Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-08-06

lsni cutters and rastles, and buzses from
Every tree. The little warblers who have
Hong cheered the woodlands with theirduk
he. notes, are stunned by the discordans
Nacket Of these upstartinsrnders, and con.
|emplate, in consenPtuoas silence, tneir
Himself aud their noise.
n Having once started, the Gible.s were
determined that noihing shoulds,op them
b. their career, until they had ran their
Flu course, and arrived al the very .lp.soP
fsrYLE. Livery tailor, every shoemaker,
avery coachmaker, every mlllIner, every
every psPer.hanger, every
'Ip;iano-leacher, and every dancing master
in the city were enlisted 10 their service j;
and the willing wigh,s mos. ccurteoualy &C:
'swered their call. and felIto worksto build
up the fame of the Giblets as they had
done that Of many an aspiring family before
them, Ia little time the young ladies
could dance the walsz, .huoder Lodoiska,
murder French, kill tine, and commit Vi.
iolence on the face Of nature in landscape
10 watsr.colors, equal to the best lady 10
the land; apd the young gentlemen were
seen lounging at corners Of streets, and
driving tandem heard talking loud at the
theatre, and laughing in church. with as
much case aud grace and MoDEsTy as II
they had been gentlemen all the days OF
their lives.
And the Glble,s arrayed themselves 10
scarlet. and in Gne linen, aud seated the m.
selves 10 high places, but nobody netlced
them excep: to honor them with a little con.
tempt. The Gible,s made prodigous
splash ia their own opinion but nobody
ezsolIed them excep, the tailors and the
miRioefs who had been employed ia manu-
facuribg their paraphernalia. The Glib
lets thereupen being like Caleb Quotem,
determined to have ga place at the re-
.visw,' fell TO work E,ore aercely than ever
they gave dinners, and they gave balls,
thy hired cooks, taey hired hddiers, they
hired ccnfcc,ioners, and they would have
.kp, a newspaper in pay, had they not been
all bought up at tina. time for the election.
They invited the dancing men and the
dancing women, and the gormandiscrs and
tie epicures of the city, to come and make
merry at their expence and the dancing
nssu, and the dancing women, and The cpl
cures aud the gormaudizers, did cones
ard they did g:ake merry a. their expence;
and shey eat. and they drank, and they
sapered, and they danced, and .hey-laushA
ed.a: their entertainers.
Then conamenced the hurry ADD the bsS
tie, and the mighty nothiagness Of fashion.
sble,life; such rafting in coaches Such
aauasing in the Streets Such slammiug of
box doors at the theatre! Such tempest
OF hustle and unmeaning noise wherever
they appeared! The Gib!ets were seen
here and there and every where-ihey vi.
sited every body they knew, and every DO.
dy they did NOT know, aud there was no
getting along for the Gible,s. Their plan
a, length succeeded. BY dint Of dinners,
of feeding and frolieking the tewn, the
Gibles family worked themselves into no.
tice, and enjoyed the iusRable pleasure of
being forever pes,ersd by visitors, uho
carelnethiog abou, them, OF being squeez.
Ell. and smoshered, and parboiled a, night.
5iy balls, sad evening tea par,es-lhey
were allowed the privilege Of forgetting
the gerry few old friends they once possess.
ed-,hey turned their noses up in the wisd
at every thing that was not genteel, aud
their superb manners aud sublime aRec.
.sion, aslength left it nc longer matter of
doubt shas the GibIess were perfectly 10 the.
STYLE.
From the Paris Argxs, Nay 1e.