Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-16
YANKEES, AS DESCRIBED by ONE Ot

now propose to give sketch of his iuye-
nile history, and a description of his personal
appearance, at different periods, from youth to
manhood.
Z" We first make his acquaintance in the dis
| trict school He was four years old in March;
and his mother tired OF the trouble of watch =
ing him at home, thinks he will 90 do to 90 to
school this summer with sister Jane" upon
whom Is imposed the task of "seeing that he
don't get hurt" Accordingly he is fitted out
In n new suit of clothes, consisting of a coarse
! cotton shirt without collar or wristbands; a
garment OF blue cOttOn-drilling, serving for
vest and trowsers; the upper part being like the
waist of grown. and the trowsers which are
attached to this reaching just three inches below
the knees; and the whole garment buttoning
up behind; calico apron and palm leaf hat
These four articles of apparel constitute the
| sum total of his summer dress for the next four
years. In these habliments, with two-auart
covered tin pale full of ''jOhnny cake for his
dinner, in one hand, and blue-covered sheep
skin backed Webster's spellingb book in the
sother, he daily makes his appearance at the
sehoolhOuse at about half past nine. and begins
| to question the teacher: "M' I gwout5''-
IN, leave my seat!''-''M' l speak''' etc.,
until about half-past three, when he tops off
with: M be edismissed?''-when he rs so lib
Grated.
Between seven and eight, he drops of the
upper part of the blue-drilling garment above
described: and suspends his trowsers by strings
OF the same material, which he calls gallusese
When he is about twelve, we seen him at church.
dressed in striped pantaloOns, a trihe longer
than those in which we first saw him at school:
a calico vest, and white spencer. His coarse
shlrt-collar Is now starched stiff as tin and
tied with black ribbon; and his mammoth
| feet are for the first time encased in a pair of
cow-hlde shoes, without stockings. He has also
come into possession of huge jack knife, which
seems to constitute part of his very person,
for he Is never seen without it, and he never al
lows 1t to rest, cutting his long finger nails and
prying apart his teeth when he can find moth
ing TO whittle.
" AT sixteen he graduates from school, hav-
ing done most OF the sums in the 'rithmetic and
licked the MASTER At twenty, we shall,
perhaps, meet him at a circus in the very zenith
OF his glory. Yes, there he is; the identical
Jonathan, mounted on an antiquated cart
dealing out pins, needles, combs, brushes, sus-
penders, hose, thread, thimbles buttons, jews
harps and tin-whistles. His dress now consists
OF a pair OF wine-colOred velvet pantaloons
| much worn, the warp and lining OF what was
once satin vest; and lining coat, with hole
IN each elbow His linen is badly soiled and
his cravat, the black silk handkerchief his
father gave him on leaving home is tied in a
sailors knot, and ornamented with a huge
4" buzom-pin.' His boots or calf-skin have
have run over, and are minus the original
black of the leather from which they were made.
lie is just six feet three inches in height, some
what round shouldcred, and weighs one hun
dred and twenty-five pounds. His face is thin
and freckled. He has q Roman nose large
mouth, small gray eyes, sunk deep in his fore
head, and we'll shaded by long, red lashes
His hair is long, strait, thick and-near his
head-brown; bnt the extremity of his locks
fades TO a straw-color
"P S.-He soon after left New England for
the Great West" where We understand he
has succeeded in acquiring an immense fortune
tie contemplates visit to the 9 home Of his
childhood" the present season, and we hope
then to learn from himself the full history of
his western life