Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1854-04-03
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Matrimopy and the tosthache may BE-
survived. but Of all the evils feminity is
heir TO. defend me from shopping ex-
cursion. But. alas bonnets. shoes and
hose will veal out, and shop keepers will
chuckIe over the sad necessity that places
the unhappy owner within their dry
gcols clutches. Meanwhile. the vexed
question is still unso.ved. Were can the
pennance Of shopping be performed with
the least possible wear aud tear of patience
and pfunella? The answers seems to mr
to BIZ contained in six letters-.Stewarts 4"
.Siewarts think hear some old
lady exclaim, dropping and peerlng over
her speetacles, "Ste"arts! yes, il you
have the mines Of California; 10 back YOU -
Now have a profound respect for old
ladies, as stand seii-plsdged to join that
respectable body on the advent Of my
very first grey hair; still with due defer
rnce 20 their catnip ard pennyroyal tx.
prrience. conseientiously epeat-.'Stew
arts"
You NAV stroll through his rooms free
to gaze aud admire, without being annoy
I'd by an impairment clerk dogging your
footsteps; you can take up fabric, and
examine It, without being bored by a
statement Of its immense superiority over
every article Of the kind in the market,
or, without being deafened BY detailed
account Of the enormous sum, that the
mushroom aiistocracy have considered
themselves but too happy TO expend, in
order to secure dress from that very de-
sirable aud altoge,he unsurpassed, and
indispensable, piece of goods!
You can indepeutly say that an article
does not exactly suit you, though your
husband does not stand BY you with a
drawn sword. You will encounter no
oging, no imprItinent eross.qnes,ioning.
no tittering Whispers from the quiet. we'll
/, bred clerks, " no attend to their o"n bu-
sinsss and allow you to attend to yours.
IT'S true that you May See at Stewards
cobwrb lac-s an inch or two wide, for
$50 or 500 yard, which many brain
less butterfly OF fashion is supremacy hap
pv in sporting: but at the very next coun-
ter Won may SUIT yourself, or your country
cousin, to i sixpenny ralico, or shilling
de Lame; and, what is better, be quite
as sure that her verdant queries will br
as respectfully answered as il liserird
Pompey stood waiting at the door to hand
her to her carriage.
You cat go into the silk department.
" here, bv soft descending hight, you
will see dinner.dresses that remind YOU oil
shivered rainbow for passee married la
dies, who long since ceased to celebrate
their birthdays, and who keep their bud
ding daughters carefully immared in the
nursery: or, at the SAME counter, YOU can
select a modest silk for your minister
wife, a: six slillings ayard, that vii
cause no hrait-burning in the most Argus
eyed of Paul Pry parishes.
Then If YOU paironise those ever-to-he'
abomnated aud always to-be-shunncd nu'
isance called parties, where fools OF boil
sexes gather to criticlse their host and
hostess and cut up characters and coniec
tionarv, YOU can step imto that LATHE room
from which daylight is excluded. and Sc
iect an evening dress, BY gas-light, upor
the effect Of which you can, Of course, de
] pend, and to which artistic arrangement
many a New York belle has probobl,
owed that much priced possession-hel
last conquest"
Now, il you please. you can 60 into tht
upholstery room and furnish your nurser!
windows with cheap set Of plain lire'
curtains; or YOU can expend small for
tune in regular crimson. or soft blue dam
ask draprry for your drawing room; ant
without troubling yourself to tread TIN
nryer.euding street Of Gotham for an up
holsteress can have them made BY com
petent persons in the upper loft OF thu
building who will also dfape them fault
lrssly about your windows, should you St
desire.
! Now YOU can peep into the cloak'roon
and hear away on yeur graceful shoulder
a Sc. $40, $50, or $500 cloak, as sh
length of your husbands purse. or you
Town fancy (Which in these Degenerate
days amounts to pretty much the sam
thing) may suggest.
! Then there is the Wholesale department
where you will see ehawls. hosiery, fan
neh. calicoes and do laues. su6jcient 3