New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-10-25
PHILADELPHIA IN SLICES.
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tended by women-it seems 70 be go in every way sp-
propriate Tho grea, majority Of customers being Of
the beautiful there il something peculiarly fitting
in their being waited upon by others Of the spe
ces Beside the business il exactly adapted 70 women
whose fingers neat and nirnble who smile and
30 PRETTY and naturally, and In whom the love Of
order s Of the strongest, instinct. Of their being
We're grea, strspping fellow, with muscle ike
blacksmith and lungs like HE bellows we should feel
behind counter measuring out ribbons and assuring
ladies that this calico viii wash very much II we
had been caught riding the steps Of omnibus
without paying, or begging check Of dead-hesd al
the door Of theatcr And likewise If We were
modest young lady going shopping for hne linen and
silk hose, should lief 20 without clothes 70
fashionable shop and be stared out of counte
by dozen impertnently polite clerks while We
were stammeIng on, necessities. 10 fact it has
always appeared to that # there vocation in
what Mr. Greeley call civilization exactly fitted for
women, II was shop keeping.
10 Philadelphia we md this idea proved and realized
Nearly all the large fancy drygoods establishments
Chestnut street tended by young ladies' well as
great msjorty Of the small variety stores Of which
almost every junction possesses and many Of
them four and which gsiy enamel all the side streets
with their tidy displays Of bright coored goods and well
spelled sbels-for the shopwomen Of Philadelphia while
they generally quite pretty as the grsettes Of Pa
rs are much better educated The admirable and unri
vailed system Of public schools for which the City Of
Penn noby distinguished over all other cities in the
world impsrts to the and daughters Of the great
middle class thorough and practical knowledge Of the
English branches and enables many hundreds Of these
young women TO ofcste clerks with az much quick
and accuracy protested sccountants-while the
them and polteness OF manners worthy of the
drawing They are uniformly attentive and neat
~ dressed and never resort to the vugsrity
among male clerks Of annoying visiters with on
cous and impernent electoneering-s species Of per
secution which than anyihingelse, would drive
from the store a lady Of proper sefrespect
The shops in charge Of these female attendants
which you will NEE, in every part Of the City, but
especially in Chestnut south Second. Arch, Fourth,
Market and Eighth streets will certainly compare, in
point Of ncstness and orderly arrangement with any
in the country Levys, the stewards of Chesnutst
is really one OF the most elegant and admirably kept
establishments we have ever visited The various de-
partmens for light dresses silks shawls gloves SC &c
are always in appe.pe order with the attentive shop
keeper at her post ready show you everything and
to enlighten you the peculiar merits of each srt
Gle yet never 0rc urging you, nor insulting you with
sour looks and grumbings If you don't choose TO buy
seated at these long counters you may see, beside
whatever is really and unostentatously arstocratic in
Philadelphia society, those rosylipped demurenesses
celebrated ihrougho the world as gay Quskeresses
Enveloped in their tidy dove-drab gowns and shaded
by angular bonnets these exquisite statues done up IN
brown paper now bend their pensve glances upon the
sober xure that heap the counter dart at you one
of those fawn like startled glsnces that transfx poor
fellow by magnetic telegraph The numbers of these
gay Quakers" are steadily Increasing in proportion TO
the strcter members OF the sect and every year con
tributes TO narrow the boundaries of the desert
strip which separates the Friends" from the worlds
people-or at reconcile the latter to the pecu
urtes OF former and Undue tine former with an
Increasing charity for the latter lnsensiby yet ire
stby these impassye representatives. oil the qui
escent principle of human nature becoming infect
ed with the universal impulse to progress and brother
hood which begins assert its benignsnt influence
upon the sons of men, and could point to scores OF
individuals among the strc,est and most isstdous Qua
kers who cherish silently in their hearts the Hottest and
most ennoblng aspirations for the elevation and happ
ness of their race In future number this subject
will receive more especial considcrstion-at present
rereuOus ar1 nos-Shopromen.
The pay received by the shopwomen is generally
much better than for almost any other kind Of female
employment The very best ones as at Levys receive
five dollars week, and the usual price in other first
class establishments il four dollars In the smaller
shops in less fashionable and prosperous portions OF the
city the Shopwoman is paid from two snda'hali 10
three dollars per week and in some cases only two
There are some hundreds of small shops, however, at
tended by the wives OF the owners, kept by widows
or unmarried women, who in this pleasant way man
age 20 procure a comfortable living and lay up some
thing for rainy day
Alarge number of the Shepwomcn are the daughters
of highly respectable and many OF them of wealthy
parents whose dwelling and store, or shop are under
the same roof Many OF them daughters OF poor
people and indebted to the Public School system
for the education which enables them to I'LL their stu
atoms and them from the want and misery and
ignorance and temptation beneath which so many thou
sand poor creatures In our large cities every year fall
victims For the most part they are smahe and pleasing
in their manners, and OF pure morals. They usually
board with their parents and have reasonable opportu
mites for recreation and improvement Of their minds
They are not expected to be their counters
than eight OF nine O'Clock and seldom ain after dark
Their attendance confined 10 dry goods shops but
they may be all the soda and cecream saloons
(of which much hereafter IN the parsso stores IN Mar
ket Il, in al the ladies shoe stores fancy button and
friDge-shops, chnaware ana gentlemen furnishing
shops cigar stores and in fact in almost every branch Of
business for which they adapted Their existence as
class one OF the best evidences in favor OF the way
in which we do things in the Quaker City, aud stones
tor many of the pecusrites and whimsiesities which
prevail here and at which we often smile uncon
scously
The females Of Philadelphia, owing to their Gothic
origin and the extraordinary health of the climate
Justly celebrated for the beauty of their faces and the
rich development, Of their forms. In the course OF
our researches into the condition OF female employ
nent and its rewards we have become acquainted with
many a drama of keenest interest compared with /
whose sckening realities the wild and incongruous hor
rors of our mystery mongers mere childrens play
But enough for the present
rY- Slice III. will treat OF " The R0rdy ClRbs
Of Philadelphia
Loss OF The SCHOONER MOUNT Hofs.-Cspt.
Achorn, who arrived Wilmington, n c. on the s0th
In the brig Harriet Newell gives the following parrc0'
lars OF the loss of his vessel: The schooner Mount