The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-04-18

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above sending home one Hounce less
the number ordered, and would not on
any inducement-not even to have the
royal arms over her door-appropriate
satin enough for an apron or keep back
an inch of your charming Brussels
point. Her power Of physiognomy is
quite Lavateresque. She has always
something made expressly for each Gus
toner, something composed especially
for the style of every one. Her pa
/ tience, too, surpasses q Sister Of Chari-
ty. You may try on all her fragile
stock, drare all her mantillas, scarfs
and uisttes, in oil possible fancies over
your shoulders; pull and toss about nll
her rainbow assortment of cobweb caps
and bird-cage bonnets, and this she VIII
allow you to do for hours, never mur-
muring, but smiling as gratefully as be,
fore. She answers more absurd eques-
tions in q day than n Prime Minister in
q week, and is as indulgent to the con-
ceited beauty of sixteen as to the vain
coqaette of sixty. She is naturally
mild and coex;ng, but allows no frail,
daughter of Eve, tempted, beyond the
strength Of her sex, by o too-seductive
bonnet, to run up a bill; nor induces q
ayoung lady to anticipate her next
years allowance by the persuasion of o
long credit; nor allures a simple Miss,
just fresh school, to buy things she does
not want, by the dangerous promise
that "she will never trouble her for the
amount" She never speculates, and
has never been known to supply goods
upon the chance of"a certain event,
coming off," or to postpone the payment.
of an account till "certain expectations
are realized;" or to urge, with legal
frmness. that Mr.. Nj cannot possi-
bly refuse to pay for such absolute "ne-
cessities;;" or to equip young daughters
previous to their marriages, upon the
base understanding that she is to be
paid afterwards. She pays no more
Difference to the Duchess than to tho
plain Mrs; all women arc the same in
her eyes, all candidates for finery. Her
foreign orders are never executed with
her old stock of rejected goods. She
would blush, also, if she caught imposing
on country cousins last years fashions
for the newest inventions. She en-
ploys long-beardcd courier, who, like
an English manager, is constantly run
ming backward and forward from Lon.
don TO Paris, in search of the latest nov.
elites. She keeps two distinct sets of
apprentices and girls-the one intense.
ly Frcnchi6ed. for foreign patronncsscs
the other English, for patriotic Gus
toners. In similar complaisance to
little prcjudices, her goods change from
Spita6elds to Lyons manufactures ac-
cording to the purchasers nationality.
There is profound mystery around
the domestic ties ofthe Model Milliner.
Her children are never mentioned
her husband is never seen or heard.
Occasionally rakish gentleman, in
moustaches, glidcs into the showroom,
but he is stcrnly frowned down, and,
after sharp whisper, goes out as mys.
teriously rs he came in. Can that be
her husband? Scarcely-there is SO
little affection apparent between the
two; the man obeys more like a servant
than human lord and master, to whom
all the caps and crinolines in the estab-
lishment belong! But no matter--thc
avocations Of the Model Millincr allow
her no time to be troubled with such
small considerations, though she de-
lights, as becomes woman and mil.
liner, in ever turn of the exciting game
of Matrimony, and lays awake at night
twisting overin bed her numerous we'd
ding orders.
] The Model Milliner is most correct
, young men are allowed to lounge
about in her showroom but mar
ried gentlemen have the entree of her
work-room. She is never seen at
places ofpublic amusement by herself;
nor was she ever accused by the most
suspicious mother. of allowing her
house to screen sentimental designations,
or of making ita young ladies' post-ofice
for letters with love.sick seals. She is
never seen at public balls--on the con-
trary, she is always at home, promoting
the comforts of the young ladies "who
are improving themselves under her tut.
ton"
TO these the Model Millner devotes
| her most affecticnate thoughts. They
arc really her children, and she acts to
them like mother. She will not al-
low them to work more than ten hours
a day. She spares their health, looks