The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-11-24

1,,.xERs-There "a something In the very NJ.
pect Of Friend" Suggestive OF peace aI h,s,eS
will Verify If itwere not tor me e.. ,sords moo.
ME call .'shad would be quaker. but Ior tue
life of me cannot resist the enect OF 'ne sro's
que and the odd must smile oftenest AT myseH.
could not keep within draD garmems anu anu we ,
bounds of propriety. Incongruisy would read me
ont Of Meeting TO be refined In under PLAIN nat
yyould be impossible. Besides l doubt whether
any one accustomed to the worlds pleasures
could be q quaker. Who, once iamhiar WIN
Shakespeare and the opera, could resist favor1te
air on hand organ. or pass undisturbed, Hanietf
in capital letters on play bilf To be quaker
one must be Quaker born In spite OF sydney
Smith, there IL such thing as Q quaker Daoy.-r
In fact Ihave seen the diminutive demurity, Sun
plat in the bud 1t had round blue eyes, and
face that expressed resignation in spite OF the stom
ach ache 1t had no lace on its3baby cap, no EN-
broidered nonsense on its petlcoat- III hau no
heads no ribbon no rattle, no bells or coral It's
nIa;n Garments were innocent of inserting edg-
inc. ts socks were not of the color of the world
peoples baDys. , .,..:
1t was as punctiliously silent as silent meeting,
and sat up rgdly in its mothers lap, cutting us
| teeth without a gum-ring 1t never cried nor
| CLAIMED it's hands and would not have said papa
II II had not been tied to the stake. When it went
| to sleep it was hushed without song, and they
laid il in a drab coored cradle without rocker
Don't interrupt me, have seen it, Mrs. Sparrow
grass Something have observed too, remarka-
bly strikingly quakerstic The young masdens
and the young men never seem inclined to be fat.
Such a thing as q maiden lady, nineteen years OF
age with a pound OF surperfiuous flesh, Is not
known among Friends. The young men some
times grow outside the limits of a straight coat,
| but when they do they quietly change It 10 the
habits of ordinary men. 1t seems as If they lose
their hold when they get too round and too ripe,
| and Just drop off. Remarkably quakeristic too,
is an exemption the Friends appear to enjoy from
| disease and complaints peculiar to other people.
| WhAever saw a Quaker marked with the small
| pox or Quaker with the face achei Who ever
saw a cross-eyed Quaker, decided case of the
mumps under a broad brimmed hat Nobody
| Mrs Sparrowgrass, don't interrupt me- Doubtless
much of this is owing to their cleanliness duplex
| cleanliness, parity of body and soul.
Isay a face in the cars, not long since-a face
that had calmly endured the storms of seventy
yearly meetings. 1t was hot dry day, the win
| dows were all open; dust was pouring into the
| cars: eyebrows, eye-ashes, ends of hair, nous
| taches wigs coat collars sleeves, waistcoats and
| trowsers of the worlds people were touched with
| n fine tawny color. Their faces had general ap-
| pearance of humidity in streaks, now and then
tatooed with black cinder; but there, within a
the fashion of Prof Espy's patent ventilator, was
| a face of seventy years, calm as summer morning,
| smooth as an infants, without one speck or stain
of dust without one touch of perspration or exas-
| pera.ion Mrs S. No. nor was there on the cross
pinned kerchief in the deliberately plain dress,
one atom of earthly contact the very air did seem
| to respect that aged Quakeress.-PutndmS Maya
| zina