Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1831-05-30
PROM rue NEW YORK coEsrELLArlos.
Rew York, Apra I2ih, 1881.

YKla TUE NEW YORK coEsTELfArIoN.
New York, Aprd l2ih, 1881.
Dear Sally-Your Tim, in his last letter,
said rs bow you wanted me TO wri e something
about the women folks in New York. My ac-
anantance aint been nathio 10 speak oil among
en- but I've rad leetie experience that way
az veu shall hear Your old maid aunt Louisa,
who is dead aad gone used to say, looks is no.
thin, behaviour is al aud guess ss to looks
the York gals amt got much to boast on.
They are must EN- pale and sickly lookin
critters. which comes of their keepin bad hours
sad tight iacin. They keep il up night after
nigh, 10 the winter Inn. with balls aud parties.
SO tina. they ge completely Jagged ou, end hook
as though il was the day after washn.
As for dress, there is no teIling how extra
VACANT they are--their bonnets are "a big as
cheese-tub, aud the sleeves Of their gowns are
large enuf for meal bags. Bui the most CO.
mical thing some Of them wear, is sort of
trowserloons that peeps out under their gowns
and makes EN- look j'st like bantam hens.
You'd laugh most plagily to see EN- sirustin in
the streets but It's no latin JOKE to Their ia hers
who have to foot their bills. hear grea,
many men complain about their wives TOO, be,
cause they are 30 eAravagant in Their dress.
One man went the other day 10 alawyer here to
get him 10 SET his seal to a bill of divorce a.
gansi his wife--the lawyer axed him the reason
nod he said he couldn't pay her bills no Longer,
and if the civil auth oriiies didn't interfere, he'd
take the benefit of. the act or run of to the Ca.
nadss. The lawyer laughed and told bim
here no help Tor his case-that he took
Ills wife for better or worse and must abide
The consequences. " That's fact" says the
married man, I" bat lis all pOrSe with my W ife
aod see no chance of her being any better :
and with that he went home, aud pack ed up
his duds and the next mornin left his wife fast
asleep and set off Tor Canada.
SAID they kept ii up in the winter here with
balls and parties, hut you mustn't suppose they
dance the good old fashio ned country dance
we used 10 NJ Deacon Browns taver0. No
such taing when they have dance here, they
sail ii a maskcIadc OF a fancy bail, ana they
60 di essed IN many different ways ss you've
seen solge re- OF "a militia muster--they Look for
all tine world more like play actors and play
actresses ,nan human beings, and as they wear
masks they cut up pretty curions shines tell
you. Al one of these ere tsncitul balls a gal
got IN there no want jist So, as some OF The
| other gals thought, aud tn-y made u mighty
iuss about II, you may depend ont. You see
there is two sort vi folks ia this city --lhe
pualiy folks and the folks of no quality
or as Joe Gmkms calls il the china folks and
the croekery fLlKs. Well, this ball was china
| bail and 10 crockery was to be admtttd--the
| china gals all SIT TO upon crockery ~ said she
should be put OUT. Crockery said she wouldin
bulge foot--china said she should, aud so
they had it, WHICH side carried their point IS
more than | can tell, but guess, Sally, if
had sent you card To ball. china or crock
cry, and any fuss made about il, they
| should pay back the money before I'd start an
inch for them.
There is another kind of dancin oil the rage
here called walziu. cant describe il exact
ly, but the shot and ihe long Oft is iha,
feiier aud gal stand up in the middle OF the
room al alone the music begins and they hug
each other arO'nd the wa 4 and whiri TDana
the room like n house a ire--they keep goin,
and goin, I'LL binby They get clean gone and
cant stand II ~ longer.-Ihen they set down
and another couple goes over the same exhlbi-
tioa. bot what pleasure there is in such IA whrl-
Z < daoce / cant for the lie OF me 1inag inc. |
axed iallowy-looklpg gul just after she
done wal 20 ohCe 10 tell me what there WAS IN
waltz she liked % much. " ., sir,' said she
roII,n up her eyes, g lis SO sentimeatai3 2
Sentimental marm," saysI al guess don't
understand YOU I" Tnen stand up, Sir,
says she, "and walg with me aud you will
fcel it," " Not by Two charks, marm says
!, 4" don't like 10 chew upon such sentimental-
~ !" the gal took out her qnizzu glass nd
looked at late as il she'd look me through, but |
gu IS she found her match, for | stared her out
OF CO intenance without any quiEzn glass q,
spectaces neither. hese are the gals, Sally,
that make iun about the Cape Cod gals daut-
ing IN their stockins and teet, but 10 my notion
there amt any comparison for decency
between that aud wa zin--iunl you say SO,
too
Besides wsltzin, every renl New-York
lady must know how 10 play On PLACER. his
Is OF sott machine made OF mahogany and
aboht rs big AS me ti-Ghest inside ut It thrse
are wires So that by ,humpih "nh the hgnies
On some ttie piuGks ousuir IL makes a KIND OF
music, But TO my ears lie music OF spinnin
wheel rs vastly more agreeable, bui u wouli'nt
do 10 tell the gals here SO. l shouldn't care
about marr,ing one OF these pianeT gals, CAUSE
why all The pIaners IN the wo' Id wont learn a
woman how TO darn u coat or make pudding,
and what's he use OF vile that don't know how
10 do that
You no need 10 be afeard ofmy being caught
by New York gal. My notion is still Tor the
New Ensiand gals, let em aif as much az they
viii al their green bonneis and gDe-sipg--Dut
can tell EN- what il is, VIXEN they keich
Ehooh iimoertoes, they ketch a weexe asleep.
out won't say Tor fear my letter
should get mIscarr led, or be Opened ny some
pe'piDg jackson postmaster, 50 good by, and
believe me
Yours till Christmas,
EhOCH rlMBERTOES.
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