The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-05-16
NO.. 81.
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bibes treacle and birthstone to get q COM

milk to dispense q crowd OF treckles; or I'M
bbes treacle and birthstone to get q COM
plexion of strawberries and cream or
sleeps in moist gloves to pick up white
hands; or has breathless ambition to pro-
cure good figure, absurdly thinking that
the saving clause of every young lady is
small waist, just as il the great architect OF
of Woman bad been Tite. Neither does
she take wine-giasses Of vinegar in her By
ronic fear of getting fat. Her horror ofage
is very mild she is not always wondering
what she would BE- like at thirty!' or show
folks can crawl on at forty!' Her dresses
are not sent back fifty times to be altered;
nor is her milliner scolded for not making
her figure look like the French prints. Il u
The servants love and respect the, Model
Young Lady, for the natural reason that
she is kind and considerate 10 them. She
never keeps her maid up all night, and then
wonder the next day what oan make her so
stand the language Of flowers or make
practice of giving away her boduets at par
ties. She never rouges, excepting at q
compliment. She has a little taste for fat
terry as champagne or German Waiting;
lit makes her giddy.' She would rather, not
polka with 'fast' young gentleman after
supper. She never makes nnuenao ap-
pointments by asking sif you shall be at the
Calendonian oall!' or by expatiating on the
enjoyment of 'her walk every day at 70 o.
clock in the Regents Park She can set
out a tragedy without flirting, and listen. to
Jenny Lind without talking necessarily
through every bar She is not always gig
Cling, and is as quick as ballet heroine, at
her toilet. She receives paternal ad vice
with the sweetest humility, and may be re-
proved without bursting into 4 passionate
flood OF tears. A serious conversation does
not bore her to DEATH nor does she shoot
down Common Sense by that tremendous
cannon female criticisuI-'Bother!' ~ a7a
She is not blinded with O starry Knight
or dazzled by more luminous title, or fool
ishly caught by pair Of 'golden-fy catch
ers,' or the shoulders of beautifully pad
ded officer. Her taste for beauty is little
refined. pair of mustaches do not in
stantly curl themselves round her sensitive
heart, nor u tight fitting coat Immediately
embrace her as an opportunity too good to
be lost. She knows that fashionable men,
like auction room icrniture, are only made
up and highly French polished to pass off
for superior article. She does not pity
! those poor creatures who cannot boast of a
grandf .ther,' nor measure her behaaior to
persons by their standing in society. A
tradesman does not horrify her, nor does
size think it degradation to return the kind
| Inquiries ofan interior with thanks or some
show of gratitude.
She can work also, and run about the
house to make herself useful as well as or
namental. She does not lie on the sofa all
day, reading novels, and imagine herself
the heroine Of every romance, or long to be
an heiress; or a lovely prosecuted orphan.
She draws and paints a little, but only in
its proper place; reads poetry little, but
does not 60 through Moore purposely for
quotations. Her accomplishments are nu.
merous as her admirers. She has gift OF
everything; she can read music and men at
sight, but plays only upon the former. She
goes to the piano at once, when asked TO
| oblige the company without having q
dreadful cold She is anything but ro-
mantle, and never makes little ssupid' of
herself. ...... a.Gf
Her knowledge of the world it must be
confessed. is very limited. She believes
freely what is told her, when it is not rela-
ting to herself, and has no idea of IMPOSE
ton, or Iupllcity, or coquetry, or artful-
ness; or flirting. She imagines she could
get her living any day, and that fortunes
are made easily as pies and pudding. She
has not the slightest notion that money is
requisite for marriage, and lives in q happy
blissful ignorance of how butchers and mill
liners bills are paid. This knowledge,
howe yer, is required in the schoyl-rooms,
not in the drawingrooms. of life, SO it must
be wondered at, if the Model Young Lady
is no longer in those hayd lessons of expert
ence, which, once learnt, are soon forgot
ten. She is as happy as the day-or tho
nights long. She is very enthusiastic.
very efectonat", and very much beloved by
every one, even Of her own sex, for she is
she never quizzes, OF is puzzled to know
whatever the men can see in that insip'd
Miss Jones!' Mamma qnotes her as a pat
tern to aspirants still in their teens; broth
ers cite her irresistible graces, and Sisters
give the finishing touch to her reputation
by the detracting praise. of envious rival
ship. She 10 a favorite with everybody,
and if she would only send her name and
address to the editor of this paper, and al
low him to present them as free gift to
every young man who purchases q copy. of
it, his fortune is made. What bachelor,
pray, would weigh sixpence, when he was
buying trife from Paradise-a foretaste OF
Heaven--that Society's Miss but Natures
great Hit, a MODEL YOUNG LADy!--[Punch.
FROM THE FRONTIER. n
The following is an extract from tie
correspondence of the ST. Louis Repubi-
can, dated st. Josephs, April rs, l849..
"The roads, in every direction, are
lined with the wagons Of enigrating par
ties from the lower counties of Missouri,
and from Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and
Illinois. The majority ofthese Intending
wing leisurely as far as Fort Kearny and
Council Bluffs, and there make their final
start. gaa...ts.sleY5a s5.3 3g 5ess TIA ss
Up 10 this time at least three thousand
emigrants have arrived at this point, en-
route for California Several companies
have already departed, and are now about
one hundred miles fromthe frontier they
intend remaining inscamp for some days
at G rand Island, which is about two hum
dred and eighty miles distant. From that
point you may expect my next commufsi-