Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-18
4 Peer Delicate Creature.


site TO you, who is such revolving
pillar of diamonds? Yes. see the lovely
blond-if you meet her-with the bare
arms and naked shoulders; custom that
by courtesy. is called full dress. What
rate she is going at! Precisely. the
Times steam engine is, in quickness. O
SLOW coach compared 10 heIi She makes
more evolutionS in one minute than the
French have made in all their lives; and
If you notice. she shows no symptoms OF
fatigue. She will keep up that same
speed Cor hours. and the moment she
rests she is read, TO begin again. She
is iLdefatignb!e; no wheel in a cotton
factory could spin around quicker. or
work for so many hours with Jess appa-
rem, fatigue; but she is going GU, on the
balcony; Why. she will catch her death
OF cold! No. she is accustomed to -.
A saio: walking the deck would rot
trouble himself less about colds than she
does. All atmcsPheres are the same TO
her
She is no fragile hot house plant. bur 4
hardy annual lha! will bloom anywhere
up the chimney If you please. or down
in the cellar, OF by the side of the hitch
en- fire. or at the bottom Of the we'll
the small question of temperature does
not make much difference 10 o con.titu-
lion as well seasoned as hers. Bu. does
she take no nourishmeni 70 keep up this
extra ordinary fatigue? Yes; ices-plen-
" OF ices Bnd biscuts--varied occasion
ally with jelly. anu perhaps late i'll the
evening. the tiniest wing Of Chicken
with u little lobster sauce, Or u riovar E
egg, OF bi. of blank mango. the whole
Of il is washed down with not more than
half b glass of champagne. But have
seen her eat very good suPper-a sup
per worthy OF guaIdsman in loye--but
i: has been very late when there were
but few persons in the room. and she had
pleasant companion. who made her
laugh and kept continually filling her
glass.
And after that she goes up stairs again,
and dances more intensely than ever.
She is insatiabio for dancing. To look
at her you would think Taran,ula had
Bitten her. and that she couldn't Keep
still for the fraction Of minute. Tho
wonder is how ono pair of satin shoes
lasts her through the came evening =
You would Imagine with her rapidity-
and i, is as much as your eyes can do 10
follow hes-that she would wear out
half dozen pair a: least. And how
long does she keep il up? Why. as long
as she car, till four or five in tho morn
ing tiil wax candles begin to d.oop. till
the musicians have nearly played them
selves to sleep. until che has not part
ner left TO dance with. and then. loa,h
to leave. sho goes unwillingly home TO
begin the same dance again the follow
ing evening. How often does This oc-
cur? -Four or five and sometimes six
times week; and frequently ,here are
two or three balls on ii. same evening.
and she has been TO concert pic mic
or matinee. perhaps. in the day time
What. only think Of the exercise.
Well. that is something. to be sure
and if the calculation could be made. i,
is probable it would be asce ertained by .he
most generous cabman's measure, .ha,
that young lady does not dance less than
twenty miles iu the course Of on even
ing-and ihai is only allowing at the
rate of four miles all hour, which ,ou
will acknowledge ia absurdly moderate
for human waltxing. Multiply this by
six and you will hnve the sum total OF
100 miles dancing by a young lady in
the period Of one week. And this. rec
ollect, is independent of fetes, fancy
iaiIs. flower shows and other OIL emusements
that demand some degree Of exercise
during the day. And now. DO you know
who this young lady is who dances her
100 miles a week? Who is il who goes
through an amount Of labor only equaled
BY the poor fellows who walk their thou.
sand miles in their thousand hours7 You
will never guess. and so | do no, mind
telling you.
She is the same young lady whom we
saw stretched out at full length on the
sofa, who looked so weak tha, she would
have tainted if any one had asked her TO
walk across the street; who was so ner
vous that she could hot bear the slight
est noise. or endure the smallest keyhole
of fresh air; who wos SO woe begone
that she could not talk. laugh or open her
eyes, or touch a single thing; so helpless
that she could not have moved off the
couch by herself. not even if the house
had been in flames; who looked in fact
such a lack-n- daisical bundle of she wis
and prostration. that you must have
doubted in your own mind whether she
could ever stand upright again on her
two legs. Yes. sir, tha, young lady whose
prowess you have been wondering at this
evening is that same poor. delicate crea-
ture; and allow me to say. sir. CONTINUED
the doctor. as he gave US cigar to walk
home WITH that in the wax Of fatigue
there are very few men--I was nearly
saying crize fghters-whe can stand half
SO much as yocs Poor Delicate Cres
ture. Punch.
MORMON LAw,--An editorial in the
Salt Lake News thus speaks Of the
treatment of The slandever OF the fair sex
in IItah.