The herald., 1837-01-24

! ly and unsuspicously published =
CURIOUS PROCEEDINGS.
Alta large and meeting Boarden OF fashion
able Boarding school in the lower part Of the ity on Tuesday
That those who dee gether liver not tho
Rsoirs That bread does not improve after the tsth day
T. MaS %sn Tss ns ssS. sS.' TO Be 'o"sn0' butter
When %s AZ spsS a9s stier Ss siay' 'sy.r
Is poked in way
We would not live al avs unfetteredby Jim,
Ees bs ~noS, no,e anf i msged with fears
And a cup d lad coffee with hungry tears.
whsi who wond live always upon Uer fried,
Upon iiUer cold upon iirer hot
Upon hrer fried in a queer earthen pon
Re:olod That of the above resolutions be sent 70 the
Leuisa -, Secretary.
| In single day the whole town was in notion
Every one read, laughed and approved at is ca
pital hit''-"this Boarding School system deserves
it'-s'these fashionable Establishments fashionable
humbugs"-" the girl who wrote that deserves KING
for a husband"-were some of the expressions that
we heard used on the pretty little jeu desprit.
This was not all. One day very respectable
looking gentleman came into Office in high
state of excitement
81 demand" said he "the author of the article
on Boarding Schools in your paper?"
"You demands! says l. 81 do not know what
you mean, but demur to any demand of that kind.
1 deny your right"
81 have a right" said the gentlemany maniac.
| "You have no right" said l. and least of all
when you ask it in that manner
"My daughter" said he I" is charged with writing
it. and is to be expelled from her Boarding School in
consequence"
l smiled al this. / could hardly believe it. "You
may set yourself easy that scorethe writer is not
your daughter"
81 shall have you indicted" said he, going out
with lew bow.
could scarcely help laughing at this idea, till la
dy called upon me to say that had injured her
school, as il was said that silver" the only eata-
BILE on her table.
"What was published, madam, not directed
against any particular Boarding School, but against
the whole system"
This seemed TO comfort her little, and she went
away contented
| But we cannot enumerate the many carsus and
laughab.e scenes which this singular and original
squib has produced. II reminds US Of one Of the
Boarding House articles published few weeks ago,
which was read al the table of every boarding house
in town, in the midst Of prodigous laughter and
one half of the boarding house ladies took it to them
selves Perhaps there is not a fashionable or un-
fashionable Boarding School that has not been thrown
into equal CONSERVATION at the idea of liver"
Ifdietng the sweet young ladies on such delicacies
were the only thing which can be found fault with at
these establishments, they might be permitted to sleep
out their present cxistence-but boarding schooses-
pecially the fashionable boarding schools-are de-
soyng the usefulness the taste the excellence of the
rising female generation. There is not fashionabl;
boarding school, in this any other large city, that
ought not to be shut up and sealed up, establish
ments more calculated for mischief than for
cellence. Instead Of young ladies' just in the bud OF
beauty, genius TASTE and WORTH being prepared TO
become afIectionate wives good mothers, desirable
companions discreet friends, they made into
fine adies--manufactured into vain iirts-laced and
braced into mere pieces of vanity without particle Of
sense sagacity or good feeling left in their dear little
hearts. If they have any good natural endowments
these qualities are corrupted and transmitted into af
ccation and folly by the bad taste and singular per-
yersity of fashionable teachers. "These establish
ments," said John Randolph Of Roanoke, speaking
once in the House Of Representatives in our hearing
=" these establishments" said he, pointing with his
long skinny finger, and looking up to the gallery,
which was full Of beauty and fashion-"are called
Boarding Schools for finishing the education ofyoung
ladies'; and they truly so-for every young lady
that enters their four walls, leaves il ill she is
finished for all useful purposes in this world"
On the present occasion, we have heard that very
superior and very beautiful young lady has been ex-
PEELED from one O these fashionable in
our city, in consequence of the suspicion that she was
the authsrcss Of the jeu esprit republshed today
We should like to know what establishment this was
we should like TO know its history and its preten-
sisns-we should like TO know the Intellectual moral
and philosophical character of its precepors and pre-
cepuesses, both French and English. Iflt be fact
that such expulsion has taken place. consequence
Of the innocent squib in this paper will venture to
say that the young lady thus treated is one of the
most talented and sensible that ever was sent out
from that school, A young girl capable Of writing
and conceiving these few foregoing lines-nay, capa-
BILE Of being suspected Of such thng-gives evidence
at once Of her superiority of intellect to those wall
flowers sticking up around her. We would walk
thousand miles to see such charming creature, and
cry "tis all banen" ill we opened eyes on her
| levcly and intellectual csuntensnce.
But has any young lady been expelled from a
Boarding School, because Of ssspicions that she may
be the auhoress Of these verses We do not believe
tive cnnnot believe il. We cannot imagine that
any OF these solemn, empty ridiculous prctenders in
the fashionable fashioning Of the youthful female
mind x.oold an exnosc their own charactcra and III.