New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-18

seat were the gloomy trees
He only heard the wailIog sound
OF the sum nef breeze
That sady piaJed around
The acsci. trees.
LADIES FURsIsHINe Rooms IN NEW YoRK -
Things in NewYork move on with great velocity
Each day brings with il sopaething new, an.
worthy Of admir- alton for its novelty magnitude,
and adaptation to the existing state Ut society
and business. 1t requires hig gh speed to keep up
with this progress, and travel over great Va
riety Of ways and into many different parts Of
the city.
The Ladies' Furnishing Rooms have just been
opened at No. 600 Broadway, NewYork, on q
very large scale, which is not only Of great pub
lie convenience, but useful as furnishing con-
slant employment to some 400 women and indi-
rect aid to many more At this establishment
. the most fastidious lady can get an entire
from the slipper to the morning cap
any amount of dresses skirts, chemesetts, sleeves,
collars mantillas, linen, with the outft OF an
infant, if she choose, one for whole family OF
little folks-an made to order-and beautifully
made-in one building, and within forty Eight
hours after the order IS given"
The Express states that this extensive estab-
lishnent has five separate Departmental, each
having spacious and we'll ventilated rooms. All
these departments are under the management of
females Of tried reputation in their line.
/. Thisis the department appropriated 70 fam
y
use Of families, hotels, or steamboats, In any
quantities made 10 order of selected materials
of materials brought in TO be made.
2. Ia this all kinds of under linen for females.
or materials for the-same, from the finest linen
cambria to the most perfect embroidery-cc!-
lars, sleeves, skirts. sooes de cho1,6re ETC., oI
every variety Of style, cost, and use no gentle
men are permitted to enter this room
g. This department is devoted to cloaks, man
.illas, and ladies' over-garmeuts of every kind.
4. The fourth department is given exclusively.
to dress making. 1t j, under the direction OF
the best and most fashionable dress makers IN
the city--two American and one French, Dresses
| are furnished, perfectly made, in from four 70
forty eight hours, according TO the style of the
| work in this department large number Of
expert seamstresses are employed.
| 5 This is the millinery department, under the
control Of two experts OF high reputation, Ehefe
| the most superb and the simplest head gear Is
fashioned In this department is room for aii
kinds Of boys garments, also designing room
where female artists are only designing patterns
| for work and prints.
6 is department is for boys clothes OF
every yiriety and quality, and an infants room'
where all the little mysteries required IN the
nursery are supplied.
In this extensive establishment women pay
look for their rights and supply all their wants
in the furnishing way and where others may nnd
steady employment. liberal wages, aud prompt
pay. IL lS remarked tnaC Tue employ ees III I'LL
these rooms are fle, healthy persons. Of easy
and polite manners and many of them beautiful
and even accomplished ladies. With the excep-
tion of tic proprietors, no man is employed iii
the concern.
4 kENTuckY ScHooL.-As descriptive wr,-
ter Willis has few equals. The following
"pcn and ink sketch" of a Kentucky school
has all the yividness of picture done in colors
Il wanted barley at my elbow to sketch the
interior of this school Inconsistencies makes
beautiful pictures-the rudeness and grotesque-
ness OF real life groupings rather adding Than
otherwise to their effect While three or fou.
of the girls just entering upon awkwai dues
had their heels on the herches and sat with their
chins on their knees, feeling of their toes, there
were three four Of the younger ones with
grace and beauty enough 10 equip angels-ths
Heaven they were leaving behind them still ra-
diant in their delicious little faces One ! couid
have taken to my bosom with hug and stoie 2
a little fairy lying fat on her stomach on tA5
top Of slopipg desk, and with her heels n Tie
air, and her cheeks in her hand, too busy Nlib
her spelling book to notice our coming IN. her
hears Of curls we're masses Of brown, tam Il
lighter at the curves, and the russes red OF leI
cheek was beamipg with tranquil health .eyes
large and steady, hands plump and dirty, shou'-
ders and back bare, and frock ragged. There
, she lay learning to spell; and meantime NOR
beautiful than she will be when the spelling ie
learned, and better worth adniring and loving
than when her heels ore kept down, and her
rags changed to the petticoat Of womanhood.
How out of time and space come the things We
most want in this world l am inclined to
think Eden is still around US. Its loveliness
and happiness are only msled. mislabeled, and
unrecognized.
OF the troops on board the bench provided
for the jacket and trowers department Of the
school, one half, at least, were picking the clay
from between the logs, and so getting look at
the opeu air outside and they had SO far sue
cceded that their four front walls let in the light
like a hcneycomb, There was one window "a
hole sawed through one of the logs. that is to
sly--but the main supply of llght came through
the door Near this stood the tall, erect, ma
D iestic form of the school lmas.er--certainly .he
largest supply OF dignity fer the money ltwen-
ty-tive dollars rnonth1 which ha yet seen
g in my travels How 20 handsome a man could
+ / see himself IN the glass, once a day, and keep
# that school for the pay, presume Providence
knew and provided; hut he seemed to ne tc
y have natures ticket on his brow for the govern.
Inert of older minds"
!, A DAsHIsG YcrNG WIDow.-0f all things il
u creation, there is no hing SO captivating as $
> blooming Young widow, nothing so lovesble
e The following, from the Lawrence Register, is 6
= case in point:
e While in Arkansas, in December last, we saw
/, and conyersed with young and beautiful widow
u only twenty seven Years old, who had followei
y to the grave the bodies Of her four husbands