Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-05-15

ways seen them do it. There are lots of
good fellows Of the right stripe, who drink
the beverage likewise in iikcways, but
still it's often a powerful instrument in the
hands of the bad. Champagne Is a show
wine, and man who don t feel genteel and
wants to look so, ought to be very careful
how he plays with it.
There is something very taking to Mace
Slopcr in Observing how naturally plain,
sober sort of folks, who had lived sort of
plainly at home, always holler for roast
chicken, when they first emigrate from the
family board to Il hotcltable. Likewise
how the rising girls of similar families be-
have with such pretty natural common
sense. and make such cute little mistakes;
how it ticklcs them to show off their French
to Pa and Ma, when the old folks puzzle
over the side dishes, and how they some
times forget that they're not ut home, and
and their voice grows kind of down like In
the throat when they turn round sudden
and see a strange waiter just at their elbow
It's right down pleSallt too, to hear their
tongues run, specially after they've got
the hang of things, and hear them tell about
the things around town they've been look
ing ut, and the folks they've visited and
who took them round and the shows and
the bcaux and the clothes. Oh! it's no
use a-talking! People may say that there s
no fun this side Of the grave, but if they'll
only contemplate n smart pretty girl who Is
a stranger in a city, and who is being put
through Il regular course of sprouts by 4
lot of kind friends, and if they'll hear that
same pretty girl, at dinner-table, going on
just us fast as her tongue can run, about
the fine time she's had, they'll know mighty
soOn whether there's any fun left yet or
not. Fun! Lord bless your soul! Mace
Slopcr's had more fun i'll listening to one
such young girl, than half the boys round
town ever got out of thousand dollar bunk
botc, as one of my friends persists in call
ing a banknote.
| had a notion Of saying something about
the different varieties Of American youn.,
- ladies that are seen ut Il hoteltabe. But
| really heard IN Irish waiter sing such a
. verse about the principle sorts, iasi night,
hat am quite combcd down, for ai
least, on trying anything Of the Sort
And his song WAS:
1 'Boshon gurrcls for talking,
q. New York "urrcls for diissins;
PhcIadclphv gurrcls for manners;
And Balthimoorc gurrcls for kissing.
Cana,iy gurrcls for hugsin",
i 'Cnnati eurrcls to br civil;
n St. Louis eurrclS for ribbins,
= And New Orleans eurrcls for the dvil
Z | coulnd't see the waiter 10 sung thes'
J. lines, but could hear him chanting ava,
1t and brushing the iloor in time with a broom
c | was seated in the box of IN eating house
and as | didn't care TO get up, hojlcrc'
# out:
/ How did you learn SO much about 4
e melican girls??'
/ The broom stopped whiskins about, an'
X over the top of the partition came the sin
t Gle word, ina sort of whiskey baritone:
g 'ExpARrExcEn
,c have never seen that waiter yet +
If know him. But he has, | dare say, Ill hl
At time. carried Il bowl of 'ralc Mulligatawny
" to Clark of the Knickcrbockcr, has scrvc'
If so,lab owls to Fred Cozzcns, and pcrhap
at one time and another heard words e
of wit and wisdom as he waited on Bro'he
ct shelton For the place I'm talking abou
ID is considerably patronized by the Sacrc'
\. Order of the knicke;bcckers, and It's no
rs unlikely that the poetry, and wisdom, AM
1T knowledge of human nature, which turn
up there, may have lun out, IN an IRIS
brain, into something such Il hecl-tp a
| the verses aforesaid.
Folks who live at hotels, and who, lik
> Mace Slopcr have soclable turn, may b
a said to live great many small editions
if. over again, as far rs making new set
i'll of friends is concerned. For af,er all sal
| and done. what is life but what We have
y do with the people in it? According
my notions, prisoner who never secs any
body, don't live at all--lcastways he enl.
: lives once and for one person, and that
re himself. People in the quiet OF family III
make up single set Of friends, and live II
= that sct-rccruiing it 4 little In society an'
:, ut Watering places. 1t always takes them
rood while to regularly get up Il new ac
+ uuaintancc and it comes hard To lose it,
= At hotel this sort of thing keeps g"lns
r on all the time. Mace talks To Somcbod,
70 at tablc-inds that Somebody c"itons t'
d h;m-smokcs segar with Somebody
o introduced to his fricnds-mccts them ev
> cry day for week, and when they start io
=, p,etou or are .o(T for Baltimore b!S then