The Middlebury Register

A Good Example.--An intelligent American lady who spent a year in some families of wealthy land holders in England with whom she was connected by marriage found, to her surprise that the ladies of those families often preferred a walk of several miles in warm woolen dresses and thick shoes, to calling their carriages and horses from the stables; and that jewelry, and even silk dresses, were reserved for wear in-doors; and at evening parties, but never worn out of doors and the first reason given in explanation of this was that they might set a good example to the poorer classes. In the expenditures of those families a much greater degree of prudence and economy was manifest in every respect than among any corresponding class here, excepting only in the number of servants, which is much larger among the English than in the United States. The furniture of their mansions, and even the carpets upon the floors, tho' of the most costly and substantial character, had yet been in use many years; most of the articles, indeed having been handed down from past generations, and the last thing thought of would have been to discard them for the mere fancy of some new and fashionable substitute