and impiety, are
sown. Let nothin" be said in this sacred little
circle, that is not charitable, arid chaste, and pure
and holy. Let tlie Bible alw ays lie near at hand.
Let the firmly Bible be the common property r.f
the father and mother; but let every child who
is ol I enough to read, and to take care of a
book, have his or her own Bible. Let every
child take it in turn to read some portion of the
Bible every day in a sort of family wav, as a
kind of intermediate family service. All this
will be. easy, especially with the female part of
the family, who are usually in doors. Does the
history ot the world afford an example of such
a family tire side, around which there has hern
^brought up a drunkard, a swearer, a sabbath
breaker, or clued person? 1 believe not.
V cheerful temper, joined with innocence,
will make beauty attractive, knowledge deli >ht
fu!. and wit good-natured. It will lighten sick
in ss, povi rty, and afihetiun ; convert ignorance
int • m ami.ibb- simplicity, and render deformi
!y itself agreeable. (adiuso.v.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is
sought. Our bright blazes ol gladness are com
kindled by unexpected spaiks. The
flowers which seattei their odours from time to
time, in the paths of life, grow up without cul
fare trom seeds seattered by chance, [iohnso.v.
I.ove is the pleasant phrenzy of the tnind ;
And frantic men in their mad actions show
A happiness that none but madmen kmnv;
Cl " Ui. ni, where the reason’s bound;
l!ut Paradm is ir. the euchanttd ground.
Ti.vl is the. most uude tillable, yet paiaduxi
c;i! of tilings ; the past is gone, the present is not
come, anil tlie present becomes the past even I
"bile we attempt to define it. and like the Hash
of the lightning, at once exists and expires— I
1 ime is the measurer of all things, hut is itself
undisclosed lake spare, it is incomprohrnsi
hi'1, because it has no limits, and it would lie
still more so if it !i;u! It gives wings of light- j
tiing to pleasure, hut fact of lead to pain, and
lends expectation a curb, hut enjoyment a spur, i
It robs beauty of its charms, to bestow (hem on j
her picture, ami builds a monument to merit, i
hu! denies it a house Time, the cradle i f L .pe,
but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector
ul tools, but the sanitary instructor cl die wise,
bringing ail they dread, to the one, and all tliev I
desire to the other- hut like Cassandra, it
warns us with a voice that own the sagest dis
credit too long, and the silliest believe too life- j
\\ isdom walks before, opportunity with it, and j
repenta.ice behind it; be that hath made it Ins
friend, will have little, to fear from his enemies;
but he that has made it his enemy, will have lit
tie to hope from his friends.—[Collon.
ilow many ot life's most refined enjoyments j
are lost to the cold and indffierent, uho cannot I
appreciate the charms of nature or of art. They !
find no interest in the classic page, ’tis perused |
v'lth a cold philosophy of feeling, which renders }
them insensible to the finest flights of genius, j
or to the beauty and pathos of sentiment; and i
what to them is the booh of nature ? There's i
no melody in the songsters ot the grove —no j
music in the winds winch bend,the trees of an
autumn torc?t, no beauty in the clouds of eve,
or grandeur in the stars which twinkle in deep
blue around the full-oibed moon. And they
led not the touching effect of the plaintive air,
which comes from some sweet voice upon the
ear, when all is in unison with the enchanting
strain. The eye's most meaning glance, the
most expressive smile are alike unheeded, and
all the liner leelings of the sou! are unknown to
them. Oil! than, whatever may he (he sor
rows which to sensif.'ity are given, ft it be
remembered that “the best heart is known by
its capacity for loving.”
r.'if: Heel, by protecting; so far luckn arils, j
is a long lever fur the strong muscles winch I
form (he Call of the leg. and terminate in the !
teRoo A; hulls, to act h y. i hese muscles, hy
drawing at the heel, lift the body in standing on j
the toes, in walking, in dancing, t^c. In the j
negro loot the heel is so long as to he ugly in
Luiopean estimation ; and its great length ren
dering the effort of smaller muscles suflicient
fur the various purposes, the calf of the leg in
the negro is smaller in pi portion than in other
races of men. In a graceful human step, the
heel is always raised before the foot is lifted
fi >m the ground, as it the foot were pan ol a
wheel rolling forward, and the weight of the bo- •
'!v re 's for (lie time on the forepart of the font
anil toes 1 lie muscles forming tin- c;ilf of ll»e
leg lift !iip her!. ns just described, hy drawing
at the ter.d > Arhilli«, and produces a bending of
the font in a corresponding degree. But where
strong wooden shoes ,ire used, or any shoe so
still 111at >! wiji not yield arid allow this bending
of the hint, the heel in walking is not raised at
all until Mip whole loot rises wjih it, so that the.
muscles of the call are scarcely used, and, in
consequence, soon dwindle in size and almost
disappear
M inv of the English farm sen ants wear hrr.
vy. stiff shoes, and in London it surprises one to
see the drivers of country wagons, with fine ro
bust persons in the upper part, but with legs
which are fleshless spindles, ptoducing a gait
ruOst awkward and unmanly One regrets that,
for the sake nf a trilling sating, fair nature
should he thus deformed The wives and sis
ters of these men, and their brothers who arc
otherwise employed, are not thus misshapen —
An example of an opposite kind is seen in Paris
where their are no side pavements in the streets
and the ladies consequently walk almost con
stantly on tiptoe, the great action of thr muscles
of the calf has given a conformation of the leg
and foot, to match which the Parisian belles
proudly challenge all the world. They arc not
aware, probably, that it is a defect in their eitt
to which the peculiarity of their form i« part;v
ow ing
Simplicity (/Manner.■— If v.o look into
the manners ol (he most icnmi*
world, we discover human nature in hci
simplicity—nod the mere w e come down to
our own times, ma\ observe her hiding her
sell in artifices and refinements, polished
insensibly out of her original plainness, am!
ut length entirely lost under form and cere
mony. and (what we call) good breeding.
Read the accounts of men and women as
they are given us by the most ancient wri
ters, both sacred and profane, and vou would
think you were reading the history of ano
ther species. [iddisox.
Mmlcs/i/.—A just and reasonable modes
ty does not only recommend eloquence, but
•cts off every great talent which a man can
he possessed of. It heightens all the vir
tues which it accompanies : like the shades
in painting, it iui-.es and rounds everv fi
f'.uie, and makes 111 ‘ ■ colours more beautiful,
though not so ghu ing as they would he w ith
out it. It is not only an ornament, bur a
guard to virtue. If is a quick and delicate
finding in the sou!, w hich makes her shrink
from every tiling that has danger in it.
(jscKca vroir.
Intercepted Imvc Letter.— The following epis
tie addressed by a school boy to a young lady
at an adjoining seminary, was intercepted to
the master:
“ My dear Miss, I can wait no longefi
To refuse me is a sin;
Every day my love grows s-rontrer
Mtucy! wi;:t a state S’m hi1