The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1853-11-02
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Not at ffolane.
This fashionable lie repeated daily
and hourly at the doors of our first
families" will. we hope, be numbered
among the things that were, ere many
more years roll around. Ladies Who
teach it to their servants cannot reflect
seriously upon the matter without feel
ing most deeply the degradation they
bring upon themselves every tine,tiey
cause it to be uttered. They are
shocked at the depravity of the cook
when she tells lie to conceal the effect
OF some carelessness, and hold. up Their.
hands i'll holy horror when the cliaitii-.
Der maid is detected appropriating Il
bit Of lace finery; but is not their own
sin the deeper dyed Of the two? MOST
certainly it is. They not only dalib-
erately tell the lie themselves, shut
they teach each Others to repeat it for
them; and not only that, but theysdo
it without the shadow ola justihable I,
excuse. Oh, shame upon you, who are
living in such meanness. You degrade
yourselves, by such acts far lower than
does the common thief who makes
robbery his living.
"But what shall We say then?'' is the
usual queried reply 10 rebultes OF such
conduct. Tho most truthful and heat
answer we eyer received III in answer Ii, y,
the door bell at the house Of d lad V:
who was, fashionably speaking, ..'not at
home,' was one which conveyed the
truth the whole truth, and, nothing but
the truth. 1t was this: ssNirs-------is 4
at home, but it will be inconvenient
for her to see any person this after
noon" Such a message contains moth
ing chilling or repulsive, no, yet any
thing unladylike and more than all
this, it is the truth. Such message
real lady might deliver in person,
and none could hear without admiring
it. Reader learn lesson from this.
Have you not some other fashionable
lie besides that of 'not at home,," which
you practice upon in your house or
your business?--Neao York San.
Ups and Downs of. WALL
StrCGG. b
In walking up Broadway, a day or
two since, our attention was arrested.
i'll common with thousands upon the
sidewalk, by the appearance Of vsry
dashing equipage. A pair Of dandy
horses, with rigolettes on their head,
and an uncommonly highly polished
carriage. The whole turn out, includ.
ing the sable driver, may be ftly sdes.
cribed as ''nigger fne." On glancciiig
at the occupant of the carriage, who sat
with folded arms, "alone in his gIoir,yy,''
in the back seat, we were somewhat
surprised to recognize man, who, two
! or three years since, was apparently
in very different hard
up, we may say, for "such thing as
five dollar bill" On expressing. some
establishment at this brilliant appear
ance and remarkable metamo ofphosis.
o friend explained the secret by saying
that the Fifth yennoodle in Tie DASH
ing vehicle had been gambling In
| stockS-and had non!
Presently we met another gentle
man in ''high feather" who but d year
or two ago was known rs 81 lame
duck" in Wall street. .'T'hat man.
said our friend, "has had q lucky turn,
ofthe cards. He has made hundred
and fifty thousand dollars within the
past year ON the fall Of CumBerlands
Stock" s5s
And tliisis the way sudden fortunes
arc made in New York: and this nc. nc
counts for the sudden appearance of,
those 'iouvean riehe who '.astonish the
natives" by dashing in such dazs Inn
spendor through Broadway. When
you see a ve''y glittering eqlip Il, ,ll..
ing through the streets, you may lbsS
pretty sure that its owners play
saw III Wall street, orr -kesps q lsoifSa
up toson.--N.. Y. Mirror.
sruSKy.--A Virginian, specializing
OH q possibility OF a division of tho
surplus re,enue among he see
States, says: eve should rejoice is.
sea every dime of il suhk Ia slas Pos Pos
tomao, rather than to hear Of the res
ception ofa solitary cont " by Aisss
ginia,s
An Irish officer nj porl seeing d bea
fill pistare sketched upon & wall isl
slsfasyidsl, clain9ed ..lsi is s fita :ssinss
i !iing bnt is Was never done Sl9
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