The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-07-13
NICE GIRL s..
HTA BscHELoR.


To nav mind there is nothing in all the world
half AZ bnssiful half delightful or half 30 love
able a. nice girl don't mean pretty girl,
or a dashing girl, or an elegant girl, hut nice
girl" one Of those lovely, good-tempered good.
fearted, swset-faced, amable, neat, natty. dome5-
ne creatures, whom we meet in the sphere Of
'home,' dihusing around the domestic hearth the
influence OF her goodness, like the essence of sweet
flowers.
What we all know by a ''nice girl" is not the
languishing beauty who dawlles on sofa and
talks Of the last new novel, the last opera;
or the great glrahel0okinB girl who creates Ell
feet by sweeping msjestically through drawing.
room. The mice girl does not even dance we'll, or
play well, and she does not know bit how to use
her eyes coquette with fan. She lanGuish.
Cs, she Is too active for that; she is not given to
novelreading, for she is always too busy. And rs
10 the opera, when she goes there bhe does not
think il necessary to show her bare shoulders but
sits generally away back in the box, unhceded and
uunotced 1t is not in such scenes that We di-coy-
the mice girl Who is it that rises first in the
morning and gets the breakfast ready before the
family comes down? Who j. il that makes papa $
toast, and carries up mammals tea, and puts but
tons on the boys shirts, and waters the flowers
and feeds the chickens, and makes every thing
bright and comfortable in the parlor! Is it the
sofa beauty, or the giraffe, the elegant creature
BY no means. 1t is the nice girl" Her unaidcd
toilet has boon performed In the shortest possible
space of time; get he charmngly her hair is done
how simply elegant is her silk dress and plain
white collar! What hearty kisses she distributes,
masked among the members Of the family She
does not present her cheek or her brow, like tho
fine girl but takes the initiative herself and
kisses the boys after the other with an audible
'smack," which says aloud, " l love you. ever 30
much" If ever coveted any thing in my life, it
IL ono of those kisses from that nice girl" She
IL quite at home in all the domestic duties. Sho
troubles no one 10 "help the kettle She has
fetched from the hob, and repenishel the teapot
while some one has been thinking about Offering
his assistance,
Breakfast over she dives down into tho kitchen
10 about dinner aud all day long she is running
up and down stairs, always doing and light heart
ed. And she never ceases 10 be active and useful
until the day is gone. when she VIII polka with the
boys, and sing Old songs, and play old tunes to her
father Or hours together, and never tire. She is
perfect treasure, is the " nice girl When illness
comes, 1t is she that attends with unwcaried pa
thence the sick chamber. There il no risk 10
amount of fatigue that sh" will not undergo: un
haCrice that she will not make. She is all love all
devotion have often thought it would be happi-
ness to be i'll, to be watched by such loving eyes
and tended by such fair hands
One of the most strongly marked characteristics
al mice girl is tidlneSs and simplicity of dress
She is invariably associated in my mind with a
high trock, a plain color, and the neatest of neck
ribbons, bound with the most modest Iittla broo,b
in the world. never knewa nice girl, yot Who
displayed profusion Of rings and bracelets or
who wore low dresses or splendid bonnet Nor
can l imagine II nice girl with curls, hut this
may be Il preudCe.
II am quite sure. however that :. coovara,, ~,
secs" those funny little curIN which it has been
the fashion to gum upon the check with blndoljue
are totally Inconsistent with the character of n
1" nice girl" And il any one whom | huye Lacp
disposed TO regard AZ n nice girl" were To aune,,,
with her bonnet stuck on the back of her head I
should cease To believe III her from that moment
The only degree OF latitude which feel at all dis
posed to allow To my bfftlt Uh0-or shuuld il he in
Ibis beite ne0t E- kid boots with bras. hole.
There is namrlrss charm about tidy feet which |
believe the whole world recognizes | maintain
that Il neatly booted foot and well shaped ankle
IN conjunction with Il clean white petticoat and a
tight stocking will nearly make anends for a
bqulnt Young men, ~ 1t not SO: Yes You contt.s,
IT liz.
say again, there is nothing in the world half SO
beautiful hall 80 intTinsiCGIy good. ~ 3, mic,
girl" She is the sweetest Hover in the uath of
life. Il%fe are others far more stately far more
gorgeous;b but these we merely admire as We pa by
1t Is where the daisy grows that We lie down 10
rest.
