Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-11-21

fry and they would have been so lonesome,
TOO, if she had not come. and she was such
good company. After mutual interchange of
such compliments they adjourned to the front
room, where The butered toast was on the Ia
bic and the tea was undergoing the process of
abstraction. But before we place them behind
their favorite beverage, let us lake look al
Miss Jones, her conjoint hostesses, and their
front room. Miss Jones was-bu, woman's
age is not to be spoken of; she had cock-up
nose, something like the lower half of the let
ter S, a wry sort of face, and tall. atienuated
form, that was uniform in lis wan, of fullness
from the ankles 10 the ears The Misses Jen-
kins were pair of Samese twins, 50 far as
mutual resemblance, thoughts and tastes went
They were low of stature, with faces that plain
y bespoke an erascible temper. The room IN
which they had assembled might be, and we
believe was. some fifteen feet by twelve IN dl-
ame,er. The walls were ornamenied with col
ored plates of the fashions, cut from The month
Iy magazines. A sofa; from which The curled
hair was pro,ruding, had lis place opposite the
CRATE; rickeny arm chair undula'ed near the
fender, small table, which contained the tea
eouipage, stood near The centre, and some hall
dozen ordinary chairs--verv ordinary ones
filled up the intermediate space round The room
Miss Jenkins, The elder, did the honors of the
table. Before pouring ont The tea, she INDUCED
in dissertation on the injurious effects which
strong narcotics have on the nervous system, and
TO prove that she praciised what she preached
tina, her practice was in consonance with her
theory--she proceeded 10 pour out The berer-
age, which looked as il s,reamed from the pot,
and as it proved to be, most neutral concoc-
lion, which, if analyzed, would be found 10 con-
tain one par, Of lea and ninety nine parts OF boil
ing water. The toast as but lightly buiiered,
but that the fair hostess accounted for by say
ing there was no Goshen in the market. and
who could use anything else; and if the brown
sugar was too soft, il was accounted by the
rains being too hard in Cuba. They COM
menced operations, however, and other themes
than the strength of the lea or the rancid taste
of the butter enerossed their attention. II is
strange, but We, fact, and one for which phi.
losophers have never accounted, that drinking
tea begets desire to talk of ones neighbors.
The trio of ladies' in question, not being of course
exemp, from the general influences that oper-
ale on our nature, were suddenly inuocula,ed
with the cacoethes logaendi. Miss Jones had
seen The Misses Riplons return from church,
and such frights of bonnets as they wore She
noticed for the first time that Maria squinis most
ruefuy, and that Martha turns in her toes when
she walks, like a shoemaker Miss Jenkins,
the elder never liked 10 speak Of people behind
their backs; she had an utter aversion 10 the
practice, and believed that was the reason she
hated Miss Smith, who had such an awful habit
of speaking Of people in their absence. She
could no. avoid saying TO Miss Jones In conf
tdence, however, that there were some scandal
Ious stories afloat about Maria Rip,on; and one
of Them was that she was seen going down 10
The lake late one evening with Dick Fizwell
the taior--and anoiher that she takes gin in
| her lemonade She herself did not believe a
word OF these ISLANDERS, and would enjoin Miss
Jones not 10 repeat them, except in conflden-
/, laI manner, and TO particular friend.
Miss Jones pledged herself never to open
her iirs on the suhject-unless il was as Sc
cre, ltseemed almost incredible, and still she
was incl, ned 10 believe il; some young women
do such strange things nowadays. There
was Miss n.rwell, didn't she borrow Miss
MeIdon's dress 10 60 TO The ball last week, and
actually had the assurance TO send II home
without washing il!
Did you ever said TIE two Miss Jenkins
| in concert. and Miss Jones echoed never. and
so lhey went on, commencing with Miss KIP
lion. and going through The whole circle OF their
acouain,ance, whose peculiariies ant peccadIl-
lloes they tli,secled aud bisecled--canyassed
and c,nicised--iill after the miniature sleino'c
on The table refused 70 disgorge any more OF us