New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-21

RULES FOR EscoRTrNG LADIEs-The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Herald,
in q long bomily on the conduct ofladies in the
capital. among other things, says:
Never, or very rarely, offer to carry lady's
shawl or parasol, or put your hand on her
shoulder or round her waist Gas is so often done1
in assisting her out of the carriage, or into her
seat. To delicate woman all such clapping
aud clawing is the most insufferable rudeness.
The proper way when you aGght, is to offer your
eft arm as a support for the lady's right hand,
and to hold your right hand in readiness,
should the exigeneies of skirts, ETC., permit her
taking it with her left. In ascending a STAIR
case, keep side by side with the lady, but do not
he too ostentatious in offering your arm, lest in
attempt to take it she negleets the management
of her skirts, steps her Dress and either falls
or tears it out at the waist.
If you attend two ladies, place the one next
you who is entitled, either by rank or prefer
ence, to the post of honor-but on no account
whatever walk between them A man with q
lady on each arm is laughable paraphFase of
a donkey laden with two panniers. Observe @
different rule, however, in taking your places in
a concert room. The gentleman in those should
be preceded and followed by lady. At table,
a gentleman and ladyswho have a guest q speak
now of the hotel table, for we are really getting
to know scarcely any other in this country,)
always place him or her between. If the guests
are also two, then you place your lady guest
between your wife and yourself, while the gen.
tleman takes the other end of the line, leaving
the ladies in the middle. The logic, as well as
the convenience of all these little arrangements,
will be suggested by q single thought how
much aWkwardness, and consequent mortifca-
tion and annoyance, would be avoided by q
careful observance of these simple rules.
A New PARTISAN DEvICE.-A man named
Boissonneau was tried by the tribunal of COR
rectonal police, in Paris, for q very ingenious.
though scarcely credible, species of robbery.
He one day went to pastry cook and said, g [
shall require tomorrow 400 brioehes,'' Ca sort
of bunl "They shall be got ready, SIR re-
piled the pastry cook, after having asked his
name and address He then went to watch
| maker opposite, and selected a watch of 20of
As the trader was picking it up, he said, G | am
wholesale butter dealer; the pastry cook op-
posite owes me 400f--he will pay you-come
with me-" The watch maker followed the man
to the pastry cooks 81 have come to tell you,'
said the prisoner, &c that shall only want 200
and that you must give the other 200 10 this
person, your neighbor" On this the watch
maker unsuspeetingly allowed him to walk off
with the watch, but to his profound astonsh-
ment, there arrived the next day, not POOR, but
200 brooches. The trick was then discovered.
Nothing was seen of the man until a few days
ago, when he was recognized by the pastry
cooks boy, dressed in grotesque style, and sell
ling pencils in the midst of Il crowd The trl-
bunal condemned him to years Imprisonment
| [Galignanis Messenger.