Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-06-16
From The YNsc York Constellation.
NEw Yong. April 18th. 1881

New YoRk, April l2th. 1881.
Der ,yGIg--Your Tim. in his last letter,
sa;d as how you wanted me TO write some-
thing about the women folks in New York
My acquaintance aint been nothing to speak
OF among EN-, but I've had leetle expert
ence that way as you shall hear. Your old
made aunt Louis, who is dead and gone used
to say, locks is no,h,n, behaviour is all and
guess as TO books the York gals aint got
much TO boast on. They are most on ein
pale and siclly looking critters, which comes
Of their keeping bad hours and tight lacn.---
They keep il up night after night IN the vim
ter time, with balls and parties, so that they
get completely tagged out and look as though
twas the day after washin.
A for dress, there is tellin how extravigant
they are--their bonnets are as big as a cheese
tub and the sleeves of their gowns are large
enaf for meat-bags. But the most comt,al
thing some Of them wear, is sort Of tow
setloens that peeps out under their gowns
and makes EN- look iisi like bantum hens -
You'd laugh most plagiiy to see EN- struttin
in The streets, but It's no latin Joke to their
fathers who have to foot their bills. hear q
great many men complain about their wives
too, because they are so extravigant in their
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lawyer to get him to SET his seal TO a bill
of divorce against his wife--the lawyer axed
hun the reason and he said he couldn't pay
Der bill no longer and If the civil authorities
didn't interfere he'd take lie benefit OF the
act or run off to the Canadas, The lawyer
laughed and told him there was no help for
bis case--that he took his wife for better or
for worse and must abide the consequences.
That's a facti' says the married man, ''but
It's all morse with my wife and see no chance
of her being any better!" and with taat be
went home, packed up bis buds and the next
morriu ieit his wife fast asleep and set of
for the Canadas
said they kept it up in the water here
with balls and parties, but YOU mustn't sup
pose they dance the good old fashioned coun
trydanees we used TO al Deacon Browns -
No such thngl when they have dance here,
Laey call it a maskerade or fancy ball and
they go dressed 10 as maay different ways as
you've seen soldiers at MALTA master--;hey
look for the world more like play actors and
pagactosesses than human beings, and as
they wear masks Ihey cut mp pretty curious
shines | tell vou. At one Of these ere fshci-
Sal balls a gal got in there who want jst so,
as some of the other gals thought and they
made mighty fus about it, you may depend
ont You see there is two sorts of folks in
this city-the quality folks and the folks of
no qualitv.--or as Zoe Jinkas calls it the
china folks and the CROKER; folks. Well
this ball was china hall and no crockery was
10 be admitted the china gals all set in up
oncrockeEy and said she pat out Crockery
SAID she wouldn't bulge a faot-ehipa said
she should, and so they had it. Which car
ried t1e polut IS more than | can tell. bat
guess Sally, if had sent you card to ball,
china or crockery, and any iess made about
it, they should pay hack the money before
Id start an inch for them
There is another kind of dancin all the rage
here called waltZin. | cannot describe IT ex-
actsy, but the short and long of it IS that
Teller and a gal stand up IN the middle OF The
room all alone = the music begins and they
hug each other round the vast and whlrl
round the room like a house fire--they keep
goin, I'LL bineby they get clean gone and cant
stand it 40 longer Then they set down and
smother couple goes over the exhibition, bat
what pleasure there is in such wbirligig
dance cant for the life OF me imagine.
asked taiiowy hooking gal after she had
done waiizin to tell me what there waltz she
liked 50 much 80, SIR said she roliing up
her eyes, ds so sentimental" ~ entimentail
marin, = says /, Il guess don't understand
Ycu!" ''Ihen stand up. Sn." says she, and
waltz with ne and you will feel itn "Net by
chorks, maiui," says I. ] don't like TO chew
up1n such scn;imentaliiy!" The gal took
our her quzzing glass and looked at me as
If she'd look me through, but I guess she
found her N itch ioI stared her u Of co',n-
tan4ace withrnt any qoizziog glass u spr eta
c!es neither. These are gals. sally tina make
fun about the Cape Cod gals dancip N taeir
stockings aud ieet, bot 10 MY notion there
Amt any comparison for dcceary between
that ana waEzia -doat VOC say 50 iool
Besides ws.tzln every real New York lady
must kaow how 10 play ona pianer. IhIsi-
a sort of machine made Of mahogany and i,
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