The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-05-27

cate health that forenoon, and very much
fatigued. The good lady prescribed for thcn,
and as they walked home they descantcd very
fcclingly upon the consequences of the vice of
intemperance, as developed in the case of e
miserable drunkard, who passed them In
charge of a polcer. Poor fellow lie, too;
was in delicate health, and had the ladies been
aware oft, they might have been more char
table.
Mr. Blanchard was in excellent spirits--ho
generally was at dinner time-and as he well
coined his wife and daughter home, he pro-
tested that the former lookcdas young as ever,
and that the walk or rouge, had put charm
ing bloom in his daughters checks. She
denied the rouge, as safely she might. Tho
color in her face and in her mothers was
deeper than rouge, and though varying in
shade, more durable. Mrs. Blanchard was
In excellent humor at the compliment paid
herself; for women are as found of fiattcry af-
ter marriage as before. Flora was happy too
and although it is telling lady's secret,
we shall disclose the reason. She was rcoiccd
that her father had brought no one home to
dinner; for, of all things, young ladies of deli
cate health dread company to dinner. 1t puts
them to the necessity Of expressing so man
fears that this and that will hurt then; and
| requires SO many assurances on the part Of
mamma that the said this and that arc pcr-
fectly innocuous, that dinner, under such cir
cums.anccs is quite bore. And then, besides,
when the wine is introduced, it is such per-
plexity to be compelled to forbear the glass
until some gentleman asks the HONOR The
perplexlty is doubled when, as usually happens
gentlemen are too stupid to understand PFC
ciscly how much medicine of that disaerc,a-
bic nature young ladies of delicate health re-
quirc. Many is the sclf-ordrrcd recipe which
young ladies have been compelled to take in
secret and by stealth, merely on account of the
presence of young gentlemen at their fathers
tables. Happy therefore was Flora, when
she ascertaincd that the board was to be that
day clear of strangers.
For inyalids, it is certain that the Blanch.
ards couldmake sweeping work. Poor John
the footman often stood aghast and horror
struck as inroad after inroad made into a sir
loin diminished the chances for choice cuts be-
low stairs. Condiments of all kinds disap-
pcarcd before the trio with corresponding ra-
pidity; and moisture to all this was arranged
as the peculiar delicacy of the health of each
rendered necessary. At last, thoroug hly
Frustrated, after an inefficient attack at an
orange or so, Mr.. Blanchard would retreat to
his chair to doze; and the ladies, wondering
why their dinner could Cypress, would make
the last remedial application to the lguer,
and fall back from the attack, to live between
sleeping and waking, till double shottcd
charge of gunpowder tea should reassure
them. If company were present, the ladies'
left the table before the gentlemen. They
triilcd with book or light needle work until
tea time, and after that were in good spirits
again, and ready for the visit or visitcr, for
the party or the the atrc, if it was the FASH
ionable season. At ten, or twelve, or two,
asst happened, if Flora had been out so long,
rcfreshment again became necessary, and the
day suffcrngs of the invalids closed.
(To be Continucd.)