The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-05-06
QuadriIle and Polka.

w T. WOnu6T WnGliIeT II has never occur
ed to some mortified mother, who, for, three
lor four consecutive seasons, has paraded
her, daughters atevery ball and fashionable
gathering, and undergone more trouble in
helping them to dissipate their natural roses
than she ever expended in their education
to herself the question whether. after all.
she Is following the bestmethod d securing.
not The happiness 81 here children. but their
settlement in life? Il is a very momentous
question, but we fear that some mothers
never take it into consideration. Having
in their younger days, passed through the
FIRE before the Moloch of fashion, they take
it for granted that there is but one custom to
be observed, and one course to be pursued:
In the ball room they were wooed and won;
and.why should not their daughters achieve
their destiny in the like locality.
Do not young ladies spoil the pretti-
ness of your brows BY knitting them too has
lily and severely before youhaye heard our
argument We do not intend. BY any
means, to pronounce an eleborate discourse
against the vanities of social society--nei-
Their is il our vein that you should attain
that cerulean hue, which as Dickey Mines.
or some other modern poet, tells Us. q CRATE
full in the eyes 81 Minerva. The purple
light of love these are not our words, for
the blush-rose /. the only fit emblem on
your checks, IS worth all the indigoin the
world. We do not desire that yon should
be over-literary; and we consider total
indifference for science to be an excellent
thing in womans Never shall we forget
the area of the female faces that beams
led upon US when, Il late meeting Of
the British Association We read our ceIe-
brated paper on The History Of The Lost
Pleiad.' Wesaw. asitwere, he glittering
Of thousand starsI but all of them shot
their rays through spectacIes. Never, with
our consent, shall you be cooped up, orpre-
vented from INDUCING to the full ii the IN
Inocent gayety Of your hearts. But we have
4 word or two to say 70 the mammas.
Madam when you first came out Or made
your debut lsF that was then the term h
lyogue-do yDu happen 10 remember what
were he manners Of the ballroom Let us
refresh your memory. The staple dance
was the quadrilIe, perhaps moi 3 very lively
pie ofpantomins but one which. from It's
nature, afforded ample opportunity for con-
versatioh you may call ii Irritation If you
like. andwas neither, in its form. too re-
served nor too familiar. Itwas aIl grace
and decornn. Il admitted Of a slight and
|sremnloss pressure Of the hand nothing
more between 81 les ripe for declaration
and often during the pause before the last
fieffe, altitude Of some bIashing beauty.
pIueking unconsciopsly splendid eameIIla
10 pieces, left little doubt Of the nature q
those whispers which her partner had been
pouring into hef e. lks Margaret 8 The
mast the sweet eirl was but essayihg 70
Prove her destiny from The petals q the
iioueI. Fol those il i less advanced stage
d an understanding. there vas che c0nIfe-
dana, and thereel. viii various other gym
nastics, al 81 harmless nature Bu Sal.
81 had enter paradise. thoughin q mild
form. e may now, our dear madam, =.
Cd, without anything ike bitterness p
feeling The days when y INDUCED togeih.
e. il lie sweet inloxieaGion Of Gle waltz,
Is was realIY-ue confess ii with touch
s 81 the old Adam most fascinating limo.
vasicn YoN danced dieinely and . more