Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-08-23
Instantaneous.
From the Ph,iade,bhia A6um.


u AAiiiolh al fStJ t"fti ihtiL
sketch published in Ackerman's pretty
"Forget me No )" has very amusingly
detailed the continual transmIgrailons
of the female part of humanity 10 its
progress through childhood, %glrlhood,
and womanhood TO marriage and old
age But to u Of the more lordly sex,
she has denied a mutability which per
haps she has not SO much Observed
thlsis solely because she IS not one OF us.
and could scarcely have opportunities Of
remarking our changes as close as
those OF her own sex She observes,
there is very little change in men from
early boyhood, and they keep the same
faces however ugly. In otn instan
ces it may be so; but in general there
arc very few animals more unllke than
the boy to the man; but perhaps Mrs.
Milford, in this sweeping indistinclion,
only alluded to the weareI of small
frocks'--in that case there is an end to
the argument, but supposing the on.
trary (Which | do, otherwise an ex.
cellent article would be lost9 | will
proceed to detail the history of my
w trausmogrifcations.
/ cannot say that [ recollect myself.
bu. | perfectly well remember a por
trait that strongly resembied me paint
ed when l was Q years old for my
dear and tender mother, and valoed
accordingly. 1t representa- fat, rogue
ish, black eyed, curly headed urchin,
sitting on a bank with a lap full of
flowers which showed oh, magnif-
Gently from the white frock beneath
them. There was happiness in every
little feature; and altogether such a
child as mother might be proud Of
Three years / can recollect myself
the tat was passing away-i was
growing tall and slender, an impudent
self wilIed imp, the delight Of my
father, the torment of my sister, and
the curse OF the servants. NV god
father gave me "A guinea. and | gave it
60 a groom as q bribe to let me mount
his horse and ride him d few yards to
water. l had "a new beaver hat--I
bad no objections to sunbeams, and /
thought | could turn it 10 better account;
/ cut it into the shape OF a very tolera
bic boat and sent it down the stream,
that, innocent Of mischief, flowed qui
city through the grounds. Yet amid
all this wildness, there might have
been seen 'spaGkles ofa better n%ature;'
for / had much tenderness in my com
position, glimpses OF enthusiasm, and
some queer underlined notions Of the
beautiful; for instance, a gang Of gyp
sizes sometimes favored sour village"
by pitching their tents in the skirts;
and many a time have | slipped away
from the parental care of old John"
TO listen to the voice Of one dark-eyed
girl among the troop, who had fascin
ated my young heart, or / rather sup.
pose) my ear, by her singing. How
often have | wept over the melancholy
fate Of the lady, who, in the storm at
sea told her lover to
Take a white napkin and bind my head softly.
~ then throw me overheard, me and nv
baby,
and have frequently been ela,ed TO
heroism by The splendid portrait of
that hero who was m~artyrized at ~
burn; his consistency at bis trial won my
fervent admiration.
My wild spirits were really taken
captive by these vagabonds; the law.
less independence of their children
was an envy, they had no lessons TO
learn, no elder sister to keep them in
Greer, no elder brother to hump them
out ofltheir pocket money, hot their
whole existence was to DE paradisical.
/ believe il they had attempted 10 steal
me they would have found The business
half done to their hands.
At seven years old I was breeched
- had a cloth Jacket aud trowsers-
l was told that | was a man; and |
thought it was incumbent on me to BE-
grave and gentleman Ike. / paid
o attention 20 my lessons and the
young Iaaies, and it was on imperative
duty TO discover they were more anna