New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-21
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suppose we go to Lady Guhterss hall n
you see that beautiful girl spinning round in
she waltz with that Austtian aftuehs the
sfystailzed terelgners now opposite To you, Who
s such q revolving Pillar Of Diamonds, YES.
see the lovely blonde-f you mean her-wfth
the bare arms and naked shoulders: q. cost.,pe
which, by courtesy, is called full dress. what
a rate she is going at Precisely, the Tin,es.s
steam engine is. in quiekness, a slow coach cersf
pared to hert She makes more svoIutions ii
one minute than the French have made in all
their lives; and, If you notice, sshe shoys no
symptoms. Of fatigue She will keen up that
same speed for hours, and the moment she ceases
sne Is ready te begin again. She is in1efatiga-
Die no wheel in q cotton factory could sniu
round quicker, or work for ID many hcurs with
less apparent fatigue but abe is going ont on
the balcony why, she will catch her death of
cold. No; she is accustomed TO it, a sailor
walking the deck, wouldn't trouble himself less
about colds than she does. al atmospheric are
the same to her! &. s541ssslE
She is no fragile hot house plant. but 4 hardy
annual that will bloom any where-up the Chin
ney, If you please, or down in the cellar. or by
the side Of the kitchen fire, or al the bottom Of
the well-the small question of ternperafure
doesn't make much difference to !. coussitaf1on
70 well seasoned as hers. But does she take no
nourishment to keep up this extraordinary
fatigue Yes; ices plenty of ices and biscuits
varied occasionally with jelly aud, perhaps
late in the evening. the tiniest wing of1chieken
WIN little lobster sauce, or plover's egg, or
a bit Of blame e-mange. the whole of it is washed
down with not more than half glass of cham
pagne. But / have seen her eat j yery good
supper-a supper worthy of a guardsfaan in
loye--Dut 1T has been very late when there were
very few persons in the room, and she had had
2 pleasant companion, who made her langh and
kept continnally filling her glass
And after that? Why, after chat she goes up
Sanrn pr4Fl ffJn,n
ever. She is Unsuitable for dancing 10 look
at her you would think q Tarantula had bitten
her, and that she couldn't keep still for the
fraction of d minute. The wonder IS how one
PAIR OF satin shoes lasts her through the same
evening fou would imagine with her rapidity
-and IT is as much as your eyes can do to fol-
low herTthat she would ware out half dozen
| pairs at least. And how long does she keep it
| up Why as long as shecan--til four or iva
| IN the morning-tili wax candles begin to droop
till the musicians have nearly played them
selves fast asleep until she hasn't d partner
left to dance with, and then, 10th to leave, she
goes unWillingiy home to begin the same dance
the following evening How often does this oc-
cur Four, or five, and sometimes six times a
week; and frequently there are two or three
balls on the same evening, and she has been to
concert, or naGtin6e, or q pie mic, perhaps in
the day time. What, only think Of the ex-
ercise
eiif inal u somelhlng, TO be Eure-and if
the calculations could be made, it is probable it
would be ascertained, by the most generous
cabman's measure, that that Young lady does
not dance less than twenty miles i'd the course
Of an evening -and that is only allowing I'd the
rate of four miles an hour. which you will ac-
knowledge is absurdLy moderate for human
walfzing. Multiply this BY 6, and you will have
the sum total of 120 miles dancing by young
lady in the period of one week! And this. re-
collect is independent offetes, fancy fairs flower
shows, and other amusements that demand some
degree OF exercise during the day And now,
DO you know who this young lady is who dances
her 10 miles a week :? Who is it who goes
through an amount of labor only to be eaualed
by the poor fellows who walk their thousand
miles In their thousand hourss You will never
guess-and SO do not mind telling you.
She is the same young lady whom we saw
stretched out at full length on the sofa, who
looked so weak that she would have tainted if
any one had asked her to walk across the street;
who was so nervous that she could not bear the
slightest noise, or endnre the smallest key hole
of fresh air; who was SO woe begone that she
could not talk, laugh open her eyes. nor
touch single thing; so helpless that she could
not have moved off her couch by herself, not
even If the house had been in flames: who looked
in fact, such q lack-a-daisical bundle of shawls
and prostration. that you must have doubted \
| in your own mind whether she could ever stand
upright again on her two legs. Yes, sir, that
young lady, whose prowess you have been won
dering at this evening is that same poor del
| icate creature; and allow me to say, sir, (con-
cluded the doctor, as hega US cigar to walk
home with,l that in the way Of fatigue there is
very few men-I was nearly saying prize fight
ers-who can stand haf so much as your Poor
Delicate Creature. [Puneh s 88s 8ssi
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