The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-05-27
The Opera In Boston.

Well, there's some fun left yet, and the opera
isn't the worst place to find it either It's fun
enough after swarmng up those intermnable gal
lery stairs, to sit down and laugh at the Lam
holier- than -thou-ativeness, as Willis calls it, dis
played below. To see how the subscribers daw-
die into their seats at the very last moment, know
ing they are permanencies," Miss Nipper says,
while the temporaries have stumbled into
theirs IN the mysterious twilight Of gas-economy
good hali-hour ago. To watch the eddyng Of as
many circles among the subs themselves as
smart shower would make in duck -puddle-the
cold shoulders turned towards those unfortunates
who don't circulate in &c our set the exclusive
ness with which half-inch partition, hardly high
enough to be visible, invests the porcelain It sep
arates from commoner cay-the looks askant that
china gives to crockery, wondering how the devil
it came there and crockerys sadly unfortunate
attempts to appear Indifferent. To contrast the
affection that **,-who is just =" on the fence"
as it were, of society-manifests towards those
inside the enclosure with the coolness he shows
to the friends who have helped boost him up there,
bot who looking through the palings them
selves. To see how the different trades look down
upon one other although they have each accom-
plished for their possessors the same end--a COM
potency. To see the professions look down on the
uades-while the few, who knew their grand
fathers, look down upon both of them, particularly
il they fought, bled and died in the revolution !;
and the man again who can trace back his ances-
try through seven clean descents, from the ship
" who but-I air Of the lot
The fact is, we, Boston people, don't go to the
opera on account Of the muslc-theres **f* and
his wife--or his % lady," as he calls her-who
don't either OF EN- know one note from another,
but he thinks she is pretty, and has bought her a
new opera domino, all tasselled and pinked, and
lined with red, and there they sit till the opera is
done or gone through with; keeping up, like the
lrishmans owl, "a dvil of thinking" | imagine,
for devil word do ,bev saw to each other the whole
evening. Look at **** who is eternalIy brag.
giny If his family. an CRYING out for blood
sined with ,hs ne,t;nacitv of an am;able ogre
a,niable | saw. for the door fellow would faint a.
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accompanies himself on the enltaI, VINO tt'es
make himself generally agreeaoe TO the iao'es
and altogether plays such fantastic tricks as max
the angels laugh at the pretty things ne does an
says, instead Of approaching them to venus.
Vdnus et Euedned qudhtumo,s mouhoT d9na "a
Juvenal hath IT. he " lakes II all tnr corn, ne
cause he don't know any better Is COMING
10, toung hs top-coai AZ usual on ms arm, ins'ea'
of his back, to make people think ne came ~ nl
carriage, when THOSE VINO kno" MN only Wo',uI u
how he gol There al all. sap r'rr'sue 4ue u oeu
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