Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-26

IL own sex over the female. A few nights
be, | saw Master Sultan at juvenile ball,
hiding at the door of the dancing-room, eyre
hsly displaying his muslin pocket handker-
Pf, and waving it about as if he was in doubt
which of the young beauties he should cast it.
by don't you dance, Master Sultan 3" says |.
v good Sir, he answered, s.just look round
hose girls and say if l can dance :" Biase
selfish now, what will that boy be, Sir, when
whiskers grow?
Ind when you think how Mrs. Maintenance
ks out rich partners for her little boys-how
own admirable Eliza has warned her children
v dears, l would rather you should dance
III your Brown cousins than your Jones cou-
g." who are little rough in their manners;
le fact being, that our sister Maria Jones lives
slington. while Fanny Brown is an Upper
ker Street ladyl-when have heard my dear
fe, say, instruct our boy, on going to party
the Baronet's, by no means to neglect his cou-
Adelina, but to dance with her as soon as
er he can engage her-what can | say, Sir, but
1t the world of men and boys is the same
BIT society is poisoned at it source-and that our
lie chubby-cheeked cherubim are instruc
to be artful and egotistical, when you would
Ink by their faces they are just fresh from
aven.
Among the very little children, confess get
Consolation as watch them, in seeing the art
Is little girls walking after the boys to whom
ey incline, and counting them by hundred in
Scent little wiles and caresses, putting out their
.tle hands, and inviting them, and begging them
+ pull the crackers with them, and begging them
read the notices, and so forth-this is as it
Gould be-this is natural and kindly. The wo-
len, by rights, ought to court the men; and they
|ould if we but left them alone.*
And absurd as the games are, own like to
ke some thirty or forty of the creatures on the
x.lo,y ot 0f oil oOaC
BID sexes, from the most insubordinate infant
bod of Master Jaeky, who will crawl out of the
|rcle, and talks louder than anybody; in it,
hough he can't speak to blushing Miss Lily,
Tho is Just conscious that she is sixteen-l own,
say, that can't look at such a circlet or chap
1t of children, as it were, in hundred different
blors, laughing and happy, without sort Of
leasure. How they laugh, how they twine to-
ether, how they wave about, as if the wind was
|assng over the flowers Poor little buds, shall
|ou bloom long?-Q then say to myself, by way
# keeping up proper frame of mnd)-shall
rosts nip you, or tempests scatter you, drought
vither you, or rain beat you down! And OPP
,ressed with my feelings, go below and get some
If the weak negus with which ehildren's parties
ire refreshed.
Atthose houses where the magic lantern is prac-
lsed still sometimes get degree of pleasure, by
tearing the voices of the children in the dark and
he absurd remarks which they make as the varl-
JUS scenes are presented-as, IN the dlssolvlng
tiews, Cornhill changes into Grand Cairo as Gu
lid comes down with wreath and pops it CT 10
he head of the Duke of Wellington, as Saint Pc
er's at Rome suddenly becomes Illuminated, and
fireworks, not the least like real fireworks, begin
% 90 off from Fort st. Angelo-it is certainly moi
unpleasant to hear the 5000" of the audience
md the little children chattering in the dark
ness. But think used to like the s'Pull devil
pull baker" and the Doctor Syntax of our youth
much better than all your new-fangled dissolvins
views and pyrotechnic limitations
As for the conjuror, am sick of him. Their
is one conjuror I have met so often during th
year and the last, that the man looks quite gull
ty when the folding doors are opened and he see
my party of children, and myself amongst thu
seniors in the back rows. He forgets his joke
when he beholds me: his wretched clap.traps ant
waggeries fail him he trembles falters, and turn
pale.
Ion my side too feel reciprocally uneasy. VIVA
right have we to be staring that creature out of hi
silly countenance? Very likely he has wife AM
family dependent for their bread upon his antics
should be glad to admire them if could, bu
how do 500 When see him squeeze an orang
or cannon-ball right away into nothing as i
were, or multiply either into three cannon ball
or oranges, know the others are in his pocket
somewhere. I know that he doesn't put out hi
eye when he sticks the penknife into it: or tina
after swallowing las the miserable humbug pre-
tends to do) pocket handkerchief he cannot b,
any possibility convert it into quantity OF color
ed wood shavings. These fimsy articles ma.
amuse children, but not us. think shall 60 ant
sit down below amongst the servants whilst thi
wretched man pursues his idiotic decisions befor
the children.
And the supper, Sir, of which our darlings ar
made to partake. Have they dined! | ask. D.
they have supper at home, and why do not they
Because it is unwholesome. If tits unwholesome
why do they have supper at all? have mention
ed the wretched quality of the negus. How they
can administer such stuff to children can't think
Though only last week heard little boy, Mas
ter Swilby, at Miss Waters say that he hat
drunk nine glasses of it, and eaten don't know
how many tasteless sandwiches and insipid cakes
after which feats he proposed to fight my young
est son.
AS for that Christmas Tree, which we have
from the Germans who knows wha
has happened to them may judge what will befal
us from following their absurd customs. Are VIZ
to put up pine-trees in our parlors, with wax can
dies and 6on6ons, after the manner of the ancien
Druids? Arewe
!. NY dear Sir, my manuscript must here
abruptly terminate. Mrs. S. has just come int
my study, and my daughter enters. grinning be
hind her, with twenty-five little notes, announc
ing that Master and Miss Spec request the plea
sure of Miss Brown, Miss F. Brown and M. A
Browns company on the 25th instant. There il
to be a conjuror in the back draw-room, magic
lantern in my study, a Christmas Tree in the
dining room, dancing in the drawing room
"And, my dear, we can have whist in our bed
room,' my wife says. 'You know we must be
civil to those who have been so kind to our dar.
ling children" SPEC.
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