The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-18

ties of New Orleans are in league with the cabmen
| and shoemakers." ~ s 81. ~
| Who knows .=ss fs.ess
| I have often thought with pity of the New Or
leans ward exiled bellies of Broadway, and Wash
ingfon and Chestnut Streets SO used TO the pecu-
| liar delights of their own promenades. In some
rash moment, when fate presented to their eyes the
dissolving view of young gentleman i'm a tender
and impassoned attitude, whispering vows of love,
they forgot, while speaking the tremulous "yes
that their ardent lover was a New Orleans exile
and little thought what fate awaited their CATER
boots and their bridal attire, when they shipped
themselves to the Crescent City Trade in the lat
ter has put shopping short commons, and its ex-
tent is bounded by some half dozen narrow i'll paved
streets. -. -:
And yet, on sunny days in autumn and winter,
rich bonnes and feathers and dresses dare all the
perils of box-encumbered omnibus despatched trot
toirs, to plan and carry out the usual feminine at
tacks upon the articles of dry goods and millinery
so temptingly, tasefully, and literally displayed
within the circuit of these half dozen blocks. Alas!
that the fairy pedestrians of Chartres and Royal
streets should be little noticed, and so remorse-
lessly nudged by the passing crowds of men, whom
the task-masters of " business urging on from
corner to corner, from to store and from post
Office. custom Ouse, and banks, to and fro.
No. New Orleans has nopromenade. The exis-
tence of one lounge would be an anomaly
And the magician who could give her one would
never dare the attempt. There are but few street
d
ling among the scions of the lazy luxurious creole
race. QGel dommdge! when a coat from first class
drapers stands your purse in fifty dollars, and your
trowers netted upon the tailors books at fifteen
or twenty.
BosToN ATHEN AUM.-During the past year
1916 volumes have been added to the library of the
Boston Athen@um by purchase, and $50 by gifts.
There have also been purchased IL ,0C0 pamphlets,
and 1893 have been received as donations Among
the latter very valuable collection, COCO in num-
Der, belonging to the late John Quincy Adams.
They were presented by bis son, Charles Francis
Adams. The Atheneum Library now contains
about so OC0 bound volumes and leo, OO0 pamphlets
A FEMALE BEAUTY-Wm. Sturgess, Esq, of
Boston, lately delivered lecture before the Var
mouth Institute, on the Indians of the Northwest
Coast, among whom Mr.. Sturgess spent several
years, more than half a century ago. He des-
cribsd the Indians as they were, not as they are,
after an acquaintance of fifty years with the whites.
He spoke of the custom of females, by means of
wood contrivances, causing the under lip to grow
out horizontally, nearly the size of mans hand,
presenting a most unsightly appearance, as shown
in a native cut he exhibited This was :! sd a
wooden lip, and deemed an essential requisite of
female beauty If any of our fair readers should
feel disposed to laugh at this absurd folly, they
should remember that the forest maiden would
stick out her huge lips at them for COMPRISING and
dstOrting their waists. The sr saker related seve-
raj amusing scenes in his own peculiar way and
manner. That of an aged matron Of the forest,
with lip projecting three inches, and made fast by
wood appliances, claiming all whites as her child
rem, and exercising the motlerly privilege of kiss
ing the Captain and all hands, must have been a
most affectionate and smoking scene, and worthy
of the pencil of painter-Bah. Pat.