Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-03-31
1,oesticks Attends a Ladies' Fair.

Ir+ ladies OF the Church OF the HOy fOkef. lam
WOOL (who can't give up city associations, and VIII
pouldnt read his Bible if it wasn't printed in New
vortY had sent to me from his rural solitude tt
nrocure him dressing-gown, pair OF slippers am
o-otched. worsted comforter. Thought c0uldn'
80 a better opportunity to purchase, and wen
to the Fair.
Cot to the Hall, paid my twenty-five cents a
.hs door. went in-saw plenty of long tables, witt
,ades behind them playing "keep store;" table
"rered with mysterious articles of babylinen, and
ooo.ncated pieces of female harness, designed fo
.0as N me unknown and also all sorts of impracti
ushle unnecessaries intended for gentlemen; slip
.ars that YOU couldn't get on; smoking-caps, tina
pponId never by any possibility, fit anybody (shapeC
sIa Chinese pagoda, and full of tnsel and spangle
~ ,D make them pricklyD cigar-cases, that yor
Couldn't get cigar into without breaking both ends
A nerhaps they expect US to smoke " stubs
Ete the newsboys, pin-cushions stuffed so hare
tbev would turn the point of mariine-spike
vatcb-cases just big enough to hold three-cen
niece pen-wpers that fill the point of pen full O.
fnool and divers other nonsensical Inconvenience
Fabricated by specializing females, the patterns
heine always short, and the stitches very long, Il
sunnose thew think we don't know the difference,
to palm off on victimzed gentlemen; and they re-
s;opedly submit to price so exorbitant that if a
Chatham street Israelite had the impudence to ask
:. .hov'd straiebten out his fsh-hook nose like g
darnfng
The prettiest looking girls are always placed
where the least attractive looking merchandise is
displayed, and they ask the biggest kind of prices
trstne to the galiantary of the gentlemen mot to
heat them down." Aattering themselves, suppose,
that their pretty looks are "value received" fol-
the exchange One consequence of this arrange.
ment is. that every buyer spends all the money he
has in bis purse taking in exchange therefor lot Of
stuff so utterly useless, and so ridiculously absurd
that after having it on bis table for week SO to
rdgh at he is fain to get rid of the rubbish by Civ
ing the whole to his chambermaid. Sometimes
your purchases will hold together till you leave
the room, and sometimes not; you must show your.
self man, and "equal to either fortune"
There was post-office; pretty girl called me
had letter for me; bought it; paid ten cents
nothing in it-blank. Solicitors young lady very
anxious to have me give her twenty-five cents to
tell me how much | weighed; paid her the money,
and she told me within fifty -one pounds and half
bag" gave half dollar and fshed in, got in three
times trying, tin whistle, half stick of candy,
and peanut done up in tissue paper.
Went on to the auction table where, after
much competition with ringletted miss (who was
put there to make Peter Funk bids against proba-
BILE purchasers) succeeded in bidding in China
vase, which / soon discovered had hole in the
bottom, and wouldn't hold water any more than it
would bake pork. If had bought it anywhere
else, should have thought had been swindled, and
have demanded my money back but here, sup
posed it was an exempli6cation Of some newly dis
covered principle Of fair dealing with which was
not yet acquainted Was much amused with the
way they disposed Of goods-certain number of
articles things left at the tables tended by the
homely girls) and for each article twenty tickets
were put into hat, whence they were drawn out
singly and the last tickets drawn were to have the
prizes; should have thought it was just the same
as lottery, if had not been acquainted with the
ladies, and known they wouldn't do anything so
naughty.
Came to place where an old lady, with steel
specacles, was cutting up loaf of cake into par
ticularly small pieces; asked what it meant; was
told there was gold ring somewhere in the cake,
and they proposed to sell each piece for quarter
Of dollar, and give the ring to the lucky buyer;
wondered if it wasn't another lottery on small
scale, but supposed it couldn't be; went to the
supper-room. It's curious metropolitan fact, that
At parties, balls, or wherever refeshment-table
is spread, every man seems to regard it his just
duty to fill himself to the very mouth with all the
decacies Of the season." and to accomplish it in
the least time possible, as if he was gun, and
anxious to ascertain his ca1ibre, and find out how
quickly he could be loaded in case Of necessity
And the ladies are not far behind; this evening 1
learned how much female can eat, in charitable
cause a pale-faced ballroom belle is a modern
Sphinx, gastronomic problem, whose solution
will probably never be satisfactorily expounded
1. Under the impression that she would not eat
more than had money to pay for, invited lady
TO take some refreshments and certainly think
that, like the countryman, she imagined she was
bound to eat all the biloffare called for She ate
stewed oysters fried oysters, boiled turkey with
oyster sauce celery, oysters the she'll icecream
sponge cake and Charlotte Russo, Roman punch.
two water ices, coffee, sandwiches, cold sausage,
lobster salad, oysters broiled, also stewed again,
and six on the shell, orange jelly, grape ditto,
cake; she then limited again at oysters, but as the
supply had run out, she was obliged to go hungry;
paid the bill with certified check on the Mer-
chants Bank which luckily covered the amount,
and greatly relieved my mind; for feared there
would De balance which would have to give my
note for. -
. Having previously procured the articles required
icr my friend j Immediately left; got home, and
proceeded to examine my purchases, found that the
slippers, having been pasted together without the
slightest regard TO pernanency, had come apart in
ny pocket my comforter had raveled out, so that
had about sir inches comforter, and wad of
yarn big enough to make q horse.blanket; my
iressing gown had been made of moth-eaten
emnant, and where there was any sewing, every
itch was as long railroad but the sleeves had,
verify believe, been put in with court plaster, and
be long seams closed with carpenters glue.
Made up my mind that the objects of that feminine
Ladies' FAIR are somewhat as follows:
irstly, to give the ladies an opportunity to show
heir new clothes, and to talk with multitude Of |
unknown gentlemen, without any preliminary in
secondly, to beg as much money a.
possible from the gentlemen aforesaid, under the
transparent Formally Of bargain and sale, which
nile includes the buyer, who is really the only
. y fairly "sold !" in the whole collection;
1n'rdly, to give some money to the ostentatiously
poor It there is any left after paying expenses and
'oe Oaomlnhittee don'tspend it in carriage hire.
y K. PHILANDER D0EsTIcKs, P. B.
!. 4. NE oueAA MANuFAcTURE or FRANCE France
me largest producer Of beet sugar in the world.
4 favorable soil and climate, and q rural and in
uustrous population, contribute to the successful
Prosecution Of the beet sugar manufacture. This
originated during the reign Of NaDo-
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aonal produce to an almost fabulous price. The
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u Me means Of producing sugar at home, and IN
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