Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-06-03

.d,tist. | can assure your Iadyssip-your eyes p,
~ 10 ore IN Ills Direction, il you please |, form. a
picturesque object on Canvas, and gives a highly sul,a.
be support % the seated figure Of an old lady or geu,le.
nan, In . fine old somsrs a%par,men,, wi h every Thing
venerable 10 match.
Lady. Possibly ii cam. out Il the ark.
Artist. (smiins) Rally | know Of no Archives
N which IL. history il recorded.
Lady. Well; but don't stick any such Antiquities into
my picture, or | shall die Of premature old age bv The
ioree OF association. .uais poyons un peu Pa6aire:
Mercy on me! whit 10 that white spot YOU have put on
toe tin OF my nose! |, III, an icieie from Dnns's r. nple
or a stray pearl from my dress, or what. Surely I have
no 'peck OF the Kind.
Artist. Oh! that is merely the lixht csurh, bv The
extremity Of tho feature. and reflected from il.
Lady Well, IFS vastly odd. And that dark pitch
under the nOs.' I certainly have nothing like that.
Lady never saw suv .u e s1mmon sppea,anee;
Indeed, row and then Ia the ease of-of old peop Q who
take a good deal OF snoH.
Artist. 1 can assure your Ladyship, the efee, 10
question depends on no such erciting cause. Ills bu
the shadow east downward from the nose, whore ii IL.
sercep'' tho light. II is ono Of those efec,s which, in
nature, are too apt to escape notice.
Lady. Its escape from notice, here, IL impossible.
IL amounts 20 a partial eclipse.
Artist. (boping) An eclipse which only render.
more con'Pieuou, the bri,liancy Of that la'ger portion
which the light kindly reveals.
Lady. Fiaitering,-and therefore. I suppo,e, arii.t
like, or. at oil events, genIemen-lik,
Artist. Your head a little more turned. Madam.
I beg. ~
Lady. SO far as that object may be gained by flat
N"yb " you oo NOT negiecung the means. Now
LOT ano'her peep at the canvass; to see how you have
managed my toilette. Lud what a dress YOU have
put me on CONNIE me uoita denaturee! For a
,ohite dress, tits really the most yellow, and blue. and
black, that ever looked reproaches against an evil
oianehisseuse. Positively you must give it a bleach.
ing-you must shed more Of the snocs Of your PEN
Gil upon il.
CBo,cing ,cith an air Alas, Madam, eve
~ hing ulein IN your presence and thus the SHOWS
OF my pencil sink but into a deeper tint, and, to use
the words Of the poet, &" conclude in a moist relent.
ment."
Lady (~Smiling) Well, I protest. II men are hau,.
rsrs, painters arc men in the extreme. But poetry and
na'tsry apart, why should the plain white undergo all
Ibis conversionl
Artist. The ,lnt' which your Lady,hip ob,ervs,,
are partly the effects OF po'iiion in tho modif sation Of
objects OF colour.
Lady, Alb you arc an Ingenious. puzzler. Mr..
my hair CONNIE ii Jdut-wha's your philosophy for
.arfist. The fashion Of frizzing OFT the hair a, IN,
sides di'!ufbs the repose of The head.
Lazy kepo'e Oh, then Pan l., look a, il | were
going to SLEEP. / bate yeur dormousc people.
Artist. Your Lsdyship mistakes M. .imtIy
meant that, In locking a, the pisture, The eve yonld h.
disturbed by that ar'idsial arrangement o. the bair, and
nksn away from what 10 far moro important, the ma.
tive charms oil the countenause.
Lady. A most conciiialing explanation UNION m
~ofd. Bu, now. really, ono can't see the texture Of
me mar. 1t ioek, some how all Of a lump. Surely
they manage 1t differently in prints.
19rhst. Why yes. Madam. hey give wire instead
OF 'Ik-m'nulenesi instead Of su oolhnep-and thep,
me TACT 10, mat the most hnished picture must hnrJIv
be expected to challenge inspection with what il, in.
comparable among the objects Of nature. (.anothey
6otc.)
