Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-10
EVENING STAR.
A Slack Twisted Girl.

manager, [ assure you. In the first place,
she is always late to breakfast she
never combs and ties up her hair, but
only gives it smooth aud twirl, sets
in her comb awry, and so niuch IS COM
pleted. Her dress generally has two Or
three green spots upon the front breadths,
her shoes are down at the heel, and she
scuffs about rather than walks. She is
too lazy to open the windows to air her
chamber too indolent to take her night
dress out of her bed too inefficient to
throw back the bed-clothes. She
yawns over her breakfast, laughs with
her brothers about some young 'gent, "
hopes g somebody can lake hints" looks
over the morning papers and reads the
marriages, the concert notices.: the new
play at the museum, and what is going
on at the Athen8ln, and then sits over
the parlOr register with yellow covered
book of She last trash literature, till her
mother says, Sophia dear, do you know
how late it is! Do, child make your
toilet. MIR. Woodfln may call, and what
would he think 90 for this pretty piece of
clay is engaged to be married to our Tom.
Well, she goes into her nicely arranged
ed-chamber, which the maid has so care
fully put in order. Heavens, how pretty
it looks in few moments Stockings
thrown helter-skelter, a pair of boots both
stringless and worn threadbare: the
morning dress left just as she dropped
out of it, and two old faded skirts all tat
tered about the bottom. Her brush is
full of hair, her comb looks as black as
ink, her toilet cover is bedaubed with
''Macassar," s'bear's OIL" and ''rosema-
ry." But she is now dressed for the
parlor, ready to receive Mr.. Woodfun
Her hair is combed over her ears as
smoothly as if a polishingiron had flat
tened every stray lock, her dress is
all neatly hooked up, and what a trim
little form she assumes Her boots are
laced close, and she holds the identical
piece Of ruffling in her hand to hem
which she began month ago! Her
mother speaks Of g Sophia's industry
she is afraid she will sew her eyes out of
her head. She is thankful to the even
ing concert. D." And previously to going
there, another dressing takes place, and
her room again looks as If Bedlam were
let loose, which makes only three times q
day that the chamber-maid is called to
put things to rights.
And the worst Of all is, ''our Soph" is
expecting to marry Tom, whose father is
a rich man, but has put his son to clerk
ship, at the sum Of five hundred per an
mum. Tom, do take another look before
you leap-just one more, my good fellow.
Take off the finger-rings, take out the
watch, take off the boots, and look at the
unmended hose-lift up the arm and see
that hole in the dress-take off the ri bbon
around the neck, and see how greasy it is
inside-and, as live, her pocket hand
kerchief isn't hemmed! What wife
you are getting! Think Of her manage
ment. How your shirts and diclevs
mould be made; how your drawers would
be folded; your stockings darned, your
pan s mended, your rips sewed, and your
pockets fleeced 10 pay for gewgaWs, and
dressing maids, and cooks, and chamber
girls. With your five hundred salary all
spent in your first three mon rs of house
NV pms, "iiti }ou, VIII FbIt uiigC1 III
your mouth, asking your IA her 20 lend
you thousand Or so And tnen to com
fort you, the slac'l twisted woman is YOUR
wife, and she is goE1s, nirofy yours.-
Don't talk now about hanging, or drown
ing, or being swallowed up. only let your
wife do her own way, and my word for it,
something akin to the cholera will take
you Otf-for malignant diseases find their
smart marhs where dirt and vegetable de-
composition goes on uninterruptedly.
CROWDING THE YOUNGEST CLERK.-The
n. Y. Weekly Messenger in answer to the
query proposed by he youngest clerk"
els it the place of a Young lad who is in
store or office, to do he brands of the
clerks, or any body in The store except
his employers !'-sayS:
1t is very common practice, we be
lieve, for certain upstairs to lord it over
the youngest clerk, and to send him
around on divers errandS, such as taking
boots and coats to be amended delivering
bouquets, and earring messages, parcels,
letters, &c. This, 10 say the least, is a
piece of c-e,.nness for it not only hinders
the youth in his efforts to learn the bust
ness and attain higher Dosition in the