The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-08 00:00:00

THE MODEL DAUGHTER.

Constantly she comes down to breakfast before the tea-
things are taken away. She is always ready for dinner.
She curls her own hair, and can undress herself without
a servant. She is happy at home without going to a ball
every night. Sho has not a headache when her papa
asks her to sing. She " practises" only when he is out.
She does not have her letters addressed to the pastry-
cook's, or make a postman of the housemaid. She does
not read novels in bed. She dresses plainly for church,
and returns to luncheon without her head being cramfull
of bonnets. She is not perpetually embroidering myste-
rious braces, or knitting secret purses, or having a Tur-
kish slipper on hand for some anonymous foot in the
Guards. Her fingers are not too proud to mend a stock-
ing or make a pudding. She looks attentively after the
holes in her fathers gloves. She is a clever adopt in pre-
paring gruel, white wine whey, tapioca, chicken broth,
beef tea, and the thousand little household delicacies of a
sick room. She is a tender nurse, moving noiselessly
about, whispering words of comfort, and administering
medicine with an affection that robs it of half its bitter-
ness. She does not scream at a leech, or faint at the
sight of a blackbeetle. She does not spin poetry, nor
devour it in any great quantity. She does not invent
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fortitude without falling in love. She does not keep her
mother waiting an hour at an evening party for " just
another waltz." She never contracts a milliner's bill
unknown to her parents—" she would die sooner." She
never stitched a Red Turk in her life. She soars above
Berlin wool, and crying " one-two-three-one-two-three"
continually. She knows nothing of crotchets, or
" Woman's Mission." She studies housekeeping, is per-
fect in the common rules of arithmetic, and can tell pretty
nearly how many " long sixes" go to a pound. She
checks the weekly bills, and does not blush if seen in a
butcher's shop on a Saturday. She is not continually
fretting to go to Paris, or dying to see Jenny Lind, nor
does she care much about " that love Mario." She does
I not take long walks by herself and come home saying,
"she lost her way." She treats her father's guests with
equal civility, making no distinction between the gentle-
man and the tradesman. She is not fond of pulling all
the things over in a shop merely to buy " a packet of
pins." She can pass a Merchande de Mode's without
stopping. She never dresses in silks or satins the first
thing in the morning, nor is she looking eut of the win-
dow or admiring herself in the looking-glass all day
long. She makes the children's frocks and plays a little
at chess and backgammon, and takes a hand at whist
occasionally, " anything to please her dear father."
Her grog, too, elicits the warmest encomiums from the
old gentlemen who drop in. She does not send home
" lovely" jewellery for her father to look at. She does
not lace herself to death, nor take vinegar to make her-
self thin. She wears thick shoes in wet weather. She
has a terrible horror of coquetting. She is kind to the
servants and conceals their little faults from their " mas-
ter and missus." She never pouts if scolded, nor shuts
herself up in her room to cultivate " the sulks." She is
the pet of her " darling papa," and warms his slippers
regularly on a winter's night, and lights his candle be-
fore going up to bed. She is her mamma's "dear good
girl," as is sufficiently proved by her being intrusted with
all the keys of the housekeeping. There is a terrible
crying when she is married, and tor days after her ab-
sence nothing is heard in the house but regrets and loud
praises, and earnest prayers for the happiness of the
Model Daughter.—Punch.

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE,—The vessel British Sove-
reign, arrived from Port Adelaide, South Australia, has
brought 260 bags of wheat, the produce of the colony,
besides nearly 300 tons weight of copper and lead ore,
and a variety of other articles of general merchandise.
The vessel Winchester, from Launceston, Van Diemen's
Land, has brought the large quantity of 5,000 bushels of
wheat, and also upwards of 700 hams, which latter is a
novel article of supply from that distant colony; and the
vessel Elizabeth Buckham, likewise arrived from Laun-
ceston, Van Diemen's Land, has brought 808 bushels
and 241 packages of wheat, also of Australian produce.
These supplies from this important colony are of much
intereft.