Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-09-12
BY Fl. BUCHER SWOOPE.


fully the longer you looked at them; her nos
was short, perhaps faultily so, but beautiful
ly chiselled, and fine as a Grecian statue; he
mouth, rather large, displayed, however tw,
rows of teeth beautifully regular and of snowy
Nhiteness while her chin, rounded and dim
pied, glidod 10y an easy transition into throa
large and most gracefully formed. Her fig
uro rs well as ! could judge, was below the
middle size, and Inclined to en5oapoipt and
her dress. denotiug some national pecularity
OF which was ignorant, was q velvet bodice
| laced in front and ornamented with small sill
yer buttons, which terminated in white mus
| lin skirt small cap, something like what
Mary Queen of Scots is usually represented in,
sat on the back of her head and fell in deep
lace folds on her shoulders. Lastly her hands
were s.nall white and dimpled, and displayed
on her taper and rounded fingers several rings
| of apparently great value.
have been somewhat lengthy in my dcs-
! cription Of these two persons, and can scarce
| ly ask my readers to accompany me round the
circle however, it is principally with them
have 10 do. The others at table were still re
markabe enough there was leading mem
Der of the chamber Of deputics-an ex-minis-
ter, tall, dark -browed, iIl-farored man, with
retiring forehead and coal-black eyes ne
was man Of great cleyerncss, spoke eloquent
ly and well, and siagnlarly open and frank in
giving his opinion on the politics Of the time.
There was a German or two # ON the grand
dutchy ofsomething, somewhat reserved per-
sonages, as all the Germans Of petty states
are; they talked little, and were evidently
impressed with the power they possessed of
tantalizing Us by not divulgiug the intentions
of Gross Hcrzog of Hoch Donnorstadt'' re
carding The present prospects of Europe.
There were three Frcnehmen and two
French ladies. aIlpIeasapt. easy. and conver
sabIn noonIo tbare was doctor from 7 or
vain. q sbro,yd intelligent man = Prussian
major and his wife well bred ouiet neonle.
and like all Prnssiaps. polite without inviting
ocorai,,topca. m Austri,n secretary Of Lara
ffon wine merchant from Bordeaux: and a
ccIahr,tad niapist com,Jatod the Marty.
have now mt my readers in possession
Of i,forontio, which onrv obtained after
some day.s n,vse1f. for tbourb one or other OF
+boso ,,o,.so,,aoas was occ,sioDally absent from
taIIo d,bote. soon Derceivcd that they were
all freouenters Of the house and we'll known
tfore.
# the rrcsts were seated at table wherever
.1,,,,, ~. ,co;d,.r.t ,i,,l,t ,.l.,o tror, corld
,.c..i,-, ,bo+. ron, Of laa;.r.,,,ca WIS aI,ravs
ned 70 +bo +o,,,n,n ,vl,o Invariably maintain
od lie ,,,,oo o+ tt,. i,coa and an mir of even
oro,4.r oon.t.y,, ,ss,7n,.I towards fl lady be-
s;da hin, who was his wifi. lie was always
,,11r,s,..7 30 Monsieur 10 C,,n,,,ta and her fl
Il, Of countess never forgotten in speaking to
bor Drrfng dinner whatever little chit-chaf
or ,ossi, was the talk of the dav WAS specially
offered nm 70 her.
Tho Younger ,7,csfs occasfoDaIIv yepturcd
70 nrescnt bououat. and even the rugged
,,inisto,. birnself ACCOMPLISHED a more polite
how n ,ccostiuo her than, he could bav, sum.
moned nm for. his nrcscntatiop to ROYALTY. 70
all These attentions she returned a smile. or
4 look. or q word. or a gesture with her white
hand. never exciting jealousy by any undue
degree of favor. and distributing her honors
with tbe practiced equaninlity of one acoustic
med to it.
Dinner over and coffee. handsome britzka
drawn by two splendid dark bay horses would
drive up, and Madame le Comptesse, conduct
ed to the carriage hy her husband, would
ceive the homage Ct the whole party as they
stood to let her pass The count would then
linger some twenty minutes or so, and take
his leave to wander for an hour about the
park and afterwards TO the theatre, where IL
sed to see him in private box with his wife
Such was the little party at s.the France;