New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-08


lovely little creatures, With elear, ,aeream-color
ed compilations, and hair ttfaf FELL id showers az
waving ringIets I decided nh once that they
Would do, and told her to bring them AZ night
IN their prettiest dresses, to which weald add
any needful additions.
fhe children do not make tIfeir appear
anee until the last act. After re- touching their
soilets, lnssructing them in what they had to
ao' ana FEEDING them with zsHesr- plums,
told their mother to make them a bed with
shaWls In the corner Of my dressing room She
dld so, and they seps quietly thro1faIt four nets
ofs the play. We gently awakened fhena for
the fifth act. But their sleep was 100 thor
ofughly the sweet, deep slumber ef iiaypy ehild-
hood to be easily dspelIed with great tiiffi-
Guilty made them comprehend where thgy were
ana what they must do Even a fresh suvply
o. o., sugar piums failed to entirely arouse them
Inc sleepy heads would drop upon their pretty
foand shoulders, and they deyoured the bon
bons with closed eyes,
4he curtain had risen and the children nuist
appear upon the stage. led them to the wing
and gave them in charge of Francis Francis
walked on the stage holding a child in each
hand The trio had hardly made their appeag-
anee when the little girl, thoroughly awakened
BY the dazzling light. gave one frightened Iook
at the audience, broke away from Francis and.
shrieking loudly, rushed up and down the stage,
trying to find some avenue through which she
might escape, The audience shouted with
laughter and the galleries appfauded the sport.
The poor little girl grew more and more be-
Wlldered. Francis pursued her, dragging her
brother after him. The unexpected exercise,
aaaea TO his sisters cries, alarmed the boy. He
screamed In concert, and after some desperate
struggle, obtained his liberty. Francis had
now both children to chase about the stage
me ooy he soon captured and caught up under
hls arm continuing his fight after the girl
ly rrf t-1J
| ing TO stage direction, are to be taken through
. little cottage door on the left Of the stage.
Francis, painting with his exertions. dragged
them to the door, which he pushed omen with
his foot. The struggling children looked in
terror at the cottage. They fancied it Was the
guard-house in which eolored persons are liable
to be confined if they are found in the streets
after certain hour without pass''
CliHglng to Francis, thay cried out together,
g Q, don't ee put me in ee guard house! DENT
ee put me in ee guard-house p
The accent peculiar to their race, and their
allusion to the stguard-house," at once betrayed
70 the audience their parentage. The whole
house broke forth in an uproar of merriment
francis disappeared but the audience could not
be quieted.
l was suffering not little at the contem-
plated impossibility of producing the children at
| the end of the play. But nobody cared to listen
| to another line. Mrs. HdfIe4s eoiored children
had unceremoniously destroyed every vestige of
| illusion. | made my suppIieation to sskiss the
features Of the father in his babiesa in the most
suppressed tone possible, yet the request produ-
| ced fresh burst of laughter. We hurried the
| play to close. The entrance Of the children.
| and the excitement produced upon the parents
by their presence, we left to the imagination of
the spectators. The play ended without the
re-appearance OF the juvenile unfortunates
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TIE Dress Circle--A lady,s waist.
.4Taoni for an hnportunate Creditor-Do
as you would be dun by.
Happy .Hpopthegm-The woman who neg
leets her husbands shirt front is not the wife
Of his bosom.
| The Head and Front If their Ofendsng-
| We very much doubt whether the present fash
ionable bonnet will ever become q great fayorite
| with the ladies, as their love for it cannot be
| said to be ouer head and ears
A JACK OF ALL TRADEs-The editor of the
Council Bluffs City (Iowa) Bugle says he has,
at various times and under various eircum-
| stances, followed and carried on many and va
rious kinds of business, enumerated below, viz !:
House building and painting. eabiney and ehsir
1 making and turning, brick making and school
teaching, saloon keeping, drug business, and an
inyentor Of patent nostrums, farming, public
Snowman, merchandising, baking aad manu-
featuring confectionaries, have twice been post
master, notary public, trustee of an incorpo.
rated town, alderman, ETC.; have carried on
ooopering, wagon making, claeksmithing, shoe
making, saddle and harness business, have had
three stores in operation at once, carried on the
daguerrean business, been a sub-editor, and, to
wind up, am now the unfortunate but not dis
couraged editor of the Council Bluffs Bugle, and
expect in a few years to be as rich as we may
wish; am thirty-fve years old, have better
| half and supposed to be the father of six chill
dren, three of whom are living am six foot in
high-heeled boots, and weigh one hundred and
forty pounds.
/ THOMAS CARLYLEs MoTHER-Itis is ourpain-
full duty to record the demise of Mrs. Carlyle,
the mother of the distinguished author, which
took place at Scotsbrig, on Christmas day Her
two sons, one of whom is d doctor, residing in
London, and the author of various TRANSACTIONS
from the German, were present at the death bed
of their venerable and beloved parent The
doctor had waited upon his mother for month
with the most exemplary and patient love
Thomas Carlyle arrived from his residence al
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