Under every condition. 'eyery'aspect admire
nay, that il too cold world love the nic,. gir -
Under every condition, undcr every a.pcct save
One-that one IL tho condition Of natrinuny-
When hear that one of the nice girls of NV NJ
luaintanCe Is about 10 he nIari-ieC-about ~ bo
monopolized by Sone jealous beast with whskcrs
ana an ugly sister vino Is to be bridesmaid, | come
oven faint and sick AT heart. Where nice girls"
dwell 1t should he written mp, on gates of cbnc.
gardens, "Do not pick the overs" Oh it is hor-
rid, horrid, to see thespruce gentleman come in and
take her away into "A corner for the TEST Of the
eNehluS may MOI NtltZ Win her | moi
catch her nj bind man : buf; may not nit by
her and turn over the leaves as she sine. :. suI1
Robin Gray, even though ii were Christmas time.
may not any more kiss her under the mistIetoe. I
may not even look at her! There is tbBt horriI
spruce man with WhskeTs glowering at n,e ms iTIa
would eat me. sigh the remeIubr,,ca comes
over me OF the many mice girls who haya thus
been ruthlessly torn from NE 10y the spruce and |
am sure, stupid men In whiskcrs WHY why sra
there such things as spruc" men with whiskerss-
! am sure We should set on much better withnut
them ~
| cannot bear to think of II mice lirIr r,tt;o,,
maItle1' cannot contemplate with patience what
she N about to become What is bhe ubuut ia H..
come! She IS about to become the slav. ,f on.
man. In less than year her figure will be eter-
nliy spOllt. In less than wear she will ,,aar
sloppy dresses ahd wrappers In the morning She
VIII leave on CATERS, and her STOCKINGS will han,
loose. she Will loose the bloom in her cbeaI- .n1
the merry twinkle in her eve She will La,.,
baby, aud smell sour. ! say | cannot c,ntprnTIot
ms spectacle win patience. | once visited one
who had once been mice girl" a Wear nr t,, 49,,
her marriage. The figure which sho ,'ras,n.Si
shocked me. | could have cried with Iiv",i
and am sure If her husband had come in shn,,li
nave nave kI'heI nun. have resolved never to 90
through such an ordeal again. When a ..nirs Us
naIries now, have done with her forever o'''
i0n may wonder why. since An, .rri ~, 49,,
mIfef OF nice girls have never made un. u,y
""h|"hy' IN iatt' have never married one i
nave loved, admired ana adored then, tont MI
1or That. conld no more marry y ..pi,,a - -
'onId "lllfulIy trample down a bed of n ,,yars /
have all my life considered it, and s,iIl i0"orsi,o
~ Sfin1 niue snort OF sacrilege to marry mice
Slrl' VINO but savage would Jef,rn - I.,,tif,,l
piece of sculpture! Who Lut a with t-n,ld
stand with his back 10 the fire and Inonnnolize ali
the neat TO The man who ATTEMPT. TO marry a
get out of my sun"
Marry nice girl?" Never! / know what it
"'ula De y" man Is hero to his raie de chdHbTe,
anu NO husband am sure, is fine fellow in his
~ e!oS hit"f she has mended his socks ana put
patches IN his drawers On the other hand | am
.eftaln there must be horrid dsenchantment
ABOUT skinp flannel pettieoat and "a cotton night
cap with frils
No; let the mice girl" alone. Let her lac the
iie and sunshine of ''Ifome" forever. Let as many
hearts pine away and die for her as will | am
ready To pine and die with the rest. But oh!
change not Miss into Mistressl rob her not of
her girlishness and simplicity; pollute not
the gushing fountain of her love, which flows for
all, and falis like dew upon the world Let her be
mice grip forever; for such as she never grow
old or lose the power to charm If YOU must mar
ry, marry the beauty-the firt--the clever girl
The dashing girl-any kind of girl, but leave oh
leave me tho mice girl" For her sake will live n
bachelor 20 the end Of my days; ami when die !
desire nothing better than to have such "a one 10
watch over ME and 10 close my eyes
AT hohk.-den Walker reached Nashville Tenn
ON Monday last, and was enthusiastically recnirad
HIS JOilnoylngs for the present are eudej ~. -
IL address the citizens Wednesday evenine IN, ro
quest. ~ IT.
"A VETERAN GoSE.-Dr Caldwell, an old and es.
1eenled citizen of Greensboro, " c. and n son az
the Rev DR.. Caldwell, well known ia the reynIr
iionerS history Of North Carolina, died al Greens
boro' ON the Sd inst, aged eighty years
WINE IN TIE british IsLEs.-The quantity of wine
retained for actual consumption in Great Britain
and ireland, last year, was 7,0o4,s53 gallons
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