Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-01-13
From the New York Musical World.
A Leaf From Fanny Fern.

Importance -H0TttCuIuflSt
From the New York Musical World
"A Leaf From Fanny Fern.
Dear me, must 60 shopping. Shopping is nui-
sance; clerks are impertinent; femnity is victim
lied. Miserable day, too mud plastered an inch
thick on the side walk Well, if we drop our skirts
gentlemen cry Ugh = FIVE lift them from the mud
they level their eye-glass at our ankles The true
definition of gentleman (not found in incomplete
Webster) is-a biped, who, of muddy day. is per-
tectly obllvous of anything but the shop signs
IaUe la France! Ingenious Parisians send us over
your clever invention-a chain suspended from the
girdle, at the end of which is gold hand to clasp
up the superfuous length of our promenading robes:
thus releasing human digits and leaving them at
liberty to wreste with rude Boreas for the possess
sion of the detestabe little sham bonne s. which the
milliners persist in hanging to the backs of our
necks
Well, here we are at Call & Ketchum's dry-eoods
store. Now comes the tug of war: let Jobs mantle
fall on my feminine shoulders.
Have you blue silk o.
Yardstck entirely ignorant of colors after fifte
minutes snail-like research, (during which time
stand patiently on one l-imb,) hands me down a
silk that IS as green as himself.
Oh away with these stupid masculine clerks and
give US aconaen, who know by intuition what we
want, to the immense saving of our lungs and eath-
er, patience and prunela
Here's Mr.. Timothy Tapes establishment.
" Have you lace collars (in points, Mr.. Tape" :"
MIR: Tape looks benifcent, and shows me some
rounded collars | repeat my request in the most
pointed manner for pointed collars. Mr.. Tape re-
plies, with q patronizing grin
" Points is going out, maam.'
so am -
! Dear me- how tired my feet are Nevertheless,
| must have some merino. So [ opened the door of
MIR. Henry Humbugs dry-goods store, which is
about half mile in length and inquire for the de-
sired article. Young Yardstick directs me 10 the
counter at the eltreme end of the store | COM
mence my travels thitherward through file of gap
limo aIo
two by my repeater when am told that they are
quite out of merinos-but won't Lyonese cloth do
just as we'll !' pulling down a pile of the same
rush out in a high state of frenzy, and taking
fuge in the next-door neighbor's inquire for some
stockings. Whereupon the clerk inquiries (of the
wrong customer) what price wish to pay Of
course am not so verdant to be caught in that
trap and teetotaly disgusted with the entire insti-
tuition of shopping, drag nay weary limbs into
- saloon to rest
Bless me! what display of gliding, and ginger
bread what heap Of mirrors There's more than
one Fanny Fern in the world. | found that out
since came in.
"What will you be pleased to have % Julius
Caesar look at that white aproned waiter pull
ing out his snuA-box and taking a pinch of snuff
right over that bowl of white sugar that will bo
handed in five minutes to sweeten my tea And
there's another combing his hair with q pocket
comb over that dish of oysters
"What will | have Z" Starve-but I'll have
nothing till can find cleaner place than this to
eat in.
Shade of Old Paul Pry Boston what do I hear -
Two we'll declare am not whether they
are ladies women,) don't understand these New
York feminites. At any rate, they've got on bon
nets, and are telling the waiter to bring them 81
bottle OF Maraschino de Rara sponge CAKE and bran
dy." See them sip the cordial in their glasses with
the gusto of an old Topper See their eyes sparkle
and their cheeks flush and just hear their emanci-
pated little tongues go! Wonder if their husbands
know that theY-but of course they don't However,
it is six of one and half dozen of the other, They
are probably turning down sherry cobbers and eat
ing oysters at Florences; and their poor hungry
chlldren-whie their parents daintyzing
coming home hungry from school to eat fragment
of dinner picked up at home by lazy set of
wants
4 Heigho ladies slipping wine in a public saloon
i Pilgrim rock hide yourself under ground Well it
is very shocking the number of married women who
pass cir time running their health in these saloons
devourlng Partisan confectionery and tanting their
chlldren's blood with appetite for strong drink
Oh what mockery of home must theirs be =
Heaven pity the children reared there, left to TIE charge
of vicious hireiings FANNY FERN
The Russian Soldier.
! There is not in the world droller creature than
a Russian soldier When for the first time, young
countryman throws over him the grey cloak, and
takes the gun on his shoulder one can think of moth
ing nuwieldly and awkward than such being.
But this seemingly so unpGant creature, shows him.
self in an astonshingy short time capable of the
greatest improvement in any direction, The germ
of all that is noble and common, all that is good and
bad, lies hidden in him 1t lies of course in all
manifestations anon people easily and speedi-
lily among the Russians.
, The Russian soldier is brave, cowardly-honest,
theivsh-humane, cruel dligent, ,lazy--everythng,
according to the pattern of his chief With the
proper management, everything can be made Of him
left himself he is nothing and without the