New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-11

tors optical organs being more on the alert, he
Indignantly declined the feast of soft-soap with
which MIR. S. was about to favor him. My
husband asserts that his feelings were indescri-
oable; and to this day, he has scarcely forgiven
my desertion. He was taking his first lesson in
mousse keeping: and saw, with some surprise,
that dinner provided for three or four persons
| would not answer for six more. He sent to the
neghbors', and soon supplied deficiencies but
conversation rather tagged, and his visitors evil
IDENTIFY looked upon him with some distrust At
tea time Biddy made so many ridiculous mis-
takes that he was obliged to set the table him
self, and expressly forbid her entering the ROOM
g The hour for retiring approached, and then,
indeed, came the tug of war. Mr.. S. ex-
amined the accommodations again and again,
but no more beds grew beneath his eye and at
length, in despair, he concluded to marshal
them up stairs in the order of precedence, and
see how things turned out. Brother A. took
the light from his hand, and bade him good
night in an imposing manner, but without a
single hint that the company of Brother B.
or Brother C would be acceptable; and
somewhat despairingly he descended to his other
visitors Brother b, being of a convenient
size, was bestowed upon the sofa; but there now
| remained four others for one bed and half, for
| Mr.. S. had concluded TO take one in with
him. Two were dispatched to the remaining
room; one was invited to share his apartment,
| and, after giving brother A abundance of
time 10 establish himself comfortably, Mr.. S.
presented himself at his door with the remain
ing visitor, and aroused him from sound sleep
with requst to take him in. No wonder that
Brother A. looked dignifed at this misera-
BILE management, Or that MIR. S. began to
think that might be half right, after all
sf The next morning matters drew to crisis.
The coffee, manufactured by Mr.. S., was
execrable; and this, with banquet of burned
beef and something that Biddy termed short
cake Jumps Of dough, scorched without and
raw within, utterly failed to satisfy the appe
tites of the six visitors. who were going upon a
long journey and they departed with con-
viction that my husbands invitation had been
extremely ill-timed, and prevented them from
accepting others that might have proved
pleasant.
.''My DEAR said Mr. S. to me one day,
after had been home some little time, are
you not making an uncommon quantity of cake ]:
Do you expect any visitors:'
'''I do not erpect any, l replied But
they may come without expecting. Perhaps the
six ministers may stop here on their return
Mr. S. gave me n look, but it was only
to smile at the expression Of my eyes, which |
felt were fairly dancing; and he replied quite
meekly
ss'Tt was very foolish of me to be unreasona-
ble-but have had lesson that will not be
soon torgotton.'
SHult nav uiiio oNli IiS 'tllllS dlOuEl MN
in ecstacy, but they were full of -four, and as !
had Il respect for the cioth,' l desisted. He
never again volunteered to take in six ministers
at once; how truly they had been taken in, ;
they could probably testify
g Well,' said Milly, with a sigh, :, were you
not sorry that you had married Mr. S--:''
''Not at all,' replied the visitor, with smile
at this detriment to her advice, &c would do the
same thing again to- morrow
MIilly was surprised she had seen Mr. S.
a grave, m,ld-lookng gentleman, in white
cravat, but, while she regarded him with the
greatest reverence, and trembled whenever she
encountered him on the stairs, she could not
realize the possibility of his compensating for all
these trials-even Mr.. Saybrook failed there
The next Sunday the young minister was as
eloquent and fascinating as ever; but Milly
glanced at his white crayat and thought of sew
ing soceties-and, like the things in ''The Phi
losopher's Scales,'' Mr. saybrook went up will
q bound, while these stern realities presse,
heavily down in the balance. Her eyes wer
opened, and the young minister fell to the lot
some competitor who had not been favored wit
ga peep behind the scenes