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

Like 20 fashionable physician, shelves
upon the weakness Of the fair ex--only
what physician has so many complaints
to attend to, lor.such delicate wounds to
cure as those Of female vanity? Besides,
is there q physician, however pure, who
would dress the wounds of his patients in
the same handsome manner she dresses
hers? : She has q pharmacopea Of re-
medics at her fingers ends. She can
tell what ails a lady merely by looking
ather. Ifyou have no color, she knows
the precise warm tint that will bright
en- up your complexion; or, if you have
too much, she can tell to shade what
will make you look as pale as widow
at her third wedding. She can pad
down circular back, lower high pair
Of shoulders with one touch of the scis-
sors, take the fine edge off hatchet
face BY pair of rosy "whiskcrs;;" she
will fatten your cheeks with a fowery
border, andby the talisman Of her won
dcrful needle, almost change figure
like sack into the fashionable to,nure
of the hour-glass; in fact, will decorate
away any deformity or cut out any ugly
impossibility,you chose to order. More
than this, she plucks from the head of old
age several long years, and many lady,
who has crossed her threshold son the
wrong side offorty," (if such mum
her eyer enters the head of a lady,) has
left II with tile happy conviction that
she was blushing dcJutante, conside
rahlyunder twenty. Her shop is the
celebrated fairy mill, in which by some
charmat present only possessed by
looking glasses, the old are ground
young again.
You can almost tell the Model Mill
ner by her appearance. She is q chear
lay.fgure Of the Nodes de Paris She
is smart, neat, fashionable and elegant,
yet anything but obtrusive in dress.
She courts the shade with dark colors,
as if she kept herself as standing back
ground to throw out the bright hues OF
her pensioners. Her own stock of bon
nets is innumelable. She never wears
the same twice. Like French sur.
geon, she first tries experiments upon
her own person before she practises on
her patients. However, it is most mean
to insinuate that she sells her boDnets
afterwards as new, when refreshed by
new ribbons. She is always smiling,
always obliging, never contradicting
The only instrument she uses is hattery
With this she removes, as with plane
the roughest difficulties. "You really
look 50 charming in that bonnet-it is
so very disti,,gue, 80 aristocratic; it is
just your style-it would quite distress
her to see it worn by anybody else, and
is so cheap; she makes nothing by it.
the materials are so expensive, the price
so very low, and you look so handsome
in it,'' etc., ETC., and thus she gets q
dong purse by constantly so,so.ing.
The honesty of the Model NIilliner is
above oil, suspicion. To believe her
poor thing, she loses by every article
she makes. Withiaquicksilvery rapid
ity of the tongne, which makes it very
difficult for any one to stake her up
she runs ever the separate articles tha
compose the erial turban you are ad
,niring, gives you the price to a fcathe,
Of every little item about it, and leaves
you in a state Of wondcrmcnt how she
can live and pay for the handsome look
ing.glasses about the room, when she
does business at such a ruinous rate
With her the word "perguisites' is lik'
the word impossible" with Napoleon :
it has cmigrated long ago from the die
tionary. She always finds a "a lady,