Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1841-11-18

courteously requested Il to stand asid,
for further investigation.
Il would be but a tedious repetition
TO record the claims of all the applicant,
who came forward in succession. Suffic,
j, TO say, there was striking similarit,
in all. Each one had made sacrifices a
the Altar Of Fashion, which fashion coult
never repay, and strayed out of that do
nestle circle where alone woman car
find happiness or administer to the hap
piness Of others. Each and all had gath
cred but the bitter fruit of DISAPPOINTMENT
the apple Of Lake Of Sodom, fair with
out--but within, nothing but dust and
ashes.
The Goddess, who soon becomes tired
u one object or pursuit, and lives on the
lean diet Of perpetual variety, long before
n hundreth part Of her votaries had put
forward their pretensions. was observed
to exhibit SYMPTOMS Of ennui. She yawn-
ed necessarily, pulled bunch Of artificial
flowers all to pieces, and could only keep
herself awake by fixing her eyes on the
great looking glass. The crowd of dew
gsotees, who always initiate their Queen,
were straightway infected with similar
symptoms Of langour. A fit Of yawning
seized them all, and dead silence, as
natural assprofound, reigned throughout
tho vast illimtabc crowd. The lit tie
Indian maid became tired 10 death, and
selling her bow and arrows sought her M.
tive wilds again; while the damsel of
Polynesia launched her light canoe and
padded away out of sight over the bosom
Of the melancholy main.
On a sudden the calm which reigned
oil around was disturbed by the approach
of some one chattering with vast volubii-
". The Goddess started, and Withdrawing
her eyes from the looking glass, bent them
with smiling eagerness on some one APP
preaching. The crowd separated, as if
with one accord, at the waving of her
hand,to make room for little French
milliner, who came forward putting and
blowing, and vociierating about long
voyage, sea sickness, and what not, fol.
lowed by a train of apprentices, each
bearing band-box as large as balloon.
The little woman announced that she was
Just from Paris with the newest fashions.
She directed her attendants to open the
boxes and display their contents, that the
Goddess might make her choice; and
straightway there was such mighty rush
of the crowd that garments we're torn, and
divers devotees almost demolished by the
elbows of certain travelled ladys, who,
having seen the world, did not mind tri
fes. Even the Goddess herself seemed
awakened to new life; her eyes sparkled,
hasGhAeks would have glowed still more
intensity, had their colour been natural I
and she so far forgot her divinity as to
descend from her throne to try on beau
iful lace cape, ornamented with ribands of
various colours.
The devotees for while, forgot the OBJ q
lect Of their coming, and were now all ca q
gerly employed in rummaging amongst
the trumpery ofMadameFriscassee dePou- ,
let, just arrived from Paris, when they
were reused by the sound Of the trumpet Il
which had called them together. The n
Goddess, who had been contemplating her q
self in the great 'ooking-glass, found the I
lace cape SO inimitably becoming that a
her gratitude overlooked. 1t made her j
ook twenty years younger, and comman- !
ling silence, she caused proclamation to g
De made, that Madame Fricassee de Pou-
ct, Of Rue Petit Pot de Creme, Paris, i
should thenceforward be recognized by a
her votaries, in all parts of the world, as (
The legitimate representative Of the Coo I
Jess Of Fashion, until the arrival of an c
other little French mIlliper from Paris
with fresh cargo.
And thus it came to pass, that ever
since that period, the devotions of all the
at the Altar Of Fashion have
been offered up at the ,milliner's shops of I
Madame Fricassee de Poulet, Rue Petit
Pot de Creme, and her successors in the
office of Vice Queen. The disappointed {
votares consoled themselves with Mad {
DANES trumpery, all save the travelled
lady, who declared, with a toss of her I
head, that the whole of it was out OF fash I
ion before she left Paris, and consoled ,
herself in the disappointment of her am
ambition by ever after pampering her
vanity. ,