Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-11-28
From the Ladies' compsaion.
ANGELINA'S PAINTED.
he talk was Of Hotfentots-

Don't speak Of EN- cried Mis-
Angelina Daffy. I'm certain OF it
II ] were only TO look at a Hotten
tot. | should faint-I must faint
.Fiddlededee,' said Miss LiIlvwhite
and there was hush-a pause in th'
0 CONVEX sation; for when Miss Lilly
Q white exclaimed 'FiddIededee,' it be
J hoved thoughtless young ladies II
! look to themselves. Now, Miss DAT
: Iy had a great talent for fainiing.-
Perhaps the talent was originally ;
natural gilt; nevertheless il cBuld no
De denied that frequent and earn
est cultivation of the endowment
had brought it to perfection. Mis-:
Daffy, at one minutes notice, could
faint at any time, and upon any sub.
ject. She could faint at either ex.
treme of the day-faint a; breakfast,
or FAINT al supper; could faint with
equal beauty and truthfulness, wheth-
er the matter to be tainted upon were
a black beetle, or blackbird-a bull
or bulI6nch. She had wonderful
powers of syncope; though, it must be
allowed, like most folks haunted with
a despotic sense Of their own genius,
she now and then employed il a lit
tie out Of place. Vanity, however,
is human weakness. For philos.
opher, TO his own satisfaction, has
proved, that the peacock takes no
pride in its own efulgent glories,
but all unconscious Of their beauty,
spreads them because it was ordain-
ed to do so; and, after all, had Miss
Daffy been philosophically examined
upon her proneness TO faint, she
would have attributed the habit to no
seIf-complacency, but to the simple
but inevitable truth that she was
made TO faint. She would not have
recognized any beauty in the art of
fainting, but merely the natural con
sequence that to faint was feminine.
Eve, she thought, was made for sal
coldtile.
Miss Lillywhite was spinster of
seven-and-foriy 4 am six-seven--l
eight-and-lorty, next Birthday
Miss LillYwhite would blithely OBJ
serve, as the year might be. And |
this gay veracily was the more pleas
ing in Miss LiIIywhite inasmuch as
she might have passed for forty; nay
had she siickled ever so little for il,
she might have got nff with six-and-
thirty at most, happy. blooming
for Miss Lillywhiie,
like a true English woman, carried
in her unfading beauty the assertion
OF her British race. How much tri
umphant beauty all over the world
fades and yields as teens blow into
tweniies, and tweniies wrinkle into
thiriieSl Now, your truly beautiful
English woman, with her carnations
and lilies will carry her colors up
10 two scOre-and-ten. Nay, we have
known some veterans, blooming
with a sprinkling of years over tyran-
nous fifty. And Miss LiIlywhite was
as jocund as she was handsome. II is
said there is no better preservaiive
against the melancholy changes
wrought by time than honey. We
know not whether Miss LilIyvhite
was acquainted with the Egyptian
iruth:if moi, she had unconsciousIy nc.
ted upon the unknown recipe, land had
preserved herself in the sweetness o.
her disPositioR-in the honey OF her
goodness. She was a pattern old
maid. Yet pattern, we would
hope, never TO be followed, for it is !
such women who make the real
wives and mothers. Miss Lilly
white, like Miss Venus de Medicis,
should remain a single perfection: :
llone 10 sweetness and beauty, to !.
'how what celibacy and ait can do; I
% be admired as samples, but never
% be added to.
Miss Lillywhite was an old school !
elbow of Mrs. Dafy's and was a
passing the Christmas time with her '
'arly friend and family. Now An q
,elina Dafy-a pretty creature, $
Ti:h more goodness in her than she /,
Ireamt of-had, as we have indica- l.
ed, this weakness: she must faint; d
nd carrying out this will, as a first j,
principle, she had duly tainted, v
Trough the whole round Of holidays. D
'he had tainted at snap-dragons on Il
'hristmas-eve-fainted,v very empha;- ii
.ally tainted, when surprised under {;
be mistletoe on Christmas day-fain- N
ed when the bells rang in lS50--and t,
ainted. dead as stone, as a nervous G.
uest declared. when prevailed upon m
0 crack bon Don on Twelfth Io
light. 'Angelina's faintedr had be- ;,
ONE household wolds in the home IA
tead OF the Daffy's.
And so, can it be wondered at. :.
hat the ingenious Miss Lillywhits. 81
I this last threat OF Angelina's 10 O,
lint al Hottsntot-should rebuke e,
he maiden with more than ordinary "a
ivacifrl The trnfh e M;ss lille