owned to me that your utterance was rapid, thick, and ungraceful. I can add nothing to what I have already said upon this subject; but I can and do repeat the absolute necessity of speaking distinctly and gracefully.[1] [Aug. 2, 1748.]
Diet.—He tells me that you are pretty fat for one
of your age; this you should attend to in a proper
way; for if, while very young, you should grow fat,
it would be troublesome, unwholesome, and ungraceful;
you should therefore, when you have time,
take very strong exercise, and in your diet avoid
fattening things. All malt liquors fatten, or at least
bloat; and I hope you do not deal much in them.
[Same date.]
Be Natural.—I have this moment received your
letter of the 4th, N. S., and have only time to tell
you, that I can by no means agree to your cutting
off your hair. I am very sure that your headaches
cannot proceed from thence. And as for the pimples
upon your head, they are only owing to the heat
of the season; and consequently will not last long.
But your own hair is, at your age, such an ornament,
and a wig, however well made, such a dis-*
- ↑ It is well, in the present state of society, to reflect upon the intimacy here shown between persons in trade and those in high life.
