Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1844-01-20
From the London Punch.
MORE SHOCKING IGNORANCE

/ oil MS select COMMITTEE on Education,
which revealed the amount of domestic
matters prevailing among young men gen.
orally. His Commissioners have just sent
up to him their second Report, which re-
Ia,es to the knowledge Of business and the
affairs Of life possessed by young ladies';
and he has determined. at the risk Of crea-
ting fearful panic in the marriage market,
/ TO print II.
Mss Mary Anne Watkins examined
Is the daughter Of private gantIeman.-
Has several brothers and sisters. Is enga-
ged to be married to a young surgeon when
he gets into practice. Has an idea that
she ought to know something of house
keeping; suppOses it comes naturally. Can
not say that she ever darncd stocking.--
The price of brown Windsor soap is from
one shilling to one and threepence the
packct--cannot tell what yellow comes TO;
never bought any. Circasian cream is half
a-crown a pot; does not know the price Of
pearIash Knows how to furnish a house;
would 60 to the uphos,er's and buy furni.
ture. Cannot say how much she would ex-
pcct TO give for an easy chair, or for
wash-stand. or a set of tea things; should
ask ma, if necessary; never thought of
doing 50 before. Papa paid for the dress
she has on; forgcts what he gave crit. Has
no notion what his butchers bill amounts TO
in the year.
Mss Harriet S9merS.--Papa is a clergy.
man. is unable to say whether he is plu-
rahst or not. He is Curate and has but
one curacy. Expects TO be married, of
course. Would not refuse a Young man
with three hundred year. Has no prop
ery of her own. Has some skill in nee
die work; lately worked brigand in red,
blue. green, and yellow worsled. Can
make several washes for the complexion.
Cannot tell how she would set about ma
king an apple dumping. Loaves should
remain in the oven till they are done; the
time they would take would depend upon
circumstances. If she were married,
would expect her husband to be i'll some
tines supposng him to have ordered
calves foot Jelly, should send for it to the
= pastry cooks. 1t never occurred to her
that Sic might make ii herself. If she
tried. should buy some calves feet. what
next she should do cannot say. Has recei-
we'd q fashionable education; knows French
and Italian. Likes dancing better than
any thing else,
Mss Jane BriggS,-Is the daughter Of
respectable tradeSman--a grocer and tea
dealer Looks forward to a union with
- some body in her own station ofllfe, Was
: for five years at boarding school in Clap
{ ham. R ly cannot say Whit LEDGE is; it
may be the same as dav book, Has an
a album, Has painted fowe in the album
: also butterflies. Has never ironed a frili.
:, Knows what a c ept is; it tells how TO
! dress things Should suppose that re-
d ceipt in full was receipt that told YOU all
: the particulars. Never heard Of a balance
d sheet; it may be calico sheet for aught
he knows, Cannot say whether papa
l. buys or sells at prime cost. Has eaten
fowl occasionally, Never trusted one
II Does not kn w how to make stuffing for a
u duck or goose.
Out of sixty other young ladies examin.
ed, three only knew how to corn beef six
ii what a sausage was composed of and -four
re- how to make onion sauce. Not one of the
y whole number could brew. They mostly
u could tell what the last new song was; but
c none of them knew the current price OF
beef Every soul of them meant to marry
as soon as possible What is To become OF
al their husbands? Echo answers What
and Punch shudders at the idea.
-, There is no God!'-lhe shcptjc scohinr said
N There is no power that sways or earth or sky;
nj Remove the vel! that folds the doubter's head,
rs That God may hurs; upon his openod eye!
Is there no God Yon stas above atfaytd,
t. II he look there, the bIasPhemy deny;
-, Whist his own features, in mirror read,
=. r feet the image OF Divinity.
Is there no God Tie purplir :.rcam.e,s flow
nd TIE air he brea,hes, the ground he reads, tn
trees,
NJ Bright flowers, green fields, The winds lha, roun
him blow,
All speak Of Gol-a.j prove thar Ills decree
81 Have placed them. where they may His Jein
show
-, Bind to .hysy., behold Han, MAy, in ,h,sr.
hi -BItit wlsof MoRsE's MAGNETIC Tel
EGRAPu sat down to speak. Congress
10 appropriated $4,000 last session to te,
10 ITS merits, and a line of wires is no,
~ nearly completed from Baltimore to III
an. city. for which distance the Telegraph wi
ri. loon be put in operation. l saw this il
her vention in its infancy, many years sine
~. and | was then sure it would do, but
zen learn that Professor Morse has made gre
,f| improvements or it since. For inslanc
ot t now requires NJ one 10 be watching
,is At the end where the intelligence is to
~ h &C iyei or expected. II writes down
,,n own story. So that a blind man can re;
hen IT, and Will jnt down, alone and in Il
tbc dark, messages To half a dozen dlffere
tho persons or burcauX, communicated 10 it |
ID, 81 L. Z