Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-02-09
From the Philadelphia Sunday Despatch.
TREATING THE GIRLS.


Country people who occasionally visit the
city, get themselves sometimes into queer
scrapes in consequence of their ignorance of
ward predicaments we have lately heard of
our verdant brethren getting into, happened a
short time since, in this goodly city of Qua
kers. Two cultivators of the soil, who were
better acquainted with the use of the plough
and harrow than with the usages Of city life,
came 10 town last week with the intention of
seeing the lions, and becoming experienced in
matters and things which town people do
They were gallant young men, and, in the
gatherings in their own neighborhood, were
reckoned first rate beaus-squiring the young
ladies about with devotion equal to preur
cheualiers. They, therefore, thought it due
to their character as lady's men, that they
should try their destinations upon the Phila-
delphia damsels. and go home with the repu-
tation of having half the gals in town. dread
fully in love with them. Their ambition was
no halfway ambition, either; they were not
going to be satisfied with the conquest of one,
but each boldly determined to win the afec-
tons of three-so that a sensible increase to
the pyramid of hearts they had already bro
ken, might be at once perceived.
To fascinate, bewider, and gain the affec-
| tons of three at one time, was fact worthy
of Adonis himself, and only to be equalled by
| the necromancer who throws three tea-cups
in the air, and keeps them all going at the
| same time. But girls hearts are not to be
won by tossing them about; the more they
are knocked about, the less chance is there of
their becoming susceptible. Such plan may
do, with red-ripe apples, which, the more they
| hon II Oh h. Ill H.
But the heart of a young woman is only TO
be gained by the soothing policy, and the
most potent branch of that policy is the sys-
curious paradoxical fact in the physiology OF
love, that there is nothing so blows up the
fame as ice creams and if young gentle
man wishes young lady to love him fervent-
| ly, the amiable warmth will be certainly OBJ
tanned by dosing her with ice creams cd inf
nitum Our beaus were men of the world
enough to know this, and so they determined
| to put the ice cream system Immediately into
practice. They had often heard of the saloons
of Philadelphia, and knew that the citizens oil
the right-angled metropolis boosted of theiI
pre- eminence in this article; and so, day OF
two after their arrival, they determined tc
kindle the first spark by the application Of
the great desideratum. The six girls were
therefore secured, and off the merry party star
ted to the nearest confectionery establishment
where the pure Delaware county was serv
ed up in great style.
1t was rather an unfortunate party for two
young men to manage unassisted. Nature
never intended that one man should beau more
than one woman he may get along with two
One on each arm; but when it comes to
| fHa-oo II oDoTrh N fnrrifu tho
nerves. However, our two country Adonses
managed to get along. They soon reached
the saloon, with their half-a-dozen fair ones
and the girls, who were 'up to the ropes,
trpped gleefully up stairs. The beaus, in
obedience to an askant glance from those be.
hind the counter. stopped to order the cream
and were considerably puzzled to choose be-
tween lemon and vania'-the great staple Of
all ice cream blishments-especially as the
ladies were not present to counsel them; bu
finally concluded to have some of BOTH
This matter being ended, they prepared &c
follow their female friends; but their career
was suddenly stopped by the most prudent Of
the two, whose eye caught the sign over the
door Ladies' Saloon There he stood, ga
zing wildly at the forbidding words, his mouth
wide open, and his whole frame rigid with as
tonshment and fear. At last finding words
he said to his unnoticing companion:
BY gracious! Josh, what are we going Il
do' They've gone into the ladies' saloon
it's only for the women, and we darsn't 90 in
to they'll turn us out as sure as gun i
we go there, and take US up too!
4 swow, that is fix p replied his equally
disturbed friend BY golly, we can't go there
was reading polher day in newspaper
where man went into the lady's cabin OF
board one of them steamboats,, and they kick
cd him off the boat, and said he was "a brute
Heavens and airth what shall we do ?
We can't 60 off and leave the gals-that won
do. We must wait till they come down.
This is the 'gentlemen's saloon Tell tn
} darkey to bring our creams in here
: 1t would be doing our sable friend great in
Justice to say, that he was not surprised a
this order, as it was expected, as matter O
course, that the gentlemen would walk u
stairs with the ladies they accompanied. Blu
as suffering Is the badge of all his tribe
was not for him to make any suggestions
was to be presumed the gentlemen knew the
own business. and SO he delivered them thei
ices in the solitary chamber appropriated /
! the gentlemen, and Withdrew; wondering q
the taste of the men who would devour th
Injuries by themselves, when they might d
so in company with lot of handsome girls
Our wights themselves were in no yer,
pleasant mood. it may be calculated; the.
concluded there was nothing else for them
do, Than wait till the ladies' came down stairs
So they slipped up the now insipid cream, be
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