Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-12-01
FASHIONABLE GIRLS.


urday Visiter, one of the pleasantcst and
most original writer's of the ape, gives tho
following natter -of-faot information in
one of her admirable letters to country
girls
There are hundreds of girls in every
large city, who parade the streets With
feathers, flowers, silks and laces. whose
hands arc soft and white as useless can
make them, whose mothers keen board
ers to get living for their idle daughters.
these mothers will cook, sweep, wait on
the tables, carry loads of marketing, do
the most menial drudgery, toll late and
carly with very little more clothing than
would be allowed to Southern slave.
while their hopeful daughters spend their
mornings lounging in bed; reading some
silly book, taking lessons in music and
French, fixing finery, and the like. The
evenings are devoted to dressing, display
ing their charms and accomplishments to
the best advantage, for the wonderment
and admiration of knights of the yard stick
and young aspirants for professional hon
ors-doctors without patients, lawyers
without tclients-who are as brainless and
as souliess as themselves. After awhile
the piano-sounding simpleton captivates "A
tape measuring, law-expounding, or pill
making simpleton. The two ninnies
spend every cent that can be raised by
hook or crook--get all that can be got
on credit in broadcloth, satin, flowers. Ia
ces, carriage, attendance, ctc.-hang their
| empty pockets on somebody's chair, Law
their empty head on somebody's pillow.
and commence their empty life with 9TH
er prospect than living at somebody's ex
Pense--with no higher purpose than liv-
ing genteclly and spiting their neighbors.
This is synopsis of the lives of thou
sands of street and ballroom bellies, per-
haps of some whose shining costume YOU
have envied from passing glance.
Thousands of women in cities dress el-
cgantly on the streets, who have not
sufficiency of Wholesome food, a com
Portable bed, or FIRE enough to warm their
rooms. once boarded in 'oentcel
boarding house. in Louisville. There
two young ladies and piano in the house;
halls and parlor handsomely furnished.
The eldest young lady, the belle, wore a
summer bonnet at ten dollars, a silk and
blonde concern that could not last more
than two or three months; silk and satin
dresses at two, three and four dollars per
yard, and five dollars apiece for making
them: and the entire family--women. bows
and babies, nine in all-sleptin one small
room, with two dirty bags of pine sha-
wings, two straw polsters, and three dir
ty quilts for beddiug: no sheets, no slips
and there on the wall hung the peagreen
and white satin, the rich silk and lawn
dresses. These ladies did not work, but
played the piano, ACCORDION and cards,
and nearly broke their hearts the week
before we were there, because another,
who presumed lived just as they did,
called on them with a great clumsy geld
chain on her neck. None of them had
one, and Miss Labalinda, the belle, could
eat no supper, and had bad fit of the
sulks to console her for the want of a
chain. But, dear me! had no notion
OF running away off here. / was Just
thinking how busy you country girls arc
apt to be in the fall, and this led mo to
think what blessing tits that you have
Soiio"'iS W uo, anu tnaL you think tia
disgrace to live idly. LISA great bless
ing to live in a country where It is a cred
1t to work, for idlcness is the parent of
vice and misery. SO donot get weary or
think your lot hard one when putting
up pickles or preserves, apple butter, sau- 4
sages and sauces for future use
| h tm ass
Li'le Graves. Sacred places for pure
thoughts and holy meditations are the
little graves in the churchyard. They
are the repositories of mothers sweetest
| joys-half unconscious buds of innocence
humanity tipped by the first frost Of
time, ere yet single canker worm ofpol-
luton had nestled among its embryo ne
tails. Callous indeed must be the heart
of him who can stand by little grave
side and not have the .holiest emotions Of
his soul awakened to the thoughts of that
purity and joy which belong alone to
God and Heaven; for the mute preacher
at his feet tells him of life begun and life
ended, without5a stain; and surely IL this
be youchsafed to mortality, how much
! purer and holier must be che suifitual