Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-02-20
,The Domestic Young Man.

hand pocket OF his grcat-cOat to tie over lbs
mouth when he goes home at night; moreover,
being rather near-si ghtcd, he carries spectaces
! for particular occasions, and has weskish trem-
I ulous voice, of which he makes great use, for he
talks as much as any old lady breathing.
! The two chief sub jccts Of Felix's discourse are
/ himself and his mother, both of whom would ap
pear to he very wonderful and interesting per-
! SONS. As Felix and his mother are seldom apart
in body, SO Felix and his mother arc scarcc y
ever separate in spirit. If YOU ask Felix how lie
| finds himself to-day. he pretaces his reply with
long and minute bulletin of his mothers state of
health and the good lady, in her turn, cdhcs
her acquaintance with clrcunstantiaI and a.
larrng account, how he sncezed four times and
coughcd once, after being out in the rain the
other nj ight; but, having his feet promptly put
into hot water, and-llis head into flannel some
| thing. which we will lot describe more particu-
lary than by this delicate ausion, was happily
brought round by the next morning, and enabled
to 60 TO business as usual
| Our friend is not a very adventurous, or hot
headed person but he has rassed through ma
ny dangers. as his mother can testify. There is
one great story in particular, concerning hack
one right for bringing them home from the play,
upon which Felix gave the aforesaid coaclman
look Which lis mother thought would have crush
cd him to the earth, hut which did not crush him
quite. for he continued to demand another six
pence, Notwithstanding that Felix took out his
pocket book, and with the aid Of = tiat-cande,
pointed out the fare in print, which the coach
man obstinately disregarding, he shut the street
door with a slam which makes his mother shud-
der to think of; and then, reused to the most
appalling pitch Of passion. by the coachman
knocking a double knock to show that he was
by no means convinced, he broke with uncon-
trollabe force from his parent and the servant
girl, and running into the street without his hat,
actually Shook his fist at the coachman. and
came back again, "with face as white" Mrs.
Nixon says, looking about her for q smile, "as
that ceiling" She never will fyrget his fury
that night-ncver
To this account Felix listens with q solemn
face, occasionally looking at you to see how 1t
affects you; and when his mother has made an
end of it, adds, that he looked at every coach
man he met for three weeks afterwards, in hopes
! that lie might see the scoundrel-whereupon
Mrs. Nixon, with an exclamation Of terror, re-
quests to know what lie would have done to him
il he had seen him; at which, Felix smiling dark
" and clenching his right fist, she exclaims,
Goodness gracious!'' with 4 distracted air, and
insists upon cxtor;ing promise that he never
will, on any account, do anything 50 rash, which
her dutitul son-it being something more than
three wears since the offence was committed
reluctantly comedies; and his mother, shaking
her head prophetcally, fears, with = sigh, that
his spirit will lead him into something violent
vet. The discourse thcn by an easy transition,
turns upon the spirit which glows within the bo-
som Of Felix; upon which point Felix himself be-
comes eloquent, relates thrilling anecdote of
the time when he used to sit up till two o'clock
in the morning reading French, and how his
mother used to say, Felix, You will make your
selfi!l, know You WILL" and how he used to
say, Mother, don't care-I will do it." and
how, at last, his mother privately procured doc
tor to come and see him, who declared, the mo-
ment he felt his pulse, that if he had gone on
reading one N. .sht more-only one night more
he must have put q blister on each temple, and
another between his shoulders.
Mrs. Nixon has tolerab!y extensive circle of
female acquaintance, being a good-humored
ta!kativc, bu<tlng little body: and to the IN
married girls among them, she is constantly
vaunting the virtues of Eer son, limiting that she
will be y very happy person who wins hm, but
that they must mind their ps and Is Tor he IS
very particular, and terrible severe upon young
ladies. At this last caution, the young ladies
resident in the same row, who happen to he spend
ing the evening there, put their pockct-handker-
chiefs before their mouths and are troubled with
short cough; just then Felix knocks at the
door, and his mother, drawing the tea-table near
or the fire, calls out to him, rs he takes Oft his
boots in the back parlor, that he needn't mind
coming in in his slippers, for there are only the
two Miss Grcvs and Miss Thomson and she Is
quite sure they will excuse him, and noddlng to
the two Mis- (ireys she adds in 4 whisper, that
Julia Thomson is great tavorite with Felix, at
which Intelligence the short cough comes again,
aud Miss Thomson, in particular, is greatly trou-
bled with it, till Felix coming in, very faint for
want of his tea, changes the subject of discourse,
and enables her to laugh out boldly, and tell
Amelia Grey not to he so foolish. Here they
all three laugh, and Mrs. Nixon says they are
giddy girls i'll which stage of the proceedings
Felix, who has by this time refreshed himself
with the grateful herb that "cheers, but not ne
briates," removes his cup from his countenanec,
and says, with knowing smile, that all girls
are; whereat his admring mamma pats him on
the back, and tells him not to be sly, which calls
forth general laugh from the Young ladies, and
another smile from Felix, who thinking he looks