Lady. A melihuou.ly moving argument. But Ia :
what a red ear you have given ms on tha, sd ! IT'S
an dtTicutdr confession Of a really too blushing reluc.
nnes' On, and the losks'tcc! IT. is NJ. plain enough. |
CAM make out the plated hair In IL, nor she sisgrse
wolk round ii-and then, oh ciei what odd- loolins
ace round the skirt of The dr-u. IL seem, ali
fumpled, and doesn't show The pattern.
Artist. tru't | sau explain all to your La lv,bio,.
sans'aeuob. The reddish tinge Of The ear results
1rom ne transparency, the Iigh; being seen through II,
Tho lille details of the lockei, il more distioc,Iv wo,h.
ed, wouli make the rore msssy portion. Of The picture
sppear deficient IN finish: and the same remark supli.,
10 the iace.- Bes'dss ,piin'ings 10 general are espresso
" "a enia'ed Tor Inspection at a certain DISTANCE, i'm
ord'r that The effsst OF all the parts may DO blended into
ba'meny. And surely, Madam, to ssrutinize closely
me little asee,sories OF jswelry, end lace, and texture,
were incesd "to eoniider too euriously" in cases Iiks
HE present where the f,ce so mantle s,Iy claims nrs-
emlnence OF homage. (f lou tone
Lazy. 1t you varnish your pictures equally well
with your explanations, sir, they must arrive a, a oIc,,
highly In unison with polished society. UaugbsN
But pardon my hssauing you with one question more
Than lhe her?
: Artist. The effect Of he point of view 10 which il
seen. II projects towards The eye, instead Of from il,
am so appears fore-shortsned az we term H..
Lazy. Jaime la ra,son. But, after all. II wouId
need 'oms time 10 make a Painter of ma. You Pain
tiers appear TO sec every thing az if you looked thromgb
some Vastly. peculiar pair OF sp.c'aelss that would suit
nobody else's tighi but your own.
Hrhsf. Those ,'pee'a'les, MADAM, are merely pro.
Idltu Inl0 "a InTna m
perhaps, worn bright by use.
Lady. Well. | must own 1 like to hear YOU talk:
you give such odd reasons for things that enc know.
n1'hing about; and then you so happily discard all com.
pI'ment Laughing
.dFttst. nj dam, your prtsence, like Aletcmv. trans.
mn,e' 'he dross OF comPliment into the god offuib.
LAZY Clocks at her wa,sh } Ell, mon Dieg Til, 3
O'Clock. j cannot sit any more to day, Tor I've promis.
&c to take up Lady Go)ishuy in my way 10 Howell
and Jamse's: and I'm getting tired too.
.Hrftst. ~ ring, and order your Ladysbip's earriaee
things The Beil) One moro sitting will enaLle me
to complete the picture.
Ito" many avenues there are TO the grav! And val
80 mere fnlly is the human frame constructed. that The
'pfihgs Of lie requ:nily sustain the most yiole mt dis
case ana survive The most agoniZing toIture. At other
times, In one moment life becomes extinct, and The
secret arrow oil the Almighty, unt, 1t and unssen ,nn
me moment u Is on the wing, hurrIes the upsuspeci
ing victim to The tomb. OF The latter cIa.r. two tena,k.
bic instances have recently occurred, which IL is our
duty 10 no'ice. On thursday evening last, a person Of
The name OF Aaron Avery, a e.ident of ,ha sdisce. I
county 81 Johnston, arrived al Guion's II til In In s eitv
apparently ID perfect beaIib. Hs eaId for rupper
ate very heartily, and soon after retired TO his loom.
IN The morning be was found deed in bis bed He law
In a very natural position and there was no indica-
lion thai The slightest struggle bad preceded h s dissolu-
ton.
The other case did not occur wi hin our immediate
Viclbiiy, but the sutjsct OF it, the Rev. Mr.. P1iUos.
was extensively Known Throughout the State. This
ageu Miois!er, some days ago, was on his way TO a
neighboriDg Episcopal Church in Virginia. "a ;ib bs
wife, In a gig, and expired without, a s,,uggIs In.
deed the frs, iDimatiCn which bis hsIpma,e rsceivsd
oil ne sad event, was given 10 Der by a passing s,ran.
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